List of notable Nickelodeon bumpers

The following is a list of bumpers that appeared on Nickelodeon during the 1980s, throughout the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and now on.
Note: Some of the 1980s bumpers appear at the end of Super Sloppy Double Dare.
 
Description 	Photo/Video
A green-haired, computer-animated human drinks something out of a orange cup through his nose. His head becomes X-rayed seeing a trio of orange fish in his head. This bumper was used from 1986 to 1992. It was also used as a closing part of Super Sloppy Double Dare. Created by Edward Bakst and Fred/Alan. 	center
Features a trio of singing dinosaurs (voiced by the Jive Five) wearing neckties doo-woping alongside other dinosaurs. A volcano erupting orange Nickelodeon lava appears at the end. This bumper was used from 1988 to 2001. Created by Joey Ahlbum and Fred/Alan. 	center
Features a trio of girls spelling Nickelodeon in scrambled ways before getting it right. There were two variants; each with a different background. In one of the variants, the text is Ice Kold Neon, followed by Liked No Cone, Cool Keen Din, and finally Nickelodeon. This bumper was used from 1992 to 1999. 	200px
Features a waiter lifting up a dish's lid to reveal unusual separate courses, including an eskimo fishing while singing, a hippo eating grass and a Viking before dropping a orange anvil on the dish. This was used from 1986 to 1994. But reappeared on The '90s Are All That block in 2011. Created by Charlex and Fred/Alan. 	
Features all dogs barking, ending with a pack of orange wolves. Internationally, Nickelodeon used to use this ident to sign-off every night. In the United States, it was an everyday bumper used from 1988 to 1995. A doubled sped-up version was used to promote Nickelodeon Goes Looney (when Looney Tunes started airing on Nickelodeon). Created by Noyes & Laybourne and Fred/Alan. 	
Features a quartet of fish singing on a stage, voiced by a member of The Jive Five and a three-woman choir. This was used on from 1986 to early-2000s. It was also used as a closing part of Super Sloppy Double Dare. Created by David Lubell and Fred/Alan. 	center
Once again features singing dinosaurs, but this time with blue shoes and not with neckties. The dinosaurs find a small orange tree alongside a green T-rex watching a television on a chair. The dinosaurs turn around and see a purple pterodactyl with headphones and with a portable radio on flying. The middle dinosaur puts on orange Nickelodeon sunglasses at the end. It was used from 1987 to mid-90s. This bumper was also featured in a promo for the 2023 Kids' Choice Awards, with the middle sunglasses-wearing dinosaur being more featured in the awards' theming. Created by Joey Ahlbum and Fred/Alan. 	
Features a flying glasses-wearing face with fake teeth singing "Nickelodeon!" in a miniature room while fists with straw hats and faces are singing "Nick-nick-nick-nick-nick-nick!". It was used from 1992 to 2002, but makes a triumphant return in 2011 on The '90s Are All That block. Created by Blue Brick Design and Fred/Alan. 	200px
Behind the scenes of other movie sets, including a car about to go into an orange tunnel. This was used from 1985 to 1992. 	
Features the letters which spell out Nickelodeon on a logo sneaking out of a dressing room before getting caught. This was used from 1985 to 1993. Created by Colossal Pictures and Fred/Alan. 	
Features a man pulling a plug and either meeting an orange octopus, being turned upside-down, or finding a giant orange boat. This was used from 1986 to 1992 to 2021 to 2022. 	center
Features letters singing, skating, and spelling out Nickelodeon at a rollerrink putting to the wall. This was used from 1985 to 1992. Created by International Rocketship and Fred/Alan. 	center
Features claymation worms dancing and squirming around the Nickelodeon logo and eventually surround it, when the logo was revealed to be more worms and they all scatter. This was used from 1987 to 1994. Created by Noyes & Laybourne and Fred/Alan. 	
