I love the life hack videos, but I'm starting to think it actually should be called, "Famous Author's hands can type novels, but not much else variety minute"
Can we rename these "John Green is bad at crafts" instead of pretending this is even about life hacks anymore? I mean, I'm totally on board with "John Green is bad at crafts" as a regular feature, I don't think we need any pretense.
That recipe for fake edible blood is legit how I was taught to make blood in both my middle school teacher class AND my Theater Make Up class in college that I took as an elective.
Jakub Świtalski I actually am from Israel, and Halloween isn't banned here :D There are Christians who live in Israel and celebrate it. People are welcome to celebrate their holidays. All I meant was that in my particular area there's no trick or treating or pumpkin carving and such.
Miriam Lylac Strange, because here in the US a lot of Christians claim Halloween celebrates evil and witchcraft so they boycott the whole thing and ruin their children's lives
SteelBollocks If a silly cosplay day where you dress up as capitalist cash-ins can make those christians lose faith, they should seek proper spiritual guidance.
She’s shown up once or twice. Most people probably aren’t even aware she’s a woman. You’d be amazed how long I thought she was a guy. That said, if I remember right she’s a pretty brunette.
John keeps impressing me with how willingly he puts questionable food in his mouth. The main things that surprise me are how committed he is (at the start), how much he tries and how surprised he always is that it is terrible i.e. the fake blood. Love ya John!
The cookie cutter thing is usually much more effective with metal cookie cutters, which just work better on thicker things anyway generally. Also, I could have told you the blood would taste nasty. Edible does not mean tasty
You gotta be careful with the ice cube hand one. If someone is allergic to latex at the party that will be an event to remember. So best use a non latex glove
I only watch these life hacks videos so I can laugh endlessly at John's incompetence at performing some pretty non-complicated tasks. His whole attempt at trying to be dexterous is a big FAIL! And yet very entertaining! Keep it up! :D
Here's a hack: If you don't want to buy candy, don't want to be bothered/don't like kids, put an empty bowl on your porch and leave a note that says "Out trick or treating! Please take one! :) ". They won't ring the door bell because you're 'not home'.
These videos are the best ahaa especially when he hosts them because he's hella funny. When he was spitting out the fake ass blood I was cracking up 😂😂 keep it up playa!
I used to make the lollipop ghosts when I was a kid but we used Kleenex instead of coffee filters, so that works too! Also the cookie cutter thing can work if you use a metal cookie cutter and as long as the pumpkin isn't too thick. They actually used to sell kits specifically for pumpkins with metal cookie cutters a wooden mallet for driving them in, though I think those cookie cutters might have had teeth to make it easier.
The codtumes almost turned into an Adam Sandler bit on SNL. "I'm Crazy Spoon-Head! And I want some candy! I don't have a normal head, I got a damn spoon growing out of it! Now, give me some crazy candy, dammit! Ow-ooo, this spoon makes me crazy!"
missmyidahome golden syrup is a delicious sugar syrup from the UK. I imagine corn syrup was just a poor substitute. The fake blood of this recipe called Kensington gore. Mark Gatiss has a nice video on how to make it properly.
izziexxx He used Karo syrup which I have only seen as corn syrup. Plus it was clear like corn syrup and golden syrup after some googling isnt clear from what I saw..though I could be wrong.
Jakub Świtalski Thats why I was confused. It seems like and odd word choice since a good portion of their audience is American, they are American and nothing we have reference to. Also its not what he used so say "Corn syrup which is similar to Golden Syrup" . After all they us the US Standard system and metric through words or animation on the the screen.
Our theatre used two types of homemade blood. Detergent blood was made with clear laundry detergent and food coloring. Good texture and a couple drops of green FC make the fake blood less alarmingly red if you don't want fresh blood. This one worked well in blood packs, and was naturally much easier to wash out of costumes. For edible blood we just used corn syrup and food coloring, no other ingredients. Again, a little green will help make the red look less bright if that isn't what you want.
