# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/41 "2007-06-22T17:39:43Z")
My favorite vanity-card clips are the ones that appear at the end of episodes of _Battlestar Galactica_ (the new one), wherein executive producers David Eick and Ron Moore kill and mutilate one another in a variety of amusing ways. ---
**Author:** ![Sofaspud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Sofaspud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofaspud)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/42 "2007-06-22T17:52:40Z")
Net surfing at work is being particularly stubborn today, so forgive me if one of the links posted already has this. I’d really like to find out who is behind my most favorite logo/vanity scene ever. It starts on what looks like a desert highway, in very gritty, almost grayscale tones. The viewpoint zooms along the highway for just a few seconds as a tree appears along the road in the distance. Then, baM! lightning hits the tree and the whole scene freezes. For the life of me I can’t remember what company name appears after all this. I don’t know why, but this particular scene always gets me. It’s… almost disturbing. I love it. Anyone know what I’m talking about? ---
**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, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/43 "2007-06-22T17:59:27Z")
[QUOTE=Sofaspud] Anyone know what I’m talking about? [/QUOTE] That’s Jerry Bruckheimer Films (video [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzoKXbFPLU), after the Touchstone vanity). A scaled-down version appears in the various _CSI_ credits. Significantly, after the dead tree is struck by lightning, it immediately blooms into full health, implying the power of God/Bruckheimer can bring life, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/44 "2007-06-22T18:20:10Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] 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. [/QUOTE] I loved that little bit of humour, too, but in the interests of nitpicking, it was Tara, not Willow doing it. 🙂 ---
**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, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/45 "2007-06-22T18:20:50Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] … 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? [/QUOTE] The searches I have tried on this have led me to believe/suspect the composer of the _New Line_ logo theme was [Michael Kamen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kamen) and it must have been on a DVD’s commentary track where I heard that he had that distinction. Aside from liking quite a bit of Kamen’s music, this particular theme is well past annoying to me. Childish, even. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/46 "2007-06-22T19:24:53Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Another one I think I have read/heard about its origin: Tarantino’s _A Band Apart_ company/whatever. [/QUOTE] It’s clearly a play on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic [Bande à part](http://imdb.com/title/tt0057869/), surely an influence on Tarantino. ---
**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, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/47 "2007-06-22T19:43:48Z")
How about David M. Kelly’s “You Stinka!” (said by the old lady whose rocking chair was toppled)? Steven Bochco had a violist playing. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/48 "2007-06-22T19:45:10Z")
Mandalay (which always reminds me of Van de Lay Industries “and you want to be my latex salesman!”) starts with the tiger jumping through the jungle and becoming the drawn logo. Is it Working Title that shows the sketch of the concentric circles over top two axes? like on a blackboard or drafting table? My brother and I would compete over who could name the production company first 🙂 In fact that opening moment, especially if it’s a classic one with a fanfare, is the best. The whole unseen movie stretches before you and has the potential to be so great… ---
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/49 "2007-06-22T19:58:09Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] 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. [/QUOTE] Those are some hilarious clips! I love _The Exorcist_ especially. ---
**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, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/50 "2007-06-22T21:12:46Z")
[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’ve always heard the UBU sequence as “Sit Ubu Sit. Good Boy. Bark.”, never “Sit Ubu Sit. Bark. Good Boy.” > [@Zeldar](#): > > the insipid music is Fine Line or New Line Both have the same music- they’re divisions of the same company. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The first time I saw the CW11 logo my jaw just dropped. Before they came to be a WB/CW affiliate and were an independent station, WPIX in New York had a stick figure “ll” (11, but without the pointy bits) in a circle. It wasn’t until I read it in a book that I realized the 11 was meant to mimic the shape of the World Trade Center. > [@Furd Berfel](#): > > In the 70’s when WB was owned by Gulf + Western Gulf + Western owned Paramount, not Warner Bros. > [@Zeldar](#): > > 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? > > How many version of the Universal globe can you describe? I could probably describe a lot of logos. I could probably do all of the Universal logos used on film without looking at a website like the one I linked to: Black and white “A Universal Picture” with airplane Black and white “A Universal Picture” rotating around globe with stars Universal-International (Doesn’t the fact that it’s universal make it international?) Panning from the universe into the globe with “UNIVERSAL” Same logo, but with byline “AN MCA COMPANY” 75th anniversary logo- mix of all logos except U-I leading into CGI globe Normal CGI globe without “75th ANNIVERSARY” byline New CGI globe with lights and John Williams fanfare 2002 ET variant- new CGI globe with E.T.'s bicycle New CGI globe with “[www.universalstudios.com](http://www.universalstudios.com)” (current version) There are a couple of other variants on TV and direct-to-video films as well. For many years, the TV unit of MCA was called Revue Studios, and Universal’s television logo in the '70s and '80s used a shortened version of the Revue jingle (a number of variants- the jingle was always in the key of the theme song which preceded it). ---
**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, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/51 "2007-06-22T21:17:31Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Before they came to be a WB/CW affiliate and were an independent station, WPIX in New York had a stick figure “ll” (11, but without the pointy bits) in a circle. It wasn’t until I read it in a book that I realized the 11 was meant to mimic the shape of the World Trade Center. [/QUOTE] A Channel 11 commercial from the 1980’s featured a panaramic view of the NYC skyline, stopping at the Twin Towers, which then turned into the 11-with-a-circle-around-it logo. ---
**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, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/52 "2007-06-22T21:41:33Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Gulf + Western owned Paramount, not Warner Bros. [/QUOTE] :::GULP I don’t know what happened. I was picturing [this](http://www.answers.com/topic/warner-bros-seven-arts) , while thinking of [this](http://members.fortunecity.com/teamfx2000/oldsite/paramount/paramount68.jpg) . ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/53 "2007-06-23T02:57:52Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] That’s Jerry Bruckheimer Films (video [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzoKXbFPLU), after the Touchstone vanity). A scaled-down version appears in the various _CSI_ credits. Significantly, after the dead tree is struck by lightning, it immediately blooms into full health, implying the power of God/Bruckheimer can bring life, I guess. [/QUOTE] Before Don (?) Simpson died, weren’t there two trees when it was Simpson/Bruckheimer? Or is that just something my brain made up? ---
**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 23, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/54 "2007-06-23T05:12:19Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] I’ve always heard the UBU sequence as “Sit Ubu Sit. Good Boy. Bark.”, never “Sit Ubu Sit. Bark. Good Boy.” [/QUOTE] Yes, except it’s “Good **dog**.” _woof_ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988/55 "2007-06-23T11:36:14Z")
[QUOTE=BrassyPhrase] Before Don (?) Simpson died, weren’t there two trees when it was Simpson/Bruckheimer? Or is that just something my brain made up? [/QUOTE] I remember it as two lightning bolts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hat-harry/408988.md?page=2)