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Never Everglades
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Never Everglades
NeverEverglades
Attribution information
Director

   Tony Craig
   Roberts Gannaway

Writer

Roberts Gannaway

Production information
Series

The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa

Season

1

Episode

4a

Air date

September 22, 1995

Episode guide
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Timon: Now with this kid around, we can't be ourselves anymore. It's not that I don't care for the kid, it's just that we used to go huntin' for bugs in all hours of the night. Now we have to stay home with junior. He's cramping our lifestyle.
Pumbaa: But the time you and me and junior spend together is as good as any we've ever had.
Timon and Pumbaa on Pumbaa Jr.[src]

"Never Everglades" is the first segment of the fourth episode of Season 1 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, and the seventh episode of the series overall. It premiered on September 22, 1995 on the syndicated Disney Afternoon block, alongside "Cooked Goose".

Official synopsis[]

"When an abandoned alligator egg is hatched by Pumbaa, he proceeds to raise the baby gator as his own."[1]

Plot summary[]

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Timon and Pumbaa with Pumbaa Junior.

Timon is chasing a bug on the road and doesn't notice that a truck full of alligator eggs is coming in his direction. The truck makes a crazy maneuver and drops an egg that rolls through the Everglades until it gets to Pumbaa, who is sleeping and doesn't notice the egg getting underneath him. The bug that Timon is chasing goes inside Pumbaa's mouth and wakes him up.

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Timon, Pumbaa, and Pumbaa Junior's family picture.

When Pumbaa wakes up, he sees the egg and thinks that he laid that egg, but Timon tries to convince Pumbaa that he can't lay an egg because he's a mammal, and that only chickens lay eggs. Pumbaa is not convinced and decides that he will keep and raise the baby. The egg hatches and the baby alligator appears and thinks Pumbaa is his mother and Pumbaa makes Timon be his uncle. Pumbaa thinks that he is a warthog just like him, but Timon says he is just an "ugly chicken."

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Timon talks to Pumbaa about Pumbaa Junior.

Pumbaa calls the alligator "Pumbaa Jr." and tries to raise him, but everything Timon does is a bad example to the kid and the meerkat starts to get angry, especially when Pumbaa Jr. bites his tail. Timon tells Pumbaa that they need to get rid of the "ugly chicken" because he's ruining their "Hakuna Matata" lifestyle and as much as they love him, they couldn't raise him because he is a completely different kind of animal and he needs to be with his own species. What Timon doesn't know is that the alligator overheard everything.

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Pumbaa Junior and his girl say their goodbyes to the duo.

Pumbaa Jr. runs away leaving just a goodbye letter and Pumbaa gets really sad that he left and blames Timon, who regrets what he said and is very concerned that Jr. might not survive in the Everglades and they both decide to go look for him. They look all over the Everglades until they finally find him with a female alligator in a lake, whom Timon also thinks is an "ugly chicken." Pumbaa decides that Timon has been right all along but is concerned that they might be left alone. So Timon has an idea of what he can do with Pumbaa Jr. and his girlfriend.

Timon and Pumbaa take Junior and his girlfriend to a special place and say goodbye to him, while he thanks the two for everything that he learned. Timon is sure he'll be happy on his new home, which is a hen house.

Voice cast[]

Starring[]

Guest Starring[]

Appearances[]

Characters

Species

Locations

  • Everglades

Trivia[]

  • Although Timon claims that only chickens lay eggs, and believes Pumbaa Jr. to be an ugly chicken just because he came from an egg, there are certain mammals that are actually capable of laying eggs. The name for the clade comes from the fact that the female animals have mammary glands. The five species of monotremes, including the platypuses and the echidnas, are mammals that lay eggs.
  • Timon argues that he and Pumbaa don't know how to raise Pumbaa Jr. and because he is an animal of a different species from them, he is not their child and therefore needs to be with his own kind. That argument seems invalid since the series takes place after The Lion King, where Timon and Pumbaa had already raised another kind of animal and taught him to be like them (Simba).
    • However, unlike with Pumbaa Jr., Timon and Pumbaa took Simba in as a new best friend and an additional member to their "Hakuna Matata" lifestyle, as they believed he was an outcast just like them.
    • Further justifying Timon's argument is that Timon and Pumbaa were portrayed as being merely Simba's best friends and sidekicks in Lion King-related media at the time and thus, the idea of them being Simba's "adoptive fathers" was not established until the 2004 direct-to-video film The Lion King 1½.

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
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