My Timmy. Timon: {wrapped up in a cocoon of spider-silk} Uhh... Before he starts up the slope, Simba turns aside to Timon and Pumbaa, who bow formally to him as the "King of Pride Rock" music plays.} {Timon nervously drums his fingertips together, chatters his teeth, and bites his nails as the hyenas approach with sinister laughter. I'll just let my fellow meerkats do the talking. I'm fast-forwarding to the part where we come in! Run for your life! Timon: Aw, who cares? Rafiki: {sagely} Remember, the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. {cut to Uncle Max being told of this idea}, Uncle Max: {in horrified shock} Timon the sentry?! Pumbaa: Uh-oh. {a ladybug appears on-screen, near the words HAKUNA MATATA which appear at the bottom}I love karaoke! }, Pumbaa: Ooh! Goofy: Gawrsh! Cut to Pumbaa in the bushes, looking at one and then the other like in a tennis match, as we hear slurps from one side and then the other in rapid succession. Digga tunnah is what we do Chorus: Oh, I just can't wait to be king! Now... what do we do if we see a hyena? {Embraces Timon} Aww. Timon: {narrating} Home sweet home indeed. Ma: {snatches Timon away} Ok, Max. Uncle Max: I flinched when I should've scurried. Pumbaa: {another dish} A wormy piccata. Ohh! Timon: When you gotta go, you gotta go. {Rafiki is talking to Ma under the meerkats' tree by the rock. {Animals snort and glower at them as the push their way through the crowd. {He notices an increasing roar of rushing water, and sees that they're approaching the top of a waterfall} Uh... Pumbaa? Timon: Oh. Ma: {consumed with worry; shaking Uncle Max by the chest hair} Where's Timon? ...Maybe it's a little too soon, but I'm sure we're all gonna laugh about this someday. Bashful: 'Scuse me. Timon: {pause} But... {Timon clicks the remote; the movie resumes.} {Pumbaa starts dancing, trotting sideways until he bumps into Timon; his hat rolls off. {The crack suddenly stops expanding as one of the supports hits an embedded rock and doesn't fall. Footage from TLK 1.}. Timon: Hey, where'd you come from? }, {Cut to Scar running away from Simba, with the hyenas chasing after, while sparks from the fire fly all around. You can run a trail— Ma: {almost inaudible} Send us a message— {indistinct} {The sunrise plays backwards, looking like a sunset; the screen goes black along with African drumbeats; the title "The Lion King" crashes onto the screen, followed by a 2, then a 1, then another 1, followed by a diagonal line which forms the crooked "1 1/2" logo. W-we gotta find him. {stretching} Uhh! All right then. {He clicks the remote; we switch back to the scene of Uncle Max's impending demise.}. Max and everyone: NO! Look, Timon. Pumbaa: {indicating the impending ceremony} Timon, look! Timon: {stretching wearily} Nah, Pumbaa. Timon is a wise-cracking meerkat who thinks he's smart, but it's often Pumbaa who's smarter. {Pumbaa turns and stalks off. Show's over. Any story worth telling is worth telling twice. {Ma keeps hugging him, tighter and tighter until we start to hear crunching sound effects. }, Young Simba: ...Standing in the spotlight! {Pumbaa turns and trots off, a tear in his eye. {Pumbaa slurps up all the bugs. Ah, well. Oh, no! Timon: Ooh, let's go, Pumbaa. Timon is plodding now, slumped over.}. Timon: Perfect! {A powerful explosion sounds inside the cave, with a cloud of dust billowing out the cave entrance.} Keep stalling! you're not? {Uncle Max relaxes in the vine hammock with a drink, while bugs fall all around. {Both scream as they bungee-jump} Timon: Besides you, Ma. {blows his nose; hands the hanky back} Here, Pumbaa. }, Timon and Pumbaa: Yaaaaahh! Timon: Now, this is more like it. Buzzards! {to Max} Or maybe you would rather have him go back on the digging crew. }, Shenzi: Let's get 'em. Switch to the bed-stump, where Simba pounces on Pumbaa and gives him a "noogie", then gathers the two of them on top of him. I'm goin' home... and I suggest you do the same. He slams the shell down and leers at Timon, who yawns theatrically, then slurps down a snail of his own and folds his arms defiantly. Ma: Looking for you! They're moving through the thermal-vent area where Scar lives. {It becomes a chant as they shuffle along the now-famous log, dancing and singing}, Both: Hakuna Matata {The camera does a super-high-speed truck-out from Pride Rock, past zebras, grasslands, the Elephant Graveyard, the Gorge, marshlands, the desert, and finally stopping at a dry plain of low mounds of dirt, with a tumbleweed blowing across} You're all alone. A little patch of green! It's our problem-free {Timon marches on a bit further.