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Seth Rogen: Pumbaa

The Lion King

Seth Rogen credited as playing...

Pumbaa

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  • Young Simba: What's a motto?
  • Timon: Nothing, what's a motto-with-you?
  • Pumbaa: Nice!
  • Timon: Boom!
  • Timon: If you want to live with us, you have to eat like us
  • [Timon and Pumbaa are eating grubs]
  • Timon: Mmmm, extra crunchy.
  • Pumbaa: They're local.
  • Timon: Oh, are they?
  • Pumbaa: They're from right there.
  • Pumbaa: I missed 'em, I'm gonna get one of those vultures one day; I'm gonna get one!
  • Timon: I don't know why it's so important to you.
  • Pumbaa: I just feel like it would make me feel better.
  • [gasps]
  • Pumbaa: Oh no, it's a little lion!
  • Timon: That is not a lion.
  • Pumbaa: Well then, go check it out; what is it?
  • Timon: That is not a lion, it's a furry bird.
  • Pumbaa: It looks like a lion.
  • Timon: It's not a li--let me get a closer look, excuse me.
  • [huffs]
  • Timon: All right, let me see what we're dealing with here.
  • [alarmed]
  • Timon: It's a lion! Run for your life, Pumbaa!
  • Pumbaa: Wait, hey, Timon, wait, wait, hey, Timon, it's a little lion!
  • Timon: [hiding behind rock] It gets bigger.
  • Pumbaa: Can we keep him, can we please keep him? Oh, oh, okay, I promise I'll walk him every day; if he makes a little mess, I'll clean it up!
  • Timon: You'll be his little mess; he's gonna eat you and then use my body as a toothpick.
  • Pumbaa: But one day when he's big and strong, he'll be on our side.
  • Timon: I got it: what if he's on our side? Hear me out: having a ferocious lion around might not be a bad idea.
  • Pumbaa: Well then, can we keep him?
  • Timon: Yes, of course we can keep him! My God, who's the brains of this operation?
  • Pumbaa: [singing] We're gonna name him Fred!
  • Pumbaa: [as he and Timon catch up with Simba and Nala, about to reclaim Pride Rock from Scar] We're here!
  • Timon: Oh, everyone calm down. We're here.
  • Pumbaa: The backup has arrived!
  • Timon: [about the hyenas] What's your plan for getting us past the slobbering guards?
  • Pumbaa: All we need to do is find something that's like big and juicy...
  • [Simba, Nala, and Zazu stare at him]
  • Pumbaa: Why is everybody looking at me?
  • Pumbaa: [the hyenas are body shaming Pumbaa causing him to react] I may run from hyenas, but I do not run from a bully!
  • Pumbaa: How bleak is that?
  • Timon: Now his problems are my problems.
  • Timon: King... Simba?
  • Pumbaa: We kneel before you as loyal servants.
  • Young Simba: You live here?
  • Timon: Well, we live wherever we want.
  • Pumbaa: We do as we please.
  • Simba: [singing Hakuna Matata] One more time.
  • Pumbaa: I think we got this one.
  • Simba: We're just getting into the groove.
  • Timon: Let's leave a morning roll.
  • Simba: [Simba belches] must be the termites.
  • Pumbaa: Or the crickets.
  • Timon: Pumbaa I think we lost them.
  • Pumbaa: That was terrifying.
  • Timon: Do you hear a low growl.
  • Hyena: Looks like we'll be having pig for dinner. Plump and chubby.
  • Pumbaa: Chubby? Did he just call me chubby?
  • Timon: Uh-oh.
  • Pumbaa: It sounded a lot like he just said "chubby". Which would be a mistake because... I will not be made to feel ashamed of who I am.
  • Timon: Oh, boy.
  • Pumbaa: I may run from hyenas... but I will always fight a bully
  • Timon: [rubbing Pumbaa's head] You feel better Pumbaa?
  • Pumbaa: I do.
  • Timon: You got that out of your system?
  • Pumbaa: I did.
  • Timon: [about the hyenas] what's your plan for getting us past the slobbering guards?
  • Simba: Live bait.
  • [He, Nala and Zazu look at Pumbaa]
  • Pumbaa: That's a great idea. Those guys could never resist fresh meat! So all we need to do is find something that's like big, plump, and juicy, maybe like a gnu...
  • [They all continue to stare blankly at him]
  • Pumbaa: why's everyone looking at me?
  • Timon: [Shenzi's clan are paying attention to Timon and Pumbaa who is set up like a roast pig] Ma chère, mademoiselle. It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we proudly present your dinner! Be... our - GAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
