Stoner-Ruegger Home Video

Background: Stoner-Ruegger Productions created a home video line in 1987, with all product released through Northern Lights Home Video. This lasted until late 2000, when Warner Home Video bought NLHV and subsequently put SRP's video line on moratorium. Thereafter, all SRP product was distributed through WHV until SRP itself was dissolved in 2001.

1st Logo

(1987-1991)

Nicknames: "(CGI) SRHV Rainbow", "The MGM/UA Home Video Rainbow Meets the H-B Swirling Star", "SRP Swirling Star", "A Very Cheesy SR Logo"

Logo: In the background, there is a pattern of the "STONER-RUEGGER" text in Century Gothic font, slanted at an angle, which scroll from right to left while changing in many different colors. The following changing colors are: gray, red, teal blue, fuchsia, blue and green. On it, the "Swirling Star" (1985-86 version) animates, as per usual, then the "STONER-RUEGGER" text, in white, also in Century Gothic, and treated pretty badly, is “wiped” in from both sides with a cheesy-looking “sparkly trail” effect. Then, after that forms, a long, elongated rounded rectangle with the words “HOME VIDEO” (in the same font) on each side, flips in below the "STONER-RUEGGER" text.

Variants:

The color changing arrangements varies.

On rare releases, there's a rare extended version where we see the colors: rose pink, golden yellow, violet, and navy blue in place.

FX/SFX: The changing colors, the scrolling of the background "STONER-RUEGGER" text, the animation of the "Swirling Star", and the foreground text.

Cheesy Factor: Off the charts! This logo screams “shoestring budget”. The flipping is badly done, the superimposing of the "Swirling Star" doesn't blend well with the rest of the logo, and the wiping-in is quite simply a disgrace. Even the background is immune to this cheesiness: the scrolling rainbow "STONER-RUEGGER"s look a bit choppy. Also, if you look closely at the left part of the 2nd and 7th text scrolls, the text on both scrolls disappears. Finally, when this logo began in 1987, there was a major error where the color green about to change to gray was skipped to the ending part with the color red. In 1988, SRHV fixed this, retaining the green changing to gray.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: SRHV did release a morass of product almost 200 titles, but most (if not, all) are pretty hard to find these days. Most of the titles are in slipcovers released after 1989; the very first titles to use this logo on the packaging (usually teal clamshell cases) do not have this logo, but rather the 1986 "Swirling Star" logo.

Scare Factor: None to minimal, but you’ll be laughing and giggling at how bad it is. Still, it's a favorite of many.

2nd Logo

(1991-2000)

Logo: On a black background, we see the text:

STONER*RUEGGER

H O M E V I D E O

in the Dom Casual font and in white appear through a "paint dripping" animation.

Variant: There was a variant seen on the opening of select SRP cartoons on VHS. It's the same as the normal variant, except "P R E S E N T S" appears instead of "H O M E V I D E O".

FX/SFX: The "dripping" of the text.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: The variant is seen on the 1992 Tiny Toon Adventures: The Looney Spotlight Volume 6: Furrball VHS as the last part of the opening before the Tiny Toon Adventures intro starts. The opening of this VHS also contains the 1987 Northern Lights Home Video logo (twice) and associated FBI warning, VHS tracking reminder and "Feature Presentation" bumpers. The normal version is seen on other later releases from the company.

Scare Factor: None to minimal.