Ashens' secret to success is that he makes seemingly not interesting objects appear unappealing to people, who would never buy them.

@TomTastyTreats

3 ай бұрын

as you do

@PrimeGlaz

3 ай бұрын

He single handedly closed poundworld.

@Crosshill

3 ай бұрын

theres not a lot of content that truly appeals to my distaste for random cheaply made garbage

@feathercat9118

3 ай бұрын

With this much charisma, he could make watching paint dry interesting.

@favoritemustard3542

3 ай бұрын

I now feel incomplete w/o some golden Easter wellies...

Theres a designer at poundland who stares dead eyed at these designs, muttering, "this year He will like it... This year...."

I can confirm that chicks come out of the egg wet and slimy with goo and slowly dry off into being super fluffy.

*Ashens sees a rabbit holding a golden butt plug* "Oh, it looks kind of like an urn!"

@Wemius61

3 ай бұрын

A 24 carat butt plug, no less... (sorry)

@gl15col

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing...plus with it's eyeless face it's pretty disturbing.

@superscatman4236

3 ай бұрын

The base isn't nearly flared enough.

@bladepanthera

3 ай бұрын

I quite like it, butt plug and all. The shape reminds me of the penguin from Wallace & Gromit's The Wrong Trousers 😆

@danforbes3573

3 ай бұрын

Ashens knew exactly what it looked like. He just did not want to say it

Barry Lewis would probably like the carrot whisk for his gadget drawer.

Fun fact! In US Walmart you can get the carrot whisk marketed as an egg dye tool. Yes really. You're supposed to flatten the whisk part and tuck the egg inside, then let your kids use that to dip the eggs into dye in an attempt to not dye their hands. Which will almost certainly not work, but for the low low price of ~US$2.50 you can have a new piece of plastic for the holiday!

@MrWolfSnack

3 ай бұрын

It's likely to get around the FDA laws that govern chinese imports. the plastic and paint is likely not FDA certified so to get around it they just brand it as an egg holder as a loophole so it doesn't get used for cooking scrambled eggs.

I can give some insight on the egg carton mystery: I work in a preschool and can say that the egg carton is a knock-off of a preexisting toy. The eggs for the official version have the shapes molded to the bottom of them so that they can slot into the corresponding spot. Also, the eggs for the official toy have different colored chicks inside that “peep” when you push down on them (kind of horrifying when children pretend to cook them…). Poundland seems to have the mold for the carton, but not the mold for the proper eggs, so they included eggs that are possibly from another toy set.

@anotherhopelessuser

3 ай бұрын

Can confirm the carton is from the Tomy egg sorter with 'peep'ing chicks in, the eggs are from a different set that was a 12 carton of eggs that just do shapes inside

@Idiotic_B_Purcell

3 ай бұрын

My brother has one that's a whole dozen version of the one shown here (with 12 shapes and 6 colors), albeit without the holes at the bottom of the carton. Didn't know about the chicks version until now. Either way it's a nice take on the classic shapes-going-in-the-holes toys tbh

I bet Stuart didn't noticed how reflective that golden carrot was during recording. We see you in your hat.

"Save Robot Dog from the Gonks" sounds like a pitch for a Doctor Who episode.

"Why is rabbit flat?" is my new favorite sentence

@lmoore3rd

3 ай бұрын

Traffic

@favoritemustard3542

3 ай бұрын

Easier to stack.

I audibly gasped "no!" when you tore off that strip from the grass bunny

been watching your content since high school, always a constant in my life; never change, Ashens

@RTU130

3 ай бұрын

Same

@sozzll

3 ай бұрын

middle school for me but yea love this channel has given me so many good videos

@Vendzor

3 ай бұрын

Since elementary lol, graduating university this summer

@fleggle

2 ай бұрын

Death, taxes & Ashens filming on the brown sofa

2:12 - boring correction that hopefully someone will care about: "ЛВ." (LV) is short for 'Bulgarian Lev", not "Ruble"- so, Sofia, not Moscow:) Never knew that Pepco was actually an international branch of Poundland- I knew Dealz was one one of them, (same colour scheme), but that one snuck on on me!

@dgirllamius____x

3 ай бұрын

I've seen a Pepco shop in Germany, I've never been in it and I have no idea what they sell but I wonder if it's the same?

