Sci-Fi Channel Idents and Bumpers Compiliation

[@tylertheguy3160]

Pure, unfiltered nostalgia right here. This was the golden age of the network, it just never felt the same after the rebrand.

[@brandonforgen1859]

i completely agree. Makes me want to watch Eureka

[@No_Direction-99]

Agreed. I miss these… I remember being a little kid in 2003 through 2007 and these were my favorite things on TV. Same with MTV

[@JustRaj]

The chime that plays at the end is a crucial part of my childhood 😭

[@superman31172]

This is when the SCI FI channel was cool

[@dracosathedragonewt8579]

Yup.

[@kennytanny628]

Yes indeed. When not only TV but even SyFy aka SciFi was a better channel !

[@talkingfez1265]

I miss these creative bumpers SO MUCH!!!!!!!

[@kalel311superman9]

@@talkingfez1265 so do i

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@kalel 311 The real reason that Sci Fi channel was cool is the 1999 - 2002 bumpers as well as promos and awesome science fiction live-action/anime programming.

[@Bman846]

This brings back childhood memories.

[@jamiekebarrett9418]

Your dam right there

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@jamiekebarrett9418 1:16 (kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZKYiJlpbrR3f6s&ab_channel=LuizGabriel%27sArchive - Miss Ronson scream).

[@AdriannaNealey25]

I agree

[@robinmimms1024]

Hit me right in the childhood. God, I miss old sci-fi 😭😭

[@AdriannaNealey25]

Me too

[@brothaNblue]

When your bumpers are better than your shows.

[@SuperEcranFan2009]

110 likes and no comments? Lemme fix that

[@SpotlessHamter]

You got that right

[@sonicfan101sonic6]

They should of made a show going with the bumper vibes

[@electrictroy2010]

@SpotlessHamter EXCEPT back then they had good shows. 3 versions of Stargate, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, etc .

[@JohnWick-rp6cq]

I miss this it reminds me of my childhood memories 😭

[@justinmcgillxboxreigns6591]

Same here

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@justinmcgillxboxreigns6591 1:16 (kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZKYiJlpbrR3f6s&ab_channel=LuizGabriel%27sArchive - Miss Ronson scream).

[@AdriannaNealey25]

Yeah, same

[@Manda1771]

I miss these bumpers and SCI FI was it was SCI FI and not SYFY.

[@realcritical-kr2dd]

miss the early 2000s when me and my brother enjoyed watching Sci Fi daily, even late at night. Good ol childhood memories 😭😭😭

[@Splunkmastah]

Dude. That OG little Chime at the end of each commercial hits hard. I miss the OG Sci-fi theme.

[@TheSurrealist.]

Huge part of my childhood! Even the ones with bad animation are still cool to this day. It adds to the atmosphere the channel had during this period. I think the sci-fi channel should go back to this level of creativity.

[@notsans9995]

Tv is dead, which is a shame. Tv bumpers were always pretty comfy, like the ones with adultswim where they hire advant garde animaters for a 20 second clip thay made you go wtf.

[@spaceboyctstudios2934]

Why did you say “bad animation”? The animation isn’t THAT bad.

[@TheSurrealist.]

@@spaceboyctstudios2934 It’s not bad but definitely dated.

[@spaceboyctstudios2934]

@@TheSurrealist. Okay. Also, two questions: 1. Which parts did DreamWorks Animation animate? 2. Did you know the KZbin channel, Tokyoplastic, actually animated some of these parts?

[@notsans9995]

@@spaceboyctstudios2934 tokyo plastic are shit animaters then

[@daniellongsworth4484]

Man, do I miss the old Sci Fi Channel.

[@AdriannaNealey25]

Me too

[@SparkyMarkyMark23]

Brings Back Memories!

[@Marialopez-fi5on]

Thank You!

[@SparkyMarkyMark23]

@@Marialopez-fi5on Ur Welcome!