Still, pumpkins are pretty tough. Depending on the type, you could probably use one as a weapon. If your metal cookie cutter is pretty sharp then I can see it, but don't forget, cookie cutters are flat and pumpkins are round, so you might not get a great result anyway.
definitely! Carved some yesterday with star shaped eyes using metal cookie cutter and a perfect circular nose with an apple corer, even a metal melon baller woukd do something better than the plastic cutters
That 2nd hack is doable. I did it with the kids I used to teach last year. I bought the mini glow sticks from the dollar tree. Cracked them. Blew up light colored balloons and put a couple sticks in. Then I tied them off, turned off the light so they could see their balloons glow. They had a blast!
You can also use much smaller glowsticks for the balloons. Also, for the spider cookies - Use a toothpick while the cookies are JUST out of the oven (be careful!) so that you can 'spread' the melt-y chips into legs.
for the spider cookies. Instead of trying to draw them on when they're cool take a tooth pick and spread some of the chocolate from a few chips to make the spiders legs.
My Halloween life hack is to convince your children that there is such a thing as a candy tax after trick or treating. It only works when the kids are little though.
I work in a playroom where we have to give name stickers to the children so we know which grown ups they belong to. Every Halloween I use the edges of the label sheets to make spider webs and then I use the sheets themselves to make ghosts by tearing the bottom into ragged edges then drawing on faces.
Favorite Halloween life hack is to turn off all exterior and interior lights, retreat to the downstairs, and watch Young Frankenstein and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit while no trick or treaters come to our house.
My favorite "last minute" Halloween costume: mix 2 parts water with 1 part flour to make a doughy paste and slather it on your body. Put a few drops of red food coloring onto the dough after it's on and you can be a ghoul.
I laughed so hard when the ice hand flipped us off
Tupshin Zhu me too
Tupshin Zhu
it's perfect for rob from theadbanger.
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Same
It's part of his chilly personality
Petition for a video called "75 Life Hacks John Messed Up the First Time"
Boop.
Suzanna H Boop?
Beep boop.
+Alanna R. I figured it was the best way to show support, short of emailing my signature. Liking doesn't convey that quite a strongly.
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I love how it's a fail solely because you can't do it.
Sara Moyers haha you are like my mind speaking back to me
Sara Moyers The test is whether the average person can do it not just if it's possible and John is the very embodiment of average
SteelBollocks if the average person writes amazing novels that get made into movies, what does that make me?!?!?
Below average obviously
papertowns was a well below average film so maybe you are pretty great.
I honestly think the staff on this show purposely gives john the vaguest explanations and the wrong tools just cause it's funnier when he fails
instablaster
I love the life hack videos, but I'm starting to think it actually should be called, "Famous Author's hands can type novels, but not much else variety minute"
Another episode of "john cant follow simple instructions and fails at menial tasks"
I would love it if you re-titled these as John Failing at Ordinary Crafts
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I'm obsessed with John's life hack videos. They're always funny
The ice hand just gave us the finger.
That was the best part. The ultimate fail when the hack gives you the finger haha
#threadbanger
Would have been funny if they had blurred out the middle finger.
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okay once I grabbed a grey shirt and a sharpie, wrote "life" on it, and printed out lemons to give away. i am a master of procrastination.
You could have at least gone legit and gave out real lemons!
Crawfishness mate i don't have that kind of money
lemons are a quarter where I live.
sancho delgado i have approximately 0 dollars so
Slacker
The balloon one is not a failure, you simply did the steps out of order. First you put the glowstick in the balloon, then you blow it up.
And there are smaller glowstick about 4 - 5 cm, which you can put in the Boo-loons before blowing them up
YEAH COME ON JOHN YOU"RE BETTER THAN THAT MAN
And use a drinking straw to give you enough room the blow up the balloon.
