Nostalgia Critic Real Thoughts On: The Ernest Movies

[@videogamehunter820]

I never blamed Jim Varney in these movies. It was a bad, half-baked script. If you were Jim Varney (who was mainly in commercials), would you pass up a chance to be the lead in a series of movies? But God rest, Jim Varney. He was extremely talented.

[@DrowningSorrows1]

He was also a really good classically trained actor, he could recite Shakespeare off the top of his head. He was pretty much stuck with the Ernest character after it got popular.

[@susanwhitehall8706]

We miss you Jim Varney.

[@raidengoodman8754]

Susan Whitehall 😭😭😭😭😭

[@davidturbo8566]

Yes we do 😞

[@ArrowValley]

I always felt, Ernest Goes to Jail the best one in the series.

[@justinratcliffe947]

Rimmer Thats my dads favorite

[@SakuraAvalon]

I love Ernest. The character always felt so innocent and lovable.

[@scottmantooth8785]

Ernest Goes to Camp also brought us the concept of eggs erroneous...but for contrast lets not forget that Jim Varney was also a Shakespearean trained actor and was VERY good at it as well.

[@Chimcharlover13]

I adore Ernest and I love ALL his movies. Yes, they're stupid, but that's the damn point. Just enjoy them! I would take Ernest any day over ANY other comedic movie, like Dumb & Dumber or just anything at all. Ernest is amazing. May he rest in peace. My favorites would likely be Ernest Saves Christmas and Slam Dunk Ernest.

[@EchoBoomer1987]

Holy shit! Earnest played Slinky Dog?!?

[@MuffinHunterX]

+Echoboomer1987 He also played Jed Clampett in the movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies.

[@joeblankenship377]

+Echoboomer1987 Jim Varney was a talented actor. He performed Shakespeare to great acclaim in his time. Ernest was just a character.

[@weldin]

+Echoboomer1987 RJ Mitte?

[@NRaah]

+Echoboomer1987 Your comment actually made me gasp in realization. I had no clue.

[@jasoncase9481]

+Joe Blankenship Yes but since he kept playing him for most of his career no doubt it resulted in most seeing him constant as Ernest

[@SavvyScribblin]

Ernest Saves Christmas is still one of my favorites to watch around the holidays :)

[@Aussieroth7]

+CapnSavvy Same here... Though I do have a soft spot for Ernest Rides Again and Ernest Joins the Army.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

+Aussieroth7 Ernest scared stupid and Ernest rides again are my favorites, Ernest scared stupid because it was legitimately a great Halloween movie/comedy and Ernest rides again, becasue the ballad of the Worrell's at the intro and the film is genuinely funny as heck. and Ernest goes to jail is also pretty funny and shows a great dual role of Jim varney playing lovable dumb witted Ernest and brutal crime boss Mr. Nash.

[@Moviefan2k4]

"I have a supernatural feel for the road beneath my tires. Thrill-drive!"

[@oliverqueen9886]

Mckenzie .Latham how would you rate all the movies from best to worst. Im curious to know also if all 9 are worth watching i never saw rides again and only saw the straight to vhs one of ernest goes to school. But heard rides again was last in theatre that must of didnt do well it seems since after that all the rest of ernest movies went straight to video ernest goes to school, africa, in the army, and plays basketball i believe are the rest then there is some tv show i heard commercials and maybe some other short film stuff i recall people saying

[@oliverqueen9886]

Mckenzie .Latham whoops i meant to say i only saw as a kid growing up the first 4 ernest goes to camp, jail, saves christmas, scared stupid halloween one, and once rented the school one back in the days but never saw the last one rides again in the theatre or the rest of the striaght to video vhs dvd ones and i thought maybe you might have seen them all and which ones you recommend seeing and why ect. My favorite i would have to say was the jail one

[@TheRoyalOrora]

My favorite Ernest movie is Ernest Goes to Camp!

