Ernest Goes to Camp

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If John Cena is smart, he should totally try to push that where he's going to be the new Ernest or whatever the fuck and do a remake of Ernest Goes to Camp.

I wouldn't even do a remake.

Do Ernest Goes to the Gym.

Right.

And so it was, um, we were already kind of used to the, I think the real thrill was Ernest goes to camp, you know, in, in what 87, uh, So, or, um, yeah, that, that was the big one by the, by this time we were, we were, you know, getting used to it.

It was still very cool of course.

Um, but yeah, for sure.

I have no idea where that part of the country is.

I still got to go there.

I got to visit Ernest's country, and maybe I can do that the following year when we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ernest Goes to Camp.

That'd be great.

But for people who don't know, I'm sure there's plenty of people listening now who don't remember Ernest, because apparently you had to be born in 1984 through 1986 to even know who Ernest was.

He has a lot of movies like Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest Goes to Africa.

That's the formula.

This one is just, we're dropped back into the life of Ernest P. Worrell.

Off-Broadway, the Addams Family in Concert is Friday and Saturday at Analog in Hutton Hotel.

Information is available at analognashville.com. You'll find more news anytime at wpln.org. Middle Tennessee's Dixon County is known for being the filming location for Ernest Goes to Camp, which grossed upwards of $20 million at the box office in the late 1980s.

But senior music writer Julie Height has looked into the area's earlier lore, specifically around cryptids.

Ernest P. Worrell starts fires in that movie, but around the real-life campfires of Dixon County, people tell the tales of two local cryptids.

And it was a moment in time that's very like vivid for me because I remember thinking, why do Nicholson and Cruz hate each other so much? I really believe that these guys hate each other and are trying to destroy each other.

What is that? And that kind of was my first time I ever cared about something that wasn't Ernest Goes to Camp, Chris Farley, Father of the Bride, you know? Yeah.

It is a real, and I mean this as a credit to the film, it is a great intro to drama movie.

I feel like kids could watch and be like, I get every part of this.

The stakes were a lot higher.

It scratches the same itch as something like Ernest Goes to Camp, which is such a...

This statement is going to make people mad, I'm sure of it.

Because...

And I know I'm sorry.

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I love Ernest Goes to Camp.

I'm not ashamed.

And I feel like the ski stuff kind of, and the summer camp stuff carried over a little bit further.

So we'd have like a lot of like ice skiing or water skiing shit that was still like kind of a weird kind of save the camp stuff, like One Crazy Summer as well.

So it's like that stuff kind of carried over, but it's like definitely a mixture of the TNA and the save the summer camp kind of shit, Ernest Goes to Camp, all that stuff.

But, uh, it, it's, it's more rated R than like Meatballs 1 or 2.

So it's an odd mix.