Jane: Nearly there. Andy: Very, nearly there. Mike: Miles away, in the wrong part of the map, going the wrong direction and brawling with a man on the ground in the middle of a forest.
Me reading this comment "I really hope we can get a charades Xmas challenge this year" Then I remembered -_- Oh well we can always go back and watch the old ones until next year ♡
@@MrHarryGray they could do zoom version but it wouldn't be the same. I hope if they can next years will be bloody brilliant because we would have missed them even more.
@@nunyobidniz I'm betting Jane murders them both in HER sleep. ....Or at least, that's what the court documents will say. "Your honour, I couldn't have knowingly killed them! See, my eyes are closed!"
@@sampeters5589 19:10 Unfortunately, it looks like she already played that card though. Also, TBF, Mike's love for racing is probably balanced out by his hatred for horses.
I like how Andy gets all upset about everyone saying he cheats and then proceeds to compete in RDR2 with a fully leveled char and horse stimulants against 2x starting chars.
@@IrvineTheHunter Yeah, but that game seems so random (certainly when you're trying to achieve the death solo but WITH other players in the game) that I'm not sure it was fair to be *in* the challenges list at all. It does feel like he had the bad luck to get a ghost that would mostly only hunt if all players there, and he was solo ....
Andy as Jeremy as he's taking the race almost too seriously Jane as James as she's overly care about her horse Mike as Richard as he's keep falling over
He or maybe she is basically like their guardian angel in Red Dead who helps them out when they’re available to help and needed apparently. They’ve not met yet don’t think. They also pop up during the chaotic fishing challenge 🙂
@@oxfanblink4115 And in GTA Online as well. I think Nerascus also showed up when they were doing their race in ESO and was one of the as Andy puts it "sellswords."
If hypothetically Andy had shot one of the others' horses at the start, presumably that would have slowed him right down as he would have had to sit through the "Sorry I killed you, horse" intro before he could have continued, right?
"Come back tomorrow for the HITMAN 2 Silent Assassin, Suit Only Stealth Challenge! And finally on Thursday, it's the Outside Xbox Best Beard IRL competition! It could be anybody's game, folks! You won't want to miss it!"
Andy: "It's not going to matter when I shoot your horse." Mike: "That's not very Christmasy." Me: "But it is very Oxmasy" (Later)Jane: "Maybe I do have time to kill him. He's dead now. It's fine."
@@jerbar1280 He didd't really care is the problem, the commenters take these challanges a lot more seriously than they do lol, If Mike cared so much he could have asked for advice, and at all given his horse some attention or at least taken some bullets and food with him
I love the struggle as they talk about the current scores that they definitely know, and it’s not that they did all the intros in one go, before playing anything.
@@mar_speedman You're right. Such a shame, I was kinda proud of that pun until I read the post properly and went "Oh yeah, that's not how those films work." Ah well, 𝅘𝅥 One, two, Marley’s coming for you 𝅘𝅥 ...
Andy: I don’t cheat. Also Andy: Let’s have a race in my favourite game’s online mode, in which my character is massively levelled up with numerous advantages over Mike & Jane. We see you, Farrant. We see you.
@@shotgunshells2 Uh, Jane's save file got corrupted a while back and she actually had to make a ME3 vid using Andy's Shep because Jane couldn't use her own. Maybe Sims 4? :D
The ending sounded like when parents try to cajole sulking kids 😆 you can't have this point if you don't come out of the mine andy! Shall we give your point to jane?
@@angstbringer2992 It's one of those mysteries that you don't want to know the truth of. I like the idea that he's is just this guardian angel good Samaritan that just helps people in video games. That he just knows they need him and shows up.
I love how Andy seems to be the only one who knows how horse care works because the stimulant is for the stamina outer ring and the inside core is where you give pears and hay.
