Recap on Ernest Goes To Hell (Binge of All 9 Ernest Movies)
Over the weekend my friends and I set out for an adventure that would last 13+ hours, a day (and night) of the entire Ernest franchise with around 50 minutes of his national commercials. What started as a fun romp into our childhood quickly turned into a test of endurance and a descent into lower IQs.
 My ranking of Ernest Movies:
1. Ernest Scared Stupid 2. Ernest Saves Christmas 3. Ernest Goes To Camp 4. Slam Dunk Ernest 5. Ernest Goes To Jail 6. Ernest Goes To School 7. Ernest Goes To Africa 8. Ernest Rides Again 9. Ernest Joins The Army |
We started bright and early at 10:30AM with the inaugural film Ernest Goes To Camp and went in chronological order until the 9th and final film Ernest Joins The Army. Most of us had only seen the first 3 or 4… which means there’s almost 8 hours of yet to be determined Ernest footage! The following are some of my favorite moments from the event in tweet form:
Ernest P. Worrell is the original Madea. Tyler Perry is a hack. #BingeBrigade #ErnestGoesToHell pic.twitter.com/poGD7uLuWo
— Sam Randazzo (@BraincelSam) July 27, 2014
At one point we were all optimistic we were going to make it and rejoiced with this photo:
The fifth movie in was Ernest Rides Again and unanimously voted as the worst in the entire franchise. Although, I found this joke to be one of the funniest and most unexpected jokes of all:
#ErnestRidesAgain has the best joke of the franchise so far. ERNEST jumps off the moving truck onto the runway cannon.
— Andrew Furtado (@AndrewFurtaco) July 27, 2014
ERNEST: (to Mr. Melon) Come on! JUMP! Mr. Melon stays on the truck but does a jump. — Andrew Furtado (@AndrewFurtaco) July 27, 2014
That’s where my I.Q. has dropped to — Andrew Furtado (@AndrewFurtaco) July 27, 2014
In between our 5th and 6th movie we decided to order a “YunnoWhatIMeat” lovers pizza… it took us over an hour to figure out how to work a computer.
Just hit the 12 Hour mark with only 2 movies left a little behind schedule but spirits are high. #bingebrigade #ernestgoestohell — Andrew Furtado (@AndrewFurtaco) July 27, 2014
9 films & an hour of Ernest commercials later, I’m the sole survivor of the #ErnestGoesToHell marathon. #BingeBrigade pic.twitter.com/zBXp3cszlx — Sam Randazzo (@BraincelSam) July 27, 2014
While the films continued they got progressively worse, which lowered our standards, so when they had a joke that kind of worked… it really hit with the crowd. THEN Ernest Goes To Africa started up…
This movie keeps confusing Africa with India #ErnestGoesToAfrica #bingebrigade http://t.co/Q21QxSxwA6 — Andrew Furtado (@AndrewFurtaco) July 27, 2014
Jim Varney is the master of the fool triumphant and we should give our childhood selves a round of applause for recognizing a talent when we saw it. Jim Varney and John Cherry took this character as far as it could possibly go and it’s really hard to conjure up another character that has done everything but have a musical about it (even though he does have a ballad in Ernest Goes To Camp). I want to take a moment and remember the many faces of Ernest… from the good, to the bad, to the blatantly racist.
The many faces of Ernest
Happy Ernest
Confused Ernest
Smartie Pants Ernest (you can tell by his buttened up vest)
Classy Ernest in his dress hat
Sexy Ernest
Mama Ernest
Sporty Ernest
Jed Clampett Audition
Callback 5 movies later!
Ernest The Fashionista
Indian Ernest in ‘Ernest Goes To Africa’
Ernest… THE American Icon
And as a final farewell I take the words the man himself… “I came. I saw. I got blowed up.” -Ernest P. Worrell
I think for our next one we’re going to do something with less sequels, perhaps the Police Academy films that only has 8 total.
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