Family Home Entertainment Kids

Background: Family Home Entertainment Kids was a specialty division of Family Home Entertainment for kids only releases on VHS and DVD.

(1998-2005)

Logo: First, we see a crudely drawn green and white doghouse on a white background. A dog with a collar starts walking to the right side of the doghouse, sniffing the ground. He then walks in the doghouse. As this happens, the words Family Home Entertainment in Trajan Pro and f.h.e used in the familiar script introduced in 1985 fades in below (colored green, red and blue respectively.) The dog peeks out with a bone in his mouth, and barks (dropping his bone in the process, and a red speech bubble with "kids" on it appears next to the dog. He looks down and watches his bone fall to the ground, then looks back up and blinks a bit as the logo is complete.

Variants:
 * On early releases, the logo appears completely silent on a black background. The doghouse has no hole at first, but then, a white square stretches out, and the dog's head pops out of the doghouse, and the initials write themselves in (but the e is purple). The dog moves a bit as the red speech bubble with "kids" fades in and the words Family Home Entertainment fade in.
 * A short variant of the early version appears at the start of a promo for the Chuck Jones Signature Series VHS line. Here, the logo is already formed, with only the dog moving.
 * In its later years, the byline "An Artisan Entertainment Company" fades in below. This was removed in 2004, when Artisan went defunct.

FX/SFX: Tra-digital animation.

Music/Sounds: A pizzicato string violin/bass/bassoon tune, followed by 4 flute notes, followed by a piano note, followed by Brian's bark and a thoomp sound, followed by 4 more flute notes, followed by another pizzicato/bass/bassoon note, or no music or bark at all (usually on the early variant).

Music/Sounds Variant: Sometimes, only the bark is heard.

Availability: Uncommon. It was mostly used from 1998 to 2002 (such as Baby Einstein releases until Disney took over in 2002), along with the first season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) on VHS, DVD, and iTunes. Also showed up on Crayola and Hallmark tapes. It can also be seen at the beginning and end of Clifford the Big Red Dog VHS tapes and DVDs from 2001-05, like Here Comes Clifford, Clifford's Best Friends, Clifford Tries His Best, and Everyone Loves Clifford, as well as Lionsgate reprints of early-2000s Clifford DVDs. This makes a surprise appearences at the end of the 2003 screener DVD of Mr. Saint Nick and on the 2005 DVD release of Clifford the Big Red Dog: Doggie Detectives, even though this logo is not seen on the packaging.

Editor's Note: While it's pretty cute, it's more annoying than anything.