Fun fact, The first shrek movie is in the Library of the U.S congress. This means the first Shrek movie was so important that the U.S congress decided to preserve it.

@jacobschmidt2771

2 жыл бұрын

Well they also have Jersey Shore and a bunch of porn movies in there as well.

@bungyboone

2 жыл бұрын

it did win the first animated Oscar so

@hurd3203

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobschmidt2771 congress wanted to preserve the porn movies for “research”

@jacobschmidt2771

2 жыл бұрын

@@hurd3203 Unlocking the secrets of Milf Mansion truly is an important task.

@seanquintanilla1105

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobschmidt2771 government down bad

The fact that I didnt know most of these references growing up shows just how good they've always been and still aren't outdated. You don't need to understand references for things to be funny--but if you know you know!

@madkirk7431

2 жыл бұрын

You also don't have to get the jokes for them to be funny, one example would be every single adult joke in the movie!

@ashwinnmyburgh9364

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@frozenpancakes

2 жыл бұрын

idk, even as a kid, i could tell that there were several jokes going way over my head. Even though i still liked the movie, finally knowing what those referencing is both relieving and mildly frustrating

@brokoblin6284

2 жыл бұрын

It IS the pop culture to be referenced now

@crys_cornflakez

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm you look familiar….no no i must be mistaken if course

8:55 I can answer this. I have a sister who has never seen babe but they constantly quote this line from Shrek as they just see it as a cute little line of Shrek sarcastically comforting donkey.

@martinkf

2 жыл бұрын

sounds like your sister is very cute!

@megtoon1304

2 жыл бұрын

Similar here. I've never seen Babe and only found out it was a reference to that film while watching one of Schaffrillas Productions' videos

@lunarbrona4412

2 жыл бұрын

I never knew it was a reference. I always quoted it when some one half-heartedly finished something.

@EmberTheShark

2 жыл бұрын

I thought of the shining first

@RAFMnBgaming

Жыл бұрын

I'd seen both and I'd never put them together.

I have an outside perspective on this as someone who saw the movie translated to Polish in middle school while I was still learning English and I rewatched it properly only a few years ago - the movie still worked for me despite many of the references not landing due to different culture because the makers of Shrek knew the FORBIDDEN KNOWLEGE. What is the FORBIDDEN KNOWLEGE? It's the fact that reference is not a joke and if you want to put one in your movie you better make it funny either way or risk it being unfunny to everyone who didn't get it or who watches it years later. For example - I had no idea of who OJ Simpson even was so the reference was meaningless to me but the medieval knights following modern US police procedures was still amusing regardless.

@catholiccontriversy

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I had no idea the Tick Tack line was a reference to an Eddie Murphy movie, but I still laughed because after Shrek used his powers of ugly and disgusting to scare away Donkey the only thing that phased him was his bad breath and he needs a highly recognizable name brand breath mint.

@Spike-Prime

11 ай бұрын

My fiance is also Polish, and she swears the version she grew up with is better than the original. According to her, the Polish dub actors improv'd most of their lines and came up with their own unique jokes and references, which landed with her as a kid. So when she watched the English language version last year with me, it didn't measure up.

@robbiewalker2831

9 ай бұрын

Actually, the Shrek 2 scene with the knights (complete with TV Show logo) is most likely a reference to “COPS” a reality TV show about policemen surveilling the city streets; COPS even has a KZread channel if you wish to see it.

@BeesechurgerProductions

3 ай бұрын

​​@@robbiewalker2831The "white bronco" line from the chase scene is the OJ Simpson reference. During the infamous low speed chase he was in with police he was driving a white Ford Bronco.

Fun fact: Shrek 1 Polish dub was so influential to Polish dubbing history because it was the first Polish dub to replace American references with Polish ones mostly political. It spawned Polish dubs in its style called "Shrek Clones" which are made to this day. Even the MCU & Disney's animated movies Polish dubs are "Shrek Clones".

