Every year it's not officially Halloween until the Ashens Halloween Special.

@BellHillMayor

8 ай бұрын

True, Ashens makes the Best Halloween specials ever :)

@wisteela

8 ай бұрын

See also Christmas

@TakerKaneanite619

8 ай бұрын

See also also Easter

@AmmonomiC4T

8 ай бұрын

i agree

@Chazzagutair

8 ай бұрын

litrely been thinking about it since the first of october 😂

Hearing Ashens say "Motherf**ker" was all the Halloween cheer I needed this year 😂

@alegomanYTPs

8 ай бұрын

seee youtubers can get away with saying words without losing their jobs, people over censor these days unnecessarily

@DarkseidJoshua

8 ай бұрын

@alegoman5269 It's just the way Ashens said it that made me laugh. I wasn't talking about KZread rules.

@peterclarke7240

8 ай бұрын

You may not have noticed, but Ashens doesn't rely on ad revenue, so he doesn't care about KZread and its ever-changing rules around profanity. If he was reliant on being able to monetise his videos, he'd be self-censoring, too. So, the solution is, if you don't want your favourite KZreadrs to have to self-censor, become a patron.

@DarkseidJoshua

8 ай бұрын

@peterclarke7240 I'm not complaining about Ashens swearing. I'm just pointing out the way he said Motherf**ker was funny as f**k. If anything I wish he would swear more and that KZread wouldn't have bitch fits over any KZreadr swearing.

@MervynPinfield-rn4hs

8 ай бұрын

Swearing is always funnier with a British accent.

Trust me, Stuart; the loudness of the skull motors comes through loud and clear

@richardhenrydanajr3431

8 ай бұрын

They're whisper quiet, what do you mean?

@edtuckerartist

8 ай бұрын

Motors? All I hear is the weird whirring music.

@smb-c3po

8 ай бұрын

That skull looks like it belongs on a CBeebies show.

@bigbootybartholomew6680

8 ай бұрын

The closed captioning picked up the motor noise of the skull and labeled it "applause"

@SakuraAvalon

8 ай бұрын

@@bigbootybartholomew6680 I love KZread's auto captions.

To note, the flying tiger skull is right by the tills and goes off every 2-5 minutes and genuinely makes me feel like I'm going insane during my shifts

@samsanimationcorner3820

8 ай бұрын

Gosh, retail sucks. My first job was in Macy's during the holiday season, so October through February, anyways, there was this surreal experience I had. They played the same 20 songs on loop all day, right, to the point where I literally couldn't hear the music anymore. My brain just perceived it as silence. And then one day I'm ringing out a customer and she says "Oh, I love this song". And I'm almost like "what song?" but there was a strange moment where all of a sudden the music just kinda fades back into existence, and I'm just thinking, "has this been playing all day?" It broke my brain.

@Pehmokettu

8 ай бұрын

When I was a child I used to be that asshole child who tested all the toys that had "try me" button and made terrible noise. I feel bad for the shop staff who had to listen that. My parents refused to buy those noisy toys so my only option was to test them at the shop.

@hjalfi

8 ай бұрын

If only some 'customer' would pick it up and 'fiddle' with it and 'accidentally' turn it 'off'. In other news, when my nephews were toddlers, and someone would give them a toy that made noises, it was amazing how quickly the 'unreplaceable' batteries would 'run down'...

@samsanimationcorner3820

8 ай бұрын

@@hjalfi Unreplaceable batteries in a toy are a crime against humanity.

@bewilderbeestie

8 ай бұрын

@@samsanimationcorner3820 _coughs_ 'unreplaceable'...

I don't keep a calendar- I mark holidays by Ashen's releases. When he either retires or goes to the great Poundland in the sky I will be lost.

@igorszamaszow171

8 ай бұрын

He'll probably go to the great PoundSky

@edtuckerartist

8 ай бұрын

When that time eventually happens you could always pop down to poundland and get the badly sculpted Ashens inspired chocolate all year long advent calendar with free plastic rubber rats.

@igorszamaszow171

8 ай бұрын

The original comment that I replied to said "Tesco", not "Poundland"

@edtuckerartist

8 ай бұрын

Yep I saw Tesco there too.@@igorszamaszow171

@danschneider9921

8 ай бұрын

@igorszamaszow171 I meant to write Poundland not Tesco to start but got them mixed up. I'm not from Norfolk but Kentucky. Though I have come to understand they have similarities.

