Ernest Goes to Jail

Ernest Goes to Jail1990

Director: John R. Cherry III
Stars: Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Bill Byrge, Barbara Tyson, Barry Scott
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 81 minutes

Ernest Goes to Jail is a 1990 American comedy film directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney. It is the fourth film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell. It was shot in Nashville and Tennessee State Penitentiary. This is the secon… more »



Auntie Nelda:
The way they run this institution is an outrage, for a poor, tired, old lonely woman like me. Her only son, a felon, though not a terribly successful one. Young man? Young man?

[The gate guard comes out]

Auntie Nelda:
Young man, would you please open that gate? I left my car running outside.

Gate Guard:
Ma'am, you tell me how you got through this gate? The visitors exit on the other side of the prison.

Auntie Nelda:
I brought him up as best I could, but sometimes a bad seed falls from even the most fragile flower.

Gate Guard:
Ma'am, you're not going through this gate.

Auntie Nelda:
Is this the way you treat your mother? Is this the kind of abuse that poor woman must endure?

Gate Guard:
Well, I guess that my mother is a little bit mad at...

Auntie Nelda:
Mmm-hmm! You ought to be in the slammer with the rest of these misfits. If you had any remorse at all for the horror you push your own mother through, you'd open that gate. I have a car overheating as we speak.

[Ernest (as Auntie Nelda) makes a snooty expression at the gate guard]

Gate Guard:
Okay, okay.

[Picks up phone]

Gate Guard:
All right! Let's open the east gate.

[Hangs up phone]

Gate Guard:
There! Now you satisfied?

Auntie Nelda:
I'll tell your mother how her son has improved despite his shaded and somewhat checkered past.

[Prison balls tied to a chain fall out of Ernest's disguise]

Auntie Nelda:
[Lying about the prison balls] The doctor told me I'd only have to wear these until after the surgery.

[Guard nods sarcastically and takes Ernest away]

[Note:
One person mentioned isn't a separate character; instead, it's a role played by a character. "Auntie Nelda" refers to Ernest dressed up as an elderly woman to try and fool the gate guard.]

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