Hey Vern, It's Ernest! is an American children's television program. It aired on Saturday mornings on CBS for one season in 1988. Each episode involved short sketches on a certain theme or scenario, featuring Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney), his unseen friend Vern, and various others. The filming locations were in Nashville, Tennessee, and Burbank, California. It was a production of Ernest creator John Cherry's production company, The Emshell Producers' Group, in association with CBS, and was co-produced with DIC Enterprises. The series was later rerun on The Family Channel in the early 1990s.

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Recurring sketches and characters

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Releases

Various episodes were released on home video in the late 1980s-early 1990s. DIC streamed several episodes for free viewing on their KEWL Cartoons website until KewlCartoons became Jaroo. Mill Creek Entertainment released a two-disc DVD set containing all thirteen episodes on January 18, 2011. This release has been discontinued and is out of print. Mill Creek later re-released the complete series set on DVD in February 2017. As of 2019, the complete series is available for streaming on Tubi.

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