Time for a video biopic on the guy who helped make YELLOW the infamous color we know and love.

Goes without saying that The Bride wouldn’t have gotten those 88 notches in her Hatori Hanzo sword so easily if it weren’t for that yellow jumpsuit. And there never would have been a yellow jumpsuit if it weren’t for Big Bird.

While Big Bird has always been yellow, he hasn’t always had quite the same face or proportions. He’s gotten better looking with age.

This first video from 1969 has a younger Big Bird trying to sound out the alphabet as one word. Combine it with a bouncing little song and it’s like giving an ten-year old an 8-ball and telling the kid to home-school himself.

Big Bird’s first encounter with the bizarre creature called Snuffleupagus was in 1971. And Snuffy was creepy looking. Here he is spraying Snuffy Juice all over yellow flowers to make them grow.

When he wasn’t dreaming up consumptive woolly mammoths, Big Bird also got to teach the alphabet to a schizophrenic Coach Calhoun.

But the Big Bird we all know and love - the Big Bird we want to champion as we get ready for DNCHRD IV - is the dancing Bird.

In the first video BB does Vaudeville: “What’s spaghetti, salad, sausage, steak and soup?”

Then he and Snuffy invoke The Eagles (and Jaime Foxx) and take it to the limit one more time…at the disco.

I think the message here is pretty clear: you don’t need clothes when you’ve got YELLOW.

Get your tickets to DNCHRD IV.