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'''Logo:''' We have two still images. The first still image is a regular on the show (sometimes more than one, other times none at all), such as Big Bird, Oscar, Susan, Gordon, Bob, etc. holding up the ''Sesame Street'' title logo, which was a rectangular street sign in {{ |
'''Logo:''' We have two still images. The first still image is a regular on the show (sometimes more than one, other times none at all), such as Big Bird, Oscar, Susan, Gordon, Bob, etc. holding up the ''Sesame Street'' title logo, which was a rectangular street sign in {{color||darkgreen|dark green}} and had a {{color||gold|yellow}} border. Some small text in a semi-circle above the rectangle read "CTW", which stands for "Children's Television Workshop". The second still image featured another regular (like before, sometimes there would either be more than one or none at all), holding up a fancy-looking plaque made of marble. The name: |
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<center>CHILDREN'S<br>TELEVISION<br>WORKSHOP</center> |
<center>CHILDREN'S<br>TELEVISION<br>WORKSHOP</center> |
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*From episodes #0131-0189 of season 2, a chyroned-in copyright date saying "COPYRIGHT © CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP (year)" appeared below or near the middle. The font would also very. A similar practice was used for select episodes of season 1 when they re-aired under the ''Sesame Street Unpaved'' package on Noggin. |
*From episodes #0131-0189 of season 2, a chyroned-in copyright date saying "COPYRIGHT © CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP (year)" appeared below or near the middle. The font would also very. A similar practice was used for select episodes of season 1 when they re-aired under the ''Sesame Street Unpaved'' package on Noggin. |
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*On the first pilot episode, the real ''Sesame Street'' sign was used instead. |
*On the first pilot episode, the real ''Sesame Street'' sign was used instead. |
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*The beginning of ''Big Bird in China'' had the words "THE CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP" written in an Asian-style font with a Chinese text translation on the right, all on a {{ |
*The beginning of ''Big Bird in China'' had the words "THE CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP" written in an Asian-style font with a Chinese text translation on the right, all on a {{color||red|red}} background. |
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*On 1976-1977 episodes of ''Sesamstraat'' and the Italian dub called ''Sesamo Apriti'', the logo is in a computer typeface and there's no plaque. |
*On 1976-1977 episodes of ''Sesamstraat'' and the Italian dub called ''Sesamo Apriti'', the logo is in a computer typeface and there's no plaque. |
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** On ''Bonjour Sesame'', the logo is in a cursive font and there's no plaque here either. |
** On ''Bonjour Sesame'', the logo is in a cursive font and there's no plaque here either. |
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'''Logo:''' On a black background, four vertical {{ |
'''Logo:''' On a black background, four vertical {{color||orange|orange}} rectangles appear in the center of the screen and start transforming into the letters in "{{color||orange|ctw}}" simultaneously. The rectangle on the left stretches slightly to the right and left until it forms a square, then curves at the top and bottom to form a "{{color||orange|c}}". The rectangle in the middle stretches on all sides vertically and horizontally until it resembles a cross, then the lower half stretches out some more and curves to the right to form a lower case "{{color||orange|t}}". The two rectangles on the far right stretch to the right until they become squares and connect each other in the middle with extensions on their bottom right corners. The two squares, along with the right corner of the "{{color||orange|t}}", stretch to the bottom to form the "{{color||orange|w}}". The small {{color||cyan|cyan}} text: |
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<center>{{color||cyan|CHILDREN'S<br>TELEVISION<br>WORKSHOP}}</center> |
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appears in the top left corner where the "t" and "w" connect. |
appears in the top left corner where the "t" and "w" connect. |
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*On 1988 episodes of the Dutch co-production ''Sesamstraat'', an in-credit version appears with the [[NOS|NOS]] logo in {{color|blue}}. |
*On 1988 episodes of the Dutch co-production ''Sesamstraat'', an in-credit version appears with the [[NOS|NOS]] logo in {{color|blue}}. |
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*On 1981 episodes of the original French co-production ''1, rue Sésame'', an in-credit version appears with the 1976 [[TF1 (France)|TF1]] logo. |
*On 1981 episodes of the original French co-production ''1, rue Sésame'', an in-credit version appears with the 1976 [[TF1 (France)|TF1]] logo. |
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*On the 1982 [[NBC]] PSA ''Betcha Don't Know'', the logo is still on a {{ |
*On the 1982 [[NBC]] PSA ''Betcha Don't Know'', the logo is still on a {{color||navy|navy blue}} background; the logo is {{color||orange|orange}}, has a white outline, and is still. Below is the text "a public service message from NBC". |
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*On later episodes of the Kuwaiti co-production ''Iftah Ya Simsim'', a {{color|green}} in-credit variant with a copyright year. |
*On later episodes of the Kuwaiti co-production ''Iftah Ya Simsim'', a {{color|green}} in-credit variant with a copyright year. |
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*A slow videotaped variant exists. The “CTW” logo forms at 1/4 speed and “Children’s Television Workshop” fades in almost immediately. |
