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@centrevezgaming4862

10 ай бұрын

Interglobal is also an name of an soft porn studio in grand theft auto series

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Robloxing

i actually fell for stuffed squirrel productions and looked it up, totally looks like something you’d see after an adult swim show

@alexisrhodes7248

Жыл бұрын

It so does, but he made that to prove a point

Fun fact about Boyd's: They were an electronics dealer in London and the address that appears in the second half of their logo was for their store. It's now an Age UK charity shop.

The best part is that the Stuffed Squirrel Productions mascot is actually a chipmunk.

@OddityArchive

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody ever accused me (or Ed) of being smart.

@brianhebert6152

10 ай бұрын

​@@OddityArchive "I'm a chipmunk, damn it!"

Scary logos being one of the worst episodes? Ha. I loved that one, but I totally respect that. I especially love the bit where you said productions never scared you--I kinda feel the same way. I love the individual documenting of these crap logos in your characteristic style, excellent job! Been a longtime viewer but I just kinda lurk...found your channel in 2014.

@ilovebeingtheultimatebrony6685

3 жыл бұрын

Wow that lettuce logo really hit an iceberg

@Flamingbro69

3 жыл бұрын

Same Here. Heck, a good chunk of these logos are logos I’ve never seen or heard of before.

@jamesslick4790

3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely LOVE the O.A. "scary logos" episode!👍👍 It's one of my most re-watched videos in the history of KZread. THAT video and "Grade A under A"s iPhone 7 vid will always crack me up, even if I have seen them Wayyyy too many times to be considered "healthy"😜 When I feel like "crap" these videos are just the right "medicine"! 😊

@ilovebeingtheultimatebrony6685

3 жыл бұрын

I think the logo community is the greatest community on the internet

@MikeDest

3 жыл бұрын

It’s one of the best. It’s almost an ASMR video.

"the original scary logos episode was a scattershot and a mess" a scattershot and a mess indeed, but an enjoyable and entertaining one, ben.

@jamesslick4790

3 жыл бұрын

That epsode "gave" me 2 lines I use (randomly) 1, " I think you need to start coming to work sober" in a crappy "Russian" accent. 2, "Peaches...." 🤣

@Fluteboy

3 жыл бұрын

Second highest viewed episode too. People know what they like!

I lost it at 7:30 when the announcer pronounced karaoke like "ca-rokey".

@otaking3582

2 жыл бұрын

It's like they _knew_ that the American pronunciation wasn't correct, but had no idea how to speak Japanese.

@jamiecinder9412

2 жыл бұрын

@@otaking3582 I guess we don't have a lot of Japanese speakers in Minnesota, lol.

@brianhebert6152

10 ай бұрын

I remember an episode of The Simpsons where Nelson's mom pronounced karaoke that same way

@jamiecinder9412

10 ай бұрын

@@brianhebert6152 Really?

An unexpected return to the very topic that got me into Archive way back when. It's a shame we didn't get to see the return of Ben's wicked awesome lawyer, though.

@OddityArchive

3 жыл бұрын

Had to let him go. Was costing me too much.

@holyshard530

3 жыл бұрын

It was the exact same topic for me, too.

@Donald38

3 жыл бұрын

please come back to YT

Lettuce Entertainment: The leader in VHS based Crunchy Water

That Boyd's Video logo was the epitome of ineptitude.

Ah yes, Stuffed Squirrel. They made my favorite film, Death Wish 9: The Rescue of Charles Bronson's Dad

@frankcabanski9409

3 жыл бұрын

Is Charles in it?

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

📺

I was not expecting the "Mangoes" ident! The perfect follow up to the Asinine Productions "Peaches" ident!

Love the inclusion of the St. Elsewhere Mimsie logos! (RIP Mimsie....)

@dcb99filmz

3 жыл бұрын

RIP Mary Tyler Moore as well...

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🎞🎞

I'm in possession of a few VHS installments of the Kid-A-Littles (a puppet/live action newsroom show for kids that honestly warrants its own Archive segment someday) with the older black background Simitar logo, albeit backed with the same music. Fun fact about that show: Allan Trautman, the puppeteer and voice for Giggleberry and an all-around interesting dude, was also the puppeteer for the mom in Dinosaurs. I went to a panel of his at DragonCon last year and was treated to a serious blooper reel. And the voice of Scoop McGooter on the Kid-A-Littles, Wayne Kaatz, would go on to voice the Master in the Brave Little Toaster.

