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12/07/2004: What are Santa Pens?

What you see above is no illusion — they are indeed Santa Pens. Santa Pens, a rare ballpoint species from up guess which direction, come in many shapes and sizes. They’re like people with ink inside. Perhaps they’re more like squid. They’re mystical creatures in any event, capable of enormous feats and fantastic Christmas miracles. This of course is a cheap way to remind you that the Advent and Advert Calendars have been updated for December 8th, with weird sticks and Hallmark Cards. You walked right into that one, dolt. Now you will pay the old fashioned way.

One of the Santa Pens is of the boxing variety, which is to say, he’ll throw jabs with the push of a mildly concealed lever above his ass. He’s wearing his championship white gloves, so you know his skillet be sizzlin. The other Santa Pen reacts to the first Santa Pen’s Pen Powers the way any Santa Pen without boxing ability would: by bulging his eyes out in tribute to the only scene from Total Recall I can firmly remember besides the classic “three hands” gag. And, for some reason, I remember that dying, gasping goldfish pretty well, too. Glup bulp glub gasp. Dead fish. Bad man. Cut to tired midget sucking wind out of a fan. I love Santa Pens.


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Discussion Thread: 54 comments

The santa pen on the right is rather frightning, in an oddly hypnotic way…YAY for Santa parifinalia (I can’t spell)
TTFN
Sarah

Ghosted by Sarah @ 12/07/2004 9:28 PM EST


I only just noticed on your Advert Calendar that you have an Energizer Ad with Jacko, i thought that was only an Australian Thing?? He is not as popular here as he used to be, at the moment he is doing an RSL Club (Retired Services) tour with another famous Australian, Mark "Chopper" Read who is a notorius hitman/killer, gee we have great Role models here in Oz huh? Anyone seen the Movie "Chopper" in the U.S.??? It has Eric Bana in it?

Ghosted by Grant @ 12/07/2004 9:35 PM EST


1st comment here but long time visitor. Great holiday site, really top notch. The best part of the holidays is watching the old 80’s tapes with those commercials.

Ghosted by Charlie @ 12/07/2004 10:04 PM EST


I wonder if the bulging eyes santa’s worried that the boxing one will K.O it to hell. There’s only room for one santa.

Yesterdays Advent calander left me with a question of "Where’d Matt get that little sushi bar?" before I realized it was a sushi bar I suspected it mighta been the Mos Eisley bar from Star Wars, but they didnt have a revolving belt and japanese food. But I remembered what does, the….Bratz? Tokyo toy series for skanky little girls. Then I was wondering why’d Matt get that, but for several reasons that I would never think of, I thought of one "Who could resist a minuture sushi bar?"

Ghosted by James @ 12/07/2004 10:08 PM EST


Matt, where do you freaking get the time or energy to make all of this stuff?

Ghosted by RonC @ 12/07/2004 10:23 PM EST


I can just imagine the creative process that led up to this year’s advent calendar.
MATT: You know, last year’s production was good, but it didn’t have that "total mindfuck" quality I was going for. How can I make the entire thing even more surreal? I know! Stormtrooper lego figures!
Someday, Matt, you’re going to make a therapist very rich. Also, is it just me, or is Mare’s halo becoming a bit tarnished?

Ghosted by Jedoc @ 12/07/2004 10:57 PM EST


I hereby offer the sum of one fuck to the person who makes Waiterbot explode. Ha its true Mare is less like a cherub all of a sudden!

Ghosted by Pat @ 12/07/2004 11:42 PM EST


All hail the Hypno-Santa. Long Live Hypno-Santa. Yea Yea.

Ghosted by Tempil @ 12/08/2004 12:26 PM EST


Okay, I don’t comment much but I have to say that this year’s advent calendar is a fucking epic. It’s pure genius and leaves me begging for more each day. Last year I’d do them in chunks every few days or so, this year I’m up on the site around midnight. Keep doin’ what you’re doin’.

Ghosted by Tenchi @ 12/08/2004 12:26 PM EST


Yikes, they’re both kinda creepy..
:O

Ghosted by Cyanyde @ 12/08/2004 1:11 AM EST


Can’t say I’d want either of these in my home. Creepy. They belong in the Halloween countdown.

Ghosted by Shelby @ 12/08/2004 1:19 AM EST


I too, have noticed Mare bursting at the seams so to speak…though she’s becoming more like her bumbling Stormtrooper friends than the Evil Incarnate she was the past couple years.

Ghosted by The Dragon @ 12/08/2004 1:25 AM EST


Help me…

Ghosted by Nate @ 12/08/2004 3:00 AM EST


Haha! James knows a little too much about the Bratz collection. And "skanky little girls" for that matter…

Ghosted by Calypso @ 12/08/2004 4:22 AM EST


Both of those Santa pens frighten me beyond words. This is why I’m so confused by my uncontrollable urge to own them both. Must have them!

