DNA Productions

Background: DNA Productions was an animation company founded in 1987 by John A. **D**avis a**n**d Keith **A**lcorn. Undeniably it's most successful project was Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius for Nickelodeon. The company closed down in 2006, following The Ant Bully. Many of its employees went to work for Reel FX Creative Studios, while others went to O Entertainment and founded its animation division, Omation.

1st Logo (1991-1994)

WARNING: Due to graphic violence, pictures and videos of the VHS or "The Honeymoonies" variants are not allowed on this site.

Logo: On a white background, three people (Keith Alcorn on the left, a unknown person in the middle, and John A. Davis on the right) are seen making funny faces. The pictures are all in boxes and in grayscale and the text "1992 DNA Productions" is seen under them.

Variants:

In 1993, the picture changed to three people (John A. Davis on the left, Keith Alcorn in the middle, and a unknown person on the right) making funny faces.

"The Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss Show" VHS tape from Expanded Entertainment replaced the people with a Nanna trying to shush her Puss Puss but he explodes his head and the Nanna hiccups.

The Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss short "The Honeymoonies" replaced the people with an image of Puss Puss from the previous variant holding up Nanna's head with blood.

FX/SFX: The text wobbling.

Music/Sounds: A group of men singing "What good times they had!"

Music/Sounds Variants:

On the Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss short "Off the Record", the voices of the singing men are backwards.

The VHS variant has a violin playing and hiccuping sound effects.

Music/Sounds/Trivia: The hiccuping sound effects will be later stolen by a Spongebob episode.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss.

2nd logo (1994)

NOTE: The 2nd-6th logos (and the prototype variant of the 7th) can be seen here.

Nicknames: "Tchaikovsky rip off!"

Logo: We see a road with cacti spread about it on the sides. The camera zooms into a drive-in theater, with large signs depicting "The Demo: Now Showing On Screen 1". Once it fully zooms into a screen, we see an animated pegasus flying in the air as normal. A purple cat named Helix the Cat with a scientist's outfit flies by using his tails as a propeller and the pegasus looks at him for a moment. Helix the Cat motions toward the audience in a pose that seems like he's going to whisper to them as he flies offscreen. Suddenly, the pegasus is in shock and it crashes into a giant rock formation, with the big letters "DNA" carved into it. The camera slowly pans out. The text "DNA" in a white Times New Roman font is seen at the bottom left of the screen throughout the entire logo.

FX/SFX: CGI and traditional animation.

Cheesy Factor: Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto #1" is stolen in the logo.

Music/Sounds: The stolen Tchaikovsky music playing and a final, triumphant chord playing as the rock structure is revealed.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss.

3rd logo (1994)

Nicknames: "The DNA Pencil Sketch"

Logo: On a background that looks like a multicolored light's rays and an abstract, multi-sided, pointy shape, we see a green pencil sketch turn from a "D" into an "N" and finally into an "A".

FX/SFX: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A fast, dramatic piano piece.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss.

4th logo (1994)

Nickname: "Paper DNA"

Logo: Just three pieces of paper being crumpled over and over, each saying the letters "D", "N", and "A".

FX/SFX: TBA.

Music/Sounds: A gurgling sound, spitting, and a burp.

Music/Sounds/Trivia: The burp sound effect will be later stolen by the Preschool Popstars song "I didn't mean to burp!" and a Total Drama Island episode.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss.

5th logo (1994)

Nickname: "DNA?" "Spinning DNA"

Logo: The logo consists of "DNA?" in a bold color-changing font spinning on a bluish background.

FX/SFX: The text spinning.

Music/Sounds: A circus theme.

Availability: Seen on Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss.

6th logo (1994)

Nicknames "Hockey Homicide rip off"

Logo: The word "DNA" places itself by letter on a textured floor. The letters are textured as well.

FX/SFX: The letters placing themselves.

Cheesy Factor: They stole some sound effects from the Mickey Mouse episode "Hockey Homicide"!

Music/Sounds: The stolen sounds which are two men shouting "Yay! Boo! Yay!" alternating between letters as each letter appears.

