Free With Ads - Ernest Scared Stupid, with Zac Morris of CZsWorld

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

On the last week of Hallowpeen we invited horror film connoisseur Zac Morris (CZsWorld) to watch one of the scariest Ernest films of all, Ernest Scared Stupid!Tune in next week when our movie will be... The First Wives Club.-----Check out Zac's YouTube Channel CZsWorld! Here's a video you can watch!Zac also has a new channel called Pumpkin Metal that you should also follow if you like pop punk music.On Nov 1st,  the the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena to see some stand up comedy from Matt Lieb and his wife.On Dec 3rd, Jordan Morris wrote something in Venom 252. Get your copy now!Get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4!On Nov 8th, Jordan will be at the Burbank Book Festival, at the Buena Vista Branch Library from 10am-11am.And later that same day, Nov 8th, Jordan will be at Revenge Of Comics and Pinball for their Comic Creator Parking Lot Party. 

This is free with ads. that asked the question, why pay Disney plus 10 bucks a month to watch nostalgic Halloween family films when you could go online for free and watch a nostalgic Halloween family film that might not be scary? Well, unless you're scared of mugging. If that's the case, this thing is goddamn hereditary. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is Ernest Scared Stupid, a wish fulfillment comedy for kids whose greatest dream is being friends with the local garbage man. With us, as always, is the super producer, the he freak. Matt Lebe hitting us with those ooky-cooky drops.

Let's see how you like a little Mi-I-I-I-K. Me-A-K. Me-A-K. There's a lot of Mi-Ak humor in this movie. Which I don't know what that is. Is it real? I assumed he made it up for the sake of a bit, but now I'm going to Google it. I mean, it's...

Hey, GROC! Okay. GROC might not know what Mi-AK is. GROC might... Grock might have a weird take on something that sounds like that. But I was like, maybe it's like epicak for the thing that makes you kind of throw up.

Maybe that's what it was. Will we solve the mystery of Miak? Yeah. Listen, Matt's looking into this, but first, we have a fantastic guest here with us to close out Howl O'Peen. He's the mind behind the amazing YouTube horror channel CZ's world.

Zach Morris. Hi, Zach. Yay. Guys, thank you so much for bringing up the Miak thing because that was honestly my first question going into this. Oh, right. I like that we were all confused, but no one Googled it. I googled it.

The movie was one of the first Google results that came up, so I assumed that it was made up for the movie, but there was also some other stuff. So I was just wondering, like, is this one of those things that existed in the 90s, but people don't really know about it anymore, so there's not a lot online? Like Dunker's.

Oh, Gusers still exist. Oh, no, I remember Dunkeroo's. Milk. Yeah. Dunkerous had to come back a few years ago. Yeah, that's true. joke in this movie, Ernest in trying to kill

an evil race of trolls, finds an ancient scroll. This movie sounds insane when you describe it. It really is insane. He decides an ancient scroll that says how to kill them and the answer is milk, but one of the letters has been removed,

so he thinks it's Miak. Oh! Anyway. Did anyone else go through all the letters in the alphabet in their head to try to figure out if there was like another possibility other than milk?

No, I just let things happen to me. I don't like. It's like proto-wordle. You know? Oh, yeah, that's true. You're like, oh, I'm one letter away. Miac. Because milk, we seem so obvious.

It's like his mink word. I would love to sit here and talk about Miac. But we have Zach here. He's a horror expert. So we're going to do our segment. Talk to guest. Thank you guys so much for having me. There's a sting.

Please don't talk over the stings. I work really hard on the stings. It's all people like about the show, honestly. But Matt takes a while to get the stings together. Yeah, because I got a lot of them. I have to look through with the thing. We gave them way too many stings. And I work really, really hard.

never know when to quit. Isn't that right, clip? Yep. He never knew when to quit. There you go. That's from the movie, too. Yep. Zach, you do these deep dives on your YouTube channel. You dissect horror movies.

Whenever we have a horror person here, I like to ask, since people come to you for, like, recommendations a lot, like, okay, The Exorcist, okay, hereditary, what are the deep cuts? What are some of your favorite horror movies that you think people should check out if They haven't already. The answer that I always give for that question is Triangle from 2009. I've never heard of Triangle from 2009. I don't know it either.

Christopher Smith directed it, has Make-a-Man-Roe. It's basically like the Shining at Sea. Okay, that's a good pitch. Triangle referring to the Bermuda Triangle. It is so hard to suck a guy's dick in a dog costume when you're bobbing around on the sea. Whoa, whoa. Maybe not that part. Yeah.

I look the same in a shower as the Lady and the Shining, whether it's on a boat or in a house. Sure. Wait, which time when she's young and hotter when she becomes old? Bo. Oh. My body is an optical illusion. And I look like a wave of blood getting off an elevator. I just ended my elevator of blood.

Oh, congratulations. Talk about your period? Yeah. Cool. Thanks. I've done several shining Halloween costumes over the year. So in high school, I did the guy that, He's like one of the hotel staff ghosts

that says, great party, isn't it? That's a deep cut. I like that. But I obviously did like a younger version because I tried the bald cap and it looked terrible. And then a couple of years ago, I did Frozen Jack Torrance, like... Oh, that's a great costume.

Which is like one of my favorite costumes that I've ever done. We should point out, Zach is wearing a vintage the shining shirt. Very cool. And then what's the hoodie? There's an alien face on it. This is my...

It's your merch. Yeah. Ooh, that's a cool alien face. face, we'll have to plug your merch. Guys, we're going to have to start wearing our own merch. I know. But we also, we need to get some new merch. My merch makes me look dumpy.

I look dumpy in the merch. Zach, so we watched a horror comedy today. Do you have any favorite horror comedies? That's a good question. I mean, horror comedy is so subjective. I mean, Army of Darkness is a classic. Army of Darkness is a good one. Is there any fucked up movies to where you're like, this is funny?

You're like, I yucked it up during 120 days of Sodom. I don't know, weapons is pretty fucking funny. Yeah, that's definitely like, yeah, I think you're, you know, your Zach Krieger's and your Jordan Peels definitely has to have a little bit of that sketch comedy DNA. Long legs, yeah, had some funny moments, too. I like weapons as a serious horror film. Oh, okay. They're funny moments, but I don't know, I'd have to think back on that.

You know, here's my, I have a couple of hot takes. One, a movie that I yucked it up a lot. I think there's a couple I haven't seen. There's a new Predator movie coming out. There's a new Osgood Perkins coming out. So I don't know that I'm definitively ready to say what the horror movie of the year is. In a great year for horror movies, it's Final Destination Bloodlines. There you go.

And it's not close. Wow. It's so good. Is it funny, too? It is. You're laughing. You're like, when are these assholes going to die? What's going to get them?

