Memes / Shrek

Some
BODY
once told me
The world was gonna meme me
I ain't the sharpest trope in the shed

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Miscellaneous

• As of The New '10s, Shrek, for some reason, became more known for its influence on Internet culture rather than pop culture at large, even garnering its own article on The Other Wiki. There is very little from the first film that hasn't achieved Memetic Mutation at some point, and very few of those memes have died. The most well-known Shrek memes take the form of "Shrek Is Love, Shrek Is Life" copypastas and videos, which helped spawn the series' "Brogre" fanbase. These memes and fans treat Shrek as a Memetic Badass, a Memetic Molester, a Memetic Psychopath and a Crystal Dragon Jesus all at the same time.
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• Along the same lines, Shrek has been a commonly-requested newcomer for the fourth Super Smash Bros. game before its release, especially since the game Shrek SuperSlam was a mascot-platform fighter in the same kind of vein. The same happened with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate because of his longevity in meme culture.
• One of the taglines of Shrek the Third was "The wait is ogre", while Shrek Forever After had "It ain't ogre til it's ogre!". As a result, mentioning Shrek on /co/ will often result in a Hurricane of Ogre Puns. The most notable example is this fanart getting captioned with "I'm sorry Shadow... but my time here is ogre."
• From DreamWorksTV's Shrek videos on YouTube, there's Shrek saying "OH HELLO THERE!"
• Shrek is love... Shrek is life. ^Explanation A catchphrase common among a type of ironic (and highly Not Safe for Work) fanfiction, in which Shrek engages in sexual intercourse with children who are fans of his films and kills non-fans, all of which is described in over-the-top detail.
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• Riding off the coattails of Bee Movie, its also a popular fad to random elements to clips of the film every time a certain word or thing is said or done (i.e. the film speeds up every time Shrek takes a step, says "Donkey!", frowns, etc.)
• Pinches furros. ^Explanation Translation: "Fucking furries". In the Spanish-speaking community, Shrek has become the de-facto response from furry haters towards cringe-inducing acts by furries on the web based on a rather lame pun, changing Shrek quote of not liking donkeys (burros) to furries (furros), after a series of crudely drawn YouTube videos. It has been acknowledged when Shrek's voice actor in Latin America was recorded on video saying that phrase..
• Shrek Retold. ^Explanation A "remake" of the 2001 original, in which each scene is created by a different person using a different medium. Created by over 200 contributors for a fan convention called ShrekFest in 2018.
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• The cover art of a 2007 compilation produced by NOW Music, Now That's What I Call Shrek!, has become a meme.
• Shrek Wazowski◊. ^Explanation It's extremely popular to photoshop Shrek's head onto Mike Wazowski's body, presumably because they're both green, debuted in 2001 and have spawned countless memes.
• *SNAP* YUP. THIS ONE'S GOING IN MY CRINGE COMPLIATION.^explanation An image of Shrek holding a camera, often used to react to anything considered... well, cringy.
• Listing or picturing Donkey alongside other characters associated with dragons, eg:
  Dirk: I killed a dragon.
  Daenerys: I raised a dragon.
  Hiccup: I trained a dragon.
  Donkey: [saying nothing while grinning suggestively]

