List of references to DreamWorks in other media outside DreamWorks.
Films[]
- CyberWorld: the dance sequence from Antz appears among other sequences.
- The Master of Disguise: Early in the film, Pistachio imitates Shrek and Donkey to entertain his child friend.
- Racing Stripes: At one point, Tucker says, "It's like this: Human race, horse race... there was even a chicken run, but there's never been a goat race."
- Donkey Xote: Rucio says "the only talking donkey I know is a friend of mine who hangs out some green ogre".
- I Am Legend: a clip from Shrek appears on TV.
- White Chicks: Marcus Copepland notes that, with his makeup, he looks like Shrek.
- Meet the Spartans: during the examination of the young Spartans, a baby ogre appears among them.
- Orphan: a Shrek toy can be seen in Daniel's room.
- Disaster Movie: a giant panda similar to Po but called "Kung Fu Panda" appears as a minor antagonist.
- Cyrus: during John and Molly's first meeting at a party, the former says he's "like Shrek".
- Big Hero 6: Fred's school mascot costume bears a strong resemblance to a Hideous Zippleback and a Terrible Terror from Dragons. One of that series' characters, Tuffnut, was also voiced by T. J. Miller.
- Bright: Will Smith's character calls an orc "shrek-looking" and tells him to go back to Fiona.
- My Spy: JJ's dancing is compared to the final dance party of Shrek.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness: Bieber the panda is carried away by a bird who claims he's his father and thinks he's been practicing kung-fu too hard. Bieber's response is "This is a mistake! I'm not Kung Fu Panda!"
- Turning Red: Mei and Ming watch a Chinese TV drama called Jade Palace Diaries.
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: The Croods film is mentioned.
- Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers:
- An octopus resembling Dave is seen all the near beginning of Chip and Dale’s (along with the other of the Rescue Rangers) party of celebrating years of their show airing.
- Shrek and Donkey body wash bottles appear.
- Mantis and B.O.B. appear alongside Pumbaa. All the three characters were voiced by Seth Rogen.
- Bootleg versions of Tim Templeton, The Eagle, Oscar and Melman appear.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
TV Series[]
- Alan Partridge: in "I'm Alan Partridge" a tax inspector says "Theres a receipt here for a cinema ticket for 1 for Shrek".
- The Amazing World of Gumball
- In "The Treasure" the Wattersons are shown owining a copy of the blockbuster How to Ratatwang Your Panda, a parody of two mockbuster films by the Brazilian animation studio Video Brinquedo: The Little Panda Fighter (a rip-off of Kung Fu Panda), and Ratatoing (Pixar's Ratatouille). The title is a reference to How to Train Your Dragon.
- In "The Parents" Nicole being born wearing a suit may be a reference to The Boss Baby.
- American Dad
- In "Stanny Tendergrass" Steve compares Horatio's hand to Shrek's one.
- In "Salute Your Sllort" Barry says "Shrek please" as he's approcced by a troll.
- The Boss Baby is referenced in "Exquisite Corpses".
- Animaniacs (2020): An episode is titled "How to Brain Your Dragon".
- Arthur: In "The Agent of Change", a poster is seen for a movie called "Kung Fu Koala".
- Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: An episode is titled "How to Train Your Coward".
- The Big Bang Theory: In "The Soldier Excursion Diversion", Leonard and Howard are invited to see an early movie screening. As they head into the theater, Leonard says that if it's Shark Tale 2 then it'd better be as good as the original.
- The Big Lez Show: Shrek is mentioned in the episode "LEZ'S SECRET REVEALED".
- Bojack Horseman: in "Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos" Jorge Garcia is seen dressed as Shrek,
- Burger Quiz: One episode has a parody of Shrek's storybook opening, complete with the music. Show's creator and host Alain Chabat provided Shrek's voice in the French dub of the movies.
- The Casagrandes: An episode is titled "How to Train Your Carl".
