This is an episode list for The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, an American animated television. Rocky Mountain Lie: Timon leads Pumbaa on a wild goose chase around the. In order to not make that happen, Timon makes Pumbaa dirty and smelly during the wedding ceremony so that the bride calls the wedding off.

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Summary: Timon and Pumbaa (1995–1999). This cartoon series is based on the popular Lion King movie. The sidekicks of the movie, a meerkat named Timon and a warthog named Pumbaa are the main characters of the series. Although the movie's main character, Simba makes some appearances. Main CharactersTIMON is the fast-talking meerkat, the supposed “brain of the outfit”, though often it seems that Pumbaa's general knowledge actually overshadows his.

Timon is still the one to come up with the wittiest and craziest ideas to get them out of (or into) trouble.PUMBAA is the smelly, yet kind warthog who's always ready to help his friends. While Timon is often ready to break the rules to get what he wants, Pumbaa is usually honest and innocent in his intentions.QUINT is the main villain.

Joined the project as a producer and found the script lacking focus and theme.Deciding it was to be a coming of age story, the script was given final retoolsby Hahn,director, and head of story with directors and.The story would be inspired by the and stories ofthe and ’s. In 1992,writers and addedadditional revisions to the script to resolve some internal issues. Theresulting film became titled The LionKing as the setting was the savannah, not a jungle, and was the first animated feature to be an originalstory. The film centered on the African savannah where lionMustafa ruled all and had just had his first cub, Simba (initially, singing provided by ).

Mustafa’s younger brother, Scar , usurped thethrone with his hyena cohorts (, and JimCummings) and drove Simba away. In time, he’s found and raised by meerkat andwarthog friends Timon (Nathan Lane) and Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). Eventually, anadult Simba encounters childhood friend Nala ( with singing by ) who tried to convincehim to return and save the kingdom. Only a visitation from Mustafa’s ghost,courtesy of Rafiki (Robert Guillaume), a mandrill who served as shaman to thepride, convinced Simba to confront Scar and reclaim his birthright. Thirteen supervising animators were responsible forthe main characters.

The entire animation team studied animals for referenceand consulted wildlife experts who would visit the studios with animals to helpestablish authentic behavior in the characters. Animators also took visual cuesfrom the voice actors as they recorded their lines, injecting a bit of theirpersonalities into the characters. Production of the film was done at the sametime as another Disney feature:. Becauseeveryone in the studio felt The Lion Kingwas the bigger risk, most of Disney’s seasoned animation and productionstaff gravitated towards Pocahontas, leavingThe Lion King to the newer crop. Therisk paid off, as The Lion King wenton to become the highest grossing movie of 1994 worldwide, and DisneyAnimation’s highest-grossing film of all time until it was surpassed 20 yearslater. With that success, it was decided to expand thefranchise with a television series focusing on the breakout characters of Timonand Pumbaa called The Lion King’s Timon& Pumbaa.

The series followed Timon and Pumbaa on misadventures aroundthe world, encountering new characters and ones from the film along the way.The series became the first instance in which humans were depicted within thefranchise, with Timon and Pumbaa often interacting with humans and in populatedareas. A recurring human antagonist by the name of Quint (Corey Burton) oftenwas at odds with Timon and Pumbaa, encountering them in a variety of locations,wearing different (poor) disguises and performing in different occupations asthe story called for. The series was broken up into two, sometimes three,segments per episode: a Timon and Pumbaa adventure alternating with anotherone, Rafiki’s Fables, or The Laughing Hyenas. Timon (Greek for “respect”) was a wise-cracking,self-absorbed know-it-all who was fiercely loyal (as well as annoyed by) hisbest friend Pumbaa. Timon, unlike a true meerkat, walked on his hind legs. His originalanimation was supervised. Pumbaa (Swahili for “simpleton”, “stupid” or “carefree”) was aneasy-going warthog who dealt with a flatulence problem and while being a bitslow in the head, managed to come up with a good idea on occasion (which Timoninstantly stole credit for).

