The Mask-Mayor Mask (Part 1)

[WeirdAl45231]

3:05 Hey, I'M TALKING HERE!

[IndianaCat94]

1:22 Stanley is literally SSSMOKIIIIIN'!

[RG7621]

I haven't watched this cartoon in well over 10 years. Yet for some reason I was thinking about this episode at 4am this morning

[Animaster81]

That diabolical smile of Stanley's at 1:58 is completely hilarious. I love it when he goes nuts like that.

[ChichOOC3lin3]

Im french and im lucky because in french this jim carey 's voice the same from the movie :)

[Mr2PacsFather]

is that jim carry's voice ?

[HaggisMcCrablice]

@Mr2PacsFather -- No, it's Rob Paulsen...though he and Carrey look so much alike they could pass for brothers.

[printz150]

LOL this episode is like a big satire.

[lunnerwolf107]

*gasp* "If it's on TV, then it must be true."

[emadelinea]

Did anyone understand the "have a fluffy day" thing? Fluffy?

[fedefyr]

Wait, people complain about the mask being too powerfull? Ever read the original comic the movie and cartoon was based on? The Mask grants the wearer omnipotence aka godhood...only person seemingly immune to that is Walther (for some unexplained reason). So of course the mask is overpowered...its god XD

[zildjianzone]

I might be wrong but I really think that guy 6:16 onwards is Cam Clarke, the voice of Liquid Snake

[HaggisMcCrablice]

@zildjianzone -- Nope, it's Tim Curry (THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, PETER PAN AND THE PIRATES)...but Clarke *was* the voice of Putty Thing.

[GoliathAngelus]

xxxWesBentlyxxx....this cartoon was made after the Original Mask movie.

Like always (and all cartoons) it was made to promode the Mask toy line etc

[AlvinValkenheiser]

@GoliathAngelus That's true. Rob Paulsen (The actor who did the voice for Stanley and Mask) said a toy company was heavily involved during the production of the show, hence the action figures, Pizza hut toys, etc. There's also a video from the 1994c Toy Fair where a spokesman from Kenner originally wanted The Mask to be the next "Ghostbusters"-style superhero toy franchise.

[evan22303]

Anybody notice that Stanley Ipkiss looks like Glass Joe from Punchout?

Also Rob Paulson(Mr. Opportunity) voices him.

[elwarmachine]

I love the sarcastic undertones of society that you get after watching it again. Cartoons that can entertain both kids and adults are rare, I miss this show!

[marcelofernandesdeli]

legal

[SSdetectiveagency]

ya know for a robber that guy was a very pleasant person and even said "have a fluffy day" that was really nice of him :) what robber does that? lol

[xxxWesBentleyxxx]

Was this show before or after the Jim Carrey movie?

[PufferBluntman]

Didn't like the cartoon at all, it was too childish.

[bbphnix]

that's hamburger meet you idiot....ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOFFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL­LLL

[limemintify]

the mask... lovely :))

[Coolnard]

they probably ran outta ideas because randomness is one of the mask's main aspects, and i think they made the mask a bit too powerful too, because of those hardly any plot (i.e. strong emotional attachments or any enemies on par with the mask) could be made. then again, they could have come up with something if they wanted to..

[JudgeValkenheiser]

Lot of fans dont realise that the cartoon series and the original Jim Carrey movie have different tones/themes. The movie is a romantic comedy, but the cartoon is more a light-hearted Saturday morning superhero series.

I'm thinking the producers and the writers didn't want to mimic the movie and make the Mask cartoon its own identity, hence why Tina is not in the show, the supervillians, random stuff, etc. Still they should have had Tina and Dorian in the cartoon.

[JudgeValkenheiser]

Mask doing random stuff, like being the President's bodyguard or joining the army, is something what Homer Simpson would do in the, let's say, mediocre episodes of The Simpsons.