Is it going to be the rusty shovel? Is it going to be the wood chipper? Is it the glass of the margarita? Something's going to kill these fuckers. I have a hard time with those movies because. I have like, I don't know. I think I have a lot of, what's the word where you have no control over your thoughts?

ADHD. Psychopath? Yeah, well, we've got it real bad at the ADHD, but no, like the impulse control. Yeah, well, it's like the thoughts in your brain where it's like, ugh, fuck, like you're afraid. Is there a name for that? Thank you, intrusive thoughts.

So anytime I'm about to go down a staircase, I immediately think of, like, I have to focus on the stairs or else I'll fall down, I'm going to die. Or like, I don't know, I imagine, imagine the worst things that could happen in almost every situation. That's what those movies are for. I'm in a padded room. I feel fine, but I feel like I don't need the extra anxiety.

Those movies are for making you afraid when you're doing the wash. You're like, what got in the wash? One screw? They absolutely need a podcast kill in a future Final Destination movie. Oh, yes, absolutely. I did a video a while back talking about Final Destination disasters that have come true in real life. Yes, I watched that. Yeah, most of them has.

Really? So that's probably not helping. But some of them are inspired by things that happened as well. But then there's ones that happened. Yeah, I talked about both. Like, real events that inspired stuff in the movie and stuff that happened in the movie that just came true in real life.

Hot take number two. Everybody around this time of year loves hocus pocus. Yeah. I watched it recently. I didn't watch it as a kid, but I watched it recently. I'm like, this is good. This is funny. This is fun.

This is campy. Mm-hmm. There is a movie. There is a hocus pocus. movie for people who fuck, and it is called Elvira Mistress of the Dark. Yeah, baby. Once you grow up, Elvira Mistress of the Dark. That should be your Halloween horror comedy.

Elvira and Erdust would have a connection. You know, they were such, like, our childhood had so many of those fictional characters who were celebrities. And hosts. Where are they come? Where are they from? From the Groundlings. Oh, yeah. Peewee, Groundlings, Elvira, Groundlings. Then there was like Mr. T. Ernest.

It's like, who are these? people yeah well interesting most of them wrapped too most of them also had a rap album well some fun things I'm kind of an earnest freak I love earnest so much he's from Nashville I'm from Nashville but he was doing stand-up in Los Angeles he was a comedy store regular right and he was besties with Robin Williams hey yeah started out and so

when you're watching this movie and he goes into these characters these weird characters that are like kind of like multiple personality tangents he goes on, you immediately think of Robin Williams in Aladdin and then how he did these impressions that would kind of move around and you're like, okay, which was the chicken and which was the egg here?

I don't know. I feel like with that trend, I'd never seen it before until the two of them started doing stuff like that. Not only that, but if you look at early Jim Barney standup, there's a couple of bits that he does that are, were like regular, essentially, for David Letterman that he would just say out loud and people were like, why does he keep saying,

Ma, did you make any beans? And, you know, it would just be randomly he would say that. And then I saw this clip of him doing stand-up in like 78 and he's doing a bit. I was like, oh, shit. Letterman was taking directly from him. So he's kind of a legend who never got his due. I don't know. I think he did get his due.

He was very successful. He was the host of opening. Day of Disney World. Hey, okay. Because he, so he started out doing local, like, commercials after he was, like, trying to make it in L.A. didn't quite get regular acting work the way he wanted. Move back to Nashville, started doing commercials with his buddy, who was, like, an ad executive, created this character to do, like, local grocery store commercials, and then purity

milk, which is in this movie. Oh, yeah. Purety milk is like a callback. Fun. Started doing purity milk commercials, and he's this idiot neighbor. that is talking to Vern, who's his neighbor. You know what I mean, Vern? Like, that's his whole thing.

When are people like, who the fuck is Byrne? I was waiting for him to talk to Vern in the movie. He never talks to Vern. Not in this one. Not in this one. But he goes, no what I mean, Vern? It's kind of like, and I say it all the time. People are like, what the fuck did you say?

I'm like, oh, you're not my dad. I forgot. Yeah. So I guess he really is the counterpart to Elvira because Elvira hosted the opening night of Haunted Hayride this year. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, she used to have a live show at Knott's Berry Farm. I went. I remember that last year. Yeah, I went to go see her perform and I got to meet her backstage and she was drinking a Budweiser Oh yeah, cool chick. Fucking legend.

Love her. But yeah, Ernest, those commercials became such a big deal in Nashville and stuff and then there was a Indy 500 like race or something and Mickey Mouse was going to make an appearance there but Ernest made an appearance

and people cheered more for Ernest than for Mickey Mouse. Wow. And so the head of Disney at the time, Bob Iger, or who was it? Who was that back in the 90? Was it be Michael Eisenberg, I believe? Yeah, I think so.

He was like, well, who the hell is this earnest guy? And so it was that day at that 80500 that made him go, this guy's cool. And they gave him a four-picture deal? They gave him a bit, yep. And then he had a TV show for a little bit. That was a little weird. I binge-watched all of them today. Wow.

There was only 13 episodes. He didn't make it for very long. It wasn't that good. That's funny that, oh, like, back in the day, only 13 episodes is a failed show. Right. And now you're like, oh, that's a successful Netflix. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

That's a Netflix show where everybody goes, damn, how'd that last so long, right? Yeah. He was also a regular cast member in the Johnny Cash variety show. Johnny Cash had a variety show for a little bit. So, yeah, he's a legend. I love him so much. He's somebody, like, just did commercials and then fucking got movies all about a character.

And then he was slinky in Toy Story. Oh. I'm glad that you're here to explain Ernest to me because this was my first exposure to Ernest in general. I realized how much I was like, oh, God, This is, because everything he does is so weird from the characters he slips into and you're like, why is he a big

breasted old woman? Right. My thought was like, okay, is this kind of a proto-Mr. Bean type of thing? I guess now it would be like what they do with the Tyler Perry characters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's all kind of cut from the same cloth. I think Ernest walked so the clumps could run.

That's, yeah, probably so. Yeah, let's actually talk about what happens in Ernest, scared, stupid. we start out and there's a spooky song playing and it has a little bit of a hip-hop beat behind it and I am like... I love this song.

Oh my God, is Ernest going to wrap over the credits and he does it? And I'm like, it's 1991. Why is no one rapping the plot of this movie in the movie? Anyway, but he's mugging. He's mugging it up in front of a bunch of classic horror clips. He does his lip things that are really cool. He's just making faces.

And then we get a flashback scene in Briarville, Missouri. and just the Kairon says long ago. I kind of like that. I kind of like the timelessness there. So as the horror history, man, I'm constantly trying to put together the timeline in my head.

And as soon as I saw it long ago, it's like, okay, you're not giving us a year. You're not even giving us an era. You're like, how much is a deep dive? Well, when it's a kids movie set in the South or in Missouri, which was split during the war, we try not to. That's true.