*A slow videotaped variant exists. The “CTW” logo forms at 1/4 speed and “Children’s Television Workshop” fades in almost immediately. |
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'''Logo:''' On a black background, a gold spark flies across the top left corner of the screen, writing the word "{{ |
'''Logo:''' On a black background, a gold spark flies across the top left corner of the screen, writing the word "{{color||blue|CHILDREN'S}}", colored {{color|blue}} and in the ITC Busorama font. Then, it shifts to the middle left corner and writes "{{color||blue|TELEVISION}}". It shifts again to the bottom left corner and writes "{{color||blue|WORKSHOP}}". A ray of light flies up from the bottom of the screen and "explodes", followed by the logo shining. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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'''Logo:''' On a black and white checkered background, the ''Square One TV'' logo zooms in with a copyright notice fading in. Afterwards, it immediately cuts from the CTW logo in {{ |
'''Logo:''' On a black and white checkered background, the ''Square One TV'' logo zooms in with a copyright notice fading in. Afterwards, it immediately cuts from the CTW logo in {{color||pink|pink}}, to a fully checkered board logo zooming out, revealing the ''Square One TV'' logo, turning itself to the right and facing the viewer. |
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'''FX/SFX:''' TBA. |
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'''Nicknames:''' "The Rolling Stone", "The ''Cro'' Logo", "Prehistoric CTW" |
'''Nicknames:''' "The Rolling Stone", "The ''Cro'' Logo", "Prehistoric CTW" |
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'''Logo:''' We see two {{ |
'''Logo:''' We see two {{color||pink|pink}} boulders against a {{color|blue}} background; one is round, while the other is in the shape of an inverted triangle. Both have cracks and niches in them. From the screen's right, we see a third pink boulder in the shape of a square rolling in. It bumps into the second boulder, and all three boulders crumble apart slightly; each one forms a letter: the first one forms "{{color||pink|C}}", the second forms "{{color||pink|T}}" and the third forms "{{color||pink|W}}". Copyright information fades in at the bottom of the screen. |
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'''FX/SFX:''' Cel animation produced by [[Film Roman]] and animated by either Sunwoo Entertainment, Anivision or Plus One Animation. |
'''FX/SFX:''' Cel animation produced by [[Film Roman]] and animated by either Sunwoo Entertainment, Anivision or Plus One Animation. |
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'''Logo:''' On a black background in the center of the screen, the Ghostwriter from the show of the same name appears (in {{ |
'''Logo:''' On a black background in the center of the screen, the Ghostwriter from the show of the same name appears (in {{color||gold|yellow}}) and flies across the top of the screen from left to right, wiping in the green word "{{color||green|Ghostwriter}}" (in the show's font) with the red words "{{color||red|is produced by}}" below it. Then, all of a sudden, the "W" and "T" in "writer", as well as the "C" in "produced", drop out, swirl around, and form a large "CTW" in the same colors, shoving the rest of the words off the screen. Ghostwriter then flies across the screen from right to left, wiping in the words "in association with [[BBC Television|BBC TELEVISION]]" ("BBC" being displayed as its familiar logo from the time) below that. |
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'''Variant:''' Later episodes do not have the BBC Television logo, this was after the BBC stopped funding the production of the program by the third season. |
'''Variant:''' Later episodes do not have the BBC Television logo, this was after the BBC stopped funding the production of the program by the third season. |
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'''Logo:''' On a shady {{ |
'''Logo:''' On a shady {{color||cyan|cyan}} background, we see a {{color||gold|yellow}} semi-circle with a white outline (the same one from the ''Sesame Street'' logo) turned on its bottom side with the {{color||red|red}} letters "{{color||red|C}}", "{{color||red|T}}", and "{{color||red|W}}" positioned from left to right. The "{{color||red|C}}" bounces on the semicircle, making it slant to the left. Then the "{{color||red|T}}" twists in a slight angle around while the "{{color||red|W}}" bounces. The semicircle rebounds to its original position, then the three letters bounce together, pushing the semicircle to the ground. The semicircle bounces up and rotates a few times before settling into a position halfway up the screen. The text "{{color||gold|CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP}}" comes from underneath the semicircle in {{color||gold|yellow}}. The three letters flip in the air and land on the face of the semicircle. The sign bounces once more as the text "PLAY IT SMART" appears below in black. |
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'''Logo:''' On a white background, we see an abstract {{color|green}} house with a {{color|purple}} |
'''Logo:''' On a white background, we see an abstract {{color|green}} house with a {{color|purple}} |
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roof and the text "sesameworkshop" outlined below. The window of the house is filled with {{ |
roof and the text "sesameworkshop" outlined below. The window of the house is filled with {{color||gold|yellow}} glitter. The house bounces and the roof explodes open to the right, sending the glitter sprinkling all over. Some of the glitter remains to form a lightning bolt crowned with a star, some sprinkles to the left to fill the "sesame" text with purple, and some sprinkles to the right to fill the "workshop" text with green, rendering it like this: |
