I'm new here, and want to answer an old post about "Ernest Goes To Jail."

As mentioned a while back, when he's about to go into the electric chair, they
ask him, "Any last requests? Last cigarette, perhaps?" or something like that,
and he says something like, "Cigarettes'll kill ya!"

Now, Jim Varney never had a picture taken of him while smoking, because he
didn't want his fans to think it was OK to smoke. However, there are two good
reasons why we can still laugh at this line in the movie:

1. In the film, Ernest is about to go in the electric chair. The whole idea
behind the joke is this: What does he care if he has a cigarette before he gets
the chair? He's getting the chair! LOL So it's a great part.

2. While it is very sad we lost Mr. Varney at such a young age, there is one
thing he has that the rest of us don't:

All of us must go sometime, but even though Jim's gone 3 years this February
coming up, his movies are here to stay, (the Ernest Goes To Jail DVD was just
released in 2 months ago!) and let me tell you, I watch "Ernest Saves Christmas"
and "Ernest Scared Stupid" every Christmas and Halloween respectively, "Ernest
Goes To Camp" every summer, (and I'm always on the lookout for his other movies
that weren't Ernest, of course!) and he can still make my family, friends and
myself laugh any time we see him in those. And he can still make us laugh when
we see "Ernest Goes To Jail," almost through the whole thing! That's a lot!

Thank you, Jim Varney.



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