Happy Madison Productions

Background
Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded on December 10, 1999 by Adam Sandler. The company takes its name from the films Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, two box office successes starring Sandler himself. The films The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer helped jump start Sandler's movie career and production company. The majority of the company's films have received negative reviews from critics, with three considered to be among the worst ever made; yet most have performed well at the box office.

The company's production office were formerly located in the Judy Garland Building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, but the company left after the completion of Sandler's final contracted film for the studio Pixels; however they still continue to work with Sony on their television division to this day, producing series such as The Goldbergs.

The company later signed a four-film deal with Netflix in October 2014; and later again in January 2020 worth up to $275 million. Its parent company, Happy Madison, Inc. is run by Adam Sandler's brother Scott and is located in Manchester, New Hampshire.

It had two subsidiaries; the drama genre Madison 23, which only produced two films Reign Over Me and Funny People, both starring Sandler himself and the horror subsidiary Scary Madison, which only produced The Shortcut.

1st Logo (October 12, 1996)
Nickname: "The Goat"

Logo: A still image of a black and white goat appearing to be sitting in the back of a Chevrolet truck in front of trees fades in. The text "Happy Madison, Inc." in a gradient Impact font is seen underneath.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: This is only seen on Adam Sandler's 1996 HBO special What the Hell Happened to Me?, which is a still image taken from that special.

Editor's Note: Some may feel that the goat is staring into your soul, but it's mostly harmless.

2nd Logo (May 27, 2005-)
Nicknames: "The Old Man", "The Golf Logo", "Terrific!"

Logo: Over a space background, a golf ball comes out of a solar eclipse, zooming back slowly and rotating to our left with the script words "Happy Madison" in the center at the top and the word "PRODUCTIONS" spaced out in Futura underneath. The background then fades to a golf course scene as the ball is smacked against the screen by a golf club, leaving the logo imprinted on the screen with a white outline and a glass crack. A few seconds later, we zoom back to reveal an elderly man in a golf outfit holding the golf club, looking on at the logo as he says "Terrific!". The background then fades to black with only the logo remaining before fading out.

Trivia: The man depicted in the logo is Adam Sandler's late father, Stanley Sandler. Adam Sandler created this as a tribute to him, in the hopes that he is somewhere out there, laughing at the films.

Variants:
 * On Rules of Engagement, the logo starts at the point where the golf ball strikes the screen and ends there.
 * On other TV series from the company, the logo is abridged and the text is smaller.
 * At the end of Zookeeper, the golf ball with the text appears on a black background.
 * On Here Comes the Boom, the text scrolls up with the end credits.
 * On Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, another man appears on the left behind the golf club.
 * On Grandma's Boy, the man says "Oh, boy" instead.
 * On The Goldbergs starting with S5 E2, the logo shares the screen with the Doug Robinson Productions logo.
 * On some episodes of Schooled, the logo shares the screen with the Adam F. Goldberg Productions logo.
 * On The Ridiculous 6, the logo turns sepia and the background is a mountain scene. Also, the man wears a cowboy hat.
 * On Hubie Halloween, the golf ball is replaced with a pumpkin, the name is in, the man is dressed as a vampire and the background is set in a graveyard-like area.

FX/SFX: The ball rotating and being hit, the screen cracking, and the man appearing.

Music/Sounds: Begins with a dramatic swelling theme, followed by a swift golf swing sound, then a glass-cracking sound, transitioning into a soft upbeat breakbeat and ending with the man uttering his phrase.

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * In some cases, a different dramatic string theme and breakbeat is used.
 * On Rules of Engagement, only the golf swinging and glass-cracking sounds are heard.
 * Sometimes, the opening theme of the movie is used instead, with the sound effects and voiceover intact.
 * On The Ridiculous 6, a western sting is heard while the crack of a whip replaces the golf-swing and glass-cracking sounds.
 * On Hubie Halloween, a spooky theremin theme and a carnival theme are heard with the glass-cracking sound.
 * On The Goldbergs, Imaginary Mary and Schooled, the logo is silent.

Music/Sounds Trivia: The string theme was composed by Weddy Wachtel, who also composed a few of the company's films, while the breakbeat is a sample of "Hit It" by the Network Music Ensemble.

Availability: Common. First seen on The Longest Yard (2005). Can also be found on other films such as Click, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Grown Ups, Just Go with It, and Pixels. Does not appear on Bedtime Stories or Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. It's also seen on TV series such as Rules of Engagement, Breaking In, The Goldbergs, Imaginary Mary, and Schooled.

Editor's Note: None.