@pablocasas5906

Жыл бұрын

Something similar happened with the Latin American Spanish dub made in Mexico. Added references in Mexican dubs weren't something new, but the fact that Donkey was voiced by a famous Mexican actor and comedian, Eugenio Derbez, and that they let him and the rest of the crew ad-lib some jokes have made Shrek of the most popular animated movies in Latin America. In fact, Shrek's dub actor, Alfonso Obregón, dubbed a character in the anime Chainsaw Man and the official KZread clip uploaded by Crunchyroll has a Shrek reference in its title.

@robbiewalker2831

8 ай бұрын

@@pablocasas5906 Did it keep the "Mexican Food, my favorite" line in Shrek 2?

@pablocasas5906

8 ай бұрын

@@robbiewalker2831 If I'm remembering it correctly I think the Mexican dub changed it to Greek Food A line change that I really like from the dub is the part where Fiona meets Puss for the first time. In the original she asks if he is Shrek and Puss answers, "For you, baby... I could be", but in the Mexican dub Puss said, "For you baby... I could be Batman"

Shrek has aged well but has come in waves in pop culture, being a meme to make fun of for a long time and now people are actually appreciating it for being a good movie which I think is great

@user111real

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, it's the frickin' green man himself!

@cybergames7792

2 жыл бұрын

ALL the 3 movies are good: Shrek 1, Shrek 2 and Shrek Forever after

@gerhardsmith7892

2 жыл бұрын

It's a lot more appreciated because it's a meme than because it's a good movie tho

@apersoniguess_

Жыл бұрын

idk I think the first one's extremely overrated, I'd see the second one but streaming services kinda being a pain

@CoralCopperHead

10 ай бұрын

...There are people who think Shrek is good?

Seriously, that whole bit about Vic and Bob was an absolute revelation. That is such a fascinating yet bizarre bit of knowledge to have.

@mgthestrange9098

Жыл бұрын

When he started talking about it, I was racking my brain trying to remember who did the version with the oi. But there they were, Vic & Bob with EMF! When the song’s played in pubs or parties, people still do the oi.

@adamnicholls8708

9 ай бұрын

This is seriously fascinating to me. So weird.

I don’t think uncaught references will skew the data too much because your conclusion is that the movie is enjoyable even if you don’t get all the references. So naturally missing some references but still enjoying the movie would probably strengthen your core premise

@allantidgwell5624

2 жыл бұрын

And as you gain the reference it make the movie better upon rewatch

@andyroobrick-a-brack9355

2 жыл бұрын

I think it works because a lot of the time, it works as a bunch of funny one-liners, and with context, they're funny one liners with a twist.

Shrek will forever be purely *iconic* whenever that’s in the form of dreadful memes or being seen as a sweet story of a group of outsiders finding a family and being their true selves together

@thecricketanimationarchive7880

2 жыл бұрын

10 years later the memes will still be going

Couldn’t you make a argument that the unicorn in shrek is a reference to the bible, and therefore Shreks relevance is tied to the relevance of the Cristian faith. In this essay I will…..

@TheKingofGames1001

2 жыл бұрын

Well i don't know about that reference, but I do know there is one with a talking donkey.

@decimation9780

2 жыл бұрын

No! Bad!

@stm7810

2 жыл бұрын

where's the essay OP!?

@legoworld246

2 жыл бұрын

Finish the essay! *F I N I S H T H E E S S A Y !*

@poopa_stinka

2 жыл бұрын

Shreks romance with fiona represents a man struggling with maintaining his faith, “the swamp” represents a life of sin. Donkey represents the Holy Spirit. When shrek lives in the swamp with fiona it represents Shrek accepting Christianity into his life of sin, and as fiona takes the form of an ogre it means that despite faith sin is inherent, but that doesn’t make you a bad person necessarily

... I just had a random thought. What if Donkey is one of the Bremen Town Musicians? He lost touch with the Dog, Cat, and Rooster and was captured during Farquaad's magical crackdown.

@ExtremeWreck

2 жыл бұрын

That would actually make a lot of sense.