We try not to reference. There's a lot of implications. Is it a fantasy world where nothing bad to happen? Like maybe it's post-Civil War? Oh, I don't know. See, I like figuring out when things take place because I think it's just interesting to put together the timeline.

But I also believe that if you don't really specify, it can kind of make the movie feel more timeless because it's like, oh, this could be at any time. You could watch it 20 years from now and it could still be relevant. And all the people in this scene are just kind of generic villagers. They are villagers in the olden times. And then Ernest is playing.

kind of the, I guess, either the town mayor or a preacher, whatever, he probably would have burned women at the stake. Yeah. That kind of thing, but they're not doing that in this. They're not. They're simply burying someone who looks different. Yeah. But it is a troll.

It is a troll. To be fair. I felt a little bad for the troll in this first scene because you see the net go over the troll and then you're like, he must be so scared. Hurt trolls, hurt people. In that hurt trolls, hurt people, I don't know. So these villagers, they are burying this troll. The whole thing is being presided over by a kind of fire and brimstone preacher

played by Jim Barney. He plays a lot of characters in this. And that's kind of like the start of the legend. They bury this troll. And then we go to the modern day. Oh, and the kind of curse that the troll puts on is that the descendants of the preacher will get dumber and dumber. great set up

we get fucking Ernest Lour I love it Like great We now know Ernest's backstory more He has a curse put on him An explanation for why he's dumb Although we get introduced to him He's a garbage man

And he set up this very Pee-esque Rube Goldberg device On the garbage truck And I'm like It doesn't work great But he's not dumb That's amazing Yeah he's like a really fantastic engineer

Yeah Well I think that the implication Is he's very childlike and kind of like maybe reckless and frivolous and so he's just kind of this townie who's kind of oh boy here comes Ernest

why is he hanging out with our kids again which he did a lot of a lot of his movies were him being a camp counselor and him being like so the implication that he's friends with kids made more sense in those movies yeah and this one the whole town just kind of lets him hang out with kids so if you've never seen another Ernest movie

this is like why is this old man That's exactly how I felt. But it makes more sense in other movies. And they don't really introduce the kids. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, also, you do so many really cool timeline videos. I really love your timeline videos. You did a really cool one about long legs, too, with very little information, which is we just

watched long legs. But you're like your stuff about the Saw franchise I really liked. That's one of my favorite ones to know. Each character, you had so many people from Saw. Very, very cool. So you couldn't do that with this. We don't know when the fuck it's got it. Oh, yeah, Emily, as someone who's probably seen every earnest movie and TV show,

is their continuity in the earnest averse? I'll be honest. I've only seen Ernest goes to camp and Ernest cared stupid. Oh, interesting. I haven't seen the jail one. Oh, that's the best one. I know. So the only continuity.

He gets the electric chair and it gives him electric powers. No. Are you fucking kidding? He goes, I am electro man. No. I mean, I'm against capital punishment unless it's hilarious. Wait. If it's hilarious, I'm all for it.

Are you fucking with me, though? No, that's 100% real. Jesus Christ. I actually have never really seen any of these movies other than, like, I had a, I had, there's a family that we hung out with us kids. The Plotkins, the Plotkins loved Ernest. They sound like they love Ernest. Yeah, oh, I don't know if the Plotkins still love Ernest.

I hope they do. Hey, Jordan, you're going to come over again watch another Ernest movie with us? The Plotkins love us some earnest. It sounds like one of those fake names that your screenwriting teacher makes up. It does an example. Borsed Plotkin. That's true. But yeah, no, I watch the show.

Like, my dad loves Ernest. My dad also loves peewee. We're like that kind of family. But so we quote him a lot. There's also a lot of local people from Nashville that are in the TV show that are also like performers. Doyle and Debbie, you got to look them up. It's a Nashville like

comedy music duo. The dude from Doyle and Debbie is a writer and he performs in the TV show. but yeah it's the timeline wise I don't know it's just there are some recurring characters though like the two dudes who run the hardware store and are always having a scheme oh yeah sure sure those guys are and there is I did read that earnest dog rim shot who I will at some point call rim job on this and it'll be funny it'll be funny when it happens it's accidental I'm not intentionally going to call the job dog rim job it'll just happen because dog's name is rim shot it's just going to happen sorry in advance

for calling the dog rim shot I think there's even a moment early where he kind of mumbles it and it does sound like he says rim jump out. Cute dog though and I don't remember that dog from any of you. I think I read that

rim shot recurs in one other movie. That's a shame because I thought he was like the star of the show. He was amazing. He was amazing. He was like pulling levers and driving trucks.

He drives cars. He does and also made me cry. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. He will almost die later in the So Ernest and his dog, they are, they drive the garbage truck. They're in danger getting fired because they won't clean up the yard of a kooky local eccentric. So he promises to clean up and they go over to this kooky local eccentric house.

There's all this like garbage sculptures in the yard. It looks really cool. Kooky local eccentric earth the fucking kit. Oh, my God. One of three catwomen's in the 1996 Batman, the greatest catwoman, if you ask me. and the villain from the Emperor's New Groove, the funniest, the funniest voice in a movie filled with funny voiceover performances.

Eartha Kit, fucking rocks. She really... Everything she says is funny in this movie. Well, I also really appreciate this performance because she's very glamorous woman. Right. And she's a cat woman. She's very stunningly beautiful cheekbones

that could slice a million diamonds. But she didn't give a fuck. She went full-on, uh-go witch. She's a crazy witch. She's like a crazy steampunk witch. which she rocks. Anyway, so he's trying to get her to clean up her, like, insane totem yard, and she won't do it. Meanwhile, the neighborhood kids who Ernest as friends with,

they are building, like, a haunted house out in the yard, and the bullies wreck it, the Murdoch kids. Oh, I hate the Murdox. They're worse than the plot kids. Oh, the Murdox are always buying up News Corp. Were they Rupert Murdox kids, Matt? I believe so. I believe so.

Wow. Hey, grot! I love that, I do like that, because when people have bullies, like in kids' movies, I always find them to not make sense. Like, this is not how bullies would talk to people. But fighting over tree houses, pretty, yeah, total bullies. That is stuff that kids would fight over, for sure. I love how they also have, like, a radar for wherever the main character kids are.

Yeah. Like, they're just in the middle of the forest at some random tree, and then they just show up and immediately start throwing rocks at them. Right. How do you find those so quickly? We put an apple air tag in your backpack, even though those won't be invented for 25 years.

We're the Murdox. Everybody called each other buttheads. I love that. The kids' movies of our youth, everyone called each other butthead all the time. I guess it was the naughtiest thing you could get away with. Honestly, butthead and butt face were pretty fun. But face is like pretty good. Fart knocker. I never read that one.

Oh, fart knockers, great. I will say that sometimes I talk about how certain actors will do role that will then get them, you'll see why they got a part in another movie. Eartha Kit did Harriet the Spy, like a few years after this and was an eccentric old lady and Harriet the Spy too. It was really good. She's great.

