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The King of beasts'southward Male monarch'south Timon & Pumbaa (September eight, 1995 — September 24, 1999) is an American spin-off television series to Disney'due south The Lion King, which stars the eponymous pair from the motion-picture show. The prove first aired on The Disney Afternoon and CBS. As the evidence focuses on the movie'south comic relief characters, the tone is considerably more comedic than the flick. Much like the Little Mermaid and Aladdin Television receiver series, the serial has the characters going on new adventures, giving them backstories and occasionally showing more depth on the characters' friendship.

Set after the events of the original film (and the subsequent Direct to Video P.O.5. Sequel The Panthera leo King 1½, which has the same tone every bit the series and Retcons one episode), Timon and Pumbaa live their Hakuna Matata lifestyle, having their own (mis)adventures both within and outside of the African Savannah. Throughout their journey, they meet new friends and enemies, including Quint and Smolder. Some of the motion picture's other side characters (Rafiki, Zazu, and the hyena trio Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed) are likewise given their ain respective segments occasionally, with Rafiki's being nether the championship "Rafiki Fables" and the hyenas' under the title "The Laughing Hyenas". As a spin-off of The Lion Male monarch, expect Artistic License out the holy wazoo.

The series is notable for existence the first installment in the Panthera leo Male monarch franchise to feature onscreen appearances past humans, every bit humans were neither seen nor mentioned in the original film, but their existence was alluded to. The series also occasionally features more supernatural elements than seen in the picture show, such every bit magic, monsters, genies, etc., several of which are lampshaded past the characters.

The first flavor began on September 8, 1995 on the syndicated Disney Afternoon block (September xvi, 1995 on CBS) and ended on December 29, 1995 (December 16, 1995 on CBS). A second flavour would begin airing September 2, 1996 on the Disney Afternoon (September 14, 1996 on CBS) and end on November 25, 1996 (November 9, 1996 on CBS). Reruns aired on Disney Channel and afterward Toon Disney (the latter being for about a decade after its cancellation), but accept rarely been seen on any networks since. As of November 2019, all episodes are streaming on Disney+, in remastered high definition.

A character canvas for the series is currently under structure hither.

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This bear witness provides examples of:

• Aborted Arc: Both Rafiki and the Hyenas got their own titled segments spread throughout the get-go flavor (Rafiki'due south Fables and The Laughing Hyenas respectively). Zazu too got a couple of limelight episodes in Season Ii. These did non finish up recurring for the balance of the series, being limited to desultory cameos in Timon-and-Pumbaa-centric episodes after (though Rafiki has made some major appearances in those episodes).
• Actor Allusion:
  • In an episode about Manhattan, Pumbaa says that he wants to meet a musical near "Guys and Dolls". Timon and Pumbaa's voice actors, Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, both featured in the 1992 Broadway revival of that musical.
  • In "Mozam-Beaked", the Jerkass woodpecker is voiced by Gilbert Gottfried. We have Gilbert Gottfried voicing a loud and obnoxious bird. Doesn't that sound familiar?
• Adaptational Badass:
  • While Simba was already a badass in the original moving-picture show, he has superhero feats in this serial, such equally blowing abroad hundreds of heavy animals (including elephants and rhinos) with a single roar and being able to knock down a xl anxiety alpine monster with a single tackle.
  • Rafiki's shamanism is expanded throughout the testify. In the original film, he was more of a fortune teller, merely this series makes him into a full on wizard. See Adaptational Expansion below.
• Adaptational Expansion: The entire series pretty much qualifies given that it'south a spin-off focusing on the side characters of the original film, in which their personal backgrounds besides as some other elements were briefly touched upon or alluded to.
  • In the movie, Timon mentions that he and Pumbaa live wherever they want, and the duo is shown to accept cognition on Hawaiian tradition as they perform the hula trip the light fantastic to distract the hyenas. This serial shows Timon and Pumbaa traveling around the world, sometimes taking up residence in unlike places.
  • Other animals are shown living in Timon and Pumbaa's jungle home, such as Ned the Elephant, who is the jungle's most popular pachyderm. It is also shown in the episode "The Constabulary of the Jungle" that the jungle has its own laws, which are created by a rhino gauge known as the Wonderful Rhino of Laws. Like the Pride Lands, the jungle also has organized events similar talent shows, banquets, and olympic games.
  • Rafiki's shaminism. It is shown in the series that Rafiki can grant wishes (which he calls "Rafiki Wish", with his policy being only 1 wish per beast) and have back wishes as well, bandage spells, shapeshift into insects, and likewise teleport. His walking stick is besides shown to take magical powers and he reveals that the gourds on the stick are the central to his mystical abilities.
  • Zazu is revealed to not only be a lion king's majordomo, he is a jungle ambassador, which was briefly alluded to in the original film (and its 2003 Special Edition version) as his mole assistant, Gopher, was shown reporting to him near the hyenas in the Pride Lands.
  • Humans, who were hinted at in the original motion-picture show, are physically featured in the series. It is shown that Timon and Pumbaa encounter humans during their world-traveling adventures, and that humans rarely visit the animal globe unless they either work with wildlife, capture animals, or destroy role of their land to build a shopping mall.
• Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed with the hyenas. While they still have their carnivorous natures, they don't appear to be as threatening as they are in the movies, although they still show that they are non to be messed with, every bit shown in "Cooked Goose" and "TV Dinner".
• Affably Evil:
  • Smolder, who is genuinely a dainty grizzly bear... every bit long equally you don't piss him off.
  • The beast from "Beast of Eden". Despite his evil nature, he bargains with Timon and Pumbaa as they offer to aid retrieve his gold tooth from the natives. He likewise helps the 2 get out of the bottomless pit.
  • Dr. Cagliostro from "Monster Massachusetts". He may be rather antagonistic, only he does not regard his piece of work equally harmful or monstrous, as his intention is to adorn ugly creatures. He is also implied to care deeply about his monster assistant Torgo, as he gave him a portrait of himself every bit a gift, which Torgo keeps in his secret wishing place.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: In "Madagascar Virtually You", Pumbaa is to be wedded to a warthog bride and, according to an archive of "Warthog Traditions", is unable to go out of it. Thanks to a loophole, Timon sets out to make Pumbaa icky and rude plenty to displease her and cancel. The bride, instead, falls in love with him because of this, only deciding to call off the wedding when Pumbaa reveals his real Prissy Guy self. Equally she leaves, the lemur in charge of the wedding decides to go after her, revealing himself to exist a warthog with the traits she's interested in.
• Alliterative Name: All of the Quints accept titles starting with either a hard "C" or a "Thou". Maybe averted once where he referred to himself as "a Pet Shop Owner Quint", implying he was just referring to his occupation rather than his title.
• Alternate Continuity: The show is speculated by many fans to be this. The episode "Once Upon a Timon", nonetheless, could exist viewed equally an Alternate Timeline with the third moving picture, The Panthera leo Male monarch 1½ (The King of beasts King 3 in certain regions), which ignores everything the episode establishes.
• Ambiguous Time Period: Given that information technology is unclear when the original film takes place, it'due south a given that the exact setting of the show is indefinite. Similar the movie, there are references and elements that suggest that the testify is set up some fourth dimension in the belatedly 20th century. However, Timon and Pumbaa are also shown visiting places like the Old W and Ancient Egypt, and a T-rex is seen in the episode "Timon... Alone".
• Amusing Injuries: Befitting the show'southward Denser and Wackier accept. Information technology comes to a head in the "Stand up By Me" musical short where Pumbaa receives injury after injury while Timon is unscathed. All considering Pumbaa won't/can't stand by him.
  • Timon takes advantage of this in "Sitting Pretty Awful" to entertain the triplets he and Pumbaa are babysitting.
• Animal Disguise: In "Truth or Zaire", Congo Quint the hunter, pursuing Timon and Pumbaa, disguises himself as a male gorilla to get close to a female gorilla who believes Timon and Pumbaa are her babies.
• Animation Bump: More than like animation downgrade. Starting in the third season, the animation is blander and much less expressive, and the visuals are on-par with other Canadian cartoons airing at the time. This is due to the season being animated by the Canadian animation studio Studio B Productions for Walt Disney Tv set Animation.
  • In an example played directly, during the first 2 seasons, the episodes past Walt Disney Television Blitheness Commonwealth of australia and Toon City are animated much more fluidly and have stronger layouts and drawings than the others, as per usual for a Disney Afternoon series.
• Animation Lead Time: In "Nest Best Matter", one of the things Piddling Jimmy mentions he wants is HDTV, which launched in 1998, the same year the episode was produced.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: The series expands on the animals' partially civilized natures. The original pic's characters (particularly the titular duo and, to some caste, Zazu and the hyenas) are occasionally seen wearing clothes and using some man items when convenient. The show also features some brute characters wearing a few accessories. Season three takes this Upwardly to Eleven, every bit it features some animal characters, like Smolder the Bear, living and working in cities, as well every bit a few completely anthropomorphized animals, like Mad Dog and his gang from the episode "Serengeti Western".
• Fine art Shift: The tertiary season undergoes this to various extremes. While the seasons produced for the Disney Afternoon and CBS have the homo and other animal characters drawn in a Disney Esque fashion blended with a Spumco ambiance (with some designs even looking outright deranged), the third flavor produced for Toon Disney contains designs on par with The Brave Niggling Toaster sequels and other Canadian cartoons such every bit Braceface, What Near Mimi, What's With Andy?, and fifty-fifty takes some pattern traits from Sabrina: the Blithe Serial of all things, which is an American cartoon with a Canadian artstyle. This is due to the season existence produced by the Canadian animation studio Studio B Productions, who even co-produced What About Mimi? with Decode Entertainment.
• Antiquity Championship: The title cards of the Zazu-centered episodes bear the logo of Timon and Pumbaa, different those of Rafiki and the hyenas, which were nether the names Rafiki Fables and The Laughing Hyenas.
• Artistic License – Biology:
  • The episode "Cooked Goose" had the hyena trio, Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, being manipulated by a pair of cheetahs by sending them through a literal wild goose hunt to prevent them from disturbing their hunts. Their first meeting has the hyenas obviously being intimidated by the cheetahs. Shenzi fifty-fifty puts her paw over Ed's oral fissure when he rudely demands what they want from them, and so immediately tries to defuse the state of affairs with flattery, calling them "big, assuming, brave cheetahs". In reality, the exact opposite would occur. Despite their speed, hyenas are much stronger than cheetahs, and since hyenas hunt in groups most encounters between the two species involve hyenas stealing prey from cheetahs. Every bit a upshot, cheetahs volition actively avert hyenas as much as possible. As well, amongst the animals that barbarous prey to the cheetahs by the stop of the episode are implied to be a rhino and a hippo, which cheetahs do not casualty on due to big size and immense force.
  • In "Brazil Nuts", Timon chosen a capybara-similar rodent a marmoset (a blazon of monkey). Clearly he might have meant a marmot, merely marmots do not live in Brazil or in rainforests.
  • "I Don't Bolivia" claimed that toucans take serrated bills for burdensome and the antagonistic toucan character was shown crushing a snail shell. While the bill of a toucan is certainly serrated, it has weak muscles and is incapable of crushing even soft fruit.
  • "Well-nigh Departed" implies scorpions are insects, when they are arachnids like spiders.
  • In "One time Upon a Timon", Zazu expresses cloy at the fact that Simba still eats bugs sometimes. Hornbills are besides known to eat insects, then Zazu has no room to talk (hornbills also eat less pleasant things too, like snakes and lizards).
  • Elephant skeleton are frequently shown to have bones which correspond trunks, despite an elephant's trunk existence generally fabricated up of muscles and containing no os. Notable in which the prove'due south source fabric actually got this right.
  • Subverted in that Boss Beaver has xanthous teeth (accurate for a beaver).
• Ascended Extra: Gopher. He was a minor graphic symbol in the original film who was only seen reporting to Zazu well-nigh the hyenas in the Pride Lands. His office is expanded in the serial, where it is shown that he works for Zazu, serving equally his assistant.
• Baleful Polymorph: In "Protrude Romania", Madame Credenza puts a curse on Timon for dismissing her fortunes as a joke. The effects aren't firsthand, so Timon refuses to believe that he was cursed while Pumbaa tries figuring out what it is, to Timon'due south badgerer. Timon so wakes up as a bug the adjacent mean solar day.
• Airship Belly: Happens in many episodes.
  • First, in "Cooked Goose", Cheetato and Cheetata get this, and tin can't run away from the hyenas.
  • In Brazil Nuts, Timon gets fatty from immigration a buffet, and uses foreign words similar "yay big", "baby" and "flant information technology", things Timon wouldn't say in his normal class (although he has really said "infant" in his normal class). He even stuffs a dollar bill in Ralph the snake's eye.
  • In Washington Applesauce, Timon and Pumbaa decide to eat the giant worm that was ruining the apple festival, so they become fat and gigantic.
  • In "Island of Manhood", Timon drinks a bug soda and gains a mild balloon belly. (This was in order to earn a "Burp" badge equally part of the exam in the episode.)
• Be Careful What You Wish For: "Be More Pacific" opens with Pumbaa saving Lester the magic wishing whale who offers him three wishes. Pumbaa initially turns them down, concerned almost the wishes backfiring, but Timon persuades him to use those iii wishes, just for all three to backlash; the wish for something "large and expensive" gives them the Statue of Liberty, the wish that Timon was a king basically turns him into Male monarch Kong, and the final elaborate wish gives Timon and Pumbaa an elaborate palace, but they are at present trapped within it facing an indestructible fire-breathing giant chicken (Pumbaa accidentally wished for a burn-breathing monster with claws and wings that Timon can't defeat as he misremembered the exact wording of the final wish).
• Bears Are Bad News: Smoulder, who would threaten to hurt the duo if they anger him. However, he can exist overnice at times.
• Berserk Button: Pumbaa'due south famous "THEY CALL ME MR Hog" berserk push button is called back four times, during "Mombasa In Police", "Gabon with the Wind", "Rumble in the Jungle" and "Africa-Dabra!".
• Big Bad: Quint is the closest to this.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • At the end of "Timon on the Range", when Timon and Pumbaa are surrounded past the banditos who assumed that Pumbaa was their boss Cisco Pig, the real Cisco Hog shows up and saves them (Timon and Pumbaa are his favorite drawing characters).
  • Simba also has this in "Congo on Similar This", when he rescues Timon and Pumbaa from a wild dog (who disguised himself as a tarsier to get the two abroad from Simba) trying to swallow them.

