having seen only the first 2 Shrek movies, long enough ago for the memories to be vague, is great. Because I can just assume stuff that lets me imagine the whole series the way I want it

for instance, obviously there must have been a point in the later movies when they riffed on Ratatouille, right. Like, some rat shows up who’s an accomplished knight, better at horseback riding than anyone else– he can even control Donkey. And Donkey hates this, not least because of all the jokes about “a rat’s ass”

i can be like, of course that happened, that’s not a thing they’d fail to think of, right

watch fewer sequels, it makes life so much better