We should watch Harriet the Spy. And so at some point, the kids whose haunted house got destroyed, they go to Ernest for help, and he explains to them the legend of the Ottoman Empire. And this is when he plays the like multiple characters. Yes. It's an old lady. It's like a war general. One of them is in brown face.

So you know, 1991. Yeah. But yeah, it's confusing, but he is also, like, very talented and clearly like. He's crushing all of these characters. And I have to say, at least for the one where he's playing the Ottoman. Yes. I guess I'm not familiar enough with, like, Ottoman Empire. Isn't Attila the Hun related to that?

The Ottoman Empire is not your Ottoman Empire? Yeah, it's not my. And so, you know, for me, I was like, I don't really, I can't confirm or deny whether or not this costume is correct. So, I'm just having fun. Well, he, so Jim Barney was a classically trained actor. Yes, he was. He studied Shakespeare in school. He did theater in Tennessee and stuff like that, which I did a lot of that too.

And that always made, that makes me feel so happy because when I started doing stand-up, being an actor or a theater person was like, corny and they made fun of you for it and they were like you're not really a stand-up and it's like no people like went to perform at school before doing stand-up back in the day and now you're just some guy in a dirty sweatshirt

and you think that makes you edgy whatever I'm like I did public speaking competitions learn breath control learn Alexander technique what I could not confirm is in the movie it shows him like in different costumes every time he switches

among all of these personalities. But then the other characters act almost as if they could see all of the different costumes. So, like, what were they seeing? Were they just seeing him, like, kind of skits out? Or were they actually seeing what we saw as the movie audience and seeing him

literally changing all these different forms? That's true. I think that we're seeing what Ernest wants you to see. Guys. And what we hope the kids are seeing when they look at it. To be clear, this is a movie about a schizophrenic garbage man. He's a man who tells he spins yarn.

Absolutely. Did any of the, did this all happen in Ernest Head before the garbage truck crushed him? Absolutely. Maybe. It's all a dream. You brought up Final Destination earlier. That's a Final Destination bloodlines kill.

No. Yeah. I know. A trash compactor? Yeah. Hell no. I can't watch that movie. Sorry y'all.

I'm gonna see it. I can't do it. That's too scary to me. And actually there's a second Final Destination kill right after they tell the legend And it kind of zooms out and it shows that it's this girl giving her school report. The teacher looks out the window and sees Ernest getting dragged on the pavement by his garbage truck. Oh, that's in two, right?

That is, no, that's in four. Okay. And I love how the teacher just sees someone getting dragged behind a garbage truck and just kind of looks at it and doesn't acknowledge it. Like, not going to react to it, not going to call the police. Yeah. I mean, I saw a guy fall off of a bird scooter. I just kept driving. That happens a lot.

You wrote a scooter here, didn't you? I did. You scooted. Wow. You are a brave man. You're not written some sort of e-scooter. This is your rig, right? Yes.

Okay. That's cool. Yeah, this is owned. This is all the thing. I'm not coordinated enough to be doing that. I don't even ride a bicycle and I don't drive. Does anyone in Final Destination die from getting milk spilt on them? Not yet.

Well, then maybe Ernest is ahead of its time. With all the allergies these days, I could see that thing. Yeah. That's right. If they set this in California, it'd be dead kids everywhere. Throw peanuts at the trolls. Their throats will close up.

Or it could be like the milk is filled on vegans and they feel like they're dying. I mean, clearly those trolls had allergies. Don't worry, it was oat milk. And the trolls were like, oh, okay, I'm fine. So yeah, trolls, as we mentioned, they're in this movie. The kids find a treehouse to get away from the bullies.

They defend the treehouse by throwing cat food and pizzas at the bullies. Very funny. Yeah. A fun little note about those pizzas. Yes. Those were props from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Secret of the U's. Really?

Yeah. Those were recycled pizzas from a famous pizza movie. That's right. And because I watched it going, that's a lot of money to just throw away. Well, we know the people who did the practical effects for Ernest. Also did the killer clowns for outer space. Okay. I was going to bring that up later because as I was watching it, one of the trolls, I just like that looks so much like one of the clowns from killer clowns from outer space.

It was. And I double-checked, and it's definitely slim, just with a repaint. Wow. Do you, now we, this was, that was our first Halloween movie this year. Yeah. We call it Halloping. Do you have an opinion of killer clowns from outer space? It's a fun movie.

It's definitely, like, an atmosphere movie to me. Sure. I get requests to do an episode on it from time to time, and whenever I watch it, there's just, like, not really a lot of lore to talk about and analyze. What I mean? Like, I love the imagination behind it and the look of it. of the clowns and stuff. Yeah.

It was one of my favorite Halloween Horror Nights mazes a few years ago when they did that. Oh, they did it before? Yeah, just being in the same room with them. Like, the clowns just feel like so big and alien. I'm going on Friday. Okay. I've never been. I don't do well in haunted houses.

This is Universal Studios big Halloween haunt and they have mazes and they're all themed to movies and stuff like that. Yes. One of our friends who, legend from mythical David Hill. Oh, yeah. He is a performer in the. The W.W.E. House. No way.

That was a strange one. Yeah. He's a... It's just a wrestling haunted house? Yeah. He's something rabbit. I can't remember the name of the character. But I'm going with another friend of the podcast, Michaela.

She's going with me, and she will laugh at me. She will not help me. I'm going to be very scared. I don't do well. I love horror movies. I don't want to live in a horror movie. That's the deal. And I also hit a man with a brush the last time I was in a haunted.

And I got kicked out. It happens all the time. You can find videos of people jumping on the scare actors. Well, no, it's not that I'm jumping. It's just if you jump out at me, my fight or flight will turn into fight. And I don't mean for it to, but I just had a brush in my hand. Yeah. One of my favorite viral videos is it's like an interview happening at a school or something.

It's supposed to be a scare prank. They've got a guy hiding in the nearby trash bin. Oh, yeah. And he's, you know, the guy just asked an interview question like, oh, what do you want to be for Halloween? And then when he answers, the guy pops out of the trash bin and screams and tries to scare him. And the interviewee, his first inclination was to just, like, sock the guy in the face. And he just falls back into the trash. Viral video classic.

Yeah. Oh, my God. Do you have a favorite, favorite, like, haunted experience? Do you have a favorite, like, haunted house or a maze or anything? You did a shit ton of them. Last year, I did a video where we went to every haunt in Southern California. Wow. So it was my most ambitious video I've done.

so it was 22 haunts in general or it was 22 haunts overall but there's also more than that because like you know Halloween horror nights has 10 knots has 10 sure um six flags has 10 my favorite one overall in the trip was this one in san diego called haunted trail of belboa park okay it's basically like a bunch of mini themed areas and they also have this thing called the experiment maze where they just kind of because most mazes you know there's they call it a maze but it's a set path that you go through and they want to maximize capacity. and everything. But in this, it's just like there's a brick room with a strobe light and they let everybody run around in there and there's scare actors going around and you literally

can't find your way out. Oh, God. It's just chaos. Okay, David Hill is rambling rabbit. Ramblin rabbit. So if you go to Hollywood Horror Nights, you know, say hi. Don't know with the brush.

