Pee-Wee Herman vs Ernest

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

How the fuck are you idiots comparing Ernest or Pee Wee to Gomer pyle or full metal jacket? lol. Good lord.

LOL, I’m just trying to clarify Mick’s post as best I can, I’m not endorsing the comparison.

 

[IDGETKTFO]

LOL, I’m just trying to clarify Mick’s post as best I can, I’m not endorsing the comparison.

Mick should stay in his lane, and stay in the sports sub forum.

 

[koquerelle]

I listen to Fly on the Wall Podcast with David Spade and Dana Carvey sometimes. One of the times John Lovitz was on they talked about that.

If you really want your mind blown, look up the album covers that Phil Hartman designed.

I just did. That is so cool.

 

[Sobek]

Didn't watch either but peewee was a

 

[The_Renaissance]

Loved Ernest Goes to Camp, easily my favourite movie as a kid. I did used to watch PeeWee's Playhouse on a Saturday morning actually, that brings back some nice nostalgia thinking about it.

 

[Other]

I just did. That is so cool.

Isn't that wild? I had no idea Phil Hartman was into art design like that.

 

[Bob Gray]

Big Adventure is by far the best thing out of eithers resume, and it's not even close. But Earnest had consistency in his side. Yeah, low brow and stupid but the formula never wavered. Funhouse was a great Saturday morning show, but the subsequent movies were pretty meh.

I'd probably give it to PW for cultural relevance and high points, but if you like Earnest, you'd basically like everything he ever did.

Side Note: Varney was actually a classically trained Shakespearean actor.

 

[ChickenBrother]

How the fuck are you idiots comparing Ernest or Pee Wee to Gomer pyle or full metal jacket? lol. Good lord.

Lol. I don't think either are comparable to Gomer Pyle and I voted Pee Wee because I think his character was more original and iconic. A guy I DO think is comparable is Blippi, who my kids liked when they were younger. That fucker is a blatant Pee Wee rip off and pretty much the same character in a slightly different but equally ridiculous outfit.

 

[Nameless Ghoul]

I'd have to watch some Ernest again (which I have zero interest in doing so), but as a kid his humor didn't connect with me like it did with my friends.

 

[Plissken]

Loved both. Ernest had the commercials and that a few specials movie before he got Ernest Goes to Camp and went big nationwide. PeeWee had the HBO special and the appearances in Cheech and Chong movies (Next Movie and Nice Dreams) before he got big nationwide (and the guest role in Back to the Beach afterwards). Both had tv shows, PeeWee's Playhouse went on longer than Hey Vern, It's Ernest. Ernest had four good movies (Camp, Christmas, Jail, and Scared Stupid) to PeeWee's one (Big Adventure) back in the day (Pee Wee got one last good movie in 2016, Big Top PeeWee though was a huge letdown).

So that's just comparing their careers. I think if you compare their best years of the 80's to 1991 they were pretty damn close but Ernest didn't have a disappointment like Big Top Pee Wee (it wasn't until Ernest Rides again in '93 that his movies started to get disappointing), so his movies/show didn't have the high highs that PeeWee did, but were more consistent.

I voted Ernest as I think he gets seriously underrated and Jim Varney deserved to be a much bigger star, he could have been like Robin Williams, he had the chops to do pretty much any type of movie role like Williams or John Candy, I was devastated when he passed away.

Anyway I'm going to drop this gem right here.

 

[Osculater]

Didn't watch either but peewee was a

Allegedly*

 

[Gene Tunney]

Loved both. Ernest had the commercials and that a few specials movie before he got Ernest Goes to Camp and went big nationwide. PeeWee had the HBO special and the appearances in Cheech and Chong movies (Next Movie and Nice Dreams) before he got big nationwide (and the guest role in Back to the Beach afterwards). Both had tv shows, PeeWee's Playhouse went on longer than Hey Vern, It's Ernest. Ernest had four good movies (Camp, Christmas, Jail, and Scared Stupid) to PeeWee's one (Big Adventure) back in the day (Pee Wee got one last good movie in 2016, Big Top PeeWee though was a huge letdown).

So that's just comparing their careers. I think if you compare their best years of the 80's to 1991 they were pretty damn close but Ernest didn't have a disappointment like Big Top Pee Wee (it wasn't until Ernest Rides again in '93 that his movies started to get disappointing), so his movies/show didn't have the high highs that PeeWee did, but were more consistent.

I voted Ernest as I think he gets seriously underrated and Jim Varney deserved to be a much bigger star, he could have been like Robin Williams, he had the chops to do pretty much any type of movie role like Williams or John Candy, I was devastated when he passed away.

Anyway I'm going to drop this gem right here.

A Christopher Guest type of film with Jim Varney and Robin Williams would have been so awesome.

 

[chill doggie]

Both weird and gay.

 

[italiamusica]

1000000% Ernest. I was born in '85 and I literally never watched Peewee, it was all about Ernest, and Toxic Avenger, and Ren and Stimpy.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Pee Wee. Honestly shouldnt be close. His show looked like it was broadcast from another dimension. Ernest was just what we all thought Muricans in those forgetten states sounded and looked like. Didnt really vibe to it, tbh.

 

[Madmick]

Peewee was such a goober. To me, he's like a kid's version of Gomer Pyle. I have never understood what in the hell the appeal of that character was to people in the 50's. One of the least funny schticks that ever got popular as far as I'm concerned.

Ernest was pretty great at times.

The 50's? When did you think this was, lol? That said, Ernest was way better. I litterally have every Ernest goes to and Ernest saves movie, because my son loves Ernest. If thats not proof of how much better Ernest is then Pee Wee, i dont know what is. My kid is 16 for reference.

Excuse me, the 60's. I thought that show's run was in the late 50's, but that was off.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.​

This doofus. I've never let out a single chuckle in any sequence of this show that I've caught. It's the least funny American show that was at one time a Top 10 most-watched show (I believe it was the #1 show in America at one time). Although I wasn't much of a fan of the Beverly Hillbillies, either. That's another show that whenever I've trying watching it, I wonder to myself, "What the hell did people see in this?"