@coyraig8332

2 жыл бұрын

Someone else remembers that story!

@Rovarin

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I vaguely remember from articles about Shrek from around the time when the movie came out. That the Donkey character was the donkey from that folk tale.

@MrWhatdafuBOOM

2 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine he's yet to form the Bremen Town Musicians, and giving musical bone, I can see him deciding to start his own band at some point. He's already performed many songs by now, even with a certain cat. Only the dog and rooster missing now.

@poweroffriendship2.0

2 жыл бұрын

According to the original story, the robber got scratched by a cat, bitten by a dog, kicked by Donkey, and the rooster crows at him. The robber went to his companions, claiming that he got attacked by a witch who scratch him with her fingernails (cat), a dwarf who stabbed him with a knife on the leg (dog), a monster who hit him with a club (donkey), and the bats screeched from the rooftop (rooster). The gang of robbers left the cottage and the animals live happily ever after in Bremen.

They say if you love what you do you never work a day in your life and let me tell you, editing a Shrek video essay was like a holiday. Can't wait to come back in 2024 for Shrek 2's 20th anniversary!

I didn't knew 80% of those references but I still enjoyed the movie anyway

@tjh6678

2 жыл бұрын

Right? I could've gone my whole life without knowing half these seemingly original witty lines were references...

@thecricketanimationarchive7880

2 жыл бұрын

Did you mean know?

@AAAGamesMaster

2 жыл бұрын

I mean knew because after watching this video I now know the references, duh

@thecricketanimationarchive7880

2 жыл бұрын

Ok

With fairy-tales being pop-culture, I'd say pop-culture is sort of recent by definition. Where it ends is a bit unclear, though. For example, Batman kinda blurs the line. I'd say reimaginings and "public domain" are big aspects, which is part of why Batman blurs the line. It has reimaginings, but you still associate it with a specific brand.

@Quirderph

2 жыл бұрын

Batman is a case where every mainstream reinterpretation has been official, which I guess falls into a modern, capitalist form of folk tale.

One word: Gracefully

12:22 Donkey hops with one hoof extended forward… potentially a reference to Angus Young’s duck walk (… or even Chuck Berry originally)?

The fact that Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer has a direct link to Shrek is absolutely hilarious.

How did shrek age? Well we’re still waiting for shrek 5

I always thought Shrek talking about smack bottom was a bastardized reference to smack down. This was 2001, and The Rock was starting his acting career, so my dumb kid mind thought that's what they were referencing.

@stanrogers5613

2 жыл бұрын

No, it's just the way Mike Meyer's parents would warn him that he was being a bit of a naughty boy and should probably straighten up. It's literally a reference to spanking (which may or may not have ever actually happened; a reminder that it's an option was often enough in the days before spanking became taboo).

How have I only just noticed Donkey is doing the Angus Young/Chuck Berry duckwalk when he's doing "I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE" section of I'm a believer?

notice how this tree has green leaves this is a reference to forest gump which notably had trees with green leaves

9:00 Oh well in that case, Society will just pull a Mythbusters/Dungeon Master. Where in they assume it's from Shrek and quote it as such (which has quite a bit, as people do imitate Shrek's Scottish accent when saying the line, or imagine it in a Scottish accent when reading it). The original bit I'm referring to is of course, Adam Savage's famous quote of "I reject your reality and substitute my own." which is actually originally from the B-Movie, Dungeon Master, but since Dungeon Master is a B-Movie and Mythbusters is popular as fuck, people just generally attribute that quote to Adam instead of the movie because they don't know the true source. I know this, I was the same with that quote. They even make a joke about it in Sword Art Online Abridged. Course you can also pull a "Beam me Up, Scotty" and say it wrong as "I reject your reality and substitute it for my own." which is a minor change but still, as that's how I tend to remember the quote.

This review is very interesting in its context to Shrek 5

I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the animation. Visually, I think the film has mostly aged incredibly well for 2001. Also, all the contemporary references in this video will *definitely* date it. Hell, it already feels a little dated only a year later

11:58 Oh great. Now that you've pointed out the "Oi" you've attracted the Meta Runner fandom.