Nothing enraged Pumbaa more than when someonewould call him a pig, prompting a battering-ram charge and the exclamation“They call me MISTER pig!” (a play on’s line fromthe 1967 film ).Pumbaa’s original animation was supervised. While they wereboth happy to just stroll through life, nothing motivated them more than theirprimary culinary delight: bugs. Initially, Lane and Sabella auditioned for twoof the hyena roles. After producers saw how well they worked together, theydecided to cast them as Timon and Pumbaa, much to the disappointment oflyricist who wanted and in the rolesdue to their show inspiring thesong “”(which also served as the character’s catchphrase and the series’ theme song). Sabellareprised his role for the series as did Lane at first, but for the rest of theseason he was replaced by Quinton Flynn and then by Kevin Schon for the remainderof the series’ run.

The Laughing Hyenas centered on Scar’s formerhenchmen and their relentless (and slapstick-infused) quest for food. For thefilm, the Hyenas were conceived as a way to reunite comedy duo Cheech Marin. However, whenChong was unavailable to accept the role of Shenzi (Swahili for “Savage”,“uncouth” or “poor quality”), it was reconceived as female and offered toGoldberg. Played by Tress MacNeille in the series, Shenzi was the leader of thetrio and the only female. The Marin role of Banzai (which sounds Japanese butwas Swahili for “skulk” or “lurk”) was assumed by Rob Paulsen for the series.He was the most aggressive and excitable of the three.

Ed didn’t speak andcommunicated through crazed laughter. Cummings recorded over four hours ofdifferent laughter, and his voice was the only one from the film featured inthe series.

The series premiered in syndication on September 8 th,1995 as part of 2-hour block of programs. For its first season, itaired on Fridays, sharing the timeslot with.By the second season, and the final for the block, it moved a half hour earlierinto its daily timeslot. The series also aired onSaturday mornings eight days after its debut. The show was the last Disneyprogram to air on CBS as part of a cross-promotion agreement.

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In 1995,(as Group W) purchased CBS in a bid to become a major media company, while in1996 Disney purchased the networkresulting in all Disney programming leaving CBS. That same year, Lane won a for Outstanding Performerin an Animated Program, while in 1997 the series won two more for OutstandingSound Mixing – Special Class and Outstanding Individual in Animation – KexxSingleton. After the second season finished in November of 1996,the series was cancelled. Overseas demand for more episodes brought the seriesback with an additional 39 new episodes. However, there were some changesbehind the scenes resulting in a slightly different tone and presentation,making it more kid-friendly instead of family-friendly.

While the episode titlecards originally depicted an image related to the story with its title, for thethird season they used a generic version of Timon and Pumbaa’s silhouetteschasing a bug with the story title in various fonts. The third season ran on between Januaryand September of 1999. Many notable characters from the first two seasonswere dropped, including movie protagonist Simba ; Speedy the Snail (CoreyBurton in a voice), the snailwhom the pair befriended and often had to rescue due to his slow speed; the VulturePolice ( and ), who are a pair ofpolice vultures (what else did you expect?); Fred (S. Scott Bullock), Timon’sold prankster friend; the Three Natives (all ), a trio ofuniversity students; and Toucan Dan (also Bennett), a toucan master criminal,amongst others. A new recurring frenemy was added named Smolder the Bear (Jim Cummings),who was perfectly friendly until annoyed, which would result in him pounding on said annoyance. 18 episodes of the series were released across sixin 1996 in the United States, while 21 episodes were released internationallyacross three VHS tapes. In 2004 and 2005, those international releases werere-released in DVD format in Europe and Japan.

In 1995, released for the PC, which was later ported to the in 1997. It featured jungle-themedversions of classic game types including pinball. Published a featuring Timon & Pumbaa, as did. Released a based on the show. Produced a series of released in France.

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Timon and Pumbaa appeared as aregular comic feature in and in several issues of theanthology series. While much of themerchandise featuring the characters was centered on the movie, did release a set of four in 1996.