I had a buzz lightyear soap as a kid in the 90s / early 2000's and I refused to use it because it smelled so good. I would pay stupid amounts of money to have it again.. it smelled SO GOOD
It can actually be argued to be a good thing, since it meant kids were eating fresh vegetables instead of color change desert, chemically enhanced French fry dip, or fast food.
i commented this on the video already but i had a shrek scratch n sniff book that just smelt like onions on every page, being older now and especially after watching this i feel like it was intentional haha
Honestly, the shrek onions weren't a bad idea. Kinda wished they had done a whole with green veggies. "Why are ogres green? Cause they eat their greens!" Would have been a good way to help kids eat healthy. What a missed opportunity.
8:08 I kinda respect him for addressing that the character himself is not the problem, it’s the companies that tried to use his image to sell unhealthy foods to kids. Because I feel like some adult would just pin the blame on the characters themselves for selling stuff to kids, when often the visions of artists that create those kind of characters don’t always aline with the intentions of the companies distributing them when they get put on products.
People thought the minions were bad for being slapped on everything, but they don't even hold a candle to the amount of Shrek-branded items that could be seen in stores during the 2000s. The main difference being that Shrek wasn't absolutely insufferable
It's likely because of the fact Shrek is a likeable character, and I think a green guy who is slightly jaded, but still smiles and smirks is more appealing than one eyed yellow twinkie people with big smiles.
I'd take the Shrek candies over the minion tictacs every day. I received so many of them from out-of-touch relatives and they were the literal worst. they had a medicinal banana flavour, they made your breath smell worse and they were truly terrible to open. I'd take Shrek's green apple or sometimes lime-flavoured candies as the chance of lime is superior to the suffering that is an artificial banana. hell, I'd even take onion-flavoured tictacs over banana ones.
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I honestly find it ironic how Shrek was initially designed as a jab at Disney’s money making machine, but became so popular that it became its own money making machine.
@@VoxTheUkrainianComradeimo most Disney stuff isn't anything that has had an impact on me. But Shrek and DreamWorks in general lives rent free in my mind.
I mean he wasn’t wrong. Twinkies are essentially poison when you look at the sugar content and amount of processed crap that goes into them, plus the stuff in the green dye. It’s was vacuum packed diabetes.
I work at Goodwill and we have pictures of the Puss in Boots McDonalds glass taped up with a warning saying not to sell it. I've actually seen a couple of them get donated.
As a kid I had a Kid Cuisine with Shrek on the box, I opened it and saw it was a green tray and didn't think twice about it, eat my lunch and then threw the green tray away, a few days later I had another kid cuisine with Shrek on the box and noticed that tray was blue, didn't think twice about it, later had another kid cuisine (ate that a lot as a kid) with Shrek on the box tray was blue, was confused and read the back of the box and saw if you had the green tray you were a winner, I was so disappointed in myself
You just know some scientist making the swamp pudding was like "oh shit boss we messed up. This stuff turns your tongue green" And then some exec saying: "That sounds like an absolute win"
it's actually a problem that was all too real. I don't know how bad it is these days, but back in the day, mascots had serious selling power. Tony the Tiger made us think Frosted Flakes were an after-sports snack! lol
@@slow_start Yeah and now that I’m a parent I show my kid Shrek and he loves him now. I found myself agreeing with the senator about the green twinkies. Great vids by the way
It's manipulative enough that all of Latin and South America banned cartoon mascots in advertising over the last three years. Mexico was the last hold put, banning the practice last year. Go look up how Mexican super markets dealt with it. You'll see workers putting red tape over the Lucky Charms Leprechaun on boxes they bought before the ban. Australia is set to pass similar legislation and the EU is considering the same thing, but have yet to put formal legislation. Needless to say, it's controversial and may well see its end here in the states before long. I suspect around the same time Mickey is forced into public domain and Disney losses an incentive to have cartoon mascots.
Despite that politician's easily memeable presentation, he made a good point. There was a huge pushback against fast food and junk food mascots for that very reason. It's why McDonald's rarely uses Ronald and never uses the other characters, for example
I remember Baskin Robbins had some kinda Shrek sundae with crushed oreos and gummy worms supposed to be dirt and worms. I still call that combo a Shrek Sundae.
Honestly, Kid Cuisine being stuck in the late 1990s and early '00s makes a whole lot of sense when their mascot is a CGI'd penguin named after the thing they're selling. Also, Shrek onions make sense.
When I was younger I had a Fiona themed bath set. The whole gag was that it was like a swamp, and the bath products were like a mud. I can still remember the smell, but I’m convinced I hallucinated it because I can’t find any evidence it existed no matter where I search.
Reminds me of this scene from Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022): Bob the Dwarf: “For example: Do you remember Shrek body wash?” Dale: “Uhhhh, no?” Bob the Dwarf: “EXACTLY! No one does!”
