BBC Two Launch ident two kangaroo mascots, called Hullabaloo and Custard. Hullabaloo, a mother, represented BBC1, while Custard, her joey, represented the new BBC2. Hullabaloo was so called because BBC1 was entertaining and about song and dance, and Custard was named after the food Custard because as one person at the BBC stated, "everything goes with custard". The ident used with the look was a black white and grey affair. It was an animation that started with grey and black lines flying in from left and right before the white numeral '2' in a black box flies from the top with the BBC logo
BBC Two Launch ident one used from BBC2's launch, but dropped with the advent of colour (but continued in regions that still had monochrome until 1976), was Test Card E. The ident was reused during Afternoon Classics in 2013, on BBC Two. It was also reused in Northern Ireland. This used a recreation of the logo now with the BBC box brighter and with the legend 'Northern Ireland' below the BBC logo. Also when the stripes from on the black background, The stripes animate differently. The normal BBC Two used the normal version. BBC Two Launch ident The Launch ident was a television station