- Community: Kung Fu Panda is mentioned in the episode "Introduction To Teaching".
- Doom Patrol: in "Vacay Patrol" Shrek is mentioned.
- Dream High: in Episode 11, when Hye Mi and Mr Yun talk about a contract of Hye Mi becoming a member of Group K, the LCD screens seen in the background are playing several films, one of them shows scenes from Shrek the Third.
- Duncanville: a DVD of The Boss Baby appears in the pilot episode.
- Family Guy
- In "Happy Holo-ween" Peter calls the FBI before creating his hologram in case it turned on him, but all it consisted of was a drawing of Spider-Man. Previously, he'd sent a drawing of The Hulk, which the agents mistook for Shrek.
- In "The Bird Reich" Chris views 2004 with nostalgia, referencing Shrek 2 while restoring a Saturn Ion.
- In "Hell Comes to Quahog" the owner of a Hummer watches Madagascar while driving, causing him to run over several smaller vehicles.
- In "It's A Trap" while firing the cannons on the AT-ST, Chewbacca says "skadoosh", catchphrase of Po from Kung Fu Panda.
- In "White Meg Can't Jump" Stewie is suggested a video called "Joe Rogan interviews Boss Baby".
- In "HBO-No" Chris believes that The Boss Baby was scary, but Peter notes that it was only one part.
- Futurama
- In "The Bots and the Bees", after Fry says that he went to the bathroom and his pee was green, Hermes says that he was wondering who Shrek'd in the toilet.
- In "2-D Blacktop", after he, Fry, Leela, and Bender are collapsed down into two dimensions, the professor says that the new Shrek movie won't look nearly as good.
- In "Three Hundred Big Boys" it appears is a genetics lab called GeneWorks, S.K.G., with a logo similar to the DreamWorks Animation's one.
- Inside Job: Brett mentions "Accidentally in Love" from Shrek 2 in the episode "Rontagion".
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: In the August 21, 2022 episode, John watches a 2011 Reverb PSA in which My Chemical Romance says they're going to "green things up", which he says sounds like something Shrek would say right before reaching a sexual climax.
- Les Kassos: Shrek and Trolls is parodied in Les Kassos.
- Love Next Door: In "Belated" Seok-ryu shows herself to Seung-hyo while wearing a green mask, which startles him and prompting to ask her if she's Shrek.
- MAD
- In "Cloudy with a Chance of Flavor" right at the end there is a cereal box named "Rice Shreks".
- In "So You Think You Can Train Your Dragon How to Dance" Donkey, Dragon, Hiccup and Toothless appaear as contestants in the competition.
- In "Law & Ogre" Shrek and his friends get spoofed alongside with Law & Order.
- In "Fast Hive" Eeyore is sad that he didn't get the donkey role in Shrek.
- In "Celebrity Wife Swamp" Shrek gets spoofed along with Celebrity Wife Swap.
- In "Adjustment Burro" Donkey appears as part of the Adjustment Burro.
- In "Ko-Bee Movie" Bee Movie is spoofed along with Kobe Bryant.
- "Outgascar" is a parody of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, featuring also the appearances of Shrek and Donkey.
- In "Are You Karate Kidding Me?" Po and Master Shifu appear in a parody of The Karate Kid. In this segment, Po is the bully.
- In "MAD News" Po appears while the MAD News anchor announces that DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda 2 beats Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
- In "Kung Fu Blander" Kung Fu Panda 2 is spoofed with Po being blander about fighting a Bird boss.
- In "POblivion" Po from Kung Fu Panda gets spoofed along with Oblivion.
- In "DolPhineas and Ferb Tale" Hiccup and Toothless are contestants in the competition.
- In "Jacks the Giant Slayers" Jack Frost appears as one of the Jacks that were left.
- In "Wreck It Gandalph / The Big Bird Theory" Nicholas St. North recruits other Guardians for Rise of the Guardians.
- In "I Am Lorax" Oscar appears in the sketch.