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@SparkyMarkyMark23 The Minds Behind SCI FI Channel’s New Look Steven Mirkin delves into SCI FI Channels flashy new rebranding campaign to find out who comes up with those creative spots. When most people think of sci-fi fans, the first image that comes to mind is a geek: the obsessed, perpetually adolescent male, playing computer games or arguing online over the minute of Star Wars, Star Trek, the original Battlestar Galactica, The Fly, Alien, The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or The Matrix trilogy. But in the wake of Taken, the Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries that gave Universal Television's SCI FI Channel its highest ratings to date, the decision was made to update and broaden that image. The result is What If, a Clio-winning rebranding campaign that includes 17 new 10-second IDs, a 90-second narrative spot, Tattoo Man, and a redesign of the channels logo, to be rolled out along with a new line-up of shows. Roger Guillen, acting VP for creative and the in-house creative director of the spots, suggests the intent of the campaign is to shift perception, and move the channel away from its image of being cold and techie, focused on aliens, UFOs, and monsters. The new spots, he says, convey the impression of SCI FI as the channel of imagination, where anything is possible. We want it to be the vehicle to fuel your imagination. Each of the 10-second IDs, produced by the channel with the Lambie-Narin agency of London, directed by Erick Ifergan with effects by London's Glassworks, takes an everyday image and makes it fantastical: A cute baby suddenly breathes fire; a woman's exhaled breath turns into her dream lover; a woman in a stately sitting room kisses her bug-eyed, big eared, genetically mutated pet; a break dancer spins so fast, he ends up with his head facing backwards. The tag line for each spot is the word if, which then becomes part of the new, stylized SCI FI Channel logo. The idea was to make really fantastical, imaginative little mini movies, Guillen explains, adding the theme that connects them is imagination. They all ask the question, What if? For the spots to be on-brand, it was important that the spots be warm, relatable, human and emotional, Guillen adds. You need to be able to watch them and think, yeah, that's cool, but what if and then come up with your own scenario. A few of the IDs, such as Warrior may take their scenarios from movies such as The Matrix or 2001, while Guillen admits that movies were an inspiration for the spots, so we didn't specifically want to rip off our favorite movies and do little skits from them. But market research showed many of the channel's target audience enjoy sci-fi, even if they didn't identify themselves among the genre's fans. They are the kind of people who have PDAs and other gadgets. They're not geeks, but they appreciate technology and love visual images. They're the kind of people that if you ask them if they liked Star Trek, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Matrix, they say they loved all four, and isn't the fourth one a sci-fi film? It was also important to dissuade viewers from the cliché that sci-fi is something of a boys club. Guillen says the channel wanted to target a female audience, a huge demographic that we don't really cater to as much as we should. So some of the IDs (Vapor Lovers, Baby, Pet) were designed to make the channel feel less guy-centric. Tattoo Man, directed by Vaughan Arnell, was also designed with an eye toward appealing to a broader audience. The 90-second branding spot follows a young man from the grocery store to his apartment, where he prepares a lavish, if somewhat unconventional dinner party (pig's head is the main course) where the attendees are his tattoos among them a devil, a snake and a black widow spider who leave his skin and come to three-dimensional life. While the creative team fell in love with the idea of tattoos coming to life, finding the right narrative context was a tougher process. We didn't want it to be something destructive, Guillen explains. We didn't want it to be what if your tattoos came to life and robbed a bank. The dinner party was an elegant way to bring it across. This guy isn't doing something evil; he's doing something really beautiful. While the IDs and the longer spots utilized different directors and post houses, Guillen describes the production process as being similar. We don't want to dictate what everything's going to be; we want to bring in the best people available and give them an opportunity to put their imagination into these spots. It was an easy process, Guillen says. Once you have a solid concept you can actually go ahead and start something. The concepts for the spots were worked out and refined in the SCI FI Channels New York office. They were then storyboarded and the boards were sent off to Glassworks London office, which told SCI FI what was needed, and we shot accordingly. The hardest of the IDs to execute was Merge. The original concept had two wrestlers fighting so intensely, they morph into one. But time constraints kept them from perfecting the effect, so in the final edit, you see their arms merging into each other. Glassworks was tapped to work on the spots partially because, like Lambie-Nairn, the agency that co-produced the spots, they are based in London, making it easier for them to supervise the work. But Guillen says that European post houses deliver different quality of work, a different vibe. Most important was the fact that Glassworks were able to make it photo-realistic and make the effects part of the story and not the big payoff. It was important that the spots were not about the effects, but about the story. The effects just had to convey that story along. This, he says, is in marked contrast to the channel's earlier spots, which were all about the effects. Hardcore 3D, hardcore 2D design, they were all eye candy. The new, softer style of spots was accompanied by the introduction of a new SCI FI Channel logo. The old logo, a rather plain line drawing of the planet Saturn and its rings, played right into the pejorative view of SCI FI, Guillen says. It's a planet, its space, it's just what you'd expect. But changing the logo completely would be too risky. We have a lot of equity in the planet, he says, adding that a lot of our core viewers like the idea of a Saturn logo. To please both constituencies, the channel came up with a stylized rendition of Saturn (it's more of an iconographic image than just a ball and a ring): two curved lines that the station compares with the Nike swoosh, that now appears as the station on-screen bug, on the stations Website and in all print ads. Along with new programming including a rebooted Battlestar Galactica miniseries premiering in December Guillen says the re-branding has accomplished everything the channel could desire. We are still providing our core audience everything they love about the channel while expanding the channel's appeal to people who might not have expected to enjoy it. Steven Mirkin is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer. His work has appeared in Variety, The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Post, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and other publications.

