AVID:Logo Plastering Mistakes

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Compiled by
JMFabiano, AUnnamedDragon and others

Background

This list is a compilation of music and visual mistakes caused when companies attempt to plaster logos with different ones.

20th Century Fox Television featuring MTM Enterprises sound effects

In 2000, St. Elsewhere episodes' end credits were edited to fit in the 20th Century Fox Television logo at the end, replacing the show's MTM Enterprises variant. Usually, the closing theme faded out as the logo appears, but one retained the original audio; as such, you could still hear Mimsie's "meow" over the 20th logo.

CBS almost shows TAT Communications Company

This particular mistake comes from an airing of One Day at a Time on CBS. On this airing, as the credits ended, a partial snippet of the T.A.T. Communications Company logo played before proceeding to cut to the CBS ident. (Unlike the other mistakes here, this was not done by the owners of the show; it was a mistake in timing on the part of the network's commercial placements.)

Colex Enterprises appearing twice

On some airings of The Monkees episode "Son of a Gypsy", the logo appears twice (before and after the 1966 NBC Productions logo, which is retained). If you listen closely while the screen is black, you can also hear the Colex jingle playing faintly in-between.

Columbia Pictures Television torch ladies cut into Screen Gems logo sounds/announcers

A few examples exist that have made it online - in particular, one from Farmer's Daughter and one from The Huckleberry Hound Show. Both instances are similar: the CPT logo appears, but not before one hears 1-2 notes of the Eric Siday jingle from the 1965 Screen Gems Television logo. The CPT music cuts in, sometimes in progress, sometimes not.

Examples of the 1982 CPT Torch Lady (in black-and-white) plastering the Screen Gems Television torch lady on The Donna Reed Show also circulate online. One has the original torch lady barely seen for a frame before the '80s logo kicks in. In some cases, the logo interrupts the announcer's spiel. One such occurrence has the screen go black just before any logo can show up, as we hear "...from the Hollywood studios of..." Then, the CPT logo appears. The original references to Screen Gems and Columbia Pictures are not present here. Another cuts off after "This has been a Screen Gems Film Presentation, from..." (CPT logo appears)

Famous Studios snippet seen after Associated Artists Productions Cartoons logo/title card

This is on the Popeye short, "Cookin' With Gags." The logo plays as always, including the AAP version Popeye title card, which cuts early to show the Famous Studios logo against the Paramount mountain.

LWT fades in over DIC logo

At least one CITV airing of Care Bears in the late 1980s (specifically "The Last Laugh/The Show Must Go On") has the 1986 LWT endboard fading in over the 1980/1982 DIC logo right as it starts, leaving only the first note of the music and a tiny bit of the second as well.

Seven Arts Pictures with Carolco Pictures theme

Since Seven Arts Pictures and Carolco Pictures together worked for production and distribution, due to the distribution they plastered each other on prints of their own, such as Repossessed, which caused the 1st Seven Arts Pictures to have the 3rd Carolco Pictures theme.

StudioCanal's 2011 logo with 2003 logo audio

Since 2001, StudioCanal adds each of their logos on releases of British/American companies. The 2003 logo was plastered onto every release of such companies until they changed their logo in 2011. A Portuguese print of Total Recall (1990) uses the 2003 logo's audio as StudioCanal forgot to change the audio.

Plasters on remastered Star Trek episodes

When the original Star Trek series celebrated its 40th anniversary, remastered versions of the episodes were created with updated effects, and mostly updated logos (usually CBS Paramount Television). However, some interesting credit/logo combos would slip through on occasion. Example: Desilu Productions and the Yellow Split Box of Paramount Television replacing the previous "rising circle" Paramount logo. Another example was the remastered "Paradise Syndrome", where the 1968-69 Paramount Television fanfare plays underneath the Desilu logo, which appears at the end of that episode as a result of botched logo plastering. In both cases, the episodes originally aired after Desilu was a defunct name.

(Not a plaster per se, but these remastered ST episodes also had instances of the older logos' bylines being seen on the CBS-Paramount ones...even right down to the Gulf + Western byline.)

Warner Bros. Pictures on newer prints of Lethal Weapon 4

This particular mistake is placed over the Warner Bros. logo variant on Lethal Weapon 4 (the 75 Years logo explodes and segues to the opening credits). Most later prints of the film have the scope version of the full standard version of the 1999 version of the logo plastered over the 1998 logo; the logo jarringly cuts to the explosion (which is a part of the main titles) after it ends, with the 1998 logo still partially visible for a brief moment.

Sony Pictures Television replaces TriStar Television joke in Mad About You episode

On the Mad About You episode "It's A Wrap", there is a joke on the end credits with Paul and Lou arguing. At the end, Paul brings up the logos.

Paul: "Show the guy on the phone. All right? Then you have the sound of the racetrack (In Front Productions), the thing with the hand (Nuance Productions), and then the stupid horse with the wings (TriStar Television). That'll work."

To resolve this when placing their logo over the TriStar one, Sony replaced the "stupid horse with wings" line with a laugh track.

Paul (Plastered Version): "Show the guy on the phone. All right? Then you have the sound of the racetrack (In Front Productions), the thing with the hand (Nuance Productions), and then [LAUGH TRACK] (Sony Pictures Television). That'll work."

Sony Pictures Television cuts in Embassy Television

On a 1983 episode of The Jeffersons, which normally had the fade-in version of Embassy Television, said Embassy logo starts to appear...and fades out mid-logo to make room for SPT.

Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! plasters with different announcers

On several 1980s Wheel reruns, what used to be a mention/logo of King World Productions was replaced by Columbia TriStar Television's logo. Only on these particular episodes, the original announcement -- usually done by Jack Clark -- is interrupted by the Sliding Boxes...complete with Charlie O'Donnell saying the company's name. Jeopardy! and Headline Chasers also suffered this treatment.

The Criterion Collection with 1997 Universal Pictures theme

On a Blu-ray release of Quadrophenia, a portion of the 1997 Universal theme can be heard over the current Criterion logo.

1981 Columbia Pictures logo with the MGM roar

On the Portuguese releases of the film Stone Gold, the 1981 Columbia Pictures logo uses the MGM roar.