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??)
Logo: Two system cues are shown below.

Variants:
 * Snow Globe: Dash, the boy, is seen wearing a scarf and ice-skating boots. He is seen which skates on a blue pond, then suddenly feels the ground shaking and stops. Then, the camera pans out to reveal that he is in a snow globe (with the bottom part of the snow globe in yellow), which is held by Dot, the girl (the one with powder blue skin like the background instead of lime green except for the shirt which is pink with white stripes), who giggles, on a powder blue background with snowflakes. Snowflakes cover the screen to transition to the circular PBS Kids logo on the same background with snowflakes.
 * Fish Bowl: On a lime-green background at the first half of the logo, Dash, the boy, is seen looking at the goldfish in his fish bowl on the small desk. We cut to the close-up view of the fish bowl when Dash comes close to it the goldfish is in. The goldfish then gasps and looks at Dash. Then, bubbles cover the screen to transition to Dash who finds himself as an orange fish and swims underwater. After a second, he gets swallowed by Dot, the girl, who is seen imagining as a green fish. Dot in her green fish form then looks at the viewer after a split-second before bubbles cover the screen to transition to the circular PBS Kids logo on a background with bubbles.
 * Also, like the previous logo at the lower left hand of the screen, the URL address for PBS Kids either will or will not appear like before. In both variants, the PBS Kids logo is with Dot's face on it afterwards.
 * The URL address for PBS Kids is sometimes absent.
 * On CBBC British airings of 2008 Martha Speaks episodes, the fish bowl bumper is still, with a different background instead.
 * Starting in 2003 with Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks until late 2008 with Lomax the Hound of Music, two true widescreen idents exist:
 * A true widescreen version of the snow globe bumper exists, which has "KIDS" below the circular logo, with many changes. On the first half of the logo, it is tinted in the one like the background and the camera is zoomed out slightly, the color of the background on the 2nd and last halves of the logo is a bit darker, the pond has a slightly different shape and in lavender, some parts of the logo's animation are different and less smooth, the background where Dot is shown holding the snow globe is to have no snowflakes, Dot's eyes are looking close to the viewer and seems to bring the snow globe, while the snow globe's bottom part has a different color which is dark blueish grey, the snowflakes are brighter and bigger, and "KIDS" is below the circular logo.
 * A true widescreen version of the fish bumper also has "KIDS" below the circular logo; however, there are no other changes. On the first half of the logo, the screen when Dash looks in his fish bowl is zoomed in a little bit, the close-up of the fish bowl is zoomed out slightly, on the second half of the logo, the camera is slightly off the screen, the bubbles and its animation are different, and "KIDS" is below the circular logo. 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 above, the first and second halves of the fish bumper is the same, but the only difference on the third half of the logo is where the screen that has the circular logo on a background was zoomed in, the URL address for PBS Kids is absent and the screen does not fade to black when the logo ends.
 * Cropped 16:9 versions exists.
 * At the end for PBS Kids airings of a few episodes of Clifford's Puppy Days, the logo has been cut out a bit at the beginning.
 * At the end for PBS Kids airings of some episodes of Sesame Street starting with 2004 episodes until 2006, TV airings, VHS and DVD prints of "Arthur: It's Only Rock-'N'-Roll" and the 2005 DVD of "Arthur's Tooth" (released by Sony Wonder), the logo fades in.
 * At the end for VHS, TV airings and DVD releases of Arthur: It's Only Rock-'N'-Roll, and the 2005 DVD release of Arthur's Tooth (released by Sony Wonder), the fish bowl bumper fades in and out.

Technique: 2D animation by Primal Screen.

Music/Sounds: It varies.
 * Snow Globe: A whimsical 10-note vibraphone tune (the last 4 notes on the theme are the PBS Kids jingle which plays in a different key, possibly spoofing C. E. Levy's "Skater's Waltz" but in F major), accompanied by jingle bells.
 * Fish Bowl: Some bubbling sounds in a background, followed by a boy scatting the 1999 jingle circle-lipped, as if to imitate a fish.

Both idents end with the "doink" sound and the kids saying the company name. The "PBS Kids!" chant sounds less like singing and more like a simple yell. 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 true widescreen version of the fish bowl bumper, the said bumper's audio is alternated.
 * Some PBS Kids airings of some episodes of WordWorld uses the fish bowl bumper with the snow globe bumper's audio. This is most likely because of an audio error.
 * As seen on old PBS Kids prints of early Martha Speaks episodes for the Audio Description track, the fish bumper has an announcer saying: "A cartoon girl fish eats a boy fish".

Availability: A bit uncommon, but extinct on TV. Check your old tapes. Legacy: Also a well-known and memorable logo from PBS.
 * Appeared on 2002-2013 prints of PBS Kids programming at the time, most likely at the end of the credits or the funding. 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. The day where Cyberchase presumably aired was on January 21, 2002.
 * When the "PBS Kids GO!" block was launched, one of the shows at the time replace these idents with the "PBS Kids GO!" system cues.
 * 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.
 * The snow globe bumper appears on some airings of It's a Big Big World. DVD releases of the said show feature this Snow Globe bumper, after the show's website promo.
 * Some old PBS Kids airings of a few episodes of Clifford's Puppy Days and Clifford The Big Red Dog will use these idents as well.
 * 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.
 * A native 16:9 variant of the fish bumper is also rare.
 * The fish bowl bumper surprisingly appears at the end of MiniMax international airings of 2008 Martha Speaks episodes.
 * The said bumper also makes an appearance on a Greek dub of 2008 episodes of the said show, as well as Finnish airings, which is surprisingly rare.
 * Whatever remaining appearances of this logo were likely ended when the programming block rebranded its logo in July 2022.

Scenes:


 * 1. The first half of the logo for the snow globe bumper is where Dash is seen wearing ice-skating boots and a scarf and ice-skates on a pond, which he suddenly feels the ground shaking and stops.
 * 2. The second half of the logo for the snow globe bumper is where Dot (with powder blue skin like the background, instead of lime-green except for her pink-white striped shirt) holds a snow globe (with the bottom part of the snow globe in yellow) and giggles.
 * 3. The first half of the logo for the fish bowl bumper is where Dash is seen looking at the goldfish in his fish bowl and comes close to it.
 * 4. The second half of the logo for the fish bowl bumper is where Dash pretends to be an orange goldfish and swims underwater but was suddenly swallowed by Dot as a green fish.
 * 5. On the third and last half of the logo, both idents have the circular PBS Kids logo with Dot's face on it afterwards on each background.