Ghosted by DoMifer @ 12/08/2004 5:53 AM EST


I saw a number of keychains and stuff with those same bulging eyes, a few years ago. I nicknamed them "Animutation action figures." I never got to buy one, though, so I’m glad this Santa thing is around to snap up.

Ghosted by G'Tron @ 12/08/2004 6:06 AM EST


Eintein is a Krang wannabe.

Loving the advent calendar, Matt!

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 12/08/2004 8:39 AM EST


I could take Santa

Ghosted by Mr. T @ 12/08/2004 11:16 AM EST


Sis is on her plane back to Iraq as I type, but today’s Advent chapter helps the mood a bit. I’m with the consensus that Mare is starting to recover from being dead. I think I know why she is so evil, usually: there is a really big skeleton jammed into that little body. That’d make anyone cranky, I don’t care who you are.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 12/08/2004 11:31 AM EST


Santa looks like he’s doing weed or ate a few Guatamalen Insanity Peppers.

Ghosted by AngeFaitore @ 12/08/2004 11:46 AM EST


Santa’s eyes look like Dippin’ Dots.

Great job on the Advent Calendar. LMAO at Mare wearing the sushi on her face. She looked like Little Orphan Annie. Waiterbot is going to get his ass kicked. Just wait until the Mare-claws come out.

Ghosted by trajeal @ 12/08/2004 12:43 PM EST


Holly Hell and Santa’s Bells this years advent calendar is the shit. I haven’t laughed so hard at one single thing in a bit. Thanks Matt for making my work day more bearable.

Matt Rules!!!

Ghosted by thenewt4u @ 12/08/2004 1:23 PM EST


Another awesome entry once again!

And both "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown" and "Charlie Brown Christmas Tales" were both on ABC last night, and they were wonderful as always…and this was the first time I saw the Christmas Tales special too. Oh, and the newest special "I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown" will be on ABC NEXT tuesday at 8pm est.

And Matt, where does someone like me find the Playmobil Advent Calendar anyway?

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 12/08/2004 2:30 PM EST


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290978/quotes
David Brent: What’s the weather like up there?
Nathan ‘Oggy: Oh I’ve heard that before.
David Brent: They must have put you in a grow bag when you were little did they?
Nathan ‘Oggy: That’s an old one.
David Brent: Let’s grow ourselves a big lanky goggle-eyed freak of a son.
Nathan ‘Oggy: Alright calm down mate, there’s no need to get offensive.
David Brent: No no, I was joining in…
Nathan ‘Oggy: I didn’t call you fatty as soon as I saw you.
David Brent: No I was joining in with…
Nathan ‘Oggy: Just don’t have a go at the eyes, cos that is a astigmatism I’ve had from the age of five, so that’s what make them a bit bulbous, so don’t just… I didn’t call you the whale-man or like blubber-man.

Ghosted by ME @ 12/08/2004 3:20 PM EST


Ignore the "a" before "astigmatism" since I was trying to correct the quote in a hurry.

Ghosted by ME @ 12/08/2004 3:23 PM EST


These pens are the true meaning of Christmas. How can anyone ever bash and make fun of such a good Christian as Saint Nicholas, be it in pen form or any other contour. I hope these pens explode with a furry not unlike judgment day into your obviously jaded and demonized eyes.

Ghosted by Bobby Sox @ 12/08/2004 5:07 PM EST


i like these snowman smileys from aol. have you seen that xmas tree superbuddy icon they have on there? he speaks german! hes a frickin nazi tree! stupid aol

Ghosted by Froigen @ 12/08/2004 5:43 PM EST


German tree? OOHH NEIN!

Ghosted by Hilda @ 12/08/2004 5:49 PM EST


I don’t know. The boxing pen isn’t so bad, though I can’t imagine he can see what he’s hitting with those pinhead-sized eyes. The eye one is just wrong. It’s too weird for words. Looks like Large Marge in a Santa Claus suit.

And so, Mare starts to reveal her true self in the latest installment of everyone’s favorite ongoing Playmobil saga. What are they going to do to Waiterbot? Will it be repeatable in a public fornum? And how long will it take for Mare to snap…or at least get tired of playing good girl for two slightly nutty "Star Wars" rejects? (Extra points, Matt, for giving the Stormtroopers vaguely "Star Wars"-esque names.)

Ghosted by starwenn @ 12/08/2004 6:37 PM EST


I guarantee you there’s at least one more Mare Winningham in that calender. Probably waiting to be spawned so it can bring resurrected Mare back to the dark side where she belongs.

