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Showing posts with label ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE. Show all posts
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THE UNMASKED
Cracked Monster Party #26, Winter 1994
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
From the Australian version of MAD. There was no official parody in the American version other than references and I don't think the Australian edition did own parody.
Now the Cracked parody.
There's a prologue about how an ancient treasure in the water has been found off the coast of Edge City and a mask from that treasure has risen to the surface.
Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) is working at a bank and Tina Carlyle (Cameron Diaz) is there to open an account, but has brought a camera with her she's hiding, and is actually the girlfriend of one of the gangsters who plans to rob the bank later and is casing the joint. Their headquarters are at the Coco Bongo night club. Ipkiss' car is in the shop still being fixed and hevhas been given a loaner in the meantime, a real clunker, which makes him the laughing stock when trying to get into the Coco Bongo (that last part's not shown). On his way back home, he attempts suicide and is about to jump off a bridge when he finds the mask. He comes home greeted by his dog Milo and sees a psychologist on TV (Ben Stein, who looks nothing like this) talking about how we all metaphorically wear masks.
Ipkiss puts on the mask he found out of curiosity, which turns him into a cartoon character that can do anything. He decides to go see Tina, who works at the Coco Bongo, and who he thinks sees him as a joke.
Stanley takes revenge on the car mechanic that screwed him over, then takes money from the bank where he works, beating the gangsters that were planning to rob it. Then he arrives at the Coco Bongo in a stretch limo and starts dancing with Tina. The gangsters are after them and he outsmarts them with Bugs Bunny stunts.
He has a date with Tina the next evening in his 'Mask' persona, cops are on to him and tell him to freeze, which he does literally. Then when the police have him surrounded, he starts a mambo number, manipulating all of them. Later at the club there's charity event, and the head gangster Dorian (Peter Greene) has managed to get the mask. When you put it on, it turns you into an exaggerration of your personality, in this version it turns him into Marlon Brando as The Godfather.
Dorian, in the mask, ties up Stanley and Tina. Stanley's dog Milo shows up, manages to get the mask, puts it on himself, and frees them. Here he turns into Goofy. Also here, Tina puts on the mask instead of how they just get rid of it because she prefers his true personality.
THE MASK: ANIMATED SERIES
CBS 1995-1997
DUMB AND DUMBER
ABC 1995-1996
ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE
1995-1997 CBS
THE DUMB AND DUMBER MASK MEETS ACE VENTURA
Cracked #307, May 1996
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
All three of Jim Carrey's first few major movies appealed to children (unless you count Earth Girls Are Easy), so it was inevitable there would be Saturday morning cartoons of them. This is a mash-up of them.
The Mask/Stanley (Rob Paulsen)'s dog (Frank Welker) was smarter and more anthropomorphic in this but still didn't talk.
For those that don't recognize the quote in the next to last panel, it's from Network.
The van Harry (Bill Faggerbakke) and Lloyd (Matt Frewer) drove was named Otto and they had a Beaver named Kitty.
JIM CARREY VISITS THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW
MAD #337, July 1995
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres
The Larry Sanders Show wasn't a talk show but a sitcom about the life of a talk-show host and a behind the scenes look at the program. Larry Sanders (Garry Shandling) was host of the show within the show. His sidekick was Hank Kingsley (Jeffrey Tambor) and the producer was Artie (Rip Torn). I guess the woman in the first panel is supposed to be Janeane Garofalo, who played one of the talent bookers, It doesn't exactly look like her, but the giveaway is the pin referring to her being a one-season cast member of Saturday Night Live. Darlene (Linda Doucette) was Hank's assistant. Hank warmed up the audience with jokes and one was that the 'Applause' sign said 'Applesauce'.
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective is about a detective who finds the mascot of the Miami Dolphins. He's a thorn in the side of the actual police force, particularly to their lieutenant (Sean Young). Sharon Stone was famous in a scene from Basic Instinct for not wearing underwear. Actresses often played themselves on the show and dated Larry. “Hey now” was Hank's catchphrase. Jim Carrey was always 'on' and would break into impressions during interviews.
