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??)
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 * Snow Globe: Dash, the boy, is seen ice skating on a pond. Suddenly, he feels the ground-shake and stops. Then, the camera pans out to reveal that he is in a snow globe, which is held by Dot (with powder blue skin like the background instead of lime green), who giggles. (farewell, Dot does not say, "Doink!" while she giggles). Dot shakes the snow globe so that the snow will come down before Dash is ice-skating. There is a powder blue background with snowflakes on it. Snow covers up the whole screen from the far upper-right of the screen to transition to the circular PBS Kids logo on the same background.
 * Fish Bowl: On a lime green background at first, the little table is seen at the bottom of the screen. The fishbowl is seen filled with water, with the fish that has  spots (which makes up the name "The Goldfish") in the middle of the fishbowl. A castle is seen made of sand which is placed in the bottom-left of the fishbowl. Dash is seen looking at the fish in his fishbowl it is in. The camera cuts to the close-up view of the fishbowl when Dash comes. Suddenly, the goldfish gets surprised and looks at Dash. Bubbles then transition to Dash in his  goldfish form, appearing from the far upper left of the screen and swims underwater. After a second, Dot, in her  fish form, appears from the far right of the screen and swallows Dash. She then looks at the viewer. After this, bubbles again transition to the circular PBS Kids logo on the same background. There are bubbles in the background.

Also, like the previous logo at the lower left hand of the screen, the URL address for PBS Kids will appear like before. Both idents at the end will also have the PBS Kids logo (without the word "KIDS") with Dot's face on it afterwards at the center of the screen.

Variants:
 * Sometimes, the URL address for PBS Kids does not appear at all. This is the most commonly known version of it.
 * On BBC's CBBC United Kingdom airings of early Martha Speaks episodes, the Fishbowl ident is still. There is also a different background from the second half of the ident. The URL is absent.
 * Starting in 2003, the day Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks premiered, there is a prototype variant of the snow globe bumper where the color of the background is in dark lavender, the pond has a slightly different shape, some of the logo's animations is different and less smooth, it may be zoomed out slightly at the beginning of the logo where it is also tinted in the one like the background, 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 close to the viewer, and she seems to bring the snow globe, getting more close to her, the only difference of the snow globe is where the bottom part of it is in dark blue grey, Dot has fingers, and "KIDS" is below the circular logo. This can be found on season 1 of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks. Some 2004 episodes of the aforementioned series will use this ident as well.
 * Starting in the same year, the day the said show is premiered in the above, there is a remastered version of the fish bumper; however, there are no other changes. The screen is zoomed in a bit at the beginning of the logo when Dash looks at the goldfish in his fishbowl, the close-up view of it is zoomed out a bit, the screen is a bit panned down and to the left, stabilized and zoomed from the scene of the and  fish seen underwater, the bubbles' animation for the transition is different, the background at the end of the ident is zoomed out and "KIDS" is below the circular logo. This can be found on most episodes of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, mid-2008 prints of season 1 of Sid the Science Kid and the DVD of Lomax the Hound of Music: The Best of Lomax, where the series Lomax that aired in Connecticut also used this ident as well.
 * Also like the normal variants of both idents at the lower-left hand of the screen, the URL address for PBS Kids will appear like before.
 * On the Primal Screen version of the second ident, same as the remastered version, but the logo does not fade out, the screen at the ending scene of the bumper is zoomed in and the URL address of PBS Kids is absent.
 * 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.
 * On 2000s PBS Kids airings of Clifford's Puppy Days, the logo may be cut out a bit at the beginning.

Technique: Dash ice-skating, the zoom out, and the snowflakes on the snow globe bumper. Dash looking at a fishbowl, the bubbles, and the fish on the fish bumper. 2D animation done by Primal Screen.

Music/Sounds: Here are these two shown below.
 * Snow Globe: A wintery version of the PBS Kids jingle, with 6 notes at first (the last 4 notes on the theme are the PBS Kids jingle, but in a very higher tone, 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), accompanied by jingle bells.
 * Fish Bowl: Water sounds (for example, bubbling noises) are heard in the background, with a boy scatting the 1999 jingle (but in higher tone) circle lipped like a fish, when Dash (in his goldfish form) comes down underwater.

Both idents at the above end with Dot's "Doink!" (alternated from the 1999 variant of the Dot logo) and the girls are heard singing the company name. The ending audio can be heard when Dot giggles for the snow globe bumper, and the said ending audio can be heard when Dot as a fish blinks and kids chant the company name when Dot looks at the viewer for the fish bowl bumper. The "PBS Kids!" chant sounds less like singing and more like a simple yell. It ends with the girl's laughter before the logo ends. 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.

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * For the native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper: some parts of the bubbling sounds in the background from the logo are slightly different, the "Doink!" sound is little quieter, and some more kids who sings the company name are heard in the ending theme, and bubbling noises at the end of the logo are still heard and are slightly loud.
 * Some PBS Kids airings of some episodes of WordWorld use the Fish Bowl ident with the Snow Globe audio. This is most likely because the Fish Bowl ident plastered the Snow Globe ident on some episodes, or because of an audio error.
 * At the end of the DVD of Lomax the Hound of Music: The Best of Lomax, the only time where the remastered version of the fish bumper uses the normal variant of said ident, the logo's audio may be a bit louder.
 * As seen on old PBS Kids prints of early Martha Speaks episodes that use the Audio Description audio track, the 2nd ident has an announcer that says: "A cartoon girl fish eats a boy fish".
 * The very rare version of the logo has the 2nd ident in high pitch. This can be found rarely on surprisingly international MiniMax airings of Martha Speaks.

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 feature this Snow Globe bumper, after the website promo. Don't expect to see the Fishbowl bumper on the said show, nor these idents appear on DVD releases of other PBS Kids shows.
 * Some old PBS Kids airings of a few episodes of Clifford's Puppy Days and Clifford The Big Red Dog will feature this logo.
 * Several NCircle DVD releases of WordWorld uses the fish bumper, but not the snow globe bumper, but don't expect to see this on DVD releases of other PBS Kids shows, though.
 * PBS Kids airings (until the late-2010s) of early Martha Speaks episodes uses the fish bumper at the end. Also for PBS Kids airings (until the late-2010s) of Super WHY!, they feature both idents. This also occurred on Netflix prints of the latter show, where these bumpers are used before the show starts.
 * When a native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper has ended while it is active on a very rare early 2008 prints of season 1 of Sid the Science Kid, the normal variant of the bumper of the same name was seen on PBS Kids airings (until the late-2000s) 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 the mid-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.
 * The Fishbowl ident surprisingly appeared at the end of MiniMax international airings of 2008 Martha Speaks episodes.
 * 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.