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At the end of the credits of every episode of the Re-imagined Series, writer/developer Ron D. Moore and producer David Eick present themselves in cartoon form inside their office settling developmental arguments by maiming each other alternately in humorously creative and highly violent ways. This animation is the production logo (of sorts) for R & D TV, the production company for Battlestar. The cartoon is immediately proceeded by the NBC Universal logo.
The background pictures in the office also change periodically for unknown reasons.
The victim of each attack usually begins to suggest an idea ("Get this..!") as a lightbulb appears over the head of the episode's victim. This sign indicates that bloodshed, maiming, and or death is about to begin. Luckily for the viewers, Ron and David are revived to write and produce again (before their next scheduled episode and subsequent R&D TV demise, at least).
Here is a summary of cartoon results tabulated to date. Each episode lasts only 5 seconds.
Season 1
David beats Ron over head with a baseball bat after talking too much.
Ron lets loose a gorilla that attacks David.
Ron balls up David's body into a paper wad with eyes and shoots David through a small basketball goal. The audio of a cheering crowd saluting Ron's basket accompanies the R & D TV logo.
David throws Ron through the office window to be run over by an NBC studio van.
Ron slaps David so hard that his head spins 360 degrees. David cries out as if he were bitc...well...he cries out without much masculinity...
David calls up Ron, who's eaten by a shark.
David smirks "Major brainstorm" then Ron pulls out a magic wand (complete with a star on top), says, "No bones", and zaps David's bones away, leaving him a boneless mass that crumples to the floor.
Ron sings, "I've got an idea", and David rips a portion of Ron's shirt off.
As David says, "...This'll kill ya..." Ron brings on an armored knight, whose mace crushes David's skull.
David subjects Ron to death (or maybe just intense stinging) by a thousand paper cuts--to the face.
Ron proposes "Rock, Paper, Scissors". David says "Go" and prepares a large set of scissors, while Ron goes off-screen to find a very large rock, dropping it on David's body to squish him flat, winning the match.
Ron says "This will shock you..." David flings magic lightning from his fingers at Ron, who changes into Martha Stewart.
Before the two can suggest suggesting an idea, a courier makes a special delivery with packages for each. A small toy organ playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" is heard as the packages open with monsterous heads that look like the courier on springs. The heads promptly consume both David and Ron.
Season 2
Ron says in an exaggerated cowboy accent, "I've got an I-dear!". David smacks him in the face, and it falls off, revealing that he is a robot, in an homage to the film "Westworld."
David gets an idea, not noticing Cylon Centurions appearing outside the window. Ron runs away, and David is riddled with bullets by the Centurions.
Ron says, "this is hot". David says, "so is this", whips out a drying iron, and melts Ron's face with it.
David says "Jot this down." Ron says "OK" and proceeds to use his pen to violently carve the word "THIS" into David's forehead.
David gets an idea, but is interupted by the telephone ringing and Ron answers it. Annoyed, David jams the telephone in Ron's air, then shouts in the mouthpiece, greatly amplified, "Can you here me now?" with Ron screaming away.
David gets an idea and says "this will make your jaw drop." Ron punches David in the jaw, making his head swivel around in a circle on his neck, and David's jaw drops off.