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''[[Timon and Pumbaa]]'' is a cartoon starring Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog from the Disney franchise ''[[The Lion King]]''. The show first aired on [[CBS]] from 1995 to 1998. it has been rerunning on various [[Disney]] channels ever since.
It largely [[Alternate Continuity|ignores the canon]] of ''[[The Lion King]],'' focusing on characters alone. And instead of the realistic style of the movies, it goes for [[Surreal Humor]]. It didn't even stay in Africa. But, for what it is, it isn't bad.
The song "Hakuna Matata" was the musical theme of the series, and the philosophy of [[Hakuna Matata]] ("no worries") was the narrative theme.
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* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Zazu and the Hyenas had their own episodes.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: In an episode about Manhattan, Pumbaa says that he wants to see a musical about "Guys and Dolls". This was because the voice actors of Timon and Pumbaa were in that musical.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]
* [[Art Major Biology]]: In ''Beetle Romania'', a quite large portion of Pumbaa's body looks like the interior of an extremely well-built house/building.
* [[Balloon Belly]]: Happens in many episodes.
** First, in Brazil Nuts, we see a fat Timon. This form of Timon uses strange words like "yay big", "baby" and "flant it", things Timon wouldn't say in his normal form. He even stuffs a dollar bill in Ralph the snake's eye.
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** Possibly averted in Brazil Nuts. After the joke about ants in Brazil Nuts, [[Balloon Belly|"Fat" Timon]] says "Perfectly good comedy, and no one around to hear it." Come on, Fat Timon! There were kids watching the show, too, so they did hear your "perfectly good comedy"!
** Done in the final few minutes of the Timon & Pumbaa VHS Special, where [[Clip Show|Timon tries to restore the memories of a lightning-struck Pumbaa with narrations of their previous adventures.]] Eventually, Pumbaa's memory is recovered - only for Timon to be struck by lightning himself. [[Stable Time Loop|The video ends with Pumbaa suggesting that the viewer rewind the video so that Timon can remember what just happened.]]
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Besides "Hakuna Matata", there are other Bilingual Bonuses in the series.
** In Brazil Nuts, Ralph the snake says "Moi" (Me) and "Nous va?" (We are going?)
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* [[The Chew Toy]]: Timon most of the time. Oddly, Pumbaa takes this role in the "Stand By Me" video.
* [[Clear My Name]]
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Several to [[The Lion King]], of course.
* [[Denser and Wackier]]: Compared to the original movie.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Timon's greediness for money and power varied from episode to episode. Sometimes he didn't care about money, just as long as he could get a meal.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: In "Hot Air Buffoons" Timon and Pumbaa won a hot air balloon race, [[Fridge Logic|but then lost when "a new winner" landed, even though he came second]].
* [[Feud Episode]]: The episode "Kenya Be My Friend?" has Timon and Pumbaa parting ways and eventually befriending each other's opposites: Monti and Baampu.
* [[Flanderization]]: For instance, Rafiki ''always'' bops people on the head with his stick when trying to get advice through their heads.
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* [[Hammerspace]] In "Luck to be A Meerkat", Pumbaa has a lot of things in his belly when Timon wants to find a place to store the "lucky marble".
** In "Island of Manhood", one of the things Timon must do to pass the manhood test is carry a backpack with a ton of things on top of it.
* [[Here We Go Again]]: The show's most notable example of this would have to be Timon getting re-eaten by Pumbaa almost-immediately after finally escaping from his body in ''Beetle Romania''.
* [[Hilarity Ensues]]
* [[Illogical Safe]]: A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqifngsT94U short in which Pumbaa suffers a run of bad luck] has this happening to Pumbaa -- and then, as soon as he's out of the safe, it happens again with a ''space capsule''.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Happens in Brazil Nuts when [[Balloon Belly|"Fat" Timon]] makes a pun about how long it is taking to get ants, and claims they "must be after the uncles, too!" He finds that nobody heard the pun, but Pumbaa runs in to warn about Ralph and Eddie eating them.
* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: Quint
* [[Jerkass]] or [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Timon, [[Depending on the Writer]].
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: There is no other name for the trial of Timon, accused of touching the [[Forbidden Fruit|Forbidden Stick]], when the judge ''makes up new laws whenever he wants''.
{{quote|''"It is hereby illegal to tell me to 'chill out!'"''}}
* [[Name and Name]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[Ironic Nickname|Speedy The Snail]] is [[Bing Crosby]].
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