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In 1999, Ghost Planet Industries was renamed to Williams Street and it expanded to produce anything beyond SGC2C and Toonami, which included the new Midnight Run and Rising Sun blocks. Named after 1065 Williams Street NW in Atlanta, Georgia, the company heralded the creation of Adult Swim in 2001, with such shows like Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The company also opened a small subsidiary in 2003 as Williams Street West so that their creative director, Matt Harrigan could work for Viacom International and Williams Street without having to return to Atlanta constantly. It closed its doors shortly after he stopped working for Viacom (though the subsidiary was revived in 2017, however, it was closed again in 2020). All of the company's shows are currently aired on Adult Swim.

Logo (October 8, 1999- )

Standard early version
Version with copyright notice
Standard fullscreen logo
Wavy version
Version with 2012 copyright design
Version with outline-less copyright design
Standard widescreen logo
Version with Birdgirl copyright design
Version with Off the Air copyright design
Redrawn variant
Ambient Swim inverted version

Visuals: Same as the Ghost Planet Industries logo, except the text reads "WILLIAMS STREET" in a Futura-like font.

Early Variant: Some early shows with the logo contain the letters farther apart (in a proper Futura font), the waving is bigger and it has a smoother and faster rate, and had better image quality.

Trivia: This early logo variant was featured in an Adult Swim bump from 2010.

Variants:

On most Adult Swim shows from 2012-2022, the logo has (barely readable) Cartoon Network copyright information that also waves like the logo, and it does not cut to the Cartoon Network "Skull". Also, the logo has been converted to letterbox. A few shows from the time frame however don't use the copyright info, alongside shows returning from that time frame in 2022 due to the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery.
- From 2018-2022, the "A Time Warner Company." part of the byline is replaced with "A WarnerMedia Company.", the rest of the logo though is the same. The reason for this is due to the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner which changed the latter's name to WarnerMedia on June 14, 2018.
- On season 2 of Birdgirl, the copyright information is different, longer, and in a different font (presumably Haettenschweiler, Impact or Anton?) and it no longer waves like the logo. Most of the time, the logo is slightly moved up to make room for said copyright information.
- Starting in 2024, the copyright information is worded the same as the Birdgirl version, however it is gray, smaller, and in a different font. The logo is also in its normal position rather than shifted up.
On Mister America, the logo appears in the end credits alongside the Magnolia Pictures and Abso Lutely Productions logos.
On the first episode of Blade Runner: Black Lotus, the copyright information appears for a split-second before disappearing.
On Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell: The Cartoon, Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm, and the Adult Swim Yule Log, the logo is redrawn and the "WILLIAMS STREET" text is in a different font.
On the pilot of Stroker & Hoop, the early version has a copyright notice below the logo.
The Ambient Swim episode "Vintertog" (aired as part of Adult Swim's 2023 April Fools' prank) has the logo inverted and slightly shifted up to make room for the copyright notice.

Technique: Same as the Ghost Planet Industries logo.

Audio: Same as the Ghost Planet Industries logo, but starting in late 1999, it was cut down to two hammer strikes.

Audio Variants:

More recent appearances of the logo have the audio cut down to one hammer strike.
In other cases, it used the closing theme of the show (if you listen closely, certain shows (such as early seasons of Robot Chicken) still have a bit of Master Shake from ATHF (voiced by Dana Snyder) yelling "Dance!" really quickly, which is taken from him saying "Dancing is forbidden!" from the first episode of ATHF).
Sometimes, it's silent.
On Squidbillies, it's the respective ending theme of the show.
On The Eric Andre Show episode "The Eric Andre Show 15", the logo cuts out early and we hear the 2nd hammer strike while the screen is black.
On The Eric Andre Show season 2 finale, the logo has a darker sound that gets slightly louder.
On Aqua Something You Know Whatever (the ninth season of ATHF), a random quote from the specific episode is right after a hammer strike.
On the China, IL episode "Dream Reamer", a "Skull!" sound from the 2001 Cartoon Network Productions logo is heard.
On the season 3 finale of Rick and Morty on Netflix, the French audio track has a low pitched version, which is also the case for the other logos before it and the whole episode.
On the Off the Air episode "Moon", musak is heard instead.
On the Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell episode "Fried Alive", a shotgun sound effect with a splatter is heard due to the end of the episode, in which a Hell employee tries to commit suicide by shooting himself through the mouth.
On the Gemusetto episode "Episode Two: A# Minor", the tail end of the next-week music and the man's dialogue is heard instead.
On King Star King, a hammer strike is slowed down.
On the Ambient Swim variant, an ominous ambient noise can be heard at the same time as the hammer strike.