I was thinking the same thing. Also not sure the smaller glowsticks would glow enough through a white balloon. You would need a bigger one.
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I love how this kinda feel like Mythbusters Jr. :)
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For the corn syrup blood, you need to add a drop of blue food dye, that'll give it a deeper rich red color
You know who gives the best Halloween life hacks... Michael Myers.
Nice.
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oh my lord that ice hand could not have broken more perfectly! XD
OMG! I'm still laughin over the ice hand! Thanks!!! You were hysterical! 💀🤖👻
Can we rename these "John Green is bad at crafts" instead of pretending this is even about life hacks anymore? I mean, I'm totally on board with "John Green is bad at crafts" as a regular feature, I don't think we need any pretense.
That recipe for fake edible blood is legit how I was taught to make blood in both my middle school teacher class AND my Theater Make Up class in college that I took as an elective.
Surely John's ineptitude provides the charm for such life hack videos. More of the same, please.
Loving the threadbanger ice cube 😂
I've done the glowstick in the balloon thing before. Works fine if you do it right, and it levels up any balloon game if it's dark.
when all the fingers fell off except the middle finger on the ice hand it made me laugh.
replace that cornflour with cocoa powder, and it will actually look like blood. You can also use the dark brown caro syrup.
I call for an episode in which Meredith tries everything John classified as a fail. I'm pretty sure most things will be a pass.
Seeing John Green without glasses was enough spoopy for me
That baked potato was marvelous Lol
We don't celebrate Halloween here, but you sure made me laugh. John, you get a pass!
Where's that? Israel is he only place off the top of my head that I can think of that would ban halloween.
Jakub Świtalski I actually am from Israel, and Halloween isn't banned here :D
There are Christians who live in Israel and celebrate it. People are welcome to celebrate their holidays.
All I meant was that in my particular area there's no trick or treating or pumpkin carving and such.
It's not exactly banned but lots of countries don't celebrate Halloween actually! Australia for one.
Miriam Lylac Strange, because here in the US a lot of Christians claim Halloween celebrates evil and witchcraft so they boycott the whole thing and ruin their children's lives
SteelBollocks If a silly cosplay day where you dress up as capitalist cash-ins can make those christians lose faith, they should seek proper spiritual guidance.
Gotta make the spooky punch hand with a clear soda and gummy worms in the glove! The fingers will stay together waaaaay better.
you could do an entire episode on the binder clip . All of the uses they have are amazing
Glad to see one of John's 378 snickers bars make an appearance in a video.
When all the fingers broke off the hand and all that was left was the birdie I DIED
“Sorry Crow, you’re part of the past now.”
4:24 I fell out of my seat I was laughing so hard.
The juice box straw thing was on you brush. 🤣
I get happy & sad & mad whenever John does these videos, because he always has funny hacks but he always does half of them wrong.
It's almost like they planned which fingers would break off the hand!
Has anyone ever actually seen Meredith or is she just some kind of legend?
actually I think he shows her refusing to do the charleston
DEADLY PiXEL She's the new Yeti
She’s shown up once or twice. Most people probably aren’t even aware she’s a woman. You’d be amazed how long I thought she was a guy.
That said, if I remember right she’s a pretty brunette.
Yas!!! I've been waiting for another life hacks video for such a long time!!
John keeps impressing me with how willingly he puts questionable food in his mouth. The main things that surprise me are how committed he is (at the start), how much he tries and how surprised he always is that it is terrible i.e. the fake blood. Love ya John!
I'm having a halloween/birthday party on Saturday, and I will not be using any of these hacks lol. This was entertaining though.
2:42 you bled through you bowl, Johnny.
The cookie cutter thing is usually much more effective with metal cookie cutters, which just work better on thicker things anyway generally.
Also, I could have told you the blood would taste nasty. Edible does not mean tasty
No matter how many times I watch Mental Floss life hack videos, John's ability to apply it is just as dubious as his pod advice
For the edible blood, you might want to substitute some of the cornstarch for cocoa powder which is what I did for my forensics class.