[@joeblankenship377]

+The TRUE Royal SCP [Erasure Chorus Fan] It is the best one. 'Goes to Jail' and 'Saves Christmas' are the only follow-ups that are worth watching.

[@eternal0star]

Ernest goes to Camp, Ernest Saves Chroistmas, and Ernest Goes to Jail are legit hilarious movies. I don't care. We cannot be friends if you do not like giggle at the idea of a man fighting a floor buffer.

[@RyanStorey1231]

"Ernest Goes To Afghanistan." Thanks, I just spat out my coffee. That was hilarious. :D

[@helpimarock66]

+RyanX1231 Sadly, I've seen it. "Ernest In The Army". There's a scene where he leaves a breadcrumb trail by ripping the skin off of his chapped lips… and somebody actually finds them.

[@Gasoline85]

+Alex Greggary *SLAM* That was my jaw hitting the table.

[@smjaiteh]

+RyanX1231 Ernest: Back 2 Da Hood

[@pizza4589]

i seriously thought i imagined that

[@RyanStorey1231]

Tyler Rakstis What are you talking about?

[@baldridgeroy]

The crazy thing about Jim Varney is that he was a classical trained actor.

[@live4marilyn]

My favorite is Ernest Goes to Jail.

[@NimhLabs]

Ernest Goes To Jail was one of the movies we constantly rented from the local video rental when I was a kid. Honestly... it would have been cheaper just to buy the damned movie with how often we rented it.

[@deletedwaffles]

I thought Scared Stupid was quintessentially the best out of the bunch.

[@42ndLife]

Doug, Rob, you guys forgot to mention the 0th Ernest movie, "Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam." Because of this error, you two must now review it. May God have mercy upon your soul.

[@bigglonnie5191]

Ernest will NOT be disrespected.

[@wiiguru13]

I've seen Ernest goes to camp like a 1,000 times. So much nostalgia.

[@Vykk_Draygo]

I liked Ernest Scared Stupid (when I was a kid), but I've always hated Halloween. Ernest Saves Christmas is awesome, though. Watch it every year, along with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

[@dvass7253]

Ernest: Vampire Hunter

[@alex.thedeadite]

+D Vass That's basically "Ernest Scared Stupid". Just replace trolls/goblins/whatever those things were with vampires. My introduction to Ernest was "Ernest Scared Stupid" and I Love It.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

+Alex Huneault One reason i love it, is becasue the troll (Trantor) is actually a terrifying villain, and the film actually has some great Halloween atmosphere.

[@DAK4Blizzard]

Towards the end, you guys bring up a good point in feeling that the '90s got a delayed start in terms of culture and fashion trends. I think this is true of decades in general, in the sense that when you look back on a decade, you'll find that traits associated with that decade may not get going right away. For example, disco didn't become mainstream until around 1974, even though it's associated with that decade in general. It's the momentum of technology, culture, and major events of preceding years rolling into later ones. This is a good explanation for why many consider the early '90s to include 1993 and sometimes even 1994, even though numerically those years fall into the middle portion of the decade. (Numerically, the end of '94/start of '95 is the decade's midpoint; 1993 is as close to the middle as 1996, and 1994 is as close to the middle as 1995.)

[@tomcruz8615]

+Lance Clearman cmon man you sound completely ignorant when you say a particular decade was the last decade kids had fun -_- don't be silly

[@tomcruz8615]

*****​ i don't care dude don't act like the 80s and 90s were perfect. I like when people acknowledge the good and bad of both decades, not just be completely childish,oblivious,arrogant and ignorant to other decades because they "lived a better life in their own time period"

[@tomcruz8615]

*****​​ i do apologise if i come across rude but It's just that i hate when people say stuff like "we were there last generation to have fun" when other kids in the 2000s and even now, kids are also having more fun with their lives and yes you're right, the world is changing (either for the better or worst, depends how you look at it).

