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[[Image:All Our Reader.png|thumb|All one of them.]]
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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==
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*[[King of Town Main Page]] — "'''Toon'''!" "'''Game'''!" "'''Download'''!"
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*[[King of Town Main Page]] — The buttons are labelled "''''toon'''" "'''game'''", and "'''download'''"; [[The King of Town]] pronounces them as such.
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*Email [[old comics]] — "Thank you to '''all our reader'''."
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*[[A Decemberween Pageant]] — [[Bubs]] says one of his lines as "50 '''Bag''' of golds".
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*Email [[kids' book]] — In [[Strong Bad]]'s book, "Everyone Is Different", one page reads "Some people '''wears''' glasses."
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*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'''."
*[[Shopping for Danger]] — One of the items found on Aisle 6 is "'''A Cracker'''."
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*Email [[isp]] — "Lets head down to the '''datum''' center and see what we can find."
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*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'''.
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*[[Decemberween Short Shorts]] — "The '74s were the prime of my dating '''year'''!"
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*Email [[record book]] — Strong Bad says that "'''Bubs''' won cutest couple" in [[Count Longardeaux's Book|his record book]].
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*Email [[buried]] — "Yah guys, mabey find some '''coin'''!"
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*Email [[isp]] — Bubs and Strong Bad head down to the "'''datum''' center".
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*[[DNA Evidence]] — "And it sold like '''hotcake'''!"
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*[[Decemberween Short Shorts]] — According to [[Coach Z]], "the '74s were the prime of [his] dating '''year'''".
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*[[Sickly Sam's Big Outing]] — "In '''a color'''!"
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*[[DNA Evidence]] — Bubs said that his DNA [[snow cone]] "sold like '''hotcake'''!"
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*[[4 Gregs]] — "Ow! All my '''client'''!"
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*Email [[buried]] — When talking about the [[Taranchula Black Metal Detector]], [[Schenkel McDoo]] says "Yah guys! Maybe find some '''coin'''!"
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*[[Sickly Sam's Big Outing]] — The cartoon is presented "in '''a color'''!"
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*[[Strong Badia the Free]] —
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**The [[Homsar Reservation]] flag is described as "the flag of a proud, weird '''person''', rich with proud, weird '''tradition'''".
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**It is said that [[Country]] was "Once a proud land, filled with proud '''person'''".
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*[[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 ==
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==See Also==
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*[[Deliberately Poor English]]
*[[Plural Instead of Singular]]
*[[Plural Instead of Singular]]
[[Category:Word running gags]]
[[Category:Word running gags]]

Revision as of 21:39, 15 May 2021

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.

Appearances

See Also

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