[The scene transitions to the desert, where Simba and Daniel Tiger are passed out under the hot sun]
{Buzzards are circling the cub's body. One descends, then all. They circle around it. With a blast of music, Timon riding Pumbaa appears and dives into the midst of the buzzards. They slap and kick the buzzards all away.}
Timon: Yeeeah! Get out! Get out! Get outta here! Whoo!
Pumbaa: I love it! Bowling for buzzards!
Timon: {Laughing, dusting himself off} Gets 'em every time.
Pumbaa: {Looking at Simba and Daniel Tiger}Uh-oh. Hey Timon. You better come look. I think it's still alive.
Timon: Ewww...
{Timon walks to the front of Simba and Daniel Tiger, who is lying with their paw over their face.}
Timon: All righty, what have we got here? {he smells Simba and Daniel Tiger
{He tries to lift Simba's paw. He can't. He gets under it and with a great push gets it above his head. He sees Simba's face.}
Timon: Jeez, it's a lion and Tiger! {Jumping up on Pumbaa} Run, Pumbaa! Move it!
Pumbaa: Hey, Timon. It's just a little lion and little tiger, Look at them they're so cute, and all alone! Can we keep them?
Timon: {Yelling into Pumbaa's ear, which creates a reverberating effect} Pumbaa, are you nuts? We're talking about a lion and tiger. Lions and tigers eat guys like us.
Pumbaa: But they's so little.
{He leans over to regard Simba and Daniel Tiger,, and accidentally dumps Timon from his head.}
Timon:They're gonna get bigger.
Pumbaa: {Seen from Timon's point of view on the ground, with a huge nose) Maybe they'll be on our side.
Timon:Ha! [Timon stands.] That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. [Timon dusts himself off.] Maybe he'll be... [Timon pulls up short and holds up a finger as he has a sudden realization.] Hey, I've got it. What if they're on our side? [Timon gestures dramatically. He puts a pensive finger to his chin.] You know, having a lion and tiger around [Timon grasps onto Pumbaa's nostrils.] might not be such a bad idea. [Timon climbs into Pumbaa's mane.]
Pumbaa: So we keep them.
Timon: Of course. Who's the brains in this outfit?
{Pumbaa scoops Simba and Daniel Tiger up on his tusks}
Pumbaa: Uhhh...
Timon: My point exactly. Jeez, I'm fried. Let's get out of here and find some shade.
{Pumbaa trots off with Timon on his back and carrying Simba and Daniel Tiger..}
{Camera switch to Pumbaa, Timon, and Simba and Daniel Tigernear a pool of water and oasis. Simba,Daniel Tiger has been laid near the splashes some water on Simba's,Daniel Tiger's face. Simba and Daniel Tiger stirs.}
Timon: You okay,kids?
Simba: I guess so.
Daniel Tiger: We're Fine.
Pumbaa: You nearly died.
Timon: I saved you.
Pumbaa: {Snorts at Timon}
Timon: Well, uh, Pumbaa helped. A little.
Simba: {Dully} Thanks for your help.
{Simba and Daniel Tiger heads off quietly back out towards the desert.}
Daniel Tiger: Simba Wait for me.
Timon: Hey, where are you going?
Simba: Nowhere.
Timon: {Watching Simba, talking to Pumbaa} Gee They're Looks blue.
Pumbaa: I'd say brownish-gold.
Timon: No, no, no, no. I mean they're depressed.
Pumbaa: [Timon and Pumbaa stride after Simba and Daniel Tiger.] Kid, what's eatin' you?Timon: Nothing; he's at the top of the food chain! Ahhhhhhha ha haaa! The food cha-haain! {Pumbaa looks at Simba with a sad look noticing how sad he is} Ha ha hum... ahem. {Realizing his joke flopped} So, where you from...?
Simba: Who cares? I can't go back.
Daniel Tiger: Come on Simba.
Timon: Ahh. You're an outcast! That's great, so are we.
Pumbaa: What'cha do, kid?
Simba: Something terrible. But I don't wanna talk about it.
Timon: Good. We don't wanna hear about it.
Pumbaa: {To Timon} Come on, Timon. {To Simba} Anything we can do?
Simba: Not unless you can change the past.
Pumbaa: You know, kids,in times like this my buddy Timon here says, "You gotta put your behind in your past..."
Timon: {Waving arms} No. No. No.
Pumbaa: I mean...
Timon: Amateur. Lie down before you hurt yourself. {to Simba and Daniel Tiger}It's "You gotta put your past behind you." Look, kids. Bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it, right?
