Honestly that one got me, what an amazing artefact. What the hell is wrong with us, that *is* just a piece of an old brown sofa. But somehow it just *means* so much more.
Honestly that brown sofa has a little over a decade of history now on the channel, plus whatever history it had before stuart braced us with its presence.
@@mel_arky First of all it is graced, not braced and second of all he got a new sofa before Polybius was filmed as the old sofa was chopped up as backer rewards.
That button is an incredible gift. I would put it in something appropriate and display it proudly. It takes love in order to pry off a piece of yourself like that and to give it away. There are a pair of astounding humans in this video.
When I saw the giant calendar on the first day, I thought it was going to be a calendar for each day. I had been trying to do that myself this year, have an advent calendar for each day, but I wanted a variety of interesting ones. I collected some cool advent calendars throughout 2022 but ended up with only about a dozen. I decided to use three of them this year and save the rest for 2023. I hope to have 24 or 25 different kinds of advent calendars in time for next year! 🤶
I thought about an advent calendar calendar, where every day is another calendar to add to the ever growing pile. Would be a MESS by the end. Opening 24 calendars on the last day would be WILD. Every day you would have to open all the previous days as well, so you would end up opening like 50 doors on the 24th
Stu opening the present to reveal just a decorated piece of card-stock that can stand on its own gave me immediate flashbacks to Mr. Bean’s Xmas episode with his girlfriend.
All this time I thought Dan was the Baby Jebus, but then I realized he's Mary. And he's given birth to grass masks. I can't take any more existential crises this week. I am at my limit...I'm going to watch all the Advent calendars from Christmas past, and lose all connection to reality.
My favourite to start with is the original playmobil with the first appearance of the grass masks. The batshit storyline that appears in that always brings me joy
Every December I go through and watch every single one of these and it gradually takes up more and more of my time every year. I've done this for the past 5 years now.
I bought an advent calendar once from Basildon market, it had boiled sweets in it rather than the conventional chocolate, and it had two day 15's and no day 21. It wasn't even hand made - they had stacks of them!
@@amandanw I actually bought it for my Sister, and I was so annoyed when I noticed the printing error I decided to eat the chocolate myself while waiting for the bus home. When I discovered it was boiled sweets I just put all the sweets in my coat pocket and threw the box in the bin. I can't remember what I ended up giving my Sister....
I used to have those Advent calendars because we were too poor to have the ones with chocolate in. I quite enjoyed opening the window to see what picture was there.
We were so poor, we couldn't afford a paper calendar. We had to go and knock on a neighbours door each day, to see if a puddin, a present or maybe even Santa would open it and tell us to bugger off.
Yep, those pics under the bonus calendar are a real nostalgia hit for me (Yay! a bell....then off to school and double PE and back home and sleep before I can open the next days window hoping for a sheep or an angel with a horn or something). That little calendar wins it for me.
I found 3 with an accompanying pitchfork on ebay for about $2.50. Or a singular grass mask for $2.11 + $2.64 Shipping. Better act fast if you want the latter one though, they've already sold 2 and only have 1 left lol
There's a unavoidable difference here in advent calendars. What I've gathered is that this guy likes Ashens more than Ashens likes this guy. My shifty eyed Links are ordered and on the way! :P
This has become my Christmas tradition, sadly. Also, I miss the days of cheese calendars, or daily punishment calendar. And by daily, I mean every ten minutes!
amazing the dedication to filming this that Dan hasn't had time to watch the Artemis launch and landing, I didn't realise just how much time each episode took to plan and film each day to get them out by the end of the day!
I'm around 2 years older than Ashens so that cheap Advent Calendar reminds me of the ones I had when I was a little kid in the early 1980s, when most Advent Calendars (or at least the cheaper ones my mother bought) just had art in them. And it was a magical experience opening each little picture because I didn't know that Hot Wheels Advent Calendars that had toy cars in them would be a thing that would exist one day so seeing a little tiny postage stamp-sized picture was enough for me.
@@dmd8552 I had a few chocolate ones when I was a tween in the mid-1980s but the first advent calendars I remember opening (1980 to 1982-ish, maybe as early as 1979 but 1980 is the first Christmas season I remember with some degree of clarity) were all art.
I like that it goes: Ashens Dan Jon (next: hopefully me) in order of fans that eventually got to become colleagues and friends with the people they admired on RU-vid
This reminds me. I don't think I ever got my physical copy of Ashens and the Polybius Heist. Oh, well. Too late now, I suppose. May my physical copy circle the postal system limbo in eternity.
Resumen Día 12 La primera mitad de competencia ha concluido, Dan se mantiene a la delantera y el muñeco de goma aún está ahí. Stuart inicia extrayendo de su calendario dos objetos de poder inimaginable, un fragmento del legendario sillón café que lo llevo a la fama y una moneda conmemorativa. Dan por su parte se atrevió a desafiar las leyes de la realidad y saco de su calendario otro calendario de adviento, dicha paradoja casi destruye la realidad, pero el botón del sillón es tan poderoso que es capaz de mantener en orden la continuidad Espacio/Tiempo, dándole a Stuart la victoria del día. Punto para Stuart que recorta la ventaja de Dan a un punto. Dan: 7 Stuart: 6
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When I used to get chocolate advent calendars behind each door there was the chocolate and behind that a picture of what was on the chocolate. So this calendar that Ashens got is like a chocolate advent calendar without the chocolate.
I have my 'Ashens And The Polybius Heist' action figures. As cool as fuck. For advent calendar guesses, the ones from 'Father Ted' were the best of all. When asked what he thought was behind a door on the calendar, dim Father Dougal thought it might be Ruud Gullit sitting on a shed. The permanently hammered Father Jack was blunter, and loudly voiced his opinion that it would be: "A PAIR OF FECKIN' WOMEN'S KNICKERS!" They were both wrong.
The Cadburys Hero's advent calendar is like that, someone decided to print the numbers in Purple and door 1 I can't even see still under super bright LED light it's that blended in.
Can't make up my mind if an Ashens sofa button is the worst thing they've ever got in a calendar, or the absolute greatest!! Either way, I cheered when Stuart pulled out that advent calendar!!🎉
The "1" for that square of the little advent calendar is not on the cardboard door itself, but above it, in black. You just guessed the right number by chance.
In my head I heard, "Tooting angel" as an angel with IBS. :) Fun Madness reference anecdote. My ex-partner used to beat Suggs up. Admittedly he was over 20 and she was 5.
1:49 FINALLY!!!!!!! THE TIME HAS COME FOR MY ASHENS LORE KNOWLEDGE TO BE USEFUL!!!!!!! If i remember correctly, the black stain on the brown sofa was caused by some knock off star wars pound land slime during a pound land special. It was in a storm trooper helmet tin and was shit. it was falling apart, but just sticky enough that it got on the sofa. Ashens might have actually used the couch to wiped the stuff off his hand.
Stuart is all done with this... He's skipping days!! Omg the OG sofa?! Lol And Dan is repeating days... Time Lords confirm?! XD The advent calendar inspection should have been day 1. XD
@@HappyCynic I'm going to be completely honest, in the hour between me writing this comment and noticing the notification for your reply, I had completely forgotten typing this.
