Ashens Halloween Special 2022

[@Tramwithacam]

The fabric made me think the couch had caught fire at some point for a half a second. A proper scare that.

[@omnirox-re3wo]

British

[@tillylainton7555]

I thought that he broke his sofa and i was fully scared for a second 🤣

[@lolocaust4967]

Hah at least I'm not the only one that thought that.

[@UnicornsExist17]

Same here :'D

[@BreadandFaxes]

I love this channel. 14 years and not a single change basically lol

[@alastairward2774]

This is what people mean when they say they miss the old internet.

[@ThePCfreak2011]

I walked past my sister the other week watching one of his videos and she said no way your still watching him... obviously his content is just the best

[@harshbarj]

Well, except a lot of dropped content. It's now basically just a "look at the crap I found at the pound shop". Still fun, but not the same. I'd actually like to see him bring back the MRE thing he did a few times.

[@BenjaminGoose]

Except for his presenting style.

[@danceswithdirt7197]

He lost a lot of hair.

[@MittenzandCash8929]

I started watching this when I was at school and now I’m an adult. The Ashens Specials truly have been the only constant in my life

[@danceswithdirt7197]

Wow, fast childhood. The video is only 18.5 minutes long. (ha ha ha)

[@faunatide]

@@danceswithdirt7197 I hate that I laughed

[@joshua-kramer]

The video isn't THAT long

[@patmustardlive]

Pointless shite. I’ve been on KZbin from day one. Before Google bought and fucked it

[@smb-c3po]

I was already out of school by the time I started watching Ashens, Class of 2011 here.

[@sparky4878]

That jump scare really got me! I needed my Poundland toilet paper.

[@alkestos]

And those scary sound effects during the video. Had me shivering in me trousers.

[@alkestos]

And that capital punishment gonk. Jeebus, talk about scary.

[@henchest]

The scariest item

[@SsnakeBite]

Same, always need a snack to recover from a big scare.

[@venomcake1768]

Good thing they are such a reasonable price

[@jentzi23]

I didn't see that the black thing was fabric so I was like "He has finally set fire to the sofa". Edit: The braid-Gonk makes me think of Obelix.

[@alkestos]

Gonk.

[@jonasthemovie]

Dito

[@chloejessica7961]

yeah, i was like "that's not braids, that's Obelix's mustache"

[@HappyJesusFreak]

Oh my gosh I thought the same thing 😂

[@Battledongus]

Haha me too the nose as well!

[@QueenFreak13]

Honestly, the tinsel black cat just brought back happy memories of Halloween from my childhood. My grandpa had one and would put it out on the mailbox every year. Nothing anyone but me cares about, I know, but it brought me a little bit of happiness

[@Shortstackgem]

'She's collapsed from the horror of it.' Why did this make me snort with laughter? 😄

[@MO_OKAYU_GU]

I walked into Wilko yesterday and thought to myself “I can’t wait for the ashens Halloween special”, and low and behold my wish has been granted

[@alkestos]

How spooky. It was like a premonition from behind the grave. Without that grave part, or spookyness… or being a premonition. Otherwise though, exactly like that.

[@fiskrond9212]

I went into Lidl today to see if they had any specials on.. but it was mostly normal staff today

[@kjw21411]

Lo, not low

[@XanthinZarda]

A new Homestar Runner halloween toon, an Ashens special, it's a good time.

[@fiskrond9212]

@@kjw21411 is lo a silent laugh?.. where you make the facial gesture but with no vocal.. a silent 'l'... A bit like a social-media selfie of 'hey wow you just caught me having a spontaneous great time!!!'' But their eyes don't tell lies...

[@EvilBlackCat]

I had a black cat name Drusilla (the one from my profile pictures) who passed away this spring. But when she was young we came across that exact tinsel cat at the Dollar Tree. We had just watched the Family Guy episode with Bitch Stewie the Stewie clone. So we called the tinsel cat Bitch Dru. Drusilla did not like Bitch Dru. We recently found Bitch Dru in storage and it made us smile. Happy to see her cousins are still finding homes as well.

[@msmockturtle4921]

I respect Bitch Dru

[@MelkiorMonster]

So sorry you most your baby this spring, but glad you found some happy memories with the tinsel cat 🐈‍⬛

[@samholdsworth420]

Rip dru

[@thetimetravellingtailor6323]

I almost choked on my water when stuart said "let's get the gonks out the way" gonks had been gone from my mind for some blissful months and now apparently the mere utterance of gonk makes me laugh my stomach out.

