21 - Ernest Analogues, Part 1

Ernest Goes to Podcast

No one compares to Ernest! And yet, we spent so much time comparing Ernest's cultural counterparts that we need 2 episodes to do it. From the dawn of moving pictures to the 80s, part 1 stirs up a pot of Chaplin, Pee-wee, Bill and Ted, and loads more.

In this episode:

  • What is an Ernest Analogue?
  • Can’t we stop talking about Ernest? (No)
  • Charlie Chaplin’s timeless “the Tramp”
  • Daffy Duck and Duck Amuck
  • Ernest T. Bass - coincidence?!
  • Jim Varney almost played Stan Laurel in The New Adventures of Laurel and Hardy
  • Rocky Balboa
  • James Bond
  • Inspector Clouseau 
  • Columbo, the Ernest who figured it out
  • Jim Henson, Muppets, and advertising
  • Joe Isuzu
  • Time to Make the Donuts- Fred the Dunkin’ Donuts Guy
  • Randy Savage is THE CREAM OF THE CROP
  • John Cena and the Cena Family ads
  • PeeWee Herman!
  • Bill and Ted, most excellent analogues
  • Doc Brown, the Ernest Scared Stupid Ernest of Hill Valley
  • Too many characters
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