Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (found animated TV series based on comedy film starring Jim Carrey; 1995-2000)

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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. Television. It aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997 on CBS. A third season and reruns of previous episodes aired on Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000.

The series is a sequel of the Ace Ventura movies. 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 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 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 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 new and completely different season of the series ran on Nickelodeon.


A three-episode DVD of the show was bundled with the two Ace Ventura movies. This was also the only DVD release of this show. It's currently unknown if the whole series will be released.

Every episode of this show can be found online (all recorded off VHS/TV), with the exception of S01E11 - "The Big Stink" and S02E10 - "Robo West", which cannot be found at all.

An upload for The Big Stink does exist on a site called "video.meta.ua", however the audio is not in English.

Plot summary for The Big Stink: "Ace follows his nose when a little boy's pet skunk gets skunk-napped."

I currently cannot find a plot summary for Robo West. The episode is just that elusive.

EDIT: A Reddit user by the name of "Newclearfallout" claims to have found "The Big Stink" on the private torrent tracker & file sharing site "MySpleen". The torrent is apparently dead due to a lack of seeds unfortunately and they says they lack the computing power to upload it again, but they may be able to get a friend of theirs to upload it for them. If this never happens, can somebody with a MySpleen account please download it and upload it to YouTube? Newclearfallout says it can be found under simply "Ace Ventura".