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'''Variants:''' |
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roof (most common variant). |
roof (most common variant). |
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*{{color||purple|Purple}} house and {{color||red|red}} roof (second common variant). This is the first variant to contain the byline described below. |
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*{{color||blue|Blue}} house and {{color|green}} roof. |
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*{{color||red|Red}} house and {{color|blue}} roof. |
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*{{ |
*{{color||green|Green}} house and {{color|green}} roof. |
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*{{ |
*{{color||purple|Purple}} house and {{color|green}} roof. |
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*The text "The nonprofit organization behind ''Sesame Street'' and so much more" (in the same color as the house) is shown below on occasion. |
*The text "The nonprofit organization behind ''Sesame Street'' and so much more" (in the same color as the house) is shown below on occasion. |
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*On some occasions, the "www.sesameworkshop.org" URL can be seen below the "sesameworkshop" text. |
*On some occasions, the "www.sesameworkshop.org" URL can be seen below the "sesameworkshop" text. |
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'''Availability:''' Originally very common, but nowadays is more uncommon, bordering on rare. The animated version was first seen on Season 1 reruns of ''Dragon Tales'', and the still version debuted on ''Sesame Street: Let's Make Music'' and ''Elmo's World: Singing, Drawing & More!''. At one point, it was to Sesame Workshop what the "Bars of Boredom" was to [[Sony Pictures Television]], and appeared on many DVD and VHS releases from the company, and pretty much on every show [[PBS]] and Sesame Workshop distributed together, with the exception of post-2008 episodes of ''Sesame Street''. It's no longer current, so you'll have to rely on ''Sesame Street'' and ''Dragon Tales'' VHS tapes and DVDs. |
'''Availability:''' Originally very common, but nowadays is more uncommon, bordering on rare. The animated version was first seen on Season 1 reruns of ''Dragon Tales'', and the still version debuted on ''Sesame Street: Let's Make Music'' and ''Elmo's World: Singing, Drawing & More!''. At one point, it was to Sesame Workshop what the "Bars of Boredom" was to [[Sony Pictures Television]], and appeared on many DVD and VHS releases from the company, and pretty much on every show [[PBS]] and Sesame Workshop distributed together, with the exception of post-2008 episodes of ''Sesame Street''. It's no longer current, so you'll have to rely on ''Sesame Street'' and ''Dragon Tales'' VHS tapes and DVDs. |
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roof variant:''' Uncommon; it was seen on 2001-2002 episodes of ''Sesame Street'', ''Tiny Planets'', and 2001-2005 episodes of ''Dragon Tales'' (on which it also replaced the CTW logo seen on 1999-2000 episodes). |
roof variant:''' Uncommon; it was seen on 2001-2002 episodes of ''Sesame Street'', ''Tiny Planets'', and 2001-2005 episodes of ''Dragon Tales'' (on which it also replaced the CTW logo seen on 1999-2000 episodes). |
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*'''Extended Variant:''' Can be seen on certain DVD releases of shows from Sesame Workshop from around 2004-2008, more specifically ''Play With Me Sesame''. |
*'''Extended Variant:''' Can be seen on certain DVD releases of shows from Sesame Workshop from around 2004-2008, more specifically ''Play With Me Sesame''. |
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*'''{{color||purple|Purple}} house-{{color||red|red}} roof variant:''' Rare. It was seen on ''Sagwa: The Chinese Siamese Cat'', ''Play with Me Sesame'', Seasons 34-37 of ''Sesame Street'', and various direct-to-video productions of said show from the early 2000s. |
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*'''{{color||red|Red}} house-{{color|blue}} roof and {{color|blue}} house-{{color|green}} roof variants:''' Scarce. |
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**The former variant can be seen at the end of ''The Upside Down Show'' (the still variant), a ''Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat'' promo (seen on Canadian [[CinéGroupe|CinéGroupe Star]] VHS releases) and ''Sesame Street Sports'' for the [[PlayStation]] (both of which use the animated variant), both mentioned above. |
**The former variant can be seen at the end of ''The Upside Down Show'' (the still variant), a ''Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat'' promo (seen on Canadian [[CinéGroupe|CinéGroupe Star]] VHS releases) and ''Sesame Street Sports'' for the [[PlayStation]] (both of which use the animated variant), both mentioned above. |
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**The latter variant was seen on ''Plaza Sésamo'', ''Ulitsa Sezam'', ''Pinky Dinky Doo'', ''Świat Elmo'' on MiniMini, and perhaps other foreign-language co-productions of ''Sesame Street''. |
**The latter variant was seen on ''Plaza Sésamo'', ''Ulitsa Sezam'', ''Pinky Dinky Doo'', ''Świat Elmo'' on MiniMini, and perhaps other foreign-language co-productions of ''Sesame Street''. |
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** The 2003 variant of the blue house and green roof logo is seen on three ''Sesame Street'' VHS tapes: ''Sesame Street: Sesame Sings Karaoke'', ''Elmo’s World: The Great Outdoors'', and ''Sesame Street: Three Bears and a New Baby''. |
** The 2003 variant of the blue house and green roof logo is seen on three ''Sesame Street'' VHS tapes: ''Sesame Street: Sesame Sings Karaoke'', ''Elmo’s World: The Great Outdoors'', and ''Sesame Street: Three Bears and a New Baby''. |
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**It also occasionally [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZ-6RPHaCk&t=37s alternated with the green house-purple roof variant] on ''Dragon Tales''. |
