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“Spare Parts” Pumpkin Face Kit!

Gotta admit upfront, this could be an "interesting" week. I like to write most of the following week's Countdown articles on the weekend, because there's just no guarantee that I'm going to be lucid enough to write them when I get home from work. This past weekend, I wrote no Halloween Countdown articles. I had a family thing Friday, a friend thing Saturday and a pass out thing Sunday. If you notice any strange asides about death and about wanting death and about pleading for death during this week's run of articles, you'll know why.

Today's feature came out okay, though. "Spare Parts" is a silly kit that lets people make jack o' lanterns without actually carving them, Mr. Potato Head style. I wasn't impressed, but I wrote about it anyway.

Oh, I have more to say.


I've already told you about Target's Mountain Dew Pitch Black Freezes, but at the time, I didn't know about these. They have official cups! Why is this important? I've held onto empty (and full) cans of the first two Pitch Black incarnations, and now, I'll have a memento of the third. You should have that, too. I recommend buying an extra just for the cup. Don't fill it, because it'll be sticky forever no matter how many times you wash it. Keep one empty -- that'd be your trophy piece. Your mantle's gonna be freakin' awesome.

Posted by Matt on 10/02/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 86 comments

Tales from the Darkside is on the Sci-Fi channel right now. and the “Nose” episode is coming on next!

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 10/02/2006 11:28 PM

Wooo.

I went to Target yesterday, their candy (and Jones Soda) selection made my CVS look like a piece of crap. I’m goin back there tomorrow. BTW Josh Blue of Last Comic Standing 4 is performing at my college tomorrow! Whee!

Speaking of my college, my frat is gonna start its pledging season again soon, and now it’s gonna be my turn to inflict the fun!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/02/2006 11:36 PM

I have carved 3-4 pumpkins every Halloween for the last few years, but now I live in NYC and have no place to display them. I think I’ll still do it and just be content knowing it is alive in my apartment. I also have no choice but to buy it at a store. I feel like a failure, but I work really hard at carving them, and I have no car, so it’s not my fault.

Chestnuts roasted by Bryan @ 10/02/2006 11:42 PM

When I used to cut the top out of the pumpkin (lid) to scoop out the “guts”, I found that once the pumpkin started to shrivel the “lid” would fall in. So now I cut the hole on the bottom of the pumpkin, scoop out the “guts” and place the whole completed jack-’o'-lantern over a candle (a candle that is smaller than the hole of course). WAALAA! Then I can light that glowy baby until it collapses into a gooshy mess! YAAA for Halloween! =) ;D

Chestnuts roasted by threebeesatdisney @ 10/02/2006 11:43 PM

And now I have another reason to go to Target — besides Jones Soda and reduced priced Superman Returns toys.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 10/03/2006 12:10 AM

Awww, nuts, this reminds me of the time I stayed up late to watch that movie “Pumpkinhead.” I was so disappointed that he was not, in fact, a monster with an actual pumpkin for a head.

I’m going to go do that now. Put a pumpkin on my head, that is.

Chestnuts roasted by Roadblock @ 10/03/2006 12:27 AM

I looooove to carve pumpkins, but I don’t give out candy because I do NOT love children. Therefore, I have to carve my pumpkin and then give it to my mom so it can be cheery and festive with her pumpkins.

To make sure no one comes to my door I always turn all the lights out in the whole house… and I *still* get people knocking. Did no one tell these idiots that no porch lights means you just trekked across a lawn for nothing? Do you know how hard it is to have celebratory Halloween sex when there are constant interruptions?

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 10/03/2006 12:27 AM

I’ve actually never noticed the pumpkin smell. It was always the guts I hated because they were hard to scoop out with your hands or even a spoon. Took forever to do. By the time the actual carving would happen I was bored by then.
Plus, roasted pumpkin seeds suck.

I did the stencils one year and liked it alot. One time I just painted a pumpkin with superhero symbols (The S-Shield, Batman’s bat, Flash’s lightening bolt, etc).

I tried the PB Icee the other day (didn’t have the cup) and was completely underwhelmed. I didn’t even finish it all the way. I think I prefer mine more slushie-like than like a soft snow-cone. Good things they’re cheap.

My Target has started putting Christmas stuff out. At this point it’s just an aisle, but I get the feeling they’ll be converted completely before Halloween :(

Watched the TCM franchise THS on E! last night. Basically the same stories you’ve heard before, although I was sorta shocked they didn’t mention that LOTR’s Viggo Morteson was in TCM 3. That one ain’t bad.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/03/2006 12:44 AM

You really hate the smell that much? While I’m not exactly in love with the stench of pumpkin guts either, it’s sort of a Halloween-mood requirement for me. Kind of like you and…well…Halloween-themed beer commercials, apparently.