“No flipping” was what Larry Sanders always said when they went to a commercial break. The Mask was about Jim Carrey finding a mask in a river, putting it on, and turning into a ladies' man.
The middle panels make references to Whitewater, a real estate scandal the Clintons were accused of being involved in, and the picture in the next panel is of Fire Marshal Bill, a character Carrey played on In Living Color. Hank Kingsley owned a restaurant he was always trying to plug on The Larry Sanders Show show.
The lesson in The Mask was that Carrey's character was better being himself when Tina (Cameron Diaz), the woman he was trying to impress, found out who he really was. Dumb and Dumber is about two guys (Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels), who find a briefcase full of ransom money, think it was something accidentally left behind, and travel across the country to give it back to the girl who left it there.
Teri Garr plays someone in Dumb and Dumber who heads an animal rescue foundation. The spider on Hank's head refers to an episode of The Larry Sanders Show where one of the guests handled them and they came loose. Larry's assistant was Beverly (Penny Johnson).
This was MAD's way of combining several parodies into one, but in a case of art imitating art Jim Carrey ended up eventually becoming a "guest".
ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS (1995)
dir: Steve Oedekirk
ASS VENTURDA: WHEN NATURE FAILS
Cracked #305, January 1996
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
Most likely a parody of Cliffhanger, Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) is on a rescue mission to save a pet raccoon and the cable breaks.
He's so scarred by the experience he quits being a pet detective and becomes a monk, but is hired by Filton Greenwall (Ian McNiece) for his services to rescue a Shikaka bat needed for the marriage ceremony of the warring Wachati and Watchootoo tribes. When he insists he's given up his profession, he's told he'll be offered money, and leaves the monestary right away. All the other priests are relieved to see him go.
In the fourth panel is supposed to be George C. Scott. Coincidentally Jim Carrey also played Scrooge in a later version of A Christmas Carol.
Spitting on each other is a sign of affection among the Watchootoo tribe.
Ace falls in love with the princess. He also suspects Quinn, who owns a safari park, is the one who has stolen the bat.
Ace finds out Quinn is being set up. He runs across thugs from Australia.
Ace is mistaken for the enemy by the Watchootoos and has to go through many challenges to gain their trust, the last of which is to fight their warrior (Tommy Davidson) who appears to be weaker because of his size, but turns out to be stronger.
Ace deduces that the real bat thief is Cadby (Simon Callow), the ambassador, who took it because the guano is a valuable synthetic. Having now rescued the bat, he has returned it to the tribes and the marriage ceremony can go forward.
“When Nature Calls”, the polite term for saying you have to go to the bathroom, was also the title of a much funnier Troma-produced Kentucky Fried Movie-type movie.
Ace Ventura- Jim Carrey
Melissa- Courteney Cox
Lt. Einhorn- Sean Young
Emilio- Tone-Loc
Ray Finkle- Dan Zuckert
Dan Marino- Himself
ASS VENTORO, PEST DEFECTIVE
CRACKED #291, August 1994
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
Lou Silverstone was a long-time MAD writer. He had been writing for Cracked for a while pseudonymously and after he stopped getting calls from MAD defected to Cracked full-time, eventually becoming editor.
Everybody knows who Jim Carrey is. This was the movie that put him on the map. He had been doing stand-up comedy and bit parts for years before this and was one of the featured players of In Living Color (MAD parody coming up when I get to the Is). This gave him a chance to do his whole mugging slapstick bit.
The mascot's name is Snowflake.
Nancy Kerrigan was an Olympic skater whose career was sabotaged when her leg was broken by her rival's boyfriend. An imitation of her was part of Jim Carrey's budget Robin Williams act.
The punchline of the actual movie is that all along Finkle has had his penis tucked between his legs and was pretending to be the female police lieutenant. A somewhat transphobic ending, but I guess in this parody Ace is bi? You decide. MAD rarely did parodies of broad comedies like this, but Cracked aimed towards a younger audience.