Features a cowboy getting flipped by a book, losing his orange hat which turns into an airplane and a tree, before getting it back, There was also a alternate version with the same things happening, The only difference is that when he gets it back, It gets flung on the flipbook, This was used from 1987 to 1992. 	center
Features a boy's television as an orange rhino-like creature with yellow wings for horns jumps into it, becoming a green-colored television monster that the boy rides. This bumper was used from 1986 to 1992. It was also used as a closing part of Super Sloppy Double Dare. 	center
Features a quintet of singing worms in an apple. This was used from 1987 to 1994. 	
Has hands making things out of paper while sound effects play to the corresponding item and at the end a man says "Nick(pause)elodeon!" and then the hands wrinkle up all the papers. This was used from 1986 to the late '90s. Created by Noyes & Laybourne and Fred/Alan. 	
Has different kids singing "Nick nick nick nick ni-nick nick nick, Nickelodeon! Nick Is Kids!" while we see a set of farm models. It was used from 1992 to 2002. 	center
a trio of guys (voiced by three members of The Jive Five) sing Nickelodeon doo-wop next to a orange billboard while construction workers change the Nickelodeon logo to different shapes. This bumper was used from 1985 to 1992. Created by Jerry Lieberman and Fred/Alan. 	
Features many characters from 1980s and 1990s IDs, with the trio of guys from the Easy Groove ID singing the 1985 Top of the Hour ID audio. It starts off with the guys over part of the Dog and Parrot ID, complete with the parrot, then the Flying TV Monster comes in and the logo's text scrolls from right-to-left as a pineapple, banana, and orange from the Fruits ID, a Nicktoons blob man, three sauropod dinosaurs, and the horse with a cowboy riding it walk around. The singing frog appears and then the lollipops man from the 1987 Top of the Hour ID, which zoom into the lollipops to see a shot of the Take 50 ID complete with the pterodactyl from the Doo-Wop-A-Saurus ID flying, with the trio of guys on the right, then a dinosaur skateboards around twice followed by a T. Rex (both from the Dino Bop ID) appearing and then the fishes from the 1985 Top of the Hour ID eat each other with the orange fish eating last before swimming from the T. Rex. Then, the anteater eating his plate of spaghetti appears over a shot of the animated road from the 1985 Top of the Hour ID. As this happens, the Nicktoons blob man, fruits, and dinosaurs walk around again, then the orange fish swims around as the background sweeps to the Aliens ID with the T. Rex from the Submarine ID appearing, then a circle wipe to a shot of the Viking with a weapon from the Main Course ID (complete with the logo followed by the anvil), which fades to the orange cup zooming out from the Nick Brew ID with the Nicktoons blob man walking past again and finally the bumper cars with the cat and the dog from the 1985 Top of the Hour ID crashing and moving back to return to the Take 50 ID and then the Easy Groove guys appear again with a orange splat as the fruits, dinosaurs, and cowboy and horse run around again and the singing frog runs and stops at the left side of the screen. The ID wipes out with a television turn-off effect.
This bumper was frequently used as an opening sequence to music videos and VHS tapes of Nickelodeon shows that were released from 1993 to 2000. The last part of the bumper was also used as the closing sequence for both. In the Sony Wonder and Paramount VHS releases until 1999, the closing variant is not included. Instead, after the Nickelodeon logo with copyrights, it goes right to the Sony Wonder logo and the Paramount logo.	center
Has a pair of scissors cutting out an orange paper doll who tries to outrun the scissors. This bumper was used from 1992 to 2002. 	
