Logo Variations - MTM Enterprises
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The Duck Factory: Right at the end of the credits, before we cut to the logo, an off-screen voice states, "Where's the cat?". The logo then proceeds as normal, but instead of meowing, Mimsie says, "Quack!".
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Graham Kerr: Mimsie wears a chef's hat.
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Hill Street Blues: Mimsie wears a policeman's cap.
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Lou Grant, Paris, Something for Joey and Just Between Friends: There is a still picture of the logo.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Same as usual, but on the 2nd episode, Mimsie's meow is different, it is more higher-pitched and rather shrill. On episode 71 "Put On a Happy Face," the cat is replaced by the image of Miss Moore herself, saying "Th-th-th-that's all folks!", a line spoken by Mary Richards during that episode.
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The Bob Newhart Show: The 1972 Christmas episode features a wreath in place of the MTM ribbon.
On the season 4 episode "No Sale", footage of a cat from the episode named Abogast appears in the circle instead. He jumps down, disappearing from the circle's view, and as he does, you hear Mimsie's meow.
On the season 5 1976 Christmas episode "Making Up Is the Thing To Do," another Christmas Wreath is also used. This was also used on the season 1 Rhoda episode "Guess What I Got You For the Holidays". On the season 3 episode of The Bob Newhart Show "Big Brother is Watching," a loud lion's roar is heard in place of the usual meow-sound (which is funny considering the origins of the company and the logo...).
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The New WKRP in Cincinnati: Dubbed with Les Nesman Jr. exclaiming "Ooh!".
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Newhart: Each episode (except the pilot) featured Mimsie meowing... in Bob Newhart's voice. On the final episode, the cat yells "QUIET!" (the two Darryls' first and only word).
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Remington Steele: Mimsie wears a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap and meerschaum pipe. As she begins to meow, the pipe drops out of her mouth and falls in front of "PRODUCTIONS" or "ENTERPRISES, INC.".
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St. Elsewhere: Mimsie is wearing a scrub suit and a surgical mask,which is animated to look like a mouth is moving underneath when she meows.
On the final episode, she (possibly portrayed by another cat) is hooked on life support on a hospital bed throughout the last credit roll. The credits run as usual over a picture of the MTM circle, with life support equipment attached on either side. You can hear the beeps of the heart monitor over the end theme, too. After the credits complete, the company name fades in and Mimsie flatlines and dies, with a long, high-pitched beep heard. This variation is especially rare, as reruns of the series finale plastered it over with the typical credits (As a sidenote, the actual cat, Mimsie, died in 1988, the same year St. Elsewhere ended).
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The Steve Allen Show: Mimsie (who also wears Allen's famous eyeglasses) lip-syncs Allen's "Schmock!".
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The White Shadow: Mimsie is replaced by a black and white cat bouncing a basketball. There is a shorter version with the company name already there and the cat footage looped (and thus the cat is continually bouncing the ball). The other (seen only at the end of the series pilot) has the letters animating as usual and at the end, the ball falls off-screen and the cat appears to be looking down at it. Some prints of the pilot have the looped version, however.
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Xuxa: Another dub job; instead of "meow", Mimsie says "ciao".
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A Little Sex: The MTM logo forms as usual... but Mimsie is a cartoon! She is also more to the side of the circle, which now has a black background. She meows as always, and then another cat enters the circle! The two felines rub against each other and start purring.
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Carlton Your Doorman: Carlton's cat Ringo is seen in the MTM logo instead of Mimsie. The circle seems to have been redrawn to be more "animation" like. Carlton says off-screen, "C'mon, 'Meow!'". When Ringo doesn't meow, Carlton mutters "D**n cat...".
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Bay City Blues: An animated Mimsie wears a baseball cap and baseball glove in her right paw; she catches a baseball and meows.
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Vampire: The MTM text is all in dark red, and Mimsie is nowhere to be seen.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show 20th Anniversary: At the end, Mimsie says "Bye!" (in Mary Tyler Moore's voice).
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Einsenhower and Lutz: The "meow" is sung in the style of the closing credits music.
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The Bob Newhart 19th Anniversary Special: Bob Newhart himself says "Meow!" much like he does from Newhart.
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The Trials of Rosie O'Neill: The logo appears in a still shot against a gold background.
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The Betty White Show: In the episode "We're Not Really Divorced", the "meow" is not heard.
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Texas Wheelers: A full-screen scene has a black-and-white kitten looking from around a corner where there is a water pipe and meows (though not the same as Mimsie's meow).The company's name appears over the scene in the same font as the closing credits.
Another "mystery" variant is yet to be seen... A story, featured in a Chicago Tribune article in 1985, recalled that "In the final episode...an animated version of the kitten staggered from behind a wagon wheel and dropped dead". However, that "mystery" variant could be hard to find, as usual.
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Friends and Lovers: At least the final episode is said to involve the MTM circle turning upside down. Awaiting confirmation/denial/description.