# Bad Hat Harry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 22, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988 "2007-06-22T12:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/21 "2007-06-22T14:36:58Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > The House one is immediately followed by one where a boot stomps out something. Can anybody identify that one? The logos at the end of House are, in order: Bad Hat Harry Productions (already mentioned), Heel and Toe Films (the boot), Shore Z Productions (what appears to be a handwritten letter from a child with a suggestion for an episode- something about an exploding brain or something), and NBC Universal Television (the NBC peacock combined with the Universal globe). ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/22 "2007-06-22T14:58:11Z")
Sorry I keep posting…I have so much to say, but only five minutes to say it in. > [@Zeldar](#): > > Some of the ones used at the start of movies are really cryptic and involved. Studios that leap to mind with weird logos/title cards are: > > Imagine > Castle Rock > Miramax > > There’s one where a kid runs toward a lake on a pier and jumps toward the water and then it freezes with some company name. > > Another one has a guy walking away from us down a road and it has a Magritte feel to it. The kid jumping off the pier is Lakeshore Entertainment. The man walking down the road is Caravan Pictures. Imagine Entertainment: Production company founded by Ron Howard. I am unsure of the name’s origin. Castle Rock: Production company founded by Rob Reiner, now a division of Warner Bros. Name taken from the setting of _Stand By Me_. Miramax: Production company founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, now a division of The Walt Disney Co. Name taken from the names of the Weinstein’s parents, Miriam and Max. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/23 "2007-06-22T14:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] The logos at the end of House are, in order: Bad Hat Harry Productions (already mentioned), Heel and Toe Films (the boot), Shore Z Productions (what appears to be a handwritten letter from a child with a suggestion for an episode- something about an exploding brain or something), and NBC Universal Television (the NBC peacock combined with the Universal globe). [/QUOTE] Good work! Your earlier post rang a bell for me, too, in that there have been any number of occasions when I’ve had a notion for a new thread only to find that just that day (or maybe just that week) somebody else had the same (or very similar) idea. It must be something in the water, the cosmic rays or the _Zeitgeist_ that causes such things. In any case, I hope you’ll expand the scope of this thread with whatever specifics you may have had in mind or with whatever tangents and hijacks you want. Subjects like this fascinate me and I gather there are others with similar bents. For instance, imagine a _Jeopardy!_ or _Trivial Pursuit_ category with a title like Movie/TV Logos and with either the video or even audio for the various studios and production entities without their names appearing. How many could you name with just the image or the theme? Some samples: The Pathe rooster The RKO Radio tower The Pegasus jumping into the foreground and becoming a horse in a triangle The Paramount 22 stars enclosing the mountain peak The Columbia gal holding the torch How many version of the Universal globe can you describe? Other than the big WB in a shield, what other logos has Warner Brothers used? Add to the list… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/24 "2007-06-22T15:00:07Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Sorry I keep posting…I have so much to say, but only five minutes to say it in. The kid jumping off the pier is Lakeshore Entertainment. The man walking down the road is Caravan Pictures. Imagine Entertainment: Production company founded by Ron Howard. I am unsure of the name’s origin. Castle Rock: Production company founded by Rob Reiner, now a division of Warner Bros. Name taken from the setting of _Stand By Me_. Miramax: Production company founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, now a division of The Walt Disney Co. Name taken from the names of the Weinstein’s parents, Miriam and Max. [/QUOTE] Magnificent! Keep 'em coming when you have the time. I sense we are similar in our fascination with such stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/25 "2007-06-22T15:05:15Z")
Castle Rock has the great lighthouse logo. I love that one. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/26 "2007-06-22T15:06:27Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] Sit, Ubu, sit. Arf. Good boy. [/QUOTE] The dog actually barks after the praise. > [@KneadToKnow](#): > > MTM has my two favorites. > > Bob Newhart saying “Meow.” > > The kitty with the dearstalker and the pipe that falls from its mouth when it meows. The deerstalker was at the end of _Remington Steele_. There were two others: _Hill Street Blues_ had the kitten in a police uniform and _St. Elsewhere_ had him in scrubs. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/27 "2007-06-22T15:10:51Z")