[@DeathBringer769]

+DAK4Blizzard That's because culture and society don't magically change right on the nice, clean round number like every 10 years exactly lol. The decades definitely blend into each other and influences from the previous one lasts into the next one. Starting always from 00, 10, 20, 30, etc isn't always the best one to divide up the eras. Sometimes the changes happen like 1994-2004 like you were saying about the 70s. It doesn't always line up cleanly with our arbitrary number system and how we like to divide things up by 10, lol.

[@downsouth420]

Well, what happens is the underground catches up with society. Look at grunge. It started in the late 80s by people sick of the 80s commercialism, and by the early 90s, it caught up with mainstream society. The grunge mentality slowly caught on, and people in general moved away from the "Me" mentality and embraced grunge and alternative instead of synth pop and hair bands. Then, everything became the exact opposite of the 80s: big hair was out, clothes became more earthy rather than neon, pants became baggy, rollerblading replaced skateboarding, people started to give a crap about the environment. By the mid-90s, the internet was introduced to the masses via AOL disks, and that planted a seed which created the .com boom where anybody could create a BS website and become millionaires by simply owning a website. By the late 90s, some guy created Napster which was a hub for people to share MP3s. It's popularity created a shift towards downloading music instead of buying cds. A couple of years later, movies were put in the mix, and broadband was introduced to allow affordable high speed internet (before, high speed internet meant leasing a T1/3 line which was like $1000 a month). Cell phones were starting to become affordable enough, and in very little time very basic internet was offered for cell phones. Then, 3G came out for cellphones. PDAs became the business rage, and were replaced by early smart phones, like the Blackberry. Soon, Apple released an iPod with phone capabilities and called it the iPhone. That created a huge shift which resulted in today's society. I know I'm ranting, so I'll stop. But my point is that small events can turn society into something unrecognizable in a few years, but it happens in a way we don't recognize until after the fact. Keep in mind, many people in the very early 80s still dressed and acted like it was the 70s. Disco didn't end abruptly but instead evolved into house music (as well as Italo-disco and Hi-NRG which became Eurobeat). Perhaps I'm not being very clear about what I'm saying...

[@helpimarock66]

I'm not an 80's or 90's kid (born in 1993, so the bulk of my nostalgic memories are from after the new millennium), but these movies are very nostalgic to me for a very odd reason: My family used to own a summer cottage on Garbriola Island (Just off the coast of Vancouver Island in the southwestern region of British Columbia) where we'd spend every summer where we had an old, crappy, 12-inch RCA TV (that had a green filter over everything for some weird reason) and there was an ancient video store on the island that still exclusively rented VHS's (in the early 2000's it wasn't uncommon to still see VHS's being rented, but there where no DVDs whatsoever, bizarre thinking about that now) and all of them were ancient as hell and among this strange archive of magnetic tape media was a cornucopia of Ernest movies and me, my brother and my dad absolutely loved them! We'd always pop one on at the end of the day after doing something wonderful or summer related (ie. fishing, hiking, picnic, day long road trip, swimming, visiting friends, all that good shit), nine-year old me would be sipping a can of sprite, my five-year old brother would be playing with shells that he found on the beach, my parents would chilling with glasses of wine (I think my dad laughed the most at these movies, oddly enough) and you could see the sun setting over the cove in the massive window behind the TV. Some of the best nostalgia that you can get from something generally isn't the thing itself, but rather the memories surrounding that. True, the Ernest movies are crap (still get a chuckle out of me sometimes though), but I'd watch them a million times over just for those precious memories they drag back up from the forgotten innocent childhood portion of my miserable adult brain.

[@helpimarock66]

I wasn't there, but If I were to say where I believed the nineties truly started, it would have been after the release of Nirvana "Nevermind". Like it or not, the music scene literally changed overnight after it and resulted in a massive shift in the youth culture. The eighties slowly died out after that and finally died in 1993 with the release of jurassic park (something legendary enough to define a new era).

[@bones22j]

You're right.