As a Gen Z kid, it’s nice having a video telling me every reference in Shrek, so I can either say “Hey I know that reference” or “I’ve never heard of this before”

Shrek is one of the few sweet spot type of things where the constant pop culture references don't destroy the movie, and just on character reactions alone a lot of the jokes to do with said pop culture can still be funny even if you don't get it.

17:33 You should have written "שרעק" and not "קרעש". Hebrew and Yiddish are written from right to left and not from left to right.

14:17 It was also used in the tv film Ingenious from 2009, but that's such a deep cut reference that I'm pretty sure no one remembers that film, yet alone the song being used in it lol.

Also when Shrek and Donkey arrives at the seemingly deserted Duloc, it mirrors the scene in the first episode of The Prisoner where Number 6 first arrives at the Village.

4:53 Perfect timing for an ad, KZread

@eddache

2 жыл бұрын

Oops! I forgot about the midrolls!

It should also be noted that at the end of I'm A Believer, Donkey is doing a stage move called the duck-walk, popularized by rock guitarists such as Chuck Berry and Angus Young

that Banksy joke is one of the funniest thing i've ever seen

I've only watched this movie dubbed and it has always landed wonderfully. Most of the references (leaving aside Disney/Fairy Tales) rely heavily on anglophone culture and even 20y ago I think an adult from other culture would have missed most of them. But Shrek's strength is on its story, not its references, they're just a cherry on top for those with that knowledge. The tropes it jokes about are still rampant on today's international culture, so I'm pretty sure it will stand strong for at least a few decades more.

As a child, I didn't pick up on a handful of references, but it never detracted from the story. That's what really makes a reference stand out in a form of media!

As someone who grew up not understanding these references. The movie still holds up. Intact the way I even knew about the Disney princesses was shrek.

The clip at 15:44 is from the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, which was hosted in Dublin, Ireland and popularized the whole thing. This was an interval act to show the culture of Ireland.

11:17 I can't believe I would get to see stupid mario bros again in my life. Ah, nostalgia. Thanks for bringing back my Proust's madeleine, Eddie

17:48 I was actually in the musical, and I can say I quite enjoyed doing it, especially with the actors and actresses I worked with. It’s got great songs too, listen to Story of my Life and Big Bright Beautiful World for examples.

14:44 also Cameron Diaz (Fiona) sang the Pina Colada song in The Sweetest Thing

Guys can we cancel The Guardian for calling Shrek unfunny

@hq4287

2 жыл бұрын

yes

@matthewparker9276

2 жыл бұрын

I'm on board.

@nadroji6549

2 жыл бұрын

I'm grabbing my pitchfork & torch as we speak

@tiwtid6055

2 жыл бұрын

Burn it to the ground

@MetaAyaFangirl

2 жыл бұрын

Yep!🤣

"no, wait, frogs are cool" you have been forgiven by the frog committee

7:01 she's probably a time lady from doctor who, who is regenerating

@johnnyjohnson4084

Жыл бұрын

Who's the doctor

Fantastic video. It's interesting as I grew up with Shrek and most people my age know the quote "That'll do Donkey" rather than its original quote in Babe. I wonder how many other references people my age didn't spot when we were younger and now still just think of Shrek instead.

Fun fact: at 17:30 the word for "shrek" in the other language is backwards, because in the other language words are written right to left.

@adamdernis

Жыл бұрын

To add the letters are in facing the correct direction, but the order is wrong. "שרעק" is the correct writting.

It would be interesting to see a similar video of the other Shrek movies and the references found in them.

1:27 I got gnomed

Here I thought donkey's riffing at the end of I'm a Believer was because he was established as an Otis Redding fan, not realizing it was a reference to a totally different version of I'm a Believer the movie based the sequence on. And donkey liking the boulder being a reference to the story of the donkey and the pebble??? The references in Shrek go much deeper than I originally thought

Like a fine wine

Can’t believe both me and sherk are both 20 years old this year .