  Simba: I am on your side!

  • Timon in "French Fried", when Pumbaa and Speedy are cornered by Chef Quint.
• Bloodshot Ending:
  • In "Never Everglades", when Pumbaa realizes that Pumbaa Jr. should be with his ain kind, he worries to exit him and his new girlfriend all by themselves. And then Timon comes up with an idea of a special identify on where they can send the ii alligators. After Timon and Pumbaa say farewell to Pumbaa Jr. and his girl, it is revealed that the "special place" is a chicken befouled, since Timon believes that the alligators are "ugly chickens". When Timon and Pumbaa leave, at that place seems to be a chaos going on inside the barn.
  • "Doubt of Africa" ends with the widowed tigress rescuing Timon and Pumbaa from a carnivorous jackal and becoming better at hunting, but too with Timon catching a cold.
  • In "Washington Applesauce", Timon and Pumbaa relieve Apple tree Valley from an ever-growing worm, only the apple tree festival nevertheless gets destroyed due to their balloon bellies, leading them to be chased by an aroused mob.
  • "Serengeti Western" has a similar ending as the same episode. Timon and Pumbaa save the western town from outlaw Mad Canis familiaris and his two henchmen. When they defeat Mad Dog, they meet that they destroyed the town with the bananas, causing the residents to turn on the duo, making them the new outlaws of the town.
• Bilingual Bonus: Besides "Hakuna Matata", there are other Bilingual Bonuses in the series.
  • In Brazil Basics, Ralph the snake says "Moi" (Me) and "N'est-ce pas?" (Isn't it?)
  • The episode "Okay Bayou?" features an opossum named Boudreaux, who speaks Cajun French.
• Bland-Name Product: "Don't Be Elfish" had Timon wanting a "Vinchenzo 64" - an obvious parody of the Nintendo 64.
• Bowdlerize: When the episode "Guatemala Malarkey" arrogance on Disney Cinemagic in the U.k., the part where Timon locks up Pumbaa's rima oris with a chain and padlock is cut.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • In "Yukon Con", Timon looks at the photographic camera and says "See Pumbaa go!"
  • Possibly averted in Brazil Nuts. After the joke about ants in Brazil Nuts, Timon says "Perfectly good comedy, and no one around to hear information technology."
  • Done in the final few minutes of the Timon & Pumbaa VHS Special, where Timon tries to restore the memories of a lightning-struck Pumbaa with narrations of their previous adventures. Eventually, Pumbaa's retention is recovered - only for Timon to be struck by lightning himself. The video ends with Pumbaa suggesting that the viewer rewind the video so that Timon tin call back what only happened.
  • In "Boara Boara", after Pumbaa claims Timon hasn't cleaned his other hoof, Timon gives a pathetically disgusted confront at the photographic camera.
  • In "Mind Over Matterhorn", Fred makes Timon and Pumbaa realize that he tricked them into making them look foolish in front end of the entire world, showing them that they're on TV.
  • The original film itself is referenced in "I Don't Bolivia", "Forbidden Pumbaa", and "The Homo From J.U.N.G.Fifty.E.".

• Butt Sticker: In episode Kenya Exist My Friend: while Pumbaa is searching for a new friend, he sits on a meerkat named Monty.
• Call-Back: Several to The Lion King. Some episodes also accept this to previous episodes.
• The Cameo:
  • Scar of all characters shows up in the serial. Once When Zazu is cleaning out his trash can.
  • Zazu, the hyenas, Rafiki... pretty much every grapheme except for Nala announced in the show at some point.
  • Cogsworth from Beauty and the Animate being briefly appears near the end of "Serengeti Western".
• Catechism Discontinuity: The midquel focusing on Timon and Pumbaa'southward lives and their kickoff coming together ignores this series's events. As such, the circumstances and reasons for Timon leaving the meerkat colony are wildly different. Of course, this is assuming it was ever canon to starting time with.
• Carnivore Confusion: Averted in "French Fried". Pumbaa says that they tin can't consume the snail they found because he can talk. Timon isn't convinced... merely when information technology turns out the snail can SING, as well, he decides to spare him.

• Christmas Episode: "Don't Be Elfish", oddly coming later in the serial and airing in...July. And it's also paired with a non holiday-themed episode.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Nala, Sarabi, and Sarafina, are never seen or mentioned in the series (probable due to existence relatively modest characters in the film to begin with).
  • Within the show itself, most of the other characters' appearances dry out out after the 2nd flavor, making information technology near exclusively most the title duo.
• Closer to World: Pumbaa often comes upwardly with the most rational-sounding plans, but they take to become through all of Timon's wacky ones first.
• Con Homo: Toucan Dan, who can make anyone believe anything he tells them. Including convincing Timon he is Santa Claus.
• Continuity Nod: Several to The Lion King. Some episodes also take this to previous episodes.
• Convenience Shop Gift Shopping: Exaggerated in "Kenya Be My Friend?". Pumbaa gets Timon a squeamish issues juicer to celebrate their "Bestest All-time Friend 24-hour interval", which Timon has forgotten about. Outset he tries giving Pumbaa a bunch of random things from the savanna like grass and a rotten log, only Pumbaa refuses to have them because Timon has used all of them as emergency gifts before. Then Timon claims to accept written a poem for Pumbaa and hastily makes up i. Pumbaa notices that the poem doesn't rhyme and finally realizes that Timon did forget the Bestest Best Friend Solar day. This leads to an argument that ends their friendship. After they reconcile, Timon still denies having forgotten Bestest Best Friend Day and manages to pass off the problems juicer he got equally his gift to Pumbaa.
• Vicious Elephant: Ned the Elephant, who'due south a belligerent and snobbish jerk that tries to pass himself off as an Honorable Elephant.
• Darker and Edgier: Despite the evidence having a denser and wackier tone, some episodes are darker/more than serious than others. Examples existence "Rocky Mount Lie", "Timon's Time Togo", "Alcatraz Mataz", and "Werehog of London".
• A Day in the Limelight: Aside from the show itself putting Timon and Pumbaa in the spotlight, Zazu, the Hyenas, and Rafiki have their own episodes.
• Demoted to Extra: The rest of the pic's cast make only sparse appearances. Zigzagged, as some supporting characters such as Zazu, Rafiki and the hyenas get a few limelight episodes.
• Denser and Wackier: The serial takes on a more comedic tone than its predecessor, with more than surreal humor added to it. Justified, given the comical natures of the titular duo. The subsequent King of beasts King 11/two film, which as well centers effectually Timon and Pumbaa, would besides fall into this trope.
• Depending on the Writer: Timon's greediness for money and power varied from episode to episode. Sometimes he didn't care about money, simply as long equally he could get a meal.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Since his showtime appearance, Boss Beaver would often punish Timon and Pumbaa for things that weren't their fault, or for merely just disagreeing with his rules and policies. Thankfully, Laser-Guided Karma unremarkably sets in, and will frequently have him cease up working for Timon and Pumbaa in a sheer act of irony.
• Don't Explain the Joke: Timon in "French Fried" after giving his and Pumbaa's new snail friend the name "Speedy":

  Timon: How do you similar that clever juxtaposition? Giving a snail, a noticeably dull creature, the name "Speedy".

