Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink is a production company founded in 1997 by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)
Nicknames: "Orange-Red Ink", "Ink Bottle Gets The Hammer", "SPLAT!"

Logo: In an office setting at the front, we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it labeled with the company name in an Impact font being stacked colored in yellow/, with only the bottom half in white/. After one of the music variants are heard, a hammer (which, if you look very closely can be seen in the reflection on the bottle) falls down and breaks the bottle, causing the ink to fly everywhere, covering up the whole screen. A second later, it abruptly cuts to the next or split-screen logo.

Variant: There exists an open-matte version of the logo.

FX/SFX: Entirely live-action.

Cheesy Factor: How could there be so much ink in that one, tiny bottle? Also, the transition to the next or split-screen logo is really poorly done.

Music/Sounds: Originally, it has the sound of the bottle breaking. In 2002 (Starting with the 2nd season of Smallville, or on September 24th, 2002), it started using a 14-note synth-organ ditty. There are the following music variants: All music variants ended with the sound of the bottle breaking, sometimes louder.
 * October 12th, 1999: The closing theme of the show, along with the splattering (A.K.A. previous bottle breaking) sound.
 * October 16th, 2001-February 12th, 2002: Just a sound of the bottle breaking.
 * February 26th, 2002-May 21st, 2002: An 3-note odd, short piano tune with an eerie sound effect.
 * 2002-2011: A 14-note synth-organ tune, followed by a last note and the bottle breaking sound. The tune is known as the reverberating cartoon ditty.

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * On the Smallville season 1 episodes such as "X-Ray" and "Hug", the bottle breaking sound is absent.
 * On early season 2 episodes of Smallville, the reverberating ditty is somewhat slightly quieter before the bottle breaking sound appears.
 * Original airings use a generic theme and a voice-over.

Availability: Common. Depending on the show:


 * First seen on the short-lived show The Strip, and later seen on Smallville and the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels on ABC, the CTV Throwback and Sony Crackle.
 * It also made an appearance on the 2006 television pilot of Aquaman, which was initially released on iTunes and later included as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray release of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.
 * It also made an appearance, but the SPT logo was omitted on the Crackle print or Blu-ray releases sometimes of the 2011 Charlie's Angels revival.
 * Don't expect to see this on films starting with Double Tap to Monster High: The Movie, which has the different company's logo instead.
 * Don't expect to see this on the 1990s shows until this logo was debuted on October 1999.

Scare Factor:
 * 2001-2002: Medium to high. The bottle suddenly breaking with no warning can be jarring to many people, especially after the long silence during both this logo and the one before such as the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo.
 * Early 2002: Medium, due to the eerie music, but tame compared to the previous variant.
 * 2002-2011: Low to medium. It is slightly less scary with the music playing.

Sounds
There is a sound of the bottle breaking, initially used in the 2001-2011 version of this logo. The old one is used on The Strip at the end.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)
Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH" in red. To the right of it is a red beaker on the bottle with a black waterdrop, and inside the waterdrop, we see the text "INK", also in red.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None, or the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on the 2015 AMC series Into the Badlands and the 2016 MTV series The Shannara Chronicles.