- In "B.O.B.'s Monster Hold Hair Gel" B.O.B. appears in his own commercial for hair gel.
- In "How I Met Your Mummy" B.O.B. appeared as one of the monsters in a restaurant.
- Modern Families: Gloria and Joe dress up as Princess Fiona and Donkey in the episode "Halloween 3: AwesomeLand".
- The Muppets (2015): In "Little Green Lie", Rizzo comments that he thinks Camilla said something about her and Gonzo staying home to watch Chicken Run again (actually, she said that they would watch Logan's Run).
- Ninjago: an episode is titled "How To Build a Dragon".
- The Office (US): in "Threat Level Midnight", Michael admits the only Woody Allen movie he's seen was Antz and thought A Bug's Life was much better.
- Rick & Morty: In "Bethic Twinstinct" Rick reveals that he gave Jerry the power to curl up into a pillbug-like shell when distressed, and he warns that attempting to pry it open by force will "literally turn him into a Shrek."
- Robot Chicken
- In "Up, Up, and Buffet" a segment featuring Shrek and Fiona based on the ending of Shrek.
- In "Babe Hollytree in: I Wish One Person Had Died" a segment features Gingerbread Man and Muffin Man.
- In "Snoopy Camino Lindo in: Quick and Dirty Squirrel" a segment features Megamind during a medical examination.
- In "Catdog on a Stick" a segment features the Guardians from Rise of the Guardians.
- She-Hulk: Attonery at Law: in "Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans" She-Hulk is compared to Shrek.
- Solar Opposites: Vanbo mentions Shrek in the episode "Retrace-Your-Step-Alizer".
- Superstore: a picture of Donkey appears in Season 3, Episode 17 of Superstore, “District Manager".
- The Pentaverate: in "Episode 4" Ken Scarborough is saved from the Bigfoot by a Shrek mascot.
- The Simpsons
- In "See Homer Run" Shrek appeared on a shirt Lisa decided not to buy Homer for Father's Day.
- In "Midnight Towboy" when captured by Louie, Homer passed the time talking about the plot of Shrek the Third to his fellow prisoners.
- In "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly" Shrek appears on a Squishee cup.
- In "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" one of Homer's drawings depicted Selma as Shrek.
- In "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" when he became a famous political pundit, Homer showed his family a latex Halloween mask that was actually just Shrek painted yellow.
- In "The Winter of His Content", as Homer and Marge were coming into the house, Homer stepped on a Shrek doll and it said "Donkey!"
- In "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII", writer John Frink is credited as "Freck", written in the Shrek logo font.
- In "Mommie Beerest", when Marge and Homer are at the Springfield Googolplex Theatres a trailer for a fictional DreamWorks movie, Cards, is shown with the protagonist played by Eddie Murphy.
- DreamWorks is mentioned in "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?".
- In "Angry Dad: The Movie" Bart and Homer walk past the poster of Kung Fu Koala, a parody of Kung Fu Panda.
- In "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Bart finds a DVD copy of Kung Fu Person, which stars Jack Black, a reference to Kung Fu Panda, which also starred Jack Black.
- In "Bart's Not Dead" a Christian film called How To Train Your Deacon is shown to Bart and Homer, a parody of How to Train Your Dragon.
- In "The Book Job" it appears the poster of The Girl With the 'How to Train Your Dragon' Tattoo, a parody of How to Train Your Dragon.
- In "The Serfsons" the head of Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon is seen at Moe's Tavern.
- In "Pulpit Friction" Elijah Hooper mentions How to Train Your Dragon.
- In "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" Homer calls Shark Tale the greatest mob movie of all time.
- Torchwood: a movie poster of Shrek appears in "Dead Man Walking".
- T.U.F.F. Puppy: In "Mission: Really Big Mission", when the Chameleon introduces himself to D.O.O.M., he tells them he does impressions at the Chuckle Hut every other Friday night. After transforming himself into the Easter Bunny and a look-alike of Toucan Sam, he transforms into a panda wearing a red headband and doing a Kung Fu pose.