• Downer Catastrophe: "Due south Sea Sick", in which Pumbaa is forced to pretend to all the same be sick so that Timon (who wants to repay his friend for all the nice things he'south done for him over the years) can cure him. Unfortunately, his "cure" actually makes Pumbaa sick again, which he starts to realize equally the episode ends.
  • Also "Going Uruguay", where the dinner the Termite King gives Timon and Pumbaa turns out to exist a giant log, much to their dismay.
  • In "Be More Pacific", Timon and Pumbaa are left defending themselves from the fire-breathing chicken, with no indication of whether they succeed in getting rid of it or not.
  • Both "How To Beat the High Republic of costa rica" and "Palm Beached" take the 2 catastrophe upward in jail (presumably in the onetime'southward case).
  • "Doubtfulness of Africa" is this for Timon, equally he catches a cold at the end.
• Dumb Is Good: In the episodes where the hyenas are the heroes they are pitted confronting two incredibly smart cheetahs and have their own idiocy increased. The cheetahs still can't win.
• Eating the Enemy: The episode Washington Applesauce gives us an exaggerated example. In the episode, Timon and Pumbaa are tasked with catching a worm that's eating all the towns apples. Over the course of the episode though, the worm gets bigger and bigger until it becomes a giant monster and eats the ii. However, the 2 then turn the tables on information technology past eating the whole beast from the inside out and go big Balloon Abdomen'd oafs themselves.
• Verbal Words: Timon uses this on Pumbaa three times in "Mombasa-In-Law"

  Timon: What are we going to do, put her in a rocket and send her to the moon? Besides, Pumbaa, you said you'd do anything for me! Don't you remember?

  (Pumbaa goes into flashback)

  Pumbaa (Flashback 1): I'd practice anything for you lot, Timon, even wearing apparel up like a woman!

  Timon: What are we going to exercise, put her in a rocket and send her to the moon? Likewise, Pumbaa, you lot said you lot'd practice anything for me! Don't yous remember?

  (Pumbaa goes into flashback)

  Pumbaa (Flashback 2): I'd practice anything for you, Timon, fifty-fifty dress up like a rich old movie star!

  Timon: What are we going to practise, put her in a rocket and send her to the moon? Besides, Pumbaa, you said you'd exercise anything for me! Don't y'all remember?

  (Pumbaa goes into flashback)

  Pumbaa (Flashback 3): I'd do anything for you, Timon, even dress up as an entire family unit!

• Even Evil Has Standards: Comedic instance. In one episode the hyenas are spying on a female ostrich disposed her egg. Banzai says something that gets Shenzi upset at him.

  Banzai: Man, expect at that. It's gotta counterbalance v hundred pounds!

  Shenzi: (turns to him with a frown) Okay, two things. One: (smacks him upside the head) never mention a adult female'southward weight!

• Expy: Some characters from Season iii are this to sure characters from either the original film or the start two seasons of the prove:
  • The hyena in "Don't Wake the Neighbear" is this to Ed.
  • The female person meerkat in "Timon in Love" is this to Tatiana from "Once Upon a Timon".
  • The king of beasts in "Lemonade Stand Off" is this to the roughshod lion from "You Republic of ghana Bring together the Club".
• Eye Pop: Happens to the flying squirrel in "Saskatchewan Catch," when he offset sees the female squirrel (which shatters the drinking glass in his goggles), and to Timon and Pumbaa in "Swiss Missed" when they meet Fronk the timekeeper'southward cute new girlfriend.
• Simulated Reassurance: In "Amusement Bark", Timon and Pumbaa are injured in Boss Beaver'south log flume ride, which causes the beaver to worry that they'll demand a large monetary settlement. Timon assures Boss Beaver that he and Pumbaa won't demand a settlement; instead, they assume buying of the whole park, forcing Dominate Beaver (and his son, who sabatoged the ride) to work there equally employees.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Done in "Protrude Romania" with Timon journey into Pumbaa.
• Failure Is the Merely Option: In "Hot Air Buffoons", Timon and Pumbaa won a hot air balloon race, simply and then lost when "a new winner" landed, even though he came 2d.
• Feel No Hurting:
  • Timon and Pumbaa definitely go through a lot, and definitely show they are in pain, just seem to be made of fe.
  • The hyenas tin can go back and along on this, usually for the sake of comedy.
• Feud Episode: The episodes "Kenya Exist My Friend?," "Rumble In the Jungle", "The Sky is Calling", and several episodes of Season 3. This evidence, especially Season 3, loves to test their friendship.
• Fire-Breathing Diner:
  • The season 1 episode Hot Enough For Ya? has both Timon and Pumbaa breathing fire, more once each, after trying the dishes in their Spicy Bug Chili cook-off.
  • The flavour 2 episode Wide Awake in Wonderland, in which Timon reads meerkat/warthog versions of a few classic stories to Pumbaa, has Timon portraying Goldilocks in Pumbaa's version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and animate fire afterward he has a rather spicy bowl of bugs from the bears' home. (This scene as well appears in a few versions of the opening credits.)

• Fully Dressed Cartoon Fauna: Timon and Pumbaa—-much of the fourth dimension, in fact.
• Funny Fauna Beefcake: Subverted with the film cast. While they are more decumbent to Funny Animal antics, their proportions never really alter (exterior the film'due south own crime of Pumbaa and other not bipedal characters suddenly gaining "hands").
• Gasshole: Pumbaa's constant farting is something of a Running Gag in some episodes.
• Ghost in the Machine: "Beetle Romania" reveals that Pumbaa has tiny bluish warthogs working inside his body and making sure that his systems are working. His brain even has an part with an intercom so the workers can talk to him as his consciousness, simply it's unplugged because he's a peabrain, as shown with a pea and his shrunken brain kept in several glass containers.

• Half-Dressed Cartoon Creature: Timon and Pumbaa, sometimes.
• Hammerspace
  • In "Luck to exist A Meerkat", Pumbaa has a lot of things in his abdomen when Timon wants to find a place to store the "lucky marble".
  • In "Isle of Manhood", one of the things Timon must practice to pass the manhood test is carry a haversack with a ton of things on top of it.
  • Lampshaded in the finale, where Timon and Pumbaa, while falling off the Cliffs of Moher, use this to discover something that would save them from plummeting to their deaths.

