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| Season |
3 |
| Episode |
32 |
| Air date |
August 6, 1999 |
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"Early Bird Watchers" is an episode from The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa.
Synopsis
Timon wants to try to eat a worm every morning, but as always, a bird swoops in and takes each worm inside its beak. Pumbaa always tries to tell him that no matter what he tries, the early bird always gets the worm.
Plot
"Early Bird Watchers" begins by introducing Timon, a meerkat and his warthog friend Pumbaa. At the start of the episode, Timon goes after a worm, but then an early bird eats it, which makes Timon angry. Pumbaa tells him that the early bird always catches the worm, but Timon suggests that he uses an alarm clock to wake him up before the early bird. The next morning, the alarm clock rings really loudly. Timon tries to figure out a way to turn it off until Pumbaa breaks it with a mallet. Timon sees that the early bird beat him again.
At night, Timon asks a chicken, or rooster as he calls it, to wake him up before the early bird. When morning arises, Timon sees the early bird catching the worm, meaning he beat him again. Timon fires the chicken for not doing his job and then uses a phone to call someone to wake him up before the early bird. During the night while Timon and Pumbaa are sleeping, Timon gets calls from various people. Later, the phone rings and Pumbaa answers it. The phone is for Timon to let him know that it's time for him to wake up. When the meerkat wakes up, he sees the early bird catching the worm.
Timon gets an idea to defeat the early bird. First he makes him and Pumbaa use instruments to make the early bird wake up after him. The two get tired and the early bird catches the worm. Timon then makes Pumbaa put a worm suit on to trick the early bird into thinking Pumbaa is a worm. However, when Pumbaa gets to the worm hole, a vulture catches the warthog.
Timon uses a bomb to paint the half of it pink and put a smiley face on it to make the early bird believe it's the worm. The meerkat tells Pumbaa to hold it for a minute. However, when Timon and Pumbaa get to the worm hole, Pumbaa eats the bomb and it explodes in the warthog.
Timon then builds traps for the early bird. After the bird gets caught, Timon puts him in a crate and sends it to Siberia. When Timon is about to catch the worm, a delivery man shows up with the crate and the early bird comes out and catches the worm. Timon decides to stay up all night until the next morning.
When morning arises, Timon is about to catch the worm, but then decides to wait a minute for the early bird to show up. The bird doesn't show up and Timon catches the worm and is now proud of himself. The early bird, sitting on a sun bench with Pumbaa, overhears Timon congratulating himself. The bird tells Pumbaa that he has been trying to find a replacement for his job as an early bird.