A Michigan J. Frog-esque frog sings on an alligator. In another version of this bumper, he sings on an dragon. This was used from 1986 to 1992. Created by David Lubell and Fred/Alan. 	center200px|center
A quartet of wild animals (a lion, a rhinoceros, a crocodile, and a snake, voiced by four members of The Jive Five) bark like dogs then sing "Bow-wow-wow-wow-wow-ya! Nickelodeon! Nickelodeon! Nickelodeon!" (the snake howled as the other three animals sing Nickelodeon the first two times). There is another version with the audio from the "Nick Writing" ID where they sing "Nick nick nick nick ni-nick nick nick, Nickelodeon!". At the end of both versions, the orange leaves of 2 trees between the quartet of animals form the Nickelodeon logo above them. This ID was used from 1987 to 1992. Created by Joey Ahlbum and Fred/Alan. 	center
Features a sleeping boy with a logo dream clouds appearing as he walks to bed. This was used from 1985 to 1992, and was often used as a sign-off bumper in the United States. 	center
Has singing aliens (two female and one male) in a spaceship going to a drive-in movie on Jupiter. A orange saturn appears on a television screen at the end with other variants at the bottom. This ID was used from 1985 to 1996. Created by David Lubell and Fred/Alan. 	center
Features Rudolph with a bright orange nose flying, before discovering he cannot fly. He uses the nose as a parachute, and it gets into his antlers. Only seen on the Sony Wonder VHS release of "Doug's Christmas Story". 	center
Has shadows playing pat-a-cake in space. This was used from 1985 to 1992. 	
Features a boy finding a gumball which turns into different objects like a ball, a telescope, a heart, a monster, a skateboard, and a giant ball, which all the kids that were shown in the bumper stand on. 	
A long version of the Never Done bumper featuring scenes from Nickelodeon shows, episodes, and movies. 	
A computer-animated blob that turns into a fish, a dinosaur, a human, and then the blob again. This was used as a lead-in to Nicktoon airings from 1992 to 1998 and again in 2006 (Nick Rewind block only). The audio of this bumper is featured as the second track on The Best of Nicktoons. In 2015, It was later recreated as a bumper for The Splat. 	
Features a caveman who draws a television on the cave wall and turns it on. Audio from the Top of the Hour bumper can be heard as the screen shows the logo on an orange background and the animals run toward the television to watch with the caveman. This was used from 1995 to 2002. Created by Funline Animation 	
The ID starts with a television (with the screen that wrote "Nickelodeon") with some shapes emerging from it. A parody of Salvador Dalí's Persistence of Memory is seen. orange clocks spin their hands and then melt, then flying calendars with the logo on top of each one are shown over a shot of the house and seasons change from summer to winter, then a 20th Century Fox-esque structure with searchlights on it, with 1985, 1986 or 1987 (the year that depends) with Nickelodeon below it, then we cut to panning down an animated road and stop at a orange street sign, then it cuts to a road with men are driving race cars with hot dogs, with a orange bun on top of each hot dog, then a orange rocket passes by an animated city, then different kids (three girls and three boys) with fashion and accessories appear against different colored backgrounds, a Mona Lisa image with googly eyes, a orange heart beats once, a robot with human ears appears, a orange drawing appears, a gorilla with a bowtie that spins once with a tuxedo, a orange ice cream scoop is seen falling on an ice cream cone, then a cat and a dog drive bumper cars (when they collide into each other, the Nickelodeon text appears), then at the bottom of an animated ocean a smaller fish gets eaten by a bigger fish, with others getting eaten by a orange fish, then we cut to a front seat ride on a rollercoaster going through a orange cloud tunnel with a clown head, and finally the same orange television with the same objects emitted. There are two children in astronaut suits as well as a robotic puppy watching it, then the Nickelodeon logo jumps out of the television and fills the whole screen and landing as a polygon with spikes on a blue background. Starting in 1986, an alternative ending is also used where the Nickelodeon logo at the end is a splat. Another alternative ending is also used where the Nickelodeon logo at the end is a cloud. This one features the Jive Five singing doo-wop with the Nickelodeon jingle at the beginning and end of the ID, which was heard most often when it first appeared on television. On occasion, an announcer (Joe Piasek) was heard over the jingle. Created by International Rocketship and Fred/Alan.	
A trio of fruits (a pineapple, a banana, and an orange) are singing Orange You Glad and fall into a orange splat. This ID was used from 1987 to 1993. 	center
Features various objects appear with Nickelodeon spelled in scrambled ways. The first object (a circle) has the syllables "odel", "one", and "Nick", then changes to a second object saying "Nickel", "on", and "deo" from left to right, which changes to another object saying "ode", "Nickel", and "on" from left to right before changing to the last object to spell Nickelodeon correctly. 	