Eh, Andy's riding what looks like a Silver Turkoman but his char is only rank 16, which means he hopped on during… sometime earlier this winter, I can't remember exactly when, when you could buy any horse at any rank if you had the gold or RDO Dollars. Also you generally can buy the gold bar horses at any level-if memory serves, I've been playing RDO for too long to remember what happens when things were locked behind level caps. But as someone who loves Turkomans it doesn't look like Andy has gone past level one bonding with his horse and because he's a low rank himself he can't get the low drain stamina saddles. There are ways that the challenge could have been just totally thrown in Andy's favor and he could have whipped the others with a ten minute lead, but he's not. Like even if Mike and Jane had been on the free Breton/starter Breton for the bounty hunter roll they all have, they would have had a better chance. Mike showing up on a half dead horse and with no ammo just makes it feel like he didn't take any of it seriously. EDIT: After looking at horses in RDO (because they released Turk variants on Tuesday) Andy apparently *does* have a Kentucky Saddler, Grey coat, just it's max bonded (I think all of them are though) and he prepped his horse before hand by not having it have empty cores and came prepared with the horse stimulants. I'm in the stable right now on my PS4 and looking at the different coats only the Grey Kentucky Saddler has that white stripe on its nose with a black nose around it instead of pink. It's just some weird trick of the way the camera is zoomed in/out to make his horse seem bigger than Jane's. I believe they have an identical horse otherwise.
Mike strangling Andy to death is his way of celebrating the Christmas spirit........ or rather squeezing Andy's spirit out of his body to demonstrate that indeed, there's no room for morals in these X'mas Challenges. A proper reward for the man who won the point. XD
i love all of you guys but i really love andy's hype building "take a turn for the exciting" just the phrase and the way you say it, you are dedicated lol
From 23:46 onward, straight comedy. From the surprise hogtie, to Mike accidentally punching Jane, to Mike "accidentally" strangling Andy..then finally Andy coming back from the grave with a John Wick style vengeance. I can't stop rewatching it
Both channels having races that end up with everyone attacking each other at the finish line.... Amazing, show stopping, 10/10; thank you for making me laugh a whole lot
9:22 Judging by the area in question and how fast it was moving away from you, that 'fearsome critter' was actually a cute little black bear more scared of you than you of it.
It would've made it more of a challenge for everyone. There was really no hope for anyone else to compete with Andy here. Probably wouldn't have been very interesting to watch if wasn't for Jane and Mike's mischief. They all agreed to it, but it was basically a sure point to Andy from the start.
Actually Marley visits Scrooge before he goes to sleep, at the door to Scrooge's home and just after dinner! The other three seem to wake him up but he fights his way out of bed the next morning and worries he missed xmas so a little of both.
I'll be very surprised if Andy doesn't win this one, considering the poor shape Mike's horse is always in and Jane facing the wrong way right at the start
You know how Mike could have stayed in this? At the start, he should have simply jumped onto the back of Andy or Jane's horse. Irony: If Andy had kept the clone corpse on the back of his horse, that would prevent Mike from doing just that.
It does genuinely surprise me that Jane and Mike don't play more of this game. If I was a console person instead of PC I'd certainly mentor the both of you.
IIRC there are people ion the fandom who know who he is and how he always shows up, but I don't know for sure. One story I heard is that way back when they were starting playing GTAO Nerascus friended them and they either didn't notice or forgot. Now he knows when they're playing ANY game by Rockstar.
Jane being wanted for murder during a friendly race is so on brand
And Mike stealing a horse carriage after initially getting killed by horse carriage:P
Well of course.... She is evil after all, just very polite though.
Thankfully she doesn't gun down subscribers. We love you, Queen Jane! *
If this was D&D Purdance would use angosing eldritch blast on her adversaries...
The challenge: a simple race
Mike: "I'm tying a man up."
Jane: "Oh no, there was a witness to my murder!"
Andy: “This coat doesn’t match my hat, I need to find a tailor”
@The Gaming Meta this is why I miss their 3 ways to play.
Yank here, these are my favorite Brits as they never fail to amuse 😂
@@Jerky777 3 ways to play is great :D
The key to victory is choosing the right mare before Christmas.
**slow clap**
[Deep breath]
[Clears throat]
[Deep breath]
[Even deeper breath]
Booooooooooooooo--
(Five minutes later)
--ooooooo.
Godddam that was good
Whenever a solid pun is made in the comments of an OX family video, an Ellen gets it's wings.
I can stop scrolling, this is the best comment.
Jane: Nearly there.
Andy: Very, nearly there.
Mike: Miles away, in the wrong part of the map, going the wrong direction and brawling with a man on the ground in the middle of a forest.