The Simpsons’s “Gracie Films” “SHHHHH” ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/28 "2007-06-22T15:17:40Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Other than the big WB in a shield, what other logos has Warner Brothers used? [/QUOTE] In the 70’s when WB was owned by Gulf + Western, they used a stylized “W” for their logo, but the only example I can find for it is [here](http://www.thelooniverse.com/movies/west/saulbass/logos.html) (you’ll need to scroll down to the Warner Books example). ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/29 "2007-06-22T15:19:19Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Castle Rock: Production company founded by Rob Reiner, now a division of Warner Bros. Name taken from the setting of _Stand By Me_. [/QUOTE] Aha! I had always wondered whether it had something to do with Stephen King, but had never heard of him being affiliated with them. That connects the dots! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/30 "2007-06-22T15:26:39Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] Grr, argh! (Mutant Enemy, Buffy and Angel) [/QUOTE] I loved the time, I think Giles was leaving the group, and Willow bought him a little toy monster that looked like the one on the logo and she did the ‘Grrr, argh!’ line while maked it move like the logo. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/31 "2007-06-22T15:27:12Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Castle Rock has the great lighthouse logo. I love that one. [/QUOTE] Me, too. And there’s another lighthouse one for Beacon Films, isn’t there? One I have to mention because I hate it so much for the insipid music is Fine Line or New Line, whichever it is that has the stupid music that repeats. I seem to recall that somebody relatively well known (and maybe not for his/her musical abilities) “composed” that little monstrosity. Anybody know who I mean? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/32 "2007-06-22T15:33:20Z")
[QUOTE=Ferd Burfel] In the 70’s when WB was owned by Gulf + Western, they used a stylized “W” for their logo, but the only example I can find for it is [here](http://www.thelooniverse.com/movies/west/saulbass/logos.html) (you’ll need to scroll down to the Warner Books example). [/QUOTE] Great link for logos. Thanks. For those who like to wax nostalgic for old theme music, explore [ClassicThemes.com](http://www.classicthemes.com/) and [TelevisionTunes.com](http://www.televisiontunes.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/33 "2007-06-22T15:37:41Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] The deerstalker was at the end of _Remington Steele_. There were two others: _Hill Street Blues_ had the kitten in a police uniform and _St. Elsewhere_ had him in scrubs. [/QUOTE] And in the final episode of _St. Elsewhere,_ the kitten was lying half out of the circle, as if dead, and had an IV hooked up to it. We heard an EKG monitor beep a couple of times, then make the “flatline” sound. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/34 "2007-06-22T15:38:15Z")
The late lamented Orion Pictures had a swirl of stars in a circle that broke away to from the constellation. Stephen “The A Team” Cannell showed him typing, and then pulling out the page, which flew off to become the logo. [Some more MTM Productions logos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTM_Enterprises#Mimsie_the_Cat) (the cat’s name was Mimsy, BTW). ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/35 "2007-06-22T15:39:22Z")
The Bad Hat Harry clip looks like it’s from [Angry Alien Productions](http://www.angryalien.com/), who make 30 second (highly condensed!) animated versions of movies. With bunnies. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/36 "2007-06-22T15:48:03Z")
The first time I saw the [CW11](http://cw11.trb.com/) logo my jaw just dropped. Their slogan should be “Cum on over to the CW11” ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/37 "2007-06-22T16:12:13Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] [QUOTE=Trunk] Sit, Ubu, sit. Arf. Good boy. [/QUOTE] The dog actually barks after the praise. [/QUOTE] This is certainly true when I’ve seen the Ubu vanity in recent years, but I could almost swear **Trunk** ’s sequence is how it was originally. Anyone know for sure? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/38 "2007-06-22T16:17:48Z")
I like the one at the end of “My Name Is Earl”. The production company is something like “Amigos Del Garcia” and it’s always a different person (or persons) wearing a sombrero. The guy must have a lot of friends! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/39 "2007-06-22T17:26:43Z")
[QUOTE=Borborygmi] This is certainly true when I’ve seen the Ubu vanity in recent years, but I could almost swear **Trunk** ’s sequence is how it was originally. Anyone know for sure? [/QUOTE] I don’t know if there was an alternate version, but [this](http://youtube.com/watch?v=35FnnDNUPeY) is the one familiar to me. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/40 "2007-06-22T17:27:57Z")
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