# Scary Production Logos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114 "2011-08-18T03:27:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/41 "2015-02-08T02:50:05Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I was fascinated by Mark VII Limited. Me too. It didn’t scare me, though. None of the ones in the link were scary in any way. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/42 "2015-02-09T00:34:59Z")
> [@jrbor76](#): > > The MGM logo. I wasn’t scared by the lion, surprisingly. What I _was_ scared by was that little red mask with the black eyes and mouth sitting below the lion. What the _hell_ was that supposed to be? A clown? A Mexican wrestler? A Zulu warrior? The illegitimate spawn of the ghost forms of the dragon and the balloon from Dig Dug? Three decades and change later, and I _still_ haven’t figured it out. The classic Greek drama mask that’s been used for centuries to symbolize theater. To be fair, they’re usually in pairs like [this](http://graphicriver.net/item/comedy-and-tragedy-theater-masks/778346) for comedy and tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/43 "2015-02-12T23:39:12Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I grew up with these logos. I didn’t find them remotely scary. > > [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMOQkW4t1Ks) I found scary. What was it? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/44 "2015-02-13T05:20:39Z")
> [@Shockaholics](#): > > What was it? Hell if I can remember what I was thinking four years ago. See that’s why we should always describe what’s behind a link. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/45 "2016-02-08T21:37:32Z")
The only logos I can remember scaring me were the PBS Kids “P-Pals” logo that was on my Teletubbies VHS tapes. Now, [THIS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n49Xsff5zms), on the other hand, used to TRAUMATISE me as a kid. I didn’t get over it until last month. :o ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/46 "2016-02-08T21:53:59Z")
None of it bothered me but when **DIC** first made the scene, the child’s voice-over clearly said, “dick.” Later, they changed it to, “deek.” ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/47 "2016-02-08T21:57:33Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > None of it bothered me but when **DIC** first made the scene, the child’s voice-over clearly said, “dick.” Later, they changed it to, “deek.” Some guy I found on the Internet used to say “He’s dreaming about his…” before the child said “DiC”. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/48 "2016-02-08T22:00:47Z")
You stop that right now before I fall out of my chair, laughing hysterically, and injure something. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/49 "2016-02-08T23:27:07Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > Is the OP by chance scared of clowns as well? :dubious: Hey! _I’m_ afraid of clowns, and the only word that came to mind as I watched the youtube video linked by the OP isn’t one I use in mixed company. None of those are even remotely scary. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/50 "2016-02-08T23:40:42Z")
I wasn’t scared of it, but as a kid, the NBC identification tone always seemed so ineffably sad. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/51 "2016-02-08T23:52:29Z")
The Roundelay-(MF) logo from the end of _Knots Landing_ had been scary to me at first, but now it’s not so much anymore, and is more a pleasant memory than it was then. I think it was because Roundelay-(MF) was only behind _KL_, not _Dallas_ or _Falcon Crest_ (although Roundelay was on the 1986 _Dallas_ reunion film _The Early Years_). ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/52 "2016-02-09T01:22:51Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Not a production logo, but the beginning of the old “Honeymooners” show when the moon morphed into Jackie Gleason’s face used to scare the hell out of me when I was little. > > (PS: I was watching reruns with my dad. I’m not THAT old. 🆒) I was scared of something similar - a moment in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode “Karate Choppers” in which a drop of hot sauce develops Tom Kenny’s face. That used to scare the EVER-LOVING HELL out of me. I would always run out of the room or change the channel whenever the episode came on, and couldn’t watch it until LAST MONTH! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/53 "2016-02-09T01:34:36Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Not scary, but I hate hate hated the [Thames](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYxa3k6D9YI) logo that came on before, I think Ducktails or Richie Rich or something. Probably [Count Duckula](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ZVWMPuZ2c). ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/54 "2016-02-09T01:55:21Z")
I know it has been years since I first posted this but this [listing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf1SBif73OM) has some good examples of what I was talking about (which I still have a hard time articulating exactly). ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/55 "2016-02-09T15:46:42Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I know it has been years since I first posted this but this [listing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf1SBif73OM) has some good examples of what I was talking about (which I still have a hard time articulating exactly). Holy crap, the one for VID TV! WTF? What the hell kind of channel was that, anyway? As an adult, I could happily live out the rest of my life never seeing that again; I shudder to think of my child self being faced with that late a night. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/56 "2016-02-09T16:24:20Z")
For some reason, the music cue behind the NBC Peacock logo always really, really creeped me out. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/57 "2016-02-09T16:29:35Z")
For some reason, the music cue behind the NBC Peacock logo (the full-color one adopted in 1962) really creeped me out. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/58 "2016-02-09T17:01:14Z")
I think it’s interesting that some folks aren’t getting the creepy vibe and some are. Do you supposed it has to do with the context in which we watched tv as kids? For instance it sounds like a number of us watched late at night, possibly home alone. For those that don’t find any of the graphics / sound effects unsettling, can you at least see why some would? To me, it almost seems as if the creators of the things were deliberately going for an ominous effect. Why would that be, do you suppose? I guess it’s meant to created some sort of air of gravitas or whatever, but it seems like a “happy” sound would be just as effective. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/59 "2016-02-09T17:04:12Z")
Who on Earth would be scared of any of these? I mean, if you have to _explain_ why something is scary, it’s quite clear they’re not scary at all. I never could understand why people like to brag about being scared, but it’s even worse when you brag about being scared by things that are no more frightening than a newborn puppy. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114/60 "2016-02-09T17:41:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Who on Earth would be scared of any of these? I mean, if you have to _explain_ why something is scary, it’s quite clear they’re not scary at all. > > I never could understand why people like to brag about being scared, but it’s even worse when you brag about being scared by things that are no more frightening than a newborn puppy. :rolleyes: Whoa, little hostile there 😕 “Who on Earth” would be the people who have responded that they, in fact \*used to \* be frightened _when they were kids_. So it’s not “quite clear” they’re not scary at all. And I don’t see anyone \*bragging \*about being scared. Just sharing memories. If you don’t relate, why come in here and thread shit? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-production-logos/593114.md?page=4)