} Feared by no one and eaten by all! Timon: But maybe it'd be safer if I just show 'em where I came from. Young Simba: All right! Oh, don't fear, my little darling I know what you're thinking: "We're too different." Pumbaa: Well, I think it's because a "pride" is what they call a group of lions. Pumbaa: Oh, yeah. Turns, with dainty hands... {Timon looks, aghast. They've... they've headed off on some heroic mission. Timon: {seeing the seeds of an idea} They do? Home sweet home! Uncle Max? Simba: {entering, walking along the seatbacks} Hey, you guys are watching the movie? Timon: Yeah, that's probably for the best. TIMON: Yaaaah! {Pumbaa resumes the movie. Never more the hyena come! Pumbaa: You're killing me, ha ha! {He begins rewinding the movie} Timon We're not in the beginning of the story! Why don't we tell them our story? {gestures indistinctly at his rump} My dream home awaits. Strange but wise monkey? You just can't help yourself, can you? Somebody: Sorry. Quick, before the hyena come! {Camera pulls back to show the silhouettes. Timon turns away, then begins striding purposefully away into the sunset as traveling music ("Timon's Traveling Theme") begins. TIMON: Hee hee hee! (Here!) Somebody's gotta protect us! We found it: the perfect life. {on the verge of cracking} Steam! 07/11/2019 - Donald Glover on Jimmy Kimmel Live, 07/11/2019 - TLK clips: "A Gift He'll Never Forget" and "I'm Gonna Name Him Fred", 07/09/2019 - TLK World Premiere Livestream (and Circle of Life preview! I'm trying to think. Timon: Wait a minute, now wait-wa-wait. Swifty? We're grass intolerant. Oh, man! }, Timon: {narrating as the camera continues to truck out, ending with the silhouettes and the theater seats} Well, that's it. }, Ma: Now? Pumbaa: Oh—I like the sound of that. Enter omniscient monkey, right on cue. List (surname) Liszt (surname) Places. Forget it, Pumbaa. Cut back to the theater seats and silhouettes; Timon pauses the movie.}. List auf Sylt, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt; Mathematics. }, Timon: {narrating} And so, with high spirits I boldly ventured off where no meerkat had dared to go before. {A roar precedes the arrival of Mufasa, leaping over the elephant tusk where Timon and Pumbaa had been, before diving out of the way just in time. Watch it, Twiggy. {Pumbaa and Timon enter the scene, walking across the sunrise from left to right. {pointing at the lions cuddling} Look! {waggling his tail} Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please? There's something I gotta tell ya. Right? Ma: Don't talk to strangers! Fraught, I tell you! {Ma and Uncle Max are backed up against the rock wall. It means "No worries." Hakuna Matata {Offenbach's "Cancan" plays. Timon: Woaaahhh! ), 06/24/2019 - TLK Tickets Available Today — plus Jon Favreau Interview on Fandango. Young Simba: {jumping around in the branches} Whoo-hoo! {pauses the movie; the silhouettes and the seatbacks appear again} Pumbaa, how can a rock be proud? Shenzi: Well, hi to you too! Did you find what you were looking for? Adult Nala: I would if you'd just tell me. Hey! Timon and Pumbaa both scream as they hurtle over the edge. ), (Dissolve to the fog-shrouded hills at twilight. Timon: Let's whip some grass. But we will... {She combs his hair again} Oh, here's an idea. }, Ma: Never go swimming without a buddy! {Simba grabs a snail and slurps it straight out of its shell, leaving slime all over his chin. }, Pumbaa: {shocked} Timon? Background chant: Semon pute. {Back to "Peter Gunn"; Timon now has several bee stings on his head, a black eye swollen shut, and (as he grins and gives the thumbs-up to Pumbaa) a missing tooth. Adult Simba: Right behind you. We just haven't found it yet. Adult Nala: How did you...? Pumbaa: {wearing a chef's hat of leaves; stacking bugs on a skewer} I'll just whip up a little something. But this little entree's fightin' back! Pumbaa: And... you want me to come with you? This place has everything. }, Pumbaa: {shocked} You really think I look fat? TIMON: All righty, what have we got here? Show people. Uncle Max: You think? Uncle Max: {furiously pantomiming} Even all bloodthirsty hyenas are waiting to rip us limb from limb! Pumbaa is nothing without Timon, and vise-versa. Home sweet home, Pumbaa. {Timon pauses the movie. Whoo, what a wake-up call! Uh, beats me, Timon. Timon: {aside, to the camera, over Uncle Max; sarcastically} Oh, boy. Timon: {resigned} On the other hand... {He leads Pumbaa straight into the breach.