A construction worker for "Big Richie's Road Repair" drills the Nickelodeon text into an orange street with a jackhammer. This ID was used from 1995 to 2002. 	
Features Arnold going into his bedroom, turning on his CD player, flipping open his couch (alongside Gerald), and then turning his television on to Nickelodeon. This was used from 1997 to 2002, and re-aired on The Splat. 	
Features a male voiceover who says "And now, a brand new episode of Nickelodeon's new Nicktoon, The Fairly OddParents." Cosmo and Wanda dance and disappear into a poof cloud. 	
The ID starts off in black-and-white with a shot of kids at a school running through the halls to class. A black-and-white splat is seen behind the lockers, which then turns orange. This was used from 1992 to 2002. 	center
Features a box with a glob-looking face. This was used from 1993 to 1998. 	200px
Features a shoe squishes the logo's text, then picks it up. 	
Features Jimmy Neutron pushing a button, which forms a splat ball. The splat ball then falls on Jimmy. Used from 2003 to 2005. 	
Features a green lizard eating parts of an orange background. The bumper's audio is the same as the origami bumper. This was used from 1986 to 1992. Created by Noyes & Laybourne and Fred/Alan. 	
Features two live-action hands making a pickled plankton then Plankton says "Okay, I'm ready for my krabby patty". 	
Features a toaster popping out a orange toast, followed by a female voiceover saying "Now back to the show." 	
Features a trio of kids outside in night, as a firecracker passes by. It shoots up to space as it hits an astronaut, a satellite that starts spinning uncontrollably and finally a moon with a very angry look on its' face. The firecracker then pops and the Nickelodeon logo appears. This bumper was used from 1985 to 1992. It was also used for a closing part of Super Sloppy Double Dare. 	center
Features a quintet of animals (an alligator, a bird, a rhino with wings for ears, a rabbit, and a creature of unknown species) walking down a road wearing shirts with scrambled letters on them. From left to right, the gator's shirt says "EL", the bird's shirt says "CK", the rhino's shirt says "ON", the rabbit's shirt says "ODE", and the unknown creature's shirt says "NI". Then the animals change their shirts to spell Nickelodeon correctly (with the gator changing into the "NI" shirt, the bird still wearing the "CK" shirt, the rhino changing into the "EL" shirt, the rabbit still wearing the "ODE" shirt, and the unknown creature changing into the "ON" shirt). A television with a face on it appears as the shirts merge to form a rectangle above the television's face, the Nickelodeon wordmark flashes, and the quintet of animals continue to walk down the road. This was used from 1985 to 1994. Created by Colossal Pictures. 	200px
Features the lyrics to the jingle from the Big Beast Quintet ID on a journal, with a polygon saying Nick and a vertical #1 with the Nickelodeon wordmark. This was used from 1987 to 1994. Created by Noyes & Laybourne and Fred/Alan. 	
On a journal, a hand writes the word Nick, then a logo appears, then the hand writes the word Nick in different fonts, then the logo appears again. This was used from 1986 to mid-'90s. Created by Noyes & Laybourne and Fred/Alan. 	
On a journal, the words Orange You Glad You Got Your Nickelodeon appear word-by-word. The words appear two more times with the text "You're Watching" appearing, then a orange ribbon appears at the end. This was used from 1986 to 1995 and returned on 1999 during its' 20th anniversary. Created by Noyes & Laybourne and Fred/Alan. 	center
Features either a female voiceover saying "Every Monday, Every Tuesday, Every Wednesday, Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, even Sunday, Nick Is Every Day", or a orange sun (the sun is followed by "days-of-a-week" names and a man saying "Nick Is Every Day"). This was used from 1990 to 1996. 	
Features two fruits (a apple and a banana) which turns into a pan, eggs, and a sausage. The pan and the eggs turn into a monster, and the sausage turns into a toothbrush. 	
Features a piece of bread getting topped with cheese, lettuce, and bologna, as well as ketchup and mustard getting mixed together, and seasoning being the logo's text, then the sandwich takes a bite itself. 	center
Features a dog on a spinning logo, then we see a man sucking everything in the room with his nose. 	
