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Donkey

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Donkey

Appears in
Shrek (2001)
Played by
Eddie Murphy

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Donkey is a character in the film Shrek (2001), played by Eddie Murphy.

12 Interesting Facts About Donkey

Interesting Facts (2)

  1. #001

    (around 47m) Fleeing Fairy Godmother's factory with Donkey and Puss, Shrek knocks over a large vat of liquid potion, which transforms everyone on the factory floor. Two of them turn into Lumiere and Cogsworth from Beauty and the Beast (1991).

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  2. #002

    (around 1h 1m) In the bar scene, Puss in Boots drinks milk while Shrek and Donkey are present; the bottle beside him carries a label showing a curly-haired bull, an intentional caricature of Antonio Banderas, the voice of Puss.

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Easter Eggs & References (1)

  1. #003

    (around 31m) Shrek's line to Donkey, "That'll do, Donkey, that'll do", nods to Babe (1995), in which a farmer works with a pig that herds sheep. Shrek has arguably become the better-known film, and some people assume the phrase started here.

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Life & Family (1)

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    (around 6m) Early in the film, Donkey says he left Dragon because she had been in a really bad mood lately. This hints that she is pregnant, which is why she returns at the end with Donkey's children.

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  1. #005

    (around 51m) Princess Fiona's burp was added to the script after Cameron Diaz let one out following a Coca-Cola during a recording session. Donkey's reply to Shrek, "She's as nasty as you are!", was improvised by Eddie Murphy.

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  2. #006

    (around 9m) As Shrek (Mike Myers), Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and Donkey (Eddie Murphy) set off for Far Far Away, Donkey starts singing "Rawhide". The version heard in the film was ad-libbed by Murphy.

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  3. #007

    (around 51m) Shortly after Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots take shelter in the barn from the rain, the potion causes Donkey and Shrek to pass out. Just before he does, Donkey says "I'm coming, Elizabeth!" — the line Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) used to deliver on Sanford and Son (1972) whenever he faked a heart attack.

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  4. #008

    (around 10m) William Steig, who wrote Shrek, also wrote a children's book titled "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble", in which a donkey with a magic pebble, frightened by a lion, wishes to become a boulder for protection. Shrek nods to this in Donkey's famous line "I like that boulder, that is a nice boulder."

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  5. #009

    (around 33m) Searching the castle alone for a staircase, Donkey mutters, "I am the stair master." Eddie Murphy had already used that line in The Nutty Professor (1996), after his character turns into his alter ego Buddy Love.

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  6. #010

    (around 34m) Puss's first attack on Shrek leaves a "P" carved into a tree, a nod to Antonio Banderas, who voices Puss and played Zorro in The Mask of Zorro (1998). The reference returns (around 56m) when Puss and Donkey look over Shrek's new clothes after robbing the carriage and say, "Not bad. Not bad at all." Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones trade the same lines during their sword fight in that film.

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  7. #011

    (around 44m) When Donkey and Puss climb out of their hiding place in the metal cart at Dama Fortuna's factory, Donkey mentions Puss's "fine Corinthian footwear". This references the Chrysler Cordoba commercials in which Ricardo Montalban praised the car's "fine Corinthian leather" interior.

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  8. #012

    (around 43m) In one scene, after the shipwreck, Shrek tries to bond with Artie at Puss and Donkey's urging and fails badly, using outdated teenage slang. Mike Myers, Shrek's voice actor, improvised the whole thing.

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