} {Timon resumes the movie. What do you mean, he's gone? Pumbaa: {hopeful} You mean, like friends? He begins to soliloquize to convince himself he's doing the right thing.}. Possibly the most underrated Disney friendship of all time is between Pocahontas and Nakoma. Timon: And I know just what it is. {disappears} Pumbaa: Simba. }, Pumbaa/Snail: I told you this wasn't such a good idea! Timon: Don't you know the shortest distance between me and my dream home is a straight line? Pumbaa runs in slow motion across the desert sands, frame-for-frame exactly how Simba ran in TLK 1. Timon: Got it! Pumbaa: {zipping back immediately} Ooh, great! Ma: I said, send us a— {He tries to sing to cheer himself up; scene switches to various places where the trio used to hang out} Hakuna Matata... what a wonderful phrase... {weakly} Hakuna... Matata... {pathetically} ain't no passing craze... it means... unnghh... No Worries. I just know it! Max! Ma: Yes it is. Zazu: Look, sire, how they kneel before the royal son. As Mufasa rushes off stage left, Zazu flies after him, briefing him on the situation we all remember from TLK 1. dig dig a tunnah. {He starts to sob and whine like a dog. Then, he shouldn't have left us! We're so low on the food chain we're underground! Pumbaa: What's that he's holdin' up? }, Meerkats: Never dreamed he'd help Simba shine The Lion King WWW Archive is a non-profit, volunteer effort dedicated If you have any general questions, please read our FAQ, which also includes instructions on how to send us e-mail for corrections to menus or general show info.For corrections and additions to episode details for specific shows, click through to the episode and submit corrections via the specific list provider: TVmaze.com or TV.com.TVmaze.com or TV Follow me! Sorry about that, pal. I got a low threshold for pain. If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat He grabs a second, bigger remote} We gotta go back to the beginning of the story. Pumbaa: It did? Young Simba: {going over a waterfall} Yahoooo! {Timon reaches out to Pumbaa's shoulder; they embrace, and Timon resumes the movie. MS: My little darling Why'd we ever listen to that stupid monkey? Finally, dissolve to all three relaxing in the bubbling hot-tub pool. He takes things literally! {Sudden cut to a snarling Nala pinning Simba down onto the ground with a WHUMP. My friends... {turns despairing} are gone. And I am happy... happy, happy, deliriously happy. }, {As Timon counts "Two", Pumbaa throws himself on top of him; Simba lands safely on his back. }, Pumbaa: {enthused} Hop on, buddy. It means "no worries." }, {The movie pauses just as they reach the camera. What do you know? ...Were you just picking your nose? Adult Simba: Waah! {Pumbaa releases a massive fart. Dissolve to the exterior of the cave; camera trucks out slowly as the scene gradually switches to daylight.}. {pulling open a tree to reveal dozens of bugs} Well-stocked cupboard! Heh. Meerkats: Uhh! Timon: Oh, sure you can, buddy. We split 'em up! {The ceiling cracks and then comes crashing down around them, light streaming in all around; finally there's nothing left of the tunnel but a ring of dirt held up on a narrow protrusion, with Timon standing under it. {Timon does a wild take, goes sprawling. Let me have a show of hands. Banzai: {approaching again} Hey, it works for me! Rafiki: My work here is done. It'll pass. Shenzi: {clapping} Oh, look it's dinner and a show! Way to sell it to the cheap seats. That meerkats are not merely food! Oh, what a relief. I just never had a name for it. {Pumbaa snatches Simba out of midair from an overhanging branch; Timon goes falling past them helplessly, shrieking.