The Lion King Page #9

TIMON PUMBAA:

I WAS WRONG:

(HE WAS WRONG)

AND ALL ALONG:

(ALL ALONG)

ALL THAT I NEEDED

(WHAT DID'JA NEED?)

WAS TO HAVE HEEDED

(SING IT, TIMON)

CHORUS:

HAKUNA MATATA! WHAT A WONDERFUL PHRASE HAKUNA MATATA! AIN'T NO PASSING CRAZE

PUMBAA:

DITTO!

CHORUS:

IT MEANS NO WORRIES AND THE REST OF YOUR DAYS TAKE OUR PROBLEM-FREE PHILOSOPHY HAKUNA MATATA!

SIMBA:

Hakuna Ma-- Does that really work?

TIMON:

Ha-ha-ha. Oh does it work? Oh that's rich. Oh, Pumbaa, tell him.

PUMBAA:

Listen to mе, kid. Listen. Sit down there. I got a story, too!

Pumbaa launches into his tail of woe -- showing how his special aroma made him an outcast.

PUMBAA:

singing

WHEN I WAS A YOUNG WARTHOG

TIMON:

WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG WARTHOG

PUMBAA:

I FOUND MY AROMA LACKED CERTAIN APPEAL

I COULD CLEAR THE SAVANNAH AFTER EVERY MEAL

I'M A SENSITIVE SOUL THOUGH I SEEM THINK-SKINNED

AND IT HURT THAT MY FRIENDS NEVER STOOD DOWNWIND

PUMBAA:

AND OH THE SHAME TRIED CHANGIN' MY NAME

TIMON:

OH HE WAS ASHAMED

YOU CAN'T REMEMBER THE ONE YOU'VE GOT

AND I GOT DOWNHEARTED EVERY TIME THAT I --

Timon "shushes" Pumbaa.

TIMON:

Hey! Pumbaa! Not in front of the kids!

PUMBAA:

Oh. Sorry.

[ALT:
IT WAS ALL TOO CLEAR THERE WAS AN ATMOSPHERE ]

CHORUS:

HAKUNA MATATA! WHAT A WONDERFUL PHRASE HAKUNA MATATA! AIN'T NO PASSING CRAZE IT MEANS NO WORRIES FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS TAKE OUR PROBLEM-FREE PHILOSOPHY HAKUNA MATATA!

While MUSIC noodles:

EXT. JUNGLE - A SHORT TIME LATER

Timon and Pumbaa lead Simba through the lush surroundings.

TIMON:

Well, kid, are you with us?

SIMBA:

I guess so.

TIMON:

Then right this way!

Timon pulls back a huge leaf, revealing Timon and Pumbaa's bachelor pad. It is a jungle paradise.

TIMON:

Welcome to our humble home.

SIMBA:

You live here?

TIMON:

We live wherever we want.

PUMBAA:

Yup! Hone is where your rump rests.

EXT. ANOTHER PART OF THE JUNGLE - MOMENTS LATER

Timon stands next to a log. Pumbaa BURPS.

PUMBAA:

burping

Urrrrp -- Gee, I'm starved!

SIMBA:

I'm so hungry, I could eat a whole zebra!

TIMON:

We're fresh out of zebra.

SIMBA:

Any antelope?

TIMON:

Nuh-uh.

SIMBA:

Hippo?

TIMON:

No, no. Listen kid, if you're gonna live with us, you're gonna have ta eat like us.

Timon gestures to the log:

TIMON:

This looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub.

They lift a log, revealing millions of insects. Timon scoops up some.

SIMBA:

What's that?

TIMON:

A grub. What's it look like?

Timon pops the grub in his south. Simba recoils in disgust.

TIMON:

Mmmm! Tastes like chicken.

Pumbaa slurps a big wormy thing, consenting:

PUMBAA:

Slimy, yet satisfyin'.

a beat

You're gonna love it here.

While Timon collects a sampler of bugs which he eats and places on a leaf he uses as an attractive serving tray:

TIMON:

This is the great life -- No rules, no responsibilities --

TIMON:

re a bug

Oooo -- The little cream-filled kind.

to Simba

And best of all, no worries!

to Simba

Well, kid? --

Timon offers Simba the platter of bugs. He thinks a moment. Then caves:

SIMBA:

Oh well -- Hakuna Matata!

Simba eats a bug. Not bad.

TIMON:

That's it! Hakuna Matata.

ALL THREE:

Hakuna Matata.

During the final chorus, the trio dances and plays through various landscapes. In each one we see Simba has grown, until he is a mane-toting adolescent.

CHORUS:

speaking

HAKUNA MATATA!