[@DrewDawkins]

Dang! That intro startled my bones right outta my body. (Don't worry, Slepp shall receive the bones promptly)

[@nyan0812nerd]

can't believe you took this long to give slepp the idol your bones :/

[@RS250Squid]

I got the joke! It feels like we're one big family 😊

[@kraio-sfu]

Perhaps the most valuable part of this video to me is that it taught me the word “lenticular,” or “when a picture changes when you look at it from different angles.” Lovely!

[@Warpath86x0]

I'm homeless and after a rough day out here, ashens video usually gives me a good laugh. Also the holiday specials are some of my favorites. He always seems to pick out the most charming and funny little items out of poundland. I go to the dollar stores here in the U.S. and see similar stuff.

[@username-mk4qv]

Sorry to hear about your situation, best of wishes this coming winter season. Stay safe out there friend

[@quackwalks]

Keep up the hard work, that is existing in this north American society, and don't give up.

[@tictacmothma]

I had to live outside when I was in college. (My scholarship wasn't enough to cover a room, and my jobs had to pay for tuition that my scholarship didn't quite cover all the way.) The worst part about being homeless was all the stereotypes that people believe about us just because we've been stuck without a place to stay for a while. And it's all made worse by the fact that most people aren't interested in the truth about who we really are. Every time I see something on a KZbin channel that promotes one of those stereotypes, I unsubscribe immediately. I can't stand to hear the stereotypes. It makes me feel like I'm imploding into a sea of some sort of acid that rots away my entire body from the inside out.

[@simonrockstream]

@@tictacmothma explain

[@silvesby]

Nice that these videos gather us all here, regardless of our situation, where we can laugh. Fight on, stay safe, and godspeed to ya mate. All the best to you

[@AstorReinhardt]

I actually really liked the Gem Bugs. Feels like they need to be in some low budget movie about Egypt. They're cursed items in some tomb that unlucky bandits pick to loot.

[@speedwaynutt]

Hands up who misses the Silver Skull.

[@herbiehusker1889]

👋

[@lukecross5245]

✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋✋

[@alkestos]

Silvery chode was good enough replacement for me.

[@brianartillery]

And his virtuoso organ noodlings.

[@hollypierce3076]

🦹🙋🙋🙋🙋

[@Nick_Jarrett]

the innocent faces of poundland staff when stuart walks into the shop

[@cristianmr08]

That’s the fucking theme to angry buds

[@TrashbashMan]

Ashens: Apologizes for defiling the Holy Couch Skeleton hand: 👌

[@catfoodzplz]

The transformer noise when the spider unfolded and then the spider running around made me laugh so hard I cried

[@Schatten.mensch]

"Do not eat the sun!" - a useful thing to keep in mind when training the wolf Skalli!

[@pocketstationman6364]

Or talking with Vexoria.

[@m00k61]

Imagine the embarrassment being the vampire that meets his fate to the Poundland Skeleton Hand Stake lololo

[@rkbranded]

If ashens is doing a Halloween special, it can only mean one thing............We're one month away from Advent Calendar Days!!

[@tncorgi92]

I hope we have some unusual ones this year. That "Pensioner's Breakfast" was cool.

[@Alibm80]

Yesssssssss!

[@KristenZianourry2015]

My favorite holiday is Halloween but for some reason my favorite videos by ashens is the easter poundland videos

[@leighw548]

I can't wait!!!! I hope they picked good ones...... Or entertainingly bad ones lol

[@silverbeach1557]

Had one of those tinsel cats as a child. Actual cat freaked out by it, without fail, every year. Highly recommended.

[@tncorgi92]

It does look quite startled and startling. Not sure what my dogs would think of it.

[@chinghamburger2200]

Those lenticular photo frames are from the 2019 Halloween special, I'm sure of it haha. I think it's from the 2019 one they just look really familiar

[@MetanoiaMan]

He's definitely reviewed them! I'm not sure the year though Edit: To be fair, he's been at it quite a while! Plus, with all the goings on of the world, heck my whole days are blurring together!

[@MiniSoot]

yup he’s done them before

[@danceswithdirt7197]

Lenticular stuff never goes out of style IMO.

[@mrnaughtycat]

I’ve got one of a ww1 soldier and he looks just like on of me friends and turned int o freaked out skeleton with dread locks

[@dvanzuijlekom]

The extremely British jumpscare had me literally laughing out loud. So polite and almost apologetic ^_^

[@DataDante]

I'm thinking those bug gummies are some sort of universal experience. We all thought they disappeared because our parents stopped buying them but no... They were with us all along. Like that footprints in the sand thing.

