In Search of the Yello Dello

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Summary

The Yello Dello is the most rare and beautiful bird in this entire cartoon.

Homestar wants to get a gift for Marzipan, but can't decide what to get. Coach Z advises him to get something rare and exotic, so Homestar, Pom-Pom, and Strong Sad head out to catch the Yello Dello. The DVD is complete with commentary, the old version of the cartoon, and deleted scenes.

Commentary: Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Homestar Runner talk about the movie as its being played. Hilarity ensues.

Deleted Scenes: Coach Z and Homestar Runner in the shower room, Strong Mad telling Marzipan about The Yello Dello, and a pixelated challenge which is probably a parody of the ATARI 2600 game Barnstorming.

Transcript

{Homestar, Coach Z, and Pom-Pom are on a football field. Pom-Pom is seen kicking a basketball around in the background whilst Homestar kicks a can, depressed}

CAPTION: "One day after sports, Coach Z noticed Homestar Runner looking troubled"

COACH Z: Hey, what's the problem there, Homestar?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh man, Coach Z, I guess I just don't understand the ladies.

COACH Z: Oh jeez, I figured it was girl trouble. Step into my office.

[Cut to the locker room]

COACH Z: So, tell me what's the matter.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Well, it's Marzipan's birthday, and I don't what to get her!

[The alien in the shower's towel falls off]

COACH Z: Well, Homestar, I tell you. Girls are like a great sports play. [we now see a blackboard with a gameplay on it] You can't just rush in to the score zone! You kiddin' me? You'd be clobbered! You've gotta stick and move and zig and zag to get past the defenses, so you's can score! [blackboard writing forms a skull]

HOMESTAR RUNNER: But Coach, I don't understand! [Homestar's mouth simply stays open through the entire sentence here]

COACH Z: Don't just get her a flower. [Scene showing Homestar giving Marzipan a regular flower; flower droops.] Get her some rare flower from the tallest mountain! [Scene showing Homestar at the top of a mountain with a rare flower wearing laderhosem] That way she knows how much she means to yah's!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Thanks Coach! {Levitates and flys away to the sound of squealing tires}

{Homestar is sitting on a rock next to a tree. The sun and moon rise and set several times}

CAPTION: So he thought and thought... Until finally...

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I think I has the solution! The Yello-Dello! {Scene changes to the Yello-Dello on the "Discover Network." An australian host describes the bird}

HOST: Found only in north-eastern Potamia, the Yello-Dello is the most rare and beautiful bird in this entire cartoon.

{Strong Sad, !PomPom and Homestar are about to set out on their journey}

CAPTION: And So Homestar, Pom Pom, and Strong ad set out in search of the Yello-Dello...

{A map appears and red dotted lines track their route through Far Off Lands, Prance, Portugal and Potamia}

CAPTION: They traveled many miles...

{The adventurers are in a game of Pitfall.}

CAPTION: Encountered many dangers...

{Homestar swings over the alligators}

CAPTION: Until at last they reached their destination...

{The Yello-Dello is shown atop a mountain. The three approach the base of the mountain}

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

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ah, come one guys, lets do it for Marzipan!

STRONG SAD: Well, I already got Marzipan a present and I don't really think that-

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Right, Right. We do it for Marzipan.

{Cut to Marzipan watering some flowers with a watering can that says "H2Oh!".}

CAPTION: Meanwhile...

{Strong Bad flies onscreen, wearing what appear to be oven mitts}

STRONG BAD: Hey Marzipan, I heard Homestar's getting you the Yello-Dello for your birthday. You wanna know what I got you? NOTHING!

{Marzipan is angry at Strong Bad's rudeness but cheers herself up by thinking about the Yello-Dello}

MARZIPAN: {happily} My very own Yello Dello!

{Back to our hero's at the bottom of the mountain. A burlap sack wiggles next to them}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ok, we got it. Now let's go home and get ready for the party.

{Marzipan's house is decorated with balloons (on the mailbox) and a big banner reading "happy birthday marzipan" Marzipan hops around a bit by her mailbox then walks over to her house. She opens the door to see Pom Pom, Strong Sad and Homestar, who is holding chicken on a platter}

ALL: Happy Birthday!

{Marzipan thinks the chicken is the Yello-Dello, screams and slaps Homestar. Hard. The unharmed Yello-Dello pops out of a giftbox.}

YELLO-DELLO: Gee, waddya think her problem was?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I guess I just don't understand the ladies.

CAPTION: end. {The scorpion from the Pitfall scene crawls by and you hear creepy music}

Fun Facts

The title may be a reference to the old TV series "In Search Of", which was narrated by Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek's Mr. Spock) and detailed the search for various legendary beasts, artifacts, and places (e.g. In Search of Bigfoot, In Search of The Loch Ness Monster, and so on).

This was one of the very first toons that The Brothers Chaps made, before they established their visual style, and at the time, they were still learning how to use the tools. Every artist has to get their start somewhere.

This movie contains the only instance of nudity (when the green man in Coach Z's shower drops his towel) on the entire website, besides censored versions of a naked Homestar.

When Homestar Runner goes on the mountain at one scene, his star looks sorta like a flower.

When Coach Z talks to Homestar Runner about not just getting Marzipan a flower, but getting a special flower, Homestar's Star has abnormal lines in it.

The deleted scene with the plane is a reference to the ATARI 2600 game Barnstorming. The scene with the scorpion and stuff is also from the classic Atari 2600 game Pitfall.

In the deleted scene, where Homstar and his companions are in the plane, after they fly into a bird or something, Homestar yells out, "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!" This is a reference to what Strong Bad says, or vice versa.

If you go to the third deleted scene, the one where Strong Mad plays Strong Bad's role, you can see that Strong Mad has a Black Flag tattoo on his right arm. Also, he has a shirt with some kind of decal on it.