History Film / AceVentura

** One episode of the cartoon has Ace filling in for a Film/JamesBond-{{Expy}}. As he comes under fire while chasing the villain down in the requisite CoolCar, he notes his ability to catch bullets in his teeth, and prepares to do so. The villain launches a missile at Ace. [[UpToEleven He still catches it.]]

* CrazyCulturalComparison: Features spitting in another's face as a form of showing great respect. Ace, naturally, ramps it UpToEleven.

* InstantSedation: Uses the humorous muscle paralysis angle, of course, but he's still blacking out after a rather short chase. Of course, three darts ''was'' too much. So were [[UpToEleven the half-dozen or so]] that nailed him in the back [[HopeSpot right after he "thought he lost them"]].

* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: In the ChristmasEpisode, Ace couldn't prove Odora stole Santa Claus' reindeers (she intended to use the secret of their gravity-defying abilities on a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive cosmetic]]) but could get her arrested for illegally keeping a crocodile from an endangered breed, which she also intended to use as ingredient.

* LighterAndSofter/ BleachedUnderpants: While the original film was [[BlackComedy far darker]] and had lots of sexual moments, the animated series was understandably toned down for younger audiences.

-->'''Ace Ventura:''' (cut to him sobbing while being held at gunpoint) Please don't kill me!

* {{Corpsing}}: While the fact that everyone manages to keep a straight face as Jim Carrey is gobbling up all the scenery is commendable, Courteney Cox is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7g-K0bvmOs clearly struggling]] in the mental hospital scene (and after Ace hits his head on a bench, the doctor shown from the back is starting to laugh before a cut to Ace in the front). Tone Loc in the scene with Ace talking through his butt is also stifling laughter.

* {{Corpsing}}: Fulton is struggling mightily to keep his composure during the shadow puppets scene.

* DarkestAfrica

* NotSoAboveItAll: When Ace is screwing around with juvenile shadow puppetry during the MissionBriefing, Fulton is visibly {{corpsing}}.

* MisplacedWildlife: The Indian elephant is excusable, as they're much more docile and easier to train than African elephants. But not a single animal in Quinn's warehouse was African. There were a Bengal tiger (Asian), a jaguar, macaws and a toucan (all South American). Quinn also wasn't surprised to see Spike, a South American black-capped capuchin. He most likely illegally smuggled the animals away from their natural habitat to put on his safari tour. Ace, when he first meets Quinn, points out that his pet raven Tiki isn't even from Africa. Then there is the skunk that Ace somehow gets his hands on for the final battle, how he found a American species in the jungle is anyone's guess.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: A 1984 AFC Championship ring for the Miami Dolphins is a {{Macguffin}}, yet the resulting Super Bowl between the Dolphins and San Francisco [=49ers=] is mentioned as [=XVII=]. Super Bowl [=XVII=] was the ''1983'' one, where the Dolphins lost to the Washington Redskins, not the 1985 one ([=XIX=]) with the San Francisco [=49ers=] that is shown. Also, Dan Marino wasn't on the Miami Dolphins during Super Bowl [=XVII=], and Miami never lost by a last-second missed field goal in either Super Bowl; that was based on the "Wide Right" kick missed by Scott Norwood of the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl [=XXV=]. (Granted, Norwood [[NeverLiveItDown never lived down]] missing that kick, but thankfully, he didn't take things nearly as far as Ray Finkle does in this movie.) The writers of the film noted this, saying that [[LikeRealityUnlessNoted it was set in a slightly alternate universe to our own]] where Dolphins/[=49ers=] was Super Bowl [=XVII=].[[invoked]]

* HornedHairdo: A Wachootoo warrior arranges Ventura's normally surf-wave hairdo like this during his second movie, in mockery of his nickname of "White Devil." Ace does not take it well.
-->'''Ace:''' All right...''that's it!'' This "White Devil" thing has gone far enough. ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Nobody! Messes! With the 'do!]]''

* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Lois Einhorn in the first film. She was just a hiker, but Ray Finkle killed her to assume her identity.]]

* MadnessMantra: Ray Finle wants the world to know that Dan Marino held the ball '''LACES OUT!''' It's even all over the walls in a RoomFullOfCrazy.

* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: A news broadcast of the Super Bowl game notes that due to Marino’s disappearance, a young replacement quarterback has to start the game. When the game resumes after halftime with Marino returning, the score is revealed to be 14-17 in the opposing team’s favour. That’s actually a very good score all things considered, and the Dolphins are still within a competitive range. Not bad for a young replacement being the starter quarterback for a Super Bowl game.

