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Shrek Crap: Volume IV!

In what for the good of mankind must be the last Shrek-related article to ever appear on this site, I present the fourth and final installment of Shrek Crap Our last look at the ogre's massive attack on everything sold everywhere includes his revamp of Milton Bradley's Operation, a wacky dress-up kit and a Play-Doh set that lets children create & mutilate Shrek's teeth just for the Hell of it. The movie's out now and doing extremely well. Is it because it's really funny or because everyone ate the green popcorn?

Posted by Matt on 05/25/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 168 comments

I’m going to see the movie this evening. The first one reminded me of a cross between Fractured Fairy Tales and one of my favorite stories, "The Practical Princess," then I found out the original book was along the same lines. Read T.P.P. or "Petronella" by the same author (I forget the name), very traditional-type fairy tales with strong female leads and good twists that are not for the sake of twistyness. I also liked "AlfTales." "Princess, there’s this pea in your bed!" "EEEWWW!" "Not that kind!"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/26/2004 4:39 PM

I’m eating my Shrek Kudos while laughing at this article. I wish I liked this movie, it’d be more fun. I’m still having nightmares about that buzzer. Good Grief.

Chestnuts roasted by G4L @ 05/26/2004 4:43 PM

Oh, and Matt, you missed (or I missed your coverage of) the Dial Soap commercial that spoofs Shrek co-star Cameron Diaz’s run-in with spunk in Something about Mary.

Spunk jokes in a commercial for a kid’s movie tie-in?!That’s wrong

Chestnuts roasted by Ashayne @ 05/26/2004 6:08 PM

hey was there usually an insane dentist kit available from play-doh? i remember having a set up very similar to that when i was a kid, and i wonder if they brought back some old garbage just for the film. i can picture someone in the new product development sector for play-doh in a long forgotten storage room pulling a file from a rusty, dust covered cabinet from 1980 and squealing like he just won super millionaire…
or maybe you could always get them….
in any case i always find it amusing when the toy industry releases a "new" idea that i have a broken version of sitting in my attic…

Chestnuts roasted by cycoyuk @ 05/26/2004 6:29 PM

Shrek’s a member of Al Qaida, pass it on.

Chestnuts roasted by Former A1C Pete @ 05/26/2004 6:34 PM

"The original versions technically don’t exist," says Lucasfilm’s Jim Ward, who is the project’s executive producer. "(Lucas) wanted to represent the films as they exist in his mind, and that’s the special-editions versions."

Lucas is a douchebag…Sorry I’m still bitching about this…

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 05/26/2004 6:48 PM

Yeah, we’re getting most of this down in Southern New Jersey finally, too. I’ve always been terrible at "Operation" – I could never get anything out without setting off the damn buzzer, I don’t have good enough hand-eye coordination – but my sisters and I spent many a happy hour creating stuff with Play Doh that was almost as odd as a toothless Shrek.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 05/26/2004 9:37 PM

I am back from my self-imposed break from X-E. It seems I have missed the Bitner anniversary, and actual spam; not to be confused with my reference links that may look like spam.

Here is an interesting interview with Ralph Bakshi: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/518/518805p1.html http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000835/

I am not a fan of his work, but Matt should find the info about the original version of "Cool World", and the infamous "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures" interesting. I think we all need an X-E review of Mighty Mouse sniffing flowers. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161170/

http://www.mediacoalition.org/reports/wildmon.html
"During the battle over ‘The Last Temptation of Christ,’ Wildmon claimed victory in another controversy when the creator of the ‘Mighty Mouse’ cartoon agreed to cut 3 1/2 seconds of an episode that Wildmon had protested. The creator, Ralph Bakshi, had fallen under suspicion because of his role in making an X-rated animated feature, ‘Fritz the Cat.’ However, Bakshi had also won an award for ‘Mighty Mouse’ from Action for Children’s Television. In the disputed episode, Wildmon charged Bakshi with portraying Mighty Mouse as experiencing drug-induced exhilaration after inhaling the petals of a flower. Mighty Mouse had sniffed cocaine, Wildmon contended. Bakshi defended his cartoon, insisting that Wildmon had interpreted the scene out of context. However, Bakshi said he was removing the scene because of his concern that the controversy might lead children to believe that what Wildmon was saying was true. Wildmon interpreted the cut differently. ‘This is a de facto admission that indeed Mighty Mouse was snorting cocaine,’ Wildmon said. "We have been vindicated.’"

John "Ren & Stimpy" Kricfalusi disputed the charge: http://www.canoe.ca/TelevisionShowsR/renandstimpy.html
"’Ridiculous,’ says Kricfalusi. ‘That scene was so innocent. Especially when you consider that there was so many other things they could have gotten us on.’"

