Why simpsons yellow

If you are a human being living on planet earth, chances are you've watched a bit of The Simpsons. The show is a staple of most of our childhoods, adulthoods, and just our hoods in general, really. But even after all these years of stunning satirical humour and eventual less-funny and intelligent bits, there is still one question left lingering in our collective psyche.

The Simpsons writer, Mike Reiss, wrote a book recently and he shared a lot of the show's secrets that he probably shouldn't have shared but he's clearly a ledge who don't play by no rules so whatever. Rather, one of the artists simply thought she'd draw them that way because it made more sense considering most of the main characters don't have hairlines.

Groening has since elaborated on the genesis of The Simpsons ' iconic yellow skin. In a BBC interview back in for the launch of The Simpsons Movie , the cartoonist said he didn't want the "conventional cartoon colours" when the show was being developed. According to Groening, he was shown character designs by an animator who had used yellow ink, to which he responded "this is the answer.

This may explain why other big cartoon characters, such as Spongebob Squarepants , are also yellow. It seems the lone animator that approached Groening back in the show's pre-production phase may have known something about color theory. However, former showrunner and writer on The Simpsons Mike Reiss seemingly revealed there was more to the story than what Groening spoke about.

Groening further revealed how he wanted his cartoon to be eye-catching. When one is flipping through channels, he wanted the bright yellow colour of The Simpsons to catch their eyes and make them go back to watch it. And so, the iconic yellow Simpsons family was created. There are more such interesting facts and incidents surrounding The Simpsons cartoon.

Each episode of the cartoon had hidden stories, not to mention the creepy way in which it predicted some future events too like Donald Trump being elected as US President. Jam with your fam! Although choosing yellow was perhaps just a stroke of genius for Groening and his team of animators, the color yellow also is known to have a psychological effect on the human brain.

YouTube creator ChannelFrederator has explained that many of our most beloved cartoon characters the residents of Springfield, Tweety Bird, and SpongeBob SquarePants, for example are yellow because of color theory. Yellow is the most visible color to the human eye, because of the way our eyes process light.

Yellow is also known to be a color that represents optimism and joy.