I always loved Jim Varney in those funny "Ernest" commercials, too bad he joined the ranks of heavy smokers in the sky. I was looking at much of his artistry last night and found one of my beloved GE PortaColors in this commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56osGf_Tgas&feature=related

Man, he shilled for a lot of different things! Good, clean fun.

That's one of them "Portacolor III's" as someone called them, the "AA" solid state chassis. A worthy succesor to the original, I would say.

I just happened to snap a picture of Jim on one of my TV's, this was 7 or 8 years ago. http://www.vintagetvsets.com/images/ernest.jpg

He was very talented and performed Shakespear as well as other classical theater.

He did car dealer comercials in the DC area and they were very funny.

HEY VERN!