Millar Gough Ink

## Background

**Millar Gough Ink** is an American television and film production company founded in 1995 by Miles **Millar** and Alfred **Gough**.

## **WARNING!**

The first logo only contains a shattering glass sound or a scary piano tune. It could be a little scary, but it may be startling to some people.

## 1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)

**Logo:** In an office setting, at the forefront, we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it. A black label covers the bottom half, containing the words reading with the company name in an Impact font, gold, a stacked format and all in uppercase letters. Also in gold, "**INK**" has only the bottom half in white and the "**R**" in "**MILLAR**" is in an Helvetica Black font. A split-second before the logo ends, a hammer (which can be seen coming down in the bottle's reflection if the viewer looks very closely) swings down and breaks the bottle, causing the ink to spread everywhere, including covering up the whole screen (along with the black label quickly ripping itself apart, disappearing as well as the gel with the same color of ink coming out of the bottle itself).

**Variant:** The logo exists in any formats (examples including fullscreen and widescreen).

**FX/SFX:** Entirely live-action.

**Music/Sounds:** Depending on the variant:

* October 12th, 1999-July 7th, 2000: The end theme of the show, followed by a splattering sound.
* October 16th, 2001-February 12th, 2002: Only the sound of the shattering glass is heard.
* February 26th, 2002-May 21st, 2002: A little jingle called a 3-note odd piano tune, accompanied by an eerie noise.
* September 24th, 2002-November 10th, 2011: A more familiar tune.

**Music/Sounds Variants:**

* On the episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug" of the 1st season of *Smallville*, the shattering glass sound is not heard.
* Original airings use a generic theme and a voice over (only available on The CW, as seen on *Smallville*).
* The weird time, on the show's season 5 episode "Arrival", the shattering glass sound syncs the synth note of the music.

**Availability:** Common. First appeared on *The Strip*. It's later seen *Smallville* and the 2011 remake of *Charlie's Angels*. It also made an appearance on the 2006 television pilot of *Aquaman*, which was initially released on iTunes on July 2006 and later included as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray release of *Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths*.

**Legacy:** While the sound of the glass breaking can be startling for some people (especially the variant without music where it breaks with no warning, which could be jarring to many people), some people may find this logo funny, and it may be favored for fans of *Smallville*.

## Scare Factor

* 2001-2002: Medium to high. The bottle suddenly breaking with no warning can be jarring to many people, especially after the long silence during both this logo and the one before such as the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo.
* Early 2002: Medium, due to the eerie music, but tame compared to the previous variant.
* 2002-2011: Low to medium. It is slightly less scary with the music playing.

## 2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)

**Logo:** On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH". To the right of it is a red beaker with a big black water drop in it. Inside the drop, we see the text "INK".

**FX/SFX:** None.

**Music/Sounds:** None, or the ending theme of the show.

**Availability:** Seen on the 2015 AMC series *Into the Badlands*, the 2016 MTV series *The Shannara Chronicles* and the 2022 Netflix series *Wednesday*.

## Scare Factor

Low. The logo on a black background can creep someone out, but it's tamer than the last logo.