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Truth Be Told

Attribution information
Director	Mauro Casalese
Writer	Roger Reitzel
Production information
Series	The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa
Season	3
Episode	7b
Air date	February 12, 1999
Episode guide
Previous	"Escape From Newark"
Next	"Throw Your Hog in the Ring"

“

Zazu: It's going to take more than corny jokes to make the Friendship of the Year Banquet exciting! Every year it's always the same: two friends win the award for the Best Friendship in the Jungle, then they spend the whole evening telling everyone how wonderful the other is! Dull, Rafiki, tedious!
Rafiki: Yes, I know! This year it's Timon and Pumbaa, you know!
Zazu: So? It'll be no different!
Rafiki: Hmm, perhaps I can find a way to, uh, liven things up!

—Rafiki and Zazu^[src]

”

"Truth Be Told" is the second segment of the seventh episode of Season 3 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa. It aired on February 12, 1999, along with "Escape From Newark".

Plot

Having won an award for "Best Friendship in the Jungle", Timon and Pumbaa are getting ready for the Friendship of the Year Banquet, with Timon trying to fix his hair but fails until Pumbaa helps him. Meanwhile, Rafiki uses his stick to make butterflies fly around him to put a suit on him because he's going to be the host of the ceremony this year.

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Rafiki asking the duo for the secret of their friendship

When Zazu shows up, Rafiki tells the hornbill that he has come up with some jokes for the Friendship of the Year Award. Zazu states that the ceremony is boring as the friends just basically talk about their friendship. Rafiki tries to come up with an idea to make this year's ceremony interesting.

The Friendship of the Year Award begins. After Rafiki makes a few corny jokes, which none of the animals find funny, he tells Timon and Pumbaa to tell the secret of their long and everlasting friendship, which is honesty. When everyone becomes bored of Timon and Pumbaa's speech, Rafiki casts a Truth Spell on the duo to make them say how they really feel about each other. The spell involves a bee stinging Timon and Pumbaa to make them tell the truth, which has Timon criticizing Pumbaa for his appearance and Pumbaa criticizing Timon for being a know-nothing-know-it-all.

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The Great Gourd of Friendship

Rafiki then suggests that it is now time for the feast. He asks a wildebeest waiter to place plenty of mashed potato bugs and cockroach chili in front of their guests. When everyone is having a feast, Timon and Pumbaa argue over what they said about each other while they were having their speech. When Rafiki places the microphone between them, Timon and Pumbaa accidentally hit the baboon with their food. Believing that they will not earn the Great Gourd of Friendship due to their behavior, Timon and Pumbaa start blame each other and have a food fight.

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The two friends embrace

After the food fight, Timon and Pumbaa start to tell positive truths to each other. Rafiki reveals to everyone that he cast the Truth Spell on Timon and Pumbaa, hoping that he made this year's ceremony interesting. But no one is impressed by Rafiki's action and they throw food at the baboon.

Later, Timon and Pumbaa walk off with the Great Gourd of Friendship. The two friends apologize to each other for what they said earlier due to the Truth Spell Rafiki put on them. The spell soon starts to wear off as Timon tells Pumbaa that he doesn't smell that bad.

Cast

Starring

Appearances

Characters

Species

Antelope
Baboons
Bears
Beavers
Birds
Giraffes
Gorillas
Hornbills
Storks
Meerkats
Monkeys
Squirrels
Warthogs
Zebras

Locations

Friendship of the Year Banquet
Hakuna Matata
Pride Rock (mentioned)

Organizations and Titles

Friendship of the Year Banquet Host (temporary)
Majordomo
Pride Landers
Royal Advisor
Royal Mjuzi

Trivia

The stork with the clothing bears a striking resemblance to the Jungle inspector.

