Fuddruckers Fucking Pumpkins

In 1989, Fuddruckers had a pretty amazing kids meal prize. A freaking pumpkin included with your meal! As an adult I usually get about 3-4 pumpkins a year, but when I was a kid. We got ONE. If we'd just gotten dinner at Fuddruckers, we'd probably still have just gotten one... but it would have been that one! Nothing beats a good pumpkin at Halloween and that would have been a great way to get one!

Cursed Halloween In Bed

No matter how much I hate for Halloween to be over, it's super nice to stretch out in bed after everything's all said and done. Usually the wife is fast asleep while I watch Treehouse of Horror on FXX before passing out myself. Something about Autumn makes sleeping so much better. Especially this year where the part of Daylight Savings Time everyone likes is on Halloween night! Extra long Halloween AND morning after!

I've never been to The Bedroom (the store). As somebody who just bought a brand new bed last year, I wish there was one around here. Look at those prices! But really, it's hard to focus on those prices when there's a FUCKING HUMAN FACED PUMPKIN IN THE WINDOW. That pie joke sure would be funnier...it wouldn't ... who opened the window for him anyway? STOP WATCHING ME SLEEP YOU ORANGE FREAK.

The Bloody Pumpkin Is A Lie

Ever hear about that scene in Halloween where they find a bloody pumpkin with a knife sticking out of it? I used to hear about it all the time. That and how Michael Myers was based on a real guy. I'll get to the 'real guy' thing later, but for now I kind of want to chat bloody pumpkins and the Halloweens they weren't in. It's the weirdest urban legend as I never see anyone talk about it online. The Jason using a chainsaw thing? Yeah, I still see that occasionally. Bloody pumpkin? As offline as the official Bloody Pumpkin MySpace profile I planned on making in 2005.

It wasn't even that long ago my mom said it when I mentioned looking forward to the new Halloween (wait, that was 2018... ) and she said the original was 'so scary with that big knife sticking out of that pumpkin'. Clearly it's folks mentally combining imagery. Maybe just a little excited playground exaggeration from the one kid who's parents let him stay up and watch it mixed in.

See the commercial up above? It's an old school homemade spot for a local stations airing of Halloween 2. Homemade commercials used to be pretty common back in the day. Did you uh... notice Michael? Somebody got creative to make him look 'badass'. Making monsters look badass is a staple of Halloween and teenagers really into Ozzy Osbourne. Named Chet.

I think it's from some of these type of commercials where folks get that bloody pumpkin imagery. A bloody pumpkin with a knife sticking out of it isn't exactly rare at Halloween. I know I've seen one or two in the past. I've even poured fake blood over a pumpkin myself. Why not? Make it look badass.

Pumpkin Spice Mayhem

Summer is a Spooky Season and the prelude to Halloween.

Friday Night Frights- Halloween Safety (1985)

It's another Friday night and that means it's time for another edition of Friday Night Frights here on the base! While I normally use these posts as a fun way to share oooky spooky things with y'all, the past few weeks I've gave it a Halloween focus. We all know what's been going on with the virus, the lock downs and everything... it sucks. Halloween is the most fun time on this here site. I took it as a good time to share some of Halloween classics just so we can all have some fun and try not to think about everything else for a while.

Fortunately things are easing and we can all get back to some sort of normality soon. Not to mention, after Memorial Day, this site kicks high into spooky shit gear. Sure, I post spooky shit regularly as is. I like it and obviously so do a lot of you (I get more traffic from it than anything else), but it gets an extra focus with spooky summer and Halloween content.

Maybe just one last specifically Halloween themed Friday Night Fights until mid August when it's officially pumpkin spice time. But just like all our officials are saying, we have to ease back into normalcy slowly. We still have to observe safety guidelines and procedures in this new normal we're living in. So how about some general safety rules to help you all out until the pumpkins roll in?

Friday Night Frights- Halloween Saftey (1977)

Time for another Friday Night Frights here on the Base! It seems like everywhere I look these days there's all sorts of safety tips ad guidelines for the world we live in. I find myself walking around in a mask, not going inside stranger's homes, not eating unwrapped snacks, not... Did I somehow wish us into a early Halloween? No, sadly no. Halloween is awesome and fun, what's going on right now sucks. Hopefully all will be somewhat back to normal by fall (or I'm going to the corona's house and kicking it's ass). Because Halloween is awesome and fun... which we all could use some of that right now.

Friday Night Video Fright

Another busy Friday night, another movie night post here on the Base! Folks, I'll be honest, Friday is usually a pretty hard night for me. To make things worse, I've got some sort of head cold making me just a little miserable. It'd be a good time for comfort food, but first I need to finish this can of Cherry Bubly I thought would taste good (nope). I'm going to my happy place and bring you all with me. Sound good? Here's a long block of old Halloween commercials. I know it's only January, but let's face it, the month is like 6 years long. We could all use some silly fun. And what's more silly than.... I like Halloween. I'm just making an excuse to enjoy it in January. I see the site traffic, the Halloween stuff gets hits all year. You all like it too. We all can be weird together.

Pumpkin Kuttin

I've been on pins and needles about my pumpkin this year, it's an important part of the Halloween season. When I was a kid we'd use a kitchen knife to do our work, despite such amazing products as the Pumpkin Kutter readily available. They made a safe cutting... pardon me kutting tool, a scoop, and even a light to use in place of a candle. My parents didn't see a need for it, but these days I sure do use the crap out of these type of things. Though admittedly I'm a Pumpkin Masters man.

Pumpkin Kutter had a plethora of commercials slinging their wares. It's hard to deny the charm of them. It's that classic old school Halloween and just the overall vibe from them that I just can't get enough of. Not to miss out on a sale, Pumpkin Kutter even sold the Pumpkin Light as a safety lite while you trick or treat as opposed to a glow stick or flashlight.

Like I said above, I'm a Pumpkin Masters man. They're everywhere and produce some damn fine quality pumpkin carving kits and supplies. Though I did briefly wonder what happened to Pumpkin Kutter. Did they go out of business or something? Nope, they're still around producing the exact same tools they've always made. Literally.

It'd be super cool to score one of these kits, just to have a set. According to their site they're sold at Pumpkin Farms nationwide. I live in a nationwide and will be going to a Pumpkin Farm in a few weeks. It'd be great to score a set of the classic... pardon me, klassic tools.

Trick or Treat Fever Dream

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Pumpkin Kutter commercial

Every year I buy a new set of these things (you kind of kill those little knives) and if it's one thing I've learned, it's that the scoopings always look particularly gross when you use the scooper. Mainly for the little shaving of the pumpkin sides. Looks like slimy carrot sticks and cheese shreds floating in seed puke.