Seth MacFarlane was among the writers over the course of the show's run, displaying similar humor to his later series. While the original movies already had a strongly cartoonish comedic aesthetic, they were eclipsed by the slapstick, garish, and gormless humor attempts of the cartoon.
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Many of the characters from the movie were retained, though not voiced by their original actors.
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The series ran on CBS for two seasons, with a third season airing on Nickelodeon when the channel acquired the show to broadcast reruns. The titular character, voiced by Canadian actor Michael Daingerfield (credited as Michael Hall), is a goofy private investigator with a predilection for animals of all species. The series is a sequel of the Ace Ventura movies. Ace Ventura: Pet DetectiveĪce Ventura: Pet Detective was one of three animated series based on Jim Carrey movies premiering in the same year the others are the 1995-1997 The Mask: Animated Series, and the 1995-1996 Dumb and Dumber series. A third season and reruns of previous episodes aired on Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000. It aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997 on CBS. The series was produced by Morgan Creek Productions, Nelvana Limited for the first two seasons and Odyssey Entertainment for the third and final season.
Ultimately, both The Mask and Ace Ventura were cancelled. Despite running in a time slot after The Mask (another popular Jim Carrey-based cartoon) and a crossover with that show (in that series' finale, "The Aceman Cometh"), the series failed to gain a large audience. The show was rife with toilet humor and anachronisms (one episode centered around the Egyptian Mau, claiming it to be an extinct breed of cat, when, in fact, they are not). While the original movies already had a strongly cartoonish comedic aesthetic, they were eclipsed by the slapstick and garish humor of the cartoon. The show ran on CBS for two seasons, with a third season airing on Nickelodeon when that channel acquired the show to broadcast reruns. The show was broadcast on CBBC in the United Kingdom.Ī computer game, Ace Ventura, was based on the show.
The series was produced by Morgan Creek Productions and Nelvana Limited for Warner Bros. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is an animated television series based on the film of the same name.