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Nathan Lane in The Lion King 1½ (2004)

Ernie Sabella: Pumbaa

The Lion King 1½

Ernie Sabella credited as playing...

Pumbaa

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  • [Timon and Pumbaa have found their dream home; Timon is talking to himself, Pumbaa is making a celebration supper]
  • Timon: The monkey was right! We found it! The perfect life!
  • Pumbaa: I'll just whip up a little something.
  • Timon: He had the perfect name for it, too.
  • Pumbaa: Come and get it!
  • Timon: [sits at a rock] Such a wonderful phrase. It had this rhythm. Laduda Ladada.
  • Pumbaa: Try this - hot tuna frittata.
  • Timon: Hmm. No, that's not it.
  • Pumbaa: The spinach armada.
  • Timon: Quiet, Pumbaa. I'm trying to think.
  • Pumbaa: A spoon of ricotta.
  • Timon: Two words.
  • Pumbaa: A wormy piccata.
  • Timon: Six syllables.
  • Pumbaa: Kahuna colada.
  • Timon: Twelve letters.
  • Pumbaa: A blue enchilada.
  • Timon: Rhymes with... .
  • Pumbaa: Legumes on a platter.
  • Timon: Think, think, think.
  • Pumbaa: [poking a dish] This oughta be hotta.
  • Timon: I forget.
  • Pumbaa: I gotta lambada!
  • [dances right into Timon]
  • Timon: HEY! How can you dance at a time like this? I'm DYIN' here!... . Ooh, sorry about that, pal.
  • Pumbaa: Hakuna Matata.
  • Timon: ....Come again?
  • Pumbaa: Hakuna Matata - It means "no worries". Ah-ohhhh... .
  • Timon: Hey Pumbaa, what do you call a hyena with half a brain?
  • Pumbaa: [laughs] Beats me, Timon. What?
  • Timon: GIFTED!
  • Timon: Well, that worked like a dream.
  • Pumbaa: It did?
  • Timon: Sarcasm is a foreign language to you, isn't it?
  • Pumbaa: Shall we run for our lives?
  • Timon: Oh yes, let's.
  • Pumbaa, Timon: AHHHHHHHHHH!
  • Timon: Who knows why fate led us to little Simba?
  • [images of Simba scaring Timon run throughout the scene]
  • Timon: Maybe it was my love of adventure, my innate courage, or my... . Okay! Who's in charge of the freeze-frames?
  • Pumbaa: Sorry.
  • Timon: Anywho... . Rescuing Simba was a cinch. Then came the real scary part:
  • [dramatic music]
  • Timon: Parenthood.
  • Timon: [singing along to opening of "The Lion King"] What's on the menu? It could be ceviche. Stinky-oo. It's Pumbaa.
  • Pumbaa: I gotta tell you, Timon. That song always gets me right here.
  • Timon: Yeah, Pumbaa? Well, enough of that.
  • [fast-forwards film with his remote]
  • Pumbaa: Uhh, Timon, what are you doin'?
  • Timon: I'm fast-forwarding to the part where we come in.
  • Pumbaa: But you can't go out of order.
  • Timon: Au contraire, my porcine pal. I've got the remote.
  • Pumbaa: But everyone's gonna get confused.
  • [picks up his own remote and rewinds film]
  • Pumbaa: We gotta go back to the beginning of the story.
  • Timon: [fast-forwarding] We're not *in* the beginning of the story.
  • Pumbaa: [rewinding] Yes, we were! The whole time.
  • Timon: [fast-forwarding] Ah! Yeah, but they don't know that.
  • Pumbaa: [rewinding] Then why don't we tell them our story?
  • [Film stops during the hyena attack; Timon and Pumbaa are spooked]
  • Timon: Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we tell 'em our story?
  • Pumbaa: Oh, I like the sound of that.
  • Timon: A little backstage tour. Take 'em behind the scenes for a revealing and intimate look at the story within the story.
  • Pumbaa: 'Cause what they don't know is how we really were there, even though they didn't know we were there, y'know?
  • Timon: Couldn't have said it better myself.
  • Pumbaa: So, does this mean we're going back to the beginning?
  • Timon: Oh, no, Pumbaa. No. We're going way back, to before the beginning.