[Coolnard]

i agree. the producers shouldn't have leveraged on independence from the cartoon and just followed it instead. i mean, if you wanna follow the movie, why not follow it as closely as possible? it would definitely have attracted more hardcore mask fans.

[gundamWWW]

I love the Mask. I wish he were real. Even though he is a lunatic he is a good supehero since he is very original and happy all the time.

[JayDee284]

@gundamWWW in comics the Mask was a Killer

[richeyrko]

i always love the mask on cartoon network.

[A113Pixar]

@JudgeValkenheiser I think in the episode "The Mask is Always Greener on the Other Side", Charlie was talking to Stanley at the beginning about The Mask being at the bank and says "It's not like that was you here, was it?" and Stanley says "You know I got rid of that thing", so it seemed like they were trying to connect to the film cause Charlie was with Stanley at the end when he threw the mask away (and there's also a part where Peggy references selling him out to Dorian).

[AlvinValkenheiser]

@A113Pixar With the exception of Disney and Star Wars, there's hardly an animated series spin-off that follows live-action film continuity. The mask cartoon is definately non-canon and the references to the original film (i.e. Peggy selling out to mobsters, Charlie's line) are really homages rather than continuity. Years ago, i wrote my own Mask sequel script and my story mixies the first film and the cartoon together. Tina was in the story but so was Lonnie The Shark and Chet Bozzack.

[A113Pixar]

@JudgeValkenheiser Cont. In other episodes it seems more unclear on whether they're really trying to keep continuity with the film or not, like in "Split Personality" when Stanley was trying to hide The Mask from Charlie when he should already know about him being The Mask. My guess is that maybe they wanted to have continuity early on but drifted away from it with all the crazy episode ideas. BTW, I read that the writers at some point wanted to bring Dorian and his gang back as ghosts.

[AlvinValkenheiser]

@A113Pixar Yeah I read on Wikipedia that some of the episodes from the series were based on unused ideas for The Mask 2 before it was dumped for Son of The Mask and Dorian was supposed to appear in the cartoon. But again its Wikipedia.

[JudgeValkenheiser]

It's like the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. I'm still pissed off that Egon's hair is blonde (instead of black in the original live-action movie) and the show itself wasn't as fun as the movie that is based on. I think the animators made those changes to appeal younger viewers.

Unfortunately all movie-to-cartoon tie-in shows are considered non-canon hence why we don't have them anymore.

[IdanPink]

@JudgeValkenheiser true, it's also that fact that in the movie ha remembers what happens when he's the mask.

[The343Player]

"That's 2 words!"

"HEY! IM TALKIN HERE!!"

[elizeu316dantas]

pretty cool this episode only that what kills is that it is in English and I speak Portuguese

[TheLink243]

cool cartoon and awesome movie

[xtinastilldirrty]

hey ladies and su..oh i mean gentelmen lmao!

[owenjohn99]

i loved the mask movie and show why was it cansled

[JudgeValkenheiser]

I think the show ended due to budgeting probvlems or running out of ideas. I noticed the last season had Mask do random stuff, like being the president's bodyguard, and doesn't resemble to the movie at all.

[mikeantfahey]

I use to love this programme when i was a kid.

Just wondering, at 8:30, does he said visual AIDS xD

[Stoiulucianalexandru]

The sound is a bit low... thx for upload

[Xerotk]

I have never seen Mask in cartoon, thx you Judge !

[residentevilmusical]

WTF?!?!

Did that guy in the junk truck swear?!

[trainchugger53]

Stanley's car reminds me of a Ford or a Buick Skylark.

[trainchugger53]

by the way, whose the spider-head?

[OfExecution]

The mask is ultimate crazyness...:D

[leoris87]

i know. i was so sad when my friend who also lived through the 90s didn't even hear about this cartoon. ugh. she missed out on something great.

[JudgeValkenheiser]

But she seen the Jim Carrey movie, right?

[MaximeLoonatic2]

I'll be mad too in his point, I hate this kind of polite!

[themaskofpucca]

"fluffy begins up here"

fluff for brains

lol