Availability:

Can be seen on most shows Williams Street has produced, and SGC2C episodes from season 6.
It is also seen at the beginning of Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Colon Movie Film for Theaters.
It can also be seen on the pilot episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, all 7 seasons of Rick and Morty, as well as season 5 of Samurai Jack, and the 2 new FLCL seasons (Progressive and Alternative) as well.
This logo does not appear on IGPX (both the 2003 microseries and the full 26-episode show from 2005), probably due to the fact that the show aired on CN's Toonami rather than on Adult Swim.
The early version was first seen on the SGC2C episode "Chambraigne", and is regularly seen on Sealab 2021, Squidbillies (seasons 1 and 2; except for "Giant Foam Dickhat Trouble"), Frisky Dingo, Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil (starting with the second episode) and season 2 of Delocated. It was also seen on the first episode of Stroker and Hoop and the original 2000 version of the pilot of The Brak Show titled "Leave it to Brak" (the finalized version of the pilot that serves as the official series premiere, as well as the show itself, features no Williams Street logo whatsoever).

Legacy: A well-known logo among Adult Swim fans due to its sampling of a logo theme from the past, its concept, and its longevity.

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-Logo descriptions by YingYong, BenIsRandom, and RedheadXilamGuy
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 ===Background===
-Williams Street Productions, LLC is a production sub-arm of Cartoon Network established in 1994 first under the name of Ghost Planet Industries to produce animated shows for the young-adult audience, also opening a small subsidiary as Williams Street West so that Matt Harrigan could work for Viacom International and Williams Street without having to return to Atlanta constantly, closing its doors after he stopped working for Viacom (though the subsidiary was revived in 2017). All its shows are currently aired on Adult Swim.
+In 1999, '''[[Ghost Planet Industries]]''' was renamed to '''Williams Street''' and it expanded to produce anything beyond ''SGC2C'' and Toonami, which included the new Midnight Run and Rising Sun blocks. Named after 1065 '''Williams Street''' NW in Atlanta, Georgia, the company heralded the creation of Adult Swim in 2001, with such shows like ''Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law'' and ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force''. The company also opened a small subsidiary in 2003 as [[Williams Street West]] so that their creative director, Matt Harrigan could work for [[Viacom Productions|Viacom International]] and Williams Street without having to return to Atlanta constantly. It closed its doors shortly after he stopped working for Viacom (though the subsidiary was revived in 2017, however, it was closed again in 2020). All of the company's shows are currently aired on [[Adult Swim]].
-===1st Logo (July 28, 1995-)===
-Ghost Planet Industries (1995)Ghost Planet Industries "CN Factory" (2001)Williams Street Productions (1999)Williams StreetWilliams Street (Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak, 2000)Williams Street (Harvey Birdman, 2000)Williams Street (Static Variant) (2001)Williams Street Productions - CLG WikiWilliams Street (2014)Williams Street Productions - CLG Wiki
-Nicknames: "The Space Ghost Logo", "The CN Building", "The CN Factory", "The Adult Swim Logo"
-Logo: On a very pale gray background, we see a corner shot of a dark gray building (this building is not the Williams Street office, but the Ghost Planet building where Space Ghost does his interviews; it later appeared in CGI in the intros to SGC2C and Toonami). Under it, it would say one of these texts:
-July 28, 1995-December 25, 1998, May 7, 2001-January 1, 2003: "GHOST PLANET INDUSTRIES", in a "ghost" font is below the building.
-October 22, 1999-: "WILLIAMS STREET"
-Variants:
-There is also an inverted version of the GPI logo with the gray BG and the building in white on season 7 of SGC2C. The first episode of S7, "Kentucky Nightmare", used an more slightly distorted version of that variant, along with S8 episode, "Baffler Meal".
