Ernest, that long streak of misery who knows it all, gets a job as a handyman at a youth camp and learns a thing or two about handing out advice., A children’s comedy in which the bumbling but well-meaning Ernest P Worrell finds himself working as a handyman at a summer camp. The dimwitted hero has always wanted to be a counsellor, and he finally gets his big chance when one of the regular counsellors has an accident and must be replaced. But poor Ernest is immediately put in charge of an unruly group of boys from the state institution., Jim Varney as a janitor-turned-counselor whose tenure turns into one accident after another. Nurse: Victoria Racimo. Indian Chief: Iron Eyes Cody. Stinson: Lyle Alzado. Krader: John Vernon. Directed by John Cherry., Ernest (Jim Varney) gets a job as a fix-it man at a summer camp for troubled boys, but what he really wants to be is a counselor. This juvenile comedy, filled with potty humor and slapstick, chronicles his campaign to get a promotion. A consummate bungler, he ends up causing all kinds of comical chaos. Fortunately, he also ends up helping many of the campers., A group of juvenile criminals are sent for vacation to Kamp Kikakee.