Scared Shrekless

Scared Shrekless
; "2010 Halloween Short of Shrek's Franchise";
General information
Title	Scared Shrekless
Length	24 minutes
Release Date	October 28, 2010, 8PM
Release on DVD	September 13, 2011 (DVD); August 28, 2012 (Blu-ray)
Genre	Fantasy
Production information
Directed by	Gary Trousdale; Raman Hui
Produced by	Karen Foster; Chad Hammes
Starring	Mike Myers; Cameron Diaz; Dean Edwards; Antonio Banderas
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Scared Shrekless is a 2010 Halloween special that premiered on NBC at 8:00 p.m. on October 28th, 2010. The short film is set after the events of Shrek Forever After.

Plot[]

Halloween is Shrek's favorite holiday, and this year he is planning a night of frights — all done ogre-style. Instead of the usual tricks or treats, he and the babies are scaring trick-or treaters. Shrek is very proud of his kids' first time in scaring three boys. He complimented Felicia about her grip on the big fat kid, Farkle made his dad proud for his excellent work on his teeth, and grabbing one of the boys' ankle, but Fergus has to work on his timing. Shrek and Princess Fiona are nonetheless proud for the triplets' first Halloween scare. When he, Princess Fiona, and the kids got back to their house, Donkey, Puss in Boots, Big Bad Wolf, Gingy, the Three Blind Mice, and Pinocchio tried to scare Shrek, but it failed. So, Shrek challenges Donkey, Puss in Boots and the other fairy tale creatures to spend the night in Lord Farquaad's abandoned castle of Duloc, while telling scary stories. The last one to be scared "Shrekless" wins, and is crowned the King of Halloween.

Gingy goes first, claiming his story is true about the parody of "The Bride of Frankenstein", but near the end of his story, he says the gingerbread zombies of his girlfriend in his story ate him, scaring the Three Little Pigs and making them go "Wee, Wee, Wee All The Way Home". The Wolf is forced to leave as the Pigs are his "ride". After realizing the error in Gingy's story, Shrek rats out Gingy who then leaves to hide his embarrassment.

The remaining characters are Puss, Donkey, Shrek and Pinocchio. Puss and Donkey both attempt to tell their own story about the parody of "Psycho", but end up cutting each other off in the middle of a sentence. Puss ends it by saying a giant waffle monster ate Donkey. However, Donkey comes out of the waffle's mouth and unleashes Puss' worst fear: getting sprayed with a spray bottle. Puss scurries off while Shrek says it's cheating.

Shrek finally tells his story about him playing the role of a babysitter sent to control a child who has gone mad (Pinocchio) from the parody of "The Exorcist". After several mishaps, Shrek sends Pinocchio out of the window and him falling down the stairs. It turns out what was "possessing" him was none other than Jiminy Cricket who hid in Pinocchio's head controlling Pinocchio's thoughts. The story ends with Pinocchio smashing him as revenge. Pinocchio then runs out of the castle after Shrek shows him a real cricket as a "Conscience" and Donkey knows now who's cheating. Only Donkey and Shrek are left when Shrek decides to wait for Lord Farquaad's Ghost.

Suddenly, chairs start moving, the chandelier starts rocking, causing Donkey to think it's a prank when Shrek claims he's not behind this. A knight suddenly come to life, scaring Donkey out of the castle saying "Dooooooooooooonkeeeeeeeeeeeyyy!!!!" It turns out that Fiona used a strange megaphone for the voice and the babies were the single knight armor. Now, Shrek and his family are the winners and they're the Kings of Halloween. Fiona then says she has seven eggs which ends the story as the ogre family pelted the eggs at the Seven Dwarfs.

Stories[]

The Bride of Gingy (parody of The Bride Of Frankenstein)
Boots Motel (parody of Psycho)
The Shreksorcist (parody of The Exorcist)

Cast[]

Mike Myers as Shrek
Dean Edwards as Donkey
Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona
Miles Christopher Bakshi as Fergus/Farkle
Nina Zoe Bakshi as Felicia
Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots
Aron Warner as Big Bad Wolf
Cody Cameron as Pinocchio, The Three Little Pigs
Christopher Knights as Three Blind Mice
Conrad Vernon as Gingy
Chris Miller as Magic Mirror
Kristen Schaal as Sugar
Sean Bishop as Geppetto/Prince Charming/Dwarfs
Susan Fitzer and Patty Cornell as the Duloc Dolls

Thriller Night[]

Added as a bonus for the DVD release was a parody of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video. Shrek, Fiona, Donkey & Puss In Boots perform the music video on the streets of Far Far Away. Pied Piper brings the dead to life and makes them dance to Donkey singing Thriller.

Starring:[]

Home Media[]

DVD[]

Scared Shrekless

Netflix[]

Shrek's Swamp Stories

Trivia[]

A couple of the costumes in the beginning of the film reference classic horror monsters. These include Count Dracula (worn by Puss) and the Mummy (worn by Gingy).
Before Shrek declares the location of the storytelling contest, Puss quickly begins saying "Once upon a midnight dreary". This is the opening line to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", one of the most famous poems in history.
When Donkey interrupts Puss with his own story, he talks about the infamous urban legend about organ harvesting. This involves travelers waking up in a bathtub with ice and no kidneys after getting drugged. Although the drugging aspect was replaced by elements of equally notorious legends, the Hook and Bloody Mary.
This is the only sequel to reference elements that appeared in the first Shrek film.
This is the first time Puss in Boots crossed over to a location from the first Shrek film that wasn't the swamp.
Some portfolios from various animators working on Scared Shrekless display removed elements and stories.
- The short film The Pig Who Cried Werewolf was initially planned for the special. It's likely that it was removed and released separately for timing reasons.
- A different story starring Puss was storyboarded by Ryan Savas involving the character finding cursed red-leather boots. This was an adaption of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, "The Red Shoes." The reason for its removal is unknown.
- Originally, Shrek's final story was going to involve his time in Sleepy Hollow with the Headless Horseman. It was removed and replaced by "The Shreksorcist". The reasons are unknown.
Eddie Murphy was replaced by Dean Edwards in the film. Murphy voiced Donkey in all of the movies, including Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular.
Shrek smugly reminds Donkey that he had a role in Farquaad's death, even though it was to save Shrek and Fiona's lives. This is a foreshadowing of Shrek's trick to scare Donkey and win the contest, since he left out the part where he summoned Dragon for help.

Errors[]

Despite Fiona being biologically a human, she acts like ogres are the "kings" of Halloween, despite not being a biological ogre herself.
Shrek calls ogres "kings" of Halloween, though the word "king" exclusively means a male monarchy, and never uses the phrase "kings and queens." However in ancient times, some countries used the title "king" for all monarchs, regardless of gender.
Even though they say Duloc is haunted by Farquaad's ghost, his ghost was sent back to the Underworld by Dragon's fireball in Shrek 4-D (or, The Ghost of Lord Farquaad), which took place during Shrek and Fiona's honeymoon.
- On a similar note, Duloc is shown to have a tomb for Farquaad that, among other things, had murals depicting Farquaad heroically dueling Dragon. This is despite all of Duloc's populace being in the church at the time Farquaad being killed and being a direct witness to how he actually died (not to mention the fact that Farquaad was eaten and digested afterwards and thus can't have a tomb as a result).