The Lion King 1½

The Lion King 1½ is a 2004 direct-to-video animated film released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment on February 10, 2004. This middle-of-the-road feature retells the story of the 1994 blockbuster, The Lion King, in Timon and Pumbaa's perspective.

Timon

 * This could be the start of a beautiful... acquaintanceship.
 * Friends stick together to the end.
 * Just eat me now and please make it fast, I have a low threshold for pain.
 * [whispering] I see carnivores.

Dialogue

 * [from trailer]
 * Timon: That's it Pumbaa, my fuse, it's genius! There! Now this titles are knock out. OW!! Not reality!?


 * Timon: 1! 2! 3!


 * Pumbaa: Uh-oh. I don't do some well a crowds, maybe better go around.
 * Timon: Don't you know, sure isn't to be right home to straight line, follow me. Dang grow. Dang grow! I'm watchin' twinkle. I'm walking here.


 * Pumbaa: This bowlin' from porcupines. [spits the quills] Wasn't for best idea, huh?
 * Timon: Yeah, well think about the snappy turtles. Ow-ah-ahaha!
 * Pumbaa: That was traitor to mark.


 * Timon: [about Simba] HE'S GONE?! WHADDAYA MEAN HE'S GONE?!
 * Nala: It's just like the baboon said. The king has returned. [Timon and Pumbaa stare at her blankly] [sighs] You guys want me to go over it again?
 * Timon: Yes please, but be a dear and skip to the part about Simba. Not that your childhood wasn't fascinatin'!
 * Nala: Okay. Look, Simba's the rightful king, but after he disappeared, Scar proclaimed himself the king and formed an alliance with the hyenas...
 * [As Nala talks, Timon and Pumbaa stop listening.]
 * Pumbaa: [thinks] Poor Simba. The treachery! The villainy! The sheer indescribable horror!
 * Timon: [thinks] Blah blah blah. Why is she TOYING with us? This crazy chick is gonna eat us!
 * Nala: ...So Simba has to go home to challenge his uncle and reclaim his place as king! [Timon and Pumbaa stare blankly at her.] OHH, DON'T YOU GET IT?! SIMBA NEEDS US! NOW!
 * Timon: [indignant] He needs us? THEN HE SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT US! If he wants to run off to be "His Highness", well, I say, don't let the branches hit you on the way out! Leave Hakuna Matata to someone who appreciates it. [He strides off stubbornly]
 * Pumbaa: But, Timon... it's not really Hakuna Matata without Simba.
 * Timon: What's gotten into you? Not Hakuna Matata? That's crazy talk. CRAZY TALK, I tell ya! Nothing's changed here. We had Hakuna Matata before Simba, and we've still got it now.
 * Pumbaa: We gotta go help our friend, Timon.
 * Timon: Et tu, Pumbaa? You're just gonna walk away, give up on all this? What happened to "friends stick together to the end"? Huh? Huh? Huh?
 * Pumbaa: [incisively] I was about to ask you the same thing.
 * [Pumbaa turns and stalks off. He looks back over his shoulder to see Timon flopping down in the bed.]
 * Timon: [stubbornly] I got everything I ever wanted right here.
 * [Pumbaa turns and trots off, a tear in his eye. Timon lies in the bed, tapping his toe. He begins to soliloquize to convince himself he's doing the right thing.]
 * Timon: Now, this is more like it. ELBOW ROOM! ["Elbow room" echoes an absurd number of times as the camera pulls back repeatedly; Timon collapses in despair] Uhhhh. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.


 * [at the end of the film]
 * Timon: Well, that's it. The big wrap-up. The happy ending. The grand finale.
 * Pumbaa: It's over already?
 * Timon: Well, Pumbaa, that's the thing about endings. They come at the end.
 * Pumbaa: Oh, can we watch it again?
 * Timon: Pumbaa, we just saw it. Maybe tomorrow.
 * Ma: [enters] Hey, what're you guys doin'? [notices the film and gasps] You didn't tell me you were watching the movie! I wanna watch, too!
 * Timon: Ma! We just finished! Show's over!
 * Ma: Well, you're just gonna hafta rewind it. [runs the film back]
 * Timon: Ma!
 * Ma: Uncle Max! We're gonna watch the movie!
 * Timon: Oh, no!
 * Max: [enters with popcorn] Hey, I brought extra butter!
 * Simba: [enters] Hey, you guys are watching the movie?
 * Rafiki: [enters with laughter] Any story worth telling is worth telling twice!
 * [many a Disney character enters the theater, starting with Mickey Mouse]
 * Timon: What the--?
 * Snow White: Oh, excuse me.
 * Dwarves: [one by one, save for Grumpy] Excuse me.
 * Grumpy: Get outta the way.
 * Timon: Who is this crowd? Hey! Down in front!
 * [Stitch bounces repeatedly from one character to another]
 * Goofy: Gawrsh!
 * Stitch: Aloha!
 * [Donald quacks angrily at Stitch. Peter Pan crows like a rooster and the Lost Boys dog pile on him]
 * Timon: Watch it!
 * [he gets stuck in between two characters, then approaches Pumbaa after he gets launched by Dumbo]
 * Timon: Okay, buddy. You win.
 * Pumbaa: Sure you don't mind?
 * Timon: Hakuna matata.
 * [he grabs the remote and starts the film]
 * Pumbaa: Timon, I still don't do so well in crowds.

Cast

 * Nathan Lane — Timon
 * Ernie Sabella — Pumbaa
 * Julie Kavner — Ma
 * Jerry Stiller — Max
 * Matthew Broderick — Simba
 * Matt Weinberg (young)
 * Robert Guillaume — Rafiki
 * Moira Kelly — Nala
 * Whoopi Goldberg — Shenzi
 * Cheech Marin — Banzai
 * James J. Cummings — Ed
 * Edward Hibbert — Zazu
 * Jason Rudofsky — Flinchy