* PoliceAreUseless: The Miami police department don't get anywhere in finding Snowflake themselves, and miss an important clue in the investigaton of Roger Podactor's death. Though this may be justified, as [[spoiler: Einhorn was behind both events, and deliberately kept the department off-course.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Implied with Einhorn. [[spoiler:When Ace outs Einhorn as a trans woman, ''every'' cop in attendance begins spitting in disgust. That includes at least one female cop]].
** [[spoiler:So does ''[[AnimalReactionShot Snowflake]]''.]]
** Ace himself has this reputation, first with the rich lady that he rescued the dog for in the opening. Then there was Melissa [[spoiler: and almost Einhorn. Lastly, it was implied that Ace took the Wachati princess' virginity]].

* SherlockScan: "Except of course for that spot of blood on the railing over there!"

* WhoShotJFK: In ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', Ace loudly explains "I CAME TO CONFESS! I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll!" when his (unwanted) presence at the police station is questioned.
* YouGetMeCoffee: After Dan Marino is kidnapped, Einhorn walks into the office and orders things like an autopsy report, for no one to talk to the press... "And somebody get me some coffee!"

** In the first movie, there's two. The first is Ace seeing Ray Finkle on a photo of the Miami Dolphins' team, realizing he's a player that Ace hadn't looked into yet. The second is [[spoiler:Ace realizing that Lois Einhorn and Ray Finkle are the same person, thus solving the case]].

** Spike, who only appears in the opening for ''When Nature Calls''.

'''Ace:''' If it gets cold enough. *beat* No, I have a kinship with them. I understand them.

* {{Transgender}}: Done as part of a parody of ''Film/TheCryingGame'', with [[spoiler:the villain actually being Lt. Lois Einhorn, who this whole time was really the missing football player Ray Finkle, having gone through complete transition (but remaining non-op), adopted the identity of a missing hiker, and became a Lieutenant, seemingly all in the sake of the perfect disguise]].[[note]]According to WordOfGod, the script for ''Ace...'' was nearing completion when ''Film/TheCryingGame'' was released. The inclusion of the song was the filmmakers' way of venting their frustration over someone else using the [[UnsettlingGenderReveal "He's a she"]] twist before they got a chance to.[[/note]]

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: "Oh my God! [[spoiler:Einhorn is a ''man?!'']]"

* IncrediblyLongNote: In the first movie, Ace has some fun with a soundproof glass door. He starts his psuedo-opera note, and opens and closes the door about six times, just to ''prove'' that the door was soundproof, and to annoy Einhorn.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The entire plot to claim the Wachati's bat nesting caves seems... just another joke, right? ''Wrong.'' The phosphate trade makes 75 '''billon''' dollar a year. Throughout the 20th century, the primary source was Pacific islands, which are now almost depleted - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate_mining_in_Nauru some]] to the point that the islands ''themselves'' are all but erased. Any large source of concentrated phosphates would make a gold mine look like a lemonade stand.

* RewindGag: When doing the summation, Ace rattles off his conclusion towards the accused. He then says "Let me run that back for you", reverses his actions, and speaks like he's rewinding.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ace. Though, surprisingly enough, he's not a vegetarian, as he's seen eating a zebra in the second film.

* {{Corpsing}}: While the fact that everyone manages to keep a straight face as Jim Carrey is gobbling up all the scenery is commendable, Courteney Cox is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7g-K0bvmOs clearly struggling]] in the mental hospital scene (and after Ace hits his head on a bench, the doctor shown from the back is starting to laugh before a cut to Ace in the front).

* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: An interesting use in the first movie - First Ace feels what he thinks is a gun while Lois Einhorn tries to seduce him, and points it out ("Your gun is digging into my hip."). But later, when he learns [[GenderBender who Einhorn really is]], Ace gets promptly squicked and begins to cry "It wasn't a gun! ''It wasn't a gun!''", with the Boy George song "[[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame The Crying Game]]" playing in the background. Made even more hilarious [[BilingualBonus if you speak any German,]] as [[spoiler:"Einhorn" means "Unicorn" or, literally, "one horn"]].

* AscendedExtra: Spike the spider monkey. In the first movie, he’s just one of Ace’s many pets he keeps in his apartment. By the sequel however he has become his official sidekick, staying by his side the whole movie.