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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. 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 its shows are currently aired on Adult Swim.

1st Logo (July 28, 1995-)

Standard original version
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast inverted version
Standard fullscreen logo
Wavy version
Version with copyright notice
Standard widescreen logo
Bird Up version
Flipmode version
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law version
Off the Air version
Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak version
The Show You Watch version
Presents screen from Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters.

Nicknames: "The Space Ghost Logo", "The CN Building", "The CN Factory", "The Ghost Planet Industries Building", "The Adult Swim Logo"

Logo: On a very pale gray background, we see a corner shot of a dark gray building. 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 8, 1999-: "WILLIAMS STREET"

Trivia: The building is not the Williams Street office, but the Ghost Planet Industries building where Space Ghost does his interviews. The building appeared in CGI in the intros to SGC2C and later in Toonami.

Variants:

There is also an inverted version of the GPI logo on season 7 of SGC2C.
- The first episode of S7, "Kentucky Nightmare", used a more slightly distorted version of that variant, along with the 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 tinted blue.
On the Space Ghost episode "Flipmode", the logo is in static.
On The Eric Andre Show episode "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 and without any copyright information 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.
On the 'analog video remix' for the Off the Air episode "NEWNOW Analog Video Remix", the logo is shaded midnight blue, mimicking the retro VHS theme of the episode. The word "EJECT" is also seen.
On Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, there is a longer, opening variant of the standard widescreen version. This version has a slower fade in and out, and 4-5 seconds after we fade out, there is a screen that says "PRESENTS" and then "THIS MOVIE" in a split second (in the same font as the Williams Street text and it waves also).

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 (as well as other shows and specials), 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 episode "The Eric Andre Show 15", the logo cuts out early and we hear the 2nd hammer strike while the screen was black.
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 & Morty on Netflix, the French audio track have a low pitched version, which is also the case for the other logos before it and the whole episode.
After the logo fades out on some SGC2C episodes, we hear one of the following:
- "Bobcat", "$20.01", "Lovesick", "Freak Show": A deep "boing" accompanied by a cymbal crash and a held-out guitar note, with a few other sounds such as a cowbell ringing and a frog croaking twice.
- "Spanish Translation", "Urges", "Switcheroo", "Surprise": An off-key accordion and a splattering sound, followed by various honks and guitar plucks, among other sounds. Then we hear the accordion again.
- "CHiPs", "Zorak": The same sounds as on "Switcheroo", but there are a few additional sounds and the jingle at the end is different, ending with a Hanna-Barbera splat sound.
- "Gilligan", "Banjo", "Sharrock": A slide whistle sliding up, along with the same honks and guitar plucks as well as a Disney "boing" sound.

Availability: Common. The "Ghost Planet Industries" variant can be found on 1995-2001 episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast starting 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 shows Adult Swim has ever 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 Rick and Morty, as well as season 5 of Samurai Jack, and the 2 new FLCL seasons (Progressive and Alternative) as well. Strangely, 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.

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 (December 3, 1999, September 2, 2001-April 5, 2012)

Standard version
Version with copyright notice
Sepia version
Bloodcorn version
Murphy Murph and the Feng Shui Bunch version

Nicknames: "The Space Ghost Logo II", "The CN Building II", "The CN Factory II", "The Ghost Planet Industries Building II", "The Adult Swim Logo II"

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.

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

Variants:

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.
Stroker and Hoop used a copyright stamp below the logo.
On the Xavier: Renegade Angel episode "Bloodcorn", the logo is red.
A sepia variant exists.

FX/SFX: The waving.

Music/Sounds: Same as before. On Sealab 2021, it's the closing theme of the show, or a soundbite.

Music/Sounds Variants:

When this logo debuted on the SGC2C episode "Chambraigne", we hear three strikes of the hammer.
On the "Murphy Murph and the Feng Shui Bunch" variant, Master Shake and Meatwad (off screen, voiced by Dave Willis) have this conversation:

Master Shake: "Seventy-Thirty. Is this yours?"

Meatwad: "That's not mine!"

Master Shake: "Cause it's gone!"

Meatwad: "You're breaking somebody else's things now."

Master Shake: "It's cheap looking and it's outta here. What kind of crap is this, did an elephant paint this?!"

On the Xavier: Renegade Angel episode "Bloodcorn", the audio is muffled with a sound of a liquid of blood pouring.

Availability: It was first seen on the SGC2C episode "Table Read", and is regularly seen on Sealab 2021, Squidbillies (seasons 1 and 2), Frisky Dingo, Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil and season 2 of Delocated. It was also seen on the first episode of Stroker and Hoop.

Editor's Note: Merely a variant of the logo above, but the image quality is clearer.

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 *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 & Morty'' on Netflix, the French audio track have a low pitched version, which is also the case for the other logos before it and the whole episode.
+*After the logo fades out on some ''SGC2C'' episodes, we hear one of the following:
+**'''"Bobcat", "$20.01", "Lovesick", "Freak Show"''': A deep "boing" accompanied by a cymbal crash and a held-out guitar note, with a few other sounds such as a cowbell ringing and a frog croaking twice.
+**'''"Spanish Translation", "Urges", "Switcheroo", "Surprise"''': An off-key accordion and a splattering sound, followed by various honks and guitar plucks, among other sounds. Then we hear the accordion again.
+**'''"CHiPs", "Zorak":''' The same sounds as on "Switcheroo", but there are a few additional sounds and the jingle at the end is different, ending with a [[Hanna-Barbera Cartoons|Hanna-Barbera]] splat sound.
+**'''"Gilligan", "Banjo", "Sharrock":''' A slide whistle sliding up, along with the same honks and guitar plucks as well as a [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] "boing" sound.
 '''Availability:''' Common. The "Ghost Planet Industries" variant can be found on 1995-2001 episodes of ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'' starting 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 shows Adult Swim has ever 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 ''Rick and Morty'', as well as season 5 of ''Samurai Jack'', and the 2 new ''FLCL'' seasons (Progressive and Alternative) as well. Strangely, 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.