@sebastianwlodarczyk

3 ай бұрын

​@@dgirllamius____x I haven't been in one for years, so maybe it changed since then, but they mostly sell clothes and some home "clutter" (cups, candles, picture frames etc)- generally it not a lot of weird tat there. That said, I just found a figurine of a hare doing yoga and some easter gonks on their website:D

@renroxhrd

3 ай бұрын

Color*

@karolkozik5918

2 ай бұрын

​@@dgirllamius____x Sort of. They're also here in Poland. Their main product is clothes, and larger ceramic "home design" tat as in pots, crockery and stuff like that. They do have a toys section but it's usually more broader Chinese imports that aren't branded by them. And a lot of coloring books and other crappy children's literature. Also there's a slowly growing pet toys section.

Even watership down wouldn't have shown you stitches the bisected rabbit.

@mastert4303

3 ай бұрын

A good film but freaky definitely not for kids 😂🤣

@dswcartoons

3 ай бұрын

all I know about that movie is 1. Rabbit violence, and 2. Art Garfunkel.

@Trassel242

3 ай бұрын

No, the other film by the same people called Plague Dogs might, though. It was extremely upsetting to watch as a teenager, and I can handle most horror films, but animal abuse is a sore spot for me and the plot is basically that two dogs escape from a laboratory where they’ve been experimented upon in the way that was still legal in the 1970’s, and that’s shown in detail. It was inspired by the experiments early behaviourists like Skinner had done.

@ABrit-bt6ce

3 ай бұрын

Bigwig ought to be the next Ashens Movie. That bad (almost) invincible motherf* ought to have his own slasher film.

@professorpenne9962

3 ай бұрын

looks like if my dog found a rabbit in the back yard and tried to piece it back together like nothing happened

"Imperial Battleship - speed up the flow of time!" - I admit, I did not expect a Star Crash reference. I am surprised in a most pleasant way.

5:07 that rabbit is holding the Holy Hand Grenade

@donwyoming1936

3 ай бұрын

Nice. You win the internet today. 🤠

@Corkoth55

3 ай бұрын

Three, sir

@bladepanthera

3 ай бұрын

One... Two...

@johnjohnhasabashat...2279

3 ай бұрын

I was thinking more the Holy Buttplug. 🤔

@OtakuboyT

3 ай бұрын

Run Away! Run Away!

Yay Ashens easter time, although no Easter special will ever top THE GOOSE

@mgthestrange9098

3 ай бұрын

I was just thinking about that, I wonder if he still has it.

@tncorgi92

3 ай бұрын

​@@mgthestrange9098I like to think he has a storage or warehouse unit where all the extremely interesting items reside forever. In reality he probably makes multiple trips to the charity shop or to the trash bin.

@Buzz_the_Cat

3 ай бұрын

@@tncorgi92it’s in the yet to be announced tat museum

@mgthestrange9098

3 ай бұрын

@@tncorgi92if I owned The Goose, it would be pride of place in my house and I’d treasure it forever. 🪿

@moloch5801

3 ай бұрын

@@mgthestrange9098 He does still have it - he said someday he'd like to use it in a Robot Wars style battle to the death versus Thermidor II (owned by his cousin)

You are correct. When Chicks hatch - they are quite wet. They dry off pretty quickly tho. Fluffy after.

Newborn chicks are pretty soggy when they first hatch, but once they dry out they are very fuzzy~🐣

I ate my annual hot cross bun today, and now I've watched Ashens. Easter Completed.

The rabbit bowl must be filled with Trix breakfast cereal. 😋

8:09 - "I mean, replace the rabbit with a human and you got some deviantArt stuff going on" Sir, I don't think you're fully aware of the full extent of deviantArt depravity. It doesn't have to be a human. In fact we can keep it a rabbit, and those people will be satisfied...

@KristenZianourry2015

2 ай бұрын

Thats true

@SmD-ff5xd

Ай бұрын

oh he knows, there was an inflatable tiger years ago and he just said "deviantart" before smash cutting to the next item😂

The fake lego wombat and the bird clips were definitely highlights this year. I like how the fake lego had lots of smaller pieces so you could make it into other things easily, it wasn't just some mini figure.