[@DAK4Blizzard]

+Alex Greggary Also in 1993: the Power Rangers. ; )

[@BenWhite9311]

Cool I was born in 93, the year everything changed.

[@helpimarock66]

BenWhite9311 Me too! We don't remember a lick of it, but we were there, dammit!

[@Obiwan1994Kenobi-iv4jf]

Jim Varney once appeared in the simpsons in an episode called Art Carney.

[@marcywantsto7553]

I have a lot of nostalgia for ernest. They are all amazing still, I love watching them!

[@joeblankenship377]

The song from "Ernest Goes to Camp"... one of the best moments in film. It can genuinely make you cry.

[@BloodGuyReviews]

‘Scared Stupid’ was always and still is my favorite. Still has the BEST opening credits ever

[@sparky10142]

The name is Santa clause ( James Bond theme plays )

[@joshuaescopete]

Real thoughts on "James and the Giant Peach"

[@SteelyBud]

I know the Ernest movies weren't exactly "City Lights" or "Dr. Strangelove," but I find it odd that they're despised as low-brow junk (in other words, my kind of comedy), yet Tyler Perry's "Medea" movies are praised as great statements by a versatile actor. Pffft.

[@7thStoneMedia]

Ernest is near and dear to mine and many other hearts. Some jokes fall flat after you're a certain age, but those 4 Disney Touchstone films are very rewatchable. Ernest is nice kid at heart guy who wants to impress people, and fails at adulting.

[@TheCosmicNemesis]

Movie idea: Ernest time travels to World War II.

[@luckiller019]

+Cosmic Movie Nerd Only if Ernest would be played by Nicolas Cage

[@darealcrakaz2399]

Give these men money!

[@jasoncase9481]

Ernest finds Bigfoot Ernest doing a poorman's ghostbusters consistently fails in comedic ways before finally a scooby doo style success to capture Bigfoot

[@mrbanks456]

No, make the title Ernest Travels Through Time, and the make the plot misleadingly about WWII

[@TheCosmicNemesis]

More movie Ideas: "Ernest Becomes a Slave Trader" "Ernest Participates in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" "Ernest Nukes Hiroshima" "Ernest does 9/11" "Ernest Assassinates JFK" And of course the inevitable Ernest Porn Parodies. We are gonna be rich!

[@smurfydude77]

Guys, I am disappointed. No love for Dr. Otto And The Riddle Of The Gloom Beam?

[@SawedOffLaser]

My uncle has a weird love of the Ernest movies. I have no idea why.

[@bobcooper82]

+Sawed Off Laser Lol, everyone has that uncle that loves Ernest.

[@BobbyJoeXForgotenSB]

+Sawed Off Laser my mom is in her 60s and she wanted me to see them

[@Gdmn29]

I AM that weird uncle.

[@Lord_Veren413]

The Smiling Guardsman love your profile picture, FOR THE EMPEROR!

[@bigoldinosaur]

I didn't know who Jim Varney was as a kid. I just new him as Ernest and Slinky Dog. Ernest was my comedic childhood hero. I would act like him all the time to the point where my parents and siblings would get mad at me. I have all the Ernest movies now on DVD and the Toy Story movies on DVD and they hold a special place in my heart. RIP Jim "Ernest P Worrell" Varney. Knowhatamean?

[@TED_Frames]

I hope that they'll be doing a Real Thoughts On Rover Dangerfield during Christmastime. I can picture Doug singing 'I'll Never Do It On A Christmas Tree' as the intro to the video.

[@senmarukomura]

I kinda hope from a NC review of the rest of the Ernest movies in the future.

[@argoth231]

Jim Varney had an incredible amount of charisma. i loves him and his cheesy stupid movies

[@Trilaan]

My personal favorite Ernest movie is Ernest Rides Again. From the epic theme song, There Once Was A Man Named Worrell, to the ridiculous treasure hunt plot it's a great, fun film.

