Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink is the television and film production company by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. (Shows only has the logo.)

Videos Captures: Broken Saw, LogicSmash, ClosingLogos HD

Images: 1999-2011 2015-present

1st Logo (October 12th, 1999-2011)
Nicknames: "Orange-Red Ink", "Falling Object", "Okay, who Broke the Ink Bottle?", "SPLAT!"

Logo: In the office, at the center we see a little bottle with orange red ink inside of it labeled:  MILLAR GOUGH  INK

in yellow/, with only the bottom half of INK in. After a while, a heavy object falls on top of it and breaks it that causes the orange red ink to scatter. One second later, it abruptly cuts to the next or split-screen logo.

Variant: On The Strip, 2003 DVD releases, Channel 4,  E 4  UK and The WB airings of season 1 and all episodes of Smallville, there is a full-screen version of this logo.

Cheesy Factor: How could there be so much ink in that little bottle? Also the transition to the next or split-screen logo is very, really poorly done.

FX/SFX: The unidentified object smashing the ink bottle, the ink scattering. Live-action, so none.

Music/Sounds: None at first, but just the sound of the bottle breaking, but in 2002 (starting with season 2 of Smallville), it started using a Sternin and Fraser Ink-esque ditty.

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * Sometimes, the closing theme of the show may be played before the bottle breaking sound.
 * On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", the bottle breaking sound is omitted.
 * 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 smashing sounds are synced.
 * Sometimes, this logo's jingle is in a PAL-pitch.
 * Starting in early 2002, it added an odd, short piano tune, accompanied by an eerie, distorted chorus.

Availability: Intact on all episodes of Smallville. First seen on The Strip. It's also seen on Smallville on The C&W/Channel 4/E4/The WB and the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels on ABC and the CTV Throwback in Canada. Also appears on a 2006 TV pilot and a version of Aquaman (also called Mercy Reef) on The WB and iTunes. Don't expect to see this on the company's films either; they use the different company's logo instead. Don't expect to see this on the Blu-ray Disc or DVD prints, either. You must look for the super, very unidentified 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 (including some shows that the logo did not debut, especially if the company was made in 1997 without the logo). 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 an heavy object (maybe a stapler, a rock, a brick, a stone or a hammer which swings down and smashes it) breaks the bottle with no warning, which could maybe be always jarring to many people), some people may find this logo pretty funny or silly, and it may be favored for fans of Smallville.

Scare Factor: Depends on the variant:


 * 1999: High. After the ending theme of The Strip, there is a splattering sound, but without the shatter sound.
 * 2001-2002: Medium to high. The bottle suddenly breaking with no warning can be jarring to many people, especially after the long silence during both this logo and the one before such as the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo.
 * Early 2002: Medium. The odd piano tune can be creepier to some people.
 * 2002-2011: Low to medium. It is less scary with the music playing.
 * 2011: Low. Same as the 2002-2011 jingle, but a little louder.

2nd Logo (November 15th, 2015-)


Logo: On a black background, we see the words "MILLAR GOUGH" stacked with the ink with the big drop inside and "INK" in it.

FX/SFX: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: None, or the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Brand new. Seen on the 2015 AMC series Into the Badlands and the 2016 MTV series The Shannara Chronicles. This logo is expected to be seen on the upcoming Netflix horror comedy Tim Burton's Addam's Family-spin off series Wednesday.

Editor's Note: None.

Scare Factor: Lower to low. The blood logo on a black background can creep someone out, but it's tamer than the last logo.

Final Note: A well real logo.