  • Timon: Waaait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second.
  • Pumbaa: Uh, Timon? What are you doin'?
  • Timon: Shenzi Marie Predatora Veldetta Jacquelina Hyena... . would you do me the honor of becoming... . my bride?
  • Shenzi: I don't think so!
  • Timon: Shenzi Marie, please. I know what you're thinking: "We're too different." "It'll never work." "What will the children look like?"
  • Shenzi: Ooh, that violates so many laws of nature.
  • Timon: Listen to me! The problems of a couple of wacky kids like us don't amount to hill of termites in this nutty circle-of-life thing. And so I ask you: If not now, when? If not me, who? I'm lonely.
  • Pumbaa: Can I be your best man?
  • Banzai: I say we skip the wedding, and go straight to the buffet!
  • Timon: I'm Timon.
  • Pumbaa: Pumbaa.
  • Timon: No, really.
  • Pumbaa: What exactly did he say?
  • Timon: [mimicking Rafikki] Look beyond what you see.
  • Pumbaa: Good night.
  • Timon: Sleep tight.
  • Pumbaa: Dream of bedbugs tonight.
  • [Pumbaa, Timon, and Simba are all in a bubbling water hole]
  • Simba: Three pals and no worries, what more could you want?
  • [all sigh relaxingly]
  • Pumbaa: [yawns] Ah, I'm bushed.
  • [while getting out of water hole]
  • Pumbaa: I think I'll turn in for the night.
  • [bubbles stop]
  • Timon: I'm out!
  • Simba: Right behind ya!
  • Timon: How convenient. Enter omniscient monkey, right on cue.
  • Pumbaa: Well, you know what they say: "When the student is ready, the teacher appears."
  • Timon: That's it. No more fortune-cookies for you!
  • [during the hyena chase, the channel suddenly changes to a shopping channel]
  • Timon: What's going on here? Pumbaa, are you sitting on the remote?
  • Pumbaa: Oh, sorry. I thought it was a brownie.
  • Timon: So, that's your special power?
  • Pumbaa: You mean, you don't mind?
  • Timon: Are you kidding? It was a gas!
  • [starts laughing]
  • Pumbaa: Well, I don't like to toot my own horn.
  • Timon: Yeah, that's probably for the best.
  • Pumbaa: After a long day of doing nothing, it's good to kick back.
  • Pumbaa: [talking through a crowd of animals at Pride Rock] I don't do so well in crowds.
  • Pumbaa: They say first impressions are very important.
  • Timon: Oh, I thought you were a "scream".
  • 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]
  • Nala: [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: OK. Look, Simba's the rightful king, but after he disappeared, Scar proclaimed himself the king and formed an alliance with the hyenas...
  • Pumbaa: [Thinks] Poor Simba. The treachery, the villainy, the SURE INDESCRIBABLE HORROR!
  • Timon: [Thinks] Blah blah blah! WHY IS SHE TOYING WITH US? AAH! THIS CRAZY CHICK IS GONNA EAT US!
  • Nala: [continues to explain] ... So Simba has to go back to challenge his uncle and reclaim his place as king!
  • [Silence; Nala doesn't get a reaction from Timon or Pumbaa]
  • Nala: [frustrated] Ohh... don't you get it? Simba NEEDS us! NOW!
  • [runs off into the jungle]
  • Timon: It's as if you have some special power.
  • Pumbaa: Uh, special power? well, it's pretty powerful.
  • Timon: [singing]
  • [from the movie]
  • Timon: Luau! If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meet / Eat my buddy, Pumbaa, here 'cause he's a... .
  • [Timon pauses the movie]
  • Timon: Let's just cut to the chase, shall we?
  • Pumbaa: Oh, okay.
  • [Timon pushes next on the remote and it goes to the part where the hyenas chase Timon and Pumbaa]
  • Timon, Pumbaa: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

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