} Pumbaa: {setting out a bowl of bug-mush} A spoon of ricotta. {pulling aside vines to demonstrate} Dramatic views! Pumbaa: I'm your pig. Pumbaa follows Timon out into the grasslands, where Simba is wrestling with himself. {Samba music plays} Pumbaa, this is our dream home! Ma: Timon, this can't go on. Uncle Max: {in his face} Applaud now, sonny boy. We're food for other animals—a moveable feast. Pumbaa: Be right back! Sleepy: 'Scuse me. {Camera pulls back to a panoramic view of the Pride Lands in all their golden-lit majesty, as the "This Land" theme plays} Look out to the horizon, past the trees, over the grasslands. {pauses the movie on a snarling close-up of the three hyenas; Timon and Pumbaa both shriek and dive under their seats}, Timon: {slowly re-emerging} Hey, I got an idea. The rhinos are bowing. {Camera pans down to where Timon is standing in the midst of all the angry meerkats. What was what?! {He turns to face the camera; we get a faceful of his bloodshot, staring eyes.} Why is she toying with us? Like we all haven't broken into song on sentry duty before. Well, I perfected it. Timon: He has a point. Philosophy Silence falls as the hyenas search for them inside the cave, holding for a beat.}. Ha ha ha! {Camera reveals he's looking straight at Pumbaa's butt} Then he takes up his position on the rock. Timon: Ohh. }, Timon: What was with the running? Timon: Oh, you got that right, pally. Nothing's changed here. I was just trying to shed a little light on our pathetic existence. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. {He spits out the quill, then looks up at the sound of buzzards squawking} Hey, look, Timon. He steels himself, then runs headlong at Shenzi, aiming between her legs. {"Dress" echoes several times. Lion King. {Timon hops up on Pumbaa; they gallop off as heroic music plays. {His arm collapses.} Timon: Yeeeeoooow! Pumbaa: You know, Timon, I once came across a place that might be just what you're looking for. Oh ho! Rafiki: {laughs} Oh, the better question is, where are you going? Digga tunnah, They can't get out of the way fast enough. Revisions | I'm there. {Camera switches to the entire colony of meerkats, listening intently, and now pretending nonchalance and clearing their throats}. Timon: {interrupting} Hey, hey, hey. We still haven't found our dream home. And honey, {earnestly} try to make this one work. Life without worry. Timon: {waking up blearily; seeing Simba's huge face upside-down} Oh. Let's do a sing-along! All we do is dig so we can hide, and hide so we can dig. Mm-hmm. Maybe tomorrow. }, Timon: {goes suddenly from aghast to thrilled} So, I guess that's your special power, huh? Meerkat #3: Ándale! Keep stalling! PUMBAA: I love this! Gotta have water. Somebody's gotta guard us! Timon: To recap: I want to live in some beautiful place, outside... a carefree place where I don't have to hide or worry. What do you call a hyena with half a brain? Timon, listen to Uncle Max. {Timon and Pumbaa stand at the epicenter of what looks like a nuclear blast; a slight hissing sound is heard, as well as groans and coughs. Timon: {melodramatically} Oh, no, Pumbaa. Pumbaa: Sure you don't mind? Mmm. {Cut to the sun beating down on the dunes, in the scene where Simba ran home across the desert. And we eat the grass... right? Both: {singing} Wasn't it yesterday when he was small? {turns and leaves} Pumbaa: What exactly did he say? Ha ha! Grumpy: Get outta the way. {As the hyenas draw near, Ma pops up from the hole. Ma: I gotta hand it to you. Timon sighs. }, Meerkats: Aah! He frantically looks for a tissue; seeing none, he tries to shake it off his hand, then to flick it off. Timon: {At the end of his rope} Uhh. Pumbaa: {ruefully} Yeah. {They pause for a beat, then hop to their feet and "Riverdance" away off-screen} {Pumbaa, with Timon riding on top, goes charging into the desert towards the buzzards. Simba's paw slips off Timon; he sleepily reaches down and pulls it back up like a blanket. You're a pig. I'd be a bigger cheese }, MS: In the jungle, the mighty jungle Fan-Art Archive | {"That's All I Need", the sister song to "Warthog Rhapsody", begins. And when you get to your tunnah's end Who's missin' out on bon {The meerkats all silently file out, except for Ma. {gasps as she sees the screen} You didn't tell me you were watching the movie! Pumbaa: Simba again. Banzai: {nonplussed} You gotta be kidding me. {Pause for a beat while Uncle Max glowers