vanity card

noun

plural vanity cards

: the logo of a production company that appears briefly on-screen following the credits for a television show or movie

The book's title comes from the producer's vanity card that turned up on TV screens nationwide at the end of TV programs Goldberg produced. Viewers saw the picture of a black Labrador retriever with a Frisbee in his mouth and heard Goldberg say, "Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog!"

—Rob Owen

Examples of vanity card in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Scott Free’s instantly recognizable, watercolor-style vanity card — depicting a shadowy figure pacing and smoking before turning into a bird — was made by Italian artist Gianluigi Toccafondo. —James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024

And Lorre will continue producing his irreverent vanity cards at the end of each episode. —Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1997, in the meaning defined above