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*** King Harold makes a excuse about his old "crusade wound" acting up. As [[Fawlty Towers|Basil Fawlty]], [[John Cleese]] made a similar claim about an old war wound.
**** Surely, 'twas [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|only a flesh wound?]]
**** Did he perhaps take an arrow to the Ni?
** Surely Mike Myers as [[Austin Powers|a big guy with a Scottish accent]] counts; ''Shrek Forever After'' even has [[Stealth Pun|Fiona mistakenly calling him "Scott"]].
** Shrek cracks a mirror by looking into it and smiling: the scene is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|virtually]] identical to the same one featured in Mike Myers' ''[[Austin Powers]]'' films.
** Donkey's line "I had my mouth open and everything" actually came from part of his "Delirious" routine.
** In the fourth movie, Donkey very poorly sings the final line of Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love Of All", a reference to Eddie Murphy's role as the incredibly untalented Randy Watson in ''[[Coming to America]]''.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: "Shrek" is a phonetic rendering of the German (and Yiddish) word "schreck" (sometimes rendered "schröck"), which means "terror, horror, fear" -- a perfectly appropriate name for an ogre.
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Gingy is puppeteered and voiced by a woman in each musical production.
* [[Deleted Scene]]: Three, actually -- two are covered under [[What Could Have Been]], and one was a [[Rollercoaster Mine]] sequence taking place right after Shrek rescues Fiona and unmasks himself.
** One from film 1 has Fiona meeting a Gypsy woman named Bib Fortuna (a reference to the [[Star Wars]] character of the same name), who would eventually become the [[Fairy Godmother]]. In this version Fiona is ''always'' an ogre, and Bib Fortuna gives her a potion that would make her beautiful, but tells her that she will alternate between her human and ogress forms until she finds true love. After that, she is whisked away by her dragon guardian and returned to the tower.
** Also [[That Other Wiki]] says that the filmmakers intended to show the "Happily Ever After"-Form of Dragon as a pink winged Mare in ''Shrek 2''. They decided against it. [
* [[Franchise Killer]]: [[DreamWorks]] had plans for five movies in the ''Shrek'' film series. ''Shrek'' was the first animated film to win the newly coined Academy Award for Best Animated Film in 2001, over ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' and ''[[Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]]''. ''Shrek 2'' was nominated for the award and lost to ''[[The Incredibles]]'', but it became not just the highest grossing film of 2004 but [[DreamWorks]]' most successful film thus far. ''Shrek the Third'' though, despite being more financially successful than ''Shrek 2'', got mixed reviews from critics and was not considered for Best Animated Film of 2007. The lukewarm reception to ''Shrek the Third'' led [[DreamWorks]] to finish up the well under development ''Shrek Goes Fourth'', which was retitled ''Shrek Forever After'' and became the de facto final movie, ending the series at four. ''Shrek Pleads the Fifth'', the fifth movie, was canceled and turned into a prequel film about [[Puss in Boots]].
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The resemblance of human Shrek to (dour Scottish) British politician [[Gordon Brown]] was widely noted by the British media.
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