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The Sunglasses and Lips ident say "If you want to listen to something different every week instead of something you are already used to, then you would have to let us know"

The sunglasses and lips idenst are adverts for the vpro asking viewers to support the vpro's unique content (by calling the phone numbers), or else we ll only see what the majority wants.

It’s my personal head-canon that all the idents are a result of the dimensional collapse caused by the gong man in the first ident.

The V.P.R.O. Is not only innovative in terms of its idents of course, but through its programmes too. It sees its role as being to push the boundaries of radio and television and in this it is very sucessful. They do good work. PS ... in the sunglasses ident they are inviting viewers to become members/subscribers of the VPRO. PPS the music you can hear faintly in the background in the lips ident is “ Das Glühwürmchen “ by Paul Lincke. It’s on KZfaq too.

‘Gong man kinda sus’ - Adam Martyn (28th October 2020)

These are crazy good for the 70’s, if you would have told me they were from the 90’s I’d have believed you. Having said that I do now have a headache 🤕

These idents look pretty ahead of their time, like they would fit more in the 90s to Mid 2000s.

One of the greatest uses of Scanimate.

I like the first two variants of "Stairs". It's like a comedy, basically. Personally, I find the canoe man hilarious!

14:20 I believe that's a breakdown slide Martin, it's nothing to get too much wound up with over. The BBC and channel 4 are synonymous with them basically 😂 Update: I find it interesting when Adam says "I need something a little more than that" but yet when Channel 4 breaks down, its breakdown slide literally just says "Programmes continue shortly", a little better maybe but its still vague enough

the bird one jumpscared me holy shit

This episode is an WTF Moment, because all of those weirdness and craziness of those idents that you want to say WTF!?!

13:22 as a Dutch speaking person myself I think this "error" is just a technical difficulty card and there's nothing more than that. I'm not sure about the weird video effect maybe it's there to look cool or it could be some video gliching out.

before you ask, yes. the VPRO still exists

It's not 'the V-pro', it's V-P-R-O (despite what the logo might suggest) - if you nose around a bit you'll find more idents (or 'headers' as the Dutch seem to call them) where you can hear the letters are distinct. Google Translate isn't perfect and some uses of 'het' in Dutch should be absorbed into the word they refer to in English.

I wish you could have also covered the Kiss, Snakes, and Deflate idents, but I'm still very much satisfied with what we got! Anyway, awesome video and analysis!!

Thank you to those who could attend this episodes premiere! It was a lot of fun making this one! Do you think all Ident Review episodes should be premieres? Or should they.... they... th.... Er is iets mis....

In 13:34 - "er is iets mis" means "something's wrong".

They are still using ELO - Here is the News in 2024, usually with the visuals synchronised to the music. The only Dutch broadcaster to stick to their intro tune for 40 years. They used it on the radio a couple of months after the song came out, and it became their TV ident after they stopped trying to be weird on TV.

Fun Fact: This Inspired Martin Lambie Nairn's Career

I really hope that error ident was a please stand by screen. Imagine seeing that shit right before some regular ass program.

“The Gong Man” and “The Flying Man” actuality wasn’t that bad, they kind of gave me SpingeBob vibes in a way, especially the fourth and “The Flying Man was kind of cool Darn, ”Error” and “Melting” caught me off guard, I was expecting a jumpscare and for “Melting”, I was expecting something like a 90s BBC 2 style ident, not… that bizarre sequence… 04:08 Yep, that DEFINITELY sounded like somebody squeezing out a giant poo, Darn, I guess he was REALLY constipated, (Gotta stop eatin’ that fast food…) or he was having a nightmare… actually it kind of sounded less like moaning and more like he was straining and struggling to carry a heavy object. Wow, whoever provided the sound for this ident must’ve wither had so much fun or felt really awkward recording For “Wavy” and “Spirals and Stripes”, WOW, they are SO CONSIDERATE to those who have epilepsy or are just sensitive to strobe lights and patterns… I was being sarcastic, I myself am sensitive to strobe lights and I got a headache after watching a SECOND on of those two idents, I had to skip them “Sunglasses” and “Lips” feel more like something you’d be MORE likely to see on a channel like Nickelodeon (Obviously with a few alterations) This would be a channel you wouldn’t want to tune into at 3am, but as weird as these indents are, I don’t hate them

10:55 shout out to the wet van de grote getallen (and greetings from the Netherlands!) 🇳🇱

17:13 VPRO wants to know your location.

4:41 This made me crack up.

Jesus christ. Its like ive been on a bad trip and im coming down

I feel like the melting ident is less of actually melting, and more of "i squished too much play dough out and it's sliding off" type thing

20:47 - Guessed it! But still scary!

the Vypro channel intros remind me of a dark version of both Sesame Street and Zap! segments

Darn I Missed The Premier

I’m here from the premiere this video is going to be awesome

I've been to the Netherlands before (Amsterdam) nice place.

Come on, the gong man ident is clearly a parody on The Rank Organisation/Rank Group logo.

Heh, eat your heart out Fred Siebert!

these were so odd lol

Next. RTL4 idents

You do not pronounce it as Vee Proh.

Next do spacetoon bumpers

the lips kind of remind me of Rocky Horror.

Premiere bois

Also i wanted to say, "iets" is pronounced like in english "it's".

Er is iets mis

2trippy4me

why didn't the vpro have its own channel

Do Serbian idents 🇷🇸

Since you are doing international idents, you should do the Spacetoon planets idents from 2013. Here's a video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pqyqepCh0q7Oaas.html

The idents are nice. Your comment track is annoying.

13:22 as a Dutch speaking person myself I think this "error" is just a technical difficulty card and there's nothing more than that. I'm not sure about the weird video effect maybe it's there to look cool or it could be some video gliching out.