Ernest Goes To Splash Mountain

This special shows Ernest's preparation for being the first rider on Splash Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

[@rogersmith00]

It's hard to understate just how gigantic Jim was in the 80's to 90's. He was a cultural touchstone.

[@mstrikesback168]

Purity ice cream. Knowhatimean?

[@KnightFall81]

Mellow Yellow Knowwhatimean?

[@Tfor2show]

​Duval Ford. Knowhutimean?

[@Pushateetee83]

Braum’s Ice Cream, know’whata’mayn…

[@dustinhutchinson6275]

Vests and gray were my childhood joy. I still like his outfit 😂

[@mikemarsh7387]

R.I.P. Jim Varney.. and Splash Mountain

[@abrahamhidalgo3605]

Also Ralph story❤

[@MatthewCraig0706]

RIP Jim Varney 🙌🏼😂 AND Splash Mountain 💦🐰🦊🐻 Thanks for the memories!!!

[@jamieimai9328]

R.I.P. Jim Varney & Splash Mountain 😝 🤚 💦 🏔️ 🐰 🦊 🐻 🏰 🪵 🎢 thanks for the memories, too.

[@IanSane]

I remember watching this when I was a kid. The only part I remembered in detail was him saying there wasn't a lot of oxygen at the top. I would have been 8 at the time. Ernest was huge and the hype for Splash Mountain was huge. This special made the ride look really scary, much more so than it actually is. Back in the days before the internet a special like this was a treat because there really was no other way for me to look up the details of what a new ride at Disneyland was like.

[@RoodeMenon]

I was 10. I remember the oxygen mask gag.

[@marcostapiz3568]

I watched it as a kid too, I was 12. I remembered the “wish I’d brought a book” line. So awesome to watch this.

[@karentucker2161]

I don't ever remember this but this is cool anyways.....I remember they had a video or two similar to this concerning Barbies birthday and a dance video thing.

[@CamdenBloke]

I remember the part where he is going through at the beginning and saying, "Look at all the critters!" I would have been 8.

[@warriors6411]

There needs to to be a statue of Ernest in front of splash mountain to honor him!!!!

[@crypter27]

Splash Mountain is no more!

[@mateomeza1278]

Now it's Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

[@crypter27]

@@mateomeza1278 Very sad, isn't it?

[@VideoSmarts1]

They’d just tear it down anyway

[@TheWingsoffury]

What a little treasure this was. I have never seen this thank you Ernest for still entertaining us! I love you Ernest!

[@popculturedad8128]

this is so great to see such a rarity of an ernest gem

[@ringostartheguineapig5783]

Jim Varney was one of a kind💛

[@ryanschwartze6517]

On this day Disneyland officially closed Splash Mountain ☹️

[@eyeseer1]

Jim Varney should've worked with Mike Judge. It would been beyond epic. RIP Jim Varney.

[@MarioSonic2010]

R.I.P. Jim Varney

[@MsDisneylandlover]

how did he pass

[@isaacwall4951]

The first guy to ride splash mountain I remember riding splash mountain with his best buddy the camera man.

[@mrk_builder551]

At 10:24, you can hear Bruce Gordon say "They're some of the favorites" after mentioning that the adorable characters from the movie, Song of the South are what leads this attraction. Even though Disney hasn't released Song of the South in the USA since its 1986 theatrical release, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear are still to this day some of the favorites and why Disney is making a big mistake erasing them and removing Splash Mountain.

[@worldchronicles4818]

"Thats as tight as Italian hemp has been since the senseless and brutal hanging of Cole Younger's horse. " Ill never forget that line in a million years. lol the writers for earnest where on a whole nother level.

[@OffhandDisney]

Very 80s

[@OakForestBoys]

Nice to see ya Dallin

[@Koleyl]

I saw the ending for this special as a kid and it never re-aired. Thank you for uploading this for us Ernest fans. We need a new Erenest P Worrell in today's world.

[@dannyjenkins2035]

He mispronounced Jim Varneys title

[@TheBermudaMan]

The vengeful ghost of Jim Varney will not abide by the permanent closure of Splash Mountain!

[@OnlyOneKenobi]

I'm from UK... but I defo remember seeing this on TV whilst over on holiday in Florida... might've been a rerun before the soft opening of the WDW version of Splash Mountain in 1992. 👍

[@donttouchmysilver8202]

I miss him so much

[@treyartson6788]

Damn I miss the 80s!!!! We had the best times. Today crap sucks. Please take me back!!! Lol I would give anything (besides my kids) to be able to relive it all. I didn't really think to appreciate it then, but now I truly miss it within my soul and all the memories.

[@karentucker2161]

I wish I could go back see this. I missed the special. Had to share the TV between my siblings and step dad back than.