**It also occasionally [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZ-6RPHaCk&t=37s alternated with the green house-purple roof variant] on ''Dragon Tales''. |
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*'''{{color||purple|Purple}} house-{{color|green}} roof variant:''' Unknown. It was speculated on this wiki to have appeared on earlier episodes of ''The Upside Down Show'', but those episodes use the red house-blue roof variant instead. |
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'''Legacy:''' On the trailer variants, the house appears to be in a white square as if it was copy-pasted onto a new background. |
'''Legacy:''' On the trailer variants, the house appears to be in a white square as if it was copy-pasted onto a new background. |
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'''Logo:''' |
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*On Season 38 of ''Sesame Street'', we see Abby Cadabby fly by as she forms the phrase "{{ |
*On Season 38 of ''Sesame Street'', we see Abby Cadabby fly by as she forms the phrase "{{color||green|a production of sesameworkshop}}" and the "{{color||green|The non-profit organization behind Sesame Street and so much more}}" byline (all in green text) with her magical wand. Abby disappears and the background fades to black. |
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*On the 2009 reboot of ''The Electric Company'', the logo appears below the epilogue of the preceding episode (both of which are in-credit). |
*On the 2009 reboot of ''The Electric Company'', the logo appears below the epilogue of the preceding episode (both of which are in-credit). |
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'''Logo:''' On a {{ |
'''Logo:''' On a {{color||gold|yellow}} background, the {{color|green}} "{{color||green|sesame}}" text is seen, arranged like this: |
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Next to it, various stills of CTW/Sesame Workshop characters appear one-by-one next to the logo, including characters from CTW/Sesame Workshop co-productions outside of the U.S.. Characters include, from left to right: |
Next to it, various stills of CTW/Sesame Workshop characters appear one-by-one next to the logo, including characters from CTW/Sesame Workshop co-productions outside of the U.S.. Characters include, from left to right: |
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Then, the "workshop" text pops in letter-by-letter from right to left, replacing the characters, and is now arranged like this: |
Then, the "workshop" text pops in letter-by-letter from right to left, replacing the characters, and is now arranged like this: |
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A still of Elmo fades in reclining on the last O, and below that the byline "The nonprofit organization behind ''Sesame Street''" fades in, and the URL "{{ |
A still of Elmo fades in reclining on the last O, and below that the byline "The nonprofit organization behind ''Sesame Street''" fades in, and the URL "{{color||blue|www.sesameworkshop.org}}" fades in with and below the byline. Then, we hear Elmo's distinctive laughter. |
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'''Logo:''' On a white background, the words "SESAME WORKSHOP" in gray write themselves in, as two lines draw themselves in simultaneously from left to right as well (a {{ |
'''Logo:''' On a white background, the words "SESAME WORKSHOP" in gray write themselves in, as two lines draw themselves in simultaneously from left to right as well (a {{color||gold|yellow}} one with a hump in it above the words and a straight {{color|green}} line below the words). The "TM" symbol also appears next to the "P". The end result resembles the ''Sesame Street'' sign. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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* A 4:3 variant exists on HBO Max prints of older episodes of ''Sesame Street''. |
* A 4:3 variant exists on HBO Max prints of older episodes of ''Sesame Street''. |
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* At the beginning of ''Esme & Roy'', the logo is completely white, and is right next to either the HBO logo, with a light orange "&" symbol in the middle. "Present" is seen below the logos in the same color. It is on an {{ |
* At the beginning of ''Esme & Roy'', the logo is completely white, and is right next to either the HBO logo, with a light orange "&" symbol in the middle. "Present" is seen below the logos in the same color. It is on an {{color||orange|orange}} background. |
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* Season 2 of that show replaces the HBO logo with the [[HBO Max Originals]] logo. |
* Season 2 of that show replaces the HBO logo with the [[HBO Max Originals]] logo. |
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* A similar variant appears on the specials ''The Monster at the End of This Story'' and ''Furry Friends Forever: Elmo Gets a Puppy'' has the two logos in its respective colors with "Present" and the "&" sign now in a different font. |
* A similar variant appears on the specials ''The Monster at the End of This Story'' and ''Furry Friends Forever: Elmo Gets a Puppy'' has the two logos in its respective colors with "Present" and the "&" sign now in a different font. |
First known as Children's Television Workshop, this non-profit production company was founded in 1968 by Joan Ganz Cooney to create the children's show Sesame Street. Until 2000, CTW produced shows such as 3-2-1 Contact, Square One, Cro, Ghostwriter, The Electric Company, Big Bag, Dragon Tales, and many other edutainment titles. In 2000, the company was renamed to Sesame Workshop to symbolize their move beyond producing only television shows and to capitalize on the Sesame Street brand.
