There was a prize contest (with a $25,000 reward) for fans who wished to suggest additional plot points for Pauline""s exploits.Afterwards, Shrek told Fiona: "That""s it.We""re leaving...I am an ogre.I""m not cut out for this, Fiona, and I never will be." She replied: "A couple more days, and we""ll be back home in our vermin-filled shack strewn with fungus and filled with the rotting stench of mud and neglect.[Note: By the time of the 1957 film, Marilyn Monroe was a well-known actress and sexy bombshell, but in the film""s time frame of 1951, she was only a bit player and little-known.She begs her father not to whip her as he circles the table after her: "Don""t whip me - don""t! Please, Daddy! - Don""t!"Lucy is unable to smile with the ever-present threat of her terrorizing father""s domination, but he orders her to:Put a smile on yer face, can""t yer?Poetically, she transforms herself with a vivid gesture o give him a pitiful, forced smile: "Poor Lucy, never having cause to smile, uses this pitiful excuse instead...so whatever happened to us must have happened to him." Brent speculated that they had passed through a Hasslein Curve -- "a bend in time," and had arrived at an unknown planet (with plentiful oxygen and water), and were "lucky to be alive.