Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink is an American production company founded in 1995 by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough that first produced the 1995-1997 British television series Bugs.

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

Logo: In an office setting, at the forefront, we see a bottle which is filled with orange-red ink in it, placed on a floor. A black label covers the bottom half of the bottle, containing the company name in Impact,, a stacked format, in uppercase and in a center align. "INK" has the bottom white gradient. A split-second before the logo ends, a hammer (which can be seen coming down in the bottle's reflection if the viewer looks very closely) swings down and smashes the bottle, causing the orange-red ink to spread everywhere, including covering up the whole screen.

Variant: Starting with Smallville, the animation is slightly noticeably slower.

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 3-note odd, short piano tune with an eerie sound effect is played in the background before the bottle breaking sound.
 * 2002-2011: A more familiar tune (à la the music from the scene of Wile E. Coyote falling).
 * On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", the logo is silent.
 * Original airings use a generic theme and a voice over.

Availability: 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.

Editor's Note: While the sound of a bottle breaking 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).

Scare Factor: Low.