Oh my word the hand ice cube was flipping the bird.
8:55 HE PUT THE GLASSES BACK ON i love you yes you
4:35 Threadbanger would be so proud!! XD
Makenzie Mergard yup... was about to comment that Rob made an appearance. 😂
John Green life hacks videos are LITERALLY the best videos on UA-cam
10:41 that hand kinda looks like a human heart at this point. Even though it's not what it's supposed to be, that would kinda look spooky in my drink.
I thought exactly the same thing!
These fails are just his personal fails, they actually work.
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A+ video!
Great Halloween Life Hacks!
Gotta roll the balloon on the glowstick, like it was a condom...before you blow it up
I was thinking that it doesn't look like he has ever put a condom on anything before.
danny sulyma he's Catholic?
He has kids so maybe has done sex twice.
He's not Catholic, he's Episcopalian.
You use tiny glow sticks. I've done it for Halloween parties before.
"i want to go back in time to before i did that"
Pass.
You gotta be careful with the ice cube hand one. If someone is allergic to latex at the party that will be an event to remember. So best use a non latex glove
love the halloween intro though
@4:35 - pro tip, use an exacto knife to slit the sides of the gloves' fingers so they peel right off without snapping the ice fingers off the hand. ;)
I only watch these life hacks videos so I can laugh endlessly at John's incompetence at performing some pretty non-complicated tasks. His whole attempt at trying to be dexterous is a big FAIL! And yet very entertaining! Keep it up! :D
I felt like I was watching Rob from threadbanger minus the blood and swear words.
My favorite life hack is when he has to taste anything he creates. LOVE the faces!
You broke the fingers when you dropped it!
Here's a hack: If you don't want to buy candy, don't want to be bothered/don't like kids, put an empty bowl on your porch and leave a note that says "Out trick or treating! Please take one! :) ". They won't ring the door bell because you're 'not home'.
These videos are the best ahaa especially when he hosts them because he's hella funny. When he was spitting out the fake ass blood I was cracking up 😂😂 keep it up playa!
I used to make the lollipop ghosts when I was a kid but we used Kleenex instead of coffee filters, so that works too! Also the cookie cutter thing can work if you use a metal cookie cutter and as long as the pumpkin isn't too thick. They actually used to sell kits specifically for pumpkins with metal cookie cutters a wooden mallet for driving them in, though I think those cookie cutters might have had teeth to make it easier.
The codtumes almost turned into an Adam Sandler bit on SNL. "I'm Crazy Spoon-Head! And I want some candy! I don't have a normal head, I got a damn spoon growing out of it! Now, give me some crazy candy, dammit! Ow-ooo, this spoon makes me crazy!"
That lipstick/eyeliner/lip gloss blood hack sounds ridiculously expensive.
Your life hack videos are adorable to watch.
"You should never eat this much ranch". That made me think of that one time when Shane Dawson made s ranch fountain
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And John challenges Craig for the title of "Guy who knocks plastic birds off of tables."
The ice hand is flipping everyone off
I laughed out loud at the baked potato costume. Too funny!
Golden Syrup??? You mean corn syrup?
missmyidahome golden syrup is a delicious sugar syrup from the UK. I imagine corn syrup was just a poor substitute. The fake blood of this recipe called Kensington gore. Mark Gatiss has a nice video on how to make it properly.
izziexxx He used Karo syrup which I have only seen as corn syrup. Plus it was clear like corn syrup and golden syrup after some googling isnt clear from what I saw..though I could be wrong.
Would have tasted much nicer if he'd used actual golden syrup.
golden syrup is dark golden honey-like good ness, nothing like what he used.
