Squirrel/Mole Home Entertainment

Background: Squirrel/Mole Home Entertainment (formerly Squirrel/Mole Studios Video) is the home entertainment arm of Squirrel/Mole Studios that was established in 1987 to distribute all Squirrel/Mole Studios releases on video.

1st Logo

(1987-1992)

Logo: Just a still variant of the 1985 Squirrel/Mole Studios logo but with "VIDEO" squeezed in between the filmstrip and the DiC byline.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Most Squirrel/Mole Studios Video releases have been re-released under the "Squirrel/Mole Home Entertainment" label, so it's pretty rare. But it can be seen on a VHS release of Daniel Duck and tapes of Secret Squirrel, Space Christmas, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show and The Legend of Zelda after the DiC Video logo (remember, DiC owned Squirrel/Mole at the time).

Scare Factor: None.

2nd Logo

(1992-2001)

Nicknames: "Squirrel/Mole TV", "Squirrel/Mole Egg", "Secret & Morocco's Egg Car", "The Prehistoric Logo"

Logo: Against a gray background, we see a white egg-shaped car driven by Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole seated next to Secret at the left of the screen moving toward us. Then it turns to the right, causing a crudely-drawn yellow cartoon TV with a white screen and the text "SQUIRREL/MOLE STUDIOS" in blue to appear. As the car disappears off the screen, "VIDEO", also in blue, appears below the TV. Then the car re-emerges from the top right of the screen, looking more distant and moves toward the center, stopping just above the TV.

FX/SFX: The animations of the car, TV and text, which are all done via cel animation.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 1985 TV logo, but with the thunderclap coming when "VIDEO" appears.

Availability: Seen on many 1990's Squirrel/Mole Studios video releases, including a 1992 tape of the entire Super Mario World series (which was actually the first tape to use this logo) and a 1995 tape of season 2 of 2 Stupid Dogs.

Scare Factor: None, unless unusually-shaped cars scare you.

3rd Logo

(2001-)

Squirrel/Mole Home Entertainment (2001-)

Nickname: "Squirrel/Mole Helicopter/Chopper", "Morocco Mole Drives a Helicopter/Chopper"

Logo: Against a scene of a city at night we see the words "SQUIRREL/MOLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT" attached to a set of orange helicopter rotors on an orange helicopter. Morocco Mole gets in the helicopter, then flies it outward to a gray helipad situated on top of some dark letters, which rest on a large red table. As the logo lands, the rotors stop spinning fold up inside the logo and Morocco Mole gets out and says "Secret, turn the letters on!". Then Secret Squirrel presses a switch which lights up the letters below, revealing that they read "FEATURE PRESENTATION".

FX/SFX: This is some very nice 2D digital computer animation!

Music/Sounds: The sounds of the rotors spinning, some whirring/clicking sounds as the rotors retract, Morocco's dialogue and a weird "sproing" as the lights get turned on by Secret.

Availability: Current. Seen on select DVD releases of Pokémon and Cyberchase and the DVD sets of Super Mario Sunshine, Another Secret Squirrel Series and Super Mario Galaxy. It also appears during the "Visual History of the Squirrel/Mole Studios" logo montage on the Secret Squirrel: The Complete Series DVD set. Also seen on the DVD set Super Mario World: The Complete Series. It was also seen on promotional Squirrel/Mole DVDs given out at the Cedar Point theme park in Sandusky, Ohio in 2004.Scare Factor: Minimal.