Hop in the DeLorean, Vern! Erin and David travel back in time to join the Ernest Fan Club and explore its many offerings, including life-giving Ernest merchandise and the KnoWhutImean News.

In this extra:

• The Book of Knowledge and The Book of Knawledge
• The Ernest Fan Club Catalog! All the Ernest things!
• 60-dollar VHS tapes
• The KnoWhutImean News
• “True” stories
• Learn It or Burn It - Backyard BBQ with Ernest
• The Ernest fact sheet! With facts?
• Ernest’s wife, Edna P. Worrell
• Ernest answers his “fan” letters
• And other nonsense

Ever wonder what it’d be like if Ernest collected his years of expertise and in book form? Wonder no more, as we make our way through TWO tomes of wisdom from the Worrell inkwell: “It’s the Ernest P. Worrell Book of Knawledge” and “Ask Ernest.”

In this episode:

• Ask Ernest
• It’s the Ernest P. Worrell Book of Knawledge 
• The compiled wit and wisdom of Ernest
• Ernest’s puzzling author biography (he’s a registered nurse? ???)
• Fake History
• Fake Facts
• Real history? Real facts???
• The heyday of the Ernest fan club
• Never Get Poop on Your Shoes
• When books feel like pranks
• Go get David’s book! The LEGO Animation Book

More on "Win $10,000," classic Ernest Ads, and our road trip to Jim Varney Land in this extra.

In this extra:

• Making peace with “Win $10,000″
• The Ernest Film Festival (on YouTube)
• Ernest Ads on the Purity Website
• Our trip to Kentucky - the Jim Varney tour
• The Misadventures of Bubba (on YouTube)

For this Jim Varney edition, Erin and David are joined by special guest Justin Lloyd, nephew and biographer of the man behind the icon. This one's all about Jim Varney—DeLoreans, guns, jewelry, and more.

In this episode:

• Keepin’ the Varney legacy alive
• Justin on writing “The Importance of Being Ernest: The Life of Actor Jim Varney”
• The craziest resume the William Morris agency ever received
• Notorious DeLoreans: The eclectic interests of Jim Varney
• Slash, don’t stab - life lessons from Jim
• Jim Varney’s last interview with Nashville Scene
• Loads more

It's the counting contest that will put you in the padded party room! Erin and David revisit their ol' buddy Ad Ernest and his diabolical "Win $10,000" challenge.

In this episode:

• Win $10,000, the most infuriating contest ever concocted
• You have to count hundreds of Vern. Literally hundreds.
• Did anyone win this?
• Revisiting Ad Ernest
• Ad Ernest may, in fact, be Dr. Otto
• Christmas Ernest ads re-warm the heart
• The best Ernest ad outtakes
• Hey, Jim Varney is pretty great

This Dr. Otto extra poses tough questions: Is Ernest really a mad scientist with a hand growing out of his head? Are there any behind-the-scenes morsels we can gobble up? Is Jackie Welch the best? We'll ponder all of these and answer at least one!

In this extra:

• Behind-the-scenesy Dr. Otto morsels! Poster, script page, storyboard!
• “The plot is strange, and only mildly existing” - IMDB reviews of Dr. Otto!
• This unbelievably ‘80s Hawaiian Punch ad
• This passive-aggressive article about the making of Ernest ads!
• The lost Dr. Otto sequel
• The tendency to self-mythologize - Ernest the folk hero
• Why Lance Sterling lost that seat in the Senate
• The big question at HAND: Is Ernest actually Dr. Otto?

As we reach the bottom of the Ernest film well, Erin, David, and Jessica fall under Dr. Otto's spell. Come along if you dare, and try to tell: Is this '80s heaven, or '80s hell?

In this episode:

• (The answer is heaven, this movie is incredible)
• Ernest is in this, so we must discuss it
• Who (or what) is Dr. Otto von Schnick Ick Ick?
• Lance Sterling: the Upper Class Ernest?
• How to destroy the economy with a giant magnet
• The Changing Coffin
• This is essentially a horror movie
• Women with spatulas on their heads
• Robots
• Pirates
• Boy Scouts with guns
• Cannibal Auntie Nelda
• This is really all in the movie
• Who (or what) is Ernest????

Still coming to terms with the final Ernest movie. We investigate Ben-Ali's soap opera acting, puzzle over where Ernest's magnetic draw to the army fits into the Ernest multiverse, and have long delayed realizations about what KNOWHUTIMEAN™ means.

In this extra:

• Ernest’s protégé, Ben-Ali (Christo Davids), charmingly pitches a product while wearing a vest
• The African soap opera we might get mildly addicted to, 7de Laan
• When other characters say KNOWHUTIMEAN™ 
• Ernest…actually fits in? What?
• Is every Ernest an Army People at heart?
• We need to have an “Ernest and Love” discussion soon
• We are very excited about Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam. WATCH IT.

Ernest joins the Army Reserves, vomits gummies, teams up with two Bens, and fulfills his destiny as the Great American Warrior of prophecy in "Ernest in the Army". Join us as we hold back tears and salute our good buddy in his final film.

In this episode:

• Did we get the right movie???
• Ernest, hero of prophecy
• Ernest’s BFF Ben Kovsky - Hi, Mr. Director!
• So many Ernest Rides Again parellels
• “I was a camp counselor once” - The Ernest Multiverse
• Vomiting a Haribo nightmare
• Ben Ali - ‘90s grunge Aladdin and fabulous little actor
• Ernest’s aching loneliness
• Ernest’s disastrous kiss. And only kiss.
• We are sad, so very sad

Erin and David ride a golf cart deeper into the heart of Ernest Goes to Africa, as Ernest's late puberty is examined and the mysterious past of Ernest's other half—Rene—comes to heavenly light. Also: other things!

In this extra:

• Rene = Linda Kash = the Philadelphia Cream Cheese Angel!
• Philly Angel Ads: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
• Der Himmel über Ernest: Philly Angel and Ernest are meant to be
• Please write Ernest fanfiction
• The relentless abuse of Bazu
• Internet Textphone
• American dubbing
• Ernest as a Sexual Being
• Poor Ernest