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American version):
- In "Show No. 306", after the "Scenes Cut From a Movie" sketch, Drew tells Colin that his Scottish accent sounds less like Mel Gibson in Braveheart and more like "the woman from Chicken Run."
- During the "Hats" segment of "Show No. 319", Wayne puts on a chicken hat and claims that his "lovin's so good, it'll make your chicken run. See, it's a movie!"
TV Specials[]
- 80th Academy Awards: Shrek makes a cameo in the show opening.
- It's Showtime: Sarah and Rob go to see Shrek in his dressing room.
- Target Holiday 2016 Mini-Musical: The Nutcracker: Princess Poppy and Branch make an appearance.
Videogames[]
- Adopt Me!: Puss in Boots appears as part of a special event.
- Brawhalla: Po, Tigress and Tai Lung appear as crossover characters.
- Infinite Craft: Shrek, Princess Fiona and Po are possible crafting recipes.
- FarmVille: Megamind characters appears as part of a special collaboration.
- Final Fantasy XIV
- A sidequest in Dravania is called "How to Feed Your Dragon".
- In the Churning Mists, there's a Fate titled "How to Cane Your Dragon".
- The achievement for defeating Shinryu in The Minstrel's Ballad: Shinryu's Domain is named "How to Slay Your Dragon 2".
- Fruit Ninja: Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots was presented as a crossover between Puss in Boots and Fruit Ninja.
- Funko Pop! Blitz: several DreamWorks characters appear: Shrek, Donkey, Po, Tigress, Puss in Boots, Kowalski, Skipper, Poppy, Short Fuse, Allura, Baby Boss, Felix the Cat, Queen Barb, Toothless, Jim Lake Jr., Binky, Gnome Chompsky, AAARRRGGHH!!!, Toby Domzalski, Bular, Claire Nuñez, Barf and Belch, Hookfang, Stormfly, Hiccup, Astrid, Pidge, Lance, Keith, Hunk, Shiro, Voltron, Light Fury, Branch, King Trollex, Guy Diamond, Everest.
- Geometry Dash: the game features a robot skin based on Stormfly.
- KouKou Love: Tap Blast: Characters from Shrek, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Kung Fu Panda, Shark Tale, The Croods, Home, The Boss Baby and Trolls make an appearance.
- Land Sliders: Shrek appears as an unlockable character.
- Lords Mobile: Characters from Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon appear as part of special collaborations.
- Mario Kart 8: in GBA Ribbon Road, a poster for "Kung Fu Lakitu" can be seen on the wall.
- Mario Kart Tour: in Bangkok Rush, a poster for a sequel, "Kung Fu Master Lakitu", appears as a sponsor.
- Minecraft
- If the player sets the language to "LOLCAT (Kingdom of Cats)" and turn on the subtitles, wardens will be called "blu shrek" in the subtitles.
- A Kung Fu Panda DLC was later added.
- A How to Train Your Dragon DLC was also added to Minecraft.
- Mobile Legends: Characters from Kung Fu Panda appear as part of a collaboration event.
- Moshi Monsters: a poster and plush based on Kung Fu Panda 2 were obtainable as a collaboration to promote the release of the movie.
- The Patrick Star Game: one of the lines Patrick says after belching is "Better out than in", one of the typical phrases spoken by Shrek.
- Roblox
- Shrek Swamp Tycoon was released as a Roblox experience and the player's Roblox Avatar can be used in it.
- In a limited-time event players could get Kung Fu Panda-themed gear and spawn Baby Bao as a companion.
- Roblox promoted How to Train Your Dragon with gear and characters from the series.
- In a limited-time event, players could get Captain Underpants-themed gear and items.
- Rodeo Stampede: the Martial Arts Panda is a reference to Kung Fu Panda.