The only logo that ever scared me as a child was Ad Council. It felt so cold, bleak, and uninviting. Though I'm pretty sure it was just the icing on the cake after the proceeding PSA, which at the time were rather horrifying to watch. Real nightmares I had about Autism Speaks and Smokey Bear, dear lord why... I've never seen Ad Council in a scary logos competition or playlist. However, the ones I saw, much like you, I never found that equally scary. That's when I found the old Archive episode. Now I just non-stop marathon scary logos, PSAs, PIFs, all that good stuff. Thanks Ben, I'm glad to know that I'd overcome fear just like you did.

@Flamingbro69

3 жыл бұрын

I oddly enough used to be scared of the Michelin Commercials because of the ending with the choir frightening me.

@georgeonquantin9812

3 жыл бұрын

@@Flamingbro69 Its always the strangest media that scare you early. It's worse since you can even describe the fear properly. I'm just glad its over.

@Flamingbro69

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgeonquantin9812 Also, I have a Possible feeling that if I grew up in the early 80’s, I probably would’ve been scared of those old AD Council PSAs and for some reason, that one Merril Lynch ad from 1978 with the Bull running, and also that loud Bombastic Music.

23:17 Best part of the whole video. Man that was an awful logo. Had me laughing pretty good.

Okay, I admit the Boyd's logo got me especially with the adding riffing. I love looking at logos on occasion, but like you, Ben, I have never really found them scary. But cheesy always gets me. Or the ones that just go all-out but end up being cheesy and over-the-top.

10:11 Disco Stu approves of DiscoVision, Oooh yeahhh!

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🐻

14:10 Ironic to see that right after the Bootlegged Korean Logo comes "Anti-Illegal(Bootlegged) Music Campaign" in Korean...

One thing I like about watching older movies is seeing the different production logos at the beginning and end, especially the ones that are obviously dated. Maybe I geek out over weird stuff. You always seem to find some great gems that are both weird and interesting at the same time, and this episode was no exception. I actually liked some of the logos at the end that you thought were boring.

genuinely shocked you didn't get pinged for the flock of seagulls clip

Has anyone ever heard of the fadyo logo That logo stole elements from the 1990 universal logo and two and the Beatles songs with some PowerPoint looking animation through and through

@andriealinsangao613

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, yes, they copied All You Need Is Love and Free As a Bird!!!

@1secondarysmile

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember first hearing about it in 2016.

Hey, a Logo video from OA. Haven’t seen that in ages. I already know that this is going to be good.

11:28 Fun Fact: This logo was actually made by Robert Abel and Associates, pretty much the top dogs of logo animation and advertising

You some how managed to find some logos I have never seen despite watching hours of these videos. Bravo!

@MysticalSelah

3 жыл бұрын

I read this in Brak’s voice lol

@hgbugalou

3 жыл бұрын

@@MysticalSelah Someone say beans?

Nice to see that Video Update logo again! Any time I find a VHS tape with a Video Update sticker on it, I buy it.

@VSigma725

3 жыл бұрын

I have a ton of tapes from Starmaker Entertainment for some reason, some of which are also Media Home Entertainment releases. Dunno why I've found so many of them compared to any other distributor.

Not so much cheesy, more "it'll give you a seizure before you've finished watching it" logo, was Harlec TV's kzread.info/dash/bejne/X5WbqryucpiffpM.html

@iheartchubbybellies

3 жыл бұрын

When I was going through the 15 part ITV history series, when they got to Harlech, I was not expecting that, and it damn near gave me a headache.

@xenohtype

3 жыл бұрын

@@iheartchubbybellies ITV in the Face! That series honestly laid the groundwork for my knowledge of and interest on British TV.

I’m sure has been said an awful lot...but you have hands down the coolest theme music on KZread.

Made a cheesy sandwich from these logos.

Good episode, and yes, I'm among those who also enjoyed the earlier Scary Logos ep...also, had no idea that some foreign video distributors were actually stealing logo animations from US companies!