I swear, the level of quality in the presentation, editing, and writing on this channel feels like it should belong to a channel at least 5 times the size as it is now. For what it's worth, I'm close to certain this channel is going places.
12:33 I live in New Zealand and McDonalds sold the Shrek pasta here too! They had pasta Happy Meals in 2007 under the name 'Pasta Zoo', and I remember eating the Shrek pasta and seeing promotion for it. Odd little time capsule, I must say
The politician saying he likes Shrek but dislikes the green Twinkies knowing kids are eating it for the green filling is my favorite part of the video, so random and funny. Shrek marketing was pretty much everywhere.
Honestly, here in Argentina it was all about Shrek during the 2000's, and we loved it. We didn't get the Twinkies and the Cuisine things, fortunately, but we did get tons of McDonald's toys, cereal promotions and a lot more things I can barely remember. Such a Shrektastic era ❤️
My dad was actually a district manager at McDonald’s during the shrek glass fiasco. Somehow he was able to get all the glasses for the promotion for free, so I remember getting them vividly. We obviously gave them all back but for some reason I thought the whole situation was hilarious.
Nort American Nesquik rabbit: "this chocolate milk is delicious bro, you should try it 😁" South American Nesquik rabbit: " **extreme moaning** this milk **moans** is so good **even more moaning** 😫"
9:30 If McDonald's made Sonic the Hedgehog drinking glasses. Tails would have been the deadliest because Tails is a orangish yellow two tailed fox who can fly with his two tails while Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy would have been the safe ones to drink out of. Sonic is blue, Knuckles is red, and Amy is pink.
A cashier at Walmart had a funny story that a woman in a rush bought a Shrek snickers which if I remember was when the 3rd movie was coming out. She started eating it and noticed it was green inside that she freaked out and thought she was eating a expired snickers.
I think a history of things like overdone over aggressive movie tie ins or marketing things similar to Shrek mania would be fun. Others that i think of are the 90s pokemon pokemania products... the current overuse of The minions come to mind. But it'd be fun to look at past generations of yester year too
As a diehard Shrek kid born in 2001, I’m a little embarrassed at how many of these products I actually owned. I drank that Shrek Kool Aid to the ends of the earth
The reason why McDonald's keeps trying to sell pasta is because of Jollibee. The Filipino fast food brand is huge in Southeast Asia and Oceania, rivaling and even surpassing McDonald's in some areas. Jollibee's menu features burgers, fried chicken, palabok noodles and their famous spaghetti with Filipino-style tomato sauce. That's why McDonald's is trying to copy their success.
I'm basically counting down the days until I can finally try Jollibee's for myself 😆😆The Halo-Halo drink looks unbelievably good!! And I want to try their chicken so bad!!
@@hotaruishere2133 I actually tried them for the first time last weekend (they opened one in my hometown last year but I never felt the drive to go there, Jesus Christ best fried chicken on the market it’s honestly between Jollibee and Wingstop for the best fast food fried chicken
@@mrcritical6751 I've been to Jollibee a few times, they've opened a few test locations near Toronto, Canada. Tbh the burgers, palabok and spaghetti are pretty mediocre. I like the aloha burger tho. But the fried chicken was really good.
@@LuvzToLol21 fried chicken has just the right level of spice and the chicken sandwich is great, comparing it to Popeyes which just opened in my town the other week the difference is night and day
Me and my best friend or in our late 50s and he had bought some twinkies and brought them over. I said I had not had a Twinkie and over 20 years. We open the box both got one and took a bite in the filling was Green. We start spitting it out thinking it was bad until we looked on the front of the box and read the label. We still laugh about this from time to time.
If I had a Nickel for every time McDonald's poisoned people with cadmium laced cups. I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much but it's weird it happened twice
Once I was at a function and this family gave their child green Shrek Cheetos™️ and they were panicking trying to figure out why their kids tongue was green lmao
I have such a vivid memory of eating the Shrek kids cuisine while watching Shrek 2 in a hotel room with my family as a child. I remember nothing else from that vacation. Shrek 2 is peak
This video made me remember some deep ass memories of these Shrek game books I used to have, and you could like make up stories by choosing alternative words on premade stories and draw on Shrek among other things
In german, "Schreck " means "a scare", as in "to scare" translates to "erschrecken" .. good times, we got Shrek toothpaste (Colgate I think), coming with little collectible rubber figurines ...
You've unlocked a memory for me!! I remember eating the Shrek ravioli as a kid. It just tasted like the regular beef/ cheese ravioli I'd get from the grocery store. I remember them having that starchy-sticky feeling and opening them up the filling were like these little squares. I think there was like some savoury tomato sauce as well (by Heinz btw). We never got the tongs however.
It was neat that you referenced the 2004 Joe Gibbs cars. NASCAR has had a history of neat sponsorships and I reccomend taking a look into some of them.