Andy - “there’s no morals in Christmas challenges”
Flashbacks to the charades where Andy dances and chants - MORAL MORAL MORAL MORAL MORAL
Me reading this comment
"I really hope we can get a charades Xmas challenge this year"
Then I remembered -_-
Oh well we can always go back and watch the old ones until next year ♡
@@TransGuyShane oh nooo I completely forgot we wouldn't be getting that this year *tears up* , hopefully if they can next year it'll be even more fun
@@MrHarryGray they could do zoom version but it wouldn't be the same.
I hope if they can next years will be bloody brilliant because we would have missed them even more.
Nerascus showing up at the very end made the entire thing.
Nerascus shoulda been given the point, just on principle
Nerascus is one of the cameramen I bet you. James or Jon.
“It was all fun and games until Mike strangled Andy to death”
I feel like that is how this channel will end.
That was my thought exactly. And Mike only being accused of manslaughter.
My money's on Jane murdering both of them in their sleep, but I could see your prediction happening. 😂
@@panzer622 And the accusation dismissed on accounts of self defence.
@@AliceinDisneyWorld1125 same. 5 Tonnes of lake-gold on Jane for last one standing
@@nunyobidniz I'm betting Jane murders them both in HER sleep.
....Or at least, that's what the court documents will say. "Your honour, I couldn't have knowingly killed them! See, my eyes are closed!"
Its like watching a race between a Ferrari, a hybrid car and a bicycle.
aren't they one & the same with the way Vettel races,
Halfway through the bicycle gets upgraded to one of those giant cargo bikes with a kiddie trailer behind it.
Mike and Jane telling Andy to stop sulking after they murdered him is a the kind of energy I expect from Christmas challenges
So Red dead is Andy's strength, racing is Mike's...I feel Jane's been had
Well They did say "by any means" so Murder is Janes Strength.
She got the giant killing challenge again which she seems to hustle andy and mike at almost every year recently
@@sampeters5589 19:10 Unfortunately, it looks like she already played that card though.
Also, TBF, Mike's love for racing is probably balanced out by his hatred for horses.
Tense af FIFA matches are Jane's strength.
next year should include a Mass Effect 3 "who can complete the Clan Urdnot Coming Of Age trials quickest" or something.
Mike starting off with a horse with knackered cores is extremely on brand.
I like how Andy gets all upset about everyone saying he cheats and then proceeds to compete in RDR2 with a fully leveled char and horse stimulants against 2x starting chars.
It's not cheating. It's preparation. :)
In all fairness he got screwed on the Phasmagoria challenge...
@@IrvineTheHunter How?
@@IrvineTheHunter Yeah, but that game seems so random (certainly when you're trying to achieve the death solo but WITH other players in the game) that I'm not sure it was fair to be *in* the challenges list at all. It does feel like he had the bad luck to get a ghost that would mostly only hunt if all players there, and he was solo ....
Yeah, to be fair, the other two mostly lost due to not doing much (Jane) or any (Mike) prep.
I love that Nerascus just showed up at the end. What a legend.
Jane: “I don’t have time for murder... well maybe a little murder”
Jane is lthe most ruthless of the crew, lol.
A code we can all live by.
Commenters seem to take these challenges way more seriously than the participants
I'm low key disappointed Mike didn't run over Andy and Jane in the end.
Ikr! It was so perfectly set up for it lmao.
"It's all fun and games until Mike strangles Andy to death" perfectly summarizes the spirit of the oxbox x-mas challenge :D
Ah the most festive of the Christmas traditions.
*Ye olde Top Gear cross-country race episode*
Best comment on this vid😂👍🏼
Andy hiding at the station until Jane arrives is classic Top Gear...with Mike-as-Hammond on the Black Shadow coming in last.
Andy as Jeremy as he's taking the race almost too seriously
Jane as James as she's overly care about her horse
Mike as Richard as he's keep falling over
I'm too much a newbie to know Nerascus' whole mythos, but damn he had perfect comedic timing at the end, even if unintentional.
He or maybe she is basically like their guardian angel in Red Dead who helps them out when they’re available to help and needed apparently. They’ve not met yet don’t think. They also pop up during the chaotic fishing challenge 🙂
@@oxfanblink4115 And in GTA Online as well. I think Nerascus also showed up when they were doing their race in ESO and was one of the as Andy puts it "sellswords."