Features a elephant, a giraffe, and a leopard appear in different colors on different backgrounds, then a group of albatrosses appears, and finally a orange rhino on a black background. This was used from 1987 to 1993. 	
Features a cuckoo clock with a orange bird. 	center
Features a man surfing on a orange surfboard with surf music. 	
Features disco music and a male voiceover saying "Yeah, Step The Side". 	
Features the leaves of fall (including a orange leaf). 	
Features different hats. 	
Features a jack in the box with the logo's text. 	
Features a tiny singing guy inside a cup pouring the cereal into the bowl, with a logo's cereal box. This bumper is in the style of a Sesame Street segment called Teeny Little Super Guy. This was used from 1987 to 1992. 	
Features a frog eating the letters and spitting them out. This is a recent one from 2014. 	
Features characters from The Penguins of Madagascar, T.U.F.F. Puppy, The Fairly OddParents, SpongeBob SquarePants, Planet Sheen, and Fanboy & Chum Chum are singing a song. 	
Features live-action kids grabbing an orange sheet, two kids jumping, While the soul music plays, A man soloist and a trio of women are singing "Everybody over there, (Nick!) now everybody over there, (Nick!) Nick nick nick nick ni-nick nick nick! (Nick is Kids!). 	
Features a green-headed artist with springy limbs and orange hands and feet painting something on the artboard with a pencil, then a paintbrush, and finally a paint cannon. When he gets done, he kisses the art and reveals that he drawn the Nicktoons logo on the board. Outro: We see the Nicktoons logo on the artboard, then the artist bursts his head into it before realizing what happened. This was used from 1991 to 1992, as well as a. A version of both with a non-static logo also exists. The audio of this bumper, titled "Artman Open", can be found on The Best of Nicktoons. 	
Features a trio of animals (a dog named Louis, a cat named Tri-Cat, a bird named Opera Bird) and a human (named Gong Boy). Louis blows his trumpet shouting "Nick!" (and the speech bubble saying it appears) as the logo appears out of the trumpet, then Tri-Cat says "El!" as "El" appears, and the Opera Bird sings "Oooo!" in an opera voice as "Oooo" appears (then changes to only one "O") and the cat says "Dee!" as the word "Dee" appears, and the human hits the cymbal with a drumstick and the words combine together with the "On" appearing to spell out "Nickelodeon" (with "Dee" changing to "De") and the dog, the cat and the bird say the name of the channel. This was used from 1987 to 1993. 	center
Features two kids (a black girl and a white boy) running in a maze and discovering unusual things such as orange butterflies, a giant orange flower that the kids jump on, and an orange bubble that chases the two kids. At the end, the two kids end up leaving the maze. This was used from 2000 to 2003. Only seen on some Nickelodeon VHS releases. 	
This one was from 2005-2006. It featured two geese flying through the sky and making goose noises. The last "goose" was a orange splat that played the Nickelodeon jingle instead of making goose sounds. 	center
A poodle is shaved, revealing the logo on its skin. This is a recent one from 2014. 	
Nickelodeon characters draw themselves. This is a pictograph bumper. 	
A lost Nicktoon character ID. Part of it is seen in a promo with the word "Because We Can". 	
ChalkZone characters draw a orange balloon. 	
In a purple room, with an egg on a stand on top of a table full of Nickelodeon logos, a spoon taps on the egg, which gains the face of a monster, complete with green hair, horns, a nose ring, and a giant mouth with fangs. The monster egg makes a noise resembling a low pitched roar, which causes the spoon, which turns into a chicken, to start squawking in fear, then it runs off. The monster egg then looks at the people, then turns towards the screen as he swallows the screen and as the Nickelodeon logo is imprinted on its uvula. This was used from 1990 until 2004. 	123x123pxthumb
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private were transforming into the logo in the orange background. Used in 2011 to 2013. 	
4 girls sing the words "Nickelodeon" on sync. from 1998 to 2009. 	
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