PropStore Auction listing<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe mechanical rhino in the \u201cbutt birth\u201d scene in \u201cAce Ventura: When Nature Calls\u201d will be sold at an auction in late March. Youtube<\/p>\n
The hulking prop, which is more than 10 feet long, was the centerpiece of the iconic \u201cbutt birth\u201d scene in the sequel to \u201cAce Ventura: Pet Detective.\u201d <\/p>\n
In it, Ace Ventura, played by Jim Carrey, is spying on a villain purportedly linked to the disappearance of a white bat.<\/p>\n
The zany Ventura, never known for his bright ideas, staked out in the middle of a desert while tucked inside a mechanical rhino. <\/p>\n
Seconds after parking a short distance from the targets, the lone fan inside of the rhino short-circuits, leaving Ventura to bake in the sun. <\/p>\n
Still, the dedicated pet detective refuses to budge until the clandestine meeting is over. The moment it is, Ventura lunges to open the hatch door \u2014 but the wheel snaps off. <\/p>\n
By that point, Ventura is stark naked and slick with sweat from head to toe. In a moment of desperation, he homes in on the only other opening in the rhino. <\/p>\n
Ventura trusts his arm out of the rhino\u2019s faux butthole right as a safari group stops to observe what they believe is a rhino giving birth. <\/p>\n
In the scene, Ace Ventura, played by Jim Carrey, claws his way out of the mechanical rhino. Youtube<\/p>\n
Ventura starts to grunt and gasp until he flops right out of the mechanism\u2019s mangled bottom, much to the horror of the touring safari. <\/p>\n
The butthole was restored ahead of the auction. Now, it \u201cfeatures a removable latex sheet backside,\u201d according to the listing.<\/p>\n
The door hatch and inside fan are also operational when powered on, the auction house assured.<\/p>\n
The rhino doesn\u2019t move like it did in the movie, since the latex \u201chad dried out since production\u201d and were replaced with \u201crigid, sculpted hard-coated styrofoam.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rhino\u2019s butthole was repaired ahead of the sale. Youtube<\/p>\n
The offbeat prop is expected to sell for up to $8,000 during the March 25 auction.<\/p>\n
\u201cAce Ventura: When Nature Calls\u201d was a box office hit when it first released in 1995, just one year after \u201cAce Ventura: Pet Detective.\u201d It raked in more than $212 million worldwide off of a modest $30 million budget.<\/p>\n
Critically, though, the sequel was a certified flop. It was the only sequel Carrey ever agreed to before embarking on \u201cDumb and Dumber To\u201d in 2014. <\/p>\n
The acclaimed comedian was always candid about his reluctance to do sequels<\/a>, but changed his tune when he entered the \u201cSonic\u201d franchise as its mainstay villain, Dr. Ivo \u201cEggman\u201d Robotnik, in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alrighty then! A mechanical rhino featured in a gnarly and memorable \u201cbutt birth\u201d scene in the 1995 flick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[195,29922,1036,88,2695,119831,206,194],"class_list":["post-506369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-auctions","tag-classic-movies","tag-comedy","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-jim-carrey","tag-movies","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}