I remember the same weekend the first Shrek movie came out, Baskin Robbins (the 31 flavour Ice Cream joint) had a promotion for Shrek flavoured Smoothies. You had the Green Shrek flavour and then there was blue flavour for Donkey. This lasted for only a few weeks however and the smoothies were discontinued for whatever reason despite Shrek 1 becoming all the hype
My parents used to buy us the Shrek Fruit by the Foot snacks, they were green instead of red and sour and so delicious. One time when I was 4 years old I ate the whole box and threw up afterwards, it’s one of my most favorite memories lmao
Not Shrek related but I was 5 in 1994 and ate a whole box of Blue raspberry gushers and my mom had a fit lol. Thankfully it didn't make me sick. But I will never forget that. She didn't buy Gushers very much after that.
that happened to me in 3rd grade on super bowl sunday except with regular oreos cause there was no adult in the house to stop me from eating an entire package of oreos as an 8yo
McDonald's probably wants pasta on their menus so bad because they can produce it for pennies and sell it for like $5+. I can't even imagine what the profit margins on that would be.
They actually used to sell spaghetti. However, it actually didn't turn up a huge profit, and so it was discontinued everywhere except the Philipines (as spaghetti is a staple dish over there), and Orlando for some reason. After all, people don't come to McDonald's for spaghetti and breadsticks, they go for burgers and fries. Plus, pasta is super easy to make at home and is fairly cheap to. You can also have leftovers for days.
.... as a kid, my dad got me the whole set of Shrek glasses from McDonald's lmao they magically disappeared one day too 🤣 idk when the word came out about the cups being poisonous, so idk if they disappeared cause of that or cause my mom got sick of Shrek and Fiona staring her in the face daily, mocking her
The Tom Harkin presentation about the danger of Shrek's green ogre cream to a U.S. senate hearing is probably one of the greatest things to ever happen of all time.
I initially thought the slowed down, warped Shrek soundtrack transition gimmick would get old fast. But every time I heard the next one, I giggled a bit to myself. So I guess I deserve to be here.
This video makes me remember the Shrek soda. It was from a small brand, but a soda with cola flavor, and a vivid green color, not the greatest or attractive product.
God, brings me back to simpler times. I really hope they make another Shrek movie so we can all relive the craziness a Shrek release brought and forget about life for awhile
Ah misaimed marketing in a nutshell. The worst one is the PSA from when the 3rd movie came out that had the characters telling kids to get out and play to be active and healthy. But then you remember their faces are plastered on every junk food item in the book from Twinkies to McDonald's!
10:27 Good thing, when Shr3k the 💩 was being promoted, Mickey D's didn't make employees wear ogre headbands. We had ogre hats. Really wish I kept my ogre hat.
They also were geniuses to be able to take the most ugly and undesirable color in marketing and make it distinctively Shrek colored and erase all the previous notions of the color green
I really enjoyed this one! I discovered your channel through the bionnicle video, and every single video I watched so far had tons well presented interesting information. Keep up the good work!
@@slow_start I can't help but feel like they could easily recreate a "natural" green ketchup by using tomatilloes instead of tomatoes, much like salsa verde does. I mean, that actually *might* work as "exotic foods" are a trend now. I could see a Shrek themed "verde" ketchup selling well.
I was watching this video and I told my grandma about the cups and she proceeded to tell me all the ones she had as she proudly showed me her collection
I remember asking for the Shrek ketchup in the grocery store my mom told me no and got mad because no one wants to eat green meatloaf. My brother asked for it next trip and she got it lol.
“I kinda like shrek” is in the us government record of testimony. Incredible.
Oh my god I guess you're right...
Best thing an American politician has ever said.
and it was in the effort of stopping kids from eating his Shrek filling
I wonder if he likes the memes
Fr a Shrek moment
The Senator trying to defend Shrek like they tarnished his good name is hilarious
Shrek was basically unstoppable in the 00s, even Toy Story had a hard time keeping up with the amount of consumer products Shrek had.
Shrek was a marketing FORCE. No other franchise occupied as much shelf space as Shrek.
*Garfield has enter the chat*
@@slow_startGodzilla and Star Wars did it too lol
I had a buzz lightyear soap as a kid in the 90s / early 2000's and I refused to use it because it smelled so good.
I would pay stupid amounts of money to have it again.. it smelled SO GOOD
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I remember a tiny local sexshop that marketed their gigantic green "toys" as "Shrek-sized"...
"It'll make you beg for a load of swamp milk"
@@sarmin8008 WHY TF DID I CACKLE
Im sure after Forever-after and before The Avengers, they relabeled them as "hulk-sized" 😂
@@sarmin8008 are you ok bud?
This is genuinely one of the best comment threads I’ve ever seen
I was so mad at my grandma when she threw my shrek cups away. I really told her that I would rather be poisoned than drink out of a non-shrek cup
Oh, wow 😮! Did this echoes in your mind once in a while, didn't it?
