History Creator / StuartAshen

-->'''Ashens''': If we've learnt something here today, it's "don't stick 25-year-old bubblegum in your mouth." Whatever makes it bubblegum has long since passed into the ether.** He actually nibbled at possibly the ultimate in expired food--a ''forty-five'' year-old military ration. The crackers surprisingly weren't that bad. The candy circle on the other hand...

** He actually nibbled at possibly the ultimate in expired food--a ''forty-five'' year-old military ration. The crackers surprisingly weren't that bad. The candy circle on the other hand...
-->'''Ashens''': If we've learnt something here today, it's "don't stick 25-year-old bubblegum in your mouth." Whatever makes it bubblegum has long since passed into the ether.

-->"If the item pleases me, it ascends to the Self of Interesting Items. If not, it burns in the fires of (beat) a fire."

* TakeAThirdOption: His Extra Ashens Blind Bags series consists of reviewing various blind bags or pods (containers that contain a random toy figurine in a series) before deciding whether to put them on 'The Shelf of Interesting Items' or burn them with his blowtorch. He later added extra options such as the Drawer of Purgatory and the Box of Shame.

** Happens twice in his knockoff HeMan action figures review at the sight of two ridiculous looking figures.

* FollowTheLeader: After Dr. Ashen's videos increased in popularity, a number of "Ashens tribute" review videos in his style have appeared throughout [=YouTube=]. The video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJZggpiithU Ultra-Cheap Action Figures Review]] has a clip of HarryPartridge doing an impression of him included in the end.

* HypocriticalHumor: After the segment where HarryPartridge does a small review in Ashen's style in the "Ultra-Cheap Action Figures" video.

* SubvertedKidsShow: HarryPartridge's ''Bo-Starr'', a blatant parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{HeMan|and the Masters of the Universe}}'', in ''Ashen's Tech Dump'' 4. Also, "Poor Monkey", "Naughty Heffalump", and "Uncle Stories".

* CallBack: During his first "Video Game Tat" special, Stuart knocks a package onto the sofa, addressed to a "Tom Bishop" starting, [[WebVideo/TheProxy well, you know]]. During the next special, two more letters fall from the sofa, both addressed to a "Tom Bishop". Stuart [[spoiler:[[RapidFireNo quickly dismisses both]].]]

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Did a review of several limited editions of video games and the tat that comes with them.

* BBCQuary: {{Discussed|Trope}} in his review of the ''Series/DoctorWho LCD Adventure Game''.

** Forms of patronizing marketing also manages to piss Ashen off. He expressed his displeasure at the Flip Video's slogans plastered all over its packaging, and actually refused to properly review a set of Carpenter earbuds due to the pretentious-sounding description on the back of its box, especially with its [[IncrediblyLamePun incredibly lame]] would/wood pun.

Dr. Stuart Ashen (yes, a real doctor; of psychology, no less), or simply Dr. Ashen, is the premier source on Website/{{Youtube}} for reviews of {{Shoddy Knockoff Product}}s — primarily electronics. He also reviews equally horrible retro British games in a series called ''Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of'', and [[BileFascination most horrifically of all]], really cheap food. He has also created two small series of comedy videos for the BBC Comedy Extra website, named ''Ashen's Tech Dump'' and ''Back Space''.

Dr. Stuart Ashen (yes, a real doctor; of psychology, no less), or simply Dr. Ashen, is the premier source on Website/{{Youtube}} for reviews of {{Shoddy Knockoff Product}}s — primarily electronics. He also reviews equally horrible retro British games in a series called ''Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of''. He has also created two small series of comedy videos for the BBC Comedy Extra website, named ''Ashen's Tech Dump'' and ''Back Space''.

** And again in the StarWars Action Figures episode, albeit on accident after a crappy Darth Vader toy [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHr5BQkNVA#t=12m02s shined a bright LED in his eye]]. Borders on a AtomicFBomb

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: His review of the Chintendo (or "Ken Sing Ton") Vii showed that it was a simplified NES in design with a Wii controller slapped on, 2D Playstation 1-esque graphics, weighed nothing even with a small lump of useless metal inside it, and had cost him financially and mentally very much. His reason for giving it a 0/10? No lanyard (when the box said there would be one included.)

* EvilLaugh: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoorFbFz3AU He uses one to let you know that he may phone you.]]

* BadImpressionists: In "10 Reviews in 10 Minutes 2", his assistant Dan does an impression of Ashen's opening which Ashen himself says sounds more like Dame Maggie Smith from ''DowntonAbbey''.

** The crowning example comes during his [[http://openpandora.org Open Pandora]] review, where the camera ''focuses on a hair on its own lens''.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: During his review of Chef Excellence's "Stay Fresh System" bread bags, Ashen reads on the box that the bread bags do not require a seal, causing him to think the box is referring to the aquatic mammal.

** In his YouTube {{Knightmare}} "[[InNameOnly remake]]" Stuart lists as his special skill: "[[MonkeyIsland he can hold his breath for ten minutes]]."

* HarmlessVillain: The Silver Skull

** Despite being British he liberally used both "football" and "soccer" while referring to the sport.

*** For 2013, he did the same but with a ''horrifdying'', drawn-out electronic voice saying it.

** Another one that's been going for a while - a single frame of a bald, bearded man popping up in several videos as a GunningGag (see SubliminalSeduction below). It finally comes to a head in ''Quest for the Game Child'': [[spoiler:it's the actor who plays one of the prisoners that beats up Nemesis during the credits]].