Ernest Goes To Camp - FILMING LOCATIONS - Kamp Kikakee

0:11 welcome everyone it's a cool crisp day

0:11 here in Tennessee and I am standing on

0:14 the ground of somewhere that I never

0:17 thought I would actually be able to

0:19 visit in real life but I have actually

0:21 found Camp Kiki from the

0:25 1987 classic comedy starring Jim Barney

0:30 Earnest Goes to

0:33 Camp I'm all alone out here and I'm

0:36 going to give you a tour of the filming

0:39 location so I'm inviting you to tag

0:41 along join me shall

1:01 you

1:05 the very first shot of the film when Jim

1:07 Varney playing Earnest was fixing the

1:10 camp Kiki sign the sign would have been

1:13 right here it was actually a crane shot

1:16 he was up on a ladder recreating some of

1:18 the famous commercials that he had done

1:21 before his movie career when one is

1:23 doing dangerous work one must pay

1:25 careful attention to the safety of one's

1:28 body you know what I mean you can see

1:29 the buildings behind me still look the

1:32 same and they actually built some

1:34 temporary facade buildings starting at

1:37 the second tree and the third tree along

1:40 that road that later in the movie they

2:06 once erest finally regains control of

2:07 the cart he pulls the plunger out and he

2:10 actually walks right into this restroom

2:12 it looks a little bit different than it

2:14 did in the movie they've actually

2:16 extended the concrete over the

2:18 foundation in the film and here's where

2:20 they built on and extended out something

2:24 else to notice look at these two

2:25 sidewalks this one and that one both are

2:27 seen in the shot there used to be a tree

2:30 that was actually going up right there

2:32 the tree's been removed but this light

2:34 pole still there and they've added a

2:37 women's restroom as well used to have

2:40 only one door directly under that light

2:43 Ernest would have pulled the plunger out

2:45 and walked

2:47 directly into the building right

2:58 here

3:25 go go let's

3:25 go gentl that's where the Camp kiaki

3:28 metal sign would have stood and then

3:31 there was a crane

3:32 shot

3:34 about like

3:36 this you could see all the kids standing

3:40 right in here all grouped together it's

3:43 very interesting seeing this in person

3:45 because watching the movie since I was a

3:48 child I always figured that was a very

3:50 tall incline when all the kids were

3:52 standing here but standing here as an

3:53 adult you realize that's only a very

3:56 small couple feet that little incline

3:59 right there it's so weird your

4:00 perspective as a child to an adult

4:04 interesting welcome to another great

4:06 summer here at Camp

4:08 KY let's

4:12 go right here is where he got his hands

4:15 caught in the window of the bus my

4:19 hand this little building right over

4:21 here to the side that little picnic area

4:23 is still there there was another bus in

4:25 the background parked caddy corner right

4:28 there

4:58 area

5:07 now that brings us to the lake you

5:07 probably asking what remains of the lake

5:09 from the

5:10 camp well this is it a lot of it's dried

5:13 up you can see where the water has

5:15 subsided and they've actually built

5:17 newer docks out there was actually an H

5:21 shaped dock in the movie and all this

5:24 was very green when nurse St Cloud walks

5:28 out she walks down this

5:30 goes down the H and Earnest is working

5:33 on a lifeguard stand right there on the

5:35 corner of what was the original

6:01 dock

6:01 behind me is the first aid building from

6:03 the

6:14 man where nurse St Cloud administered

6:14 the shots too Earnest he was at there

6:17 like a tough guy and then he broke down

6:19 like a baby screaming and yelling real

6:21 men can take it and I'm a real man a man

6:24 who has never tasted key is that your

6:27 smallest

6:28 needle

6:36 totally unrelated to the movie but

6:36 bearhead tree bearhead tree

6:41 alert this was the building used as the

6:43 main office for the main Camp leader you

6:47 can see a lot of the Interior shots

6:49 where Nest is actually promoted to camp

6:52 counselor I'll do a great job a great

6:55 job and I'll do my regular work too you

6:57 can see the fireplace they have some

6:59 sort of of a stuffed

7:01 animal not a stuffed animal like you'd

7:03 win at a fair but an actual taxi der

7:06 stuffed animal up on that shelf of the

7:10 fireplace oh I can't believe it's true

7:12 me a counselor also the scene when

7:15 Ernest is told to get in the bus and go

7:17 pick up the kids when Ernest is holding

7:20 the sheet of glass is on the back side

7:23 of this building through those back

7:25 windows is where Ernest was holding the

7:27 sheet of glass Ernest will you take the

7:29 bus over and get those second chances

7:30 for me when you're watching the scene

7:32 the camera would have been from the

7:34 opposite side from those windows but

7:36 check out this Pole right here in the

7:37 middle that's actually in the movie and

7:40 in the shots and there's the fireplace

7:43 so the camera's looking towards us out