Iconic
Dang 😭
she saved u lol
This just reminded me that we threw away our shrek cups 😭
Honestly, Shrek marketing onions just makes sense.
It was inevitable
It can actually be argued to be a good thing, since it meant kids were eating fresh vegetables instead of color change desert, chemically enhanced French fry dip, or fast food.
onions are like ogres
@@JR1cktheSk3tchy THEY HAVE LAYERS!
i commented this on the video already but i had a shrek scratch n sniff book that just smelt like onions on every page, being older now and especially after watching this i feel like it was intentional haha
“Moaning for swamp milk” is one of the funniest phrases ever spoken in the English lexicon and history cannot tell me otherwise💀
Not…really 💀
"most horrifying"
Shrek is love shrek is life
“Preserved Shrek essence” is a close second for me 💀
The youtube guy named "swiftor" has an episode called "make me cringe /uncomfortable"
And 1 of the guys in the lobby talk about shrek raping swiftor
Honestly, the shrek onions weren't a bad idea. Kinda wished they had done a whole with green veggies.
"Why are ogres green? Cause they eat their greens!" Would have been a good way to help kids eat healthy. What a missed opportunity.
It wouldn't quite have the same natural appeal as a food item Shrek canonically endorses in-movie. Still a better idea than Shrinkies though.
Well, what if a kid doesn’t want to be green? That could be a turn-off.
@@RichardThimbleI really don’t think kids think that far. They see Shrek on something and think, _”Me want.”_
Should’ve partnered with Green Giant. The hint was in the name and mascot. Oh well
I ❤ onions 😂
8:08 I kinda respect him for addressing that the character himself is not the problem, it’s the companies that tried to use his image to sell unhealthy foods to kids. Because I feel like some adult would just pin the blame on the characters themselves for selling stuff to kids, when often the visions of artists that create those kind of characters don’t always aline with the intentions of the companies distributing them when they get put on products.
Low quality artists spotted
Ah yes, 99% of these products are what we truly love
Tasty green Shrek fluids
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RULE 34 GO BRRRRRRRR
Mmm 😩
Ah yes the blood of my ogre enemies
please rephrase I am begging you 😭✊
People thought the minions were bad for being slapped on everything, but they don't even hold a candle to the amount of Shrek-branded items that could be seen in stores during the 2000s. The main difference being that Shrek wasn't absolutely insufferable
It's likely because of the fact Shrek is a likeable character, and I think a green guy who is slightly jaded, but still smiles and smirks is more appealing than one eyed yellow twinkie people with big smiles.
I'd take the Shrek candies over the minion tictacs every day. I received so many of them from out-of-touch relatives and they were the literal worst. they had a medicinal banana flavour, they made your breath smell worse and they were truly terrible to open. I'd take Shrek's green apple or sometimes lime-flavoured candies as the chance of lime is superior to the suffering that is an artificial banana. hell, I'd even take onion-flavoured tictacs over banana ones.
@@LPTV84screen is love, shrek is marketable
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11:22 To be fair, branding onions with Shrek is genius; seeing as that's the food Shrek is most related with due to the "onions have layers" scene
Fellow ttte fan in the middle of nowhere, wow
Fair, honestly
@Mr T Are they smelly lairs?
@Mr T 😲 Wait, so you’re a...
Not to mention the marketing to kids/families is much better morally as onions are vegetables, not junk food.
I honestly find it ironic how Shrek was initially designed as a jab at Disney’s money making machine, but became so popular that it became its own money making machine.
And then Disney beat them at their own game.
Oh sweet irony.
@@DarkOverlord96 still Shrek>Disney for me and i'm a Disney fan
@@VoxTheUkrainianComradeimo most Disney stuff isn't anything that has had an impact on me. But Shrek and DreamWorks in general lives rent free in my mind.
@@DarkOverlord96wait when
It wasn't so much a jab at Disney making money as it was at their pretentious and melodramatic style of screenwriting.
“They’re using Shrek to poison our children.” “Shrek has a powerful appeal to kids minds”
Absolutely incredible
Well turns out ,they weren't wrong in thr long run 😅
My favorite part was when he admitted "I kinda like Shrek" just to make sure no one thinks that he's anti-Shrek😂
Imagine people voting him out and the opinion polls say, it's because "he's a Shrekphobe"@@nowandaround312
@@Cyberfan2167 media have real world impact? Who'd have thunk it am I right?
I mean he wasn’t wrong. Twinkies are essentially poison when you look at the sugar content and amount of processed crap that goes into them, plus the stuff in the green dye. It’s was vacuum packed diabetes.
I work at Goodwill and we have pictures of the Puss in Boots McDonalds glass taped up with a warning saying not to sell it. I've actually seen a couple of them get donated.
Imagine the stories this donations carry...