If hypothetically Andy had shot one of the others' horses at the start, presumably that would have slowed him right down as he would have had to sit through the "Sorry I killed you, horse" intro before he could have continued, right?
And narrascis somehow shows up at the end, what a Legend.
More like what a simp
THe Man with that One Name.
@@lukeferguson9466 Nice another person who doesn't know the meaning of the word
@@MonsterPumpkin Simpleton, it is not even a new slang either. It just got popular again.
@@AlmightyPolarBear That makes 2
A Red Dead challenge? When Andy's losing? Suspiciously convenient Andy...
"Come back tomorrow for the HITMAN 2 Silent Assassin, Suit Only Stealth Challenge! And finally on Thursday, it's the Outside Xbox Best Beard IRL competition! It could be anybody's game, folks! You won't want to miss it!"
@@Okusar Going to be a real upset when Jane wins them both thanks to dangerous mad science.
@@Okusar No, it will be a red dead "best dressed" challenge, (judged by Andy)
@@jerbar1280 Andy taking heat for how he judges the Pikachu competition for OXtra is always a highlight!
100% haha
“Cause I don’t treat this like my second job”
No Mike, he treats it like his actual job, because it is
Andy: "It's not going to matter when I shoot your horse."
Mike: "That's not very Christmasy."
Me: "But it is very Oxmasy"
(Later)Jane: "Maybe I do have time to kill him. He's dead now. It's fine."
I feel like Mike may have had the chips stacked against him from the beginning with the nearly dead horse and everything...
Is it still unfair if you've done it to yourself?
Including the fact that he; does not play the game much when Andy does... did not think to stock up on horse care items, when Andy did... etc.
@@jerbar1280 He didd't really care is the problem, the commenters take these challanges a lot more seriously than they do lol, If Mike cared so much he could have asked for advice, and at all given his horse some attention or at least taken some bullets and food with him
I love the struggle as they talk about the current scores that they definitely know, and it’s not that they did all the intros in one go, before playing anything.
Mike starting with near empty cores is hilarious to me.
Jane was just going to tie Andy up and throw him in the lake alive.
Mike strangles Andy to death.
Jane: "That was too far."
"I believe the water strangled him after I lovingly dropped him off to be tended to, your Honour."
"My crimes will never catch up with me."
We'll remember, Jane. We all remember that screwdriver rampage. Even if it was a mercy spree.
Her crimes are too afraid to catch up to her.
Given how mike usually treats horses that first death was probably justified
"they can't get you if you don't sleep" -Christmas 2020
So, it's A Christmas Carol on Elm Street, then?
They can't get you if you *don't* sleep.
@@mar_speedman You're right. Such a shame, I was kinda proud of that pun until I read the post properly and went "Oh yeah, that's not how those films work." Ah well, 𝅘𝅥 One, two, Marley’s coming for you 𝅘𝅥 ...
Mike was approaching Luke in the GTA races during this.
Love the challenges and the idea of mixing it up this year. Appreciate the work and always look forward to your vids
Must admit, was not expecting THAT type of ending. Enjoy your new hat, Mike. *:P*
As a person who loves horses, I can’t tell whether Andy’s stimulant usage or Mike’s horse trash talk pained me more lol
Andy: I don’t cheat.
Also Andy: Let’s have a race in my favourite game’s online mode, in which my character is massively levelled up with numerous advantages over Mike & Jane.
We see you, Farrant. We see you.
I feel like the next challenge should be a car race (like Forza, if that has a multiplayer mode) and then something that Jane is really good at.
Jane likes Mass Effect, maybe something in the ME3 multiplayer?
@@shotgunshells2 Uh, Jane's save file got corrupted a while back and she actually had to make a ME3 vid using Andy's Shep because Jane couldn't use her own.
Maybe Sims 4? :D
this was so funny to watch hahaha
Mike is chaos, I absolutely love that approach!
So they're just going to choose challenges, Andy: RDR2; Mike: Some racing game; Jane: FIFA, of course.
Genuinely delighted by Jane the Christmas Elf's Splangy Jumper
Well I mean you should have been excited for nearly two weeks because they shot every one of those at the same time
It’s apparently quite stinky
Ah! Nerascus! He's come to save 2020!