I'm scared. I plan to only go in that house or whatever. I don't think I can do any other ones. I know that as you move through like the park, it's also people popping out. But I don't think I can do it. I'm going back on Thursday.

Cool. The WWE one was interesting because it's like, yeah, the costumes are cool and stuff. But I don't, you know, I'm not a WWE guy. I don't know anything about the lore. Yeah. So I had no idea what I was experiencing when I went through that. I was like, okay, that's a strange one. It was like an Ernest scared stupid for you.

It was. What's any of this? So yeah, Ernest, they've, they've, Find a treehouse for the kids, but that's where the troll is buried, and he comes to life and starts grabbing neighborhood kids and turning them into little wooden dolls. Which, is there some kind of troll lore about turning kids to wood? I don't know. It seems very Scandinavian to me. Oh, that's very true.

But I was like thinking about so they don't eat the kids. He's harvesting these kids in wooden statues. and somehow that nourishes the trolls, the children. So he shoves the child dolls into a slot in the tree, which makes them grow these slime bulbs. It looks like those 3D-printed uniclo things that they did for a little while. Remember the people that you could get yourself 3D printed as a little figurine? That sounds adorable and haunted.

It took some of your soul. Yeah. Wow. But yeah, it was like how is this nourishing the pods? that birth the trolls, I guess I'm overthinking it. You know what? Yes, yes. I know any time where I'm like, how does this?

I'm like, never mind. Whatever. I love asking about like how during an earnest movie of all the movies to ask. No, you just go with it, dude. He's just having an episode. Yeah. That's true. But it just feels like a very, there's a lot of love that went into this movie.

So it feels like maybe there was some thought in this and maybe there is some like folklore into trolls that I just. don't know about um yeah and as as as you know as we mentioned these are the you know a lot of these characters are you know from the same shop as killer clowns and all the practical stuff in this looks awesome it's a real set ass movie and a real puppet ass movie and in a really fun way and yes things are a little janky and a little cheesy sometimes that's part of the charm yeah and the troll is always covered in boogers guys so much not for days i was kind of amazed at like how long the trolls on screen because usually when you have

like a good looking prosthetic like that it's like all right we're going to try to get all these shots done in a day or two but there's a good amount of screen time for the trolls. You see that troll? He evolves at one point yeah that looks really cool. But he also has like two noses on his face that go on either side in the nose section that was pretty rad. I thought that was cool design. So Ernest decides he's going to catch the troll

and this leads to a bunch of shenanigans. The thing my favorite part of the movie. So Ernest is setting a giant bear trap. There's a couple giant props in this movie. I always like a giant prop. Yep. Always funny. He's sitting a giant bear trap. And to bait the trap, he has had his dog rim shot. He's like, I'm going to dress you up like a

delicious little kid. And he dresses the dog up like a Boy Scout in a little tent. And I'm like, not only did he dress the dog up like a Boy Scout, but he got him a little tent. I love it. Anyway, I love the giant bear trap too. So yeah, a lot of fun stuff. that. I believe he gets caught in the bear trap as well. He does. Well, that Ernest. If he's setting a bear trap, it's not going to go his plan. He's got a few traps that he gets caught in, and every time I'm like he has to have broken a bone. Yeah, or broken a nose. He's got two.

He does get smacked by a truck car door at one point. Oh, the troll does, yeah. I've fucking died. I loved that a lot. So yeah, the, but this isn't working. Ernest can't capture, capture this troll's running around grabbing kids turning them into wood sticking them in the tree there's a big Halloween party in the middle of town there's a mom and a kid who are fighting the mom has a pizza hat I think this is the worst hat yeah I got more things where that came from Zach there it is I just love Zach experiencing this because it's such what I got more things where that came from Zach We have one of Eddie Redmayne yelling.

Yes, we do. Remember Eddie Redmayne? Do it, do it, do it. I can't find it. There's too many of them. Anyway. Also, if you want to guess about who's the tallest person in the movie, we have one for that. Oh, yeah, I think it's Jim Barney.

Jim Barney's a tall drink of water. Is he a tall guy? He's maybe one of the, maybe one of the, oh, you know who I think is the tallest guy in the movie? They torment, the kids torment a guy in a convenience store, and they still milk from him later. I think he's the tallest person in the movie. Yeah, Jim Barney's six one. Oh, he's the tallest guy. You mean he's the tallest guy.

There you go. It's a good show. It's a good podcast. It's not the troll. Not the trot. Definitely not. Not rim shot. It's not any of the kids.

Okay, there's a very spooky. When I saw this as a kid, it spooked me out. I'm sure, yeah. But the one about how when the troll turns a child into the wooden doll, he can mimic their voice. Very creepy. Ugh. That was so, and he's just like, he is taunting characters with the voices of the children, and it's really, I hated it. It freaked me out.

The best jump scare for me, though, is the little girl, a little blonde girl who wants to look under the bed for the troll, looks under the bed, gets up, turns over, and the troll's in the bed with her. Pretty good, pretty good. See, I thought it was going to be that, like, the teddy bear that she was holding turned into the troll. That would have been good, too. Because, yeah, they show you that bear a couple of times. So I think that's a pretty good, like, horror movie fakeouts. It was. There's some good fakeouts in the movie, and I was really scared as a kid.

I think the practical effects on our main troll are pretty gnarly. They look cool. Yeah. Yeah, they're cool. So, yeah, that, so Ernest, he can't kill this troll. It's attack in the town. But Eartha Kitt has a magic scroll where they have, it's clearly written, killed them with milk, and he thinks it's whatever that other thing is.

Meek. Meek. I googled it. Thank you. Yeah. Just for the movie? It's just made up. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's going to leave. He does find some. He does find a jar of something that he shakes at the troll. I bet you didn't think I could get it. any this time of year. He says, very funny. This is good. Anyway,

so that's going to lead to the final showdown with the trolls, and we're going to talk about it right after this. We're back. It's free with ads. We're here with Zach from CZ's world. We're talking about earnest, scared, stupid. Now I know why it's called Free With Ads. Yes. Oh, you didn't. Oh. You didn't know before? Well, now I can be sure. Yeah, no, I've had people do that. Oh, no ad went there, by the way. No company will sponsor this show. We've tried to do that. Not yet. We're trying to get there.

