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[[Image:All Our Reader.png|thumb|All one of them.]] | [[Image:All Our Reader.png|thumb|All one of them.]] | ||
Many times in the Homestar Runner Universe, a character will use a '''singular noun in a phrase where it would normally be pluralized'''. | Many times in the Homestar Runner Universe, a character will use a '''singular noun in a phrase where it would normally be pluralized'''. | ||
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==Appearances== | ==Appearances== | ||
| - | *[[King of Town Main Page]] | + | *[[King of Town Main Page]] {{--}} The buttons are labelled "''''toon'''" "'''game'''", and "'''download'''"; [[The King of Town]] pronounces them as such. |
| - | *Email [[old comics]] | + | *[[A Decemberween Pageant]] {{--}} [[Bubs]] says one of his lines as "50 '''Bag''' of golds". |
| - | *Email [[ | + | *Email [[kids' book]] {{--}} In [[Strong Bad]]'s book, "Everyone Is Different", one page reads "Some people '''wears''' glasses." |
| - | *[[Decemberween Short Shorts]] | + | *Email [[old comics]] {{--}} In the last strip of [[The Castlefunnies]], the King Castlefunny says "Thank you to all our '''reader'''." |
| - | *[[DNA Evidence]] | + | *[[Shopping For Danger]] {{--}} One of the items found on Aisle 6 is "'''A Cracker'''." |
| - | *[[Sickly Sam's Big Outing]] | + | *Email [[Family Resemblence]] {{--}} While trying to imagine Pom Pom's hypothetical family, Strong Bad states that Pom Pom's parents would be '''a file cabinet'''. |
| - | *[[4 Gregs]] | + | *Email [[record book]] {{--}} Strong Bad says that "'''Bubs''' won cutest couple" in [[Count Longardeaux's Book|his record book]]. |
| + | *Email [[isp]] {{--}} Bubs and Strong Bad head down to the "'''datum''' center". | ||
| + | *[[Decemberween Short Shorts]] {{--}} According to [[Coach Z]], "the '74s were the prime of [his] dating '''year'''". | ||
| + | *[[DNA Evidence]] {{--}} Bubs said that his DNA [[snow cone]] "sold like '''hotcake'''!" | ||
| + | *Email [[buried]] {{--}} When talking about the [[Taranchula Black Metal Detector]], [[Schenkel McDoo]] says "Yah guys! Maybe find some '''coin'''!" | ||
| + | *[[Sickly Sam's Big Outing]] {{--}} The cartoon is presented "in '''a color'''!" | ||
| + | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] {{--}} | ||
| + | **The [[Homsar Reservation]] flag is described as "the flag of a proud, weird '''person''', rich with proud, weird '''tradition'''". | ||
| + | **It is said that [[Country]] was "Once a proud land, filled with proud '''person'''". | ||
| + | *[[4 Gregs]] {{--}} [[Tompkins]] exclaims "Ow! All my '''client'''!" when his website is "HAXXORED" by [[The Gregs|Open Source Greg]]. | ||
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| + | ==See Also== | ||
| + | *[[Deliberately Poor English]] | ||
| + | *[[Plural Instead of Singular]] | ||
[[Category:Word running gags]] | [[Category:Word running gags]] | ||
Current revision as of 03:22, 4 November 2022
Many times in the Homestar Runner Universe, a character will use a singular noun in a phrase where it would normally be pluralized.
[edit] Appearances
- King of Town Main Page — The buttons are labelled "'toon" "game", and "download"; The King of Town pronounces them as such.
- A Decemberween Pageant — Bubs says one of his lines as "50 Bag of golds".
- Email kids' book — In Strong Bad's book, "Everyone Is Different", one page reads "Some people wears glasses."
- Email old comics — In the last strip of The Castlefunnies, the King Castlefunny says "Thank you to all our reader."
- Shopping For Danger — One of the items found on Aisle 6 is "A Cracker."
- Email Family Resemblence — While trying to imagine Pom Pom's hypothetical family, Strong Bad states that Pom Pom's parents would be a file cabinet.
- Email record book — Strong Bad says that "Bubs won cutest couple" in his record book.
- Email isp — Bubs and Strong Bad head down to the "datum center".
- Decemberween Short Shorts — According to Coach Z, "the '74s were the prime of [his] dating year".
- DNA Evidence — Bubs said that his DNA snow cone "sold like hotcake!"
- Email buried — When talking about the Taranchula Black Metal Detector, Schenkel McDoo says "Yah guys! Maybe find some coin!"
- Sickly Sam's Big Outing — The cartoon is presented "in a color!"
- Strong Badia the Free —
- The Homsar Reservation flag is described as "the flag of a proud, weird person, rich with proud, weird tradition".
- It is said that Country was "Once a proud land, filled with proud person".
- 4 Gregs — Tompkins exclaims "Ow! All my client!" when his website is "HAXXORED" by Open Source Greg.