When you showed the flocked owl, my first thought was "what an ugly cat". And even after you said it was an owl, I took a while to see it.

White pumpkins are definitely a real thing that exists.

@DragonNexus

8 ай бұрын

And honestly? I think they look cooler.

@L-kun

8 ай бұрын

They're way harder to carve

@audiocoffee

8 ай бұрын

bought a tiny white pumpkin from asda for 59p. going to make soup with it.

@dumbbirdwayne

8 ай бұрын

@@L-kunsame with green or more red-toned ones, they’re like cutting turnips

@ellaisplotting

8 ай бұрын

@@audiocoffee I hope your soup is good 💕

It's amazing how you can watch a Ashens video from 2016 and 2023 and there's the same look, feel, etc.

@Jemboj2895

7 ай бұрын

How many times does this need to be commented

@BunnLilah

3 ай бұрын

2016? You can watch one from 2006 and get the same effect.

Someone needs to retrofit that skull with a raspberry pi and have it become a virtual assistant with the voice of Boney from Trap Door

@Java_Protogen

8 ай бұрын

As an American, I have no clue what "Trap Door" is, do you mind explaining?

@UKGareth316

8 ай бұрын

​@@Java_ProtogenTrap Door was an awesome claymation kids TV serise..

@Java_Protogen

8 ай бұрын

@@UKGareth316 Ah, neat! Thanks for explaining.

@yvonneburns2786

8 ай бұрын

​@@Java_Protogen you should be able to look it up on the tube

@Chaos89P

8 ай бұрын

​@Markiegee55I only remember seeing three shows from that, probably because I went to church around that time.

The awful skulls, the branded hand, and the double spoiled milk were exactly what I needed to put me in the holiday spirit. Happy Ashens Halloween Special Upload Day, everyone!

@kevinm5940

8 ай бұрын

He should've checked if all of them featured that milk joke

@e.s.lavall9219

8 ай бұрын

I legitimately want the branded hand though

Your gag of pointing the hairspray at your head got me good.

@Avellania

8 ай бұрын

When he said "I bought one this year not realizing.." I thought it would end with "... that I don't have hair."

@claudih7224

8 ай бұрын

I was thinking the whole time: Stuart has no hair... Well, he could have used it on his beard but maybe that staff isn't safe to have it near your mouth/nose...

Ah, love these videos... had my own cheap-store adventure this year. Decided to take my mom on a shopping trip to hit up Dollar Tree. She bought a cute plastic skeleton decoration and for some reason, one leg kept popping out of the bag. We joked about him trying to escape, but when we got home we realized it only had 1 arm and 3 legs. Someone, either at the store or in the factory swapped out an arm for a leg. I named him "Tripod".

@Pipkiablo

8 ай бұрын

I always intentionally look for the oddballs like that when I'm in the Dollar Tree. One Easter they had little plush bunnies, and I walked up to the display and said, "Aww, how cute!" and picked one up, and then I realized the one that I happened to pick up had its face sewn on sideways. I ended up buying it because of how hard it made me laugh. His name is Herpaderp.

@MrWolfSnack

8 ай бұрын

It sucks because US imports from China are more safety regulated and taxed than UK imports so Dollar Tree for the USA is nothing like the 99 pence shops in UK in terms of cheap food and products. British pound shops have way cooler stuff for the pound/dollar than we do.

That skull is going to terrify some cats.

This is the highlight of my Halloween every year.

@Heinz-bx8sd

8 ай бұрын

Sad existence

@martinputt6421

8 ай бұрын

@@Heinz-bx8sd Don't put yourself down

@ScarysReviews

8 ай бұрын

for an extra treat, i have 1 out on the 30th

@YipJumpMusic

8 ай бұрын

@@Heinz-bx8sdSelf projection at its finest

@comradeurod9805

8 ай бұрын

Kind of replaces trick or treating doesn't it lol

The World is increasingly unstable and yet still I can suckle on the teat of stability and comfort that is a Brown Couch Ashens video. Thank you.

@SilkieSqueaks

8 ай бұрын

Never before have I so fully supported the message of a sentence while so vehemently hating its wording

@helmepodesarius2198

8 ай бұрын

I’m breaking my burrito eating record so at least I’ve conceived heaven on Earth.

