Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink is the production company founded in 1997 by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)
Nicknames: "Orange-Red Ink", "Ink Bottle Gets the Banhammer" & "Banhammer Gets the Ink Bottle", "SPLAT!!", "Orange-Red Ink Splashing", "Falling Hammer"

Logo: In an office setting, at the forefront, we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it labeled: MILLAR GOUGH INK

in an Impact font and colored yellow, with the bottom half of "INK" colored white/. After a while, a hammer (which, if you look very closely, can be seen in the reflection on the bottle) swings down and smashes the bottle, causing the orange red ink in it to fly everywhere and covering up the screen.

Variants:
 * On the short-lived show The Strip, 2003 DVD releases and Channel 4 and E4 UK airings of season 1 and 4:3 prints of all episodes of Smallville, the logo is shown in open-matte.
 * Cropped 4:3 versions exist.

FX/SFX: The hammer smashing the ink bottle, the ink spreading. It's all live-action. Not a CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: Here are the main music versions:
 * 1999: After the closing theme of the show plays, there is a splattering sound.
 * 2001-2002: Just a sound of the bottle breaking. The bottle breaking with no warning can be jarring to many people, especially after the long silence during both this logo and the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo.
 * On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", the logo is silent.
 * On the Smallville season 6 episodes "Zod" and "Wither", the bottle breaking sound and the last note are tiny bit no longer synced, especially if the sound is played after the note before the last one a little bit.
 * Early 2002: An 3-note odd, short piano tune with an eerie sound effect is played in the background.
 * 2002-2011: A reverberating cartoon ditty.
 * On early season 2 episodes of Smallville, the reverberating cartoon ditty is somewhat slightly quieter before the bottle breaking sound appears.
 * On the first episode of season 5 of Smallville, the last note and the bottle breaking sound are synced.
 * Sometimes, this logo is in a PAL-pitch.

All music versions ended with the bottle breaking sound, sometimes louder.

Availability: First seen on the short-lived show The Strip. Also seen on Smallville and the 2011 version of Charlie's Angels. Also shown on the 2006 TV pilot of Aquaman (also known as Mercy Reef). Don't expect to see this on the company's films, though. Don't expect to see this on the Blu-ray Disc or DVD prints, either. Look for the rare print logo on the back of the Smallville DVD/Blu-ray cover.

Editor's Note: While the sound of the bottle breaking can be startling for some people (especially the version without music where it breaks with no warning, which could be jarring to many people), some people may find this logo funny, and it may be favored for fans of Smallville.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)
Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH". To the right of it is a beaker on the bottle with a big black teardrop and the word "INK" inside.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None, or the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on the 2015 AMC series Into the Badlands and the 2016 MTV series The Shannara Chronicles. This logo is expected to appear on the 2022 upcoming Netflix show Wednesday.

Editor's Note: None.