[@smb-c3po]

Aldi has been really obsessed with gonks all year, they sell seasonal themed gonks now.

[@wulfone5961]

When I was a kid in the 90's we had those jelly bugs here in the US but they were called slimey slurpees. They were shaped like bugs spiders snakes and frogs. They basically tasted like artificial chemically fruit. As a kid I thought they were great. I would probably find them disgusting now. We also had giant gummy spiders. They were pretty good.

[@xenalin1]

9:45 "This product is NOT INDESTRUCTIBLE" thanks for clearing that up lol

[@mariashanahan7102]

The squeaky dog toy actually sent my dog over and got him sniffing the phone lmao

[@SlugSpit]

hearing ashens bring up The Binding of isaac made me way to happy

[@benwinter5295]

7:20 Although it seems like a horrific waste of packaging, it's important to remember you can re-use the 'mould' to make interesting ice cubes, perhaps for a halloween party :)

[@TessaOswin]

Or to mould jelly or chocolate.

[@benwinter5295]

@@TessaOswin I wouldn't try smelting gold into novelty shaped bullion though :)

[@boskostoybox]

Valour pumpkins look like they would make nice props for Green Goblin cosplay

[@dustycrustyhomelessman1648]

that straw does give fuse vibes

[@toddhaynes3663]

I want that cat more than I've ever wanted anything in my life... Just the thought of someone driving by my house, glancing over, and seeing that in the window, makes me laugh uncontrollably.

[@TheyForgotMySalad]

I adore those gem bugs! I'd turn them into brooches and wear them year round.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Damn, why didn't I get any Gem Bugs at Dollarama?

[@Kumimono]

Happy to see at least a part of Silver Skull making a return.

[@medkittydewfur691]

B&M, according to their website, are apparently doing quite a few GONK related things for Christmas and Halloween.. including the Christmas Gonk Snowglobe. The description, of course, reads: "No festive home is complete without a gonk snowglobe!". Bloody marvelous.

[@riddimchef1]

Gonks were a thing in the 60s 😂

[@yodabearer2668]

Those bug jellies remind me of the He-Man jellies of the 80s, they were delicious.

[@meatblazestudios3778]

Or Creepy Crawlers to us 90s kids...

[@MelkiorMonster]

I hecking love startled tinsel cat, I hope he returns with a tiny tinsel hat for the Christmas special.

[@commgen]

Just as an FYI those "dog toys" from poundland last about an hour and a half with my collie. Christ she went through a "Kong" toy as if it was butter! I love my pup!

[@skootergirl22]

Same with my mums border terrier he'll destroy anything

[@lolocaust4967]

Yup my great dane destroys them in minutes. Kong toys too. Yet he's surprisingly gentle with a tennis ball.

[@thomastabaka2682]

I love these specials, I’m excited looking forward to them every year!

[@TheCrazyHedgehogLady]

I was stuck in hospital all day yesterday, and had to get transfused again (Lot of health battles, but this weird, crazy hedgehog lady is winning! Plus hey, subsisting on the blood of the living is kinda seasonal! 😜) and was feeling rough and really down tonight. Then this popped up just now in my YT feed and legit made me squee so loudly, my hedgehog gave me annoyed side-eye. We watched and as always, LOVED it! Thanks so much for all your great content. You’ve brightened my day and helped me keep smiling more than once, so figured I should let you know. Keep at it! Quillemina the weird, adorable little hedgehog and I think you rock! 🤘🏻🎃😁🦔

[@wistfulbirb]

"thats the Gonk report" looking forward to more news on the gonk front ashens, god speed. may you be protected from, and blessed by the gonks.

[@alkestos]

Just like the dozen halloween specials before it. Exactly how I like it. Thank you. Here, have a pumpkin 🎃. And a ghost 👻.

[@3lapsed]

"Let us never mention it again" We haven't Stuart! You're the one who keeps bringing it up!

[@theritchie2173]

Having followed the channel for more years than I care to admit, apparently this may be my first (that I can remember) Halloween special? Boy did I feel a fool when loudly uttering the traditional "Hellooooo".

[@H4ZM4TT]

Ashens liking binding of Isaac and mentioning the sad onion is really great. 2 things I’ve liked for a long time

[@ChanandIerBong]

With those bugs you can reenact the "slimy yet satisfying" scene from The Lion King.

[@markthintie5132]

@4:44 Looks like a Viking to me. I confess The Lost Vikings and Heimdall on Amiga is one of my faves.

