In Search of the Yello Dello
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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
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[edit] 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:
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.
[edit] Fun Facts
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Glitches
- As of the post-Flash site update, the storyboard link does not function.
[edit] Real-World References
- The menu theme is similar to the music from Pitfall II: Lost Caverns.
[edit] Fast Forward
- Matt Chapman would later joke in a 2006 DVD commentary that he was unlikely to reference "The Yello Dello" again.
[edit] 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.
[edit] See Also
[edit] 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
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| New Version | Old Version | Commentary | Theatrical Trailer | Storyboards | Deleted Scenes |