@MrWolfSnack

3 ай бұрын

The cost ratio of making bootleg lego parts has likely dropped down low enough they can make huge sets to sell in pound shops. I have seen them getting more and more elaborate. I have a few fake lego models, large models of cars that lego will not or doesn't get license to make. I never promote using glue on lego models but the fake lego was so awful I did have to use glue to hold them together as halfway through the build the whole thing came apart.

3:40 As a chicken and duck farmer, I can confirm that they're covered in goo when they hatch. It's not for a good bit afterwards they really fluff out.

In no particular order: I think that's the Ghost of the Wererabbit (holding the Golden Carrot Award). Freshly-hatched chicks are damp, but dry out quite quickly (I vividly remember a sequence of photos from a book I had as a child, showing the hatching process from start to finish). I think that goose statue has escaped from the weird colouring book with all the giant boots. Ever encountered picture book, "The Flat Rabbit"? Looks as though someone in Poundland's development wing has done so. That fake Lego thing is too plantigrade to be a dog - it's most likely a bear. If only the carrot whisk were metal rather than silicone, I might actually buy one - it looks genuinely quite cool.

The Playboy bunny clutching an urn/marital aid is the kind of temporary decor they had at the Eyes Wide Shut party.

I’ve been watching you for well over 10 years, you always managed to put a smile on my face even when my day isn’t going well, thank you so much, I still watch all of your old videos every so often, you really do bring the holidays to life. Long live the brown sofa❤

It's rare I ever catch an Ashens video this early. Figure I'll just say I've been watching for years and love all his stuff

The gonks made their way to America, I saw some hanging in the mcdonalds inside our local Walmart

@wisteela

3 ай бұрын

A McDonald's in a Walmart?

@kyrathorsinclaire

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I've seen them in Dollar Tree and they are called something else but I want to call them Gonks because of Ashens.

@gwishart

3 ай бұрын

​​@@wisteelasome of the big Walmarts are more like shopping centres. They have all the usual Walmarty stuff (cheese, bread, milk, games consoles, tyres, rifles etc), but they also have other smaller shops inside like McDonalds, Subway, banks, nail salons, dentists, solicitors, funeral directors etc.

@tncorgi92

3 ай бұрын

​@@gwishartours is like that although they cut a couple of shops loose to make room for their pick up and delivery department.

8 years later and your still here … my childhood remains

Please never change ashens

@dcflake5645

3 ай бұрын

He is the least changed KZreadr out there

@kingpanguan

3 ай бұрын

@@dcflake5645 and that's how I like it

So I asked my partner, _"Why do all these rabbits have little pink spots all over them?"_ _"Rabbies."_ She says. _"They all have Rabbies."_ Merry Egg Day Stuart.

"it's Easter Time...Time for a Whisk" said a Member of Parliament probably once.

The Easter Special returns And with that, a return to Poundland

I like the whisk! It's cute!☺ Always exciting when an Ashens video shows something I'd actually buy lol

I swear this guy is the funniest youtuber in all of England. Wish it could meet him one day.

Genuinely surprised Ashens didn't think the rabbit was holding a golden butt plug.

Wow I was REALLY not expecting the reference to Starcrash of all things at 14:12 , beautiful

I just got home from working at poundland thank you for taking the piss out of all the crap I have to pretend to think is good

The duck is wearing wellies because it stole them from Peppa Pig. It was a whole big adventure to get them back. They even went to the moon in Grampy Rabbit's spaceship.

Like I always, its not Easter until Ashens does his Easter Special

7:20 Reminds me when Polly Pocket made home appliances with her animals?

Chicks, straight out of the egg, are all wet and covered with what's left of the inside of the egg. It takes them a little while to become fluffy. So not realistic unless they crawled back into an eggshell a couple hours after.

watched ashens 10 years ago and wanted to check back in where he was at, and im so glad hes still here sometimes with the good ol brown couch

"Poundlaaaaaaaaaaaaand!" The eggs at the end, the bottom of tray mould has been nicked from a Tomy egg set...I know this as I got one for my kid recently.

@littlemissgiggles165

3 ай бұрын

I was saying that to my partner, we had it at my old nursery and don't the eggs have the shapes at the bottom so that they match and stay in the box easier?

Only started watching your videos recently but your videos have helped my anxiety and depression a lot. Thanks mate. Your funny witty humour is amazing 😂

Pepco is a shop in Spain and I'm guessing other European countries. I had no idea it was Poundland tat... I knew it was tat, just not quite Poundland tat

For flock's sake!! Awesome commentary,as always - (kinda liked the wee birdies!)