[@DoctorAutopsy]

Something about the velour pumpkin made me burst out into a fit of laughter. I'm not sure if my sense of humor is broken or the phrase "velour pumpkin" is genuinely that funny.

[@lazlazuli7934]

I have the tinsel cat for a few years now, when my landlord was doing the Halloween hunt for kids (each shop in town would participate in giving small candy to little toddlers for ToTing) there was these little plastic pumpkin baskets filled with candy (smaller than your hand type) she told me to take one and I use it on my little tinsel cat as well as a red ribbon around the neck. Love it.

[@Max-bg8jk]

I can't help but wonder what an Ashens directed Halloween movie would be like.

[@AgentTasmania]

He's quite into low-budget horror and filmmaking, so it'd be entirely possible.

[@tictacmothma]

It would be like his 2011 Halloween Special.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

@@AgentTasmania I wouldn't be surprised if that was his next movie after Paul Gannon and the Horny Sailor.

[@adventurercj6333]

Ashens Halloween movie but he can only use items from his Halloween specials as props.

[@danceswithdirt7197]

@Max possibly similar in quality to the Polybius Heist. That's got a 5.8 on IMDB as of right now.

[@kefki]

These vid’jas make my weird lil’ heart so happy… That skull… reminds me of Sir Daniel Fortesque from Medieval!

[@taiya001]

Those gem ones would be a good embellishment on a cape for a witch costume.

[@matt29131234]

Watching this after a night out Ashens: "Is your dog at home going mad yet?" Me: spinning out because of the noise

[@skootergirl22]

Are you a dog?

[@matt29131234]

@@skootergirl22 certainly felt like one

[@skootergirl22]

@@matt29131234 are ypu a furry?

[@SeraphimKnight]

When that skeleton hand came out I literally burst out laughing... We play that game in the warehouse at work and the first thing I thought is "damn that skeleton got me".

[@KibbKat1]

We have the Gonks over in America too now and I still don’t understand why but I love them ❤

[@SharonLougheed]

I love these specials. Thank you for still doing these.

[@-throat-]

​^ (to the tune of "Mr. Heat Miser") he's mr. fakerrrrrr he's mr. scam (bada, dada) he's mr. scammerino he's mr. no-more-money

[@SharonLougheed]

@@-throat- The funny thing is KZbin auto deleted my reply to the scammer, but kept their comment up, even after I reported it. lol But omg that old reference was good XD

[@-throat-]

@@SharonLougheed - Haha, thanks =)

[@mrcxko4218]

15 years of quality content damn I feel old

[@MattTester]

The skull reminds me of Medievil on the PS1., or maybe a bit of Nightmare before Christmas. There's a Christmas gonk on my Sealey advent calendar, I don't think it was added to the image by anyone but just appeared after printing.

[@maxshep2829]

Haha, i thought of Medievil too!

[@nelliemelba4967]

Love the spider impression! And I really want a black tinsel cat now!

[@ezraw98]

We've had one of those tinsel black cats for years now! When our black cat was younger she was actually afraid of it 😂 (My younger sister loved to chase her around the house holding the tinsel cat)

[@tammymilda2169]

“get the gonks out of the way” 😂 what we’re all thinking

[@spicydragon3881]

That jump scare is giving me nightmares now, so thanks for that. What an absolutely terrifying lot of Halloween goodies. The tinsel cat looks so realistic and horrifying the trick or treators will most definitely be scared right away, lol.

[@Galantium]

the Gonks are my favorite Ashens cinematic universe recurring characters

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

I miss the Grass Masks...

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Neither are a patch on the Reliable Reindeer and we all know it.

[@joshbi]

Somehow nothing has scared me on this channel quite like Doctor War jumping back and forth declaring his name.

[@SilverDawnArrow]

TINSEL CAT! I have one I bought from Sainsburys a few years back and I love him so much. He's been sitting on my hearth all month, then he'll go back on a shelf until next year

[@RS250Squid]

Wooo! Another cherished tradition returns!!

[@mrnaughtycat]

My fave one of those face changing old school photos is a ww1 soldier that looks like one of me mates and turns into a freaked out skeleton with dread locks

[@Trololoc]

Another Halloween special, and hopefully many more to come!

[@TnT_F0X]

Woo, I love the Holiday Tat, Keep up the good work and bring us back Barshens... I miss Eli.

[@evankimori]

I'm dying laughing when he got out the Travel Mode spider and made the sound effects. Never change Ashens. You bring so much joy to us!!!

