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??)
ID: The 1st ident of the set is named "Snow Globe". Dash, the boy, is seen ice skating on a pond using ice skating boots, with snowflakes coming down. Suddenly, he feels the ground-shaking where the camera shakes and stops, with snowflakes coming down again. The screen then 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. The 2nd one is named "Fish Bowl". On a lime green background at first, the little table is seen at the bottom of the screen. The fishbowl is placed to the right, with water and the goldfish inside. The small castle is seen made of sand which is placed in the bottom-left of the fishbowl. Dash is seen looking at the goldfish 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 have the PBS Kids logo (without the word "KIDS") with Dot's face on it afterwards.

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 with original US airings of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks on PBS Kids, the word "KIDS" is added below the circular PBS Kids logo. Remember, please keep in mind that the logos in widescreen are considered prototypes. The circular PBS Kids logo is a bit zoomed out.
 * Snow Globe: The logo has been re-animated, newly enhanced and presented in true widescreen. 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, and the only difference of the snow globe is where the bottom part of it is in dark blue grey. Strangely in this variant, Dot has fingers.
 * Fish Bowl: The logo is remastered and is presented in true widescreen like the previous ident, with no other changes. For beginners, it 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 camera is a bit panned down and to the left and stabilized in the scene of the fish underwater, and the bubbles' animation for the transition is different. The background at the end of the logo is zoomed out slightly.
 * 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, and at the end of the logo, the screen is zoomed in, without the URL address of PBS Kids.
 * 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. 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 "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.
 * 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: Bubbling noises are heard in the background, followed by transitioning bubbles when they transition and a boy scatting the 1999 jingle (but in higher tone) circle lipped like a fish, when Dash (in his goldfish form) comes down underwater.

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.
 * On the DVD of Lomax the Hound of Music: The Best of Lomax, the native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper uses a theme from the normal variant of the 2nd ident of the same name. The audio of the logo is a bit loud.

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 may have this ident as well.
 * A native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper is a bit common elsewhere, but rare, as shown at the end of original PBS Kids airings of the second season of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, very rare mid-2008 prints of a few Sid the Science Kid season 1 episodes and the 2008 DVD of Lomax the Hound of Music: The Best of Lomax.
 * 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 it is 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.
 * 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.