[@MidnightLost01]

I loved the Ernest movies, especially Scared Stupid lol

[@Andy50k1]

My Dad got me into the Ernest movies, I enjoyed those films.

[@alex.thedeadite]

There's 2 Possible "Modern Ernest" candidates. 1) Larry The Cable Guy 2) Kevin James (the "high brow" Ernest)

[@raziel92537]

I might be one of the very few 90's kids who didn't find Ernest Scared Stupid forgettable. I'd probably have a hard time watching it now, but I started enjoying mindf*cks at a very young age, and this was one of the earliest ones I sat through. Bad as it is, I still have fond memories of it.

[@juliannagoodwin2875]

Who else cracked up hard on that Flo the movie joke when Doug said: "Oh no, My aunts coming to town."

[@Mordenkainen322]

The Ernest movies have HUGE nostalgia for me, I used to rent them all the time as a kid and for some reason still love them and watch them.

[@UncannyValleyVideos]

"Christmas and jail are always going to have a place in my heart, no matter what." - Doug Walker

[@spookerredmenace3950]

Ernest Goes to Splash Mountain (1989)

[@koquarian]

Ernest goes to the afterlife. (But, seriously: Rip in peace, Jim Varney)

[@anon7596]

Ernest goes to jail had the best end song in the world. i still remember that crap! "Dont make me climb, de coconut tree!" lol

[@MichaelCharles2011]

Jay CFC and the opening credit song. "Doing Time" I think it was. What a great song. Impossible to find though.

[@TheFulgore15]

"Ernest Saves Christmas" after all these years is still a good movie, it's really the only Ernest movie that holds up.

[@AbsurdandFantastical]

But... but... but I LIKED Ernest Scared Stupid :(

[@Nickle_King]

It's funny. I really only saw the one with the trolls, and even then not much, and the trolls REALLY got under my skin. They scared me. I walked away into another room and it stuck with me. I was even trying to figure out why and I couldn't. Something about them really got to me.

[@JVOutdoors]

They were great movies. Still watch them to this day.

[@88freaked]

Goes to Camp has always been my favorite.

[@DokkaChapman]

Being from the UK I haven't been able to watch all of them, but when I was 13 they played a few on British TV and I loved them! Earnest Goes to Jail, Scared stupid, goes to school and Rides again were amazing! Such a shame they don't have them on DVD over here. :/

[@Tardisntimbits]

As a kid, I remember the best part of Ernest goes to School, (or was it University? I can't recall), was the Mr. Bill short at the beginning of the vhs.

[@DennisTrinka]

Maybe it's just because it's the one I've seen the most, but scared stupid has always been my favorite, lol. And yes, I know it's complete crap. Had I not seen it a million times growing up, I'd probably hate it too.

[@jamesedwards8387]

Yeah, pretty much what I was thinking. That and Ernest goes to Camp are my favorite two. I completely forgot about Ernest Saves Christmas and outside of the scenes were Ernest trying to break out of jail I feel like Ernest Goes to Jail was his worst movie.

[@witekm2152]

Jim Varney was a really good, talented actor who sadly passed away in February 2000 at the age of 50. Cancer killed him. I will always remember him for "Ernest" movies, some good, some terrible. I liked that character he portrayed, I always thought that he would perfectly blend into my neighborhood.

[@legionaireb]

I picked up Hey,Vern, It's Earnest from a bargain bin about a year ago and binge-watched it. Something I realized fairly quickly seeing them all in a row rather than with a week in between: Each episode was about 25% story-driven and 75% the same jokes every episode (particular offenders were the barbershop gag, Amazo the magician, and of course 'Loni Don's School of Hollywood Sound Effects).'

[@randalgraves6979]

I remember the MIAK from " Scared Stupid". That's about it. But I did always love Ernest. goes to camp and saves Christmas.