[@jadethenidoran]

The binding of Isaac is not something I'd have expected Ashens to reference but I dig it

[@STKMY94]

Oh damn, that jump scare at the start really got me.

[@godslaughter]

I was eating sushi (actually just sipping the leftover soy sauce) when you played the silent screaming sound from the sound box and when you said "that was a bit quiet, again" and played the exact same screaming sound just louder, presumably closer to the mic, I actually inhaled the soy sauce and almost choked. Good times, true spirit of Halloween.

[@godslaughter]

"Is the dog in your house going mad yet?" * squeak squeak squeak * With me being the dog, yes, I am.

[@godslaughter]

You are right, ashens, pumpkins are fruit! But I still quite like the soft little pumpkin, it's cute and charming plus it's light and easy to place on things. I think it makes sense from a decor standpoint.

[@darrenletts6392]

I hope he does the Advent calendar for Christmas this year

[@BundyOS]

You are the constant in my life which never seizes to entertain me no matter how down I am. I love it.

[@JustAnEverydayAccount]

Aww man Neptune was looking so appetising today😢

[@KougajiCalling]

Right?!?

[@Ragsna]

6:00 - Slime Slurps!! I remember them! I loved the alien versions. They were sooo good.

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

I remember getting them for a quarter each when i was younger hahha

[@nathanforester5993]

Ah yes, haunted portraits...one of my favorite types of halloween props.

[@jubbie1122]

Glad it wasn't just me who instantly thought of Isaac with that skull!

[@paulharries9558]

After that opening I am feeling a mix of terror and fear. Terear. Fror. Arrrrrrrgh.

[@RockismyAir]

You sir, are a genius.

[@walonsubi]

Just the sound of rubbing that pumpkin is making my skin crawl.

[@trinityrhino]

I thought I'd missed you setting fire to the couch lol

[@ClydeFr0g911]

When me and my friends would do that circle game it would be a punch to the nuts

[@lhaviland8602]

9:18 Not that Stuart would ever use this power of course.

[@SteveBrandon]

That skull reminds me of videogames in a different way. Paint it red and it looks like the super-stylized "tako" octopuses.. octopi?... they have jumping out of the water in many Japanese 8-bit and 16-bit platform games such as the Wonder Boy/Monster World series on the Sega Master System (and also on some other consoles). Imagine the nasal cavity as the mouth and the rounded teeth as folded up tentacles.

[@iknowdawae893]

This guy never changed yet he's entertaining me to this day

[@rzeka]

When I was a kid I had a kit that let you make your own candies like those creepy jelly bugs. You melted a bunch of sugar goop and poured it into a mold shaped like a bug, and would come out just like those.

[@RussianSevereWeatherVideos]

Thanks for making such a lovely video, it's become a tradition now.

[@frankowalker4662]

I think the black spider was the creepiest, and I love spiders. But that cat with the wonky eyes takes the biscuit for hilarity !

[@philipstephens5960]

At first I thought you had burnt the couch, before realizing it was fabric 😂

[@martynstraughan5932]

Same here.

[@persephoneolympia3078]

The world isn't complete without an ashens special 😊

[@clotho98]

Only 32 more days until Ashens Advent Calendars!

[@brianartillery]

Sigue Sigue Sputnik. What a laugh. What a great noise. And yes, vocalist (singer he was not), Martin Degville used to wear bits of fishnet (from where, nobody ever asked) over his face. Yes. It was a 'thing'.

[@LindzTheLooneyOfLondon]

The skull looks like Boney from 'The Trap Door' stop animation voiced by the awesome Willie Rushton, it was also a good Sinclair game!

[@richinderbyshire4779]

My thought exactly :)

[@skootergirl22]

I remember

[@MrLego3160]

The skulls are called hosts, and you can get a host hat that protects from explosions.

[@chinghamburger2200]

I've been looking forward to this, I strangely love all the Valentines,Easter,Halloween and your Christmas specials. Every single year I await the glorious video's. You are father Christmas for all holidays. Father Ashens who brings us all joy with tat from every holiday

[@RGG800]

Man, tat truly does transcends continents. I bought the same damn cat on Walmart earlier this month

[@JustAnEverydayAccount]

THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE TEAR HAS COME AGAIN!!!!

[@AtheistOrphan]

Tiny tears?

[@martin_dickinson]

Fun fact Silly String was originally invented to be a spray on casting material for broken limbs but it's inventors had way too much fun in the lab that it became the legend that is Silly String 👍