One of the first shows to introduce an entirely yellow cast was The Simpsons, and their colour was chosen to differentiate them from all the normal-coloured cartoon characters on TV: when you’re flipping through channels, you’ll always instantly know that The Simpsons is on. But It also happens that yellow is important in colour theory. Even discounting the cartoon characters that only have a little bit of yellow in their colour palette, there’s still a massive list of exclusively yellow ones. Winnie The Pooh, Tweety Bird, Spongebob, the Simpsons, Mr Peanutbutter, Jake the Dog… the list goes on. And there’s three good reasons for this phenomenon, which have been highlighted in a new video by ChannelFrederator’s Jacob Atkinson.