@NyGeL_Derey

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome! it stinks

JoJo community: JoJo is full of references Shrek community: Hold my Onion

7:10 oh, and I though I was the only one that was weird out at his human form whenever he transformed. Like it was a thing when I was kid, bit every time it was like WHO ARE YOU!?

Today I learned that the best Would I Lie To You panellist also helped shape my childhood

Vic & Bob being here makes me really happy! They are hysterical! 😂🤣

1:58 how did I miss this I know this movie nearly word for work and somehow I missed this.

15:25 you learn something new every day

4:06 It’s looks more like the Facebook logo

Honestly a few of the references you mentioned as not making sense if you don't know the source material are things I never even questioned as a kid, I thought the slow motion scene with Fiona was just a funny bit where she's so good at fighting that she can take a break mid-kick to adjust her crown.

That ending gag was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time!

I hadn’t seen Shrek until last year, and I liked it, but it was kinda weird It was more… chill, I guess? Than I thought it would be

Shrek is twenty holy crap

Omg she drags the Arial across the ground and tosses her to orcas omg I need to see shrek two that sounds awesome

@sapphireclawe

2 жыл бұрын

How about a godmother who runs the fairytale mafia?

It's amazing how in depth you've gone here! Good job! When I watched it for the first time as a ten year old, most of the references went over my head, but I still enjoyed it. As a Brit, I'm used to this when watching Seinfeld or other such things. A good movie is a good movie, regardless of aged references.

"How Has Shrek Aged?" like fine fucking wine and i will not torrerate anybody claiming anything less

shrek has aged amazingly, the references are not annoying, you don't miss anything from not getting a pop culture reference (i had no idea that that one police scene was a reference, thought it was just a parody on police violence and still laughed when i was a child)

One reference I only just caught for the first time this year was the dwarfs playing the music at the end of the movie, which I'm pretty sure is a reference to the punk band, Dwarves

Theory: 14:09 Friends, by Bette Midler: Then, Did the FRIENDS sitcom/romcom from the 1990's find the name for the show on that album?????

Shrek is going to get the alice in wonderland treatment, where all of the contemporary references are going to be lost eventually, but the story will stick around.

I think people often write off Shrek the Musical for being, you know, Shrek the Musical, but it's honestly a really good musical

@getthegoons

2 жыл бұрын

I watched it once with my sister to roast it and immediately died laughing when he just wore the outhouse

@MariaEduarda-nv5fl

2 жыл бұрын

It is, I'm tired of people bashing it, the music is great, it is funny as fuck and the costumes are beautiful

@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr

5 ай бұрын

I’m sure the musical is great. People just aren’t used to musicals. I’m talking about musicals as in stage plays not Disney movies. Shrek is very fantastical which makes it harder to pull off in a musical. People just prefer animation which makes Shrek look better than what can reasonably be done in stage plays. That is, there’s likely a lot of bias involved. Don’t worry! The people criticizing probably haven’t actually seen the Shrek musical or typically enjoy plays. They just saw something online and voiced an opinion. Or they happened across it on Netflix.

16:08 these lines are nice

Very much enjoying these infotainment style video essays. And man does this make me feel old!

I actually saw the movie babe when I was younger...almost 2 decades after it came out. I was born in 2006, and I watched it a lot when my family had Dish TV in the early 2010s. I haven't seen it in a while, though, but I am very nostalgic for it.

I didn’t understand many of the references as a kid but I still thoroughly enjoyed Shrek. It fact it was one of my favorite movies. I think that stands to reason that the story holds up by itself whether or not you understand the references.

Studied A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen for my A Level it honestly made me feel 200

Donkey was a child from Pleasure Island because he says “haven’t had that kind of trip since I was in collage”

@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario

2 жыл бұрын

That’s from Shrek 3, it’s not canon

@ZipplyZane

2 жыл бұрын

The kids in Pleasure Island were way too young to go to human college before they became donkeys. And, if it's a donkey college, then a donkey could go there, too.