Media

Escape From Newark & Truth Be Told

Season 3 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa

Whiff • To Be Bee or Not To Be Bee • Luck Be a Meerkat • Just When You Thought You'd Cuisine it All • Lemonade Stand Off • Big Jungle Game • Boo Hoo Bouquet • Timon...Alone • So Sumo Me • Now Museum, Now You Don't • Visiting Pig-nitaries • The Truth About Kats and Hogs • Escape From Newark • Truth Be Told • Throw Your Hog in the Ring • Slalom Problem • Circus Jerks • Nest Best Thing • Super Hog-O • Don't Have the Vegas Idea • Hot Enough For Ya? • Werehog of London • Bigfoot, Littlebrain • Astro-Nots • Robin Hoodwinked • Serengeti Western • All Pets Are Off • Boary Glory Days • Two for the Zoo • The Swine in the Stone • You May Have Already Won Six Million Bakra • My Meteor, My Friend • Jungle Slickers • Don't Wake the Neighbear • Recipe for Disaster • Going Over-Boar'd • Ivy Beleaguered • Broadway Bound & Gagged • Steel Hog • Dealer's Choice Cut • Space Ham • You Bet Your Tuhkus • No-Good Samaritan • Living in De Nile • One Tough Bug • Pirates of Pumbzance • Miss Perfect • Hakuna Matata U. • Pig-Malion • Why No Rhino • War Hogs • The Big No Sleep • Common Scents • Mister Twister • Don't Be Elfish • Lights, Camera, Traction • The Running of the Bullies • Special Defects • Wishy Washy • Ice Escapades • Guru-Some • Jailhouse Shock • Nearly Departed • Early Bird Watchers • The Spy's the Limit • Ready, Aim, Fire • Timoncchio • Ghost Boosters • Stay Away from my Honey! • Sitting Pretty Awful • He's A Bad, Bad, Bad Sport • Dapper Duck Burgers • It Runs Good • Hot Air Buffoons • Timon in Love • Kahuna Potato • Mook Island • Cliphangers

