Scared Shrekless

Scared Shrekless is a 30 minute television special set shortly after the events of Shrek Forever After. Shrek challenges Donkey, Puss in Boots and his other fairy tale character friends to spend the night at Lord Farquaad's haunted castle, telling scary stories to see who can resist becoming scared and stay the longest, that premiered on the American television network NBC on Thrusday October 28, 2010. Already two days later on Saturady, October 30, 2010, did it air in Denmark on the Danish TV, with Danish speech, in Italy with Italian dub and also in Venezuela on Venevision channel with spanish speech. In October 31, 2010, the special was broadcast on the Portuguese network SIC with Portuguese dub.

This also marks the first time Lord Farquaad or his castle Duloc has been seen or mentioned since the first Shrek film or Shrek 4-D, not counting his cameo in Shrek the Third. As well, this marks the first time Eddie Murphy refused to voiced Donkey and instead, the role was voiced by Dean Edwards.

Plot

It is Halloween night, and Shrek's family is celebrating by scaring trick-or-treaters. Inside their house, Donkey, Pinocchio, The Three Little Pigs, Wolf and Gingy fail to scare the ogres, and Shrek claims that nothing can scare an ogre. To prove him wrong, Donkey proposes a challenge to see who can tell the scariest story, but Shrek amps it up by choosing to hold their contest in Lord Farquaad's abandoned castle. Gingy starts first with a story about his girlfriend dumping him and asking the muffin man for a new girlfriend, made with loads of sugar. Gingy becomes happy with her but ends up becoming freaked out of all her love for him. After running away and pushing her in a big container of batter, he finally becomes free of her and decides to go home, but ends up being eaten by loads of his love. The Three Little Pigs get scared and run away with Wolf who claims they are his ride. Shrek comments on the falsehood of Gingy's "true" story, and he runs off as well.

Next, Donkey and Puss tell a story about them taking shelter from a thunderstorm at Boot's Motel. It starts off well but they end up fighting over whose story is better and generally making each other look bad. Donkey gets Pinocchio to spray Puss with water, making him run away. At last, Shrek tells the final story about him as a baby-sitter trying to sort out a crazed, seemingly possessed, Pinocchio, but after continuously getting beaten up by the living puppet, Shrek tosses him out of the window. After landing on the streets, a talking cricket pops out of Pinocchio's head, claiming to be his conscience, only to be squashed under Pinocchio's foot.

Pinocchio denies that the story is true, but when Shrek shows him a normal cricket, he screams and runs out. Now alone, Donkey and Shrek hear the wind moving about, and a walking suit of armour calling Donkey's name. Scared out of his wits, Donkey admits defeat and runs away. Fiona reveals it was her and the babies who planned the ghost act and then they, along with Shrek, celebrate by egging the seven dwarves.

Scary stories

• "The Bride of Gingy" told by Gingerbread Man (a spoof of Bride of Frankenstein)
• "Boots Motel" told by Donkey and Puss in Boots (a spoof of Bates Motel)
• "The Shreksorcist" told by Shrek (a spoof of The Exorcist)

Cast

• Mike Myers as Shrek

• Dean Edwards as Donkey

• Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona

• Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots

• Cody Cameron as Pinocchio/Three Little Pigs

• Conrad Vernon as Gingerbread Man/Muffin Man

• Christopher Knights as Three Blind Mice

• Aron Warner as Big Bad Wolf

• Kristen Schaal as Sugar

• Patty Cornell and Susan Fitzer as Creepy Clockwork Chorus

• Sean Bishop as Geppetto/Prince Charming/The Cricket/Dwarves/Waffle

• Miles Christopher Bakshi and Nina Zoe Bakshi as Ogre Babies (Farkle Fergus and Felicia)

• Louis Gabriel Basso III as Teenager #1

• Devon Werkheiser as Teenager #2 and Teenager #3