Everybody Everybody
Except Homsar! Except Homsar!
"Everybody Everybody" is a simple phrase highly connected with Homestar Runner, often used to refer to the main characters or idiosyncratically as a replacement for a single "everybody" in a sentence. The phrase has been variously punctuated with a separating comma, exclamation points after both words, or no special punctuation at all.
The prominence and recognizability of "Everybody, Everybody" is due to its usage in a song of the same name. A simple earworm composed of a brief synthesizer loop accompanied by childlike voices singing "Everybody, everybody!" (the phrase is repeated six times, for a total of 12 "everybody"s), the song was featured in an introductory animation for homestarrunner.com — at first playing automatically, then prominently linked from the index page — that greeted visitors to the site for nearly 20 years. As explained in an interview, the singing is actually The Brothers Chaps' voices sped up to be higher-pitched, inspired by the Japanese children's chorus in the "Gamera March" (which was famously parodied in Mystery Science Theater 3000). "Everybody Everybody" has frequently been used as a theme song (more so than another early attempt at a theme song) or slogan for the site and body of work as a whole.
Appearances
The song
Sheet music.
- Debut: Old Everybody Intro — The song "Everybody! Everybody!" is first heard, accompanying an animation featuring the words "everybody everybody" onscreen and all the main characters (Homsar is not included, as he had not been created yet).
- Old New Intro — The song plays in the background again. Though the word "everybody" no longer appears onscreen, Homestar Runner sings along (albeit out of time with the melody): "Everybody! Lah-dee-dah-dee-dah! Everybody! Lah-dee-dah-dee-dah!"
- Flag Intro — An earlier version of this introduction (judging by Homestar's design) features different graphics and cuts off before the song finishes.
- Ween Intro — Virtually identical, apart from Homestar's outfit colors changing to Halloween-themed orange and black.
- Dancin' Bubs — The song is one of the options Bubs can dance to.
- A Holiday Greeting and Decemberween Email Menu — A Decemberween version of the song is sung.
- Who Said What Now? — The Cheat's quote is singing to the tune of the song.
- Email the basics — The email intro is based on the song.
- King of Town Intro — The King of Town sings the song in this version, though he performs a "doo-hoo" version rather than singing the lyrics.
- Weclome Back — The song plays over the ending group shot.
- Email what i want (Easter egg) — The Homestar Runner Dancin' Musical Nobot dances to a low-quality recording of the song.
- strongbad email.exe Disc Five — The song plays during the DVD intro.
- Everything Else, Volume 3 — An Atari 2600-style arrangement of the song plays on the Big Toons menu.
- April Fool 09 — The intro is Sbemailiarized.
- Xeriouxly Forxe — The song is briefly heard before transitioning to a remixed version.
- Squintmojis (Easter egg) — The song accompanies Squintmoji Homestar's running.
- 2022 Costume Pack Now Available — Whenever the download bar progresses, it plays a series of notes that match this song's counterpoint.
- Decemberweenvent Calendar (Day 1)
The phrase
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- Index Page — The phrase is used as the page title.
- April Fool 2014 — The opening of the toon is modeled after the index page, replacing the page title with "Everybody! Everybody?".
- In Search of the Yello Dello Theatrical Trailer — The rating screen declares that the preview has been approved for "EVERYBODY! EVERYBODY!".
- Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene — A similar screen appears.
- Wallpapers — One of the wallpapers depicts the characters accompanied by text reading "everybody! everybody!".
- Homestar Runner Screensaver — The attached text file includes "Everybody! Everybody!" among several other phrases.
- Everybody Everybody Poster — The phrase is written at the top of the poster, giving it its name.
- Email long pants — The phrase is used in Homestar's tirade about his pants.
- Weclome Back — Homestar addresses "everybody, everybody", and a caption reading the same thing accompanies the group shot at the end.
- Hremail 7 — Homestar prefaces the email by greeting "everybody everybody".
- Email sbemail 206 — The index page is given an old-timey makeover, and an animatronic The Homestar Runner introduces the site with "E'erybody, e'erybody."
- Store —
- It's Dot Com Shirt — The Store description uses the phrase.
- Everybody Everybody Shirt — The phrase is written on the shirt.
- Everybody! Everybody! shirt — A shirt featuring all the main characters is given the name "Everybody! Everybody!".
- Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2 — The toon's descriptions mention everybody everybody calling Marzipan.
- Meeple Grove —
- @StrongBadActual explains that "Everybody everybody gets meepulized and shimmies in place in this little short."
- The social media accounts for Trogdor!! The Board Game introduce the toon with the message "Everybody (Everybody) Check out our surprise meeple video we made!"
- @StrongBadActual tweet (1 Dec 2020) — Strong Bad assures "everybody everybody" that homestarrunner.com will be preserved in the Internet version of the National Register of Historic Places.
- Old Everybody Intro — While most of the intros use the phrase as the page title, this intro's title was changed to the variation "Allverybody! Allverybody!" after the post-Flash site update.
- Halloween Hide & Seek — Homestar says he has to "go find everybody everybody".
See Also
External Links
- Download "Everybody Everybody" (.MP3 file in .ZIP archive)
- "Everybody, Everybody" on Songwhip
