Hey Vern, It's Ernest!

Hey Vern, It's Ernest! is a short lived American children's television program. It aired on Saturday mornings on CBS for one season in 1988. Each episode involved short sketches based around a certain theme or scenario, featuring the popular fictional character Ernest P. Worrell, 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. The series was later rerun on The Family Channel in the early 1990s.

Comedy

Seasons

1. Hey Vern, It's Outer Space

Air Date: 1988-09-17

Ernest finds what appears to be a space pod that will explode and destroy the entire world. So he tries every trick in the book to get rid of it. At the end, it is really a toaster that belongs to Doctor Otto.

2. Hey Vern, It's Clothing

Air Date: 1988-09-24

Ernest decides to throw a costume party but cannot decide what to dress up as until he finally decides to dress up like a chicken. After he sends the invitations, all his guests come dressed as chickens, too. In the end, Auntie Nelda is so disturbed by all the noise that Ernest and his guests are making, she calls the cops and has Ernest arrested and jailed for disturbing the peace.

3. Hey Vern, It's Scary Things

Air Date: 1988-10-01

Ernest thinks that he and Vern are haunted by The Boogieman, so Ernest tries to set a trap to capture him until he decides that there is no such thing as The Boogieman. At the very end, Ernest sees some kinds of wierd creature.

4. Hey Vern, It's Movies

Air Date: 1988-10-08

Ernest decides to make a movie starring him to enter a film festival for a chance to become a real movie star. He has Willie The Home-Made Robot be his co-star. In the end, Willie becomes the star instead of Ernest.

5. Hey Vern, It's Magic

Air Date: 1988-10-15

Ernest performs a magic trick that causes Vern's dog, Shortie to literally disappear. Ernest tries to undo that mishap before Vern really gets upset.

6. Hey Vern, It's Sports

Air Date: 1988-10-22

Ernest decides to try out for a wrestling matc against Chainsaw Chester. After he gets himself a costume, he decides to make his name as a porfessional wrestler ""Ernest The Furnace. In the ends, Chainsaw Chester mauls Vern instead casuing him to end up in a body cast at the hospital.

7. Hey Vern, It's Pets

Air Date: 1988-10-29

Ernest want to have a dog of his own, so he decides to make Vern's house a pet day care center, so he can make some money. In the end, Ernest thinks the dog he wanted had been sold but Vern buys it for. Afterwards, Vern wants the money Ernest made running his pet day center to reimburse him for the dog he bought him but Ernest tells Vern he made the money for himself the whole time.

8. Hey Vern, It's Hobbies

Air Date: 1988-11-05

Ernest and Vern chase after and try to catch a very rare species of butterfly, the ""Hunny WunnY""

9. Hey Vern, It's Food

Air Date: 1988-11-12

Ernest and Vern enter a baking contest to win a year supply of ""Gooey Boy Muffin Cakes""

10. Hey Vern, It's Holidays

Air Date: 1988-12-03

Ernest decides to try and get himself into The Guiness Book of World Records by being the first person to celebrate every major holiday of the year from New Year's Day to Christmas in just one entire day.

11. Hey Vern, It's School

Air Date: 1988-12-10

Ernest wants to get a special wrist watch that does almost everything. So he decides to deserve to get himself that watch by passing every class and getting good grades at his school. In the end, when he finally does get himself that watch, he finds out that it does almost everything except tell time.

12. Hey Vern, It's Lost and Found

Air Date: 1988-12-17

Ernest and Vern go on a treasure hunt in and around the house and find everything that they have been missing in the end.

13. Hey Vern, It's Talent

Air Date: 1988-12-24

Ernest and Vern put on a talent show.

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Rating

4.9/10

Release Date

1988-09-17

Episodes

13 (1 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

DiC Entertainment

Emshell Producers