Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink is the production company by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

Videos Captures: Broken Saw, LogicSmash, ClosingLogos HD

1st Logo (October 12th, 1999)
Nicknames: "Orange-Red Ink", "Ink Bottle Gets the Banhammer" & "Banhammer Gets the Ink Bottle", "SPLAT!!", "Orange-Red Ink Splashing", "Falling Hammer"

Logo: In an office setting, at the forefront, we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it labeled: MILLAR GOUGH INK

in an Impact font and colored yellow, with the bottom half of "INK" colored white/. After a while, a hammer (previously called an unidentified object) (which, if you look very closely, can be seen in the reflection on the bottle) falls on top of it and breaks it that causes the orange red ink to splash everywhere, transitioning to the next or split-screen logo.

Variants: Fictional Variants:
 * On the short-lived show The Strip, 2003 DVD releases and Channel 4 and E4 UK airings of season 1 and 4:3 prints of all episodes of Smallville, or sometimes, this logo is shown in fullscreen.
 * Cropped 4:3 versions exist.


 * On the 2006 TV pilot of Aquaman (also known as Mercy Reef), this logo is in the aqua-tint, and there are water effects in the screen.
 * On the Nintendo TV print of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, the ink bottle is in paper. When the hammer smashes it, the boss explode particle appears.
 * On the theatrical print of Hannah Montana: The Movie, the orange red background fades to black, then fades to the Walt Disney Pictures (2006-present) logo. (Fake variant.)
 * On Pajanimals (if this company released the show), the Jim Henson Company logo is replaced with this logo, and uses the show's ending theme.
 * Sometimes, this logo is in an uncropped 4:3 open matte version.

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. (We've been deleting the cheesy factor like a very long time ago.)

FX/SFX: The hammer smashing the ink bottle, the ink spreading. It's all live-action. Not a CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: Here are the main music versions:
 * 1999: After the closing theme of the show plays, there is a splattering sound.
 * 2001-2002: Just a sound of the bottle breaking. The bottle breaking sound can be jarring to many people (especially after the long silence during both this logo and the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo).
 * On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", the logo is silent.
 * Early 2002: An 3-note odd, short piano tune with an eerie sound effect is played in the background.
 * 2002-2011: A reverberating cartoon ditty.
 * On early season 2 episodes of Smallville, the reverberating cartoon ditty is somewhat slightly quieter before the bottle breaking sound appears.
 * On the 1st episode of the fifth season of Smallville, the last note and bottle breaking sounds are synced. (Look for SystemShocker's comment on YouTube to look at it.)
 * Sometimes, this logo is in a PAL-pitch.

All music versions ended with the bottle breaking sound, sometimes louder.

Music/Sounds Fictional Variants:


 * On the 2006 TV pilot of Aquaman, this logo uses the water bubbling sounds instead of the jingle, and the bottle breaking sound and the water splash sound are combined if the hammer smashes it.
 * On the Nintendo TV print of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, the jingle is instead the game's menu title in the system menu for the 3DS by Nintendo.
 * On Pajanimals (if this company released the show), this logo has the show's ending theme instead.
 * On Two and A Half Men (if this company released the show), the logo's jingle is in -1.5 (lower) pitch.

Availability: First seen on the short-lived show The Strip. Also seen on Smallville and the 2011 version of Charlie's Angels. Also shown on the 2006 TV pilot of Aquaman (also known as Mercy Reef). Don't expect to see this on the company's films, though. Don't expect to see this on the Blu-ray Disc or DVD prints, either. Look for the rare print logo on the back of the Smallville DVD/Blu-ray cover. Doesn't appear on Hannah Montana: The Movie, and very many films. Only shows use this logo. Some 1996-1998 shows don't use this logo especially the logo didn't debut when the company was made in 1997.

Editor's Note: While the sound of the bottle breaking can be startling for some people (especially the version without music where it breaks with no warning, which could be jarring to many people), some people may find this logo funny, and it may be favored for fans of Smallville.

Scare Factor:


 * 1999: High. The ending theme of the show before the splatter sound.
 * 2001-2002: Medium to high. The bottle breaking sound with no warning can be jarring to many people, especially after the long silence during both this logo and the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo.
 * 2002-2011: Low to medium. It is slightly less scary with the music playing.

2nd Logo (November 15th, 2015-)


Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH". To the right of it is a beaker on the bottle with a big black teardrop and the word "INK" inside.

Variant: There is an version where it has the split-screen credits version of the logo. (RARE? OR FICTIONAL)

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. This logo is expected to appear on the 2022 upcoming Netflix show Wednesday.

Editor's Note: None.

Final Note: Fictional variants are fan made. The real variants are real.