Trivia / Shrek

Trivia for specific works:

• Shrek
• Shrek 2
• Shrek the Third
• Shrek Forever After
• Puss in Boots (2011)
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• Shrek 4D
• Shrek the Halls
• Scared Shrekless
• Shrek: The Musical

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Franchise-wide

• Cash-Cow Franchise: In the top 10 for "Highest grossing movie franchises of all time" list.
• Channel Hop: Scared Shrekless originally premiered on NBC in 2010, before moving to ABC the following year.
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • Gingy is puppeteered and voiced by a woman in each production of Shrek the Musical. Averted in foreign dubs of the film.
  • Dragon's noises are provided by Frank Welker.
• Development Hell: The fifth movie has gone through a prolonged development cycle which has repeatedly stalled. Originally intended for a 2013 release date after Shrek the Third, the latter movie's poor critical reception caused plans for the fifth movie to get cancelled, with Shrek Forever After becoming the series' Grand Finale as a result. The movie's production since restarted in 2016, but has since been repeatedly delayed with next to no information nor a concrete release date in sight, with rumors waffling on whether it's actually a sequel to Forever After or an outright Continuity Reboot.
• Fake Brit: Canadian actor Mike Myers voices Shrek, who has a thick Scottish accent, in all the mainline movies.
• The Other Darrin:
  • For video games and other non-movie media, each of the main characters has a different actor/actress: Michael J. Gough replaces Mike Myers as Shrek, Mark Moseley (or Phil LaMarr in some games) replaces Eddie Murphy as Donkey, Holly Fields replaces Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, and André Sogliuzzo and later Eric Bauza replace Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots.
  • Dean Edwards replaced Eddie Murphy as Donkey in Scared Shrekless. Murphy then replaced Edwards for Donkey's Caroling Christmas-tacular. Edwards voiced Donkey again in DreamWorks All-Star Kart Racing.
  • Jason T. Lewis voices Donkey in the Shrek-related DreamworksTV videos, with Mick Wingert (best known as the substitute voice for Po of Kung Fu Panda fame) voicing Shrek in a handful of them, as well as the videos' endtag (even in videos where Gough voices Shrek).
• Screwed by the Network: "Scared Shrekless" fell victim to this in 2013, when ABC stopped running it in favor of Pixar's Toy Story of Terror (of course, it's justified in that Disney owns ABC), though they continue to air Shrek the Halls every year.
• Tie-In Cereal:
  • "Ogre O's◊" is a Shrek tie-in cereal that can basically be called a Froot Loops ripoff.
  • Shrek's Cereal (Not Donkey's) which was released during Shrek 2's big promotional takeover throughout 2004.

The 2001 video game

• Dueling Works: With Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee. Both were launch titles for the original Xbox, featured green-skinned protagonists, and used flatulence as a game mechanic.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The game was supposed to show off the hardware capabilities of the Xbox, and was actually supposed to be an original IP before being repurposed into a Shrek game.
  • A PlayStation 2 port was planned but was cancelled due to TDK Mediactive being acquired by Take-Two Interactive which led to the company losing the Shrek license.

Other games

• What Could Have Been: The Pocket Shrek app was meant to have Fiona as an interactable character alongside Shrek, Donkey and Puss and even got advertised in-game, but she was cancelled when the app went offline and stopped receiving support.

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