As a kid I had a Kid Cuisine with Shrek on the box, I opened it and saw it was a green tray and didn't think twice about it, eat my lunch and then threw the green tray away, a few days later I had another kid cuisine with Shrek on the box and noticed that tray was blue, didn't think twice about it, later had another kid cuisine (ate that a lot as a kid) with Shrek on the box tray was blue, was confused and read the back of the box and saw if you had the green tray you were a winner, I was so disappointed in myself
Oh no 😭😭😭
This is the saddest story ever told
I felt that pain from here
Bruh
We are all disappointed in you lol
Can you imagine what it would have been like if minions came out during the 2000's?
Minions 6 would probably be premiering right around now...
@@slow_start Isn't it?
@@slow_start despicable me 11
That would be an absolute disaster lmao
The Minions literally came into existence at the end of the 2000's millenial lol
“Tv dinners are far less depressing when you’re a kid”
Couldn’t have said it better
That quote was so good, I paused the video to write it down
i love how genuinely hurt the senator sounds when he says “shrek now becomes a bad guy”
He’s worried that shrek will be evil, since everyone loves shrek..
You just know some scientist making the swamp pudding was like "oh shit boss we messed up. This stuff turns your tongue green"
And then some exec saying: "That sounds like an absolute win"
That’s a disturbing point, mascots can even make onions appealing to kids, now imagine the effect the sugar cereal and soda ads have
it's actually a problem that was all too real. I don't know how bad it is these days, but back in the day, mascots had serious selling power. Tony the Tiger made us think Frosted Flakes were an after-sports snack! lol
@@slow_start Yeah and now that I’m a parent I show my kid Shrek and he loves him now. I found myself agreeing with the senator about the green twinkies. Great vids by the way
It's manipulative enough that all of Latin and South America banned cartoon mascots in advertising over the last three years. Mexico was the last hold put, banning the practice last year. Go look up how Mexican super markets dealt with it. You'll see workers putting red tape over the Lucky Charms Leprechaun on boxes they bought before the ban.
Australia is set to pass similar legislation and the EU is considering the same thing, but have yet to put formal legislation.
Needless to say, it's controversial and may well see its end here in the states before long. I suspect around the same time Mickey is forced into public domain and Disney losses an incentive to have cartoon mascots.
Despite that politician's easily memeable presentation, he made a good point. There was a huge pushback against fast food and junk food mascots for that very reason. It's why McDonald's rarely uses Ronald and never uses the other characters, for example
Imagine the effect that good parenting could have
I remember my parents got me green shrek toothpaste and i couldnt use it because i thought it was supposed to be shrek's snot/boogers
Too funny!!
Smart kid 😂😂
Never had anything shrek theme outside of the toxic cups
I had a Shrek toothpaste too. It was green and tasted so gross I begged my parents to buy me a new toothpaste
@@soot9145 I had it too, it’s probably still in my grandparents bathroom somewhere in a long lost drawer.
I remember Baskin Robbins had some kinda Shrek sundae with crushed oreos and gummy worms supposed to be dirt and worms. I still call that combo a Shrek Sundae.
I wish I got the chance to try that 😫
That's a Shrek food item I wouldn't pass up.
Wtf that actually sounds bangin’
Sounds kinda like the "dirt pudding" my mom used to make, except with vanilla pudding instead of ice cream. It was pretty good
Used to be able to get this (no relation to shrek) at Swiss Chalet here in Canada as a desert… not sure if they still do it.
I remember that! My aunt and uncle went and got it one day when the movie came out! 😆 👍🏻
Honestly, Kid Cuisine being stuck in the late 1990s and early '00s makes a whole lot of sense when their mascot is a CGI'd penguin named after the thing they're selling. Also, Shrek onions make sense.
10:22 WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING? I WOULD LOVE TO WORK IN SHREK EARS
When I was younger I had a Fiona themed bath set. The whole gag was that it was like a swamp, and the bath products were like a mud. I can still remember the smell, but I’m convinced I hallucinated it because I can’t find any evidence it existed no matter where I search.
Reminds me of this scene from Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022):
Bob the Dwarf: “For example: Do you remember Shrek body wash?”
Dale: “Uhhhh, no?”
Bob the Dwarf: “EXACTLY! No one does!”
oh, like me and coconut water rockstar? I believe you.
I swear it existed too, my sister used it when we were little.
We had shrek bubble bath that stained our tub this nasty dark greenish brown color for months after we used it
Omg I wish I could see this
I swear, the level of quality in the presentation, editing, and writing on this channel feels like it should belong to a channel at least 5 times the size as it is now. For what it's worth, I'm close to certain this channel is going places.
Thanks so much for the kind comment. I hope you're right!
See this comment on every new channel with documentaries.
Guess you could say this channel is off to a....slow start.
Puss: “Hey! Wanna see something cool?”
