Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink, LLC. is a production company founded by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough.

Videos:
Nicknames: "Orange-Red Ink", "Bottle Gets The Hammer"

Logo: In an office setting, at the forefront, a bottle filled with orange-red ink in it is placed on a beige floor. A black label covers the bottom half of the bottle, with the words reading "MILLAR GOUGH INK" in a font similar to Impact superimposed on it. However, the text is a bit stretched. The "R" in "MILLAR" is in a Helvetica Black Condensed font. It is colored in. It is in a stacked format. It is all in uppercase letters. The word "INK" shows the bottom half in white. After a while, a split-second before the logo ends, a hammer (which can be seen coming down in the reflection on the bottle if the viewer looks very closely) swings down and hits the bottle, causing the orange-red ink to spread everywhere, including covering up the whole screen.

Variants:


 * Sometimes, as shown rarely on the credits for a DVD release of season 1 of the 2015 series Into The Badlands, the logo is still.
 * Starting with Smallville, the animation is noticeably slow.
 * On some prints (e.g. prints such as Sony Crackle, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube or CTV) of the 2011 Charlie's Angels series, the logo has slightly been enhanced.

FX/SFX: Live-action.

Music/Sounds: Depending on the variant:

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * 1999-2000: The ending theme of the show, including the splattering sound
 * 2001-2002: Just the sound of a bottle breaking.
 * Early 2002: An odd three-note piano tune, accompanied by an eerie ambience.
 * 2002-2011: A reverberating cartoon ditty (possibly spoofing the music from the Wile E. Coyote falling scene but in D major), followed by a synth note, syncing the bottle breaking sound.
 * On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", it's silent.
 * Original airings use a generic theme and a voice over.
 * On some current prints of Smallville, the ditty music plasters the silent variant, only available for some episodes on season 1 of said show.
 * Starting with the 2011 Charlie's Angels series, a ditty music is in higher quality along with the bottle breaking sound.

Availability:


 * Animated "Regular" Variant: Common. It first appeared on The Strip, and later appeared on Smallville and the 2006 television pilot of Aquaman. Later, on September 2011, it appeared on the 2011 revival of Charlie's Angels.
 * Still Variant: Very rare. Only seen on the credits for a DVD release of season 1 of Into the Badlands.

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

Scare Factor: Depending on the variant:


 * 1999-2000: Minimal. The splattering sound can get to some.
 * 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. None for the silent variant.
 * Early 2002: Medium, the piano tune can be creepy.
 * 2002-2011: Low to medium. It is slightly less scary with the music playing.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)
Nickname: None.

Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH". To the right is a beaker with a big black water-drop in it. Inside the water-drop is "INK".

FX/SFX: None.

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

Availability: Seen on Into the Badlands, The Shannara Chronicles (based on the book trilogy by Terry Brooks) and Wednesday (a spin off to Tim Burton's Addams Family).

Editor's Note: None.

Scare Factor: Low.