United Plankton Pictures, Inc.

Background: This is the vanity card of Stephen Hillenburg.

Logo
(May 1, 1999-)

Nicknames: "Friends of the Sea", "Holding Hands", "The Underwater Logo", "The Plankton Logo"

Logo: On a moving ocean background with a reflection of light (which is also seen on one part in the SpongeBob intro), we see some crudely drawn sea creatures, one of them being a less detailed drawing of Plankton (a character on SpongeBob), holding hands. The words:

United Plankton

are above, and the words

Pictures inc.

are below, both written in the "Krabby Patty" font.

Variants:
 * Starting in 2012, the logo is slightly redone. The ocean background is now greenish-tint, the Plankton creatures are drawn more smoothly, and the logo is in 16:9 widescreen. It was first seen on the SpongeBob SquarePants special "It's a SpongeBob Christmas".
 * A superimposed version can be seen over the final scenes of SpongeBob episodes. This began in May 2012 when Nickelodeon (and recently Nicktoons as of May 5, 2014) started playing the credits over the parting scenes of most of their shows.

FX/SFX: The ocean background moving.

Music/Sounds: On Nick and Nicktoons airings with split-screen credits, there is the sound of crashing waves and seagulls (this variant is actually pretty rare outside the U.S.). Usually, the SpongeBob SquarePants end theme or whatever theme was used on the credits finishes over it.

Music/Sounds Variants:
 * On non-split-screen airings (Including Amazon Video streaming) of the SpongeBob SquarePants episodes "Texas" / "Walking Small", cows (presumably from the former episode's closing theme, which is Junior Brown performing the SpongeBob theme) are heard in the background.
 * Early split screen versions had a foghorn sound.
 * On early SpongeBob video releases, it's silent.

Availability: Common. It's currently seen on SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. When the episode Wet Painters/Krusty Krab Training Video aired from 2002-Octrober 2006, due to an editing mistake on Nick's part, the Klasky-Csupo Robot logo was shown in place of this on airings with split-screen credits. On November 30, 2011, during an airing of the episode "Pest of the West", this was replaced with the Rainbow S.r.l logo.

Scare Factor: None.

In-Credit Logo
(November 19, 2004, February 6, 2015)

Logo: Television: On a couple of split-screen airings, we see the words:

United Plankton Pictures, Inc.

Theractical: On the background of the opening of the film, we see:
 * on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: "in association with United Plankton Pictures" in a black pirate/treasure map font.
 * on The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water: "A UNITED PLANKTON PICTURES PRODUCTION" in gold.

FX/SFX: It is an in-credit logo, so the fade in/fadeout.

Music/Sounds: The opening theme/sounds/dialogue of the film.

Availability: Extremely rare.

Scare Factor: None.