Bachmann Evening News

Background: Neversoft Studios (also known as "Neversoft Incorporated") is the production company of Tom Kane, producer of various action-oriented animated series, mostly on FoxToons-related networks. With the help of Guy Moon, it opened up in 1982 as "Manhattan Street Productions" in association with Buena Vista Television Animation (which later became "FoxToons Television Animation" in 2011). Manhattan Street worked for NABC, CBS, FoxToons Network, Fox, and also became the main production company of Saturday Morning Live. The company moved to Orlando in April 1987, and as a result, became "Neversoft Studios". Guy Moon, meanwhile, founded Neversoft-Millionfold Entertainment in the mid-1990s (and resurrected it in 2002).

1983-1987
Logo: On a background of blue-gray diagonal stripes, We see a Midtown Manhattan skyline with an orange/red sky, bordered by a gray frame. A large white sun emerges from the skyline. Then from the top right, the text "Manhattan Productions, Inc." spins in and places itself on the sun.

FX/SFX: The sun and the text spinning in.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Was seen on the first four seasons of Saturday Morning Live on FoxToons Network.

Scare Factor: None.

1987-1989
Logo: On a black background, we see a blue eyeball posed as a "O" with a spear sticking across it with it's optic nerve twined around it. Between the eyeball and the spear is the text "NEVERSOFT" (which is in a grunge Times New Roman font and is colored orange, yellow-orange, and red with lines above and below it, respectively), with the small orange text "INCORPORATED" below the logo and with a line below it. The logo is surrounded by the flat, metallic-silver words "A" and "PRODUCTION" above and below the text, respectively.

FX/SFX: None. This is the next logo were produced by TAJ Productions.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Rare. It's seen on RabbitTales, early episodes of Chip 'n Daniel Rescue Rangers, and on seasons 5-7 of Saturday Morning Live.

Scare Factor: None.

1990-present
Logo: Same as before, but animated. On the same black background with a dark ground below, several nails are shot to the left in a line, chasing the eyeball from the previous logo. After the nails are shot, the eyeball stops running to the left, and it looks up above. The text "NEVERSOFT INCORPORATED" slams itself in the middle of the screen, pulling the eyeball to the spot of the "O", and slams it to the spear, as the spear spins the eyeball's optic nerve twined around it. "A" and "PRODUCTION" in the same metallic-silver font above above and below the logo, respectively.

Variant: An HD version exists on post-2009 episodes of the PSI franchise, HD prints of the FoxToons Network shows that contain this logo, and the final two seasons of Britney Connolly.

FX/SFX: The shooting nails, the eyeball running, the text slamming, and the spear crashing into the eyeball.

Music/Sounds: Jackhammer sound effects and slamming sounds when the company name hits the background. This is followed by a female voice (provided by an unidentified woman at Tom Kane's Optic Nerve production company in Manhattan) shouting "NEVER!".

Music/Sounds Variant: On RabbitTales, Darkwing Rabbit, Detention, FreewaySpin, The Legend of Donkey Kong, The Blazing Seahawks, Chip 'n Daniel Rescue Rangers, Sonic Possible, Fillmore!, American Kraken: Jake Long, the PSI franchise, and Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, the closing theme of the show accompanies the logo's music.

Availability: Very common. Seen on seasons 8-26 of Saturday Morning Live, the Power Dragons franchise, Radix animated series, the PSI franchise, Buckman, later episodes of RabbitTales and Chip 'n Daniel Rescue Rangers, FreewaySpin, Gargoyles, Sonic Possible, Fillmore!, Detention, The Weekenders, Wings, The Revisements, YMCA Masters, The Legend of Donkey Kong, The Blazing Seahawks, Dudley Help-Right: The Animated Series, Supersonic Surpremo, Commander Keen of Star Command, American Kraken: Jake Long, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, Britney Connolly, the final season of That's So Pocono, and the FoxToons Network crossovers That's So Suite Life of Britney Connolly, Wish Gone Amiss Weekend, and Evolution on Air with Britney Connolly.

Scare Factor: Low. The sound effects could catch you off-guard.

2009-present
Logo: On a night city skyline view, on a green mountain, we see a Neverbot (Who is a red robot with sunglasses) but the "N" on him is yellow, holding a jackhammer, in which chips these words into the mountain:

NeVERSOFT

STUDIOS

and when Neverbot is done, he throws the jackhammer, and the carved words pop out, along with him in a straight position and spinning red triangles appear in the background.

FX/SFX: This is a stop-motion animation designed, animated, and directed by Kristen Lepore, a person working at Frederator Studios.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 2nd logo.

Availability: Common. Seen on current episodes of Saturday Morning Live, and S1 episodes of I'm in the Band on 4Kids XD (now "Toon 4Kids 2.0"). It was also seen on the live-action series Shake It Up, and Good Luck Charlotte.

Scare Factor: Low. The sounds can catch of off-guard. Otherwise, Neverbot looks amazing.

2010-present
Logo: Against a white background, we see a pile of red Lego bricks on the floor. They then build up to form Neverbot's face. Then the word, "NeVERSOFT" in the same font as before, zooms onto the Neverbot, which bounces once.

FX/SFX: The blocks building, the text zooming out. It's all live action, but in stop-motion. The Neversoft text is animated. The design was created by Lego artist Nathan Sawaya.

Cheesy Factor: The brick pile image at the start of the logo moved when it was started to build Neverbot's face like someone moved the pile.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 2nd and 3rd logos. The jackhammer sounds really go with the sounds for the Lego bricks.

Availability: Brand new. It's currently seen on I'm in the Band on 4Kids XD (now "Toon 4Kids 2.0") since the 2nd season, Kick Buttowski: Urban Daredevil, Motorcity, Neutron: Uprising, K.C. Undercover, Penny Zero: Prime-Time Hero, Gravity Fells, and Mind Over Yonder.

Scare Factor: Same as the 2nd and 3rd logos. It might surprise you the first time you see it, but again, Neverbot is again amazing, and any fans of Lego bricks will like this logo.