So is Ernest still a big deal in certain parts of the country? When I drove through Arkansas I felt like I went 30 years into the past... They're gonna go nuts when they discover Larry the Cable Guy huh.

Needs "uncanny valley" tag?

I was going to say that it'd have been cheaper just to videotape it than have the intern do that 3D animation, but it sounds like Ernest's voice was literally phoned in, so ...

no Ernest I don't know what you mean

Pu-blic library! Let's stay here for awhile, Vern.

I hope Jim Varney's family gets some sort of residuals from this. Commercials starring his retrofitted animatronic corpse would've been less jarring.