19:10 It sounds like the logo's makers burst into a pub, pointed at four drunk guys in the corner and said "Would you blokes want to help us make a logo?"

24:10 Holy cow, that's just round the corner from me! I dropped off an Amazon return practically next door a few weeks back. Must go back and check out that game store next door!

@philipc4272

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fluteboy Indeed! I was down there just a few days ago. Some quite useful shops down that way, and not as busy as the main Tooting highstreet

I never even considered logos scary when I was younger. Discovering that through (probably) your previous video was the first I was made aware. I personally like all the cheesy 70's-90's video logos. Also, thanks to your Scanimate episode (which has become one of my favorites) I like spotting where I think scanimate was used when watching stuff from the 70's-80's, like a couple of the Oompa Loompa numbers from the original Willy Wonka.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

👸

What about the Horror Factory logo from France? That’s designed to be scary.

@Donald38

3 жыл бұрын

everyone would freaking die if he added that logo. yes, even he would die just editing it in

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Garfield pfp. Lasagna

BFS is my favorite K-pop band

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🐊

Thank you for the Alan Parsons Project reference 😁👍

That "Zombastic" logo cracked me the hell up, especially the odd frame at the end when the skull is drooling thin, pink goo. As for the bootleg foreign logos, my personal favorite is this one that blatantly rips off the logo for the cable channel Showtime that lazily slaps a stock picture of Pac-Man on everything before it barely cuts out in time to see the word "Showtime." kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpaltZWehbSXoLg.htmlm22s That one company did a far better job hiding the Orion logo. I mean, how hard can it be to find a freaking picture of stars?

@Flamingbro69

3 жыл бұрын

South Korean Home Video Logos are so cheesy but they’re absolutely hilarious

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🎞

Man now we gotta get a episode of the coolest classic logos, if nothing more then to see that classic HBO opening logo complete with the amazing song

3:25 It took me many year but now I realize when you mention Ed, you are talking about the editor which is you. Now who is Ben? Is he the recycle bin?

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Animator

The music on the "adult" one reminded me strongly of the chorus to "Tether" by Chvrches. The one that had me scratching my head the most was the one with lyrics. I imagine someone at that company assigning someone to write the words, and the other person thinking, "But... there usually aren't vocals with the music over the logo" and being afraid to stand up to their boss so just writing lyrics anyway.

Ben, thank you for including the MTM / Mimsie clips; I binge watched all 6 seasons of "St. Elsewhere" very recently and so I loved hearing that tiny bit of the theme song! ❤😎👍

I love your scary logos video though. It's the video that introduced me to your channel

My favorite was "We kicked your puppy productions". When you dont have budget!

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

Wakko Warner pfp

This was oddly satisfying. If there's any more, even if it's incredibly stupid or non-sensical, I want to see those. ^^

Boyd's shouldn't let the engineer's petulant kid do the opening sequence anymore.

Magnetic Video is legend

The Gong parodies were poking fun at the Rank Org.

@negirno

3 жыл бұрын

There were a version where one guy hit the other's crotch instead of the gong.

@biercom

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nJ2iwcObnaiYeLQ.html 😂

tbh the blood & guts one scared the hell outta me

Was Stuffed Squirrel Productions real? I suspect that one was made up for this.

@Flamingbro69

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was made up. Ben likes to make and incorporate fake logos.

10:12 reminds me of the old '60s NBC in color logo.

@imrustyokay

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the 70s NBC logo.

@visaman

3 жыл бұрын

"This program is presented in living color on NBC!

13:09 This logo predicted Crazy frog's Axel F.

@Flamingbro69

3 жыл бұрын

That’s because they stole the music from the original “Axel F” by Harold Faltermeyer

5:07 These VCX logos use a modified version of Keith Mansfield's "World Champion" Better known to Americans as NBC's old Wimbledon outro song.

I love how the one logo with the Next Generation theme must’ve been pulled from an off-air recording since it still had the warp drive sound effect.

LOL @Kodak's creative differences

Your first scary logos episode wasn't the worst, I love every bit of it!

