Broderick, Broderick

The fact that you didn't include Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and only gave Dumb and Dumber a second-tier "probably" tells me we're at an impasse as it relates to Mr. Carrey's career. I agree The Cable Guy was underrated. I enjoy it. But Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are my favorite Jim Carrey roles.

 

As much as I laughed my ass off at Ace Ventura, it doesn't hold up nearly as well as Dumb and Dumber. When they were initially released, I thought they were close in terms of quality, but watching them today, Dumb and Dumber makes me laugh much harder than does Ace Ventura.

I still freakin' love Ace, but not as much as I used to.

 

Slightly off topic (happens a lot on here, I know), but the Jeff Daniels toilet scene is still one of the funniest moments in recent history. Rumor has it Daniels heard from Clint Eastwood, who even thought it was really funny.

I so wanted Roeman to answer the phone like Jeffrey Jones did... "Edddddd Rooney?"

 

I prefer Dumb and Dumber. But I probably prefer Ace Ventura to Lloyd Christmas, if I had to pick.

 

The extra touch I like about that is it's a double dip. Well before the museum trip, still at home, he says, "I quote John Lennon: 'I don't believe in Beatles; I just believe in me.' Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people."

 

Of course, in the walrus sequence, Broderick is reprising Cameron Frye, who stared in gape-mouthed horror as he recognized himself in "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

 

Racetrack clip is from a track somewhere in Europe (it's not Woodbine, there's an apron between stands and track), probably England, where some tracks do run counterclockwise. Nowhere in the U.S. is the main track a turf course. Looks like the 7 horse is carrying the silks of Sheikh Hamdan's Shadwell Farm.

Happy to provide this vital, riveting analysis.

 

Starman, would that make it a triple dip? I thought about it being a nod to Cameron, but I couldn't remember if Ferris mugged a bit in front of the impressionist works before Cameron got lost in that particular one.

 

Extra love for racing nerds.

 

Road to Wellville is quality work.

 

OK, really, the thread should have been locked after this post. Bravo, Della. Bra-fucking-oh.

 

Notice neither the "Star Wars Theme" or "Twist and Shout" appeared in the commercial (or "Danke Schoen," for that matter).

Would have been cool to have some kind of walk-through cameo by Alan Ruck or Mia Sara.

Or for that matter, maybe Charlie Sheen.

They certainly missed the boat by not having Richard Edson in some kind of role.


Me thinketh Jeffrey Jones will be left comfortably OUT of any and all Ferris Bueller quasi-semi-pseudo sequel productions.