HAKUNA MATATA!

HAKUNA MATATA!

HAKUNA MATATA!

HAKUNA MATATA!

IT MEANS NO WORRIES FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS

TAKE OUR PROBLEM-FREE PHILOSOPHY

Pumbaa scats while Timon sings

HAKUNA MATATA!

HAKUNA MATATA!

HAKUNA MATATA!

HAKUNA MATATA!

HAKUNA MATATA!

HAKUNA:

SEQ. 9.2 (UNDER THE STARS)

EXT. JUNGLE - NIGHT

At the close of the song, we find Timon, Pumbaa and adolescent Simba lying on their backs under the night sky, looking up at the stars. It's like a campfire scene with campfire buddies.

They are silent for a moment. Then out of the blue:

PUMBAA:

wondrous

Timon?

TIMON:

Yeah?

PUMBAA:

Ever wonder what those sparkly dots up there are?

TIMON:

Pumbaa, I don't wonder. I know.

PUMBAA:

Oh. What are they?

TIMON:

They're fireflies. Fireflies that got stuck up on that big bluish black thing.

PUMBAA:

Oh, gee, I always thought they were balls of gas, burning billions of miles away.

TIMON:

Pumbaa, with you everything's gas.

PUMBAA:

Simba, what do you think?

SIMBA:

Well -- uh -- Nah!

PUMBAA:

Aw, c'non, Simba. We told you ours.

SIMBA,

Na --

TIMON:

C'mon. Give. Give.

PUMBAA:

Come on. We told 'ja ours. Please?

SIMBA:

Well -- somebody once told me the great kings of the past are up there

watching over us.

PUMBAA:

Really?

TIMON:

Ya mean a bunch of royal dead guys are watchin' us?

Timon laughs it off.

TIMON:

Ha-ha-ha-ha -- That's the craziest thing I ever heard!

Everybody LAUGHS uproariously.

TIMON:

Who told you something like that?

SIMBA:

laughing

Ya. Pretty dumb, huh?

FULL SCREEN - STARRY SKY

pan down to:

SIMBA:

Atop a nearby hill, he gazes up at the starry sky, a distant look in his eye. Then he asks:

SIMBA:

Are you really there?

There is no response. He SIGHS and then tries to block it all out with his "mantra:"

SIMBA:

Hakuna Matata.

He flops down. The force of the impact sends milkweed airborne across the night sky.

EXT. THE JUNGLE CANOPY - CONTINUOUS

The airborne pieces of milkweed travel through the air.

SEQ. 12 (RAFIKI GETS SIMBA)

POLLEN moves across the landscape, finally approaching a tree.

EXT. JUNGLE - CONTINUOUS

An baboon HAND POPS into frame. It collects the wind-borne objects and snaps shut. REVEAL

RAFIKI the wise old baboon we net at Simba's Presentation sits in the branch of a tree. He clutches what he's just caught and dives down into the tree.

INT. RAFIKI'S CAVE - CONTINUOUS

Rafiki takes a hollow tortoise shell and tosses in what he just collected. He cracks open a gourd. As he "reads" the contents, he idly takes a bite out of one half of the gourd.

He takes a good long look at the contents of the shell, MUMBLES and then LAUGHS.

RAFIKI:

Simba!

He goes to a painting of a lion cub that has the same marking on his forehead that Rafiki placed on Simba at his Presentation.

RAFIKI:

Simba --

He scurries to get his walking stick. Then he returns to the wall painting and smears something from one of his gourds around the head of the cub. Now the cub has a mane. Rafiki laughs joyfully.

RAFIKI:

It's time.

He grabs his walking stick and runs out.

SEQ. 15 (SIMBA AND NALA REUNITE)

EXT. EDGE OF THE JUNGLE - DAY

Timon and Pumbaa walk toward us, singing: (SONG: "THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT")

PUMBAA:

A MEEH:

A WEP:

A WEEM:

A WEP:

TIMON:

IN THE JUNGLE, THE MIGHTY JUNGLE, THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT.

PUMBAA:

A WEEM:

A WEP:

A WEEM:

A WEP:

Punbaa notices a fat, juicy bug and follows it out of frame.

TIMON:

IN THE JUNGLE, THE MIGHTY JUNGLE, THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT.

Timon doesn't hear Pumbaa's bass line. But he's lost in his own groove.

TIMON:

I can't hear ya, buddy.

a beat

Back me up.

singing

AH WHEEE-EEE-EEE-EEE-EEE AH PUMBAAH MUH WAY AH WHEEE-EEE-EEE-EEE-EEE AH PUMBAAH MUH

realizing he's gone

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