- Slayaway Camp: the character of Blob is phisycally similar to B.O.B.,
- Smash Fest: Private is a playable character.
- Super Brawl: Rico, King Julien and Blowhole are playable characters.
- Super Brawl 2: Skipper, Rico, King Julien and Blowhole are playable characters.
- Super Brawl 3: Good vs. Evil: Po, B.O.B., Sqweep and Master Junjie are playable characters.
- Super Brawl 3: Just Got Real: Po is a playable character.
- Terror Fest: the achievement for running from the killer at the beginning of Chapter 2 instead of fighting him (and subsequently getting stabbed in the shoulder) is named "Chicken Run".
- Tony Hawk's Underground 2: Shrek appears as an unlockable player.
- Transformice
- A Toothless fur appears in the shop.
- The game had a Lua event called Shrek 2022.
- There is also a Puss in Boots costume.
- Webkinz: accessories based on Penguins of Madagascar appear as part of a special collaboration.
- Zoo Tycoon 2: the Killer Penguin is presented as native from Madagascar, a nod to Madagascar.
Comics[]
- Ah... and Mm... Are All She Says: A HTTYD poster appears in Toda's room in Chapter 21.
- Fairies #2: A purple ogre in the flashback sequence bears a remarkable resemblance to Shrek.
- For Better or for Worse: in a strip where April has a sleepover with her friends for her 10th birthday, at one point they watch Chicken Run.
- FoxTrot: In a strip published while the first film Shrek film was still in theaters, Paige and Nicole try to have Peter, who's working at the movie theater, let them see it for free.
- I Hate Fairyland: I Hate Fairyland #7's alternate title: "How to Drain Your Dragon"'s title is a reference to How to Train Your Dragon.
- Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #18: Shrek is mentioned by Spider-Man ("Sure. It doesn't matter where you came from. It doesn't matter who you are. I mean, Didn't you see "Shrek"...?")
- Mary Jane #4: Mary Jane Watson and Harry Osborn are seen watching a Shrek film on TV.
- Off the Mark: In a strip Shrek is seen at a St. Patrick's Day party alongside other green fictional characters.
- Sherman's Lagoon
- In a strip Megan discovers that someone has stolen her identity and used her credit card to buy Louis Vuitton luggage, which makes her upset because SHE wanted that. Sherman then asks "What's wrong with the Shrek fanny pack I got ya?"
- In another strip, Sherman gets Shrek confused with Robin Hood.
- Po appears in one strip.
- Simpsons Comics #236: in "Bear Patrol III: Panda-monium!" a dojo full of shaolin pandas appear (the description comments the fact that they are not Kung Fu Pandas and mentions DreamWorks regarding legal bases).
- Stone Soup: in one strip Joan and Wally are having trouble putting Max to bed, who is still up at 2AM, watching Shrek.
Books[]
- Dork Daries: TV Star: Kung Fu Panda is mentioned.
- Time to Orbit: Unknown: In this story's future setting, the "post the entire script of Bee Movie" meme has resulted in Bee Movie being one of the few works of "pre-Neocambrian" art that remains perfectly preserved, though the people of the future have misinterpreted "Bee Movie" as being a description and believe the true title to be lost.
Music[]
- Destripando La Historia: Po makes a cameo in one song during the party where Sun wukong sneaks in.
- Katy Perry: In the version of Katy Perry's "E.T." with guest rapper Kanye West, such phrase is stated: "Pockets on Shrek, /All hands on deck. /Tell me what's next, alien sex?"
Tabletop Games[]
- GURPS: in Pyramid 45: Monsters the description for ogres says that they are not green, nor do they have layers, but they will make you cry.
Magazines[]
- Cracked: In the February 2000 issue features a section called Toon People, a parody of Teen People with cartoon characters. The casts of Antz and A Bug's Life are shown protesting the Toony Awards in response to Raid (the bug spray) winning the award for Best Commercial.