Logo: We have two still images. The first still image is a regular on the show (sometimes more than one, other times none at all), such as Big Bird, Oscar, Susan, Gordon, Bob, etc. holding up the Sesame Street title logo, which was a rectangular street sign in darkgreen and had a gold border. Some small text in a semi-circle above the rectangle read "CTW", which stands for "Children's Television Workshop". The second still image featured another regular (like before, sometimes there would either be more than one or none at all), holding up a fancy-looking plaque made of marble. The name:
appears in blue in front of the plaque. The text was written sloppily for a while, but starting around 1979, it was written more neatly. At first, this would be done in front of a blue background, but around 1976, it was switched to a random outdoor location (such as Central Park, the 123 Sesame Street apartment steps, etc.).
Variants:
Trivia: The plaque used in this logo also appears throughout the beginning and ending segments with Kermit the Frog and Rowlf the Dog in the Sesame Street pitch reel. At the end of the last scene, the camera zooms up to the plaque.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds/Voice-over: The end of the Sesame Street closing theme, with a random character from the show saying "Sesame Street is a production of the Children's Television Workshop".
Music/Sounds/Voiceover Variants:
Availability: Very rare. Appeared on the first fourteen seasons of Sesame Street, some episodes of which were available on HBO Max until the classic episodes were removed from the service in August 2022.
Legacy: Well-remembered by those who grew up with Sesame Street during this time.
Logo: On episodes of The Electric Company, the closing credits always featured the animated opening title to the show, in which the logo is seen in a cloud-like shape, which in turn is seen with several cloud-like shapes and a box that's connected to both sides of the screen. The words "THE ELECTRIC COMPANY" wave, wiggle, and change to the words "THE CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP" in orange. Afterwards, the box-like shape would open up and allow the CTW logo to wiggle away.
Trivia: The logo (and end credits) was made by Dolphin Productions.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The words changing/zooming away, and the box opening. Typical Scanimate effects.
Music/Sounds/Voiceover: The closing theme is usually heard, and a character from the TV show would always say, "The Electric Company gets its power from... the Children's Television Workshop."
Availability: Extremely rare. Appeared on the original version of The Electric Company. Although the series no longer runs on TV, the logo can still be found on the show's two "best of" DVDs, released in 2006, as well as on iTunes.
Logo: On a black background, four vertical orange rectangles appear in the center of the screen and start transforming into the letters in "orange" simultaneously. The rectangle on the left stretches slightly to the right and left until it forms a square, then curves at the top and bottom to form a "orange". The rectangle in the middle stretches on all sides vertically and horizontally until it resembles a cross, then the lower half stretches out some more and curves to the right to form a lower case "orange". The two rectangles on the far right stretch to the right until they become squares and connect each other in the middle with extensions on their bottom right corners. The two squares, along with the right corner of the "orange", stretch to the bottom to form the "orange". The small cyan text:
appears in the top left corner where the "t" and "w" connect.
Variants:
FX/SFX: Cel animation.
Music/Sounds: A pitter-pattery synthesizer tune which sounds like outer-space music, and once the logo completes, we hear a "ding" at the end to mark the appearance of the "Children's Television Workshop" text. This typically accompanies the videotaped variant, but was also heard with the filmed variant on A Walking Tour of Sesame Street.
Music/Sound Variant: On Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, we hear a dreamy 8-note tune accompanied by bells and strings. This was used with the filmed variant of the logo.
Availability: Ultra rare.
Legacy: This logo has gained infamy for its design, cheesy animation, eerie music, and its dark environment. It's pretty strange considering the demographic their programming was focused on.
Logo: On a black background, a gold spark flies across the top left corner of the screen, writing the word "blue", colored blue and in the ITC Busorama font. Then, it shifts to the middle left corner and writes "blue". It shifts again to the bottom left corner and writes "blue". A ray of light flies up from the bottom of the screen and "explodes", followed by the logo shining.
Variants:
FX/SFX: Scanimate effects.
Music/Sounds: Three analog synth scales quickly descending, each one heard over the spark animations forming each word, followed by a laser zap.
Music/Sound Variants:
Availability: Uncommon, despite plastering with newer logos. Its longevity is amazing, having been in use for nearly fourteen years and surviving into the late '90s when CGI was becoming dominant.
Legacy: Another odd logo from the company noted for its ominous visuals, flashy sparks (appearing to have been done by filming a lit sparkler against a dark background), lasers, and electronic sounds, which are certainly what a stereotypical '80s logo would sound like. However, for some, it may bring back fond memories of Sesame Street home videos and 3-2-1 Contact.
Logo: Superimposed on a still frame from a street scene, sketch, or animation from Sesame Street is an outline of the show's logo (the color and position varies depending on the episode). This is followed by the CTW logo, in its then-new design, in that same color.
Variant: Some episodes have the CTW logo horizontally arranged (similar to the next custom logo). Other episodes have the logos appearing on-screen as the final scene continued, rather than a still shot.
FX/SFX: The logos appearing and disappearing.
Music/Sounds: Same as the first Sesame Street custom logo.