*puts cadmium in your cup*
he beat death at his own game
negative Mickey screamer sound
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@@JacMirie "Sneak Preview of his design!"
"Shrek coloured cream filling"
"Preserved Shrek essence"
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12:33 I live in New Zealand and McDonalds sold the Shrek pasta here too! They had pasta Happy Meals in 2007 under the name 'Pasta Zoo', and I remember eating the Shrek pasta and seeing promotion for it. Odd little time capsule, I must say
The politician saying he likes Shrek but dislikes the green Twinkies knowing kids are eating it for the green filling is my favorite part of the video, so random and funny. Shrek marketing was pretty much everywhere.
It's bizarrely relatable too.
Honestly, here in Argentina it was all about Shrek during the 2000's, and we loved it. We didn't get the Twinkies and the Cuisine things, fortunately, but we did get tons of McDonald's toys, cereal promotions and a lot more things I can barely remember. Such a Shrektastic era ❤️
I now need to work "Shrektastic" into my everyday vocabulary 💯
@@The_UmbrellaMan Absolutely ❤️🤙🏻
My dad was actually a district manager at McDonald’s during the shrek glass fiasco. Somehow he was able to get all the glasses for the promotion for free, so I remember getting them vividly. We obviously gave them all back but for some reason I thought the whole situation was hilarious.
I refuse to believe that he doesn’t have one hidden somewhere that he’ll use to kill someone someday
@@broisyougobbling Anytime he gets into an altercation he smiles remembering that at the end of day he has a Puss in Boots glass on standby back home.
My family still has all of them in our china cabinet 😂
It was for Shrek The Third. So he's mistaken.
My grandparents still have them including the troublesome puss in boots glass downstairs
"Mint Ogre-Load" might be one of the most disgusting things ever made
Nort American Nesquik rabbit: "this chocolate milk is delicious bro, you should try it 😁"
South American Nesquik rabbit: " **extreme moaning** this milk **moans** is so good **even more moaning** 😫"
The Shrek marketing went so out of control it went full circle with the onions going from trash to veggies lol
The 2000s were a wild west of marketing where any strange market for any movie is bound to happen
I wish the 2020's were like that
Like making Starship Troopers into a kids show.
Licensing is love, licensing is life.
oh dear god.
You are evil
licencing is love, licencing is life. and liscenceing is DEATH 💀
@@abstraction6212watch shrek Is love shrek is life, you won’t be the same
9:30 If McDonald's made Sonic the Hedgehog drinking glasses. Tails would have been the deadliest because Tails is a orangish yellow two tailed fox who can fly with his two tails while Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy would have been the safe ones to drink out of. Sonic is blue, Knuckles is red, and Amy is pink.
We.all.know that
What are we supposed to do with that information?
@@helofish2148to avoid it from happening twice
I really enjoy how you initially describe the shrek marketing as if we were living in a dystoian shreknostate
How the actual hell does this not have more views? The quality and humor of this is stellar.
Unfortunately at the end of the day I'm just at the mercy of the algorithm. Glad you enjoyed it!
@@slow_start change your user profile picture to Shrek. According to this video, you would gain millions of views and subs instantly.
I agree
A cashier at Walmart had a funny story that a woman in a rush bought a Shrek snickers which if I remember was when the 3rd movie was coming out. She started eating it and noticed it was green inside that she freaked out and thought she was eating a expired snickers.
😂
If this happened nowadays, could've been viral online pretty quickly 😂.
I think a history of things like overdone over aggressive movie tie ins or marketing things similar to Shrek mania would be fun. Others that i think of are the 90s pokemon pokemania products... the current overuse of The minions come to mind. But it'd be fun to look at past generations of yester year too
Love these ideas! I've got lots planned for the new year so definitely keep an eye out :)
I think Garfield definitely fits with this theme even if it's not technically a movie. That orange cat was everywhere in the early 90's.
Or Frozen during the mid 2010’s
All I see is amazing Shrek products that I need in my life.
I still have my toxic McDonald's shrek cup and one day it will be buried with me
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As a diehard Shrek kid born in 2001, I’m a little embarrassed at how many of these products I actually owned. I drank that Shrek Kool Aid to the ends of the earth
Was it good?
I actually think using Shrek to market onions is genius since it actually correlates with the movie.
The reason why McDonald's keeps trying to sell pasta is because of Jollibee. The Filipino fast food brand is huge in Southeast Asia and Oceania, rivaling and even surpassing McDonald's in some areas. Jollibee's menu features burgers, fried chicken, palabok noodles and their famous spaghetti with Filipino-style tomato sauce. That's why McDonald's is trying to copy their success.
McDonald’s even has spaghetti in the Fillapines
I'm basically counting down the days until I can finally try Jollibee's for myself 😆😆The Halo-Halo drink looks unbelievably good!! And I want to try their chicken so bad!!
