Fernwood 2Night Electric Car
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- The clip (which runs 3:40) has host Barth Gimble (Martin Mull) and his fractious sidekick Jerry Hubbard (Fred Willard) welcoming Fernwoods local gas station owner Virgil Simms (played by a very young Jim Varney, of the Ernest movies). Virgil has invented an electric car, which seems to be based on an orange Volkswagen Fastback from 1971-73.
Once the battery is revealed-actually about 4,000 of them, seemingly D-cells-we couldnt help but think of the Tesla battery pack, with its 6,871 lithium-ion cells.
Thank you Martin Mull, Fred Willard & Jim Varney for all your comedy. You are missed and will be fondly remembered
Yeah but Tesla is no Sucker. No indeedy.
Amazing. Teslas do have 4400 individual cells. Fernwood wa 40+ years ahead of its time
This is one of the shows… Probably the main show that really taught me -as a young teenager -about satire. You had people like Martin Mull. Fred Willard, Harry Shearer, and here we have Jim Varney ..it all helped contribute to my sense of humor. Which, not surprisingly, has got me into trouble on countless occasions. Not because I’m a mean person, but because I learned advanced satirical humor from the masters. And I tend to overestimate people. And these days, people really are that wacky. If you were young, and found this by accident… Please just watch more of it. You’ll thank me. And RIP, Fred, and Martin.😊
This reminds me how much I miss the comedy of Jim Varney.
Ditto.
three comedy legends sharing the stage, incredible.
A great surprise to see some early Jim Varney. The three of them are having a great time doing the bit. They work well together.
We were so lucky to have all this in our lives.
Martin Mull's improv skills and zingers were top-notch.
Give it some gas
Best rip MM
Good God! I didn't recognize Jim Varney till about 2 minutes into the video. Man what a comedian... He's been gone quite a while now, and Martin Mull as just left us too... time flies and I don't think I like it too much.
Same here. Time flew Fred Willard away about 4 years ago. I was pretty pissed at it then too.
RIP TO THREE GREAT
MARTY FRED AND JIM VARNEY AKA ERNEST
Just wanted to pass along something about "Virgil Simms" 0:16 Jim Varney; He'd show up at Children's Hospitals, no Press, no fee. Jim would entertain the sick or injured children for more than an hour. Just being silly and very funny. Real good guy.
This show was way ahead of its time, there was almost nothing like it on TV at that time. Long live Happy Kyne and his orchestra!
And Dabney Coleman as Mayor Merle Jeeter!
The Mirth Makers😊
Let’s remember the Tesla S has more than 7,000 Li cells.
Way ahead of it's time. Today's EV's could have 4,000 batteries.
Fare thee well, Mr. Mull.
I remember pissing off my dad when I was a teen, talking him into checking out Fernwood 2Night (I think it was midnight TV at the time), and the night he decided to give it a see, was this episode. A week later he called and cussed me out because he wasn't getting enough sleep, now hooked on the show.
My dad too! He loved the ethnic jokes.
Fred Willard cracks me up!
All three are now gone, sad. 😞
I thought that was Jim Varney. I used to see him doing local commercials when I was going to Engineering College in Flint Mi. during the early to mid 80's.
He was a spokesperson for MichCon (Michigan Consolidated Gas Company) before the Ernest Goes to Camp movies
Never saw this one .., “about 4,000” … great comedy.
Eat your heart out, Musk...
IT'S ERNEST P WORRELL! I met him in 1985.
All the people I used to laugh at when I was a smart ass kid are going on to the Great Beyond, just not in Virgil's battery powered car. RIP 3 great ones.
100 views and 14 comments in 14 years. Glad it is here.
"It might need gas." LOL
I've always remembered this bit.
Long live Jim Varney!
A vast improvement over the Volkswagen 1600 Fastback.
Imagine how much better it would be with current rechargeable D cells!
The irony here, is this is what, generally speaking, happened to the Chevy Bolt. It has been in recall over battery issues ever since it rolled off the assembly line.
I never knew Elon Musk was on Fernwood Tonight!
This was the first Tesla. hahahahahahaha
Elon gives a big 👍
Jim Varney FTFW! What a cutie!
Fernwood 2 Night with Martin Mull!
Varney imagined himself a handsome Shakespearean thespian. Instead he became the archetypal hick.
That electric car sounds like it has a gasoline engine. Martin even mention it may be out of gas. I think that goober may be a fraud.
Reminds me of the Julia Louis-Dreyfus SNL pre-recorded commercial for an all-electric car.
It’s hilarious that that’s what modern battery packs look like.
Elon musk, before he decided to hire engineers.
All three of these guys were in Roseanne!
and seriously if you were blind and trying to cross the street it could be bad they're so quiet
@Sobernic1982 Never mind him.Vanna White is much sexier and way cuter.
God, that show was entertaining!
@KaptKan1 Good one!
🤣That's a LOTTA batteries!
Is there NOTHING in today's world not anticipated by Fernwood 2Night?!?
Martin Mull says about the electric car: "It might need gas" and there wouldn't be an ICE to turn over 🤣😂
Its a Volkswagen, that's hilarious, Mull was forward thinking on this one, A "Sucker" that says it all, and what about all those batteries, Maybe Mull invented the first EV. lol
It's a Volkswagen Fastback
😂😂😂
Is that an old SAAB?
i think it's one of the vw models.
Fastback.
My Dad remembers this show. He liked it.
So so funny....thanks
Birth of the Chevy Volt. Just as dependable too.
Biden's secretary of energy and transportation.
2024 - they're actually series about this stuff. With similar results.
And now people actually love EVs. I will stick with ICE.
Mull has been spotty in career .. on and off again in TV series -- just the bus I guess because he is excellent. Willard in this series was just starting to get in his groove ... this show was great when it aired. Unfortunately it followed that horrible Mary Hartman show...
Thanks for your negativity Mr. Doofus.
Mary Mary Hartman LIVED in Fernwood & That was the Link
Some Joe Biden electric crap
Insecure hate speech. Have fun in Nov.
@@AllTheBestCO we will when Trump wins
Garbage for the masses. Sad....
Is that a self-reference Mr. Elite?