[@mobius273]

I mean there was a lot of fucked up shit in the 80s too

[@killiangilroy3964]

They don’t make ‘em cheesy like they used to. I wish I grew up watching Pee-Wee and Ernest

[@karentucker2161]

Same here

[@nickcervenka8756]

Watching this again because I was robbed of riding it for the last time

[@charliebrown3842]

Rest In Peace Splash Mountain 😑😭🌊⛰🏞🐻🦊🐰🪵

[@shelbychurchisbeautiful614]

I Will Always Miss And Love Jim Varney The Great Erenst P Worrell.

[@Johnlindsey289]

I was 7 when this aired in 89 and I went to Disneyland and universal Hollywood first time 30 years ago at 11 and this was my favorite ride since

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I wish they still did special like this

[@nathanbray5005]

When he ride on that splash Mountain it makes me laughed so hard😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 18:46

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I guess u been n it that laughing place too long lol and please follow me on KZbin #DisneyDiva and thank you and be safe and sound.

[@happyjuice4251]

You and both me pal

[@RoodeMenon]

Good luck Ernest! And remember. We care.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

This man was one of kind lol

[@nickcervenka8756]

I just went on this for the first time last month. I remember watching this when it first aired. I'd wanted to go on it since. It's real interesting to watch this now. I literally cringed when he casually had his feet up, and the fact there was no bar or whatever that came down. And now ernest has his own ride. Kind of cool.

[@una_10bananas]

There's an Ernest ride?!

[@JM_Friends]

Úna Parkinson he might mean the Slinky Dog Dash ride

[@charliebrown3842]

Farewell Splash Mountain 😭🌊⛰🏞🐻🦊🐰🪵

[@BillyCrank]

This is great! I miss my ol daddyo'

[@donttouchmysilver8202]

If this were on Disney + I wouldn’t have canceled my subscription

[@Rustwyrm]

Yeah, it'd be a shame if they kept a fun archive of their older sillier Disney Channel content, instead of making it a Marvel/Star Wars treadmill.

[@MadAboutShelley]

Oh, thanks so much for uploading! This is wonderful! Varney is the best! Brings back lots of memories of riding Splash Mountain as a kid, too! ❤️❤️❤️

[@enriqueramirez0615]

Classic Ernest

[@Emike-nc9ew]

With the new re theme,will the ghost of ernest go again to the bayu?.

[@sarahmcmann5253]

That would be interesting

[@charliebrown3842]

Rip Splash Mountain 😭🌊⛰🏞🐻🦊🐰🪵

[@thegametroopers6978]

That reporter didn't let the producer of the ride speak!

[@precoius]

Haha. I love that part!

[@scottvasquez1401]

A Howard Cossell moment.

[@davidwallgren7575]

Let's just say this whole special is scripted.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Part of the joke lol

[@richgurl624]

Hahahah😂😂😂

[@BlotRorschach]

What do Jim Varney and Splash Mountain have in common? They were both killed by cancer.

[@davidwallgren7575]

1. Not funny 2. That's so not what happened with the ride

[@JaredGriffiths2000]

If Song of the South ever gets an official blu ray release this should be a bonus feature on it. R.I.P. Jim Varney and Splash Mountain.

[@mikemccleery5425]

Sad that both the ride and Jim "Ernest" Varney are no longer with us! RIP "YOU ARE MISSED"!

[@CamdenBloke]

It's good that this went well and he didn't die!

[@kengasaku69]

Going to miss this ride. Hope Tianna's Bayou Adventure will be good.

[@itfigurescomics6704]

I envy the people who got to meet him in person on that day--also, poor Earnest XD

[@MadsMcKay]

Please, call me 'Splastronaut' from now on.

[@donttouchmysilver8202]

I haven’t seen this in 33 plus years thank you

[@rob2557]

I haven't seen this video in 31 years, since I was 5!

[@abrahamhidalgo3605]

Rip Ralph story, Jim varney and splash mountain ❤. Can't wait for the cast member preview in late 2024

[@Gonk]

Last Podcast on the LEft brought me here, thank God I never saw this when I was a kid or I would have never went on that ride lol.

[@martynau5089]

Podcast The Ride brought me here!

[@nepatrul6075]

Had to come here today… Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, my oh my, it’s the last ride today… 😢

[@kimshoulders8663]

Now it was going down the bayou going down the bayou

[@clawhauserTheGamer]

Ernest goes to splash mountain needs to released on dvd and Dr. Otto and the riddle of the gloom beam.

[@thetxaggie6575]

There's a 10 disc best or Ernest DVD set that includes it, I have it too

[@robinstewart6422]

He gets to ride by himself he’s brave

[@ironworkerwelder]

He's with Vern though haha

[@richgurl624]

❤❤❤❤ I knew I loved this guy more than just his amazing movies

[@Anynom]

And sadly, like Jim Varney, the original Splash will soon no longer be with us.

