Gecko Studios

Background
Gecko Studios was a production company that was formed by Elliot Strange in 1987, based in San Diego, California. Following creative issues at ABC centering on The Halloween Gang and them restructuring their programs under the guidance of the Q5 Corporation for that year's television season. Strange initially created Gecko to fulfill executive producer obligations due to him agreeing to helm the show's syndication package. After getting officially launched in 1989, the company would expand to creating new productions, though only one show ever got greenlit and assisted on producing cutscenes and character designs for video games. Gecko would also produce commercials, namely for clients like Subway, Robert’s American Gourmet Food (Smart Puffs, Original Tings), The Coca-Cola Company (Barq Root Beer), PepsiCo (7UP), Papa John's, Tabasco, Diners Club International and the Got Milk? campaign, but are perhaps best known for producing advertisements for Japanese and Korean clients like Sharp, JVC, KEC Corporation and Funai, the latter mainly for their Symphonic line of televisions. Steve Viksten and Eric Stefani would become briefly involved with the company in 2000. Gecko reoriented their focus to commercials entirely in 2004 and the company would become dormant in 2010. In 2017, Strange announced a partnership with Twitter influencer Doug Lisbon (later transitioned to Diana Libson.) However, things would sour as both would face constant disagreements, leading to an infamous livestream where Strange gaslighted Lisbon following a controversy surrounding the film Turning Red; Strange already faced controversy with the animation community due to his outspoken hatred of its most popular members. Strange would fire Libson from a project they were working on and intended to retire, especially following allegations of sexual deviancy. Strange was able to prove the allegations false and relaunched Gecko as "Gecko Forever" alongside comedians Morton Ezra, Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov.

1st Logo (1987-2003)
Logo: In a suburban environment, we see a girl with a wide grin holding a spatula in her proper left hand. Beneath her is the text "GECKO STUDIOS"

Variant: On video games, the background is darker and the text is replaced by "Animation, character assets and additional direction by" with Strange's signature below.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: A mystery-esque synth tune. Sometimes it's silent or has the closing theme.

Availability: It debuted on The Halloween Gang along with its primetime special The Halloween Gang: The Celtic Connection and the Streamline Pictures dub of The Fairies of Silver Platte. It also appeared on Green Jean for the SEGA Genesis and SEGA CD, Green Jean 2: Enter the Nega Jean for the PlayStation, PC and SEGA Saturn, its expansion port as well for the SEGA Dreamcast, Green Jean (2002) as well as on The Halloween Kids, the unsold pilots for Rockett to Earth and Phat Stak, Forget Tess and the Primal Rage OVA; the latter two alongside other logos. Was recently discovered on Popeye in Plastic Plunder, an animated PSA.

1st Logo (2023-)
Logo: We see a letterboxed image of a bear staring at a full moon with a gecko embryo. Beneath it is the text "GECKO FOREVER".

Variant: Sometimes this is seen next to the logo for Lol, crabs.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on Uncle Smith. Due to legal issues with Westbrook Studios the show was pulled from Hulu.