 Welcome to today's edition of Tales from the VHS Vault. What are we drinking today, my friend? We are drinking the Resonator. It's a Bohemian-style pilsner. And it tastes and smells fucking great. Ha ha ha. If you want the recipe, click the link above our heads. What Christmas isn't complete without a little bit of Ernest. Ernest saves Christmas, particularly we are going to feature today. This one harks back to when we were kids. Of course. And I hope for a lot of you it has as well. I mean, it came out in, what, 88? It's one of my favorite Christmas movies. You have to watch Ernest saves Christmas at Christmas time. And I never actually owned it on VHS, but I had a bootleg that I had taped off of when I rented it. You have the two VCRs. Oh, you did that whole thing. And you made the copy. I just taped it off TV. What station did you tape it off to, remember? Channel 5 made it or something. Channel 5. Whatever that means. Yes. Oh, that was so long ago. From the start of the movie, when he's driving that poor bastard to the airport, and then he scares the guy stiff. Yeah. When he's trying to get the guy out of the cab at the airport, and he's all stiff, and he's hitting his hand against that. And then when he goes to pull out his luggage in the trunk, and he tears open. He tears his luggage, all the shreds, and all that canned food, and everything's OK. Why the guy would have canned food? I don't know, but oh, fuck. Oh, little tree. And then he like, yeah. They really bunch up at this exit. Know what I mean? He throws that Christmas tree through the window. And when he goes to Vern's house and starts destroying the poor Vern's house, ripping all that cabling out of the wall. Yeah. And then, ooh, party punch. Drinks right out of the bowl with his lips. And the Christmas tree all comes down on him while he's holding that whole bowl. Funny that we just covered Silent Night, Deadly Night. And the working title for that movie was A Christmas Slay. Yeah. That's hilarious. And it earn a save's Christmas. They're filming in the movie, a movie, a horror movie called A Christmas Slay. Yeah. Die, you son of a. Son of a. But what's one thing I liked about the movie, besides the fact it's funny as hell, the character of Ernest, how childish he is, really works with the Christmas theme. Yeah. Yeah, because it's innocent. It's this face that Christmas is for kids. Yeah. And it just works. Like, yeah, how innocent he is. It works with the whole Christmas theme. Yeah. Yeah, he's so optimistic, right? He's like, oh, everything will work out, you know? And no, this guy is Santa. You know, he's Santa Claus. He's saying that the whole movie. And it turns out that he's correct, right? I like that whole idea of passing the Santa Claus duty in the Santa Claus name to somebody else. Right, somebody younger. Yeah, I thought that was always a neat idea. And there's the moral to this movie, too, right? Which is really awesome. You know, that harmony star, she's like some kind of badass kid. And the more they go through the movie, the more she realizes what she's doing. And sort of comes to the realization that she's hurting other people, doing, acting like that. And it's great. It's a great moral, you know? And I like the idea that the current guy who's playing Santa has been doing it for so long. And again, when you watch movies about some people who live forever, they just want to die. It's kind of like that Santa. Like, he just like, OK, I've done this long enough. It's time to become mortal again. It's time to die, you know? Right, yeah. And done real good. Yeah, it's one of those movies that we quote often. I bought a snake for your boy. I bought one for my boy last year. You the snake guy? Yeah. All right, boys, dump them in. They dump all those snakes. They're real snakes, yeah. That's great. You've got to get them all. Roar! The sand is all scared. Oh, shit. When he puts his hands down on that griddle, I like lots and lots of butter with my eyes. Put that butter on this burned hand. I think it's one of those movies that, like, we had a phase where it wasn't even Christmas time. And we really got obsessed with this movie because we just found it so funny at the time. And then it became, after that, a Christmas movie. Yeah, because you see it so many times. It's like, OK, just watch it once a year and that's good enough, you know? Yeah. Rest in peace, Jim Varney. Yeah. Forever be remembered as that lovable, big kid, Ernest P. Whirl. Yeah, Christmas will never be the same without you. Hey!