Well, that's unfortunate--a not-good end to a trip down a particular rabbithole yesterday, and it all started with the 50+ Music account making a post about Neil Diamond's "If You Know What I Mean". I made a comment that the title was very similar to a song by The Turtles "You Know What I Mean" and then arrived at aforementioned rabbithole when I went looking for an image of Ernest P. Worrell saying his signature remark, "Know whut I mean?". The search brought up other intriguing content, primary of which was "The Legacy of Ernest" apparently written by his nephew.

Well, I read that whole page top to bottom and found that the main problem with it is that too much credit was given to the ad agency of Carden & Cherry without giving due credit to the script writer at this agency. Carden & Cherry knew promotion; they had writers to make the ad copy, and this one writer in particular also wrote "Ernest Saves Christmas" among others. I'm talking about #CokeSams in particular, whom I've called The Brains of Ernest. He was behind Ernest's "Book Of Knawledge".

Now, I've never claimed to have any personal contact with any of these people, but I was an early member of the #ErnestPWorrellFanClub and proud owner of a copy of the book. And I did casually meet Coke Sams at a film festival in Chicago. That's the total of it. But that's also why I know what I know about this subject. Varney's nephew wrote only about the ad agency, claiming that Toy Story 2 was Varney's last movie before he died and I happen to know different--there were TWO movies that were Varney's last and the other one was Coke Sams' movie "Existo". Tried to find it free online and there were zero results.

But it would have made a good awful movie to show for #Monsterdon--it was also a commentary about how awful conservatives are. Yes, that's the film I went to the Chicago film festival to see, and Coke Sams presented it in person. Not even he is sure if his film or Toy Story 2 was Varney's last, but he's sure it might have been a tie.