I remember watching this when I was a kid. The only part I remembered in detail was him saying there wasn't a lot of oxygen at the top. I would have been 8 at the time. Ernest was huge and the hype for Splash Mountain was huge. This special made the ride look really scary, much more so than it actually is. Back in the days before the internet a special like this was a treat because there really was no other way for me to look up the details of what a new ride at Disneyland was like.
I don't ever remember this but this is cool anyways.....I remember they had a video or two similar to this concerning Barbies birthday and a dance video thing.
"Thats as tight as Italian hemp has been since the senseless and brutal hanging of Cole Younger's horse. " Ill never forget that line in a million years. lol the writers for earnest where on a whole nother level.
I'm from UK... but I defo remember seeing this on TV whilst over on holiday in Florida... might've been a rerun before the soft opening of the WDW version of Splash Mountain in 1992. 👍
I saw the ending for this special as a kid and it never re-aired. Thank you for uploading this for us Ernest fans. We need a new Erenest P Worrell in today's world.
Damn I miss the 80s!!!! We had the best times. Today crap sucks. Please take me back!!! Lol I would give anything (besides my kids) to be able to relive it all. I didn't really think to appreciate it then, but now I truly miss it within my soul and all the memories.
At 10:24, you can hear Bruce Gordon say "They're some of the favorites" after mentioning that the adorable characters from the movie, Song of the South are what leads this attraction. Even though Disney hasn't released Song of the South in the USA since its 1986 theatrical release, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear are still to this day some of the favorites and why Disney is making a big mistake erasing them and removing Splash Mountain.
I just went on this for the first time last month. I remember watching this when it first aired. I'd wanted to go on it since. It's real interesting to watch this now. I literally cringed when he casually had his feet up, and the fact there was no bar or whatever that came down. And now ernest has his own ride. Kind of cool.
@@davidwallgren7575why I don’t understand is why couldn’t just make an all new ride for tiana? If they wanted to retheme splash mountain They could’ve just made it tangled 🙄
Disney was proud of Song of the South in the 1980s. The movie was released twice in that decade, in 1980 and 1986 - just three years before the ride opened. My guess is that Disney hadn't planned on withholding the movie at the time they made the attraction.
Man, I was about to be mad as hell at that impatient interviewer clown at 10:00 before my stupid ass realised that she was meant to be doing that as the gag..