It's a commercial for another podcast. Yeah, we are currently just free. It's just free. But the moment. Movies are free with ads, except for sometimes they're on library apps, which don't have ads. We're extending into the world of library apps. And also, big news, Canopy recently. Followed us. Thank you, Canopy.

We love your free library movie. We'll do an ad for you that you can't show to kids. Yeah. Every movie is free with ads if you know where to look. That's right. That's true, but we try to do it on the up and up, if you know what I mean. Anyway, so these trolls, They're attacking the town.

The kids figure out the milk thing and they go on this little milk getting rampage where the tall convenience store guy chases them around. By the way, you could see the purity logo on it. I didn't know that. And so that was an actual product that Ernest did a commercial for.

He did purity ice cream ads a lot. That was like the first purity thing that he did because kids really liked him. So he would do these ads. Yeah, look at that. An ad within the movie. And boy, you can, exactly. You can watch there are great compilations

of Ernest commercials. Oh, they're so good. And bloopers from them. They're really good. And do those fit into the Ernest Timeline canon? Right. I hope so. I did do.

Yeah, where does the Chevy commercial go? Is it before or after he joins the NBA? Oh, yeah. He did the basketball one. There's a slam dunk. Slam dunk Ernest. Yeah, I should do that. I should watch that.

Ernest also went to Africa. I do not want to watch that one. I think maybe we'll skip that. If we do an earnest rewatch, maybe we skip her. Yeah, Ernest goes back to school. There's one of those. Maybe a very Ernest Hanukkah we won't watch. Yeah, so, like, he kind of,

Disney kind of released him from his contract at one point. Yes, I think after this one. Was it? Yeah. This is a Touchstone movie, which is a Disney label. Yeah, but after this, he kind of, the guy who created Ernest with Ernest, like they went on to do independently made Ernest movies.

But he was still doing Pixar stuff, so he still did Slinky and all that stuff. So he was still doing things just not earnestly. Is Jed Clampett in the Beverly Hillbillies movie? He was. A wonderful career. Anyway, so we found out that Milk kills the trolls. The tree has sprouted all of the slime globules, and these all turn into a bunch of funny trolls.

They're all really cool. They all have little weapons. And they are the killer clowns from outer space. Most of them are the killer clowns from outer space. But they're brown and dirty. And they have axes. I like how the trolls come out of the pods just with their weapons. been ready.

Yeah. I was born with this. Dude, that, like, dagger thing that the big bad troll had where he was like stabbing it through the truck, I was like, cool, dagger. Very cool. He just had that in the tree. Yeah, I know all the trolls just kind of have a weapon that they have sometimes and not other times.

Ooh, I wonder if there's action figures. Oh, there is. There's got to be, right? Yeah, yeah. Really? Yeah. Todd McFarlane's got to have made these little guys, right? I mean, probably, but I saw an earnest action figure with the main troll.

whatever his name is. Check it out. The action figures are just like the killer clown action figures but they don't have some brown paint. They're just carved out of wood. Carved out of wood. You can paint them different.

They can either be killer clowns from outer space or killer trolls from inner space. So the kids use, they throw milk on the trolls and they melt into a bunch of slime. It's pretty funny. Yeah.

And then we had the last troll like evolves. The big bad, yeah. He like summons demons. And then he becomes, He just gets grosser, right? He has little tentacles that come out of his face. What else do we got on him? Yeah, it's bigger claws.

Bigger claws, slimy claws. And then the wiggly... He looks like he has come on him. Yeah, the wiggly things out of his hair. The way they moved and stuff was really fun. I loved that. I don't know if it made him stronger. I don't know.

He just seemed stronger. Well, now he's immune to milk. That's what it is. Oh, that would be great video game. It'd be like if you were Mario and you got the little upies. I don't play video games. Immune to milk. So Ernest learns that the other thing that kills trolls,

in addition to milk, get this, unconditional love. So he grabs the troll. The heart of a child. A heart of a child. He starts dancing with the troll. This is very funny. And then the troll just blows up. Well, he kisses him.

Oh, that's right, he kisses him. It's so gross. It's really gross. Yeah, that's funny. Troll's gross. And then all the kids come back to life. And he has the slime on his face for the entire rest of the movie. He does, yes.

They are not afraid of a snot gag in this. And all the acting in this is pretty, like, broad and sketchy, except for the woman who plays Kenny's mom. She is fucking acting. I look at her. I'm like, I believe you think your son was dead. I noticed that. Yeah, right?

Just this one person acting in this movie where no one else is. I'm pretty sure that is an actress who is also from the earnest television, like, sketched. Is she? Yeah. There's some actors who. made appearances, like the two old guys that always have a scheme at the hardwood store and they're like selling you,

oh yeah, I got troll spray. Yeah, I got all this stuff. We passed them up. They like scammer and say that they have all these troll repellent products. Which is fun because I was... They have the logos on them too. Yeah, I was thinking about how so many movies we watch

that are like horror kind of campy horror, like killer clowns. There's the two dufous dudes who drive the ice cream truck. And then this is like the two dufuses who were just selling crazy stuff. stuff and then like bulk and skull Power Rangers. It feels like the two dude like duo thing is like a big thing

in like I don't know 90s stuff. We love two idiots. Yeah. Oh, Jay and Silent Bob. Oh, the two guys from Hocus Pocus. Beavis and Budhead. I mean, need we list more dumb duos? Bill and Ted. Well, I mean, but they're not the main people. They're like the sidekicks. Like the two dudes in hocus pocus that they're kind of, they steal

the shoes and everything. Anyway, so, Ernest. Yes, they've blown up the troll. We forgot to mention this, but uh rim shot the dog i'm catching myself say he's he good job thank you haven't said it yet took you a while i mean i said i said i was going to say rim shot um um um come dog come fuck penis dog fuck shit eat my ass doggy oh man huh know what i mean verne peanut butter on my dick burn oh fuck uh anyway so the dog got turned into the thing and then it comes

back to life because he killed the troll and that's one of the most and the kids from the past and the yes all the villager kids come back the non-descript time period earth the kit uh it says hi to her kid sister who is now born again in this time yep so therefore you actually can date the movie based on the fact that earth a kid is what we'll call her 60 years old in this i think they're trying to make her look older than that oh are they yeah they're trying to age her up for sure. Okay, even if let's say she's 90. It's like, okay, so. I think they're trying to do that. From the early

1900s, yes. Okay. Yeah. There you go. Creating the earnest scared stupid timeline maybe a little more interesting than we thought initially. Yeah. Is it? Is it? You could? I don't know. I think it was post-Civil War pre-Titanic. Ah, gilded age.

Somewhere in there. Yeah. But in Missouri. No one here doesn't. Eric's Voss will. Call Eric Voss. He'll do it. Anyway. So, that's the end of Ernest Scared Stupid. We're going to talk about what we thought of the movie, but first, you know, we got to do the hunk watch. Oh, yeah, baby.