That spider squishy toy looks like a fantastic stress ball to keep in an office. It just barely skirts around being inappropriate. Honestly impressed with that.

@athenathegreatandpowerful6365

8 ай бұрын

How, pray tell, is a spider, of the fat and squishy variety, inappropriate?

@bloop6013

8 ай бұрын

@@athenathegreatandpowerful6365 it's fat.

this is honestly half the reason i look forward to halloween every year

@defs8073

8 ай бұрын

Honestly? Were you thinking of telling lies then?

White pumpkins are a thing! they have distinctly different insides that taste extra sweet and are typically the pumpkins used in making pumpkin pie and other baked goods.

the hair spray gag got interrupted by an ad, so I saw you smiling and bald for like one second and then it immediately cut to a car commercial and the unintentional comedic timing made me laugh so loud I scared my cat

looked in TK Maxx earlier today and had to state, out loud, "oh no the bloody gonks are back." due to a christmas display. then lo and behold, Ashens with a gonk.

@skinlizard2251

8 ай бұрын

It genuinely surprised me every single time I remember that TJ Maxx is called TK Maxx in Europe and Australia (it makes sense though as not to be confused with TJ Hughes)

@skinlizard2251

8 ай бұрын

Just realized I typed surprised instead of surprises and now I'm going to slam my head into the wall for a few minutes.

It’s not an Ashens Halloween Special without a bag o’ rats 😂

@edtuckerartist

8 ай бұрын

One year they may be a partially rat eaten bag o' rats.

@peterclarke7240

8 ай бұрын

We can but live in hope.

@MrWolfSnack

8 ай бұрын

No joke my local supermarket has rat problems and they get into the bread. Twice I bought a loaf of bread without inspecting it and it was eaten by rats. For whatever idiotic reason they keep the bread less than half a foot from the floor on the bottom shelf and its just prime rat bait. @@edtuckerartist

@MathewHaswell

8 ай бұрын

@@edtuckerartist The Octav1us rats sneaking in to nibble Stuart's itemes!

@claudih7224

8 ай бұрын

but you also can't go with the seasons gonk! No halloween without halloween gonk, no valentine's day without valentine's gonk.

Ashens you have to be more careful with that opening jumpscare, I've had so many heart attacks that a man called Derek would tell stories about it to his nephews

@samholdsworth420

8 күн бұрын

Stories of Viagra, tigers, bone Hoovers and UFOs?

I reckon the vibrating spider was meant to be hung from the pull-ring so it climbs the cord when you let go.

The cut-away to hair spray gag was * chef's kiss * 😂

@Crosshill

8 ай бұрын

i was hoping he'd spray his beard..

This Halloween special marks 10 years of me watching your videos! Thank you for all the incredible content over the years.

"Hanging Ghost" was recalled from Poundland this year due to dangerous spiky metal wire. It's a shame he won't star in this year's Halloween Special

1:18 - can confirm, The Trap Door was the best. Oh, globbits.

Ah, the yearly Halloween special. You know what that means, right? Yes, it´s almost advent calendar time. Yay.

@brianartillery

8 ай бұрын

Grass mask time again yay! 💀💀💀

@Markus__B

8 ай бұрын

@@brianartillery All hail the grassmasks

I was in a Poundland yesterday and I thought "I can't wait to see what Ashens has to say about this stuff!" Also- I love gonks. I think they're adorable personally. I have a whole collection, my favourite is called Shmebulock

I had to look up what a gonk was, and it seems the first gonk you had was closer to the definition: Gonks stem from Nordic and Scandinavian mythology. They are meant to be something like a mix of a gnome and a hobgoblin. In the original folklore, these curious little creatures were said to take a liking to barns or houses in the colder seasons.

@heavenlycute

8 ай бұрын

And they’re making their feature film debut this year in “There’s something in the barn”. 😊 As a Norwegian, I find it baffling how our nisser (that’s what we call them) have hijacked all seasonal decor…

"Its extremely loud, you probably cant pick it up through the mic." *proceeds to burst all our eardrums* 😂

Hi Stuart, ghost pumpkins are a thing. I've been stuck seeing them at work for the past month.

I can already picture a Fallout raider roaming the wastleland wearing that very durable googly-eyed Dracula mask.

These videos are my version of celebrating Halloween lol❤

@ciderbandit2909

8 ай бұрын

Bring on the advent calendars :)

Those Gonks have managed to traverse the world and arrive at the Dollar Store we go too.

