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Can't Take a Yolk
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Can't Take a Yolk
CantTakeaYolk
Attribution information
Director

Rob LaDuca

Writer

   Trey Callaway
   Nancy Neufeld

Production information
Series

The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa

Season

1

Episode

13b

Air date

October 28, 1995

Episode guide
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"Don't Break the China"

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"The Pain in Spain"

It's not nice to steal, you know!
―Mother Ostrich[src]

"Can't Take a Yolk" is the second segment of the thirteenth episode of Season 1 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, and the twenty-sixth episode of the series overall. It premiered on October 28, 1995 on CBS' Saturday morning line-up, alongside "Don't Break the China" and "Stand By Me".

Official synopsis[]

"After waking up hungry, the three hyenas feast their eyes on one prize - a huge ostrich egg."[1]

Plot summary[]

The hyenas are sleeping in their cave. Shenzi wakes up, scratches her back with a bone, and then hits Banzai with the bone. Banzai then removes a carcass from Ed and then eats it. The hyenas then see an ostrich sitting on a large egg and the three decide to steal the egg for breakfast.

The hyenas approach the ostrich. When Ed's drool falls out of his mouth, the alarm rings and the hyenas get thrown away. Then the hyenas tie a rope to a big rock to remove the ostrich from the egg. When the hyenas push the rock off the cliff, the ostrich gets out of the way and the rock goes back and hits the hyenas, who then fall off the cliff. The hyenas land safely, but then the rock falls and lands on the trio.

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The hyenas attempt to steal the ostrich egg from its mother.

For their third attempt to steal the egg, the hyenas dig a tunnel, but they don't know which way to go. The ostrich intervenes and tells the trio that they should go left. The hyenas follow the ostrich, but realize that they got tricked as they fall and find themselves in China.

On their fourth attempt, the hyenas hire an elephant to flatten the ostrich so he can steal the egg for them. When the elephant approaches the ostrich, the bird removes one of her tail feathers to make the elephant sneeze and fall on the hyenas.

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The hyenas with the egg.

With all the attempts ending in failure, Shenzi tries to think of another way to steal the egg. She then gets an idea from Ed to disguise themselves as ostriches by using sticks, leaves, and mud. The hyenas, with their ostrich disguises, make the mother ostrich leave her egg to put her head in the sand. While she's doing so, the hyenas finally steal the egg, replacing it with a rock.

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The mother ostrich with her son.

The hyenas are happy about their final attempt being successful, but then they start fighting over who gets to eat the egg. The egg then hatches and a giant baby ostrich appears, scaring the trio to a cliff branch. As he prepares to kill the hyenas by making them fall off the cliff, his mother shows up and reminds him that it's not nice to steal. She then gives the rock the hyenas replaced her egg with to the trio.

The rock makes the branch break and the hyenas fall down and find themselves in China once again.

Voice cast[]

Starring[]

Guest Starring[]

Appearances[]

Characters

Species

Locations

  • China
  • Serengeti

Organizations and Titles

Trivia[]

  • The episode title is most likely a play on "can't take a joke" or "can't break a yolk."

Media[]

References[]

  1. Watch The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa Full Episodes. Disney+. Accessed 12 November 2019.


Season 1 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa
Boara BoaraSaskatchewan CatchKenya Be My Friend?Good MousekeepingBrazil NutsSouth Sea SickNever EvergladesCooked GooseYukon ConDoubt of AfricaHow to Beat the High Costa RicaSwiss MissedRussia HourYou Ghana Join the ClubUganda Be an ElephantTo Kilimanjaro BirdRocky Mountain LieAmazon QuiverFrench FriedBig Top BreakfastMadagascar About YouTruth or ZaireMojave DessertedBeauty and the WildebeestDon't Break the ChinaCan't Take a YolkThe Pain in SpainFrantic AtlanticUnlucky in LesothoRafiki's ApprenticeTanzania ZanyGuatemala MalarkeyMombasa-In-LawTV DinnerBack Out in the OutbackGabon with the WindTimon's Time TogoThe Law of the JungleManhattan MishapParaguay ParableBe More PacificGoing UruguayLet's Serengeti Out of HereCongo on Like ThisOkay Bayou?Shake Your DjiboutiYosemite RemedyThe Sky is CallingMozam-BeakedOcean Commotion
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