[@jeremyphillips7827]

Aww, I miss the old SciFi Channel. It used to be so good, and these idents bring back some happy, cozy memories.

[@superbowlguy9659]

I just love these bumpers with dramatic jingles and the old logo that resembles a Saturn.

[@SmallLegacy]

So wacky yet creative, I miss stuff like this, it just has such a homey vibe to it.

[@LPTV84]

I don't get why these networks' identity flourished in the 90s and 00s. Mtv, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, G4, Sci-Fi, USA, all of them and more just had this odd and experimental aesthetic.

[@Casey_The_Editor]

Cause the old rich folk in charge back then had a sense of entrepreneurship. Now the old rich people who took their place just go by numbers and algorithms.

[@leondreamcast]

It’s called Regency bias we all do it lol

[@LPTV84]

​@@leondreamcastwhat?

[@circleinforthecube5170]

@@leondreamcast not just recency bias, there was a definite aesthethic shift in the mid 2010s

[@Marialopez-fi5on]

Sci Fi Channel 2002-2009

[@jack_meoff69]

1992 -2009. I miss the 90s

[@SparkyMarkyMark23]

That's between 6TH-12TH Grade. @ The time I was attending school.

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@SparkyMarkyMark23 Looks like takes place in The Magicians universe, rather than the science fiction universe that shown in the 1999 - 2002 bumpers.

[@gustavochavarria8161]

Dude I completely forgot how creepy those bumpers were. After all these years, they're still a bit creepy to look at.

[@notthatdigusted7468]

Takes me back to 9th grade when I used to see these all of the time on the sci-fi channel in 2003.

[@Nerefurian]

I'm more of a fan of the bumpers and promos from the late 90s early 2000s Sci fi channel, but these are still better than whatever they have on "SyFy" currently.

[@Westcoastfrenchtoast]

Growing up watching raptor island, dino croc, pumpkin head, lol all those small budget films really was a HUGE thing in my childhood. Thank god this video exists.

[@michaelfederowicz5568]

I miss the old sci-fi channel.

[@AdriannaNealey25]

Yeah, me too

[@dumaskhan]

they went hard on these and we loved it.

[@santigil]

This was put together excellently! I miss the old SciFi channel.

[@AdriannaNealey25]

Same here

[@Lover-of-Creative-Priorities]

Bring's back memories of nostalgia

[@Marialopez-fi5on]

Thank You

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@Marialopez-fi5on The 1999 - 2002 bumpers look more science fiction than the 2002 - 2009 bumpers. SYFY in 2015 gained rising return of science fiction genre like Defiance, Dark Matter, and The Expanse, even broadcast sci fi films like Star Trek, The Fifth Element, The Matrix, I, Robot, Hollow Man, and Starship Troopers.

