Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Slown, and you're listening

to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we've gotten all your letters, guys. I know this is a much

requested episode. We are finally talking Jim Varney once again. You know, for decades, literally decades, if you lived somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon

line and you needed to know, what is the best variety of milk?

What local news broadcast should I be watching?

What insurance company in, I don't know, the Tennessee area should I patronize?

Well, Ernest will let you know. Now, we've done an episode on Ernest before. I felt we were

just skimming the surface. And I wanted a deep dive. And I also think a lot of people listening

to this are going, who is Ernest? Are they listed?

If they're younger than us, they do not know who Ernest is. That's true.

Okay, okay, let me quickly explain Ernest.

When we were kids, and you went to the video store.

Specifically the video store.

And you went to the family section.

You could not walk through that family section without seeing Ernest goes to camp,

Ernest goes to jail, Ernest goes to jail,

Ernest saves Christmas, Ernest scared stupid, plus miscellaneous. The direct-to-video wants.

Hey, Vern, it's my family album. That's right. And Ernest was, well, he began in TV commercials in the 1980s. It was in Tennessee. There was a man named John Cherry who ran an advertising agency

called Cardin and Cherry,

and a local actor who had been on TV, he'd been on like the Johnny Cash CBS show,

he'd been on Pink Lady and Jeff, you know, all your favorite shows. He was a known quantity somewhat.

I would say not really, but because I went deep in this.

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