-On recent Adult Swim shows from 2012 and onwards, the logo has (barely readable) Cartoon Network copyright information, and it does not cut to the Cartoon Network "Skull". Also, the logo has been converted to letterbox.
-On the first episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (the only episode of the show to have this logo), the logo is tintedblue.
-On the Space Ghost episode "Flipmode", the logo is in static.
-On The Eric Andre Show, "Bird Up", Eric Andre in a green suit with a parrot appears at the bottom left corner of the screen. He says "Yah Boobay" over and over again.
-On the Children's Hospital episode "The Show You Watch", the logo is redesigned to fit in with the 50s motif of the episode, like all the other logos along with it. The logo is now flat, simplistic, and more cartoony, sort of resembling a UPA/H-B background design, and the "WILLIAMS STREET" text is also in a different font. The logo does not wave in this variant, and thus is completely still, no animation at all.
-On Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak, the logo is on a paper taped to the background.
-On The Eric Andre show season 2 finale, the logo has a darker sound that gets slightly louder, the logo also appears more fuzzy than usual.
-On Mister America, the logo appears in the end credits alongside the Magnolia Pictures and Abso Lutely Productions logos.
-FX/SFX: Very little. A subtle waving of the logo.
-Music/Sounds: The ever popular Mark VII Limited "Hammer" sound from 1967-1971, containing two strikes of the hammer (three for the Ghost Planet Industries version), being shortened on some shows.
-Music/Sounds Variants:
-In other cases, it used the closing theme of the show (If you listen closely, certain shows (such as early seasons of Robot Chicken) still have a bit of Master Shake from ATHF yelling "dance!" really quickly which is taken from him saying "Dancing Is Forbidden!" from the first episode of ATHF).
-Sometimes, it's silent. One example is the SGC2C S3 episode "Sharrock" to observe the memory of Sonny Sharrock, the show's musician.
-On Squidbillies, it's the respective ending theme of the show.
-On the SGC2C S4 episode "Boatshow", Space Ghost is heard underneath announcing "This has been a Ghost Planet Industries production. (does a spit take) That's what I did in rehearsal, and everybody laughed."
-On the SGC2C S7 episode "Kentucky Nightmare", the music is a long held out metal guitar riff played 2 times in place of the hammer strikes. A similar variant appeared on the S8 episode, "Baffler Meal", but also includes Space Ghost yelling "NOOOO!!!".
-On The Eric Andre Show's episode "the Eric Andre Show 15", the logo cuts out early and we hear the 2nd hammer strike while the screen was black.
-Availability: Common. The "Ghost Planet Industries" variant can be found on 1995-2001 episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coaststarting with the S2 episode, "Sleeper" (as well as its finale "Live At The Fillmore", aired in 2004, due to the fact that said episode is unfinished and so its entire end credits sequence, logos and all, is just the one from the GPI-era episode "Kentucky Nightmare"), as well as the rather obscure Cartoon Planet. The "Williams Street" one can be seen on most everything Adult Swim produced recently, and SGC2C episodes from season 6. It is also seen at the beginning of Aqua Team Hunger Force: Colon Movie Film for Theaters. It can also be seen on Rick and Morty, as well as season 5 of Samurai Jack, and the 2 new FLCL seasons (ProgressiveandAlternative) as well. Strangely, this logo does not appear on IGPX (both the 2003 microseries and the full 26-episode show from 2005).
-Editor's Note: A remarkable logo due to its a sampling of a logo theme from the past, its dark and unique concept and its longevity. This logo is also very popular and is a favorite for those who are not scared of it.
-===2nd Logo (October 8-December 3, 1999,September 2, 2001-)===
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+===Logo (October 8, 1999- )===
-Nicknames: "The Space Ghost Logo II", "The CN Building II", "The CN Factory II", "The Adult Swim Logo II"