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 05/26/2004 10:49 PM

Ok so i did something a bit out of character for me. I bought something on E-bay. I just couldn’t pass up that guy who floods the transformers sales with promises of bootleg devestators. I had to do it, and today I reaped the benefits of my weakness. I am now the proud owner of a cheaply made, Devestator, superion, bruticus, menasaur, and denfensor ghestalt teams. well menasaur has 2 guys from computron for some reason. Over all beisdes the fact that you can feel the difference in the weight of the plastic, they’re pretty good. most of em have the right colors (devestator is purple and green as he should be) and they all stand on thier own, even pretty steady except for Superion who i could have sworn was a lot buffer than the gagly legged guy i got. over all i’m satified with my purchase as they were god awful cheap, and will contribute to the menagere of age inapropriate toys i have on my upper shelves…. man i need a girlfriend.

Chestnuts roasted by Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 05/26/2004 10:52 PM

simply awesome

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 05/26/2004 10:58 PM

I was in Target today, and I saw the weirdest-ass thing today that made me think of you immediately, Matt.
Shrek is now a thrasher. I walked by a display case for Shrek Skateboards and those scooter things. They weren’t even good skateboards. They were the ones that you had as a kid. Huge, heavy and completely incapable of doing an ollie unless you wanna smash the HELL out of your knees with twenty-pounds of wood and thirty pounds of thick, thick plastic wheels.
Mmmmmm…okay. Advertising gone to far. My brain hurts a little more today.

Chestnuts roasted by RWP @ 05/26/2004 11:00 PM

Yeah… im poster #47. Surprisingly enough… I haven’t seen this shrek shit out here yet (Denver)… save for the occaisional pepsi box. Oh well. Spiderman 2 hasn’t let me down.. the commercials are on 24/7

Chestnuts roasted by ArcticOrange @ 05/26/2004 11:48 PM

I meant poster #62 and 63 including this post.

DER!

Chestnuts roasted by ArcticORange @ 05/26/2004 11:49 PM

I checked the small grocery section at my neighboor Target, and while Shrek certainly everywhere (Taco Shells! Why, dear god, why) Spiderman is starting to catch-up, there was already the fruit snacks and the breakfast cearal, but he’s made it onto some items Shrek hasn’t (or hadn’t) such as Cheese-Its.
And Shrek doesn’t have his own line of Lego sets.

(I was surprised to find that Goldfish has decided to go with Garfield for its summer cross-promotion. Boy does that movie look terrible)

Chestnuts roasted by Emperor_Zorak @ 05/27/2004 1:02 AM

Not Shrek but very green: We (my squeeze and I) wanted to know the fate of green ketchup. Appearantly she had the unique experience of Meatloaf blessed by this wonder substance. Anybody?

jbergesq@hotmail.com

Chestnuts roasted by J Berg Esq. @ 05/27/2004 1:35 AM

Not Shrek but very green: We (my squeeze and I) wanted to know the fate of green ketchup. Appearantly she had the unique experience of Meatloaf blessed by this wonder substance. Anybody?

jbergesq@hotmail.com

Chestnuts roasted by J Berg Esq. @ 05/27/2004 1:35 AM

There is a GIANT Shrek on top of my local Burger King.

Chestnuts roasted by wack0 @ 05/27/2004 3:35 AM

WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE THINGS ON "OPERATION SHREK’S" UNNAPANCE?

CRABS?

Chestnuts roasted by Kraftwerk @ 05/27/2004 7:32 AM

I was always afraid of operation when i was a kid. that buzzer freaked me out man. gave me the gibblies. Also, i agree, George Lucas IS a douchebag.

Chestnuts roasted by zombone @ 05/27/2004 7:48 AM

Oh the pain, Shrek is down under, & he is advertising the STATE OF ORIGIN. (For those of you unfamiliar with this it is the biggest rugby league game of the year between Queensland & New South Wales). And here was me thinking us Australians were missing out, oh well maybe thats the worst of it. . . . . . . .

Chestnuts roasted by Matchu @ 05/27/2004 7:51 AM

Has anyone else seen the SIerra Mist commercial with Shrek in it? I find it highly disturbing. They try to compare being frozen and DEAD in outer space is a good comparison to how refreshing Sierra Mist is. For those not familiar with the commercial its the one where SHrek, Fiona, and Donkey riding along in a carriage and naturally Donkey says something to piss off Shrek who tosses him into outer sapce thus freezing him (and killing him but they fail to mention that). Anyone else disturbed?

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 05/27/2004 10:56 AM

Getting flash-frozen in near absolute zero? Yeah, like it’s like THAT!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/27/2004 11:32 AM

Y’know Matt, besides the comic book ads and Ralphie Goes to Hell, every article this month has been related to the color green. Although Ralphie’s mother is wearing a green sweater.

Shrek I-IV: obviously green tie-in.
TMNT Pudding Pies: Green Pies
Mini-golf: Putting on 18 greens.

Thats a lot of green!

Chestnuts roasted by mutton72 @ 05/27/2004 12:01 PM

I think it’s symbolic of how much money I don’t have.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/27/2004 12:11 PM

By the by, pretty good movie. Was nearly undermined by the ads dropping the punchlines. Mongo rules! "Be good," indeed.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/27/2004 12:17 PM

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