“Ernest Saves Christmas” quotes

(1988)
Movie Ernest Saves Christmas
Title Ernest Saves Christmas
Year 1988
Director John R. Cherry III
Genre Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Plot – Santa Claus has more than a hundred years of honorable business and now he wants to retire. The old man tries to convince the host of a TV program to take his position, but the man refuses. A spring director of a museum will convince him to do it.
All actors – Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker, Gailard Sartain, Billie Bird, Bill Byrge, Robert Lesser, Key Howard, Jack Swanson, Buddy Douglas, Patty Maloney
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  • “Santa's in the slammer! We gotta get him out! Is vagrancy a capital crime?”
    Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell
  • Smell those Christmas trees. You can keep your "Chanel Number 5", just give me a whiff of the old lonesome pine. That symbol of brotherly love, that centerpiece that all mankind gathers around to share the cranberry sauce shaped like a can.
    Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell
    [Tag:christmas, love]
  • “- Santa: I don't think I've quite got the magic for another trip.
    - Businessman: That's how I feel every time they send me to Pittsburgh.”

    Douglas Seale - Santa
    Jack Swanson - Businessman
    [Tag:magic, traveling]
  • “You see that guy back there? That's my mean uncle, he makes me work in his restaurant like a slave, he keeps me in the basement where there's rats and filth,and I finally just escaped, so please don't let him get me!”

    Noelle Parker - Harmony
    [Tag:escape, leaving]
  • “- Ernest P. Worell: Vern throws the greatest Christmas parties, of course we're a little early so we can help him decorate and set up the food. Maybe he'll have finger sandwiches and cheese balls and bean dip!
    - Harmony: Well I hope he's got something I can eat and not just a lot of white sugar and red meat. You know I think red meat makes...” (continue)
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    Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell
    Noelle Parker - Harmony
  • “- Harmony: Don't say that to her! There is too a Santa, and this is his magic sack!
    - Lacy: If that's Santa's sack, why do you have it?”

    Noelle Parker - Harmony
    Phran Gauci - Lacy
  • “Christmas is just about my favorite time. Ever since I was a little kid, I always felt like it was my own personal holiday.”
    Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell
  • Trust people. It pays off more often that you think.”

    Douglas Seale - Santa
    [Tag:people, trust]
  • “- Harmony Star: There's no such thing! Think about it: a guy who flies around the whole world in one night. It just doesn't quite correspond to the laws of time and travel.
    - Ernest P. Worell: Now, now, now, now, now, it's possible. You take the International Date Line, multiply it by the Time Zones, divided by the accelerated rotation of the...” (continue)
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    Noelle Parker - Harmony
    Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell
  • - Harmony: Ernest, how did it go?
    - Ernest P. Worell: It worked great. Victory is at hand. Now we have to move onto what I like to call "plan b".

    Noelle Parker - Harmony
    Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell
    [Tag:planning, victory]
  • “Mister, it's not me, it's my brother. He does this to me all the time. He takes me out, and he says he's got the money, and then we eat, and he says he's gotta go to the bathroom and he sneaks out just before the check comes in! And I'm left there with no money and this stupid look on my face, but I swear it won't happen again, so just let me go...” (continue)(continue reading)

    Noelle Parker - Harmony
    [Tag:eating, money]
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