In Search of the Yello Dello Storyboards

Scribbled-down storyboards of the In Search of the Yello Dello.

Cast (in order of appearance): Homestar Runner, Coach Z, Pom Pom, Marzipan, The Yello Dello, Strong Sad

Date: Thursday, May 4, 2000

Page Title: Yello Dello Storyboards

DVD: Everything Else, Volume 2

Storyboards

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	one day after sports, coach Z noticed Homestar Runner looking troubled	View Page 1
	"anything you want to talk about? asked Coach. "Aw coach, Z," said homestar. I guess i just don't understand the ladies"	View Page 2
	"I Figured it was girl trouble. step into my office"	View Page 3
	"what seems to be your trouble?" "it's Marzipan's birthday and i don't know what to get her"	View Page 4
	"well homestar, girls are a lot like a great sports play"	View Page 5
	"you can't expect to just waltz right in and score..."	View Page 6
	"you'd be clobbered!"	View Page 7
	"they gotta see that you put forth the effort to know that you really care"	View Page 8
	"whattaya mean?"	View Page 9
	"don't just get her a flower"	View Page 10
	"get her a rare flower From the highest tallest mountain!	View Page 11
	"that way she knows how much she means to ya" "thanks coach!"	View Page 12
	so homestar thought & thought until finally... . . .	View Page 13
	"I think I has the solution! the yello dello!!"	View Page 14
	nature show commentator: "found only in extremely hot north eastern Potamia, the Yello-Dello is the rarest and most beautiful bird in this entire cartoon wolf whistle	View Page 15
	...and so Homestar set out with Pom-Pom and Strong Sad.	View Page 16
	They traveled many miles...	View Page 17
	encountered many dangers... doodle doo dee dull dee!	View Page 18
	until finally they reached their destination...	View Page 19
	"i dunno homestar, that looks awfully dangerous"	View Page 20

DVD Version

• The DVD version features creators' commentary, which plays automatically.

Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Matt Chapman, Mike Chapman)

MATT: I went to film school, Mike, so I need to make storyboards. That are really bad drawings of our characters.

MIKE: Uh... Well, these... Is this kind of what inspired you to make the cartoon look all crazy? Was the storyboard drawings?

MATT: Well, cause you told me I should do that. I was just drawing them really quickly...

MIKE: It was my fault?

MATT: No, no! Wait, 'fault'? Uh...

MIKE: So you were drawing the storyboards quickly, and I liked them better the way they looked there than—

MATT: Yeah. Like that picture.

MIKE: Like that, yeah.

MATT: Look, I keep getting Coach Z's hat wrong. {Mike laughs} I make it on the top instead of down low like it really is.

MIKE: So this music that you can hear in the background is pretty much the Pitfall 2 music.

MATT: Yeah. {stutters} A chunk of it.

MIKE: Just a chunk of it. Or at least it's how I remember it.

MATT: {hums the tune} Um, look, see he's floating there, and you were like, "Wait, that's not how you were going to do it?" I think I just started to make the cartoon—

MIKE: Yeah, just regular.

MATT: And you were like, "You're not gonna make it that spastic style?" And I said, "Okay." {Of the tiny picture of Homestar on top of a mountain} Look at this— look at that drawing! Look at how pointless that is! You can barely see what's going on in that drawing! {Mike laughs} Why did I bother?

MIKE: It looks exactly like what we made.

MATT: Yeah, I guess.

MIKE: And that drawing of Homestar's body and legs. It's very accurate.

MATT: Yeah.

MIKE: Maybe we should do storyboards more often.

MATT: Yeah, but then all of, we'd have to draw them really well, or all our cartoons will end up looking like The Yello Dello.

MIKE: Oh... Steve Irwin.

MATT: Dear Strong Bad, I'm sad. {Mike laughs} Look at that pimp hat that Homestar's wearing! {Mike laughs again} It's supposed to be one of those Aussie hats, but it ends up looking like a Supafly hat.

MIKE: What do you think the last cartoon we did storyboards on was?

MATT: Uh, I don't know. We drew storyboards for that "Not the 150th Email".

MIKE: Yeah.

MATT: 149 pernt 5. {imitating Strong Sad} "Uh, {imitating Michael Stipe} oh, I dunno Homestar, that looks awfully dangerous."

MIKE: I guess you didn't finish.

Fun Facts

Fast Forward

• Several storyboards from the new version of In Search of the Yello Dello were posted to @ronginald in 2011.

External Links

• view the storyboards