I'm pretty sure the first item (flat rabbit) was on a previous Easter special. Nice to see it hasn't been forgotten though!

That porcelain rabbit with the buttpl-- urn-- golden carrot has me spinning.

@voltairearouet1374

2 ай бұрын

There's nothing funny about it. Mindless people like you should ask for my permission before commenting.

I started to worry. Good to see you again, dear Dr. Ashens

@voltairearouet1374

2 ай бұрын

Actual sheep mentality.

Its been years since I last watched these videos. incredible nothing has changed at all

I never want to meet the kind of person who swaps out their whisk seasonally. I don't have the energy.

@kirstend9390

3 ай бұрын

Hi, erm, it’s me. I’m so sorry, I can’t even explain it… I know I have a problem 😭😅🙈 (Literally all of the whisks. The Christmas one, the Halloween one, the valentines one….)

@madisoncat405

3 ай бұрын

@@kirstend9390 you know what I'm just jealous because I don't have the energy to care about my whisks because I'm a dysfunctional little gremlin. You keep being you, that's wonderful.

@kirstend9390

3 ай бұрын

@@madisoncat405 I’m a mom to 2 young kids and we do those really cliche ‘seasonal bakes’ together, as an activity. If it wasn’t for them, I’d definitely be a dysfunctional gremlin with no energy for all that too!! 😭😂🩵

Yoooo my favorite easter tradition!

I thought that rabbit holding a "gold carrot" was holding...something you'd put elsewhere in ya.

@Nails_By_Kimberlee

3 ай бұрын

😅😅 same

I had an egg set when I was a kid in the early 90s, from what I remember they're supposed to have the shape on the underside of the egg to sit in the outline in the tray as well as the shape matching inside, so they've almost got it right but seem to have half arsed it midway through production

The Stitchrabbit is an unknowable horror which remains underdiscussed in historical and more contemporary grimoire. Intended to be seen from the side only, the Stitchrabbit is known to roam the forests of the globe in small numbers, luring in prey by appearing to be an otherwise normal rabbit. When its prey is spotted by use of its false eye and within its strike range, it will turn to face its prey and unhinge itself downward from its center, revealing its internal true eyes, mouth, and teeth. Its actual anatomy is understudied as few specimens have even been observed, let alone with a closeness to study and understand its anatomy, but what is understood is that it does not abide by the known rules of logic, physics, and reality. It possesses no viewable throat, stomach or any other construct that doesn't compose the false lagomorphic exterior, and its mouth appears to lead to a void where no form of light pierces, behaving similar to a vantablack surface or a black hole. It is known to consume other prey animals around its own size, up to the size of adult moose, whole and alive. Research is still underway and no known means of containment exist.

No holiday is Complete without Gonk

@Alex-fv2qs

3 ай бұрын

We're still missing the traditional Gonk Easter Crackers

I needed something to whisk my carrots, finally!

SO YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT OUR (italians) PEPCO IS YOUR POUNDLAND? I'm so happy right now.. 😂 i genuinely love that store!

My dad died on Easter 2017 😢 Usually I hate Easter themed activities.... But Stuart puts a smile on my face Cheers mate 🍻

@samholdsworth420

3 ай бұрын

@@CanadianBakin42O 😂 can't deny it.... You got me laughing bro thank you very much

@MAGMA_STARZZ

3 ай бұрын

Fellow fatherless man 🤝 Hope you're doing well though that shit is hard to cope with, know from experience, stay strong!

@stevesleg

3 ай бұрын

Mine passed away on Easter 94

@samholdsworth420

3 ай бұрын

@@stevesleg damn, I would have been 12. Sorry 😔

@mastert4303

3 ай бұрын

Sorry for your loss mate, it's tough when the time gets closer 😞

Just give me a throwback when I First watch your video when I was a kid

Recently watched through Father Ted to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day so now any time I see anything rabbit related I just hear Frank Kelly yelling "RATS" at the top of his lungs

The Condolences Rabbit has a nice vibe to it

You know it's Easter when the mold-green rabbits show up!

My home page misses you, come back my dear sweet ashens

i haven't watched ashens in years. i'm both surprised and delighted at how little he's changed

Hope everyone has a great Easter weekend 😊 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

I really love the whisk

The rabbit bowl looks like something you'd see on Furaffinity.