Ghosted by A-wel Cruiz @ 12/08/2004 7:25 PM EST


I got those Cinderella mice Christmas ornaments from McD’s. Of course, they’re old and chewed up now, but they’re still great.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 12/08/2004 10:14 PM EST


*Gasp*
TWO MARES!!!!!

Ghosted by The Lesser Matt @ 12/08/2004 10:40 PM EST


I knew it the Evil Mare has returned *bows to the true Queen of advent* She better get sexy with the Kuse and knacks…..LoL Oh and good mare is dead!!!

Ghosted by LordSorrow @ 12/08/2004 10:45 PM EST


Please don’t let me be the only one who misread the headline of this article as "Santa Penis."

Ghosted by Hellpop! @ 12/08/2004 10:57 PM EST


Just out of curiousity, is there a place where one can read the Advent Calendar from two years ago? I went back and reread last year’s, but I missed the one before that and thus feel left out of references to it.

Ghosted by Mara @ 12/08/2004 11:56 PM EST


Never mind, I gladly put my foot in my mouth. I typed "advent 2002" into the search and there it is. Why would I try something so logical? I don’t know either.

Ghosted by Mara @ 12/09/2004 12:21 PM EST


2 Mares!! Excellent…. I hope I can handle all the insanity that is sure to follow Dec. 9th’s entry.

Matt rocks…so do(es) Mare(s)!

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 12/09/2004 1:17 AM EST


Lol, Matt! So there WAS a second Mare! The plot thickens!

But why would Mare be so upset about having a twin? Were they former lovers with a harsh break-up? Did one steal the other’s boyfriend? I can’t wait to find out!

I find it amazing how you’re able to make up stories using a bunch of shitty toys. You got creativity, Matt!

Ghosted by Nate @ 12/09/2004 4:13 AM EST


You know, I really should do the same thing with my Kinder Surprise Egg toys. Shitty Toy + Shitty Candy = Great Product!

Ghosted by Nate @ 12/09/2004 4:16 AM EST


The boxing Santa-pen makes me think of that one time I stepped into the wrestling-ring, dressed as Sinterklaas (Dutch version of Santa) and beat Santa Claus by DQ! That a**hole needed to play dirty, but it cost him in the end. DQ victory for me ;) .

Don’t believe it happened? Well, then just follow the link: http://www.savage.dds.nl/win/edestad.jpg

It was at a small wrestling-show in Holland two years ago. We just had some fun with it ;) .

Ghosted by Sjoerd @ 12/09/2004 5:42 AM EST


Nate,

Kinder Eggs aren’t shitty! They are the bestest!

Also glad to see Mr. T is posting again.

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Ghosted by EMajorwitz @ 12/09/2004 6:56 AM EST


Kinder eggs are NOT shitty! They used to be a great treat when I was little- a chocolate with a toy INSIDE of it? A toy that you had to assemble that came in a plastic egg? I was all over THAT action.

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 12/09/2004 7:04 AM EST


These advent calenders are better than daytime soap operas.

Ghosted by dfgdfggdf @ 12/09/2004 8:03 AM EST


…and more realistic.

Ghosted by dfgdfggdf @ 12/09/2004 8:04 AM EST


2 Mares? Has the whole world gone mad? Like sands through the hourglass, so go the days of our advent calendar.

Ghosted by jhnnywalkr @ 12/09/2004 9:40 AM EST


EMajorwitz, what happened, no more kinder egg updates?

Ghosted by J-Dog @ 12/09/2004 10:42 AM EST


Ya know, I was typing my post yesterday, and I was about to comment on Mare’s outfit, and how it didn’t match the one she was buried in. Then I said to myself, (what a wonderful world!!!) I bet she’s Mare’s "Good Twin". The real Mare is the "Evil Twin". Then I said, naaa. I’m sure there’s a logical explanation to the outfit thing. Little did I know that, a mere one day later, we would be treated to the exact thing I had nearly typed out. Ha! Ha, I say! I’s a fortume teller. I knew it! A fortune teller who second guesses herself. But, a fortune teller, nontheless.

kingklash, I forgot to say, I hope your sister has a good trip and is coming home soon 9for good). February, you said, correct?

Ghosted by trajeal @ 12/09/2004 12:05 PM EST


hey matt i got the next entry for chrismas for you. I saw a limited edition WINTER Lucky Charms at the store, check it out.

Ghosted by nj guy @ 12/09/2004 1:11 PM EST


NJ Guy: I actually reviewed that during last year’s calendar, but I’ll check to see if this year’s is different.

Ghosted by Matt @ 12/09/2004 1:21 PM EST


Poor midget.

GRANT

I love Chopper. Great movie… I have 5 of his books. What a nut.

When I fianlly get to visit Oz I’m going to get my picture taken at BoJangles! AHHAHAHA

Ghosted by Mr. P @ 12/09/2004 1:27 PM EST


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