PBS Kids (2002-2013)

Background
PBS Kids is a children's programming block on PBS and 24-hour digital channel. This page shows system cues from 2000.

4th Logo (2000-2001; January 21, 2002-October 7, 2013)
Nicknames: "PBS Kids Logo III", "PBS Kids Boy III", "PBS Kids Girl III", "Doink! PBS Kids III", "Snow Globe", "Fishbowl"

ID: Here are a couple of idents, ending with the circular PBS Kids logo with Dot's face on it afterwards.
 * Snow Globe: We see Dash who is seen ice skating on a pond. Suddenly, he feels the ground shaking and stops. The second time Dash ice-skates, the camera pans out to reveal that he is in a snow globe (with the bottom part of the snow globe in ), which was held by Dot (with light blue skin like the background instead of lime green). Dot giggles, "Doink!" Snow covers the screen to transition to the circular PBS Kids logo on a light blue background with snowflakes.
 * Fishbowl: Dash looks at the goldfish in his fishbowl and comes behind it on a lime green background. We cut to the close-up of the fishbowl when Dash comes behind it. Bubbles transition to an underwater scene of Dash imagining as an goldfish (with his face, fins "tail" and some parts of the fish in ) swimming in peace. After a second, he gets swallowed by Dot as a  fish near the end. When Dot in her  fish form makes a great big smile on her face, bubbles transition to the circular PBS Kids logo on an light blue background with bubbles.
 * Also like the previous logos at the lower-left hand of the screen, the URL address for PBS Kids will appear like before. Sometimes, the URL address for PBS Kids does not appear.

Variants:
 * On CBBC airings of Martha Speaks, the Fishbowl ident is still.
 * There is a variant of the snow globe bumper where the color of the background is a bit darker but in lavender, the pond has a slightly different shape but bigger, the animation (for the snowflakes in the background, and Dot, for some reason) is different and less smoother, the background where Dot is shown holding the snow globe (instead, the color of the bottom part of the snow globe is blue-ish grey, respectivley) is to have no snowflakes, Dot's eyes' pupils are shrunken and seems to bring the snow globe, getting more closer to her, the snowflakes are brighter and bigger, and "KIDS" is below the circular logo. The TV version has many differences shown above, with the URL address placed at the bottom left of the screen, along with the fish bumper itself. This only appears on PBS Kids airings of early episodes (including a few 2004 episodes) of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks.
 * A version of the fish bumper also has "KIDS" below the circular logo; however, there are no other changes. This variant presumably made a debut in 2004 until 2007, and later debuted until 2008. The Primal Screen version of this variant is the same with a few differences: The screen where the PBS Kids logo is shown is slightly zoomed in, the URL address for PBS Kids was absent and the screen cuts to black after the logo ends. The standard version shows some differences, with the Primal Screen version also occurred: the screen shown at the beginning of the logo was a bit zoomed in, the close up of the fishbowl was zoomed out slightly, the camera for the underwater scene is off-center and was stabilized, the background with two bubbles coming up was zoomed out, many bubbles on a background where the PBS Kids logo is shown was cropped in 16:9 aspect ratio, the transitioning bubbles were different and had more bubbles onto them, just before the underwater scene is shown, the fishbowl's close up view was tinted in for a split second, for the beginning frame only, the water inside the fishbowl was absent; this is considered an error, and the logo fades from black at the beginning and fades to black at the end. This appears on PBS Kids airings of some episodes of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks. It was later seen since 2008, on early 2008 prints of a few early episodes of Sid the Science Kid (when production began in January 2008), and later on the DVD of Lomax the Hound of Music: The Best of Lomax (as well as PBS Kids airings of the aforementioned series on PBS station CPTV).
 * Cropped 16:9 versions exist. Alternated cropped 16:9 versions of these logos also exist at the end of a widescreen print of some episodes of Nanalan', after the Kids' CBC logo and sometimes on old PBS Kids airings of season 1 of Super WHY!.

Technique: 2D animation by Primal Screen in Atlanta, Georgia.

Music/Sounds: Depending on each variant. The snow globe variant has a whimsical 10-note vibraphone tune (the last four notes are the company's jingle, possibly spoofing C. E. Levy's "Skater's Waltz" but in F major), accompanied by jingle bells and the fish variant has a boy scatting the 1999 jingle in a higher tone circle lipped as if to imitate a fish when Dash in his goldfish form appears, with underwater sounds (ex. bubbling noises) in the background. At the end of both idents, a "doink" sound (alternated from the Dot variant of the 1999 logo) is heard and they all end up eventually singing the company name. The "PBS Kids!" chant sounds less like singing and more like a simple yell. If you listen closely, you can also hear the "PBS Kids" chant from the Dot variant of the 1999 logo.

Music/Sounds Trivia: Both idents were composed by Primal Screen.

Availability:
 * 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 still appears on some reruns of a few shows on a few PBS stations.
 * 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 was presumably on Cyberchase.
 * Like before, the 2nd ident appears on a few Arthur DVD releases by Sony Wonder (such as Arthur's Tooth).
 * A variant of the snow globe bumper is very rare, only appearing on PBS Kids airings of several episodes of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks.
 * A version of the fish bumper is also rare, which first appeared on PBS Kids airings of some episodes of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, and later seen on extremely rare early prints of a few Sid the Science Kid season 1 episodes, with the system cue also appearing after the 2008 Jim Henson Company logo at the end of some video prints of the Sid the Science Kid season 1 episode "Enough with the Seashells".
 * The Fish Bowl system cue originally appeared on the Primal Screen website, with the Snow Globe system cue appearing in a Primal Screen reel featuring other PBS Kids bumpers, as well as the said system cue after the "Doodle Bugs" ID.
 * The 2nd ident sometimes appeared at the end of PBS Kids airings of a few episodes of Clifford's Puppy Days and season 2 of Clifford the Big Red Dog.
 * Several NCircle DVD releases of WordWorld use the Fish Bowl system cue, either after the funding or the WordWorld logo and before either the show's theme song or the URL bumper.
 * Cropped 16:9 versions of these idents are uncommon, which can be found at the end of some PBS Kids airings of some episodes of season 1 of Super WHY! and some airings of It's a Big Big World, with the Fishbowl system cue appearing at the end of PBS Kids airings of some 2008 episodes of Martha Speaks.
 * The normal Fish Bowl variant was seen on PBS Kids airings of season finale of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks is extremely rare.
 * Some shows, such as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Reading Rainbow, Dragon Tales, Liberty's Kids (before the PBS Kids GO! block was launched), Sagwa and some others don't have these idents, which use either the previous or newer idents instead.
 * Check your old tapes to find this. Again, whatever remaining appearances of this logo were likely ended when the company rebranded its logo in July 2022.

Legacy: Also a well-known and memorable logo from PBS.