Although the thought of carving any this year is already making my shoulders ache. Damn things are friggin’ tough as hell to cut through, and it doesn’t help that I have twigs for arms. Course, maybe I shouldn’t always insist on getting the absolute biggest pumpkin I can find.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 10/03/2006 1:57 AM

I don’t have a lot to say about carving pumpkins, other than that I enjoy it and need to do one up right this year, but the sticker made me think of something. Has anyone else seen the It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown fruit snacks? There’s nothing particularly Halloweeny about them aside from the box, which was a little disappointing, they could have least tried to make a Charlie Brown in his ghost costume or a Lucy witch or something. But they were still cool to see.

Chestnuts roasted by GrrrArgh @ 10/03/2006 2:27 AM

Holy Crap! My local public access station is having a Kung Fu Marathon!!!!

Btw, it’s the Kung Fu with David Carradine, not the cheesy 60′s-70′s style movies from china.

Why is this important?

Well it’s not really, But it is cool because it’s following hot on the heels of a Shaft marathon, which followed hot on the heels of a Charlies Angels Marathon, which followed hot on the heels of a Miami Vice Marathon!

I really love the term “Hot on the Heels!”

Anyway, PUBLIC ACCESS ROCKS!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 10/03/2006 2:38 AM

Sorry bout hijacking the thread. I just needed to tell someone.

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 10/03/2006 2:39 AM

We need to take an Americawide poll and find out how many other people have this crippling inability to stand the smell of pumpkin innards. Me, I have it so bad, my family has taken to calling pumpkins “Orange Kryptonite.”

You can always recognize my house on Halloween; it’s the one with the carved watermelon.

Chestnuts roasted by G'Tron @ 10/03/2006 3:44 AM

People are disgusted by the smell of pumpkin innards?! I’ve never heard of that being a problem before. It doesn’t bother me at all. My only problem with pumpkin carving is scooping the innards out. It’s not gross, just a hassle. They’re so slick that it’s almost impossible to get more than a few seeds and sinews out at a time, and yet it sticks to the inside like glue.

Chestnuts roasted by TB Tabby @ 10/03/2006 5:33 AM

OH YEAH LIKE WE REALLY LOVE THE FREAKING SMELL OF YOUR HUMAN HANDS AS YOU RIP AND SLICE US UP AND THEN SET OUR INSIDES ON FIRE!

Chestnuts roasted by Pumpkin Guts @ 10/03/2006 5:53 AM

How can it be a ‘regular’ pumpkin and the Great Pumpkin at the same time?

Pumpkin is a fruit, right? Or is it a vegetable? Either way I hate digging out the Pumpkin Guts. Yeeeeck.

Chestnuts roasted by Julie @ 10/03/2006 6:08 AM

Well, a pumpkin is a squash, and I believe a squash is a vegetable.

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 10/03/2006 6:21 AM

Yeah a squash is a vegetable, How sad is that? I had to look it up.

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 10/03/2006 6:22 AM

I’m up to 46 (no foolin) on that M&M game posted on Saturday ( http://us.mms.com/us/dark/index.jsp ) and some of them were really obscure!!! Lotta Lynch and some Hitchcock that DO NOT belong under the horror genre! So heads up yo!

Chestnuts roasted by Ponsonby Britt @ 10/03/2006 7:19 AM

I don’t get as nauseous as I used to because smoking fourteen packs of cigarettes a day tends to dull a person’s senses and just about everything else

Yeah, we’re all going to be sad when you get lung cancer or COPD or some shit and die. I just want you to rest easy knowing that if for some reason you die of a freak accident, I have that one photo of you holding the penis ice mold from the AC article saved to my hard drive. I would hate for your funeral to pursue without a photo of you holding a plastic cock.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 10/03/2006 8:02 AM

Man, pulling out the guts of the pumpkin is the best part.

That, and Pumpkin pie. Mmm…Pie…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 10/03/2006 9:02 AM

If there’s one big thing that I regret having never done during Halloween, it’s pumpkin carving. Sure, my family would always go to the pumpkin patch and each kid would get a pumpkin, but our parents never allowed them to be cut up in order to make the pumpkins last until December.

Chestnuts roasted by Brianq @ 10/03/2006 9:25 AM

You knw that actuall are Mr Potato Head kits for pumpkins, right? The little link thing on my name’ll take you to the first site I found with them. I’m getting one this coming payday!

Chestnuts roasted by Erich @ 10/03/2006 10:25 AM

I have personally carved a pumpkin for years up until last year. I kind of lot the Halloween spirit last year, and pretty much blew off the holiday. Shame on me.

This year I’m already getting excited about carving one up though.

Chestnuts roasted by Deuce @ 10/03/2006 10:57 AM

I’s a gunna come afta yous matts! I’s a sneakin up undas yas noses!

bewars! issa commin fo yas! I’s a gots deaf on me mind!

Chestnuts roasted by pumpkin smell @ 10/03/2006 11:02 AM

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