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+{{Out of universe}}{{Clear}}
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+|director = Mauro Casalese
-|title = Truth Be Told
+|writer = Roger Reitzel
-|season = 3
+|series = ''[[The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa]]''
-|episode = 7
+|season = [[The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa: Season 3|3]]
-|air date = February 12th, 1999
+|episode = 7b
-|previous = [[Escape From Newark]]
+|production number =
-|next = [[Throw Your Hog in the Ring]]
+|air date = February 12, 1999
+|song =
+|previous = "[[Escape From Newark]]"
+|next = "[[Throw Your Hog in the Ring]]"
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+{{Dialogue3|[[Zazu]]|It's going to take more than corny jokes to make the Friendship of the Year Banquet exciting! Every year it's always the same: two friends win the award for the Best Friendship in the Jungle, then they spend the whole evening telling everyone how wonderful the other is! Dull, Rafiki, tedious!|[[Rafiki]]|Yes, I know! This year it's Timon and Pumbaa, you know!|Zazu|So? It'll be no different!|Rafiki|Hmm, perhaps I can find a way to, uh, liven things up!|Rafiki and Zazu|Truth Be Told}}
-'''"Truth Be Told"''' is an episode from ''[[The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa]]''.
+'''"Truth Be Told"''' is the second segment of the seventh episode of [[The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa: Season 3|Season 3]] of ''[[The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa]]''. It aired on February 12, 1999, along with "[[Escape From Newark]]".
-==Synopsis==
-[[Timon]] and [[Pumbaa]] are going to tell everyone the secret of their long and everlasting friendship, but then [[Rafiki]] sends out a Bee to stick them, which makes them unable to lie. Then the truth will be told.
 ==Plot==
-"Truth Be Told" begins by introducing Timon, a [[meerkat]], Pumbaa, a [[warthog]], Rafiki, a [[mandrill]], and [[Zazu]], a [[hornbill]]. At the start of the episode, Timon and Pumbaa are getting ready for the Friendship of the Year Awards. Meanwhile, Rafiki, who is unclothed as usual, uses his stick to make butterflies fly around him to put a suit on him which he wears for the rest of the episode because he's going to be the host of the ceremony.
+Having won an award for "Best Friendship in the Jungle", [[Timon]] and [[Pumbaa]] are getting ready for the [[Friendship of the Year Banquet]], with Timon trying to fix his hair but fails until Pumbaa helps him. Meanwhile, [[Rafiki]] uses his stick to make butterflies fly around him to put a suit on him because he's going to be the host of the ceremony this year.
+[[File:TruthBeTold screencap.png|thumb|250px|Rafiki asking the duo for the secret of their friendship]]
-Zazu shows up and tells Rafiki that the Friendship of the Year Awards is boring because every year, all the friends talk about is their friendships. Rafiki tries to come up with an idea to make the ceremony interesting this year.
+When [[Zazu]] shows up, Rafiki tells the [[Red-billed Hornbills|hornbill]] that he has come up with some jokes for the Friendship of the Year Award. Zazu states that the ceremony is boring as the friends just basically talk about their friendship. Rafiki tries to come up with an idea to make this year's ceremony interesting.
-Timon and Pumbaa are now at the Friendship of the Year Awards with Rafiki being the host. Timon and Pumbaa give a speech about their friendship, which bores the jungle's animals. Rafiki gets an idea to make the ceremony more interesting. He makes a bee appear so it can stick Timon and Pumbaa. Rafiki's idea is the Truth Spell and when the bee sticks Timon and Pumbaa, the two become honest with each other and they are negative.
+The Friendship of the Year Award begins. After Rafiki makes a few corny jokes, which none of the animals find funny, he tells Timon and Pumbaa to tell the secret of their long and everlasting friendship, which is honesty. When everyone becomes bored of Timon and Pumbaa's speech, Rafiki casts a Truth Spell on the duo to make them say how they really feel about each other. The spell involves a bee stinging Timon and Pumbaa to make them tell the truth, which has Timon criticizing Pumbaa for his appearance and Pumbaa criticizing Timon for being a know-nothing-know-it-all.
+[[File:TruthBeTold screencap2.png|thumb|left|250px|The Great Gourd of Friendship]]
-When everyone is having a feast, Timon and Pumbaa argue over what they said about each other while they were having their speech. The two then have a food fight.
+Rafiki then suggests that it is now time for the feast. He asks a [[Wildebeests|wildebeest]] waiter to place plenty of mashed potato bugs and cockroach chili in front of their guests. When everyone is having a feast, Timon and Pumbaa argue over what they said about each other while they were having their speech. When Rafiki places the microphone between them, Timon and Pumbaa accidentally hit the [[Mandrills|baboon]] with their food. Believing that they will not earn the [[Great Gourd of Friendship]] due to their behavior, Timon and Pumbaa start blame each other and have a food fight.
+[[File:TruthBeTold screencap3.png|thumb|250px|The two friends embrace]]
+After the food fight, Timon and Pumbaa start to tell positive truths to each other. Rafiki reveals to everyone that he cast the Truth Spell on Timon and Pumbaa, hoping that he made this year's ceremony interesting. But no one is impressed by Rafiki's action and they throw food at the baboon.
+Later, Timon and Pumbaa walk off with the Great Gourd of Friendship. The two friends apologize to each other for what they said earlier due to the Truth Spell Rafiki put on them. The spell soon starts to wear off as Timon tells Pumbaa that he doesn't smell that bad.
+==Cast==
+===Starring===
+*[[Kevin Schon]] as '''[[Timon]]'''
+*[[Ernie Sabella]] as '''[[Pumbaa]]'''
+*[[Robert Guillaume]] as '''[[Rafiki]]'''
+*[[Edward Hibbert]] as '''[[Zazu]]'''
+==Appearances==
+{{Scroll box
+|content=
+<big>Characters</big>
+* [[Pumbaa]]
+* [[Rafiki]]
+* [[Timon]]
+* [[Zazu]]
+<big>Species</big>
+* [[Antelope]]
+* [[Baboons]]
+* Bears
+* Beavers
+* Birds
+* [[Giraffes]]
+* [[Gorillas]]
+* [[Hornbills]]
+* [[Storks]]
+* [[Meerkats]]
+* [[Monkeys]]
+* Squirrels
+* [[Warthogs]]
+* [[Zebras]]
+<big>Locations</big>
+* Friendship of the Year Banquet
+* [[Hakuna Matata (location)|Hakuna Matata]]
+* [[Pride Rock]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
+<big>Organizations and Titles</big>
+* Friendship of the Year Banquet Host <small>(temporary)</small>
+* Majordomo
+* [[Pride Landers]]
+* Royal Advisor
+* [[Royal Mjuzi]]
+}}
+==Trivia==
+*The stork with the clothing bears a striking resemblance to the [[Jungle inspector]].
+==Media==
-After the food fight, Timon and Pumbaa tell positive honesties to each other. Rafiki, whose fur and suit are blackened and torn, tells everyone that he put the truth spell on Timon and Pumbaa. Everyone gets mad at Rafiki and they all throw food at him. Meanwhile, Timon and Pumbaa apologize for what they said to each other earlier.
+<gallery position="center" captionalign="center">
-{{endspoiler}}
+Escape From Newark & Truth Be Told|The full episodes of "Escape From Newark" and "Truth Be Told"
+</gallery>
+{{clear}}
+{{T&P Season 3}}
-==Video==
-[[File:Timon and Pumbaa - Escape From Newark - Truth Be Told-0|thumb|left|400px|''Escape From Newark'' followed by ''Truth Be Told'']]
-[[Category:The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa Episodes]]
 [[Category:Media]]
+[[Category:Episodes]]
+[[Category:The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa episodes]]
+[[Category:The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa: Season 3]]