Availability: Ultra rare. Was used on the first half of Season 15 of Sesame Street. The logo has become difficult to find due to its short lifespan, as well as the classic episodes of Sesame Street that were on HBO Max being removed in August 2022. Just like with the first logo, HBO strangely used the logo twice, though this was fixed on most HBO Max prints.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The flipping and sliding.
Music/Sounds: Same as before, but is synced up to the animation of the sliding words.
Music/Sounds Variants: On episodes 3058 and 3093 (and their repeats, 3281 and 3288, respectively), there is the sound of a cork popping as the Sesame Street sign flips in, and 3 whooshing sounds as the words "Children's Television Workshop" slide in.
Availability: Extremely rare.
Logo: On various backgrounds, the Square One TV logo flies around the screen, then immediately disappears as a copyright notice appears. A few seconds later, the Square One TV goes in random places until it reaches the center of the screen. Less than a second later, the Children's Television Workshop appears zooming out, plastering the Square One portion of the logo. Thus, the logo reads "CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP TELEVISION".
Variants:
FX/SFX: The logo flying and going in random, and the CTW logo zooming out.
Music/Sounds/Voiceover: The final eight seconds of the Square One TV theme song (from Seasons 1-3) with Cynthia Darlow saying "100% of Square One TV is a production of the Children's Television Workshop." Her announcement is followed by a kid chorus shouting "Squaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare ONE!"
Availability: Very rare. Seen at the end of older Square One TV episodes of the era. While they're almost never rerun, VHS tapes should retain this.
Logo: On a black and white checkered background, the Square One TV logo zooms in with a copyright notice fading in. Afterwards, it immediately cuts from the CTW logo in pink, to a fully checkered board logo zooming out, revealing the Square One TV logo, turning itself to the right and facing the viewer.
FX/SFX: TBA.
Music/Sounds/Voiceover: The closing bars of the Season 4-5 Square One TV theme song with Cynthia Darlow saying "100% of Square One TV is a production of the Children's Television Workshop." followed by a female chorus singing "Squaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare ONE!"
Availability: Extremely rare. Seen at the end of later Square One TV episodes of the era. Again, VHS tapes should retain it.
Logo: On a blue background, we see the Mathnet seal radial wiping in with its slogan "to cogitate and to solve." fading in.
Variant: Sometimes, the logo just appears as a still image. It would usually fade to the CTW logo.
FX/SFX: The wiping in, and the slogan fading in.
Music/Sounds/Voice-over: Just Cynthia Darlow saying "100% of Mathnet is a production of the Children's Television Workshop." Sometimes, after her announcement, George Frankly would laugh.
Availability: Extremely rare.
Logo: This is incorporated into the original version of the 1992-2006 Sesame Street closing credit sequence. After the credits scroll, we come across an animated version of the familiar Sesame Street sign flipping in against a cloudy sky with buildings. Big Bird (live-action; puppeteered by Caroll Spinney) walks by and says the usual end spiel as the words "Children's Television Workshop" in white with black outlines is wiped in. The text disappears and we zoom out back to the Statue of Liberty and the tugboat from the beginning of the closing sequence. The Statue of Liberty moves once more before returning to her normal position.
FX/SFX: The animated sign flipping in and the live-action Big Bird walking by. This was done by regular series animator Joey Ahlbum, who also created many classic Nickelodeon IDs such as the famous "Doo-Wop-A-Saurus". The 2D animation/live-action blend is pretty good, especially for the early '90s.
Music/Sounds: Same as the first three Sesame Street custom logos (this time, the hip-hop remix is playing the theme and the announcer is Big Bird), followed by a synthesized flute and bass glissandos, a stretching sound effect for the Statue of Liberty (also used in Sesame Street itself), and the tugboat tooting twice.
Music/Sounds Trivia: The musical instruments used for the ending theme were the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, the Linndrum drum machine and the Roland D-50 synthesizer.
Music/Sounds Variant: In the October 13, 2000 rerun of Episode 3895, Big Bird doesn't say the usual ending spiel, even though he still moves past the sign and his mouth still moves as if he were talking. This was most likely done to remove the CTW reference since the company was renamed "Sesame Workshop" by then.
Availability: Very rare.
Nicknames: "The Rolling Stone", "The Cro Logo", "Prehistoric CTW"
Logo: We see two pink boulders against a blue background; one is round, while the other is in the shape of an inverted triangle. Both have cracks and niches in them. From the screen's right, we see a third pink boulder in the shape of a square rolling in. It bumps into the second boulder, and all three boulders crumble apart slightly; each one forms a letter: the first one forms "pink", the second forms "pink" and the third forms "pink". Copyright information fades in at the bottom of the screen.
FX/SFX: Cel animation produced by Film Roman and animated by either Sunwoo Entertainment, Anivision or Plus One Animation.
Music/Sounds: First, we hear several descending trumpet notes, then the sound of the boulders crumbling, and then an ascending four-note piano jingle accompanied by a descending four-note trumpet jingle.
Availability: Extremely rare. Only used on Cro, which has not reran on television for decades. The VHS releases from Republic Pictures Home Video retain this logo.