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+File:WilliamsStreet.png|Standard early version
+File:Williams Street (Stroker and Hoop).jpeg|Version with copyright notice
+File:Williams Street.png|Standard fullscreen logo
+File:WilliamsStreetWavy.png|Wavy version
+File:WilliamsStreet2016.png|Version with 2012 copyright design
+File:Teassf.png|Version with outline-less copyright design
+File:Williams Street (Widescreen).png|Standard widescreen logo
+File:Williams Street (2022, New Copyright Stamp).jpeg|Version with ''Birdgirl'' copyright design
+File:Williams Street logo (Nonsense variant).PNG|Version with ''Off the Air'' copyright design
+File:Williams Street (2022, different text font).png|Redrawn variant
+File:Williams Street (2023, Vintertog Variant).png|''Ambient Swim'' inverted version
+</gallery>
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+'''Visuals:''' Same as the [[Ghost Planet Industries]] logo, except the text reads "'''WILLIAMS STREET'''" in a Futura-like font.
-Logo: Same as before, but the letters are farther apart (and in a different font), the waving is bigger and it has a smoother and faster rate. The image quality is also better.
+'''Early Variant:''' Some early shows with the logo contain the letters farther apart (in a proper Futura font), the waving is bigger and it has a smoother and faster rate, and had better image quality.
-Trivia: This logo variant was featured in this Adult Swim bump from 2010.
+'''Trivia:''' This early logo variant was featured in an Adult Swim bump from 2010.
-Variants:
+'''Variants:'''
+*On most Adult Swim shows from 2012-2022, the logo has (barely readable) Cartoon Network copyright information that also waves like the logo, and it does not cut to the Cartoon Network "Skull". Also, the logo has been converted to letterbox. A few shows from the time frame however don't use the copyright info, alongside shows returning from that time frame in 2022 due to the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery.
-On the Sealab 2021 episode "Murphy Murph and the Feng Shui Bunch", Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force (voiced by Dana Snyder) breaks the Williams Street logo, along with the 70/30 Productions and the Cartoon Network Productions logos.
+**From 2018-2022, the "A Time Warner Company." part of the byline is replaced with "A WarnerMedia Company.", the rest of the logo though is the same. The reason for this is due to the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner which changed the latter's name to WarnerMedia on June 14, 2018.
-Stroker and Hoop used a copyright stamp below the logo.
+**On season 2 of ''Birdgirl'', the copyright information is different, longer, and in a different font (presumably Haettenschweiler, Impact or Anton?) and it no longer waves like the logo. Most of the time, the logo is slightly moved up to make room for said copyright information.
-A sepia variant exists.
+**Starting in 2024, the copyright information is worded the same as the ''Birdgirl'' version, however it is gray, smaller, and in a different font. The logo is also in its normal position rather than shifted up.
+*On ''Mister America'', the logo appears in the end credits alongside the [[Magnolia Pictures]] and [[Abso Lutely Productions]] logos.
+*On the first episode of ''Blade Runner: Black Lotus'', the copyright information appears for a split-second before disappearing.
+*On ''Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell: The Cartoon'', ''Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm'',  and the ''Adult Swim Yule Log'', the logo is redrawn and the "'''WILLIAMS STREET'''" text is in a different font.
+*On the pilot of ''Stroker & Hoop'', the early version has a copyright notice below the logo.
+*The ''Ambient Swim'' episode "Vintertog" (aired as part of Adult Swim's 2023 April Fools' prank) has the logo inverted and slightly shifted up to make room for the copyright notice.
+'''Technique:''' Same as the [[Ghost Planet Industries]] logo.
-FX/SFX: The waving.
+'''Audio:''' Same as the [[Ghost Planet Industries]] logo, but starting in late 1999, it was cut down to two hammer strikes.
-Music/Sounds: Same as before. On Sealab 2021, it's the closing theme of the show, or a soundbite.
-Music/Sounds Variants:
+'''Audio Variants:'''