This never get's old

Was having a bit of a "bleh" day today, right up until I saw this video. Now it is a good day, these specials give me life and I am very thankful. ❤

5:03 “There he is, little Art Garfunkel-lookin’ motherfucker” caught me so off guard, the delivery absolutely killed me

@samholdsworth420

8 күн бұрын

That thing looked like a distended testicle

A garden of those hands would be spooky.

Spooky themed beer pong for a Halloween party, with this eyeballs and a decorated table Mann I wish I had friends 😂

I love your videos. There's something nostalgic about them...

This is one of my favourite Halloween traditions, I got an anatomically improbable skeleton octopus figurine from an American friend, and am always jealous of your ability to find bizarre tat to entertain us with.

@Pehmokettu

8 ай бұрын

Clint's Reptiles KZread channel has now made three halloween decoration videos about anatomically incorrect animal skeletons. It is funny to see an actual biologist to react to them.

21:00 I've just done that, I got one of those little halloween themed potted plants from Aldi, the frankenstein's monster with orange flowers, but when I got it home I noticed the last thing on the lable that says it may be hamful to pets if eaten. So I picked up one of the other range of this glass domed line, has a little house in it with an LED underneath. It was already broken, so the dome came off easily, the houses in ALL of them had already broken off the base, the LED popped out easy, and they were reduced from 3quid to one pound fifty. Nice little makeshift terarium for one plant.

@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812

8 ай бұрын

Love ALDI.

So happy I found your channel again best random reviews around

The black base of the gold skull looks like the inner cardboard tube of masking tape. LOL Your videos are my only Halloween celebrations. 👍

The spider cat toy sounds as though it has the same internal mechanism as the hamster cat toys my family had over a decade ago - most of the cats ignored them, but the one who was usually a snack-and-sleep blob of bitey stupidity (RIP Blobcat, you daft old lump) liked them enough to almost work out how to work the pullcord (he figured out that he needed to pull the cord, but not that he'd have to hold down the rest of the toy while he did so). Very unusual for him to show that much intelligence, especially for something other than food.

If the skull head thingy is "moddable" it would make an amazing Mumbo Jumbo from Banjo Kazooie. Just add the music from the game, paint it and add feathers.

Love the yearly Ashens holiday shenanigans and tat,three things to comment on: That first spider with the clearish sparkly goo in it was freaky as hell The animatronic skull....why does the eye lids open the wrong way? The Dracula mask....why do I see Drac making that face when Van Helsing drives a stake through his heart? "GAK! Oh,I am dead!" LOL!!

Glad to be here, once again, for the halloween tat ritual.

That jumpscare in the beginning gets me every time, damn you Stuart!

That googly eye mask makes Dracula look like he's had one too many Broward county Tic-tacs

Omg yessss I'm gonna watch this with my partner when they get off work, this is a tradition 💟

Those rats in a bag would make decent D&D minis for like a GIANT boss rat.

I love the trapdoor reference at the start. Amazing content, keep up the good work!

The gonk looks like some kind of relative of Obelix from the Asterix cartoons 🤔😀

I've seen many Gonks in the wild, including in the warehouse I work in. I NEED to know how they became a worldwide thing seemingly overnight.

My children always want this halloween tat 😂 and I buy it for them haha.

@peterclarke7240

8 ай бұрын

The only legitimate reason to have kids is for them to be the perfect excuse for buying tat. I just cut out the middle man and remain happily divorced. Now nobody can criticise my ever-growing collection of terrible plastic shite. 🤣

@MrWolfSnack

8 ай бұрын

Still have a lot of the halloween decor collected from when I was a kid, and hung onto it even though I don;t decorate for halloween anymore because its memories. It's all kinds of halloween decor and stuff you would find in the mid 90s. I'm fond of the animated raven/crow from Gemmy toy company that has been going forever. It's mouth moves and it screams random phrases. I remember trying to feed it candy when I was a kid. lol

You can't imagine how much I was looking forward for this

“How exciting, action feature” is going to be my new catch phrase when I see someone do something in public.

Great Video Ashens

I was really hoping to see you spray the Gonk's hair green.

Just what I needed today to finish up the week at work, then Halloween next week! Thanks for another amazing Halloween special!!