I really feel Mike and Jane should have raised some objections when this challenge was originally proposed...
or at least pre-mission prep....
Does Nerascus have alerts to let him know when anyone from OX is playing a rockstar game?
IIRC someone once said that he has them on his friend list.
The ending sounded like when parents try to cajole sulking kids 😆 you can't have this point if you don't come out of the mine andy! Shall we give your point to jane?
Day 10 of the Oxmas challenge, the bioculture on Jane's sparkly top has developed sentience and started a primitive civilisation.
😆
Underrated
How does nerascus know?
He's there to support them every time it's amazing!
He's probably on their friends list. Either that or he has to know them irl
I like to think he also doesn't know who they are
@@angstbringer2992 It's one of those mysteries that you don't want to know the truth of. I like the idea that he's is just this guardian angel good Samaritan that just helps people in video games. That he just knows they need him and shows up.
Nerascus shoulda been given the point, just on principle
It is one of the cameramen, we know how mysterious they are. Except during that on Legend of Zelda play-through.
I love how Andy seems to be the only one who knows how horse care works because the stimulant is for the stamina outer ring and the inside core is where you give pears and hay.
Did anyone else look at Mike’s horse’s cores at the very start and go ‘oh no, this wont end well’.
The last four minutes are the best!! Y'all need more challenges like this. =)
11:20 You could NOT get a rally car up that hill and through those woods, Mike!
Okay, so since one of the three-way challenges is Red Dead, to make it fair, the other two need to be, like, Forza and Mass Effect
I get the feeling this was a pretty one sided challenge and Andy had quite a bit of an advantage.
Eh, Andy's riding what looks like a Silver Turkoman but his char is only rank 16, which means he hopped on during… sometime earlier this winter, I can't remember exactly when, when you could buy any horse at any rank if you had the gold or RDO Dollars. Also you generally can buy the gold bar horses at any level-if memory serves, I've been playing RDO for too long to remember what happens when things were locked behind level caps. But as someone who loves Turkomans it doesn't look like Andy has gone past level one bonding with his horse and because he's a low rank himself he can't get the low drain stamina saddles.
There are ways that the challenge could have been just totally thrown in Andy's favor and he could have whipped the others with a ten minute lead, but he's not. Like even if Mike and Jane had been on the free Breton/starter Breton for the bounty hunter roll they all have, they would have had a better chance. Mike showing up on a half dead horse and with no ammo just makes it feel like he didn't take any of it seriously.
EDIT: After looking at horses in RDO (because they released Turk variants on Tuesday) Andy apparently *does* have a Kentucky Saddler, Grey coat, just it's max bonded (I think all of them are though) and he prepped his horse before hand by not having it have empty cores and came prepared with the horse stimulants. I'm in the stable right now on my PS4 and looking at the different coats only the Grey Kentucky Saddler has that white stripe on its nose with a black nose around it instead of pink. It's just some weird trick of the way the camera is zoomed in/out to make his horse seem bigger than Jane's. I believe they have an identical horse otherwise.
lol... In car terms, what Mike is doing is like driving while holding the door open
"Can't get you if you don't sleep" same rules for dealing with Freddy Krueger then.
Makes you wonder which Ghost of Christmas Freddy was =)
@@jamesanthony8438 I would definitely say the pointy, sharp and stabby kind.
im pretty sure i heard mike's poor horse swearing
Mike strangling Andy to death is his way of celebrating the Christmas spirit........ or rather squeezing Andy's spirit out of his body to demonstrate that indeed, there's no room for morals in these X'mas Challenges. A proper reward for the man who won the point. XD
i love all of you guys but i really love andy's hype building
"take a turn for the exciting" just the phrase and the way you say it, you are dedicated lol
So:
Mike gets some wheels.
Jane commits murder.
Andy gets strangled.
And everyone is into bondage.
Mike coming into the home stretch with a lead only to start well and truly Mikeing it up.
It's beautiful really.
3 Kentucky saddlers racing is about the same energy as the scooter race up Mount Chiliad
This was like a nice Road Trip. The music even kicked in a couple minutes after they set off.
Leave it to Mike to find a way to increase his horsepower in a race.
