In an interview with The Simpsons voice actor Nancy Cartwright, Paulsen explained that, during his early recording sessions, he was constantly being instructed to “Do it more like Jim Carrey,” but, after a while - and after a pep talk from co-star Tim Curry - he told the producers, “Look, Jim did one movie, and everyone knows he’s brilliant, but we’re doing 52 half-hour episodes and we all know that I’m not Jim and I can’t spend 52 episodes impersonating him.” Paulsen’s assertion, it seems, would turn out to be for the show’s benefit, as it was able to find its own footing. This independence, in part, was a product of its star, voice actor Rob Paulsen, who was already well-established with hits like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Animaniacs.
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Although the two to follow featured more direct impressions of the movie star, The Mask mostly did its own thing, but for the occasional Carrey-esque catchphrase from the movie, like “Smokin’!” and “Somebody stop me!” (which definitely started to wear out its welcome). The Mask was also the least “Jim Carrey” of the Jim Carrey cartoons.
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That said, the creator of the comic - Mike Richardson - was involved with the cartoon, which might explain why the series did manage to honor some aspects of the comics, namely the regular passing around of the mask to different characters and the generally bonkers irreverence of the show. For the movie, this was drastically toned down, and when it was adapted into a cartoon, the trend of watering down the source material continued. As is the case with all of these cartoons, Carrey had nothing to do with it, and the cartoon takes place shortly after the events of the film, but in a kid-friendly version of their universe.īefore The Mask was a movie, it was an incredibly violent comic book where anyone who wore the mask became a psychotic murderer, including Stanley Ipkiss (Carrey’s character). The first of these cartoons was The Mask, which debuted in August 1995. Entirely forgotten, however, was that 1995 was the year of the Jim Carrey cartoon, where each of his hits from the previous year - none of which were meant for young kids - were adapted into Saturday morning cartoons.
Carrey’s meteoric rise is well remembered, considered by many to be a landmark moment in comedy history. With Ace Ventura: Pet Detective in February, The Mask in July and Dumb and Dumber in December, 1994 was the breakout year for Jim Carrey, escalating him from “ the white guy on In Living Color ” to the biggest star in the world.
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