Disclaimer: I've seen Minions: The Rise of Gru last weekend, and it inspired me to create a fun little one-shot version of The Lion King 1 1/2 ending but with Gru's family and several other familiar faces joining Gru and the Minions into watching their prequel. I own none of the characters used.


In a private theater room, Gru, along with three of his Minions, Kevin, Bob and Stuart were sitting and watching the rolling end credits of their latest movie. This was the second prequel to their franchise.

The ex-villain declared, "And that is the story that began it all. Now we have reached the end, the big wrap-up, the grand finale."

Bob asked in his language, "*Awww, it's over, boss?*"

Stuart exclaimed in eagerness and the language, "*Again, again!*"

Gru told them, "Guys, we just watched it all, it's over. We're not going to watch a whole movie twice in a row. Maybe tomorrow."

Then Gru's wife, Lucy, entered the room and approached the four, asking, "Hey, what are you guys doing?" She noticed the film and gasped in excitement. "You didn't tell me you were watching the movie on how you met! I want to watch too."

"Lucy, we just saw it. It's over."

Not taking 'no' for an answer though, Lucy just took the remote, saying "Well then you'll just have to rewind it." She then rewound the film, to Gru's annoyance, before calling someone in, "Girls, Dru, we're going to watch the movie of how Gru and the Minions met!"

"Oh no!" groaned the former supervillain. This he doesn't need!

Soon in came Gru's brother Dru, along with his daughters, Margo (with her shirt having Mario on it this time), Agnes, and Edith, with the blonde brother holding a bucket of popcorn.

Dru happily exclaimed, "I brought extra butter!"

Margo said in amusement, "So, you're watching how it all began?"

Then Gru's mother Marlena, along with Dr. Nefario, appeared as well, declaring, "Well, any story worth telling is worth telling twice."

The elderly scientist added in agreement, "I second that emotion."

Gru sighed in defeat. It looks like the Minions will get to watch the film twice after all. "Alright, Stuart, you win," he said to Stuart, before telling everone else, "but just as long as it's all of you. No one else, got it?"

Then a small voice chirped up from behind him, "Excuse me." With that, Gru turned and saw Buster Moon, holding a bucket of popcorn, about to take a seat behind him. "This seat isn't taken, is it?"

"What the?" Gru asked in shock. Then, to his further shock, Suki Lane, Porsha Crystal, Johnny, Nooshy, Ash, Miss Crawly, Gunter, Norman, Rosita, Meena, and Alfonso came in to select their seats as well with each saying "excuse me" (Gunter saying it in German) before sitting down.

"Wha-where did you all come from?" Gru asked, dumbstruck at the anthropomorphic animals suddenly intruding their private theater.

Ash replied, "Caletonia, originally."

Gru looked and saw several more Universal characters coming in and taking their seats. Tiger, carrying the Mousekewitz family, sat down while holding the Mousekewitzes up for them to see. Casper came flying in, carrying various loads of snacks, followed by his uncles laughing. Rocket J. Squirrel came flying in, with Bullwinkle J. Moose also taking a seat.

In the balcony seat, Nana Noodleman, her penguin butler Hobbs, her grandson Eddie, Jimmy Crystal, Jerry, and Clay Callaway were being seated, when suddenly, a certain woodpecker popped up from the sides, exclaiming, "Hey, save a seat for a classic cartoon star!"

As he did his trademark laugh, he bounced off each animal's head, causing each to shout and yelp.

Nana exclaimed, "Good heavens!"

He even playfully pecked Jimmy's head, causing the white wolf to lose his temper and lunge at the woodpecker, wanting to rip him apart, but everyone else held him back.

Back down below, The Grinch with Max took a seat as well, resting his feet on Johnny's head.

The gorilla exclaimed in annoyance, "Oi!"

Porsha and Nooshy, who were on each different side, cringed in disgust at being next to the Grinch's smelly bare feet, so they each put a clothespin on their noses.

The green furry creature, meanwhile, said in a sarcastic tone, "Oh, I'm sorry, was your head in the way of my feet? Well, at least it's soft enough for an adequate foot rest."

Littlefoot and his friends managed to find some vacant seats in a row, with Ducky declaring, "This is going to be fun! Yep, yep, yep!"

Even a certain group of pets found some seats as well with Snowball leaping down into his seat, doing a superhero pose, shouting, "YEAH!"

"Shhh!" the other pets shushed the rabbit in annoyance.

Soon, after everyone was joined by the Lorax and the Truffula Forest critters, EB, the Pink Berets, Carlos, Phil, Desperaux, the veggies of VeggieTales, Balto, Boris, Jenna, Muk, Luk, Curious George, the Man in the Yellow Hat, Vector, Eduardo Perez, the Nelsons, Scarlett and Herb Overkill, Balthazar Bratt, and Clive, the whole theater was packed big time, leaving Gru completely flabbergasted.

"This is not happening!" Gru exclaimed. He did not want this at all! The private theater was not to be invaded by all these people and animals! Having enough, the ex-villain stood up and ordered everyone, "Okay, you all have to leave right now! If you're not out of this theater when I count to three, I will be gassing you all out." At the last part of his sentence, he whipped out his fart gun.

Kevin was alarmed to see his boss actually thinking of using his fart gun at the audience, so he tried pulling it away and the next thing you know, the two got in a tug-of-war over it.

As they struggled, Gru protested, "Hey-hey. Kevin! No, let go! There are too many people here, and you know what happens when this thing isn't blasted carefully!"

During the squabble, Gru pressed the trigger but did not see that Kevin pressed a reverse switch, sending the flatulence cloud at the bald ex-villain. Gru cringed before passing out onto the floor, causing everyone else to laugh with some nearby to wince as the fumes of the cloud were in their vicinity, as they tried fanning the fumes away. Anyway, now everyone can watch (rewatch, in the Minions' case) the film in peace. So Kevin happily hopped back in his seat and everyone quieted down just as the still-rewinding film got back to the Universal logo at the beginning, and Kevin pressed the remote to play.


Cast:
Steve Carell: Felonious Gru, Dru
Pierre Coffin: Kevin, Bob, Stuart
Kristen Wiig: Lucy Wilde-Gru
Miranda Cosgrove: Margo Gru
Julie Andrews: Marlena Gru
Russell Brand: Dr. Nefario
Matthew McConnaughey: Buster Moon
Chelsea Peretti: Suki Lane
Halsey: Porsha Crystal
Scarlett Johannson: Ash
Taron Egerton: Johnny
Reese Witherspoon: Rosita
Nick Offerman: Norman
Nick Kroll: Gunter
Letitia Wright: Nooshy
Cree Summer: Meena
Pharrell Williams: Alfonso
Garth Jennings: Miss Crawly
Joe Nipote: Stretch (archival recording)
Joe Alaskey: Stinky (archival recording)
Brad Garrett: Fatso (archival recording)
Eric Bauza: Woody Woodpecker
Jennifer Saunders: Nana Noodleman
John C. Reilly: Eddie Noodleman
Bobby Cannavale: Jimmy Crystal
Bono: Clay Callaway
Spike Jonze: Jerry
Benedict Cumberbatch: the Grinch
Kevin Hart: Snowball
Aria Curzon: Ducky