--- title: Theo Goes Viral for Flawless Shrek Impression description: Theo Karras's one-man reenactment of scenes from 'Shrek' has the internet obsessed with his impersonation skills. canonical: https://time.com/5334942/shrek-reenactment/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-10T20:52:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:45.993Z og:title: People Are Obsessed With This Flawless 'Shrek' Mimic og:description: Theo Karras has gone viral for his one-man reenactment of scenes from 'Shrek' og:url: https://time.com/5334942/shrek-reenactment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Are Obsessed With This Flawless 'Shrek' Mimic twitter:description: Theo Karras has gone viral for his one-man reenactment of scenes from 'Shrek' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # People Are Really, Really Obsessed With This Guy's _Shrek_ Impression > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 10, 2018 8:52 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 10, 2018 8:52 PM UTC Are you obsessed with [_Shrek_](http://time.com/4994897/shrek-teen-cops/)? As in, do you know every line to the classic animated movie? Could you recite it — flawlessly — off the cuff? How about adding to that spot-on impersonations of each of the character’s signature [accents and intonations](http://time.com/money/4387222/summer-blockbuster-movies/item/2001-shrek/)? You may not be able to do all of that on command, but Theo Karras sure can. The young actor’s sister shared a video of Karras re-enacting, word for word, a scene from the [beloved ogre movie](http://time.com/4350492/craig-ball-adele-hello-impersonation/) during a road trip — and the video rapidly took off on Twitter, going viral over the weekend for Karras’s pitch-perfect voice acting. So for a trip down the _Shrek_ memory lane, give his reenactment a shot. As Karras explained [to Buzzfeed](https://www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1/cute-guy-reciting-shrek?utm%5Fterm=.isxVKoPla#.kbXvagM7p), he’s watched the movie enough that its dialogue is pretty much ingrained in his memory. “I’ve always imitated _Shrek_ scenes and quoted lines since I was younger, so their voices are easier to remember,” he noted. > [](https://twitter.com/Maria%5FKarras/status/1016089043141103616) Viewers are seriously impressed, too. > [](https://twitter.com/honeyd00ms/status/1016487269987807232) > [](https://twitter.com/sophh%5Fann/status/1016339673273298944) > [](https://twitter.com/%5FAaron%5FAnthony%5F/status/1016462963904077825) According [to his sister](https://twitter.com/Maria%5FKarras/status/1016586373032226817), Karras has a role in a community theater production of [_Legally Blonde_](http://time.com/5304556/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-confirm/) in the Chicago area this summer — so fans of the viral star could see his acting in person if they’re up for it, too. (And maybe he’ll grace Twitter with a reenactment of that cult classic movie as well; after all, he probably knows all the lines by now.) But for now, Karras — who has lofty Broadway goals, according to his Twitter — seems to be taking his viral success with a grain of salt. Still, getting discovered online has worked out for plenty of aspiring stars in the past. But for now he’s back to work, grinding it out like the rest of us. > [](https://twitter.com/Theo%5FKarras%5F/status/1016528665163763712) > [](https://twitter.com/Theo%5FKarras%5F/status/1016683498709639170) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5334942/shrek-reenactment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5334942/shrek-reenactment/"},"headline":"People Are Really, Really Obsessed With This Guy's Shrek Impression","datePublished":"2018-07-10T20:52:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:45.993Z","description":"Theo Karras's one-man reenactment of scenes from 'Shrek' has the internet obsessed with his impersonation skills.","url":"https://time.com/5334942/shrek-reenactment/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5334942/shrek-reenactment/","name":"People Are Really, Really Obsessed With This Guy's Shrek Impression"}}]}] ```