  Timon: Try to think of all the good times! Like, remember all those great stuff we used to pull out from behind our backs?
  Pumbaa: Timon, that'southward it! Maybe there's something behind our backs we tin utilise to salvage us.
  Timon: Yep! Aye!

• Her Code Proper name Was "Mary Sue": In "Wide Awake In Wonderland", Timon becomes so frustrated with a warthog fairytale book that puts meerkats in a negative light, so he makes upward a story about a handsome, dauntless, and smart meerkat king named "Timun" who singlehandly defeats every warthog villain and gets rewarded for it. Pumbaa responds to the story by falling asleep.
• Here Nosotros Go Once again!: Several cases:
  • Whenever Timon and Pumbaa saves Speedy from a threat, the snail gets defenseless by another predator forcing the ii to resume chase once again.
  • In "Beetle Romania", the problems-ified Timon escapes from Pumbaa's breadbasket with assistance from Pumbaa himself who becomes an Insufferable Genius cheers to Timon reactivating his intelligence. Yet earlier he left, Timon deactivates the intelligence because he refuses to be usurped every bit The Smart Guy of the team. When Timon gets out, Pumbaa is also stupid to recognize his friend and promptly eats him. Interestingly enough, Smart Pumbaa wanted to inform Timon to not deactivate his intelligence, knowing full well this might have happened.

• Hollywood Natives: A tribe of masked natives kidnap Pumbaa and brand him their king. Subverted when at the finish they have off their masks, revealing them to be urbane university yuppies with British accents on some sort of corporate retreat.
• Homage Shot: Crossing with Continuity Nod above.
  • "New Guinea Pig" has a shot of Pumbaa sticking his head behind a log while stalking a rhino beetle, just like he did in the original film.
  • "The Man From J.U.North.G.L.E." has a shot of an elephant and a flock of guinea fowl heading to Pride Rock for a presentation of a newborn lion cub, the same way they did in the movie.
• How We Got Here: "Serengeti Western" has the duo reminisce their recent chance in the Onetime Due west and how they concluded upwards in the about-death situation they are in.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: The show depicts several examples of animal cruelty.
  • Quint, depending on his job. As a French chef, he tries to make a meal out of Speedy the Snail. Some other instance is as a Roman emperor, where he has Timon, Pumbaa, and Simba kidnapped and sent to the colosseum, where Simba is forced to either eat Timon and Pumbaa or have a boxing to the death with another lion named Claudius.
  • The natives. They try to eat Pumbaa before mistaking him for their god king, attempt to kill Pumbaa in order to remove his tusks after seeing that he can't take them off, and throw Timon and Pumbaa into a bottomless pit where information technology takes weeks to country. The leader also stole a beast'south magic gold tooth in order to decorate his ain staff.
  • In "Ocean Mayhem", a jeweler and his married woman kidnap Speedy to make an earring out of his beat out, with the sole reason existence that it would make the wife cute.
  • The butterfly collector in "Catch Me if Yous Kenya", who kidnaps existent butterflies in lodge to collect them in his treehouse, much to their dismays.
  • In "Never Everglades", some humans stole the eggs of Pumbaa Jr. and other unhatched alligators for their own possessions, therefore separating them from their families.
  • In "Don't Have the Vegas Idea", two entertainers, Sigmund and Lloyd, are unsaid to have tormented two white lions, Heimlich and Schnitzel, into performing circus acts only for man entertainment. The lions end upwards getting their revenge on their trainers past getting the roles reversed.
  • "Dealer'due south Choice Cut" features a meat-producing man of affairs named Farmer Joe, who kidnaps Pumbaa and tries to make him into someone's lunch.
  • Subverted with Mr. Happy, who has a expert intention of helping out endangered animals. However, the trouble is that he can force animals to alive in a sanctuary, sometimes against their will.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Timon in "Animal Barn", later Mr. Pig calls Pumbaa "nobody", angrily says, "You tin can't talk to my pal like that! I tin can, Just Not YOU!"
• Hypocritical Humor: Timon gets a few cases of this.
  • In "Oahu Wahoo", Pumbaa takes a bamboo that he drew a face on and pretends that information technology'southward talking to Timon, telling him that he should let Pumbaa take him to a licensed mental health practitioner. Timon snatches the bamboo out of Pumbaa's hoof and tells the warthog that he won't take orders from inanimate objects. Then Bahuka orders Timon to proclaim his name across the heavens, which Timon replies "Yep, you inanimate object-ness!".
  • In "My Falling star, My Friend", Timon complains nigh Pumbaa befriending a meteor...to a tree stump which he names Stumpy.
• I Ate WHAT?!:
  • In "Rocky Mountain Lie", Timon has a hilarious Freak Out when Pumbaa mentions the problems he befriended (which Timon thought he ate) is a stinkbug.

• Casuistic Safe: A brusque in which Pumbaa suffers a run of bad luck has this happening to Pumbaa — and and then, equally soon every bit he'south out of the safety, it happens again with a space capsule.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Happens in Brazil Nuts when Timon makes a pun most how long it is taking to go ants, and claims they "must be afterwards the uncles, too!" He finds that nobody heard the pun, but Pumbaa runs in to warn nearly Ralph and Eddie eating them.
  • Timon makes a lot of these throughout the serial as well.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Poor Timon is this in "Back Out in the Outback" when he tries to hunt downward a land crab after mistaking information technology for a bug, merely constantly fails and gets his ass whooped by said crab.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Quint and the remainder of his brethren, who all wait and speak the aforementioned way equally him. They fifty-fifty all have names starting with a hard 'C' or a 'Chiliad'!
• Instant Roast: Done with cruel republic of guinea fowl, start past a fiery belch from Timon'southward rocket booster which fried several birds, then by setting the rocket-propelled car to explode, finishing off the lot of them. Timon even takes a seize with teeth out of a guinea fowl drumstick at one point.
• Interspecies Romance: Lara, a gazelle, and Herman, a wildebeest, from "Beauty and the Wildebeest".
• I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Boss Beaver is played by Brad Garrett, who was Big Domestic dog on 2 Stupid Dogs. In "Amusement Bawl", his son Boy Beaver is played past Marker Schiff, who played Piddling Domestic dog on that aforementioned show.
• Jaw Drop: Timon gets one in "Yukon Con" subsequently Pumbaa finds a aureate nugget.
• Jerkass: The biggest jerkass in this prove is Boss Beaver, who will just smite Timon and Pumbaa every time they suspension something of his or violate one of his unfair rules. The worst matter he has done is take all the credit for a dam that Timon and Pumbaa built.
  • His son Male child Beaver is one as well, as he causes trouble for Timon and Pumbaa (to a far bottom extent) at Dominate Beaver's amusement park in "Amusement Bawl".

• Kangaroo Court: In that location is no other name for the trial of Timon, accused of touching the Forbidden Stick, when the judge makes upwardly new laws whenever he wants.