Simba And Daniel Tiger: Right.
Timon: {Pokes Simba's and Daniel Tiger's nose} Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world.
Simba: Well, that's not what we was taught.
Timon: Then maybe you both need a new lesson. Repeat after me. {Clears throat} Hakuna Matata.
Simba: {Still lethargic} What?
Daniel Tiger: Hakuna What?
Pumbaa: Ha-ku-na Ma-ta-ta. It means "No worries."
{Full Song, no fade in except in marimba chords}
Timon: Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase.
Pumbaa: Hakuna Matata! (starts singing) 🎵Ain't no passing craze🎵
Timon: 🎵It means no worries🎵
🎵For the rest of your days🎵
{Timon pulls Simba over to a green bush and leans him back on it.}
Both: 🎵It's our problem-free🎵
🎵Philosophy🎵
Timon: {Filing down one of Simba's claws}
🎵Hakuna Matata!🎵
{Spoken section over background}
Simba: Hakuna matata?
Pumbaa: Yeah, it's our motto.
Daniel Tiger: What's a motto?
Timon: Nothing! What's a motto with you? Ahh ha ha ha...
Pumbaa: {Laughing} You know, kidsd- These two words will solve all your problems.
Timon: That's right! Take Pumbaa for example.
{Back into song}
Timon: 🎵Why, when he was a young warthog...🎵
Pumbaa: {Italian counter-tenor range, very off-key.} When I was a young wart-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG.
Timon: {Speaking, cleaning ear} Very nice.
Pumbaa: Thanks!
Timon: {Singing} 🎵He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal🎵
🎵He could clear the savannah after every meal🎵
Pumbaa: 🎵I'm a sensitive soul, though I seem thick-skinned🎵
🎵And it hurt that my friends never stood downwind🎵
🎵And oh, the shame!🎵
Timon: He was ashamed.
Pumbaa: 🎵Thoughta changin' my name🎵
Timon: Oh, what's in a name?
Pumbaa: 🎵And I got downhearted🎵
Timon: How did you feel?
Pumbaa: 🎵Every time that I-🎵
Timon: {Speaking, breaking the fourth wall} Pumbaa! Not in front of the kids. (reffering to the children watching this movie)
Pumbaa: {Speaking} Oh... sorry.
{String pizzicato. Simba and Daniel Tigerlooks into the camera, surprised.}
{Simba and Daniel Tigerwatches with growing interest as Timon hoists Pumbaa into a vine loop above his head, where he begins swinging.}
Pumbaa and Timon: 🎵Hakuna Matata!🎵
🎵What a wonderful phrase🎵
🎵Hakuna Matata!🎵
🎵Ain't no passing craze🎵
Simba and Daniel Tiger: {After becoming more and more enthusiastic,they're finally joins in singing, a spotlight falling on them.) 🎵It means no worries.🎵
🎵For the rest of your days🎵
Timon: {Not singing, doing a vaudeville knee-slide up to Simba and Daniel Tiger} Yeah, sing it, kids!
Simba and Timon and Daniel Tiger🎵It's our problem-free ...🎵
Pumbaa: {Landing next to them, with a flatulent sound} 🎵philosophy...🎵
All Four: 🎵Hakuna Matata!🎵
{Timon pulls back a fern leaf, revealing a beautiful view of a rift-jungle. Waterfalls and rugged terrain make a beautiful view. Harp runs accentuate the scene.}
Timon: Welcome... to our humble home!
Simba: You live here?
Timon: We live wherever we want.
Pumbaa: Yep. Home is where your rump rests. Heh!
Daniel Tiger:Simba: It's beautiful.
Pumbaa: {Loud raunchy belch} I'm starved.
Daniel Tiger:Me too
Simba: I'm so hungry I could eat a whole zebra...
{Timon is rather disturbed by Simba's want for meat- a little bit taken aback and a little bit I-knew-this-would-happen.}
Timon: Eeeahhah. We're fresh out of zebra.
Simba: Any antelope?
Timon: Na ah.
Simba: {A bit desperate} Hippo?
Timon: Nope. Listen, kid; if you and tiger friend live with us, you have to eat like us. Hey, this looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub.
{Timon has stopped in front of a log. Pumbaa forces it up with his snout, revealing many insects. Timon picks one up.}
Simba: Eeew. What's that?
Timon: A grub. What's it look like?
Simba: Eeew. Gross.