[@acousticnoisemachine]

I actually liked Scared Stupid, even upon recent viewings (though, nostalgia is undoubtedly a huge factor). As mentioned in the review, the TV show with Ernest was much more sporadic and strange, jumping from character to character. I think that's where the perceived weirdness in Scared Stupid comes from. While different from the previous Ernest movies, it felt a little more like the original show. Not to mention that I love the sort of hammy confidence that Jim Varney has on screen.

[@Blackfangable]

One thing about Ernest movies is they are all dumb, none are trying to win any Oscars. They are more trying to win Razzies but still not trying to win them at the same time. But my top 3 are Ernest Goes to Jail, Saves Christmas, and Scared Stupid

[@Bondfan1995]

“Ernest Goes To Hell: The Final Stupidity”

[@MeleeTiger]

I still watch Scared Stupid every year around Halloween, I remember it fondly as a child and it used to both make me laugh and scare me when I was young, I love Halloween in general really.

[@Dunkleosteusenjoyer]

As a fellow Ernest connoisseur, I must say my favorite Ernest film is 'Ernest Needs a Kidney Transplant' followed by Ernest Goes Straight To Video. The distant third best would be Ernest Scared Stupid. What a marvelous film series.

[@MagusMirificus]

Real thoughts on "We're Back: A Dinosaur Story"!

[@johnhooyer3101]

I was about five when I watched this movie. I didn't know that it was supposed to be a comedy, and I remember it being the scariest movie I had ever watched up until I saw "Alien" several years later as a teenager. If I went back and watched it now, I probably wouldn't flinch at any of this, but at least I can say, nostalgically, that I have a very fond memory of this movie traumatizing me (in an acceptable way).

[@therealkzero]

It's funny Doug said that Ernest Goes To Camp felt like the 5th movie in a franchise, because that's what I thought it was. At the time, my local video store only carried Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Goes To Jail, Ernest Scared Stupid, Ernest Rides Again, and then got in (or put up on the shelf at this time) Ernest Goes To Camp, lol.

[@theheartbreakkidliesdownfo5921]

The Saturday morning Ernest show WAS good!!!!

[@joeldavis2924]

Ernest goes to camp was taped at Monte Bell State park in Nashville. My friends and I made a drinking game called Where did I like in Ernest goes to camp.

[@Wjyndigo]

I love Ernest, I DGAF what anyone says!

[@TheShospitali]

people refer to him as being stupid, but Jim Varney was a very educated man. I loved his characters, only my kind can understand them.

[@ellies.4781]

Doug at the beginning when talking about fall is me every fall

[@efan2011]

Glad to see you two never flat out hated Ernest, never understood the hate he gets. Varney was always awesome even if he had crap to work with and made the films fun at least on his end. He never got his proper due as an actor. Camp-Jail were the best ones really with Jail being the absolute best. Varney getting to do 2 characters plus Tex Cobb and the story made it flat out awesome. Scared Stupid's alright but nowhere as good. I see what you mean by it being too scary. I liked it to a point as a kid but that Troll scared the hell out of when I first seen it at age 3. The tone's really dark too. Not a pretty film by any means. Plus not having Bobby in it hurt it. Rides Again's a good return to the formula. It's cheap as hell but fun. After that is when the series went down. Only one I ever liked of the DTV was the one with Abdul Jabbar in it due to the basketball scenes. The last two movies are sad to watch because you can see Varney wasn't feeling well or at his best and that makes the ending to Ernest Joins the Army much sadder. RIP Jim.

[@original_caffeinator]

Ernest Goes To Splash Mountain? Promotional special on the Disney Channel where Jim Varney as Ernest "test rode" the new Splash Mountain ride.

[@Krillos]

Ernest Scared Stupid is my absolute favorite movie and loved watching it during Halloween! Rest In Peace, Jim Varney! 🎃

[@spacephantomranger]

if you haven't ever seen it there is a compilation of short skits jim did called 'hey vern its my family album" if you can find it, it is one of the best things he did. also if you want just plain crazy, insane, weird look for one called 'Dr Otto and the riddle of the gloom beam" both are before he did 'goes to camp'. I loved ernest when I was a kid and we would rent the vhs of his commercials for my birthdays...ahh good times.

