Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Title card
Genre	Animated
Voices of	Michael Dangerfield (as Michael Hall) Richard Binsley
Country of origin	Canada  United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	41
Production
Producer(s)	Eleanor Kearney
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS, Nickelodeon
Original run	1995 – 2000

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is an animated television series based on the film of the same name. The series was produced by Morgan Creek Productions and Nelvana for Warner Bros. Studios. It aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997 on CBS. A third season aired on Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000.

[edit] Overview

The series is a spin-off of the Ace Ventura movies. The titular character, voiced by Michael Dangerfield, is a goofy private investigator with a predilection for animals of all species.

The show ran on CBS for two seasons, with a third season airing on Nickelodeon when that channel acquired the show to broadcast reruns. Many of the characters from the movie were retained, though not voiced by their original actors. While the original movies already had a strongly cartoonish comedic aesthetic, they were eclipsed by the slapstick and garish humor of the cartoon. Seth MacFarlane was among the many writers over the course of the show's run.

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), displaying similar humor to his later series. Despite running in a time slot after The Mask (another popular Jim Carrey-based cartoon) and a well-advertised crossover with that show (in that series' finale, "The Aceman Cometh"), the series failed to gain a large audience. Ultimately, both The Mask and Ace Ventura were cancelled.

A computer game, Ace Ventura, was based on the show.

[edit] Cast

• Ace Ventura: Michael Daingerfield (credited as Michael Hall)
• Woodstock: D.G. Beatty
• Spike: Richard Binsley
• Schickadance: Vince Corazza
• Atrocia Odora: Pam Hyatt
• Emilio: Bruce Tubbe
• Aguado: Al Waxman

[edit] DVD release

A three-episode DVD of the show was bundled with the two Ace Ventura movies. The back of the package has a mistake in the description of the episode "The Reindeer Hunter," stating that Santa's main reindeer, Rudolph, has been kidnapped when in truth, Rudolph is not in the episode at all, rather it was the rest of his reindeer that had been kidnapped. This is also the only DVD release of this show, and as of 2009, Warner Bros. has not announced any plans for a full release.

[edit] External links

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective at the Internet Movie Database
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective at TV.com
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective on epguides.com