Nickelodeon Splat

Visuals: On a white/light blue gradient with green CGI bubbles, a bubble bursts and turns into a CGI Nickelodeon logo. Copyright info is shown below. 🫧 Trivia: • This logo was based on Nickelodeon’s “Nick’s Extra” bumpers used from 2006 to 2008, as well as the network’s branding from the same year. • A similar concept would later be used for the next logo, which is described below. Variants: On Wayside, orange text reading “This has been a presentation of” (in the same font as the show’s credits) is seen above. • A widescreen version of this variant exists which is slightly zoomed in and stretched. • Another version of this variant exists where the text on the top is in a more generic font. • On season 1 (and early episodes of season 2) of Back at the Barnyard, Wayside, one episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Fairly OddParents special “77 Secrets Revealed!”, the logo lacks copyright info. • On all of the Three Delivery shorts, the logo is completely still. • On one episode of the short-lived show Making Fiends, the logo is grayscale. • On a 2007 airing of Just Jordan (if one looks closely near the end) the 2006 copyright stamp appears due to a plastering error. • On an airing of SpongeBob SquarePants from September 26, 2009, this logo appeared for one frame after the 2009 logo (which wouldn’t begin full-time use for another two days) due to a split-screen credits error. • A high-definition widescreen version exists where the 4:3 logo is sandwiched in between two cyan lines. Technique: CGI animation by Nick’s in-house team. Audio: Normally the ending theme of the show, or silence. Audio Variants: • Sometimes, it’s the “kids laughing” audio from the previous logo. • The preceding logo’s audio on split-screen credits of SpongeBob SquarePants and Hey Arnold!. • When this logo was first used during the summer of 2006, it had its own “POP!” sound and gurgling sounds that would later be reused for the next logo. It was also used on the iCarly episode “iWanna Stay with Spencer”. • On the The Naked Brothers Band episode “Naked Idol”, an odd variant is used where another copy of the “kids laughing” audio, slightly cut-off at the beginning, plays over the regular, uncut “kids laughing” audio. The ending theme (which fades out during this logo) also accompanies it. This also occurs with the 19th logo if it was to follow instead. • On the behind the scenes featurette of The Last Day of Summer, a different splatting noise is used. • On Back at the Barnyard, a short country tune from the opening theme is played. • On El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, a quote from the episode is heard. • On split-screen credits of Jimmy Neutron episodes, the logo has the “Gotta blast!” audio from the show’s variant of the NAS “Nicktoons” logo used in tandem with this logo. • On split-screen credits of Mr. Meaty, this logo plasters the 1996 “lightbulb” logo, and has that logo’s audio as a result. This was likely due to the “lightbulb” logo’s audio being mixed in with the ending theme of the show. • On split-screen credits of El Tigre, the “kids laughing” audio is used in a noticeable higher pitch and cuts the show’s ending off abruptly. This only happened on Nickelodeon airings, as Nicktoons airings kept the end theme playing over this logo. • On Nickelodeon airings of the Team Umizoomi episodes “Counting Comet” and “Ice Cream Truck”, the Bubble Guppies episode “Boy Meets Squirrel!”, the Dora the Explorer episode “Baseball Boots” from August 8, 2011 and the 2010 airing of Dora’s Explorer Girls, this logo was used due to plastering errors, and as a result, the 2009 Nickelodeon logo (for all 3 shows), as well as the logos for Curious Pictures (Team Umizoomi) and Wildbrain Entertainment (Bubble Guppies) were plastered at once while retaining their respective audio. Availability: • The first confirmed sighting of this logo was during an airing of ChalkZone on May 27, 2006. It was sporadically used during the summer 2006, but it didn’t fully come into effect until September of that year. Nick used this logo for split-screen credits until March 2008 (shows on Nickelodeon’s TEENick block continued to use this logo, even after most shows switched to the 19th logo in January 2008). However, it was also used outside of the split-screen credits as a proper logo. • The first use of this logo outside of split-screen credits was on The Naked Brothers Band in January 2007. It appeared on Tak and the Power of Juju and season 1 and early season 2 episodes of Back at the Barnyard. It was also retained on split-screen credits of some shows on Nicktoons until that network’s 2009 rebranding. Also, during Nickelodeon’s “Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash” marathon in July 2009, this logo was used during the split-screen credits of all SpongeBob episodes. • It’s also been spotted on some pre-2014 airings of The Fairly OddParents episode “Fairly OddBaby”, which kept the original ending credits and logos intact despite the credits being