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Anonymous asked:

Why did Mandy's color palette become paler towards the end of the series?

maxwellatoms answered:

There was this device we used to call "The Machine", and the network used it to check and see if anyone would get a seizure from watching whatever cartoon was fed into it. After the Pokémon debacle in the early 2000s, everyone turned their machines up to eleven to avoid any bad press from fast-moving backgrounds or striped patterns. If things were bad, you'd get some scenes flagged and you'd need to cut or change them.

Unfortunately, even if you cleared The Machine, you'd sometimes find that it would alter some colors to make the entire palette lower contrast. On Billy & Mandy it mostly affected yellows, which was mostly Mandy's hair. So the change was never intentional. In fact, we didn't know what was going on until well after the altered episodes started airing, and by then it was "too late" to fix them.

Every show you watch is still run through a version of The Machine, but I haven't had the color issues since.

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#i remember noticing this with foster's#certain things got really pale in later episodes#especially cheese which i assume is because of this since he's around the same shade as mandy's hair