[@brocklee9202]

The old sci-fi channel with the sci-fi original movies every Saturday 😂 man, they were the best. Scare tactics, Tuesday Declassified, damn.. this and the old Animal Planet with the The Most Extreme Top 10s were the best.

[@SpectralTime]

Some of these freaked me out when I was a kid. It's good to come back with jaded eyes and be able to just enjoy.

[@protoype123]

Same here the woman exploding into mist and the creepy Read Head turning the kid into a frog always terrified me as a kid for some reason.

[@jackmiller3246]

I miss the old sci-fi channel original movies, which was on every Saturday night, they made. It felt like once a week there was a new one. Most I cannot remember by name. It would be cool, to show old trailers of those original movies from the Sci-Fi Channel.

[@SevenFootPelican]

Even the magical/curious piano/celesta jingles inspired imagination and creativity

[@pjrichardson3677]

Scfi wil never be this good again

[@SKYLARKo80]

The Pillsbury crossover was truly unexpected.

[@christopherkirkpatrick6177]

I came here to find the classic "alien plant atichoke attacks a flying bug" series that they ran in their heyday.

[@Mallory16]

The two I remember best are the one where the woman pricks her finger on the flower, bleeds water, then just explodes, and the one with the man pulling on his hair, "unraveling" his body in doing so. And I remembered a lot more after watching this! 😄

[@Dorox97]

Back when the Sci-Fi channel was pure nostalgia and not called Syfy.

[@torithompson8921]

Can't believe I forgotten about the Sci-Fi channel being this awesome!! Since SYFY is doing their Syfy Rewind marathons now, I hope they can do other shows like Farscape, LEXX, Outer Limits, X-Files, etc someday too bcuz I remember The Outer Limits and the X-Files being on Syfy a while back when I was very little in 2000. Oh and Stargate Sg-1.

[@bub777]

6:42 is the one I've been looking for. I've barely even seen half of these growing up. I haven't watched the channel in YEARS! After Comcast acquired TCI, I never saw the channel again (perhaps because it costed my dad extra or something, I don't know); I believe that's why I haven't seen any of these purple logo "IF"s.

[@VincentIrkallaOfficial]

You just brought me back to younger days, and gave me a new notification ringer for my phone.

[@shanthegamer21]

Which ringtone? The Sci-Fi jingle?

[@VincentIrkallaOfficial]

@@shanthegamer21 Hell, yeah!

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@VincentIrkallaOfficial While Sycamore, Smile, Tornado, Fairy, Hummingbird, Armadillo, Koi, Oasis, Crane, Porcupine, Chicken, Snake, Phoenix, and Ravens bumpers is made by Prologue Films, Wrestler, Frog, Raining Cats and Dogs, Beanstalk, and Zipper is made by Ink Project, who also made the Alka-Seltzer sponsored bumper.

[@cameronyoshi7146]

This logo was used from December 2nd 2002 to July 7th 2009.

[@decimatorentertainmentstud8523]

This compilation is mind blowing

[@dust.wisch.]

I've been looking for 1:52 for over a decade thank you so much

[@Fister365]

This is not how I imagined ending my night, but God damn, youtube rabbit holes exist for a reason lol

[@zeronixtheyoutuber3983]

Good times and good memories. I miss the glory days.

[@chandlerbing1800]

Back when shows like eureka and battlestar galactica made this channel awesome

[@CWPage]

I miss SciFi like this back in those days and the Logo Theme. Thank you posting these.

[@Darkless4X]

Back when Sci-Fi was legitimately amazing until it became a shell of it's former self. The OLD Sci-Fi is the REAL Sci-Fi.

[@Bman846]

The bumpers were great, but the shows sucked back then.

[@shanthegamer21]

Brandon Banks How were they? Were the plots all dumb and broken?

[@Willy2000ization]

Now its a trash channel called SyFy

[@devantethedcguyreactstoo252]

These commercials use to scare me back in the day

[@justinmcgillxboxreigns6591]

Ikr lol

[@darkdaxter15]

The reason I'm here lol

[@benmicek6829]

Back when sci-fi had quantum leap, sliders and the original Star Trek

[@melissapritt7318]

and the OG Roswell.

