TBS Productions

Background
TBS Productions was the in-house production company for the Turner Broadcasting System that produced original TV series for TBS. It was merged into Studio T in 2016.

1st Logo (1985-1986)
Logo: On a black-blue-ish gradient background, we see the text "In Association with" in white at the top of the screen, Below that is the text:

TBS PRODUCTIONS

in the middle of the screen. Below that is copyright information reading:

Copyright © [year] TBS Production(s), Inc. All Rights Reserved

at the bottom of the screen.

Variants:
 * The font on the copyright info would either be big, small, or italicized.
 * Sometimes, the company name and/or the copyright info would fade or wipe in.

FX/SFX: None or the company name/copyright info appearing.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on Rocky Road.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (1994)
Logo: A undefined square with Earth rolling inside zooms in. Then the words begin sliding, " TBS " (stacked in blue panels) moves from above, followed by the red line and the word "PRODUCTIONS" underneath, and the former yellow square settles to the right.

FX/SFX: The words and the line moving.

Music/Sounds: A fading synth note.

Availability: Appeared on the 1994 documentary Moon Shot.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (2007-2009)
Nickname: "The Clouds"

Logo: The camera pans up through several cotton clouds until the logo is shown with on daytime skies. The TBS logo ("tbs" with a half-circle underneath) and "productions" (in Arial Rounded MT Bold) are in the middle.

FX/SFX: The animated clouds, plus the camera.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show, though Frank TV might have had a theme for the logo.

Availability: Appeared on The Bill Engvall Show and Frank TV, the former which was released on DVD.

Editor's Note: None.

4th Logo (2012-2016)
Logo: On a green background, two strings lower the black pillow-like object and the white word "PRODUCTIONS". The pillow then unfolds into the TBS shield, and "tbs" pops up from it.

FX/SFX: The logo unfolding and settling.

Music/Sounds: The sound of unfolding and popping out.

Availability: Seen on King of the Nerds and season 1 of Angie Tribeca.

Editor's Note: None.

5th Logo (2016-2017)
WARNING: Do not watch the video if you are prone to epilepsy.

Nicknames: "Seizure TBS", "Not So Funny (To Some People)"

Logo: On a black background, we see a "b" with a watery texture. Then, a "t" appears, as the "b" switches its texture as the "t" gets the watery texture. Once again, the textures switch as an "s" appears. The background color then changes to purple as a rectangle appears behind the letters (forming the new TBS logo). Then the background changes to a purple and blue-ish as the letters in tbs turn blue with green stripes. "PRODUCTIONS" then wipes in. The background wiggles.

FX/SFX: A watery texture, the letters appearing.

Music/Sounds: A robotic synth chord with a distorted chipmunk laugh.

Availability: Seen on The Detour and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.

Editor's Note: None.