![]() ![]() The Movie of Josie and the Pussycats (a co-production between Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins with Boy Band music playing over the Universal logo but is immediately followed by the MGM logo as the music continues, with the lion morphing into a squealing teenage girl.Gigi: Technically the movie had no logo joke, but the day after it steamrolled the Oscars, the MGM studio telephone operators/secretaries/receptionists were ordered to answer all phone calls with "Hello, M-Gigi-M.".One more blood drops from its fangs and segues to the opening credits. The American version is at the end of the cartoon opening where animated versions of Abronsius and Alfred are celebrating as the lion zooms in, roars then sprouts vampire fangs causing them to run off.The original European version is the lion morphing into a vampire where a drop of blood drops off his fang and segues into the opening credits.The Fearless Vampire Killers has two versions:.This tied in with the unused Framing Device of the movie being presented as a Found Footage film discovered by aliens and presented as part of a documentary series called "The Dead Worlds of Antiquity". Specifically, the film would be presented by "Macro-Galaxy-Meteor Pictures" instead, and instead of the lion, there's, as the script describes, "A WEIRD, HYDRA-HEADED, FURRY CREATURE". The film trailer had Steve Irwin stepping into the frame and commenting on the lion.The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course had a croc instead of the lion.The film itself had a special "70th Anniversary" logo shown on MGM's 1994 lineup).The trailer for the 1994 film Clean Slate has the main character's dog in place of the lion doing the roar.The 1964 archive feature "Big Parade of Comedy" has the MGM logo be covered with an "Out to Lunch" sign, which is removed to reveal the lion is actually eating someone! Seen here.In the trailer for A Night at the Opera, the lion was replaced by the Marx Brothers themselves, under the banner "Marx Gratia Marxes" (instead of "Ars Gratia Artis"), each taking turns miming the lion's roar (Groucho and Chico do okay, but when Harpo takes his turn he honks his ever-present taxi-horn instead), seen here.On a few films, notably Night of Dark Shadows and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American adaptation), the lion's roars are muted out.Licorice Pizza employed this logo to fit its 1960s-70s setting.The 1968 films 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Subject Was Roses eschewed the standard intro in favor of a stylized blue and gold lion graphic, the same logo being used for their film posters and other marketing at the time.The Battle of the Century is one example. Many of the films Laurel and Hardy made for the studio had the MGM lion replaced by a kitten in the closing credits.The Addams Family (2019): The lion turns mid-roar into Kitty Kat the lion, who sees a red ball and jumps out to play with it, knocking the logo over like a cutout board.The narrator apologizes and we then see the logo and credits. After about 30 seconds into the action, one of the players realizes that the cartoon is forgetting something and stops before he can slide to ask the narrator what happened to the MGM logo. The Tex Avery short " Batty Baseball" started with no logo, just the title of the short.In "Sorry Safari", the words "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon" appear over a cartoon lion from later in the short.In " Tall in the Trap", the logo appears as a "Wanted!" Poster which gets shot at.At the end of " Switchin' Kitten", Jerry runs into a mouse hole and imitates the lion.On the cartoons directed by Chuck Jones, Tanner the Lion is replaced with Tom, who gives his best housecat "roar". ![]() The Lionhearts is about an animated Leo the Lion and his family, and their theme song "Roar" has them all in the MGM logo.A few MGM cartoons from 1942 had Tanner roaring to the tune of the Tiger Rag. ![]()
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