When she begins to become melancholy again and moodily plays a few bars of he sorrowful tuneSend Word to Mother, he asks her a test question." She obstinately told Shrek: "You can tell Lord Farquaad that if he wants to rescue me properly, I""ll be waiting for him right here.Robie is first introduced in the form of his own black cat that lounges on his sofa next to a paw-scratched edition of the HERALD TRIBUNE, with a report of the series of new thefts of the wealthy in Cannes.They discovered that it was fully stocked with stacks of cardboard cartons of Civil Defense Survival Supplies, rations, and sanitation kits.Numerous allusions o blindness are sprinkled throughout the film (the farmer""s eyes are pecked out, the children play blindman""s bluff at the birthday party, the broken glasses of the fleeing schoolchild, etc.