  • [they flew before the clan of hunger mad hyenas]
  • Pumbaa: [referring to the stars] Hey, Timon. Do you ever look up there and wonder what those sparkly dots are?
  • Timon: Oh, Pumbaa. I don't wonder. I know.
  • Pumbaa: Really? What are they?
  • Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that got stuck on that big bluish-black thing.
  • Pumbaa: Oh, I guess that makes sense. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
  • Timon: Oh, Pumbaa, why is everything always gas with you?
  • Pumbaa: I know.
  • Timon: What do you think, Simba?
  • Pumbaa: Yeah.
  • Simba: Oh, I don't know. But somebody once told me, the great kings of the past are up there. And they're all watching over us.
  • [Timon and Pumbaa start laughing]
  • Pumbaa: That's a good one! That's insane! That's insane!
  • Timon: Royal dead guys watching over us! Well, I hope they don't fall out of the sky!
  • Pumbaa: Hang on, your majesty! Don't let go!
  • Timon: Oh, that would be a mess.
  • Pumbaa: Oh, man!
  • Timon: I mean, Simba, think about it. Why would a bunch of kings be looking out for us? We're outcasts.
  • Pumbaa: Royal warthogs.
  • Timon: I can't!
  • Timon: I can't!
  • Pumbaa: I actually can't.
  • Timon: I can't.
  • Pumbaa: No, you can. I can't.
  • [Timon laughs again]
  • Simba: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's stupid I'm going to go get some grubs or something
  • [looking sad, Simba gets up and leaves]
  • Timon: What did you say to him?
  • Pumbaa: I don't know.
  • Timon: As you were saying it, I thought, "This won't end well" you just start laughing.
  • Pumbaa: You laughed too.
  • Timon: I did not. I would never.
  • Pumbaa: Man, I blew it.
  • Simba: [referring to the impala running away from him] What's up with that guy?
  • Timon: Uh, Simba, How can I say this? He's prey.
  • Pumbaa: Yeah
  • Timon: And he is never going to want to frolic with a carnivore.
  • Pumbaa: No. You two will never frolic.
  • Simba: Why not?
  • Timon: You see in nature, there's a delicate balance.
  • Simba: Oh yeah. The circle of life. I know that.
  • Pumbaa: No.
  • Timon: No, no, no. I don't know where you're getting "circle" from
  • Pumbaa: No, yeah. There's no circle of life.
  • Timon: No, it's no Circle.
  • Pumbaa: No, not at all.
  • Timon: In fact, it's the opposite.
  • Pumbaa: Yeah.
  • Timon: It's a line.
  • Pumbaa: Yeah.
  • Timon: It's a meaningless line of indifference.
  • Pumbaa: And we're all just running towards the end of that line. Then one day we'll reach the end and that'll be it. That's it. Line over.
  • Timon: Nothing.
  • Pumbaa: Nada. And you can really just kind of Do Your own thing and fend for yourself, because you're line doesn't affect anyone else's line.
  • Timon: You're alive and then you're not
  • [eats an insect]
  • Timon: like this guy. Mmm.
  • Simba: You sure it's not a circle? that we're all connected?
  • Pumbaa: A circle would mean we're all this. That would mean what I do affects him. affects that thing affects that thing.
  • Timon: Yeah. No, that's not how it goes.
  • Pumbaa: Which would make doing whatever we wanted not that cool.
  • Timon: Let me simplify this for you. Life is meaningless.
  • Pumbaa: Yes. that's why you just got to look out for yourself. That's why you do you, Simba.
  • Timon: Yes Simba, for the first time, we're enrusting you to make a plan for us today
  • Pumbaa: This is important, think about all you've been taught.
  • Timon: What do you want to do?
  • Simba: Absolutely nothing.
  • Pumbaa: Exactly!
  • Timon: Woo-hoo!
  • Pumbaa: He gets it!
  • Pumbaa: You thought he was dead? I thought I was dead!
  • Pumbaa: [singing] And, oh, the shame!
  • Timon: Yes, he was ashamed!
  • Pumbaa: I thought of changin' my name!
  • Timon: I mean, to what? Brad?
  • Pumbaa: And I got downhearted! Every time that I... far... ted?
  • [to Timon]
  • Pumbaa: Are you gonna stop me!
  • Timon: No, I'm not! You disgust me!
  • Young Simba: [wakes up] Who are you?
  • Timon: Um...
  • Pumbaa: Uhhhh...
  • Timon: We're the guys who saved your life. Risked everything. Fought off angry vultures.