[@christopherkirkpatrick6177]

And the 2 hour Dark Shadows block to kick off the weekday mornings, with Farscape and Lexx to end their Friday nights!

[@devionl5487]

I used to be scared as hell at these 🤣🤣

[@randybutternubs4647]

That damn hair pulling commercial has haunted my childhood. But the nostalgia kills me. This was back when tv channels had more personality.

[@crystalatkins5642]

Love the bumpers and music I grew up in the 2000s

[@onihaiena6152]

Literally raining cats and dogs.

[@Steveman27]

i think you got just about all of them, except of course for that one where the guy makes himself huge in an elevator to get the others out and then he goes back to his normal size. that was an awesome sci-fi commercial.

[@jessicahutton82]

Now the channel is a shell of its former self, lacking all the creativity that once had

[@CrisisMoon7]

Syfy was all I watched on tv for a year straight 4:32pm Oct/29/23 Sunday

[@larvaedadindex]

3:10 that's the one that scared the shit outta me when I was a kid

[@therealememci5380]

4:07-4:18 why did _this_ one always stick with me from when i first saw a lot of these on tv back then?

[@paperking_real]

Thanks for uploading this. I've been meaning to find a Sci-Fi ident compilation for quite a while.

[@dracosathedragonewt8579]

No problem.

[@AmirTori]

I want my fucking childhood back 😭😭😭😭😭

[@SevenFootPelican]

Remember when the Sci-Fi channel actually held up to it's name? No longer do those days exist. Now it's "SyFy"

[@CarbyGuuGuu]

At least we have Comet TV, the spiritual successor to Sci-Fi.

[@deltadaddy94]

Carbuncle from Puyo Puyo arguably the better version

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@deltadaddy94 Sci Fi - Beanstalk Bumper (2007).

[@DanielBMaximoff]

Those bumpers made a scary song

[@rooksclown316]

5:01 I remember being scared of this one when I was younger

[@Q88D]

We all was lol

[@BetaRayBenX10]

Watching this fills me with happiness. Its from a generation that cared about their audience.

[@alexpaulsen5130]

I love those bumpers 😊

[@tyrellroniyatv9603]

They're cool and weird and I like it.

[@shanthegamer21]

Science Fiction is supposed to look weird. That’s what makes it look cool.

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@shanthegamer21 Science fiction is actually means robots, aliens, flying cars, super high technology, and plasma weapons.

[@shanthegamer21]

Brady Rein Anything that wouldn’t make sense IRL.

[@poisonbonbons8684]

Nothing like Friday nights: First Wave, Lexx, The Invisible Man, and Farscape.

[@xTakhix]

Wasn’t there one of these where a plant just ate someone or did I imagine it?

[@PlNGP0NG]

I remember the futuristic football (Soccer) one, the pitch had a hill on it, and a footballer jumps on a trampoline to do a high bicycle kick. Sad that it wasn't included in this compilation.

[@gabeherndon2415]

Can you find the video?

[@vazzmatazz]

There was also one with a bunch of alien plants that looked like artichokes. Searching for it.

[@PlNGP0NG]

@@vazzmatazz The virus in this one, about 30 seconds in? kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4PHmIF3ZthpepI

[@Lionfish5656]

Hopefully, it isn't lost media.

[@TheSuirad]

Childhood memory: unlocked

[@jasmineroman1766]

Omg I miss these bumpers so much I hate that they took these out and put SYFY instead of Sci fi. This was the real Sci fi :(

[@sambee8982]

These Sci Fi idents are a bit scary.....

[@cataclysmiceas]

ikr

[@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN]

That's the point, *IT'S SCIENCE & FICTION!* well for fun tho...

[@mr.imperial8721]

It feels strange....even to this day I never understood these commercials but I still am creeped out and at the same time interested in the commercials

[@leedase7495]

0:40 3:30 3:36 4:46

[@spiderversestyle]

Ain't nobody asked them to take away the bumpers! : - ; this gives me nostalgia despite the movies being bad with ridiculous cliff hangers. Me and my grandma watch them when nothing was on tv.

