This then, of course, immediately makes the audience laugh. A few shots forward and we see our first glimpse of Lord Farquaad's evil side. As mentioned above, the Lord doesn't play the traditional "Knight in Shining Armor" role, he swapped it out for the Shrek character to become the evil character. The Lord has taken a lovely fairy tale creature, namely the gingerbread man, and is threatening him with the use of physical violence. She laughs and taunts him as she watches his torture. Immediately after the gingerbread man's legs are broken, the Lord says "Run, run, as fast as you can..." and plays with the helpless character's legs. Then, he tries to remove the buttons to which the gingerbread man shouts "no...not my gummy buttons!" after which it is thrown into the waste bin. The blind date parody, after being reminded by the magic mirror that he can't have a kingdom unless he's a king, from Snow White. Lord Farquaad has three beautiful women to choose from and after holding a competition to capture the princess, he makes a deal with