There are right ways to do things and wrong ways to do things. This is the wrong way to do things.
“All of THE sudden, there it was.”
I don’t know where you people are picking this up from. Perhaps you’ve hopped in a time machine and gone back to the 1500s recently.
But the correct idiomatic phrase in English is “All of a sudden.”
So just stop it. Drives me crazy.
KEN WHEATON 