PBS Kids (2002-2013)

Background
PBS Kids is a children's programming block on PBS and 24-hour digital channel.

(2000-2001; January 21, 2002-October 7, 2013-, 20??)
Logo: Variants:
 * Snow Globe: Dash, the boy, is seen ice skating on an ice rink. He suddenly feels the ground-shake and he stops. After that, the camera pans out to reveal that he is in a snow globe, which is held by Dot, the girl, who is seen holding it, looking at the viewer. She closes her mouth and giggles. Snowflakes cover up the whole screen from the far upper-right-corner in distance, transitioning to the circular PBS Kids logo with Dot in it afterwards on a powder blue background with snowflakes on it.
 * Fishbowl: On a lime green background, a desk is seen at the bottom of the screen, with the fishbowl filled with water and the goldfish inside. Dash is seen behind it, looking at the goldfish in a fishbowl. The camera cuts to the close-up view of the fishbowl as Dash comes onto a fishbowl the goldfish is at. It then gets astonished and looks at the boy. After that, some bubbles are seen covering up the screen from the far bottom in the distance, transitioning to Dash as an fish, which quickly appears from the far upper left of the screen in the distance, and floats in the ocean. After a second, Dot, the girl, as a large  fish, appears from the far right of the screen and swallows Dash. She then looks at the viewer. After this, some bubbles are seen again covering up the screen from the far bottom of the screen in the distance, transitioning to the circular PBS Kids logo with Dot's face on it afterwards, on an sky blue background with bubbles on it, where they go up.
 * On BBC's CBBC United Kingdom airings of early Martha Speaks episodes, the Fishbowl identification is still.
 * Such common variants of the logo exists where it has the URL address at the lower left hand of the screen.
 * Starting in 2003 with Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks on PBS Kids, "KIDS" is added at the bottom corner of the circular PBS Kids logo.
 * Snow Globe: The logo has been re-animated and presented in widescreen. The background is in, there is a slightly different shape of an ice rink, the animation is different and less smooth, the background when Dot is shown holding a snow globe is to have no snowflakes, the snowflakes are brighter and bigger, Dot's eyes are looking at the snow globe and the bottom part of it is in dark blue-ish grey. Strangely in this variant, Dot has fingers.
 * Fishbowl: The logo is presented in true widescreen, with no other changes but with differences: it is zoomed in at the beginning of the logo when Dash looks at the fishbowl on a desk, the close-up view of it is zoomed out slightly, the camera is slightly panned down to the left and stabilized in the scene of the fish in the ocean, and the bubbles are a bit brighter and slightly smaller. The background at the end of the logo is zoomed out.
 * At the end of the logo, the PBS Kids logo with Dot's face on it is zoomed out, and the URL is placed at the lower-left hand of the 16:9 screen. They usually appear in 4:3, half 4:3 or widescreen formats.


 * A cropped widescreen version of the logo exists.

FX/SFX: 2D animation by Primal Screen.

Music/Sounds: Both idents end with the "Doink!" sound and the kids singing the "PBS Kids" chant. The "PBS Kids!" chant sounds less like singing and more like a simple yell, which ends with the girl's laughter. If you listen closely, you can also hear the "PBS Kids" chant from the Dot variant of the 1999 logo. Music and sound design by Primal Screen.
 * Snow Globe: A whimsical 10-note vibraphone tune (the last 4 notes of the tune are the PBS Kids jingle, possibly spoofing C. E. Levy's "Skater's Waltz" but in F major and the first part of Joseph Martin's "Come to the Music" but in high tone) with jingle bells in the background.
 * Fishbowl: Water sounds (ex. bubbling noises) are heard in the background, and a boy scatting the 1999 jingle but in high tone circle-lipped as if to imitate a fish when Dash as an fish comes down.

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * For the native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper: a few of the bubbling sounds in the background from the logo are a bit different, the "Doink!" sound is slightly quieter, and some extra kids who are seen chanting the company name are heard in the ending theme, and water sounds where kids chant the company name are still heard and are slightly loud.
 * An plastering error occured, where the fish bumper uses the snow globe bumper's audio. It can be found on some PBS Kids reruns of some episodes of WordWorld (as seen on the station WGVU).
 * On the DVD of Lomax the Hound of Music: The Best of Lomax, the native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper uses a theme from the normal variant of the 2nd ident of the same name. The audio of the logo is a bit loud.

Availability: Extinct on TV, but uncommon elsewhere. Legacy: Also a well-known and memorable logo from PBS.
 * Appeared on 2002-2013 prints of PBS Kids programming at the time. However, many of the shows it appeared on have either been replaced with newer logos or do not air on PBS anymore.
 * This logo was first seen on a Primal Screen reel featuring other PBS Kids bumpers, most of which were produced and premiered between 2000 and 2001; its first introduction on TV may have presumably been on Cyberchase.
 * Like before, the 2nd ident appears on a few Arthur DVDs by Sony Wonder (such as Arthur's Tooth).
 * The prototype variant of the snow globe bumper is extinct, as shown on season 1 of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks.
 * The 1st ident may have appeared on some airings of It's a Big Big World. DVD releases of the said show may have this ident as well.
 * A native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper is a bit common elsewhere, but rare, as shown at the end of original PBS Kids airings of the second season of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, very rare mid-2008 prints of a few Sid the Science Kid season 1 episodes and the 2008 DVD of Lomax the Hound of Music: The Best of Lomax.
 * Some old PBS Kids airings of a few episodes of Clifford's Puppy Days and Clifford The Big Red Dog will feature this logo.
 * The fish bumper appears on NCircle DVD releases WordWorld. Some later DVD releases of the series do not spot this logo after the WordWorld logo, but it appears when a user presses the "Play All" button in the main menu or the show's episode on the "Play One" menu.
 * Early Martha Speaks episodes shows the Fishbowl bumper, and Super WHY! (as shown on old PBS Kids airings) features both the logos themselves. NETFLIX prints of the latter show will also feature both the logos themselves as well.
 * When a native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper have ended while it is active on early 2008 prints of season 1 of Sid the Science Kid, the regular bumper of the same name was seen on PBS Kids airings of the final season of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks.
 * A native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper is also rare.
 * It is seen on HD feeds of PBS stations if they were available sometimes.
 * It is commonly founded on 2000s PBS Kids airings of some season 2 episodes Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, rare early 2008 prints of a few season 1 episodes of Sid The Science Kid and the DVD of "Lomax The Hound of Music: The Best of Lomax".
 * It is spotted on some video prints (ex. YouTube, Prime Video, Vudu) of the Sid the Science Kid season 1 episode "Enough With the Seashells".
 * The prototype variant of the snow globe bumper is extinct, as Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks never began to rerun on PBS Kids since August 2008.
 * Check the old tapes to find this logo, and whatever remaining appearances of this logo were likely ended when the company rebranded its logo in July 2022.
 * The logo was sometimes seen on PBS Kids prints of 2010 episodes of WordWorld.