It's hunk watch. Zach, for you, we like to name a hunk of the movie. It could be someone you thought was fine, or it could just be, you know, someone you thought gave a great performance, a hunk, if you will. We'll start and we'll let you land the plane. I will give it to Earth a Kitt, who I think is so good. in this, but obviously, like, I was

obsessed with that 60s Batman show as a kid, and she is one of the prominent babes in my brain. When I think of a babe, I mean, it's a, it's a few people under the kit in the Catwoman outfit is one of them. Oh, my God, she's great. Also, her Christmas songs are the best Christmas songs. Oh, I haven't heard her Christmas songs. Yeah, her Santa Baby is amazing. I bet it's amazing.

There's, there's like, all of her music to me kind of feels like holiday isk. Like, it's, And it makes you feel like you're wearing a smoking jacket. I was going to say, is her Santa Baby the original? I don't know if that's the original. It's not the original, but I think it is one of the most prominent ones. Yeah.

But her, I want to be evil. I want to be evil is so good. Best Eartha Kit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's a killer. She's so amazing. Matt, any thoughts on the hunks of the film? It's got to be Earth a Kit just because, I mean, she,

because the other choice is either the troll. Trantor. Oh, yes, Trantor. We didn't say his name. That's his name? I guess. Yeah, I just looked it up. I didn't know he had a name. Yeah. Or Ernest. You know what? I'm going to go with Ernest. I'll give it to Rimjob. I could give it to RIMJab. Shit. Good old Rimjob the dog. I'm giving it to Ernest because, again, I know, you know, we've had differences on whether or not he got his due. I don't think he has ever gotten his due.

No. Jim Varney is a legend and deserves to be. He needs a statue somewhere. I bet he's got one somewhere. There's probably an Ernest statue somewhere, but there needs to be a Jim Barney's there. He does have a big portrait at the comedy store. He does.

He does. And that's cool. But yeah. I'm giving it to Ernest. Emily, any thoughts on the matter? I'm giving it to the Fire and Brimstone Ernest. Okay. With the gray mutton chops and the, hi-o.

He can, you know, send me to hell. Sure. Easily out. You like a traditional earnest. Well, I want one that'll tell. me, I'm bad. Right, yes, shame. Burn me of the steak, daddy.

Yeah, exactly, that one. Shame, Vern. Zach, what about you? A hunk of the film? My first thought was the woman, like the mom of that one kid who is totally acting circles around everybody. Because she kind of reminded me of like almost a proto, Chris R from the room, like the one person in the room who takes it seriously.

Great, great analogy. But after thinking about it more, I think I have to give it to a rim shot. Yeah. There we go. You want five minutes? You want five minutes, Danny? Well, I haven't got five fucking minutes, Denny. That's like one of the greatest lines in bad movie history.

Chris R, shout out to you wherever you are. Yeah. Yeah, Rimshot can drive. A loyal friend. Can survive a troll. A hunk, indeed. There we go. And looks great, dressed up as a little kid. He does.

He does. Hey, who doesn't love a little boy scout outfit? Shit. I'm keeping that in. No. Keep it in. Jack up the ball. I'm going to double it.

Doubled it. Anyway, that's the hunks. We're going to rank the movie on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials when we come back. We're back. It's free with ads. We're here with Zach from CZ's World, the wonderful YouTube channel. We are going to rank Ernest Scared Stupid on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials. But first, we want to remind you to go to maximum fun.org slash join. There's still a little bit of spooky season left. You can listen to our bonus episode about the pilot of the Twilight Zone to get you in the mood. Or you can listen to our new bonus episode about the 19. 80s pride and prejudice. Our third pride and prejudice. Yes, we are ranking all of the available free pride and prejudices and we are doing a Mr. Darcy tier list.

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Zach, you're a guest. Go first. You didn't know who Ernest was. You'd never been scared stupid in your entire life. What did you think of this movie, 1 to 10? Yeah, I mean, that basically ties into what my takeaway from it was. I feel like it would be an amazing nostalgia movie if I had seen it when I was a kid. But because this was my first experience with it,

I didn't have any of that nostalgia. So I'm the type of person that logs everything that I see on letterboxed. Oh, nice. Oh, no. So you said one to ten, right? Yes, one to ten. So if I adjusted for that scale, my rating would have been four out of ten. Okay, that's not as bad as I thought it would be.

Yeah. Follows back on letterbox, too, I guess. I was a little nervous, like, halfway through watching it because I'm getting pretty close to my 1,000th watch on Letterbox. And I was like, oh, no. I hope I didn't make this number 1,000 on accident I want it to be Air Bud I want it to be Free Willy 3 I love that we took up a space

That's so funny Like people are worried about you Like what's the one with Zach? Now this we are lore We are all lore together now We're all lore, aren't we though Yes I will go first As maybe the person who has had

The second least earnest experience I like this movie I had a lot of fun watching it I think that, like, if you aren't nostalgic for it, maybe a use case for it is, I think it would be fun to watch with kids. I do think kids would like this movie. I think a modern kid would dig it and find Ernest Funny. So, yeah, I'm going to give this a Halloween six to watch with kids.

I think it still would be a total blast. And, yeah, and if obviously you were a Jim Varney fan from when you were a kid, I'm sure there's, like, a ton of stuff you'll love in this. Matt, what about you? I'm going to give this a solid seven. I really enjoyed this movie upon rewatch. I think what I enjoyed more than anything was just Jim Barney doing whatever he does.

He's like, you know, a lot of comedic actors got their, you know, whatever vehicle there was for them to, like, play multiple characters. You have your Eddie Murphy's or not. Or, you know, Martin Lawrence's. You really can't watch any earnest movie without being like, damn, this guy could literally do anything. Yeah.

And him just having this one character It's kind of a crime against humanity So I loved it, seven Well, it's not just one character, is it? It's a lot of them Well, that's what I mean. It's like it was the vehicle for which... But the old woman with the neck brace

Never took off in the same way. We never got to see old woman With the neck brace Finds the Pirate Treasure. Right, you know, yeah, she never went to jail. She never went to jail? So she actually... Never saved Christmas.

There are compilations of that character. Are there? Yeah. And she is in jail. at one point, too, because it's earnest. But, yeah, everything kind of had to be funneled through earnest, whereas, like, you know, other actors got to do other, you know, movie franchises. Anyways, I'm just nostalgic for him, and I love him, and, yeah, seven.

I'd like to point out that at one point, Ernest abducts two kids inside of a trash dumpster, and he never goes to jail either. That's okay. He already goes to jail. He already went to jail. In a different movie. Exactly. And then he got out of jail because he said.

saved Christmas and then they pardoned him because he saved Christmas and then he got scared Oh, I need to watch the Christmas one. Yeah, he almost went back to jail, but then he escaped to Africa and we're not going to talk about it. Maybe that is a non-canonical entry. We don't know whether or not it's as bad as it sounds. We don't know. We're not, we won't

will never know. Okay, so we're going to let Ace Ventura when nature calls like slide. Everybody will watch that one. No. Not Ernest goes to Africa. Let's not watch either Ace Ventura movie. Yeah, that's true. Both of them are bad. Both are bad. But he comes out of a rhino butthole. That's true.