  "It is hereby illegal to tell me to 'chill out!'"

• Last Day to Live: The episode "Nearly Departed" has Timon and Pumbaa get stung by a beetle whose venom is fatal after 24 hours, so they make their final moments count. Information technology turns out they're unaffected past the venom in the end considering it has no event on meerkats and warthogs.
• Latex Perfection: In "Congo on Like This" the tiny tarsier turns out to exist a wolf in disguise.
• Lighter and Softer: Meet Denser and Wackier above, but while this serial is non without its serious or emotional moments, it's however very much sillier than the films.
• Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: Dissimilar in the other media of the Lion Male monarch franchise, humans show up in the setting too the African animate being.
• Literal Bookworm: Timon and Pumbaa visit the library in "Library Brouhaha" with the express purpose of dining on a bookworm. The resident bookworm defends itself by coaxing the duo into making noise time and time again, for which the librarian kicks them out. Another effort sees all 3 be crushed by a bookcase, causing them to temporarily be transported to volume country and thereafter be sent to the hospital. While all bandaged up, Timon and Pumbaa assail the bookworm and finally eat information technology.
• Lovable Rogue: Timon and the hyenas, whose limelight episodes tone them down into this.
• Made of Iron: The entire cast, when they actually do feel pain.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Happens twice in "Allow'due south Serengeti Out of Here" when Timon and Pumbaa's escape attempts lead to them getting shocked and blown upwards the first and 2d times respectively, upon which they say "Ow" in hilariously monotone voices.
• Mall Santa: Pumbaa is 1 in "Don't Be Elfish"... with Timon as his elf assistant.
• Mirror Reveal: In "Protrude Romania", Timon wakes upward as a bug subsequently being cursed by Madame Credenza, but doesn't realize it until he washes his face up in the mirror.
• Proper noun and Name: Timon & Pumbaa is named after the eponymous sidekick duo in the Lion King franchise.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: In "Boara Boara", when beseeched by the Natives to restore their sacred fire, Pumbaa manages to do so using only his mind. And then he ends upward making information technology rain...
• New Job as the Plot Demands: Quint, whose job and title changed on every episode that featured him.
  • In "Library Brouhaha", Rita Book is a librarian in the get-go of the episode, simply at the end, she is a nurse.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Speedy The Snail is Bing Crosby.
• No Ending: The climax of "Be More Pacific" sees Timon getting an idea to stop the fire-animate chicken that Pumbaa wished for. While Pumbaa is trying to fend off the chicken, Timon is looking for another magic fish and so they can wish the craven away...and so it merely fades out.
• Noodle Incident:
  • In "Russia Hour", while Timon and Pumbaa are about to visit Pumbaa's uncle Boaris, Pumbaa reminds Timon of what happened during their visit to Pumbaa's cousin Mildred, telling him to promise to carry.
  • "Be More Pacific" has Pumbaa reminding Timon about the time they found a magic lamp and screwed up their wishes, leading to a flashback in which they had each other'due south physical appearances.
  • In "Rome Alone", as i of their attempts to convince Claudius to non fight Simba, Timon and Pumbaa threaten to bribery him if he does, just for Claudius to threaten to blackmail them back by showing a picture of them at the Hakuna Matata Convention in Orlando, Florida, much to their disturbance.
• Obliviously Evil: Timon's misinformation almost wild animals can sometimes lead him to do unintentional villainous acts. Well-nigh notable in "Back Out in the Outback", where Timon mistakes Bruce the land crab for a giant bug and tries several times to grab and consume him.

• Off-Model: While Wang Movie Productions did some pretty fluid work on Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures, to name a few, their piece of work on this evidence was consistently sloppy. However, it'southward shown the most with Simba in "Rome Solitary". Compare how Simba is drawn in that episode to how he'due south drawn in "Congo on Like This".
  • Koko Enterprises animated two episodes of the show, "Rumble in the Jungle" and "Handle With Carribean". While their work on the latter is alright, their blitheness on the old is...not neat.
• Origins Episode: "In one case Upon a Timon" and "Home is Where the Squealer is", which explain Timon and Pumbaa's respective origins and how they came to be wandering loners. ^note The one-time, yet, was contradicted by The Lion Rex ane½ .
• Pinocchio Nose: A variation occurs in one episode, where Timon's tail grows longer for every time he boasts.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything:
  • In "Pirates of Pumbzance", Pumbaa wants to be this type of pirate, under the impression that that's what real pirates are similar. Whenever the captain tries to exercise whatever actual piracy, Pumbaa stops him.

• Pulled from Your 24-hour interval Off: In "Zazu's Off Solar day Off", Zazu tries to enjoy his twenty-four hours off, but Gopher continually interrupts it to tell him that the river has stale up and the animals are dying of thirst. Colossal Colossal, a stubborn elephant, is sitting in the middle of the river and refuses to motility. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Jumbo Jumbo was simply sitting in the river because he thought it was his day off, and promptly moves when he realizes his mistake. Then Gopher tells Zazu that tomorrow is Jumbo Jumbo's ''real'' twenty-four hour period off.
• Rebound All-time Friend: In "Kenya Be My Friend?", the two titular characters have a falling-out when Timon forgets Bestest Best Friend Twenty-four hour period. When they become their split ways, Pumbaa tries to befriend a meerkat with blonde hair named Monti, while Timon tries to befriend a blue warthog named Baampu. At first, Timon and Pumbaa seem to become along with their new friends, as Monti prefers to walk over riding on other animals, he rarely sleeps during the morning, and he dislikes telling others what to do, and Baampu doesn't celebrate Bestest All-time Friend Twenty-four hour period, but shortly they find out their new friends' disadvantages. Monti has an extreme dislike for bugs and is intolerant of Pumbaa'southward gas, while Bampuu doesn't share Pumbaa's interest in stargazing. When Timon and Pumbaa reconcile near the end of the episode, Monti and Bampuu are surprised to see each other once more, having spent years apart. In their haste to reestablish their friendship, they forget all almost Timon and Pumbaa as they walk off into the grasslands together.
• Ribcage Stomach: In "Beetle Romania", Pumbaa's stomach is drawn this fashion.