Web Videos[]
- The Angry Video Game Nerd
- In his review of the Mission: Impossible for the Nintendo 64, the Nerd points out that the game has the famous scene where Ethan Hunt breaks into a high-tech vault and suspends down on ropes, which has been parodied countless times. One of the parodies he shows is an image from Shrek 2 where Pinocchio does this with his puppet strings in an attempt to rescue an imprisoned Shrek, Donkey, and Puss in Boots.
- In his review of Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown, when the Nerd decides to watch the film the game is based on, he asks the Library of Congress for a copy of the film. He is sent the Game Boy Advance Video cartridge of the film, which is a 2-in-1 cartridge that also includes Shark Tale.
- Annoying Orange: Madagascar characters appear in the episode "Big Top Orange".
- ArhyBES: In the second installment of Batmetal, Oscar is among the various sea creatures Batman murders to save Aquaman.
- Bum Reviews: Chester A. Bum has reviewed Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon, Puss in Boots and How to Train Your Dragon 2.
- Caddicarus
- Caddicarus' The Nightmare World of Dreamworks Games reviews various tie-in DreamWorks Animation videogames.[1]
- In his Tomb Raider I review, Caddy compares Lara's voice acting to Ginger.
- CinemaSins: CinemaSins had analized individually several DreamWorks films: The Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Shrek 2, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Flushed Away Shrek the Third, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Monsters vs. Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 2, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Puss in Boots, The Croods, Penguins of Madagascar, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Home, Trolls, The Boss Baby, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls World Tour, The Croods: A New Age, The Boss Baby: Family Business, The Bad Guys, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, Trolls Band Together and Kung Fu Panda 4.
- The Cinema Snob: The review of Beyond the Darkness contains the line "I haven't seen someone this bad at playing a corpse since Ozzie the Possum."
- Dark Secrets of Garry's Mod: In Lejárt az időd (Your time is up), after dying Medievil finds himself in an afterlife that shows resemblance to a tavern, and meets The Grim Reaper. Their meeting plays out the same way like Puss' first meeting with the wolf in Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, but Medievil just walks away instead of even thinking about picking a fight with her.
- ExoParodigmGamer: "Remake or Rebreak"'s review of Super Mario 64 references the "blistering cold and scorching desert" line from Prince Charming's opening monologue from Shrek 2.
- Helluva Boss: Blitzø refers to him and Millie crashing the wedding to save Moxxie in "Exes and Oohs" as "doing a Shrek".
- Honest Trailers: Honest Trailers did trailers based on Shrek, Shrek 2, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, The Boss Baby and Trolls World Tour.
- How It Should Have Ended: Lord Farquaad appears in "How Spider-Man 2 Should Have Ended".
- The Nostalgia Critic
- Critic had reviewed individually several DreamWorks films: The Prince of Egypt (which is implied to be his favourite DreamWorks films) The Road to El Dorado, the Shrek film series, Shark Tale, Flushed Away, the Kung Fu Panda film series, Megamind, Trolls, The Boss Baby and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The Prince of Egypt was also analized in Old vs. New: 10 Commandments vs. Prince of Egypt.
- In the month of February 2013, Doug Walker made a spin-off of Disneycember called Dreamworks-uary, reviewing the DreamWorks movies as a result of Disneycember's popularity, except for Puss in Boots and Rise of the Guardians.
- In Doug's Top 10 Favorite Comedies, Shrek 2 is ranked #6.
- References to DreamWorks characters and films:
- In his review of TMNT (2007), during Master Splinter's first scene, the Critic says "Excuse me, I just walked in from Kung Fu Panda".
- The title card for Pebble and the Penguin features the Critic hiring the Penguins of Madagascar to get rid of Hubie.
- In his review of Casper, when the ghostly Carrigan punches Dibs through a window, Critic shouts "My only regret is Shrek 3!", a reference to how Eric Idle played both Dibs and Merlin.