[@kennytanny628]

Holy shit. I remember all of those Idents and Bumpers but except the last one with the bannana peel one. I'm surprised I thought I saw them all ! I know that Ident was way before SciFi switched to SyFy Man this was when SciFi aka SyFy was the hottest channel on TV. My TV use to stay on SyFy. Sigh. Man everything nowadays sucks. Seeing these promos makes me feel like an old man ! lol

[@shanthegamer21]

Not everything these days sucked. There are still some masterpieces. And of course, there are some things in the old days that we wish to forget about.

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@shanthegamer21 We need to add the Pufferman ident (where the guy in the elevator goes big to get the people out of the way and goes back to his normal size) to the collection.

[@MexrlinTheDeanBluntFan2009]

I miss my childhood memories

[@KhiTurner]

_These are nostalgic, does anyone have the one with the SyFy office tour and the girl reveals she's an alien by licking the pen at the end?_ 🖋️

[@wandaruth3833]

Great now I want to watch Farscape.

[@emilywhitfield2780]

Awww the fire breathing baby boy is cute!!!!

[@austinlister]

That threading man one scared the hell out of me as a kid

[@shanthegamer21]

At least he enjoyed being unsewn because he’s a hairball, now.

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@shanthegamer21 Remember the bumper where the boy (who tries to spray the plants with a sprayer) sees the plants that grows turns out to be a beanstalk growing (the word "i F" turns into the word "Sci Fi" with a saturn symbol as well), and when the beanstalk stops growing, the foot of the Giant quickly squishes the boy with the sprayer lol.

[@shanthegamer21]

Brady Rein I see that.

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@shanthegamer21 That's hilarious!

[@patrickwilson1459]

I liked the original 1992-1999 era. Although I like the one here with the woman who lifts the water bucket over her head where she de-ages, from old to young.

[@shakemamiddleton5554]

I miss these old sci-fi intros🥺

[@matthewlee9879]

I didn't know it was so many of them, Guess I never paid attention.however I do remember most of them lol

[@jhughes22891]

Good old days!

[@Marialopez-fi5on]

I Miss you!

[@PrincessofPower84]

That second bumper has given me nightmares for years.

[@cnfanldealt3]

PrincessofPower84 What, the one with the breakdancer?

[@PrincessofPower84]

Jimmy Campbell Yes.

[@Darkless4X]

Same here.

[@shanthegamer21]

PrincessofPower84 It would break your spine trying that. And your neck. 😆

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@shanthegamer21 Remember the broadcast of Dredd (2012) on SYFY.

[@Bryan-kn9zd]

Damn. Like I remember staying home at 9 “sick” all alone. Pizza squared, yoo hooo. And x files and these , life was simple and good

[@bendonovan9244]

2:09 Frog: *Becomes a beautiful woman again*

[@bendonovan9244]

2:06 Who is this?

[@thehoodybadger3402]

6:33 Unnerving as shit as a kid.

[@jman7474]

Really making me feel nostalgic

[@TaisiyaZavgorodnyaya]

This is immediately horrifying

[@thecraziestofalldave]

oof, I'm looking for older.... this too is nostalgic though

[@CalebLudens]

@6:27 Girl's Mom: Honey did you turn your brother into a toad?

[@imaminxkitty]

I must've watched more SciFi than I remember because a lot of these bumpers itched my brain in the nostalgic place.

[@daydreamishh]

Omg these used to creep me out as a kid😭😭😭😭

[@caillouyesborisnogoanimate5215]

Sci Fi is goooood 2:07 2:55 5:44 5:49 7:35 7:41

[@lbrookins831]

One of them has Zach King

[@TaisiyaZavgorodnyaya]

*Gasp* Grands! Biscuits

[@SweetCierra95]

Man, the nostalgia!

[@Howyaduing]

1:28 that’s me over at comic-con

[@No_Direction-99]

It took me 15 years to find these again and 1 of the music videos I remember to. 15 years… 🫠

[@KeithMyers2022]

I remember when gundam 00 launched on this channel

[@PixelPunisher.Official]

Amazing work in compiling them. Thank you. 📺 👍🏽

[@Marialopez-fi5on]

Thanks!