+*More recent appearances of the logo have the audio cut down to one hammer strike.
-When this logo debuted on the SGC2C episode "Chambraigne", we hear three strikes of the hammer.
+*In other cases, it used the closing theme of the show (if you listen closely, certain shows (such as early seasons of ''Robot Chicken'') still have a bit of Master Shake from ''ATHF'' (voiced by Dana Snyder) yelling "Dance!" really quickly, which is taken from him saying "Dancing is forbidden!" from the first episode of ''ATHF'').
-On the "Murphy Murph and the Feng Shui Bunch" variant, Master Shake and Meatwad (off screen, voiced by Dave Willis) have this conversation:
+*Sometimes, it's silent.
-Master Shake: "Seventy-Thirty. Is this yours?"
+*On ''Squidbillies'', it's the respective ending theme of the show.
-Meatwad: "That's not mine!"
+*On ''The Eric Andre Show'' episode "The Eric Andre Show 15", the logo cuts out early and we hear the 2nd hammer strike while the screen is black.
-Master Shake: "'Cause it's gone!"
+*On ''The Eric Andre Show'' season 2 finale, the logo has a darker sound that gets slightly louder.
-Meatwad: "You're breaking somebody else's things now."
+*On ''Aqua Something You Know Whatever'' (the ninth season of ''ATHF''), a random quote from the specific episode is right after a hammer strike.
-Master Shake: "It's cheap looking and it's outta here. What kind of crap is this, did an elephant paint this?!"
+*On the ''China, IL'' episode "Dream Reamer", a "Skull!" sound from the 2001 Cartoon Network Productions logo is heard.
+*On the season 3 finale of ''Rick and Morty'' on Netflix, the French audio track has a low pitched version, which is also the case for the other logos before it and the whole episode.
+*On the ''Off the Air'' episode "Moon", musak is heard instead.
+*On the ''Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell'' episode "Fried Alive", a shotgun sound effect with a splatter is heard due to the end of the episode, in which a Hell employee tries to commit suicide by shooting himself through the mouth.
+*On the ''Gemusetto'' episode "Episode Two: A# Minor", the tail end of the next-week music and the man's dialogue is heard instead.
+*On ''King Star King'', a hammer strike is slowed down.
+*On the ''Ambient Swim'' variant, an ominous ambient noise can be heard at the same time as the hammer strike.
+'''Availability:'''
-Availability: It was first seen on the SGC2C episode "Chambraigne", and is regularly seen on Sealab 2021, Squidbillies (seasons 1 and 2), Frisky Dingo, Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil, season 2 of Delocated, and the first episode of Stroker and Hoop.
+*Can be seen on most shows Williams Street has produced, and ''SGC2C'' episodes from season 6.
+*It is also seen at the beginning of ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Colon Movie Film for Theaters''.
+*It can also be seen on the pilot episode of ''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'', all 7 seasons of ''Rick and Morty'', as well as season 5 of ''Samurai Jack'', and the 2 new ''FLCL'' seasons (Progressive and Alternative) as well.
+*This logo does not appear on ''IGPX'' (both the 2003 microseries and the full 26-episode show from 2005), probably due to the fact that the show aired on CN's Toonami rather than on Adult Swim.
+*The early version was first seen on the ''SGC2C'' episode "Chambraigne", and is regularly seen on ''Sealab 2021'', ''Squidbillies'' (seasons 1 and 2; except for "Giant Foam Dickhat Trouble"), ''Frisky Dingo'', ''Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil'' (starting with the second episode) and season 2 of ''Delocated''. It was also seen on the first episode of ''Stroker and Hoop'' and the original 2000 version of the pilot of ''The Brak Show'' titled "Leave it to Brak" (the finalized version of the pilot that serves as the official series premiere, as well as the show itself, features no Williams Street logo whatsoever).
+'''Legacy:''' A well-known logo among Adult Swim fans due to its sampling of a logo theme from the past, its concept, and its longevity.
-Editor's Note: Merely a variant of the logo above, but the image quality is clearer.
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