  • Pumbaa: Hordes of them, flocks. I'm Pumbaa. This is Timon.
  • Timon: Did I mention that we've saved your life?
  • Young Simba: It doesn't matter anyway.
  • [heads off quietly back out towards the desert and sits down]
  • Pumbaa: Whoa. How bleak is that? "Doesn't even matter"?
  • Timon: [sighs] Like I don't have enough that I'm dealing with. His problems are my problems.
  • Pumbaa: We can help him, we're in a position to help him
  • Timon: Uhhhh.
  • [to Simba]
  • Timon: So? How are you in as few words as possible?
  • Young Simba: I did something terrible. But I don't wanna talk about it.
  • Pumbaa: Look, kid. We all make mistakes. There must be something we can do, right?
  • Young Simba: Not unless you can change the past.
  • Timon: Well, you know, that's a lot to ask. If I'm being honest...
  • Pumbaa: That's a biggie.
  • Timon: ...you can't change the past that's already happened. But you know what you can change? The future! That's our specialty...
  • Young Simba: How can you change something that hasn't happened?
  • Timon: Well, to change the future, you gotta put your past behind you.
  • Pumbaa: Way behind.
  • Timon: Look, kid. Bad things happen and you can't do anything about it, right?
  • Young Simba: Right.
  • Timon: WRONG! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world!
  • Pumbaa: And only embrace what's next.
  • Timon: And turn the "What?" into "So, what!"
  • Young Simba: Well, that's not what I was taught.
  • Timon: Then maybe you need a new lesson. Repeat after me, kid. Hakuna Matata!
  • Young Simba: [confused] What?
  • Pumbaa: Hakuna Matata!
  • Timon: Hakuna Matata.
  • Pumbaa: Hakuna... most people get a bigger reaction when we say it! Ha-ku-na Ma-ta-ta. It means "no worries." One, and a...
  • Timon: [interrupting] Okay. I do the counting.
  • Pumbaa: I wanna count!
  • Timon: Why don't we count together?
  • Pumbaa: Okay. That's a good idea.
  • Timon: All right.
  • Timon: [Timon and Pumbaa reveal Simba a gorgeous rift-jungle panorama: waterfalls, woods, distant mountains, lush lakes and rivers] Welcome to our humble home.
  • Young Simba: You live here?
  • Timon: Well, we live wherever we want.
  • Pumbaa: We do as we please.
  • Young Simba: It's beautiful!
  • Pumbaa: That's really nice, huh?
  • Timon: Everyone, this is Simba!
  • Guinea Fowl: That, my friend, is a lion!
  • Bush Baby: What 'bout food? Have you thought 'bout feeding that thing?
  • Young Simba: Yeah, I'm starved. I could eat a whole zebra.
  • Timon: [under his breath] Oh, here we go.
  • [to Simba]
  • Timon: Uh, no-no-no, kid. Uh, we're fresh out of zebra.
  • Young Simba: Any antelope?
  • Impala: Uh-oh.
  • Timon: No, listen, kid. If you want to live with us, you have to eat like us.
  • Guinea Fowl: And most importantly: not eat us
  • Timon: This looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub.
  • [Stopping in front of a log, Pumbaa forces it up with his snout, revealing many insects]
  • Young Simba: [disgusted] Ewww. What's that?
  • Elephant Shrew: This one's got the nuttiness.
  • Timon: Mmmm... now that's what I call slimy.
  • Pumbaa: [slurps up dozen of the bugs] Slimy, yet satisfying.
  • Timon: Mmmm! Extra crunchy.
  • Pumbaa: They're local.
  • Timon: Oh, are they?
  • Pumbaa: They're from right there.
  • Timon: I'm tellin' ya, kid, this is the great life. No rules. No responsibilities.
  • [notices a nearby caterpillar]
  • Timon: Oooh! The little cream-filled kind! I love it!
  • Pumbaa: Those are good. Those are the best.
  • Timon: [offers the caterpillar to Simba] Well, kid?
  • Young Simba: Oh, well. Hakuna Matata.
  • [gulps up the caterpillar, then swallows it indisposed, he yet looks more cheerful]
  • Young Simba: Slimy, yet satisfying
  • Timon: [excited] That's it!
  • Pumbaa: [Timon and Pumbaa meet Zazu for the first time] Hey, hey, look. A bird!
  • Simba: Timon. Pumbaa. This is Zazu.
  • Timon: Oh, wow... it's a puppet.
  • Zazu: Charming. Simba, we are with you until the end.
  • Pumbaa: We are at your service, my liege.
  • Simba: Follow me.

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