Trap Door...brilliantly British. Going to get one for our cats!!!

My husband actually got those eye balls for our cat, the cat loves them

Ashens makes the best Halloween specials ever :)

I cannot think of a better way to heal my COVID addled body than by watching an Ashens Halloween Special

@MrWolfSnack

8 ай бұрын

how are people still getting covid in 2023? unreal

@callmedisappointment7374

8 ай бұрын

Me with a stomach virus

@cyankoopa8111

8 ай бұрын

Feel better soon! And @@MrWolfSnack, it never really went away and probably isn't ever going away either. It's just going to be a particularly nasty cold virus from here on out.

@iHawke

8 ай бұрын

​@@cyankoopa8111you mean like the flu has been since forever?

@cyankoopa8111

8 ай бұрын

@@iHawke Yup.

Bloody gonks!!!! My Mrs loves them.

I still love jumpscare. It's how I know it's Halloween

Hurrah! Time to celebrate! 🎉

Love Ashens ❤Halloween special

Over a decade in....i'm still watching this sofa tat shit with utter admiration

Love the Spidercake song on Spotify, Ashens! 😁

Its like a preview of whats coming to the landfill.

Hi Ashens

The squidgy spider at the beginning looked like Rom, the Vacuous Spider from Bloodborne. Either that or an eight legged Baneling from StarCraft 2.

I'm still cackling at the cheerful smile Stuart put on to spray his bald head green! I wish he'd done it, but on the other hand I might not recover from literally split sides

Happy Halloween, cheers mate

I genuinely thought the flocked owl was a cat, until Ashens said what it was. It would have made far more sense if it had been a black Halloween cat.

@coyoteartist

8 ай бұрын

Owls are cool for Halloween but better for general fall stuff.

Just been watching ashens holiday specials and you graced me with another, truly a king

Blessed again for the Halloween special, thank you Ashens

Home Bargains had some really great Halloween stuff this year, the light show globe is especially good!

Is that owl fluffy because it's a cat? A witch's familiar!

@joabthejavelin5119

8 ай бұрын

That "owl" is clearly a cat. Lol

I got a netted bag of bats from Dollar General here! Loved em!

Yep white pumpkins are a thing, great video kinda want to go to my local dollar stores and find some treasures

Hold up, those rats could actually be useful to kitbash some bigger Skaven

"Burke where's my dinner?" Yup Trapdoor was the best! Don't you open that trapdoor! You're a fool if you dare. Don't you open that trapdoor! Cause there's something down there!! 😂 Brilliant Halloween video.

5:50 Sorry to have to correct you there Ashens, but Shatner 's Bassoon is the part of the brain that controls our perception of time.

Yes, white pumpkins are a thing. So are black, green, and blue pumpkins as well as warty pumpkins, peanut pumpkins, and gourd shaped pumpkins.

I'm late to discovering Ashens, but my God what comforting normalcy this already feels like. Also learned that gonks exist outside of Cyberpunk!

@edtuckerartist

8 ай бұрын

You can now go back and watch previous Halloween specials, what joy!

@zangl2955

8 ай бұрын

Lucky. You have so many ashens videos to see for the first time.

@DanaTheInsane

8 ай бұрын

I’ve been here since Cyberman call centre. You have so much to watch. I’m a little jealous frankly.

That first spider is actually quite good.

I love Ashens and his holiday specials!

That skull legitimately jump scared me. lol

I can't tell you how many of those hands sold but I can tell you that in the store where I work significantly more than half of them ended up damaged before even reaching the shop floor. They are exceptionally fragile.

It's not Halloween until Athens does the Halloween tat! ❤🎉

I like the flocked owl. I now need one to put in some high location in my house.

Excellent video, always great to see another Halloween special.

Yeah, there is a similarity between the squishy spider and Rom, the Vacuous Spider from Bloodborne. No eggs, but a large bulbous thorax.

@Silver_wind_1987_

8 ай бұрын

But ROM and the knife babies are best though 😂

The potential hackability of that skull interests me.

@MattTester

8 ай бұрын

I bought one, It's pretty well organised inside with socketed connectors and the speaker is a lot louder than I expected. Unplugging the motor that moves the eyes really helps reduce the noise. Now to turn it into an Alexa home assistant skull that responds to the name Yorick.

I love these videos so much! ❤

I sometimes forget Stewart is bald now. That took me by surprise!