• Rule of Three: The show abuses this to the extremes in every single episode.
• Running Gag:
  • In "Shopping Mauled", Timon keeps reminding Pumbaa how much bad luck Irwin has caused them in the past, resulting in a clip from "Frantic Atlantic" where Pumbaa is hitting by a boating ballast.
  • In "Timon on the Range" Timon and Pumbaa escapes from Banks signs "Gone Fishin'".
• Sadistic Game Show: The episode "You Bet Your Tuhkus" has the titular duo competing on the eponymous game show. The host of the show convinces the duo to cheat (so that they can be disqualified for existence caught adulterous, which happened to the first pair of contestants). While Timon is willing to exercise so, Pumbaa refuses, and as a result, the evidence devolves into a torturefest, as every wrong answer results in punishment for the other character.
• Satchel Switcheroo: In one episode, the duo's suitcase is accidentally switched with an identical Briefcase Full of Coin, and they spend the whole episode trying to escape from Criminal Quint, who wants it back. At the end, they toss the briefcase off a cliff to get him to terminate chasing them, only for him to open it and realize information technology'south their suitcase with nothing but clothes (which they don't article of clothing anyway) and a can of nuts. He then realizes Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress and falls into a prison. The last scene reveals they may not be Karma Houdinis, as they hear sirens indicating the constabulary are tracking down the stolen coin also.
• Schmuck Banquet: In one episode, Timon and Pumbaa run into a costless-for-all restaurant in the eye of the Amazon jungle (since they're Funny Animals, the entrees are insects and the similar). Information technology'southward actually a trap set by a duo of anacondas for Fattening the Victim.
• Series Continuity Fault: Likely due to the changes that were made, Season iii contains some slight inconsistencies with the first two. For case, in "The Running of the Bullies", Pumbaa states that he ever wanted to visit Spain, fifty-fifty though he and Timon have done so in the Flavour i episode "The Hurting in Spain".
• Series Finale: Cliphangers.
  • Originally it was meant to be "Mind Over Matterhorn", but the show was uncancelled in 1999.
• Shameful Shrinking: In "It Runs Good", Timon shrinks to a diminutive size later on Pumbaa chastises him for his laziness which results in their latest predicament with Smolder, meaning that the two are forced to put in the extra effort Timon is desperately trying to avoid.
• Shout-Out: "Washington Applesauce" is one to Jaws.
  • The vocalization Fred uses for Timon's mother in Mombasa in Law is clearly modeled after Edith Bunker.
  • At one point in "Mook Island", Timon tries to get the Mooks (big clones of him) to leave him alone past claiming that he'due south their father, leading to a parody of a certain scene from The Empire Strikes Dorsum.

  Timon: Search your feelings, Mook. You know it to be true.

  • In "Jailhouse Stupor", Fiddling Jimmy'south line, "Hither's Little Jimmy!", is a reference to Jack Torrance's line, "Here's Johnny!".
  • The show is noted for containing these to The Golden Age of Animation, nearly notably Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. "Mind Over Matterhorn" takes this Up to Eleven.
• Prove Inside a Show: "TV Dinner" focuses on the hyenas trying to get into a documentary show called "Kingdom of the Cretures" for nutrient. After all of their attempts are turned down, they determine to take over the show and eat the director.
• Meaning Anagram: Monti and Baampu from the episode, "Republic of kenya Exist My Friend?" take names that are anagrams of "Timon" and "Pumbaa", respectively.

• Skewed Priorities: In "Amusement Bark", Dominate Beaver chews out his son for sabotaging the log flume ride Timon and Pumbaa are riding... because Timon and Pumbaa will be able to sue for monetary bounty if they become injured.
• Slapstick Knows No Gender: Shenzi, as usual, gets the same level of comeuppance as the male person hyenas.
• Sluggish Sloths: In the episode "Hakuna Matata U.", the duo offset a school didactics Hakuna Matata, and their only students are a nerdy owl and a sloth that does nothing just sleep. Timon chooses the sloth as his student and quickly views him every bit a prodigy. At the stop, the sloth does not nourish the graduation, because he rolled in his sleep and somehow ended upwardly on a plane.
• Smug Snake: The two cheetahs, usually pitted against Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed. While both cheetahs are legitimately intelligent, the hyenas are so dimwitted and persistent that they tend to win in the end.
• Spot the Imposter: Pumbaa needs to figure out who the real Timon is at the end of "I Don't Bolivia" when he and Toucan Dan both claim to be the real Timon, despite Toucan Dan'southward Paper-Thin Disguise. He has the Vulture Police lock them both up in stockades and accept them seize with teeth downwards on a snail shell. Timon'due south teeth break simply Toucan Dan crushes his beat out. Pumbaa figures out which is Toucan Dan since Toucan Dan has a beak that is specialized for burdensome.
• Stating the Simple Solution: In "The Pain in Kingdom of spain", Pumbaa has been mistaken for a bull and is almost to be forced into a bullfight he cannot win. They accept to look in the stadium for the fight to begin, and Timon draws up an elaborate escape program involving many maps and diagrams. When he'southward finished going through it, Pumbaa points out they could only use the back door.
  • This as well happens twice in "Now Museum, At present You Don't". The first time is when after the museum closes, Timon makes an elaborate plan on how he and Pumbaa tin sneak into the museum, only Pumbaa points out that they tin can just go through the doggy door. The second fourth dimension is when the ii make it to the bug exhibit, which gets surrounded by laser beams. When Timon makes a programme on how they tin can get one of the bugs, Pumbaa reveals that they can just pull down the lever to remove the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation beams.