Daniel Tiger: Ew.
imon: {Eating, mouth full} Mmmm. Tastes like chicken.
{Pumbaa slurps up a large worm from the ground. Both Timon and Pumbaa are feasting on bugs by now.}
Pumbaa: {Slurping} Slimy, yet satisfying.
Timon: These are rare delicacies! {Grabbing a bug} Mmmm. {Crunches} Piquant, with a very pleasant crunch.
Pumbaa: You'll learn to love 'em.
Timon: I'm telling you, kids, this is the great life. No rules. No responsibilities. {Pokes his hand into a knothole- many bugs scramble out} Oooh! The little cream-filled kind. {munch} And best of all, no worries.
{Timon has been collecting bugs on a leaf. He offers the leaf to Simba and Daniel Tiger Simba and Daniel Tigericks out a grub.}
Timon: Well, kids?
Simba: and Daniel Tiger:Oh well- Hakuna Matata. {They eats}
{Sick music}
Simba: {Looking more cheerful} Slimy, yet satisfying!
Daniel Tiger:Whoa you right Timon this Tastes like chicken.
{The bugs fly off the leaf in a colorful flutter.}
{The scene switches to all three mammals crossing a log, walking and tossing their heads to the music. With a steady build in the music, a change occurs. We see the image of young Simba become an adolescent Simba, with a partial mane. And then again, Simba becomes a full grown adult. While the chanting of the title is happening, the camera is panning at the low level (6" off ground) where all the interaction between Pumbaa, Timon, and Simba as a cub had been occurring. First we see Timon, and then Pumbaa. The camera continues panning at a low angle to where the cub Simba would fit. Instead we see the adult Simba's paw come down. An immediate back up for a full view of a big Simba.}
Pumbaa and Timon And Daniel Tiger {Chanting to music} Hakuna matata, hakuna matata, hakuna matata, hakuna...
Simba: {Adult voice now.} 🎵It means no worries!🎵
🎵For the rest of your days.🎵
All four:🎶It's our problem-free🎶
🎶Philosophy🎶
Simba: 🎵Hakuna Matata, Hakuna Matata... Hakuna Matata...🎵
{All four dive off of the log into a pond. First, Timon jumps in doing a cannonball, and makes a small splash. Then Pumbaa, doing a swan dive, makes a small splash too.Then Daniel Tiger jumps in doing a cannonball, and makes a small splash.. Finally Simba swings out on a vine (gripped in his own teeth). Before he can dive, the vine breaks under his weight. The resulting splash is big enough to wash Pumbaa and Timon and Daniel Tiger ashore.}
(Simba joins Timon and Pumbaa and Daniel Tigeron shore. The song breaks into gentle jazz voice improvisations on the words "Hakuna Matata." We see a rear view of Timon, Pumbaa, and Simba and Daniel Tiger boogeying off into the forest to the beat of "Hakuna Matata.")
Simba: 🎵Hauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... Hakuna Matata! Yeah.🎵🎵 Ta-ta. Ha-ha-haaaaa! (the screen fades to black)
{The camera switches to a far view of Pride Rock. Almost all of the coloring is in gray. Most of the plants and trees appear to be dead. We can hear Zazu's first line and then the scene switches to a view of Zazu and Scar. Zazu is in a cage made of some animal's ribcage, singing. Scar is laying out on a rock picking his teeth with a bone.}
Zazu: Nobody knows
The trouble I've seen
Nobody knows
My sorrow...
Scar: Oh Zazu, do lighten up. {He tosses the bone at Zazu and it clatters against the cage} Sing something with a little... bounce in it.
Zazu: {Thinks a moment} It's a small world after all...
Scar: {Interrupting, almost shouting} No! No. Anything but that!
Zazu: {Thinks, then holds up a feather as a tune comes to him.} I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts diddely-dee-dee) There they are a-standing in a row... {Scar is enjoying this and starts to join in}
Zazu and Scar: Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head...
Zazu: {While Scar continues} Oh... I would never have had to do this for Mufasa.
Scar: {Quick and angry} What? What did you say?
Zazu: Oh, nothing!
Scar: You know the law: Never, ever mention THAT name in my presence. I... am... the KING!
{Scar shoves his muzzle between the ribs of Zazu's cage on the last line. His breath blows Zazu up against the wall.}
Zazu: Yes, sire. You ARE the king. I... I... Well, I only mentioned it to illustrate the differences in your royal managerial approaches. {Nervous laugh}
Scar: Go on.
Zazu: Well? "MM-MM-MM" was a great king. But you, sire, you, we define the word "king".
