AVID:Logo Plastering Mistakes
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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 Mimsie
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.
October 21, 1980
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. (This was not done by the owners of the show; it was just really bad timing on the part of the network's commercial placements.)
Colex Enterprises double whammy
On some airings of The Monkees episode "Son of a Gypsy", the logo bizarrely appeared twice (before and after the 1966 NBC Productions logo, which is retained). If you listen closely, you can also hear the Colex jingle playing faintly in-between. Of course, the Screen Gems Television logo had to be covered at some point.
Columbia Pictures Television torch ladies barely cover Screen Gems jingles
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's logo's music cuts in, sometimes in progress, sometimes not.
Columbia Pictures Television torch ladies do cover Screen Gems, but badly
Examples of the 1982 CPT Torch Lady (in black-and-white) plastering the Screen Gems Television torch lady on The Donna Reed Show circulate online. One has the original torch lady barely seen for a frame or two before the '80s logo kicks in. In some cases, the logo interrupts the announcer's spiel. One cuts off after "This has been a..." Another bizarre occurrence has the screen go black just before any logo can show up, as we hear (with the mention of Screen Gems cut out) "...from the Hollywood studios of..." Then, as if answering what the announcer would have said, the CPT logo appears.
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 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.
The misadventures of the 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 strange credit/logo combos would slip through on occasion. Off-topic here, but CBS-Paramount logos now had copyright information from the ones they plastered (sometimes right down to the Gulf + Western byline). More appropriate for the plaster mistakes topic would be Desilu Productions and the Yellow Split Box of Paramount Television replacing the previous "rising circle" Paramount logo. Not only was this combo not used in original broadcasts, but it features one logo that debuted after the one it plastered. Another example that befits this list was the remastered S3 Star Trek episode "The 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.
Warner Bros. Pictures on newer prints of Lethal Weapon 4
Perhaps the sloppiest logo plaster ever (next to non-US prints of the 1994 Street Fighter movie), 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 must be great at parties
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."
Because of Sony's rampant plastering habit, it was inevitable that TriStar would get plastered. However, the logo was part of the joke. So, to resolve this, Sony replaced the "stupid horse with wings" line with a laugh track, and ruined the joke.
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."
Heck, Sony Pictures Television likes to crash parties
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 the Bars of Boredom.
Wheel of Fortune announcer changes identities
On several 1980s Wheel reruns, what used to be a mention/logo of King World Productions was of course 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.