• Potent Family unit Resemblance: The Quint Family, a agglomeration of Boisterous Bruisers, each with a Meaningful Name.
• Sudden Intelligence: In "Protrude Romania", the featherbrained Pumbaa suddenly acts similar a Quintessential British Admirer when Timon, who was turned into a bug past Madame Credenza and accidentally eaten by him the next mean solar day, plugs in the intercom in his brain to talk to him from the inside. Pumbaa'south literally pea-sized brain even grows bigger when the intercom's connected.
• Talking Animals: Being a Disney cartoon, animals and humans regularly talk to each other with no problem.
• Tempting Fate: Crossing with Too Dumb to Live, Pumbaa continues to say the Dapper Duck's catchphrase Come up Once more Soon fifty-fifty after it'due south proven several times that it's a jinx. He finally learns his lesson subsequently Smolder comes close in killing him and Timon.
• Terrifying Tiki: One of these appears in "Oahu Wahoo", named Bahuka.
• Title Montage: The opening is a montage of clips of the show, bookended by new animation of Timon and Pumbaa singing "Hakuna Matata". The clips featured in the montage would differ depending on the season (and whether the episode was fabricated for the CBS Sabbatum morning run or The Disney Afternoon).
• There Are No Therapists: Rafiki averts this. He usually counsels and gives therapy to the animals of the Pride Lands.
• Through a Face Full of Fur: In "Roach Hotel", Pumbaa turns red after 1 of the two roaches tricks him into pouring hot sauce in his snout. The burning awareness makes him react by besides morphing into a steam whistle, doing a wild take every bit a unmarried, large eye, and a rocket before he launches, and carries Timon with him.
  • In "Brazil Basics", subsequently Eddie tells Ralph he brought back a radish and a horse, having misunderstood his instructions, Ralph gets then angry he non only turns entirely red as his colour alter rises to the meridian of his head, but he sheds his skin as well and appears naked. In his case, it would be through a face full of scales.
• Also Dumb to Fool:
  • Many attempts to entreatment to Pumbaa'south ego go this way, as he can't sympathise how he'd always desire to outshine Timon.
  • The hyenas in a short with two Smug Snake cheetahs, continually foiling the cheetahs' programme to swallow a wildebeest. Finally the cheetahs resort to telling each hyena individually to go on a Wild Goose Chase, simply for all three to follow the directions to the letter and all terminate up at the same point, thus realizing they've been had and going for revenge.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Timon goes from a Jerk with a Centre of Gold to a Squeamish Guy with the occasional Wiggle Ass Ball in the third season due to its new Lighter and Softer tone. Non but does he take whatever opportunity he can to defend Pumbaa, simply he'due south also a lot perkier overall and less temperamental. The only time his Jerkass side comes upwardly is when information technology's needed for a plot (Mook Island and Don't Be Elfish for case).
• Two Shorts: The prove usually had this format, with the exception of "Once Upon a Timon" and "Home is Where the Hog is", which have upwards the entire 22 minutes. Sometimes during the beginning season, a music video would be added, making the episode have Three Shorts instead.
• Ugly All Along: The "Dazzler and the Wildebeest" episode has Rafiki helping an ugly wildebeest to ameliorate his looks and manners so that he tin can romance a cute gazelle that he has a beat out for. In the end, the gazelle, touched when the wildebeest is willing to reveal his hideous visage to scare off a rival at her birthday party, removes her makeup and reveals herself to be only as ugly every bit he is and they both share a kiss before the finish credits.
• Uncancelled: Was brought back in 1999 afterward a few years of not having new episodes produced, but according to The Other Wiki, with a new set of writers and a new director.
• The Unintelligible: Ed, as usual, who communicates with gibbering howls, growls, and stock audio effects.
• Unstoppable Rage: When Pumbaa gets angry and charges, everyone runs for their lives (including a Tyrannosaurus rex).
• Uvula Escape Route:
  • The episode Protrude Romania has Timon beingness transformed into a bug; Pumbaa manages to grab him in his mouth, simply Timon grabs Pumbaa'south uvula in an attempt to avoid being swallowed. It doesn't finish well.
  • The episode Unlucky in Lesotho has Pumbaa trying to hide a panther cub from Timon by putting it in his mouth. The cub starts hit Pumbaa's uvula, eventually causing him to spit it out when Timon isn't looking.
• Visual Pun: In Brazil Basics, Eddie the snake claimed he got horseradish for Ralph, only all he got was a horse and a radish. Ralph gets mad, later causing him to strap the equus caballus and the radish to a rocket.
  • In Forbidden Pumbaa, Timon comes across a serial of ray guns. In that location'southward a regular ray gun, a HOO-ray gun, and a Ronald RAY-gun.
• Walk Into Camera Obstacle:
  • "Klondike Con" with Pumbaa every bit he and Quint charge inside a cavern to rescue Timon from a polar bear; happens with Pumbaa'southward nose—-through the left nostril!
  • "Circus Jerks" Happens with Timon'south nose at the very finish when he and Pumbaa are blasted out of a cannon out of the circus.
  • "Rocky Mountain Lie" with Pumbaa when he's taking a bug in an icicle inside a cabin; again.
• Walking Away Shot: in episode "Timon Alone" with Pumbaa chasing away a agglomeration of animals that were after Timon.
• Walking the Earth: This seems to be what the duo is doing here, with every few episodes showing them visiting a different identify in the world (equally pointed out by the punny titles of said episodes), either by commitment crate or just walking. However, some episodes still see them in either the jungle or the Pride Lands.

  Timon: Pumbaa, our whole life is camping. We live exterior. You want wonderful fun? Allow's cheque into a dainty hotel for a couple of nights, order upward a big bug platter from room service, use those little shampoos.

  • It is revealed by Timon in the finale that Pumbaa was the one who wanted to get around the world, as he blames the warthog for getting them into problem and telling him that they should have just stayed home in Africa.
• Was It Really Worth It?: In "Ii for the Zoo", Timon quips at Pumbaa if he's now happy that their natural predators are at present freed from their cages. After their brutal and merciless No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by them not long after, warthog regrets it.
• Wasteful Wishing: After finding a genie and wasting their outset ii wishes, Timon wishes for a meg wishes, which the Genie does grant. They then spend the episode wishing up stuff until they eventually get bored of getting whatever they want and wish for everything back to normal before they found the lamp.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: One episode involves Pumbaa and Timon near ending their friendship and finding new friends. Pumbaa befriends a blonde, brownish meerkat, while Timon befriends a blonde and night blue warthog. Subsequently, when the two pairs of friends suddenly finish upward in the same spot, Pumbaa's friend and Timon'south all of a sudden get excited upon knowing each other and walk off. Subsequently that, they're never seen or even mentioned again for the balance of the episode.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In "So Sumo Me", Yagu, a sumo teacher, calls Timon out for enjoying the pleasures at his place while Pumbaa is existence punished by having to fight the mightiest sumo.
• Whole Episode Flashback: "Once Upon a Timon", which reveals the at present-retconned story of Timon'southward origin and how he beginning met Pumbaa.
• Wild Take: Pumbaa in "Roach Motel", having turned into i large centre briefly every bit one of the things into which he morphs in reaction to having hot sauce poured down the nostrils of his snout.
• Work Off the Debt: In "Amusement Bawl", Boy Beaver repeatedly frames Timon for belongings damage at Boss Beaver's amusement park, which results in Timon (and Pumbaa) being forced to work at demeaning jobs in the park to pay off the debt. At the end of the episode, Timon and Pumbaa get their revenge by assuming buying of the park and forcing Boss Beaver and Boy Beaver to work there.
• Worm in an Apple: In "Washington Applesauce", a voracious earthworm devours an apple orchard downwardly to the apples on the farmer's boxer shorts. The worm's presence threatens the upcoming Applefest and Timon and Pumbaa volunteer to catch the worm for costless as long equally they tin swallow information technology. The worm, however, has grown and continues to grow rapidly from eating the many apples around boondocks and eats the duo instead. Non to exist outdone, Timon and Pumbaa consume their way out of that trouble.
• Would Injure a Child:
  • In "Large Pinnacle Breakfast", Shenzi and her cohorts try to catch and eat a young circus monkey named Simon, with a moment where Banzai puts him inside his mouth only for Shenzi to become the monkey out and the 3 outset fighting over who gets to eat the monkey. Simon somewhen manages to outsmart and escape the trio.
  • In "No-Skilful Samaritan", a hyena who is an Expy of Banzai (if not exactly him) chases and corners a leopard cub named Claudia, ready to consume her until it is stopped by a gorilla.
  • In "Prepare, Aim, Burn down", Smolder is shown having eaten two children named Joey and Susie for playing with fire.
• Your Size May Vary: Timon sometimes suffers from this, but generally (probably for reasons of convenience), he is much larger in the serial than he is in the movies. Still modest enough to ride on Pumbaa'south head with no problem, simply big enough that he tin can physically interact with the larger Pumbaa and other large animals more effectively.
  • Also happens to Bahuka from "Oahu Wahoo". In some shots, he is several inches taller than Timon, while in others, he appears to be shorter than the meerkat.
• Zany Scheme: Timon, well into the dozens. Even when Pumbaa offers a much simpler plan.

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