7:45 of these but in the movie they were

7:48 glass Ernest would have been holding

7:50 some glass here Falls right here the

7:52 plate of glass right on top of

7:58 him

8:03 that's the inside of the mes Hall same

8:03 tables and chairs that's so

8:11 awesome it's really kind of hard to see

8:11 but that's basically the door erest ran

8:13 through to break up the

8:21 fight right where those wooden benches

8:21 are were actually where the kids were

8:23 fighting and they smashed nnest in the

8:26 face with the tray

8:37 the Coke machine that he hit somewhere

8:37 right around in this area it fell away

8:40 from us on top of Ernest right

8:55 there I think that might be the only for

8:55 is you and you for me so happy together

9:00 so how is the

9:17 weather oh look at that there's the

9:17 stove there's the stove where they were

9:19 cooking eggs

9:26 erroneous look at that Jake's specialty

9:26 dour eggs erroneous eggs

9:39 erroneous rabbit over

9:39 there runs right down these

9:46 stairs of course this looks new this

9:46 brick formation but he ran right down

9:49 these

9:50 stairs over here around the backside of

9:54 the camp Kiki truck and he throws

9:58 up

10:05 vomit spews over the side of the truck

10:05 that's the secret ingredient to eggs

10:14 Arius on the front porch of this exact

10:14 cabin where Ernest lost all his money to

10:17 the Kid ah poker it looks like I'm going

10:21 to have to teach you a little lesson in

10:23 gaming right up here is where they were

10:24 playing poker there's quite a few

10:26 buildings that look just like this one

10:28 out here I narrowed it down based on a

10:31 few things when the camera pans down you

10:34 can actually see a little stairway made

10:36 of rock that's still here and what else

10:38 is here this little

10:42 crack right

10:44 there it's actually gotten worse over

10:47 time but you can actually see it in this

10:50 shot we were playing Five Card Mexican

10:53 gorilla sweat Deuces and traces while

10:56 pay attention to the brick formation on

10:59 on the

11:00 fireplace you can see how there's a

11:02 large brick right here a lengthy brick

11:07 another block of brick there that

11:09 matches up exactly to the shot of them

11:12 sitting on the porch I propped the door

11:14 open with that cinder block but you'll

11:16 notice these three wooden

11:19 slats I get paid on Fridays I could let

11:22 you have $30 a week see if we can get a

11:25 peek inside the doors locked however

11:27 hopefully we can look in through the

11:28 window

11:29 you can kind of see it there's the

11:30 fireplace right there there's the front

11:32 door it's all locked up but you can

11:35 still get a peek through this window

11:36 that firl very prominent quite a few

11:39 scenes right inside this exact

11:50 room the final scenes were actually

11:50 filmed right in here they had a lot of

11:52 temporary cabins built that the

11:54 bulldozers mowed

11:57 down

12:04 Ernest would have been dancing around

12:04 right in here trying to avoid the bullet

12:06 shot coming from the rifle look out

12:09 Ernest get out of the way however every

12:11 shot missed him this is the spot he was

12:36 walking around here all by myself all

12:36 day virtually for hours without another

12:39 Soul being out here it's a little bit

12:43 haunting knowing that Jim vanney has

12:46 passed

12:47 on Jim vanney to me was one of my

12:50 childhood Idols I've been to his gravite

12:53 a few times the first time I actually

12:55 filmed a

12:56 vlog an homage to the man that I

13:01 respect but I've been there a few times

13:03 since I always like to pay my respects

13:05 to him when I go through there and other

13:07 people do as well in fact the first time

13:09 I was there someone actually took a

13:12 turtle a toy turtle and put a parachute

13:15 on it and had it sitting on his

13:18 gravestone and honor to him from the

13:21 movie of the locations that you just

13:23 watched the little turtle scene when I

13:26 saw that I actually broke out in tears

13:28 because I love Jim vanney he was an

13:31 accomplished actor he was actually also

13:34 not only a comedian which is what most

13:36 people know him as but he also was a

13:39 Shakespearean actor so this one goes out

13:41 to you Jim

13:47 Barney it's pretty awesome being out

13:47 here I don't even know what to say so

13:49 I'm just going to say goodbye thanks for

13:52 watching everyone and I'll see you guys

13:54 in the next

13:56 video bye

14:03 I could

14:03 have I had

14:11 to this

14:11 place need kids it's everything to

14:16 me I was a

14:19 counselor I had

14:21 everything and now it's all

14:47 see I'm glad it's

14:50 raining there's always something to be

14:54 thankful

14:57 for

14:59 I'm awfully glad it's

15:02 raining cuz no one sees your

15:05 teardrops when it

15:14 PA I thought that I found someone I

15:14 could count on till the

15:16 end what they wanted was a hero all I

15:21 needed was a friend

Ernest Goes To Camp - FILMING LOCATIONS - Kamp Kikakee

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