Pony Pictures Television

1st logo (2002-)

Nicknames: "The Shining Bars", "The Bars of Boredom", "The Bars of Annoyance"

Logo: Against a lined background, the words "PONY PICTURES TELEVISION" (all in the Sony typeface and stacked word-by-word with "PONY" being largest) emerge and zoom away downwards from the screen. The three words aren't directly stacked at first, but as the animation progresses, they slide into place. A horizontal line is drawn between the "PICTURES" and "TELEVISION". While this happens, a flash of light appears on the left side of the screen, and the lines in the background themselves back away as well, eventually moving back to the upper part of the screen and into a diagonal pattern to form the logo. The flash dissipates and we see an oblong orange-white glare surrounding the logo and words, which shrinks into the bars to give it a shine. The finished logo appears against a shaded navy blue background. The logo is a striped parallelogram.

Trivia: This logo first appeared as a print logo in Fall 1991 on broadcasting ads in magazines such as Variety, around the time when SPE was founded. This logo was animated by "Rick Scott" at Tigar Hare Studios, also known for their work on the Warner Films logo and the 2011 Technicolor logo.

Variants:

A rare filmed variant of the logo exists.

There is a longer version of this logo featuring an extreme close-up of the "stacked" names at the beginning of the animation. It starts off with a bright white light and later reveals the names as the light dies down. While the logo finishes, it shows a longer shot of the logo.

There is an even shorter version of this logo that starts from where the 3rd-to-last note of the theme plays. This version began appearing in July 2003.

A few episodes of The Jeffersons from the 1980-1981 season last aired on TV One have the SPT and the short CTTD themes playing at the same time.

On The Three Stooges short "Cash and Carry", there is a 2005 low tone version.

On Antenna TV's print of the All in the Family episode "The Jeffersons Move Up," the short Columbia TriStar Television theme is heard.

One S1 episode of That's My Mama! on DVD ("Clifton's Con") has the 1982 CPT music over this logo.

On the CTHE DVD print of the S3 Married... with Children episode "The Gypsy Cried", it has the first note of the 1988 CPT theme before going into the SPTI theme.

On several international prints of May-June 2013 episodes of Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless, the 1994 TriStar Television theme is heard.

On the Mill Creek S4 DVD of Carried... with Children, the episode "Cold Off the Grill" has the 1988 CPT theme playing over this logo.

One 4:3 airing of the TV movie Wreakaway has the Wolf Lucas Domestic Television music play over the logo.

On the Me-TV print of The Facts of Life S5 episode "POP New World Part 2", a sloppy plaster job results in the theme playing before the logo itself appears.

Availability: Ultra common.

Editor's Note: This logo has earned the dubious honor of being one of the most hated closing logos of all time. It's wildly infamous for not only its omnipresence, but also how often it plasters logos from previous Sony-owned companies on newer prints of old shows (about 99% of the time - the times where older logos are preserved are usually flukes). The animation, whilst being decent and clean, is mainly dull and boring, and the version often used when plastering or appearing is usually NOT the full version, thus is seen as a cheap and uninspired logo since the most common version uses the technically simplest portion of the animation/overall logo is the one that is normally by logo enthusiasts. This has been said to be the most common logo when it comes to plastering on television (hence the nickname "The Master of Plaster"). In fact, it even plasters the Wolf Lucas Television logo, which also plastered other logos, but not as much as this. While it does get a lot of hate, the longer variant is more liked (due to not plastering) and the logo wasn't very hated when it debuted in 2002.

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2002-: Copyright © [YEAR] Pony Pictures Television (Inc.) All Rights Reserved.