Potty-Mouthed Shrek Toy Just Latest Sign That Franchise Is Over

Despite a relatively healthy $223 million box-office take to date and some unflagging critical support, most of popular culture is just fine seeing the Shrek franchise wind to a close. It's time, really -- and if you don't believe that, maybe the cosmic coincidence of a Happy Meal tie-in that spouts lewd epithets at your kid will convince you. Video after the jump.

This hard-hitting news report confronts the scandalous Three Little Pigs toy that some Seattle-area parents accuse of corrupting their children with certain five-letter slang for ladyparts. Which seems not-so-bad, to be honest, particularly in relation to a franchise that makes such extravagant use of a feline lothario names Puss In Boots, or in which Eddie Murphy has a central role playing a sassy donkey. In fact, the pigs should be even saltier -- like, "Put down the f***ing Happy Meal, porky." Or something similarly aggrieved about Burger King having the superior in-store promotion. I mean, it's a different world now! You can't just rope 21st-century kids in with Muppet Babies anymore.

[via The Awl]