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Shrek

• "I like that boulder. That is a nice boulder."
• "Some-BODY once told me..." ^Explanation These were the opening lines of the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth, played when Shrek leaves his outhouse and fully appears to the audience for the first time.
• "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP?!" ^Explanation Shrek shouts this at the horde of fairy tale characters who have relocated to his swamp home.
• "And in the morning, I'm making waffles!" ^Explanation Donkey states this when he first arrives in Shrek's swamp house.
• "Ogres are like onions! / Ogres have layers." ^Explanation Metaphorical advice given by Shrek to Donkey to explain that even ogres can be good deep-down.
• "EVERYBODY LOVES PARFAITS!" ^Explanation As Donkey questions the above quote, he inquires about ogres possibly being like parfaits, setting Shrek off. Parfaits are now generally seen as setting off Shrek's Berserk Button in memes.
• DONKEY!! ^Explanation Shrek frequently shouts this in a thick accent.
• "UGHHHH, IT'S DISGUSTING!"^Explanation Lord Farquaad, fantastic racist that he is, says this upon the reveal that Fiona turns into an ogre at night. This clip is often used in earnest to express displeasure with something, usually DeviantArt, namely in YouTube Poop form.
• "Good question." ^Explanation  Shrek's response to Fiona asking why Farquaad didn't rescue her. Often used as a punchline to memes detailing situations where the author has to, well, answer an awkward or incriminating question.
• "The (X) has fallen in love with the (Y!)" ^Explanation At the tail end of the movie when Shrek objects to Farquaad and Fiona's wedding, Farquaad laughs and says "The ogre has fallen in love with the princess!" Turned into a snowclone where "X" is normally referring to the poster while "Y" is something they are a big fan of. It's also spun off into one where Farquaad's line is replaced with something else— usually a single word with no punctuation.
• E ^Explanation A picture of Lord Faarquad with youtuber Markiplier's face edited onto it, gained prevalence as a major face of "Deep-fried" memes, with such overly-specialized purposes removed from context and heavy compression from constant saving and re-saving that it can be hard to tell what it was even about to begin with.
• "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make." ^Explanation Lord Farquaad says this line to a group of knights being sent to rescue Fiona. It's been used when describing potentially disastrous situations that higher ups treat the safety of with apathy.
• "Like that's ever gonna happen." ^Explanation Shrek is reading a fairly tale at the start of the movie. Used as a self-deprecating Bait-and-Switch.
• "Quest? I'm already on a quest!" ^Explanation Shrek goes to Duloc to try and get his swamp back, when Faarquad gets the idea to send Shrek off to rescue Fiona for him. Often became a joke about vast open-world games like Skyrim.

Shrek 2

• For five minutes, could you not [X]? FOR FIVE MINUTES?! ^Explanation Shrek's annoyance at Donkey's antics come to a head on the long trip to Far Far Away, resulting in him saying this. This scene is often used as an exploitable template, where Shrek calls out a person, group, or thing for doing something, frequently a widely disliked action, far too often.
• "Enough, Reggie."^Explanation  Reggie begins playing his trumpet to the Hawaii Five-O theme without permission and then gets slapped.
• The Rocky Roll Call in the dinner scene.
• I NEED A HERO!^Explanation The climax of the movie is accentuated with Jennifer Saunders as the Fairy Godmother singing her cover of "Holding Out For a Hero". It's commonly cited as the best scene in the series, and has sometimes been used in tandem with scenes from other films such as the final battle of Avengers: Endgame.
• "They don't even have dental."^Explanation One of the most commonly listed examples of a line that gets funnier the older you are—on some sites, whenever someone makes a set of angry complaints followed by an irritated observation, one can count on a picture of that scene with the irritated observation added in to replace it..

Shrek the Third

• DA DA!!!^Explanation Shortly after the main plot starts up, Shrek has a nightmare about being bombarded with baby ogres. He then wakes up and sees that Donkey and Puss have also gained baby ogre faces. Donkey says this in a demonic voice before Shrek wakes up for real. This scene somehow took off, possibly due to its Surprise Creepy nature.
• For whatever unknown reason, "Fiona's Father Dies in Shrek the Third" has become the go-to joke of choice by many internet commenters when discussing spoilers in highly anticipated franchise installments.
• This picture of Shrek screaming◊ is frequently used in Brogre memes, especially an edited GIF version that infinitely loops entering Shrek's mouth.
• A picture of King Harold dying is often captioned with *dies from cringe*◊, and is used to respond to disagreeable statements or memes.

Shrek Forever After

• DO THE ROAR! ^Explanation A child says this to Shrek at his children's birthday party.
• I LOVE YOU DADDY! ^Explanation This is the child's response to his father when Shrek complies with the prior request.
• Mint Ogre-load ^Explanation A picture of a billboard advertising a mint Aero-flavored McFlurry as a promotional tie-in, which became infamous for the alternate meaning of the word "load", especially given Shrek's reputation as a Memetic Molester.
• As happened with many other movies and franchises, fans of Avengers: Infinity War descended like a horde of animals on the comments sections of the scene where Shrek disintegrates from existence.

Shrek video games

• "Wooooah! This beast still be under warranty!" from Shrek Smash N'Crash Racing has become a minor meme in the Vinesauce community, due to the fact that Shrek wouldn't stop spouting it during Vinny's playthrough of the game.
• Requesting Shrek for Super Smash Bros. was a surprisingly popular meme when the Fighter Ballot was a thing. It was equally as popular to suggest as the suggestion itself was to mock.
• The Super Smash Bros clone Shrek SuperSlam has become a meme in itself due to the fact that the game simply exists.