@@hotaruishere2133 I actually tried them for the first time last weekend (they opened one in my hometown last year but I never felt the drive to go there, Jesus Christ best fried chicken on the market it’s honestly between Jollibee and Wingstop for the best fast food fried chicken
@@mrcritical6751 I've been to Jollibee a few times, they've opened a few test locations near Toronto, Canada. Tbh the burgers, palabok and spaghetti are pretty mediocre. I like the aloha burger tho. But the fried chicken was really good.
@@LuvzToLol21 fried chicken has just the right level of spice and the chicken sandwich is great, comparing it to Popeyes which just opened in my town the other week the difference is night and day
They could have made healthy veggie green shrek snacks but they didn’t
Ty
Right??? They could have had spinach or broccoli “swamp”
That’s not what kids wanted in the 2000’s
The onions are probably the closest thing lol
@@shittyglasses0_ they wouldn’t care it just had to be green
You’re telling me kids excitedly pointed at onions, begging their parents to throw them in the cart
Me and my best friend or in our late 50s and he had bought some twinkies and brought them over. I said I had not had a Twinkie and over 20 years. We open the box both got one and took a bite in the filling was Green. We start spitting it out thinking it was bad until we looked on the front of the box and read the label. We still laugh about this from time to time.
Hilarious!
I worked at McDonald's during the "glassware scare" and totally kept my puss in boots cup lol
Just don't drink anything from them! :P
@@ThePreciseClimberthey belong in the fine china cupboard that’s just for show and nobody ever touches
If I had a Nickel for every time McDonald's poisoned people with cadmium laced cups. I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much but it's weird it happened twice
Yeah the garfield ones had it to right?
@@kindlykitten-gh9hd yeah
@@DropDodger what was the other one?
@@kittykittybangbang9367 garfield cups.
Also the two toxic glasses had an orange animated cat. What are the odds.
Once I was at a function and this family gave their child green Shrek Cheetos™️ and they were panicking trying to figure out why their kids tongue was green lmao
11:40 To be fair...
Onions have layers...
Ogres have layers...
...end of story.
8:35 I kinda like shrek
He did actually make a good point.
Maybe we could put a portrait of Shrek on the box? That always increases sales!
These days it's the Minions, but it works just the same!
I have such a vivid memory of eating the Shrek kids cuisine while watching Shrek 2 in a hotel room with my family as a child. I remember nothing else from that vacation. Shrek 2 is peak
This video made me remember some deep ass memories of these Shrek game books I used to have, and you could like make up stories by choosing alternative words on premade stories and draw on Shrek among other things
Minions: We're gonna put our label on everything and be everywhere!
Shrek: Like that's ever gonna happen.
I wish Shrek Mania would come back! When I was growing up, everything was green and yellow because of Shrek and SpongeBob and I was happy with that!
In german, "Schreck " means "a scare", as in "to scare" translates to "erschrecken" .. good times, we got Shrek toothpaste (Colgate I think), coming with little collectible rubber figurines ...
This is the first I've heard of this for some reason. Very cool!
Then the guy who played nosferatu was clever
You've unlocked a memory for me!! I remember eating the Shrek ravioli as a kid. It just tasted like the regular beef/ cheese ravioli I'd get from the grocery store. I remember them having that starchy-sticky feeling and opening them up the filling were like these little squares. I think there was like some savoury tomato sauce as well (by Heinz btw). We never got the tongs however.
they had zoo animal shaped ones, i loved the shrek ones i can still remember the taste
It was neat that you referenced the 2004 Joe Gibbs cars. NASCAR has had a history of neat sponsorships and I reccomend taking a look into some of them.
They also did it again with Shrek The Third paint schemes during the 2007 season.
@@connorbeith32327 months late but Jimmy Spencer also ran a Shrek car in 2001.
i can’t wait for Shrek flavored Benadryl so I can overdose watching Shrek 4
if it's green it doesn't mean it's toxic, but people will always see if something is green it's toxic, for some unknown reason
6:55
Shrek and Fiona making their triplet Ogre Babies Audio Only
I remember the same weekend the first Shrek movie came out, Baskin Robbins (the 31 flavour Ice Cream joint) had a promotion for Shrek flavoured Smoothies. You had the Green Shrek flavour and then there was blue flavour for Donkey. This lasted for only a few weeks however and the smoothies were discontinued for whatever reason despite Shrek 1 becoming all the hype
For the record, those smoothies were actually pretty good. I remember loving the blue Donkey one when I had it.
Do you specifically remember what they tasted like
My parents used to buy us the Shrek Fruit by the Foot snacks, they were green instead of red and sour and so delicious. One time when I was 4 years old I ate the whole box and threw up afterwards, it’s one of my most favorite memories lmao
Not Shrek related but I was 5 in 1994 and ate a whole box of Blue raspberry gushers and my mom had a fit lol. Thankfully it didn't make me sick. But I will never forget that. She didn't buy Gushers very much after that.
that happened to me in 3rd grade on super bowl sunday except with regular oreos cause there was no adult in the house to stop me from eating an entire package of oreos as an 8yo
The marvels of green food colouring truly never cease
McDonald's probably wants pasta on their menus so bad because they can produce it for pennies and sell it for like $5+. I can't even imagine what the profit margins on that would be.