Awesome video once again! Kinda wish you'd mentioned the Weird Al Effect though. It's likely all those references will now be associated with Shrek instead of the originals.

As someone who didn’t see any of the original Disney movies until I was a teen, Shrek was one of my favorite childhood movies

damn discord so laggy u cant see me stomping on my screen at 0:52

Loved doing the research sessions for this, would love for us to do something like this again

I work in a school and we had our grade 7's analyse fairytale tropes through Shrek. Many of the students had actually never seen the movie, the only exposure they had to the movie was through memes. They were not the most excited to watch it. Even though most of the pop references went completely over their heads they still actually enjoyed the movie and thought it was very cleverly done. The few students that said they didn't enjoy the movie seemed to base their dislike off the idea that the memes make jokes out of it, so it must be uncool. I for one enjoyed that unit most profusely. I spent the unit laughing my head off at some reference in the movie while students looked at me like I had lost it.

@eddache

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that sounds like a really interesting class! Wish I had that in school, haha. But fascinating that the memes gave some negative opinion of the film, like the memes were detrimental to the films popularity, rather than the opposite (which is what I would have assumed)

@sirama31

2 жыл бұрын

​@@eddache Every student in the class absolutely knew of Shrek without watching it (which is a pretty amazing feat considering it came out over 20 years ago), but since most of the exposure is from the memes which somewhat paint Shrek in a sarcastic light (or just as a dirty meme), The students seemed to view the movie as going to be a complete joke (and I don't mean comedically). The movie itself was a meme to them. A few maintained that view, but the majority ended up openly enjoying the movie especially when given context. It is definitely interesting seeing how Shrek's internet presence has translated into younger generations.

Friar Tuck in the swing with the accordion is a reference to Disney also. It's gone from California, but I believe it is still in Florida. "The Country Bear Jamboree." There is a female bear that comes from the ceiling on a swing while singing and playing her accordion.

4:11 Facebook was founded 3 years after Shrek came out

I saw this film so young I never questioned many of these

God i feel old. Shrek is love shrek is life

Is it bad that I got the Austin Powers reference as a kid? Yeah my parents didn't care about movie ratings xD

I was watching a video about Shrek based questions in Queara.... Quera?! Quara?! Whatever- and then I get this notification

I remember that story about the donkey and Boulder I read it when I was really little. I didn’t remember that till right now! Thank you for the nostalgia 😀

Thanks, I had just gotten that trilogy of songs OUT of my head. Also fun fact, Rupert Holmes who did The Piña Colada Song was seeing a bit a of a resurgence at the time of Shrek's original release. Having done the first original series on AMC in the mid 90s before getting some Tony awards for some musicals he did after.

I still say Monsters Inc should have won the Oscar

@acasualfanboy

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@snqoqo

2 жыл бұрын

Ý e s

@Stephanie-pt6vv

2 жыл бұрын

Debatable

@alexstate4598

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe

@Gage_Brumley

2 жыл бұрын

Nah. Shrek was a funnier movie

Awww I LOVE Sylvester and the magic pebble it's so lovely

This was so well researched. I did not know I was gonna learn so much about Shrek. I am a changed man. Thank you Eddie

I legitimately had no clue most of the jokes in this where references to other movies mainly because I was born a year after this movie came out

@poeticantics

2 жыл бұрын

P

7:37 oh your magesty

2000 points for working out the vic and Bob connection! - like amazing work!!!!!

I will forever be in awe of the fact that Shrek won the BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay, beating out The Fellowship of the Ring (Eddie Murphy was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.)

All star: “you receive, song.” “I receive, movie preview.”

I thoroughly enjoyed this retrospective of the US dub of Kodokuna Oni O Shurekku Suru.

13:56 Insanely random but, Superfly is a spectacular album

Always rewatched this movie and not once but many times did I get the references. A very interesting sight of a movie never the less.

“That’s whatever you’re talking’ about for ya!” 4:53