In Search of the Yello Dello

One hot bird.

One of the earliest Homestar Runner toons, featuring Homestar's quest for a rare bird for Marzipan's birthday present, is remade and expanded with DVD-ish features, commentary, and behind-the-scenes information.

Cast (in order of appearance): Homestar Runner, Coach Z, Pom Pom, The Alien Guy, The Mountain Goat, The Yello Dello, Strong Sad, Strong Bad, Marzipan, The Announcer, Strong Mad

Places: The Athletic Field, Coach Z's Locker Room, A Mountain, Far Off Lands, Various Fields, Marzipan's Garden, Homestar Runner's House

Date: Friday, August 17, 2001 or earlier

Page Title: LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS' PLATE -- I MEAN DVD!!

DVD:Everything Else, Volume 2

Menu

The screen is styled after a typical DVD menu. The Yello Dello stands silhouetted on a mountaintop, in front of the title "In Search of the Yello-Dello". Six menu options, in two columns of three on either side of the mountain, make up much of the page:

• new version
• commentary
• theatrical trailer
• storyboards
• deleted scenes
• old version

Selecting the new version, commentary, trailer, or old version will redirect to the respective page; once it finishes playing, the browser automatically redirects back to the menu. "Deleted Scenes" opens a menu of three options to select, which then redirects the viewer to the page as before.

Fun Facts

Explanations

• The way the music fades as it reaches the end of a loop (unlike most other loops on the site) mimics the looping music used on some early DVD menus where due to technical limitations the background music could not loop.

Trivia

• A "DVD version" of the Yello Dello toon was teased by Mike Chapman in a 2001 interview, approximately a week before it was posted to the site.

Remarks

• Onscreen title cards for both versions as well as this menu hyphenate "Yello-Dello". However, "Yello Dello" is not hyphenated in Toons menus (from the Lava Lamp Toons Menu through the present), the current page titles, or the Everything Else Vol. 2 menu.

Glitches

• As of the post-Flash site update, the storyboard link does not function.

Real-World References

• The menu theme is similar to the music from Pitfall II: Lost Caverns.

Fast Forward

• Matt Chapman would later joke in a 2006 DVD commentary that he was unlikely to reference "The Yello Dello" again.

Everything Else Vol. 2 Version

• Switch the audio in the Old Version to hear commentary from Mike and Matt Chapman and Peter Olson.
• The storyboard now has commentary.
• When played in "Play All", only the New Version is played.
• An Easter egg is added, featuring a fourth deleted scene. To access it, select the deleted scenes option and press right three times and click on the red Yello-Dello drawing.

{Open to a blue background with Michael Stipe's face with a message reading "Deleted Scene #4; 'Yello Dello' featured Strong Sad's first spoken lines in a cartoon. This was the first stab at his voice: Matt's bad Michael Stipe impression. So bad, in fact, that it was never to be heard again". Cut to Strong Sad in a scene from the new version of Yello Dello.}

STRONG SAD: I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

See Also

• The King of Town DVD
• The Yello Dello

External Links

• view "In Search of the Yello Dello" DVD menu
• view "In Search of the Yello Dello" DVD menu on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "In Search of the Yello Dello" DVD menu