@alexisrhodes7248

Жыл бұрын

I like it too, Ben

Discovision and CED Selectavision are the greatest

For the bootleg logos, you should have shown some of joseph lai's korean anime knockoffs, they'd usually take the theme from star wars

4:48 It's good to know that the last save point in silent hill 2 started out in television.

Trumpet intro's.. you know you're gonna have a cheap old bad entertainment time. 06:56 Very italodisco funk 19:35 Stomach pain

The VPRO logo is a real logo used by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO back when they were in the hippie era.. they have created even weirder stuff during that period.

When you mentioned logos with tacky synth music, I just knew the first one you were going to play was the Simitar logo.

@missbleach8767

Ай бұрын

🐇

The Parody intros...? That would be *Rank* ...what do I win?

@visaman

3 жыл бұрын

J. Arthur Rank.

@visaman

3 жыл бұрын

"If we made it, it's a Rank production!"

That was a good episode! Thanks Ben! Hope you’re doing better

This might be possibly my favorite episode in the whole series. Soooo many of these logos are just amazing and I want to see more of them!

I love everything about this episode!! I feel like I need a smoke as well.

Since it's nearly been 1,5 years since you last made a logo-related video, I've been thinking about another such video. More specifically, companies' rebrandings. I sure know TVP and Polsat had many, even if they generally didn't change their names.

19:33 - 19:40 Between the sounds, and the logo effects/how the logo appeared, I now have etched into my mind (perhaps permanently) the image of a constipated person shitting out a logo. 😂😂😂😂😂

When I saw Disco Vision I knew CED would be there

What!? I loved that Scary Logos episode! That's what got me to follow Oddity Archive in the first place. But I can understand where you're coming from. Still, great to see a follow-up to that episode.

Been waiting for more content like this, cheers!

19:12 In Felipe González -era Spain, TV watches you!

I'm the Nostalgia Merchant. I remember it because you already forgot about it.

I've seen some logos on here that were very definitely made with an 8 bit microcomputer. They looked as if they were made with an Acorn Electron. I think they all came from the same company under several different names. Pure Blue Stilton.

@OzRetrocomp

3 жыл бұрын

They couldn't even pay a little bit extra for a BBC Micro? That's cheap.

@ExtremeWreck

3 жыл бұрын

I honestly thought some of them looked to have been made on a Commodore 64.

Logos might have been how I found your channel, but I stayed honestly for the rest of it! Genuinely great content all around!

The 80s was just so tacky in some ways, synergized and airbrushed artwork, bad synthesised ditties and overly bright flouro colours like hot pink and electric blue. Its burning my retinas already.

Later that day Ben and Ed would have Nacho pizza while having a Marx brothers marathon later segre would join in at the end of it would clame Groucho was a genius and spend the two weeks with shoe polish mustache and dark glasses later Ben would dress Chico and Ed as harpo and they would win best theme costume at Ed uncle Wayne's Halloween party .

That VPRO logo was scary af to me!

About to head out soon & see some friends, so, I'll DEFINITELY catch up on YET ANOTHER EXCELLENT episode, when I return. Looking VERY forward to it, too (AS ALWAYS)! :-)

@drwolfpoint

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. Now I have something to watch on my lunch break.

Scary logos are kinda hard to understand if you weren't there. But in general, I believe their horror mostly comes from the fact that, a really young child is *truly profoundly* ignorant about how television works, and how the world works in general. From a cognitive standpoint, the way television works is, *complex.* From individual programs with their 'verses, things like end-credits (which to an illiterate child are more an indication that the show is about to end than credit information), channels, etc etc. All that stuff are things we take for granted to such a degree that it has become reflex, its actually *hard* to think about even if you *want* to. And its all things that a young child won't know. So without that knowledge or experience, television programming kinda flows like a weird amorphous blob from one state to another. Things like logos, or text, just become part of the artwork as it were. Speaking about text, early childhood illiteracy also is a big factor. When we see text, we know its text and what it says. But for a young child, they see it how it is - its just weird shapes that become part of the images. Combined with the lack of knowledge of how TV works, and how the world works, a logo could trigger a primal fear or two. One way to think about it is, to a young child, a scary logo would *feel* about the same way that a nightmare might feel to you. And I mean *real* nightmares that make you feel awful. I guess it makes sense that logos can inspire nightmares so much. This makes me come to the conclusion that, surprise surprise, the logos aren't scary, at least not much and not by themselves. It's *other,* special circumstances that bring the horror out. Even if those circumstances are recursive, like having prior history with the logo, or whatever, its still not the logo thats doing it, but something else.

