evidence: Dumb and Dumber was hardly the first ribald comedy to be a huge hit, and it wasn't the first full-length feature film to traffic entirely in nonsense, start to finish. It wasn't even the first Jim Carrey comedy to do that. [...] Lest we forget, 1994—in addition to being the year of Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction and The Shawkshank Redemption—was the year of the Jim Carrey movie trifecta that vaulted Fire Marshall Bill from In Living Color to super-star status, starting with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective in February, segueing to The Mask in July and concluding with Dumb and Dumber in December. Though there could've been Carrey fatigue by then, moviegoers couldn't get enough, and Dumb and Dumber ended up making $127 million to end up the sixth-highest-grossing release of the year.