Hey Vern, It's Ernest!

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show_name = Hey Vern, It's Ernest


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genre = nowrap|Family-oriented Comedy
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director = John R. Cherry, III
Coke Sams
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starring = Jim Varney
Gailard Sartain
Bruce Arnston
Mac Bennett
Daniel Butler
Bill Byrge
Debi Derryberry
Mark Goldman
Denice Hicks
Jackie Welch
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country = flagicon|US United States
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 13
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executive_producer = John R. Cherry, III
Andy Heyward
Robby London
producer = Coke Sams
Stacy Williams
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runtime = 18-22 minutes
nowrap|(Not including commercials)
network = CBS
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first_aired = September 17, 1988
last_aired = December 24, 1988
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imdb_id = 0193221
tv_com_id = 5936

"Hey Vern, It's Ernest!" is an Emmy-award winning American children's television program. It aired on Saturday mornings on CBS for one season, from 1988 to 1989. Each episode involved short sketches based around a certain theme or scenario (much like "You Can't Do That on Television"), featuring the popular fictional character Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney), his unseen friend Vern, and various others. The series was a production of Ernest creator John Cherry's production company, The Emshell Producers' Group, in association with CBS, and was distributed by DiC Entertainment.

Cast

Episodes

Releases

DIC Entertainment currently has no plans to release the show on DVD at this time. A collection of skits from the show was released in 1994 under the title "Your World As I See It".

Recurring sketches and characters

*"Lonnie Don's School of Hollywood Sound Effects": A fictional sound effects wizard demonstrates how to make a sound from one of his movies. The procedure is always the same: he places his hand over his mouth and blows a raspberry.

*"Haircut": Ernest walks into Earl the Barber's shop and asks him to make him look like a "Wall Street tycoon." However, the barber always misunderstands him, and instead fanatically styles his hair into something that rhymes with "tycoon" (e.g., a "baby baboon," a "clock at high noon," "large feet in a cartoon," a "deadbeat racoon", etc.)

*"Sergeant Glory": Varney plays an aloof, fast-talking military Sergeant teaching a class of recruits about the subject of the day. He gives them two rules to remember, the second of which is always "Obey all rules."

*"My Father the Clown": A spoof on family-friendly sitcoms which featured a prefessional clown, his stay-at-home wife, and two kids: an aspiring clown (Skeeter) and his straight-laced brother (Eddie).

*"Existo the Magician": A clumsy magician who attempts to perform tricks that always go awry.

*"Matt Finish": A photographer who loves taking pictures of everything.

*"Mrs. Simon Simmons' Mind Your Manners": A parody of Emily Post, Mrs. Simon Simmons teaches the ways of proper ettiquette to her TV audience.

*"Ernest's Tongue": Ernest's tongue inside his mouth gets sprayed with different kinds of food.

*"Mac and George": Mac and his "roommate" George, a lizard who can do many of the same things a person can.

*"Chuck and Bobby": Chuck and his brother Bobby who get into adventures like Ernest.

*"Willie the Robot": A homemade robot with a bucket head and a '70s "Have a nice day" smiley face.

*"Baby Ernest": Ernest as a baby would talk about a situation involving his parents and end by saying "Boy grownups sure talk funny. KnowhatImean?"

*"Woody": A ventriloquist dummy who looks like Ernest.

*"Dust Bunny": A dusty rabbit, named after dust bunnies, who appears to live under dusty furniture, and always gets in and out of the picture by sneezing.