Big Bladder Pictures

Background
Big Bladder Pictures was a production company founded in the mid-1990s by Rich Kronfeld and Tim Scott, for the purpose of distributing "Let's Bowl!", a scripted game show in which contestants would settle disputes in a bowling competition, to local television stations. The company was eventually turned into The Scott-Kronfeld Experience, who partnered with Comedy Central Productions to handle production of the nationally syndicated version of "Let's Bowl!", which was created in 2001.

1st Logo (Mid-1990s)


(Skip to 26:11 for the logo)

Logo:

We see a live-action shot of a messy living room, with two people on a couch sitting in front of a television. The person to the left of the couch is a live-action middle-aged man wearing glasses and a white, sleeveless shirt. He's holding a drink and laughing hysterically at the television. Seated next to him is an poorly-drawn man, animated in the style of SquiggleVision, with a big smile and a yellow shirt with a red "B" on it. The animated man looks back and forth between the television and the live-action man. Below them, we see the text:

BIG BLADDER

P I C T U R E S

with a thin line beneath it. "BIG BLADDER" is warped towards the viewer, while "PICTURES" in in a thin, spaced font.

Variants:

None.

FX/SFX:

The logo is single shot composed of live-action and animation. The only motion is from the live-action man laughing and the animated man laughing and turning his head.

Music/Sounds: A twinkling xylophone riff plays. Over top of it, a man with a deep voice announces: "Big Bladder Pictures".

Music/Sounds Variants:

None.

Availability:

Extinct. This was only seen on the early, local TV version of "Let's Bowl!", which was shown on Minneapolis-St.Paul stations KXLI-TV 41 (now KPXM-TV), KLGT-TV 23 (now WUCW), and KARE channel 11. Although the nationally-syndicated version of "Let's Bowl!" is hard to find these days, it's much easier to spot than this version, which likely hasn't seen airplay in more than 20 years.

Editor's Note:

The animation is poorly done, although this may be intentional. The dark room, xylophone riff, and eerie voiceover may unnerve some viewers.