Listen, not everything in the movie is bad. Yeah, that's true. Most stuff. Anyway, Emily, we haven't even said this yet. You're dressed like Ernest. I am. You are doing the podcast dressed as Ernest. I think I kind of know where you're going to go on this, but I would love to hear what you thought of this.

Okay. Well, first of all, I just have such a soft spot for him just because of like the unlikeliness of this character becoming like a star like a Disney star and just how cool it is. He's a huge hero of mine. I think this movie, I haven't watched all of the movies

but I think this is the one that looks the coolest and it was so ambitious. I mean, I think it scared the crap out of me as a kid and watching it now. It's just so joyful and I love the effects and I love him. I don't feel like anyone commits to stuff like this.

I think his commitment to this character is even more effective than any Jim Carrey thing I've watched. I think it's just he's so, like his whole body is in it, his face, everything, and it's not cringy to me. I feel like he's so... He's better than Jim Carrey. I think he's so charming and authentic, and I just enhance him, and I love him.

So I'm going to give it an 8.5. For what it is, for a movie that is like a kid's movie for Halloween, I think move over Hocus Pocus. This is my movie. So having grown up with it, are you able to explain some of the jokes that might have gone over my head?

Maybe, which ones? Well, not me, Ack. We can't do that. I didn't know what that was going on. There was one that stuck out to me where those salesmen are selling him all of the anti-troll stuff

and then they sell him like an album or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The top troll love songs. Yes. Here's what I think that joke was. because it's baffling. I think they are just selling him crap

that you would have bought off TV. And I think there were like late night commercials for like compilations of love songs. Yes. Also, they're kind of, you know, attached to the CMT lore, like country music television and stuff and there would be, you know, late night, buy the Johnny Cash compilation.

Right, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, so it's just kind of hawking, like, garbage. Yeah. And like. Crap that you would get from an infomer. I think. Yeah, or Cracker Barrel.

There's like whole, my dad's on a Cracker Barrel. Good for him. Oh, yeah? Yeah, they have like a, it's like 10 songs, like done just for Cracker Barrel with like all these different bands. Like the restaurant? Yeah. But there's, so there's stuff like that, but I feel like they just have this hardware store and they'll kind of hawk whatever. They're just shiasty.

But yeah. That makes sense because it felt like it was referencing something specific. Yeah, I didn't know what it was. I think they're, those guys are also like characters on the show and stuff. Did you not grow up with the TV infomercials trying to sell you albums? Yeah, I mean, I remember, like, kids' bop and now 35 or whatever. Yeah. What about pure moods?

I think he's too young. I think he's too young to that. Do you remember the song, It's a return to innocent. Hey, oh, yeah. That was so perfect that we're going to have to do copyright stuff. Yeah, I know. We're not going to get sued. Don't sue us Enya

Or whoever Probably Enya I dream of rain I dream of rain Oh yeah Oh you gotta find that sting But yeah There's a lot of

infomercials at night Trying to sell us crap That was fun But I think those two guys Are characters That are on the TV show And they appear in I guess other movies

But the The larger gentleman Who talks The other one's kind of quiet He in the TV show is like a radio, like, guy who's like, hey, join me on this radio? I got this, little, da, blah, so he's kind of that character.

Zach, now that every single thing in Ernest Scared Stupid makes sense. We've done it. We've tied up every loose end. None of it doesn't make sense anymore. No, there's one loose end. Oh, what's the loose end? It's Enigma, not Enya.

Thank you. Oh, fuck. I'm sorry, Enya. Yeah. Don't cancel our plans. I dream of rain. I dream of rain. All right.

Is he going to do a remix? No, I'm just going to play the song. You better do the Godzilla Roar. All right. I'll do it. Hang on. Ooh, very soothing. Even if people know it's coming, they're going to like it.

Yeah. I love this song. Anyway. That song slaps. I don't care what anyone says. Shows become impenetrable to someone who's never heard it. Just like an earnest movie. Just like an earnest movie.

Just like an Ernest movie. Zach, thank you so much for being here and having Ernest explained to you perfectly. You do an amazing YouTube show where you deep dive into all the greatest horror movies. Tell us about any recent favorites and anything else you want to plug. Recent favorites and horror?

Yeah, or videos that you've made. Do you think people can check out? We brought it up recently, but Weapons has been my favorite this year. Yes. Me too. In terms of new projects to plug, I do have a new channel that I just launched last month

called Pumpkin Metal. Okay. Instead of doing horror history on that one, I do pop punk and metal band history. Hey. What bands have you done so far? Ice Nine kills, falling in reverse, boys like girls,

Fallout Boy, which is like a massive two-hour episode. Yay! And I also did a fictional one on Jack Black's character from School of Rock. Okay. Hot damn. I'm subscribed now. This is very cool.

Probably by the time this comes out, I'll also have released my system of a down episode. Yes. That's my favorite band. Oh, yeah. And so, yeah, CZ's World on YouTube. There's also merch, pick up some merch. Emily, you got anything?

No. Okay. Matt, got anything? Oh, you know it, motherfucker. Don't call me names. I'm sorry. Ask you for a plug. That was nice of me.

All right, everyone. If you are a motherfucker, and you want to go see some stand-up comedy, So stand-up fucking comedy? Yes. You should come out to see some stand-up fucking comedy. I don't know. That's part of your lore.

You can't do it standing up. I can do it standing up. You just can't come. You just can't come. I can only come standing up. Oh, that's what it was. Okay. I have to have straight knees.

November 1st, that's a Saturday. I will be at the Ice House for a show called New World Disorder. Come out to that, please. Okay. As of this release, you can go to a comic book store. store right now and get Predator, Black, White, and Blood, number four, a Predator comic book anthology with a story from yours truly, go pick it up. It turned out so cool.

If you do grab it, post a pick, tag me in the pick. I'd love to see people with their copies of Predator, Black, White, and Blood, number four. And while you're at that local comic book store, pre-order your copy of Venom 252 coming out December 3rd. That has a backup story from me about an all-new alternate universe. Venom. Backup stories. They are sometimes, they're at the end of the comic. They finish the comic. But this particular backup story could be the beginning of something. I don't know. Maybe it's starting something. It's ending something, but it also could be beginning something. So you're

going to want to pick up Venom 252 coming out December 3rd. And if you're in the LA area, November 8th, I will be at the Burbank Book Festival and at Revenge of Comics and Pinball for their comic creator block party. I hope to see you at those events. Okay. Tune in next week when our movie will be the First Wives Club. Thank you.