Scar: mm-hmm continue.
Zazu: oh well, you could rule the pride as only you do.
Banzai: {Offstage} Hey Boss!
Scar: Oh, what is it this time?
Banzai: We got a bone to pick with you.
Shenzi: {To Banzai} I'll handle this. {To Scar} Scar, there's no food, no water...
Banzai: Yeah, it's dinner time, and we ain't got no stinkin' entrees.
Scar: {Exasperated} It's the lionesses' job to do the hunting... {makes helpless gesture}
Banzai: Yeah, but they won't go hunt.
Scar: Oh... eat Zazu.
Zazu: Oh, you wouldn't want me! I'd be so tough and gamey and... eeww...
Scar: Oh, Zazu, don't be ridiculous. All you need is a little garnish.
Banzai: {To Shenzi} I thought things were bad under Mufasa.
Scar: {Quick and angry again} What did you say?
Banzai: I said Muf...
{Shenzi is smiling at Scar and thwaps Banzai to remind him.}
Banzai: I said, uh... "Qué pasa?"
Scar: Good. Now get out.
{The hyenas start out but then pause}
Banzai: Mm... yeah, but - we're still hungry.
Scar: Out!
{They run off; Ed lets loose a crazy laugh}
{The camera switches to a view of the jungle. We hear a monstrous belch reverberate across the landscape. The camera switches to Timon, Pumbaa, and Simba and Daniel Tigerlying on their backs looking at the stars.}
Timon: Whoah. Nice one, Simba.
Simba: Thanks. Man, I'm stuffed.
Pumbaa: Me too. I ate like a pig.
Daniel Tiger:Pumbaa - you are a pig.
Pumbaa: Oh. Right.
{All Four sigh deeply, in unison. Gentle music fades in.}
Pumbaa: Timon?
Timon: Yeah?
Pumbaa: Ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
Timon: Pumbaa. I don't wonder; I know.
Pumbaa: Oh. What are they?
Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that uh... got stuck up on that big... bluish-black... thing.
Pumbaa: Oh. Gee. I always thought that they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
Timon: Pumbaa, wit' you, everything's gas.
Pumbaa: Simba, what do you think?
Simba: Well, I don't know...
Pumbaa: Aw come on. Give, give, give .. Well, come on, Simba, we told you ours... pleeeease?
Timon: Come on, come on... give, give..
{Cue "Lea Halalela" theme.}
Daniel Tiger: Simba tells them about stars.
Simba: {Reluctantly} Well, somebody once told me that the great kings of the past are up there, watching over us.
Pumbaa: {Awed, either genuinely or mockingly} Really?
Timon: You mean a bunch of royal dead guys are watching us? {tries to keep composure, then...} Pbbb.
{Timon breaks out laughing. Pumbaa joins in. Simba does half-heartedly.}
Timon: Who told you something like that? What mook made that up?
Simba: Yeah. Pretty dumb, huh?
Timon: Aw, you're killing me, Simba.
{The music rises again. Simba looks back up at the stars. He quietly gets up and leaves.}
Timon: Was it something I said?
Daniel Tiger:No not you i just check on him
{Daniel Tiger quietly gets up and leaves.}
{The music continues. Simba walks out on a ledge and looks up at the stars. He then collapses to lay on the edge of the ledge. Daniel Tiger worried Simba and he remember what his parent Say to him}
Flashback to chapter 2
Daniel Tiger: You really think Mufasa and Sarabi son respect me and our family and good King?
Dad Tiger: I Think he will.
Mom Tiger: Your Father is right, Mufasa family respects our family for years.
Dad Tiger: I hope you Respect Their Son.
Daniel Tiger: Maybe my parents are right.
[The scene transitions to the milkweed floss being carried on the wind. It drifts over Rafiki's tree. Rafiki catches some in his hand and sniffs it experimentally.]
Rafiki:mm. [Rafiki climbs down into the branches of his tree. He sits and puts the milkweed floss into an empty turtle shell. He shakes the shell.] *hums* [Rafiki grabs a gourd that is hanging in his tree, breaks it in two, and munches on one half.] Hmm. [Rafiki ducks down toward the milkweed floss.] Simba,Daniel Tiger?[Rafiki looks at the smeared painting of Simba and Daniel Tiger.] They're... They're alive T-They're alive(He laughs.)
(Rafiki grabs his staff. Laughing in delight, he picks up some paint and puts a mane on the smeared lion image on the wall.)
Rafiki: It is time!