Music/Sounds/Trivia: The sound effects will be later stolen by the Space Ghost episode "Sequel".

Availability: Seen on Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss.

7th logo (1994-2002)

Nickname: "Helix the Cat"

Logo: On a very dark red background with the same Helix the Cat from the 2nd logo on a circle, we see the pink text "DNA PRODUCTIONS INC." in a cartoony font. Helix the Cat then turns his head to look at us, and jumps to face us while holding his arms out. The text shines.

Variant: On Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss, the background is black, the circle is blue and the text is red and puffy, Helix the Cat also raises his finger in the variant.

FX/SFX: Helix the Cat turning around and jumping, the text shining; pretty fluid animation.

Music/Sounds: The best way to describe the noises heard is two series of echoing, bouncy, high-pitch, distorted "guitar notes", followed by an echoing beat, and a loud, echoing, bubbly (SPROING) sound as Helix the Cat finishes his jump. The variant had a chipmunk woman speaking gibberish.

Availability: Rare. Seen on the Jimmy Neutron pilot episode, Jingaroo and Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss.

8th Logo (2002-2006)

Nicknames: "Hi, I'm Paul!" "Stolen Kid Pix Music"

Logo: On a tropical background complete with a beach, and a sunset, we see the black, lowercase text "d n a productions" with "d n a" bigger and spaced and "productions" underneath, near the top of the screen, and two double helix coconut trees twisting behind a bush. A monkey named Paul jumps up from behind the trees with his back turned to us. Then, he turns around and waves at us, saying "Hi, I'm Paul!"

Variants: There are six variants, they can be viewed on dnahelix.com:

Double Your Pleasure: Two Pauls appear and say "Hi, we're Paul!"

Bi-Lingual Paul: Paul is wearing a mustache and hat, when he turns around, he says his line in Spanish. Oddly enough, his voice is different.

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Paul says something different: Paul says "Oh my gosh!" and leaves.

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Paul Blooper #1: Paul gets upset, and says "So what do you want me to say now?"

Paul Blooper #2: Paul says "Hi, I'm.....line?"

Coffee Break Paul: Paul is gone. A man's voice says "Paul?"

FX/SFX: The spinning trees, and Paul jumping up and waving to us.

Cheesy Factor: The logo has stolen some music from a children's computer game called Kid Pix

Music/Sounds: The stolen music which is a xylophone ditty and Paul saying his line.

Music/Sounds/Trivia: The music will be later stolen by an educational game called Dinosaur Detectives, The intro of Canimals, a video game called Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures, an episode of Monstories called "Paramonsters", Curious George 2, a video game called 53 in 1, a children's app called Splash Math. an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode, a Polish children's show called Domisie, a Treehouse online game, a Wiggles game called Wiggles: It's Wiggle Time, a Rock N Learn video called "Alphabet Circus", the Lifesavers Skeeball game, a Neopets game, an unknown game which has a man dancing to it at a bar, a children's app called Picoclub, a cotton candy machine which was featured in a Tiny Treaures and Toys video, two DVD burners called IMGBurn and CloneDVD, an Aldi commercial, a Qubo bumper, a lot of alphabet videos that Alila Tangahu used to watch, a video game called Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land, a Johnny Test episode and a lot of Italian lotto machines when you win a ticket.

Availability: Seen on Jimmy Neutron.

9th logo

(2018-2019)

Nicknames: "TCF Rip off!!"

Logo: same has the 20th Century Fox Television logo but the text is replaced with "DNA PRODUCTIONS".

Cheesy Factor: The TCFTV logo is stolen.

Trivia: It got replaced with the next logo because it ripped off the TCFTV logo.

FX/SFX: Same as the TCFTV Logo.

Music/Sounds: Same as the TCFTV logo but with Paul saying his name instead of the last note.

Availability: Seen on Jimmy Neutron and Annoying Orange.

10th logo

(2019-)

Logo: We see a gorilla jumping in a cage at a zoo and it suddenly jumps at the camera and it fades out.

FX/SFX: Everything.

Music/Sounds: An earrape version of the 8th logo.

Availability: Seen on The Adventures of Zombie Goerge Washington.