# 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

* [first lines; singing] What’s on the menu?!
* 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

    Pumbaa: Um... I don't do so well in crowds. Maybe we better go around.
    Timon: Don't you know the shortest distance between me and my dream home is a straight line? Follow me. Make room. Make room. Watch it, Twiggy. I'm walking here.
    Timon: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!! [pauses; Pumbaa pulls the quill] Aye!!!
    Pumbaa: This bowling from porcupines. [spits the first quill] Wasn't the best idea, huh?
    Timon: Yeah, it got to be right up there with bobbing for snapping turtles. Ow-ah-ahaha!!
    Pumbaa: That's going to leave a mark. (spits the second quill)
    Timon: [about Simba] He's gone? What do you 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 fascinating.
    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! (she runs off to find Simba)
    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; sits in despair] Uhhhh. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. [sighs] Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase. Hakuna Matata, ain't no passing craze. It means no worries.
    [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 are you guys doing? [notices the film and gasps] You didn't tell me you were watching the movie. I want to watch, too!
    Timon: Ma, we just finished. Show's over!
    Ma: Well, you're just gonna have to 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.
    Dwarfs: [one by one, save for Grumpy] Excuse me.
    Grumpy: Get out of 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 pile on top on him]
    Timon: Watch it! [he gets stuck in between two characters, then approaches Pumbaa after he gets launched by Dumbo] 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
* John O'Hurley — Fletcher the Meerkat
* Moira Kelly — Nala
* Whoopi Goldberg — Shenzi
* Cheech Marin — Banzai
* Jim Cummings — Ed
* James Earl Jones – Mufasa
* Edward Hibbert — Zazu
* Jason Rudofsky — Flinchy

## See also

* The Lion King
* The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

## External links

* The Lion King 1½ quotes at the Internet Movie Database
The Lion King  (1994) · The Lion King II: Simba's Pride  (1998) · The Lion King 1½  (2004) · The Lion King  (2019) · Mufasa: The Lion King  (2024) :
| Televisione series | Timon & Pumbaa (1995-1999) · The Lion Guard (2016-2019) |