They actually used to sell spaghetti. However, it actually didn't turn up a huge profit, and so it was discontinued everywhere except the Philipines (as spaghetti is a staple dish over there), and Orlando for some reason. After all, people don't come to McDonald's for spaghetti and breadsticks, they go for burgers and fries. Plus, pasta is super easy to make at home and is fairly cheap to. You can also have leftovers for days.
This is exactly the kinda content im looking for on yt, thanks you so much
.... as a kid, my dad got me the whole set of Shrek glasses from McDonald's lmao they magically disappeared one day too 🤣 idk when the word came out about the cups being poisonous, so idk if they disappeared cause of that or cause my mom got sick of Shrek and Fiona staring her in the face daily, mocking her
😂
The Tom Harkin presentation about the danger of Shrek's green ogre cream to a U.S. senate hearing is probably one of the greatest things to ever happen of all time.
When I was in elementary school we had a shrek scandal, no I won’t elaborate
I don’t know if I had the Shrek popcorn but it feels so nostalgic for me, like it’s buried deep within my memories
I initially thought the slowed down, warped Shrek soundtrack transition gimmick would get old fast. But every time I heard the next one, I giggled a bit to myself. So I guess I deserve to be here.
The way the politician phrases everything makes it sound like hes standing up less for the children and more for shrek...
These feel weird, gross and uncanny. They also make me feel uncomfortable and I don’t know why.
This was a great video 💚 also “I’m a believer” slowed and reverb is fire af!
This video makes me remember the Shrek soda.
It was from a small brand, but a soda with cola flavor, and a vivid green color, not the greatest or attractive product.
8:25 guy is right. Mexico banned characters from food advertisments.
Beacuase of the new labels
Also can you apreciate this 8:36
God, brings me back to simpler times. I really hope they make another Shrek movie so we can all relive the craziness a Shrek release brought and forget about life for awhile
I remember getting Shrek toothpaste and being scared of it because it was unsurprisingly green. I eventually got over my fear, though.
Never have I been more proud to be Iowan than hearing a senator fighting for his life to defend the good name of Shrek. God bless
Ah misaimed marketing in a nutshell. The worst one is the PSA from when the 3rd movie came out that had the characters telling kids to get out and play to be active and healthy. But then you remember their faces are plastered on every junk food item in the book from Twinkies to McDonald's!
Great video subject-it also doesn’t hurt that you’re effortlessly funny. Hope your channel blows up you deserve it man
Wow thanks!
11:09 I wouldn't blame Shrek, it seems very uncomfortable and awkward there
I can remember begging my mom for Shrek Kids Cuisine. 😂 She caved and bought it for me & my siblings. The pudding 100% did change your tongue green.
10:27 Good thing, when Shr3k the 💩 was being promoted, Mickey D's didn't make employees wear ogre headbands.
We had ogre hats.
Really wish I kept my ogre hat.
They also were geniuses to be able to take the most ugly and undesirable color in marketing and make it distinctively Shrek colored and erase all the previous notions of the color green
if you ask me blue food looks worse than green, have you seen the Sonic curry?
This is my first exposure to you. Very talented individual, awesome script and great editing. Thank you for the content!
I really enjoyed this one! I discovered your channel through the bionnicle video, and every single video I watched so far had tons well presented interesting information. Keep up the good work!
I used to love the green ketchup as a kid! I also remember really liking the purple one as well. Such an odd time to be a kid
It was definitely odd... that kind of product would never fly now I don't think. Artificial colouring is an even badder word these days.
@@slow_start I can't help but feel like they could easily recreate a "natural" green ketchup by using tomatilloes instead of tomatoes, much like salsa verde does.
I mean, that actually *might* work as "exotic foods" are a trend now. I could see a Shrek themed "verde" ketchup selling well.
Still waiting for the "BAD products"... Shrek is love
Senator Harkins, Shrek is not poisoning children. The green filling is just food coloring.
I was watching this video and I told my grandma about the cups and she proceeded to tell me all the ones she had as she proudly showed me her collection
aww ♡
I remember asking for the Shrek ketchup in the grocery store my mom told me no and got mad because no one wants to eat green meatloaf. My brother asked for it next trip and she got it lol.
"Shrek's EZ Squirt"... I've have seen way too much ish on the internet not to get triggered at that lmao
Great video, King!
Thank you papi!
Getting kids to eat vegetables by having sweet onions sponsored by Shrek is genius marketing
"Július 1-jétöl a mozikban!" - I am hungarian and it translates to "In Theatres from 1st of July."