Intertextual Fun

The following is a small compilation of references made to TV shows, movies or random amusing objects during the Shrek movies, performed by or involving Puss in Boots. Taken from the wonderful Wikipedia.

During the scene where Puss in Boots first encounters Shrek, he rips out of Shrek's shirt, in the same manner as aliens "hatch" out of human bodies in the Alien movie franchise.

In the same scene, Puss in Boots inscribes the letter "P" into a tree using three strokes of his sword, parodying the character of Zorro where the callsign of the hero Zorro is slashing the letter "Z" using three sword strokes. Incidentally, Antonio Banderas, the actor voicing Puss in Boots, played Zorro in the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro.

After Puss in Boots attacks Shrek, Donkey suggests that Shrek give him the "Bob Barker treatment." Bob Barker, the long-time host of CBS' The Price is Right, always ends his program by urging TV viewers to spay or neuter their pets.

As Puss in Boots reads out various potion names in the storeroom, he calls out "Hex-Lax," and "Elfa-Seltzer", referencing the laxative Ex-Lax, the indigestion remedy Alka-Seltzer.

When Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots escape from the potion storeroom in the Fairy Godmother's factory, Puss quickly reaches under the door to rescue his hat, as Indiana Jones does in The Temple of Doom.

In the scene where Shrek, Donkey, and Puss in Boots are drinking in the tavern, Puss in Boots says "I hate Mondays," a line often used by Garfield the cat in Jim Davis's Garfield comic strip.

Puss in Boots sits in a chair and douses himself with water, just like Jennifer Beals did in Flashdance.

At the end of the movie, Puss in Boots says he is going to the Kit-Kat Club: a reference to the club from Cabaret.

In Far Far Away Idol Puss in Boots sings Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walking"


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