Andy: There's no room for morals in the xmas challenges 🤣
Jane: It was all fun and games until Mike strangled Andy to death 🤣🤣
From 23:46 onward, straight comedy. From the surprise hogtie, to Mike accidentally punching Jane, to Mike "accidentally" strangling Andy..then finally Andy coming back from the grave with a John Wick style vengeance. I can't stop rewatching it
Both channels having races that end up with everyone attacking each other at the finish line.... Amazing, show stopping, 10/10; thank you for making me laugh a whole lot
I feel like Mike kinda got shafted with the whole not giving him any real heads-up to get prep items or a less crap horse.
9:22 Judging by the area in question and how fast it was moving away from you, that 'fearsome critter' was actually a cute little black bear more scared of you than you of it.
Mike: -runs with the lasso out the whole time, making him run slower-
NVM, Mike is just that slow.
Ahaha, the edit made this comment.
Petition for Nerascus to be awarded the point.
"Happy horses scream." Well I'm convinced.
What the heck how is Nerascus just always there?
I like the way the first thing Mike does when he gets there is strangle the winner to death. Ahh the friendly competitiveness of it all.
It serves Mike right for trying to steal the horse and getting shot and run over for it. Honestly Mike, since when do YOU go the nonlethal route?
@The Gaming Meta i mean it didn't stop him from killing Andy at the end
Nerascus showed up! Hooray! Best Christmas ever!
They really should've started on the same rental horse and no equipment.
It would've made it more of a challenge for everyone. There was really no hope for anyone else to compete with Andy here. Probably wouldn't have been very interesting to watch if wasn't for Jane and Mike's mischief. They all agreed to it, but it was basically a sure point to Andy from the start.
Nerascus!!!! The return of the legend
I mean. Mike seems to understand that cars need tuning and fuel. Why is he so adamant that horses SHOULDN'T need food and rest?
Andy: The train is full of ghosts!
Jane: G-dangit!
my brain: .....ghost-dangit?
It's not Christmas until Nerascus is here
Andy you have OPed yourself so badly 😂
This basically became a measure of how much they each like Red Dead rather than an actual competition.
I love how they were all were beating each other up at the end lmao
Somewhere PETA are writing a strongly worded letter about Mike's run.
Yes, People Eating Tasty Animals disapproves of the wasteful behavior of leaving a perfectly good horse carcass to rot.
Actually Marley visits Scrooge before he goes to sleep, at the door to Scrooge's home and just after dinner!
The other three seem to wake him up but he fights his way out of bed the next morning and worries he missed xmas so a little of both.
i think this is one of my favorite xmas challenge videos now XD
I'll be very surprised if Andy doesn't win this one, considering the poor shape Mike's horse is always in and Jane facing the wrong way right at the start
Jane is extra bubbly In these challenges and I think it’s amazing
You know how Mike could have stayed in this? At the start, he should have simply jumped onto the back of Andy or Jane's horse.
Irony: If Andy had kept the clone corpse on the back of his horse, that would prevent Mike from doing just that.
Jane hog-tying Andy at the end was hilarious!
It does genuinely surprise me that Jane and Mike don't play more of this game. If I was a console person instead of PC I'd certainly mentor the both of you.
I LOVE that Nerascus turned up! Am I just out of the loop or is Nerascus still a mystery??
IIRC there are people ion the fandom who know who he is and how he always shows up, but I don't know for sure.
One story I heard is that way back when they were starting playing GTAO Nerascus friended them and they either didn't notice or forgot. Now he knows when they're playing ANY game by Rockstar.
Mike Channell; the only man who can stop mid horserace to rugby tackle and hogtie a civillian. Man it would be fun to go to the national with him lol
I'd love more of these simultaneous X-mas challenges:P
It is always a good time when the injection of illegal stimulants is involved
Love the Glengarry Glen Ross reference: "Second prize is a set of steak knives..."
TIL horses scream when they're happy. Always keep learning!
And so the Andy cheating begins. Next up the Hitman 2 stealth challenge.
What a pleasant video! You guys should hang out in RDR online more often!
Outlaws discussing "slight cheating" vs "cheating"... LMFO
This challenge was fun but the last 4 mins were just absolute christmas treasure.
Nice to see the triumphant return of the Oxbox mascot! The next head to head better be a nude punch out with an authority figure.