Last week, I noticed “Ernest Saves Christmas” was added to Disney+. As a longtime defender of “Ernest Saves Christmas,” the second in the series of films starring the dimwitted Ernest P. Worrell, I was thrilled to see the inclusion of a film that I feared was going to fade into obscurity.
Ernest P. Worrell was created in 1980 by the Nashville advertising agency Carden & Cherry with the late Jim Varney and was used in various local and national television ad campaigns across the country. In the ads, Ernest would pitch various products to the unseen Vern.
The late Jim Varney stars as Ernest P. Worrell in "Ernest Saves Christmas." (COURTESY OF DISNEY)
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Noelle Parker and Jim Varney in "Ernest Saves Christmas." (COURTESY OF DISNEY)
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Douglas Seale as Santa in "Ernest Saves Christmas." (COURTESY OF DISNEY)
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Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell (left) with the new Santa Claus (Oliver Clark). (COURTESY OF DISNEY)
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