disapprovingly and fingers the flower in Timon's hair; Timon grins sheepishly. I got a really bad feeling! Rafiki: {dangling into the picture} Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Our survival depends on it. The bug is now staggering across the words and getting bounced around by the pair's on-screen antics: floating down a river cascade, bungee-jumping on jungle vines, parachuting on leaves, slurping up a long worm and ending in a kiss as in "Lady and the Tramp", Timon: Hakuna Matata! Essays, reviews, production notes, and hundreds of fan stories. As they're both in midair, the movie pauses. Timon: Well. Pumbaa: But if you always go beyond what you see, how do you know when you're there? Shenzi: No, you right. Nala: It's just like the baboon said. They all wind their way to an area near the top of Pride Rock, where the hyenas corner Simba, who snarls at them. Get a load of what I found! ...Parenthood. Nothing gets past you. Timon: Ahh. Adult Simba: {recognizing her} ...Nala? Timon: {narrating} This is the stuff of legends. Timon: {feeling betrayed} Et tu, Pumbaa? {Pumbaa pauses the movie. Woman on TV: Of course there is what's happening in every magazine, why don't we think about it, other than you've got that longshot, clear your code... Timon: Hey, what's goin' on? The treachery... the villainy... the sheer indescribable horror! Now I'm convinced. Pumbaa: I gotta lambada! Ah ha ha ha! Pumbaa: Oh, please? {Young Simba falls, silently, as Timon counts. Lebo M.'s "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" plays as the camera slowly zooms in on Timon. {The movie resumes. Timon: Ho ho! The lion sleeps tonight Rafiki: I didn't have the pleasure. Timon: Sarcasm is a foreign language to you, isn't it? Timon: {in pep-talk mode} Ma, Uncle Max: You're going to dig a trap. {Far shot of Timon, revealing that he is standing next to Rafiki's baobab tree} What am I doing? Pumbaa: {incisively} I was about to ask you the same thing. Watch where you aim that morning breath. What? {She grabs Pumbaa's big remote and begins rewinding.} Where? {smacks Timon, who goes rolling down the hill} Since 1995, The Lion King WWW Archive has been the premier site for information, multimedia, and online services for fans of Disney's The This is home sweet home, baby! My son... the hero. The lion sleeps tonight }, Ma: {trying to salvage the situation} Ho ho. Ed: Aah ha ha—ohh! {Camera slowly trucks in on the scene in the desert where the buzzards are clustering around what we know to be Young Simba. Timon: A little backstage tour. Come on, let's go. }, ! He begins to turn away, but just then Timon runs back and jumps up on his head.}. Interactive, Other Goodies | Do you know what this means? {Timon curls up in the indentation where he used to watch the stars; the other two indentations are empty. Based on the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King, it centers on Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog, as they live their problem-free philosophy "Hakuna matata". Happy, is it? And Pumbaa. Mournful violin music plays. {He resumes marching. {Rafiki gets clocked in the head with his own stick}, Ma: {enraged} You used a metaphor on Timon?! It's a rock. Hey, keep it down up there! {patronizing} Had a little too much Hakuna Matata? {narrating} At last, things were looking up. {determined} Well, here I go. Pumbaa: Hmm? }, Shenzi: What?! The lion sleeps tonight Beyond what I see. Timon: So clear up one thing for me. }, Adult Nala: {sighs exasperatedly} Ohh. }, FS: It's the Circle of Life Other TLK Sites | Timon: I think Uncle Max dislodged one too many rocks with his skull. {pushes some grass apart and gazes out over the horizon} What's so bad about dreaming of a better home? Ma: {grabs Timon and shakes him} Oh, please. He lands next to Pumbaa as the movie, still rewinding, nears the beginning.}. {Cut back to Timon and Pumbaa, backed up against a rock wall and illuminated by the red firelight.} The two are part of the Powhatan tribe and have most likely been best friends since childhood. He gasps as he realizes Pumbaa is coming back. }, Timon: {reassuring} I'll be okay! Pumbaa: {adding another bowl of bugs} The spinach armada. {. Hold on a second. Simba is floating happily down a river as Timon frantically paddles after him.