OK, growing up would say something like the above sentence.
My 20-ish year old daughter said it to her friends today, and they asked what the hell she was saying.
I feel somewhat like an idiot asking this, but did any of you ever say something like “Umberrr, you’re in troubllllee!?”
Yeah, Ummmmmmburrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr was big for a couple years where I was growing up. maybe 82-86 or so. To be honest I’m not sure if we had just decided we were too mature, but was still used by younger kids, or if it died out altogether.
I seem to remember in the early seasons of “Facts Of Life” Tootie (Kim Fields) has a catchphrase that was similar.
“Ooooh, someones’ in Truhhh-bulll”…
I think it was written to become like Arnold’s (Diff’rent Strokes) “Wat-choo talkin’ bout, Willis” line, and similarly take the nation by storm, but poor Tootie/Kim never got the acclaim that was showered upon the sublime work of Sir Gary Coleman.