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Gen Z&#8217;s <a href="https://www.blogto.com/music/2023/04/shrek-rave-toronto/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">semi-ironic love of the Shrek film franchise</a> shaped a bizarre prank that left staff at a Toronto dispensary scratching their heads in December.
A clip posted to TikTok last month has been gaining traction on various social media platforms, detailing the outlandish prank where a customer included the entire script of the 2001 comedy/fantasy flick Shrek in the instructions section of their pick-up order, resulting in a receipt so long it would impress even a CVS cash register.
The footage — ironically set to Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Creep&#8221; — begins with a befuddled WhatsApp conversation among dispensary staff before jumping into a clip of the dispensary&#8217;s register meticulously printing out a receipt for one &#8220;Barry Shrek&#8221; ordering a single vape cartridge, followed by the entire 9,574-word, 50,922-character Shrek script.
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<section><a title="@mswizzardthewizard" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mswizzardthewizard?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@mswizzardthewizard</a> another day at a toronto dispo i guess 😍 <a title="fyp" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#fyp</a> <a title="foryou" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/foryou?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#foryou</a> <a title="shrek" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/shrek?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#shrek</a> <a title="worklife" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/worklife?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#worklife</a> …? <a title="getouttamyswamp" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/getouttamyswamp?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#getouttamyswamp</a> <a title="♬ orijinal ses - arda" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/orijinal-ses-7230543084709874438?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">♬ orijinal ses &#8211; arda</a></section>
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Dispensary staff clearly got some enjoyment out of the madness and even kept the receipt as something of a trophy.
The TikTok shows the enormous order taped decoratively to the store wall, and staff even highlighted the memorable &#8220;onions&#8221; quote where Mike Myers&#8217; titular Shrek compares ogres to the layered vegetable.
blogTO has reached out to the creator behind the now-viral TikTok — which has over 5 million views and climbing — and will update this story if additional information becomes available.
In the meantime, any would-be copycat pranksters hoping to pull off a repeat of this stunt may be out of luck.
In a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petersonmichaelgr_top-tier-prank-someone-put-the-entire-script-activity-7149756371557654528-M3Ak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn post</a>, cannabis e-commerce consultant Devin Pruitt explains that this stunt &#8220;was immediately reported to the support team at Dutchie, who worked tirelessly with the engineering team to limit the special instructions to 500 characters so this issue does not persist.&#8221;
A recent resurgence in Shrek appreciation has already inspired a handful of <a href="https://www.blogto.com/events/shrek-trivia-night-snakes-lattes-midtown-toronto/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shrek-related events</a> <a href="https://www.blogto.com/events/shrek-trivia-movies-1-2-11-first-night-toronto/">in Toronto</a> in recent years; most notably, a <a href="https://www.blogto.com/music/2023/04/shrek-rave-toronto/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023 </a><a href="https://www.blogto.com/events/shrek-trivia-night-snakes-lattes-midtown-toronto/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shrek</a><a href="https://www.blogto.com/music/2023/04/shrek-rave-toronto/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">-themed rave was held</a>.
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Gen Z's love of the Shrek film franchise shaped a bizarre prank that left staff at a Toronto dispensary scratching their heads in December.