[@davidwallgren7575]

Oh it will, different theme, but same concept

[@Expressionlesscorpse]

@@davidwallgren7575why I don’t understand is why couldn’t just make an all new ride for tiana? If they wanted to retheme splash mountain They could’ve just made it tangled 🙄

[@davidwallgren7575]

@@Expressionlesscorpse Oh shush, you don't know what you're talking about

[@lukegreen5341]

Jim Varney Is That The Guy Who Played Slinky The Dog From The Toy Story Trilogy From 1995 To 2010. Thanks Mate. X

[@MsDisneylandlover]

really

[@davidcapano6918]

He died in 2001 and was onky the voice of slinky dog in the furst 2 toy stories

[@MegaMr46]

Luke Green although In TS3 his closest friend, Blake Clark voiced Slinky

[@ryanschwartze6517]

On this day Walt Disney World official closed Splash Mountain January 22, 2023

[@superfark5914]

Now that Spalsh will be closing it made me remember it's opening and how ibwatched this on tv when I was young.

[@sittingduhk]

they should build an Ernest Splash Mountain at Disney World

[@Striljr]

RIP both Jim Varney And Splash Mountain🥺😢😭

[@JonnyWaldes]

Earnest is the original Vlogger!

[@mrk_builder551]

Happy 31st birthday Splash Mountain!

[@outsiderzzzz]

they mentioned "song of the south"?!

[@JJdaPK]

Disney was proud of Song of the South in the 1980s. The movie was released twice in that decade, in 1980 and 1986 - just three years before the ride opened. My guess is that Disney hadn't planned on withholding the movie at the time they made the attraction.

[@tgwoolshire]

So what?

[@cadegcn]

You mean “they”

[@abrahamhidalgo3605]

I'll never forget riding by myself twice in my own log in 2022 around 11:45pm😂

[@OakForestBoys]

Lol they actually stepped on him at the end

[@internethandler5462]

I remember this! Thank you for posting.

[@Stalemarshmallow]

LMAOOOO the interview with Bruce Gordon

[@mjyg3058]

Omg my mom loves earnest.this is neat thanks for posting.

[@justaguy2182]

God, if only it was actually this exciting.

[@angelwings8815]

AWESOME! AWESOME! Ernest is soooo cool!!!!!!!!!!

[@rudymalone1]

#savesplashmountain Viva la Splash Mountain!!

[@ChristHoon]

#WelcomeTiana

[@jonnyq2323]

I was a huge Ernest fan, but I don’t remember this at all. Never saw it.

[@Squib-kb2tn]

So was he the first? That's awesome!

[@lantzvincent1699]

Slink! Its you!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

That is so me with that oxygen pump lol after that ride lol.

[@robertausten5452]

Totally remember watching this when I was 8

[@elwoodjacobs4353]

All this build-up for a freakin' *LOG FLUME.*

[@MsDisneylandlover]

When he lost that clip broad lol

[@MrKingjoe28]

Wish I brought a book 😂😂😂 gets me every time

[@enriqueramirez0615]

19:03 Waaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

[@heathertrousdale6384]

Spongebob cocktail lounge music at the end!!!!

[@matthewgilles5636]

That was great!

[@MrShroomz84]

Man, I was about to be mad as hell at that impatient interviewer clown at 10:00 before my stupid ass realised that she was meant to be doing that as the gag..

[@thehawkgirl7447]

That lady reporter in the grey suit needed to give that guy a chance to even speak other than 1 word.

[@claudiamajor307]

I think it was part of the joke.

[@Dellparks3]

I wish i could watch this years ago

[@jenparrotti903]

Since I was little my childhood funny,

[@MsDisneylandlover]

on tv Disneyland looks so big

[@MsDisneylandlover]

@JevaughnSmith2020 please follow me on KZbin at #DisneyDiva and thank you and be safe and sound

[@KelleyGrl5758]

Wish I'd brought a book hahaha

[@rickyjkuron5275]

Drop? Like Fall like in Free fall like a fall down and go boom fall drop? WAHHHHHHHHHH LOL

[@jusjetz]

19:03

[@DanielDGordon]

Sadly, another one to add to Things not here anymore by ralph story.

[@hotarushinpei4966]

19:00 “We’re going off the track! We’re gonna crash!”

[@seanpatrickcain2]

18:52 Just before Thanos snaps his fingers

[@allright]

"MAKE AMERICA THE 80'S AGAIN"

[@sunshinesky6926]

Tony Baxter is the person who invented this ride and he's not even in this!??

[@sunshinesky6926]

@Gabe Davis I was kinda making a joke. I know that it's not supposed to be taken seriously

[@renorebel1814]

Ernest may have some competition in the greatest daredevil title with Super Dave Osborne

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Today it will be cell phone all up in your face. Lol.

[@Jilliantheguitarist417]

Go Ernest!!!

[@kparcparc4230]

What year was this made?

[@THErealmrluke]

Around 1989

[@TheRealMarcgi]

kparc Parc 1937

[@scotthenson7340]

‘89

[@weird4productions]

Goodbye Splash Mountain.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Hello my fav princess tiana lol

[@Dr.Pepper001]

Screw George Floyd and all those who call me a racist for saying that.

[@movieman104]

was this ever put on dvd? or even vhs? i dont think so

[@karatiernan24]

Dude I don't know about this