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Original version
Visuals: The "2" begins still. Then, the setting becomes that of an underwater setting, and the "2" begins to float around minding it's own business. When a shoal of mackerel swim up to its "face", the '2' immediately blows bubbles at the curious group of fish, scaring them away. A smaller, solitary fish swims towards the '2' at the end.
Later Variant: Starting from January 2002, the ident was flipped around (save for the BBC Two logo), fixing the problem that was seen in the original variant in which the "2" is the wrong way around for most of the ident.
Visuals: The '2' bounces around like a rubber ball in slow motion for the duration of the ident. It bounces in and out of frame, closer and further away at random points.
Visuals: The '2' is sitting away from our point-of-view when it notices something not quite right - the BBC Two logo is backward. A blank white square sits in the place where the usual logo should be. Immediately, the '2' rushes to the scene and sprouts a pair of robotic arms. It grabs the misaligned logo with its right hand and flips it over, correcting the problem. The robotic arms fold back into the body of the '2' and it backs away, returning to its previous position.
Variants: There were quite a few variants made of this ident:
Visuals: A '2' turns towards a long line of other '2's, which are lined up like dominoes. The 'head 2' blows into a whistle (presumably to get the '2's to tumble over on cue) but the '2' at the front falls flat on its side. The 'head 2' gestures at the 'front 2' to get back up again, but to no avail.
Visuals: The '2' sprouts its robotic arms, and a glowing fairy bursts into view with sparks flying. The fairy flies out of the '2's hands and draws a tall Christmas tree - at warp speed - out of fairy dust. She then flies around a bit before settling down onto the top of the tree and then flies off again.
Visuals: There is a black speck on the screen. The 2 comes toward the speck and sprouts its arms. A breath comes out of the 2 and on the speck, it tries to fix the issue but the breath quickly clears it away. The 2 then returns to it's original position on-screen.
Visuals: The 2 slides around, trying to avoid the drips coming from above.
Visuals: There is '2's going into walls that are invisible.
Visuals: The "2" gets on what looks like a homemade see-saw. Then, another 2 lands on the other end of the see-saw, sending the main 2 flying on top of eight other 2s on a ball.
Visuals: The 2 comes to a remote and sprouts its arms. It takes the remote and wonders what to do with it. As it gives the remote a shake, the 2 controls uncontrollably controls itself...even crashing into the screen. The 2 finally controllably controls itself for a bit before sending itself off-screen.
Trivia: Make sure to keep an eye on the BBC Two logo at the moment of impact. It bumps alongside the screen. However, this effect was removed in later years.
Visuals: The '2' is on a yellow-orange invisible drum.
Visuals: The '2' paints a human-like painting with the logo on the bottom right as a paintbox.
Visuals: The 2 builds a snow-2. The 2 runs off to get something, and comes back with two sticks. The 2 puts the sticks on the snow-2, so the snow-2 looks like a self-portrait.
Visuals: We see the BBC Two logo slanted in the middle. The two is about to correct it, but the logo is stuck on his hands. When the 2 tries flicking it off, it stays stuck to his shoulder. He then does a "crossing" pose to show it's disgust.
Visuals: 6 2s are seen reading books. One 2, eager to learn the plot, flicks hurriedly through its book, and slightly laughs at the result. The other 2s flick hurriedly through their books, and laugh.
Variant:
Visuals: The 2 doesn't sprout its arms...but a flamethrower on the front of it's head. It sends fire in all directions, eventually hitting the BBC2 logo. The flamethrower goes back in the 2 as it stares at the flaming BBC Two logo. Hilariously, this ident was commonly used when the channel would close down for the night.
Visuals: A large Ice Cube spins and crashes into the screen, revealing the 2 inside it, trying to find a way to escape.
Initially used for the 2003 and 2004 Christmas Seasons, but was put to regular use during the summer season of 2004.
Visuals: There is the 2 on a plain floor, but then it snaps its finger, causing the screen to shake, while the floor collapses, splits and separates into various hexagons.
Visuals: The 2's "face" transforms into a camera and takes a photo, and then proceeds to show the photo. There are two variants: One shows a painting of a fish. The other shows a landscape called "Slemish". This last one was never aired.
Visuals: The 2 moves to a table full of food; however, it instead eats the jar of pepper and leaves!
Visuals: The main "2" is preparing to play the accordion. The camera then zooms out to reveal six more "2"'s, complete with waving hankies, taking part in a Morris Dance while the music plays. They weave between one another and wave their hankies to the time of the music.
Visuals: Several yellow sparks fly around on black, forming the 2. Reused in 2006.
Visuals: Same as the "Ski 2" Christmas ident from 2000, but with the then-current BBC Two logo in place of the older one.
Visuals: Same as the "Predator" ident from 2000, but with the then-current BBC Two logo in place of the older one.
Bounce
Logo/Label
Domino
Drip
Formation
Remote
Invisible Walls
Drum
Paintbrush
Sticky Label
The Big Read
Morris Dancers
Logo/Label (BBC 2W version)
Flamethrower
Invisible Walls (40th Anniversary)
Venus Fly Trap ("Predator" from the 2000 set)
Frosty (recycled from the "The Giant Snow 2" ident)
2001 (Christmas Tree)
2002 (Snowman 2)
2003 (Frozen 2)
2005 (Sparkles)
Visuals: This revolves around an inanimate "2" as a robot on a yellow background, with the BBC Two box logo now coloured purple.
Variants: There are several different variations of this logo:
Technique: CGI from Lambie-Nairn.
Audio: Depends on the variant, however most tracks use a variation on the same four note tune.
Availability: Again, this was used on BBC Two right up until 2007.
