Where we are with the lotr newsletter really shows that this wasn’t a series written for children. So many people mistakenly claim it is because The Hobbit was written for children.
Why did Mandy's color palette become paler towards the end of the series?
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.
genuinely the stupidest thing i have read in a while
if you are considering trying out chickens you should know 1) if you don't want them anymore they are one of the easiest animals to process for meat 2) if you can't process them yourself they are by far the easiest animal to sell or give away 3) there is no such thing as a "farm animal rescue" that is not just a massive waste of time and money and chickens are not the type of animals that actually go to them (it's primarily goats)
get a few laying hens if you can, or better yet ducks, you will be glad you did