Logo: Against an animated indigo background, with a white copyright notice below, and after the Square One TV Math Talk logo appears, the 4th CTW logo in white slides in word-by-word and in the correct order, from the left, right, and left sides of the screen, respectively. This is followed by the funding credits.
FX/SFX: The letters sliding in.
Music/Sounds/Voice-over: The end theme to Square One TV Math Talk (an upbeat tune with horns) with Cynthia Darlow saying "Square One TV Math Talk is a production of the Children's Television Workshop."
Availability: Extremely rare.
Logo: On a black background in the center of the screen, the Ghostwriter from the show of the same name appears (in gold) and flies across the top of the screen from left to right, wiping in the green word "green" (in the show's font) with the red words "red" below it. Then, all of a sudden, the "W" and "T" in "writer", as well as the "C" in "produced", drop out, swirl around, and form a large "CTW" in the same colors, shoving the rest of the words off the screen. Ghostwriter then flies across the screen from right to left, wiping in the words "in association with BBC TELEVISION" ("BBC" being displayed as its familiar logo from the time) below that.
Variant: Later episodes do not have the BBC Television logo, this was after the BBC stopped funding the production of the program by the third season.
FX/SFX: The text being formed, as well as Ghostwriter himself. Pretty standard 2D effects.
Music/Sounds: A funky bass/synth guitar tune, as well as scribbling sounds as the words are being formed.
Availability: Rare.
Logo:
and the "Sesame Street"
sign are trademarks and
service marks of
Children's
Television
Workshop
©(year) Children's Television Workshop.
Sesame Street Muppets ©(year)
The Jim Henson Company.
ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
slides in over a teal/blue curtain background with alternating diagonal lines. The logo compresses itself and flashes, much like a CRT television turning off.
Trivia: This logo is merely a copyright screen for Sesame Street itself. This logo also serves as the coming soon on Sesame Street segment which show a clip of the next episode of Sesame Street
Variants:
FX/SFX: The static or the lines moving (depending on which background was used), the text moving to make way for Big Bird.
Music/Sounds:
Availability: Scarce. Appears on Seasons 27-33 of Sesame Street. Retained on reruns and on streaming prints (eg, HBO Max). The 2002 version is featured on VideoNow Jr. releases of shortened Season 33 episodes as well as Sesame Workshop's official YouTube upload of Episode 3990 (titled "Elmo Writes a Story").
Legacy: The static, Big Bird, and the large text have been known to catch some younger viewers off guard.
Logo: On a shady cyan background, we see a gold semi-circle with a white outline (the same one from the Sesame Street logo) turned on its bottom side with the red letters "red", "red", and "red" positioned from left to right. The "red" bounces on the semicircle, making it slant to the left. Then the "red" twists in a slight angle around while the "red" bounces. The semicircle rebounds to its original position, then the three letters bounce together, pushing the semicircle to the ground. The semicircle bounces up and rotates a few times before settling into a position halfway up the screen. The text "gold" comes from underneath the semicircle in gold. The three letters flip in the air and land on the face of the semicircle. The sign bounces once more as the text "PLAY IT SMART" appears below in black.
Variants:
FX/SFX: Very nice CGI produced by Pittard Sullivan (also responsible for HBO's 1999 Feature Presentation bumper, the 1998 King World logo, the 1995 Buena Vista Television logo, and the 1998 CTV logo).
Music/Sounds: A horn playing a tune that starts out similar to "Sailor's Hornpipe", accompanied by bouncing sound effects.
Music/Sounds Variant: On Sesame Street: Unpaved, it's silent.
Availability: Very rare; though this logo was sort of common in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it has since become increasingly rare and hard to find.
Legacy: Considered by many a much better logo than the 3rd and 4th logos, with its great CGI and music.
Logo: On a light-blue background, we see the Children's Television Workshop semicircle from the previous logo on wheels, which stops. A door opens on the logo and a bunch of letters come out of the semicircle, forming the words "CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP". After this, the semicircle car leaves and the letters get pushed up to form the logo as the now-larger semicircle re-appears.
Variant: On the 1999 resource video Sesame Street Goes to the Doctor, the logo is still.
FX/SFX: 2D animation produced by The Ink Tank in New York. Richard O'Connor and Brian O'Connell produced the logo, based on the style of R.O. Blechman, and Tissa David animated the logo with Valerie Cardon serving as an assistant animator and cel painter.
Music/Sounds: A bouncy harpsichord tune, and a crowd of adults talking when the letters get off of the semicircle.
Music/Sounds Variants: The 1999 resource video Sesame Street Goes to the Doctor has the last six notes of the Sesame Street theme song.
Availability: Ultra rare for the still variant, unused for the animated variant.
Logo: On a white background, we see an abstract green house with a purple
roof and the text "sesameworkshop" outlined below. The window of the house is filled with gold glitter. The house bounces and the roof explodes open to the right, sending the glitter sprinkling all over. Some of the glitter remains to form a lightning bolt crowned with a star, some sprinkles to the left to fill the "sesame" text with purple, and some sprinkles to the right to fill the "workshop" text with green, rendering it like this:
purplegreen
Variants:
roof (most common variant).
