Background: ConnorWorks Ponkickies Channel is ConnorWorks Network's Sister channel Launched on December 1st, 1999. It is an American counterpart of Fuji TV's Ponkickies(AKA P-kies), unlike the original japanese mascots of Ponkickies, Connie-Chan was used for their main mascot.
1st Logo (1999-2003)
Nicknames:
- Original Variant: "Strange Ponkickies", "Literally Out of the Box", “Ponkickies Boxes”, “GreenKickies”, “SeizureKickies”,
- Long Variant: “The not so scary face”, “Klasky Csupo’s Tamer Brother”, “The Weird Face”, “GachaMukku The Hideously Mutated Face”, “Disjointed Facial Features: Ponkickies Edition",
Logo:TBA
Variants:
- A version without “Original Production” and copyright notice exists when it was used as a station ID
- From the logo's debut until late 2002, the word "CHANNEL" is shown under the “PONKICKIES" blocks.
FX/SFX: Dazzling animation of the letters forming in the logo, the copyright info fading in
Cheesy Factor: TBA
Music/Sounds: A weird synth space tune with a robotic voice saying "Ponkickies" when the logo is formed
Music/Sounds Variant:TBA
Availability: TBA
Scare Factor:
- Normal Variant: Low, The flashing lights can trigger those with epilepsy, and the robot voice may get to some.
- Long Variant: Medium, due to the weird face at the beginning. Some might have bad memories with the Klasky Csupo SSF logo, but it’s harmless.
2nd Logo (2003-2006)
Nicknames: "Connie" “Ponkickies Boxes II” “Power to the Ponkickies”
Logo:TBA
Variants:
- Starting in 2004, the logo is updated with CGI Graphics. The animation of Connie is now redone with smoother animation as it was done in Flash-esque animation
FX/SFX: TBA
Cheesy Factor: The animation of Connie is a bit choppy as it looks more like a Adobe Director Animation, unlike the animation style from the original Japanese “Go-Go! Connie-Chan” series. The later version lowers it due to the much better animation of Connie.
Music/Sounds: Three electronic xylophone notes, followed by two high synth notes followed by the same robotic voice from the 1st logo. A noise sounding like a TV tuner interference can also be heard in the background.
Availability: TBA
Scare Factor: Low. The weird noises could cause some jumps, but it’s deceased since Connie-Chan looks cute. But it gets worse on the next logo....
3rd Logo (2006-2009)
Nicknames: "Seizure Ponkickies V2" "KWSU's Brother" "Where's Connie?" “Ponkickies Boxes III” “SeizureKickies” “LSDKickies”
Logo: On a black background, blue static fills the screen while a pink set of outlines revolve around the middle. As the static shrinks to the middle, the text then revolves into the 1999-2012 ConnorWorks Ponkickies Logo, with "Original Production" fading in below in Heliotrope. A copyright byline appears below. The logo then briefly disappears before compressing into the background, with "Original Production" wiping away.
Variants:TBA
FX/SFX: The lines forming, the fading, and the dissolving.
Cheesy Factor: Very cheesy and outdated Scanimate effects
Music/Sounds: A weird synthesized tune that sounds like an error in an arcade game or something from the 70s unlike the KWSU id from 1976 in which turns into a discordant voice that sounds like the SEGA Choir and the TeleMonteCarlo jingle from 1986 saying "Ponkickies" at the end.
Availability: TBA
Scare Factor: High. The loud, droning music combined with the creepy font, darkness, and the epileptic animation will scare most people who watch it for those who have bad memories with the 1976-1994 KWSU Logo, especially at night.
4th Logo (2009-2017)
Nicknames: "Connie II" "Computer-Distorted Ponkickies" “Deus é tão bom on LSD” “Pon-Popo-Po-Ponkickies!” “The last of the Ponkickies Boxes”
Logo:TBA
Variants:
- An early variant exists, where Connie is in her 1994-2009 design and “Original Production” is replaced with just “O R I G I N A L”
FX/SFX: Very impressive CGI combined with the hand-drawn animation of Connie,
Cheesy Factor: The animation of Connie in the early variant looks choppy as it looks similar to the ones from its original Japanese counterpart.
Music/Sounds: An avant-garde-esque tune followed by a distorted bass sounder that ends with the distorted remix of the weird synthesized tune from before, The discordant voiceover from the 3rd logo is also heard at the end.
Availability: TBA
Scare Factor: Low to Minimal
4th Logo
(2017-Present)
Nicknames: "Connie III" "Computer-Distorted Ponkickies II" "This is what you do!" "Ponkickies.EXE has stopped working" “GlitchKickies” “Scanimate Ponkickies” “New and Improved Connie” “Abstract Ponkickies” “Ponkickies Divided by Zero”
Logo:TBA
Trivia: The logo is animated and designed by yU+Co and David Seig using his last remaining Scanimate Machine with the 2-D Animation of Connie animated by Elliott Animation as it was part of the 2017 rebrand
Variants:
- Sometimes, The Copyright information does not appear
- A version without “Original Production” and copyright byline exists when it was used as a station id
- On rare occasions, after the logo is formed, the “PONKiCKIES” letters get knocked down like dominoes, then Connie facepalms at the end instead of shouting her motto.
- Starting in late 2018, a visual gag was added when Connie appears, resulting in some mishaps in this logo(for example: Connie accidentally knocks the P off the ground and the letters fall off the screen, Connie groans instead of saying her line)
- On some shows, while Connie appears, she does the “Jaka-Jaka Janken” dance instead of shouting her line, but the voice can still be heard.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: Same as before. But the animation of Connie is improved as if was done in ToonBoom Harmony.
Music/Sounds: Same as Before, but the sounds are more stranger and The Voiceover is now distorted and warped up.
Music/Sounds Variant:
- Later in 2018, we now hear Connie-Chan shouting her usual “Pon-PoPo-Po-Ponkickies!” line from its original Japanese counterpart instead of the discordant voiceover and the music is now even synthesized. Connie is voiced by Kari Wahlgren in the variant. Most of the time, her line was shortened to simply shout “Ponkickies!”.
- On 2018 reruns of “Bobby’s World” and current prints of shows that were originally aired from FoxKids, if you listen closely, The audio from the FoxKids Worldwide “Rotating FK Tower” logo can faintly be heard due to plastering as Ponkickies edits out both the Saban International and the Fox Kids Worldwide logo and replaces them with the long version of the 2017-Present Saban Brands logo and the usual logo in favor of reruns.
Availability: Current
Scare Factor: It Depends on the variant
- Normal variant: Medium. The even stranger noises could scare some viewers. The very distorted voiceover and the hideous Scanimate animation won’t help matters, but it’s deceased to none due to Connie’s appearance.
- Later Variant: Low. As we finally get to hear Connie shouting her usual Ponkickies motto. It’s much tamer than the original and Connie’s voice sounds much cuter in the variant.
- 2018 variant: None, it may depend on which ending gag it follows, but it’s mostly funny.