Cable Television is pure "DOG SHIT" on Saturdays

[pickle berry]

Originally Posted by James Otto Sweet Heart

P.S. Is Vern ever shown in any of the films? I'm asking because I will admit that I have not seen all of them.

No he's never shown. "Vern" is supposedly the audience. It all started when "Ernest" was doing local commercials and annoying "Vern" with whatever product he was shilling.

"Ernest was created by the Nashville advertising agency Carden & Cherry and was used in various local television ad campaigns.[5] The only national products he promoted were The Coca-Cola Company's sodas,[6] Chex, and Taco John's.[7] The first Ernest commercial, filmed in 1980, advertised an appearance by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders at Beech Bend Park, an amusement park near Bowling Green, Kentucky."

"The rubber-faced Ernest, almost always dressed in a denim vest and baseball cap, appeared at the door of an unseen and unheard but seemingly unwilling neighbor named Vern. The spots were structured in a way to allow the viewer to be "Vern", as Varney looked directly in the camera whenever Vern was addressed. Ernest's seemingly pointless conversations with Vern – which were actually a monologue due to Vern never responding – inevitably rambled around to a favorable description of the sponsor's product,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_P._Worrell



And for fun here is one of the early Ernest commercials for Braums Ice cream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7j4ewPKw1U

[James Otto Sweet Heart]

Originally Posted by pickle berry

No he's never shown. "Vern" is supposedly the audience. It all started when "Ernest" was doing local commercials and annoying "Vern" with whatever product he was shilling.

"Ernest was created by the Nashville advertising agency Carden & Cherry and was used in various local television ad campaigns.[5] The only national products he promoted were The Coca-Cola Company's sodas,[6] Chex, and Taco John's.[7] The first Ernest commercial, filmed in 1980, advertised an appearance by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders at Beech Bend Park, an amusement park near Bowling Green, Kentucky."

"The rubber-faced Ernest, almost always dressed in a denim vest and baseball cap, appeared at the door of an unseen and unheard but seemingly unwilling neighbor named Vern. The spots were structured in a way to allow the viewer to be "Vern", as Varney looked directly in the camera whenever Vern was addressed. Ernest's seemingly pointless conversations with Vern – which were actually a monologue due to Vern never responding – inevitably rambled around to a favorable description of the sponsor's product,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_P._Worrell

And for fun here is one of the early Ernest commercials for Braums Ice cream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7j4ewPKw1U

Thank you for telling me about Ernest. The films of his that I've seen were a big part of my childhood.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

[pickle berry]

Originally Posted by James Otto Sweet Heart

Thank you for telling me about Ernest. The films of his that I've seen were a big part of my childhood.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

You're welcome. When I heard Jim Varney had died I did a bunch of googling on him. He lived a nice quite life in a small town when he wasn't out filming.

The Ernest movies were a big part of my childhood too. We saw Ernest Saves Christmas in the theater.