All up ons
From Homestar Runner Wiki
"All up ons" is a contraction that means "all upon us." This contraction was used extensively in Old English and appears in multiple plays attributed to Shakespeare. Strongbad actually attempts to clarify the meaning of the phrase in this email by saying "now that the summer months are all upon us...", but later tricks Strong Sad by offering a very cunning non-definition. Many people have fallen prey to the trickery of Strong Bad in this case, as "all upons" is not a colloquial usage describing popularity. However, the phrase appears in many places in the Homestar Runner body of work that don't have anything to do with this usage, often where "up on" would be sufficient. A variation on this phrase has also occured in the form of "All up ins".
Appearances
- Debut: Email suntan — The origin of the saying: Strong Bad made Strong Sad to say it in an advertisement for the Ab-Abber 2000. The Ab-Abber's slogan is "They'll be all up ons!" This may be a variation of the phrase "all up on us" used by Strong Bad earlier in the same email.
- Hallrunner — When you face an obstacle, the game says "You come all up on an obstacle."
- New Boots and These Peoples Try to Fade Me — Coach Z's CD is called "The Z Is All Up Ins", a variant of the term.
- Email dreamail — Female Lappy 486 tells Strong Bad that in replying to his email he played well and that "Those ladies are sure to be all up ons."
- Email geddup noise — The AM Morning "CRUDE" Crew has The Geddup Noise "all up in this piece".
- Email death metal — After describing the requirements for death metal, Strong Bad first says "all you gotta do is hunch all up on yourself".
- Email lady fan — In a panel of the comic Buck Webb, Extraordinaire, Strong Bad advises the sender of the email to drop his girlfriend if she is not all up ons after all the "extra special cool" things Strong Bad has done to impress her.
- Thy Dungeonman 3 — Near the beginning of the game, the phrase "shimmy all up on the dead dongrel" is used.
- Email senior prom — Strong Bad crashes the "Entrapment All Up On the Moon" Dance.
- Trudgemank — Peacey P has "metal-heads all up in" his STU G.O.
- Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque — Strong Bad says the camera is "all up in the safe".