- While reviewing The Master of Disguise, he goes over the scene mentioned above and comments "Well, to be fair, it wasn't that funny when Shrek did it either".
- Shrek and Fiona are listed as #3 on his "Top 11 Strangest (Yet Best) Couples".
- In What's with the Princess Hate? a scene from Shrek the Third is shown, where Princess Fiona and several other princesses are running toward the castle.
- In his review of The Legend of Zorro, Critic shouts "Donkey!" during a Rocky Horror Picture Show scene, in reference to the scene from Shrek 2.
- In his review of Haunted Mansion pictures of Eddie Murphy's animated characters, Mushu from Mulan and Donkey from Shrek, are shown.
- In his review of I'll Be Home for Christmas a shot of Rameses appears.
- In his review of The Mummy Critic comments that Val Kilmer and Ralph Fiennes as Moses and Ramses fit a little too well into the "realistic backdrop" of the opening.
- In his review of Mulan (2020) Critic imitates Eddie Murphy's Donkey a couple of times.
- In his review of Strange Magic Critic comments that, due to the animation quality, he keeps expecting Shrek and Fiona to trap them in jars for a throwaway joke.
- In his review of The Ant Bully Critic notes that one of the ants sleeps with open eyes, comparing it to a CG glitch of Donkey with too much hair.
- In his review of Happy Feet Crituc comments how penguins at the release of the film were all over the place, showing the poster of Penguins of Madagascar.
- In his review of A Bug's Life Critic imitates Moses, showing an image of him with the head of Flick from the Pixar film.
- Object Redundancy: Shrek appears as one of the contestants in the series.
- Oishi High School Battle: Raif mentions a sequel to Puss in Boots.
- Phelan Porteus
- In The Adventure to Shrek Feast: Phelan and Allison attempts to eat at a Shrek themed restaurant.
- Schaffrillas Productions
- Shark Tale features prominently in Schaffrillas Productions videos, starting with the YouTube Poops "Doug Walker's Glowing Review of Shark Tale" and "Sharp Talk", and continuing to the full-fledged review "Why Shark Tale is a Cinematic Disaster". It still gets mentioned in his videos to this day; for instance, in his Hadestown video he called Uncut Gems the best live-action Shark Tale remake he could ever ask for.
- Schaffrillas Productions' "Every DreamWorks Movie Ranked" list ranks all the DreamWorks Animation films produced at the time.
- In "Every Sony Animation Movie Ranked", the line "To the wild! The wild? Whoa!" from Madagascar is used as the jingle for Movie #17 (Open Season).
- In "Every 2010s Disney Movie Ranked", the line "Well, this sucks" from Madagascar is used as the jingle for Movie #7 (Frozen II).
- In "Every Mario Kart: Super Circuit Course Ranked", the "San Diego Zoo" line from Madagascar is used as the jingle for Course #5 (Shy Guy Beach).
- In "Every Disney Direct-To-DVD Sequel Ranked", Marty's "Helicopter!" from Madagascar is used as the jingle for Movie #18 (Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas).
- In "Every Mario Kart 64 Course Ranked", the line "We're digging to Antarctica!" from Madagascar is used as the jingle for Course #14 (Sherbet Land).
- In "Every Mario Kart DS Course Ranked", King Julien's "I Like to Move It" is used for the jingle for Course #23 (N64 Moo Moo Farm). Due to the cow theme, the "mo" in "move" is repeated to sound like "Moo Moo".
- In "Every Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Course Ranked", the "All hail the New York Giants!" line from Madagascar is used as the jingle for Course #65 (Tour New York Minute).
- SuperMarioLogan
- Shrek is a recurring character, wherein he spends most of his time eating Sara Lee Cheesecake, using Mario's toilet, and calling everyone "Donkey" or some variation on it.
- In "The Opposite Ray!", Jackie Chu tells his students that if he catches any of them cheating on their major before Spring Break test, he's gonna go Kung Fu Panda on their ass.