Jakub Świtalski Thats why I was confused. It seems like and odd word choice since a good portion of their audience is American, they are American and nothing we have reference to. Also its not what he used so say "Corn syrup which is similar to Golden Syrup" . After all they us the US Standard system and metric through words or animation on the the screen.
6:04 "…and look, look, now your cupcake has a witch's hat." And a toothpick in it, ouch.
The balloon one works if you use the slim glowsticks (like the ones you make bracelets out of) as opposed to the huge thing
Our theatre used two types of homemade blood. Detergent blood was made with clear laundry detergent and food coloring. Good texture and a couple drops of green FC make the fake blood less alarmingly red if you don't want fresh blood. This one worked well in blood packs, and was naturally much easier to wash out of costumes.
For edible blood we just used corn syrup and food coloring, no other ingredients. Again, a little green will help make the red look less bright if that isn't what you want.
No one can do these Halloween hacks! Except, of course… The Mongols. "WE'RE THE EXCEPTION!"
obviously it would work better with a metal cookie cutter
Still, pumpkins are pretty tough. Depending on the type, you could probably use one as a weapon.
If your metal cookie cutter is pretty sharp then I can see it, but don't forget, cookie cutters are flat and pumpkins are round, so you might not get a great result anyway.
definitely! Carved some yesterday with star shaped eyes using metal cookie cutter and a perfect circular nose with an apple corer, even a metal melon baller woukd do something better than the plastic cutters
I think John has been messing these up intentionally at this point.
John Green, always endorsing Snickers...😂
That 2nd hack is doable. I did it with the kids I used to teach last year. I bought the mini glow sticks from the dollar tree. Cracked them. Blew up light colored balloons and put a couple sticks in. Then I tied them off, turned off the light so they could see their balloons glow. They had a blast!
How come i find such a genius of a guy and a way more successful person than me, relatable?
THAT is -very slightly- effective.
Best line :)
Use a candy corn instead of a Reece's pieces to make the owl look better
And the banana.
00:00 John Green shamelessly flaunting his Snickers sponsorship once again
If you're making blood for zombies you can get a really cool "mottled flesh" effect by adding some crunchy peanut butter
Can I just say that John is my favorite host at MF? He's fun and interesting... I was not paid to say that. *giggle*
You can also use much smaller glowsticks for the balloons. Also, for the spider cookies - Use a toothpick while the cookies are JUST out of the oven (be careful!) so that you can 'spread' the melt-y chips into legs.
these are my favorite videos on this channel
love them!
for the spider cookies. Instead of trying to draw them on when they're cool take a tooth pick and spread some of the chocolate from a few chips to make the spiders legs.
Okay, the fact that the only finger on the ice cube that stood tall was the middle finger gives me life
looks like those 378 (or whatever no. ) snicker bars are still going strong.
The second blood - add a tiny amount of blue. The glove ice cube - I'd get the inside of the glove coated with cornstarch first as a release agent.
My Halloween life hack is to convince your children that there is such a thing as a candy tax after trick or treating. It only works when the kids are little though.
How is it that John never considers melting solids so they’ll actually mix with liquids?
I work in a playroom where we have to give name stickers to the children so we know which grown ups they belong to.
Every Halloween I use the edges of the label sheets to make spider webs and then I use the sheets themselves to make ghosts by tearing the bottom into ragged edges then drawing on faces.
For the corn syrup blood, you needed to add a tiny drop of blue food dye to the red. It makes it the right colour instead of pinkish.
Favorite Halloween life hack is to turn off all exterior and interior lights, retreat to the downstairs, and watch Young Frankenstein and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit while no trick or treaters come to our house.
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Liked the mug! I'm doing that one! I'll be a pirate for a party, and I'll have my decorated mug, thank you.
My favorite "last minute" Halloween costume: mix 2 parts water with 1 part flour to make a doughy paste and slather it on your body. Put a few drops of red food coloring onto the dough after it's on and you can be a ghoul.
A HANDY addition to your punch bowl?! MEREDITH!!!