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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) More at IMDbPro »

• The name "Shady Acres Mental Hospital" is a reference to the name of the director: Tom Shadyac.
  
  
• Lauren Holly screen-tested for the female lead role, but turned it down.
  
  
• A note found in Lt. Einhorn's desk is dated January 17, which is also Jim Carrey's birthday.
  
  
• Jim Carrey insisted on having Cannibal Corpse perform in the movie because they were his favorite band.
  
  
• The idea for Ray Finkle missing a game-winning field goal in the Super Bowl came from Scott Norwood's last-second field goal kick going wide right in Super Bowl XXV that cost the Buffalo Bills a victory, as the New York Giants Football Team defeated the Bills 20-19.
  
  
• The real final score of Super Bowl XIX was San Francisco 38, Miami 16. The game footage of 'Ray Finkle' used in the film is actually a 1984 clip of Dolphins kicker Uwe von Schamann.
  
  
• The song performed by Cannibal Corpse, "Hammer Smashed Face", is taken from their third album "Tomb of the Mutilated".
  
  
• Ace's car is a 1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
  
  
• The Super Bowl as shown at the end of the film is between the Miami Dolphins and Philadelphia Eagles.
  
  
• Courteney Coxcharacter, Melissa Robinson, was named after original writer 'Jack Bernstein''s daughter Melissa.
  
  
• John Capodice’s character, Sgt. Aguado, named after producer Ken Aguado.
  
  
• The voice of Ace Venutura and the manner in which he speaks, was added by Jim Carrey only after several read throughs of the script. The voice was something Carrey used in his stand up routine. The "All righty then" was the catch phrase of one of his stand up characters and after the lines from the script weren't feeling right, he added it to the script and read through it again using that voice for all the lines. It was such an improvement that it became the main Ace Ventura personality trait.
  
  
• Jim Carrey came up with the idea of ripping off Sean Young's clothes to reveal her in her bra and underwear in the end.
  
  
• The entire scene where Ace Ventura claims to be expert dolphin trainer Heinz Getwellvet was originally cut out of the theatrical release. It was added back in when the movie was released on videotape in June 1994, and was advertised as "additional footage not seen in theaters".
  
  
• Jim Carrey was paid $350,000 for his appearance in the film.
  
  
• When Ace is first informing Lt. Einhorn about his Ray Finkel theory, on the desk there are two apples and a banana positioned in a suggestive manner. This foreshadows the fact that Lt. Einhorn is actually the male Finkel.
  
  
• The tabloid magazine in Ace's apartment is called the "National Intruder."
  
  

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