[@fullonion2474]

Ernest goes to camp was awesome! Granted I have not seen it since i was like 7 but whatever, its nostalgia.

[@r.babylon2885]

I always thought the montage of characters in Goes To Jail was him trying to get into character for his disguises.

[@andyclarkable]

i felt like Ernest Goes to Camp was the best, but that's obviously looking back through rose-colored lenses. I put home-made parachutes on some of my toy turtles after watching that movie.

[@ejl423]

Jail is my favorite Ernest movie.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

+ejl423 when he gets electrocuted and magnetized was funny as hell.

[@Rodney17302]

Fun fact: Jim Varney did play a terrorist in one of the 3 ninjas movies. also... Ernest Scared Stupid is actually decent, it has great practical effects and a couple really great / funny parts. Give it another shot.

[@Avnirvana1]

Kenstar!!! ??? Have you seen their review?

[@xakbrittain4740]

I'm still waiting to see reviews for movies like Ernest rides again. that's my personal favourite of all the Ernest movies

[@helpimarock66]

The parts of Ernest Scared stupid that stuck with me the most was the ending with the Trolls getting killed with Milk and just the word "Miak" - It's one of the most bizarrely written, yet somehow surprisingly memorable made up words ever.

[@brianriff8550]

"Ernest Goes To Jail" is my absolute favorite Ernest movie. I freaking love that movie.

[@LukeJazStone]

God I forgot how much I loved the Guess I'm glad it's raining song

[@saraconnor4472]

I think the next south park halloween episode could be shown in "flo vision"

[@Bexxkie]

I love the ernest movies, I had em all on vhs. Scared stupid was the worst of them, but i still enjoyed it. The effects were pretty fun. I think goes to jail is my favourite, electroman was awsome.

[@wesleyv1]

Have you guys seen the episodes of Roseanne where he plays a prince who becomes jackies boyfriend?

[@mck7646]

You guys are absolutely right. Back in the 90's I wanted to rent some Ernest movies from Blockbuster and my parents were like, "No. Absolutely not." And I never understood why they wouldn't let me lol.

[@thelurkingfear5979]

The animatronic troll puppet rigs in "Ernest Scared Stupid" were actually designed by the Chiodo Bros. same people who directed and designed the Klowns in "Killer Klowns From Outer Space", in fact, they even reused the old Klown molds to make the troll puppets. No wonder they seemed familiar to you Lol.

[@SummerOtaku]

OMG I HAD FORGOTTEN ERNEST EXISTED. And I really remember liking the tv show and yeah....Earnest Saves Christmas.. and camp. MAN. I can't believe I'd forgotten.

[@johnw4334]

my fav Ernest line....while getting chased by workers at a construction site..."uh oh, makita warriors!"

[@MichelJPW]

my god the weather out here. I had to drive to Gary for work and bam out of nowhere it's in 40s

[@WolfestoneManor]

"You'll believe Ernest can cry." xD

[@EmberwindTale]

It's okay, James Rolfe reviews are better than Doug Walker reviews.

[@striderreborn1467]

The other "Troll" Designs outside of Trantor were repurposed masks from "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" that were slightly altered and painted a different color to match the main troll's skin tone.

[@MrX626]

No joke ever time I look up Gee I'm glad it's raining, I genuinely tear up. No clue why because I've never seen the movie but no matter what my eyes get moist whenever I listen to it

[@tubulartopher]

"Ernest Rides Again" was a personal favorite for me growing up. I still have all the VHS tapes. xD I'm honestly surprised ya'll haven't seen "Ernest Goes to Africa."

[@everythingfangirl4532]

Oh you had it good. We’re still slowly easing into fall weather. I’m in Florida.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

The only thing I liked about Ernest Goes To Africa is the awesome mechanical suit he uses to collect firewood. Someone make a Megaman fan art of that now!