Scary Logos is the Archive video that got me into the Archive, so it being the worst one actually makes sense.

Simitar? You mean the people who released The Christmas Light, The Christmas Brigade, and the WWF knockoff album that got them sued to oblivion?

I'm happy to see another logos video, the first one brought me to this channel. I also had a feeling the Video Update Sing-A-Long would also return! Vadi-Mon didn't do adult films oddly enough, just Spanish movies. Also I'm wagering that Stuffed Squirrel, We Kicked Your Puppy and possibly Home Video Supplies were fake in-house creations much like the one or two that appeared on the first video!

@Flamingbro69

3 жыл бұрын

I oddly enough thought the Stuffed Squirrel logo was real at first

@papayaboat1780

Жыл бұрын

You'd be right except for the last one, which seems to have been located in the UK.

@DanZero77

Жыл бұрын

@@papayaboat1780 Right you are. I saw Home Video Supplies just recently on a UK video collection here a couple weeks ago!

I was in Sioux Falls last month should of told me, had a bunch of cheesy ones :) Also a 2020 clip of a STILL ACTIVE TV Guide Channel in operation

There's one Cheesy Logo from a company named "Our Production Company". It's just an American flag, statue of liberty, all with the Star Spangled Banner being played loudly. Probably good for another 4th of July episode.

7:21 who knew that Toby Fox stole one of his leitmotifs for the soundtrack to *Undertale* from a random old video logo

This should be a good watch later. Hope you’re doing well, Ben.

Karaoke - Karaoke. Meh - Potato Potato

That Melisa logo looks like its own YTP

🎶 *ESCAPE....TO VIDEO UPDATE!!!* 🎶 That's gonna be my new ringtone 😅😅😅😅

New to this channel. What's with the Video Update box? Surprised to see that -- I remember going to one of those stores back in the day, but never expected to see the logo again.

10:05 Wow, the DiscoVision Spirograph! Supposedly newer (meaning 1990 or later) Laserdisc players can't even see it since it's before the 'Beginning' of the video. Older players ignored the Start code imbedded in the disc and would just start playing from the physical beginning. I also read that the DIscoVision name was trademarked in 1972, so it was a coincidence that the name just 'happened' to coincide with a really popular music format at the time.

Great now I'm gonna see mangos in my nightmares.

AR-CHIVE(our chive, the chive we own collectively, the herb that tastes like a green onion that we have together) ROOLS!(FOOLS!)

Man, you know, I think y'all did a good job explaining Scary Logos in 10 minutes flat in the lady episode. Also, magnetic video, one of the first home video companies ever. No really!

@suedenim

3 жыл бұрын

Magnetic Video is deeply embedded in my brain. I didn't find logos "scary" per se, but the look and sound of the logos from brands you've never heard of and their cheapness helped me form a vague vision of a mysterious secret underworld that home video just gave you a glimpse of.

Video update nice. I remember renting from there. I also remember when it used to be AV Video.

Many of the supposedly scary closing logos aren’t scary at all, but these logos are cheesy

@negirno

3 жыл бұрын

I found the Zombie logo scary because skull with eyeballs. And also the Stuffed Squirrel.

@newstarcadefan

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, though for a 4 or 5 year old...that's scary as sin. I mean when I was about that age, I was scared of the Viacom V of doom then. I thought it would crash through the television.

@CommodoreFan64

3 жыл бұрын

@@newstarcadefan same I never could stand that one as a kid, it gave me the creeps. Yet I could sit through a Friday the 13th movie, or any other scary movie at that time, and laugh!! 🤷‍♂️

@ExtremeWreck

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they really are. I was hoping he'd include The Video Bancorp.

As a kid, the Mark VII logo scared me. When I see Dragnet reruns it still bothers me.

Gonna need a full version of that Video Update song kthnx

tasty episode

From approx 18:52 to 19:01, the "Stuffed Squirrel Productions" logo portion