@zydeco2024

3 ай бұрын

I'm sure you've noticed but in the Patrons at the end Dragoneer has been there foreeeever lol

I cannot believe this man is still going and his content literally hasn't changed for years.

@bonetrader5940

Ай бұрын

And we fucking love him for it

@Moon0525_

Ай бұрын

It's why we keep coming back. To see more useless items, more dry English humour, and more ways he may potentially damage his health.

This Easter Special is the best anime I have ever watched in 2024! 🤣😂 Arigato Stuart Ashens and Happy Easter to You with your love of Poundland Tat!

Imperial Battleship: 'power up the banjo...'

Aldi has been Gonked. Got a choc Gonk from there.

Here in the US, gnomes ( 'gonks' ) are everywhere in just about every grocery store imaginable. It doesn't matter what holiday ... THEY - ARE - THERE

The moss green rabbit is very soothing to a person who used to live in the Pacific Northwest.

4:44 Surely the rabbit doesn't have a bum up which to stuff that golden carrot. 5:08 Shiver me timbers.

Technically the urn rabbit and the flock rabbit are in fact hares (it says so on the label).

1:55 Actually Pepco is a discount retail store chain that serves in most countries of Europe and also *they own Poundland* in the UK and Dealz in Poland. We have Pepco stores where I live and most stores are about half clothing and have a lot of home décor tat and very little tech stuff, but otherwise quite similar to any other discount store. If you see more "pepco" labelled products in Poundland then maybe they are undergoing brand consolidation, or just couldn't be bothered to print a separate Poundland label for seasonal products because that costs money.

@Fethos

3 ай бұрын

As an employee of poundland I can say we are going under a brand restructure

@thekingoffailure9967

2 ай бұрын

@@Fethos My god, Id never thought Id see the day. The ironic poundland self branded merch may soon be forgotten

I was only halfway paying attention until "Bring on the nice birds"

4:35 Ah yes, the mythical faceless rabbit holding the golden "carrot" of pleasure.

@NamelessBody

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's clearly something else.

@marcusfridh8489

2 ай бұрын

A golden carrot for a golden shower

The static grass getting everywhere from the flocked rabbit gives me flashbacks. That shit gets stuck to your clothes and is super itchy

11:05 That's a childhood memory unlocked, I think I had a set like that! I think they might have been Tomy branded? And probably a bit better built too I'd guess.

I like to think that the pound land seasonal designer has a sole purpose of seeing how many items he can get shown in an Ashen’s seasonal tat video.

Excellent!

@maxscardanelli6185

3 ай бұрын

Don't you mean eggscellent?...

Yeah that rabbit certainly looks like he's holding a carrot and totally not something rude

Weird stuff for every season is normal for Ashens. And I oddly enough like watching his videos showing it.😄👍💯

Pepco is actually a store over here in Poland so that makes sense since I've seen Pepco have Poundland stuff.

*Ashens pulls out the egg carton toy* Ah so nice to finally see ManyATrueNerd show up in one of these videos 😆

@ellaisplotting

3 ай бұрын

Quite alarming to see Stuart take Jon's insides out in front of us, though.

i love that youve never changed your content style in 14 years... even kept the intro the same!!

I am not ashamed to admit... I want that carrot whisk

It's a rabbit in the bath, Stuart. No idea about the flat one though.

@Electroceratops

3 ай бұрын

That's the rabbit under the bath.

@DragonNexus

3 ай бұрын

But why are his feet going *through* the tub?

I've been waiting for this day since April 9th 2023.

The brown sofa will outlive us all

The only KZreadr who never changed.

There is a store chain here in eastern/central europe called Pepco, which usually sells decent quality stuff (clothes, kitchen stuff, etc.) for cheap. Never knew they had an affiliation with Poundland

@dgirllamius____x

3 ай бұрын

I've seen a Pepco shop in Germany but never been in it or know what they sell. I might have to go to one and see what tat they sell 😂

Thank you Sir!

Who remembers when items at Dollar Tree were only a dollar? 🤣 I wait for these special holiday videos every year. ❤❤

Love you ashens been watching for almost 10 years still ove your content

The Easter Bunny and the Quest for the Golden Butt Plug