In-Credit Variants:
Plaza Sésamo Variant: On early 2000s episodes of Plaza Sésamo, an image of the logo flies around with the Televisa logo.
FX/SFX: 2D CGI. The logo was designed by Carbone Smolan; the animation was produced by The Ink Tank, animated by Tissa David, and colored by Richard O'Connor.
Music/Sounds: A stretching and "pop" sound for the roof with the sound of kids laughing (taken from the Hollywood Edge "Premiere Edition" sound effects library) as a bass clarinet plays, and then a short accordion riff.
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Originally very common, but nowadays is more uncommon, bordering on rare. The animated version was first seen on Season 1 reruns of Dragon Tales, and the still version debuted on Sesame Street: Let's Make Music and Elmo's World: Singing, Drawing & More!. At one point, it was to Sesame Workshop what the "Bars of Boredom" was to Sony Pictures Television, and appeared on many DVD and VHS releases from the company, and pretty much on every show PBS and Sesame Workshop distributed together, with the exception of post-2008 episodes of Sesame Street. It's no longer current, so you'll have to rely on Sesame Street and Dragon Tales VHS tapes and DVDs.
roof variant: Uncommon; it was seen on 2001-2002 episodes of Sesame Street, Tiny Planets, and 2001-2005 episodes of Dragon Tales (on which it also replaced the CTW logo seen on 1999-2000 episodes).
Legacy: On the trailer variants, the house appears to be in a white square as if it was copy-pasted onto a new background.
Logo:
FX/SFX: The animation of the "sesameworkshop" text for the first variant; the logo fading in for the second variant.
Music/Sounds:
Availability: Rare. Seen on Season 38 of Sesame Street and the 2009 reboot of The Electric Company; Hulu prints of the latter keep this logo intact. Like with the previous logos, check your recordings.
Logo: On a gold background, the green "green" text is seen, arranged like this:
green
Next to it, various stills of CTW/Sesame Workshop characters appear one-by-one next to the logo, including characters from CTW/Sesame Workshop co-productions outside of the U.S.. Characters include, from left to right:
Then, the "workshop" text pops in letter-by-letter from right to left, replacing the characters, and is now arranged like this:
greenblue
A still of Elmo fades in reclining on the last O, and below that the byline "The nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street" fades in, and the URL "blue" fades in with and below the byline. Then, we hear Elmo's distinctive laughter.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The characters appearing and changing into the text, and Elmo fading in.
Music/Sounds: The standard audio is a tuba tune with accordions followed by Elmo's distinctive laugh (done by Kevin Clash) when he fades in (the laugh is replaced with a deep boing on the Grover variant). On 2008-2015 Sesame Street episodes, the ending of the then-current Sesame Street closing theme is heard, with Elmo's laugh heard at the end. The Sesame Tree variant uses the ending theme of the show.
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Pretty common.
Logo: On a white background, the words "SESAME WORKSHOP" in gray write themselves in, as two lines draw themselves in simultaneously from left to right as well (a gold one with a hump in it above the words and a straight green line below the words). The "TM" symbol also appears next to the "P". The end result resembles the Sesame Street sign.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The lines drawing. This was designed by Trollbäck+Company, who also animated the Fox Productions logo and the current ABC IDs.
Music/Sounds: A 3-note xylophone tune (similar to the NBC chimes) based on the first 3 notes of the Sesame Street theme. Otherwise, it's the end theme of the show.
Music/Sounds Variant: HBO Max prints have music used on the copyright screens from older episodes, namely the "Funky Chimes" and the "Calypso" theme playing over the logo. Similarly, the audio from the previous logos also remains intact on episodes from that era.
Availability: Current. The logo first appeared on a Variety news article on June 20, 2018. Its first on-screen appearance was on Esme & Roy on HBO Kids and HBO Max in the US and Treehouse TV in Canada. It can also seen on episodes of Sesame Street from with seasons 49 to 52 and has been spotted plastering older logos on older episodes. This logo also appears on Mecha Builders, Helpsters, the 2019 reboot of Ghostwriter and Through Our Eyes. With the following logo's introduction, this logo may be retired in the future.
Legacy: Another logo within the modern trend of "simplicity", and as a result, some find it very generic. The two lines on the top and bottom give it a suspicious resemblance to the Cookie Jar logo. Others may appreciate the simplicity and the resemblance to the Sesame Street sign, however.
Logo: On a black background, two gold-green gradient colored lines are drawn from opposite sides, slowing down in the middle before speeding up again. As they speed off, the "SESAME WORKSHOP" text from before in gold fades in while the screen zooms up closer. When it stops, the background color changes to a gray-white gradient and the text becomes gray, and the lines, which turn yellow and green, slightly move away from the text before bouncing back to their normal positions. As this all happens, a copyright notice (in VAG Rounded) pops in.
FX/SFX: The lines drawing, the text fading in, and the background changing colors.
Music/Sounds: A reverse reverb followed by two notes and then a ding.
Availability: Brand new. Debuted on Welcome Sesame: A Digital Special Event and replaced the previous logo on Sesame Street beginning with season 53.