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Zazu's Off-by-One Day
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Zazu's Off-by-One Day
ZazusOffByOneDay
Attribution information
Director

   Tony Craig
   Roberts Gannaway

Writer

Kevin Campbell

Production information
Series

The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa

Season

2

Episode

6b

Air date

September 23, 1996

Episode guide
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"Wide Awake in Wonderland"

Next

"Animal Barn"

Need I remind you that I come from a long line of jungle administrators and none... none... have ever been off by one.
Zazu to the jungle inspector[src]

"Zazu's Off-by-One Day" is the second segment of the sixth episode of Season 2 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, and the sixty-second episode of the series overall. It premiered on September 23, 1996 on the syndicated Disney Afternoon block, alongside "Wide Awake in Wonderland".

Official synopsis[]

"Zazu gets fired when he makes a simple mistake."[1]

Plot summary[]

When Zazu comes home, he finds a big mess in the house. Gopher, Zazu's mole assistant, tells the hornbill that he was reorganizing, but Zazu forces him to unreorganize because the inspector is going to visit the next day. Gopher shows Zazu that the schedule has not been changed and therefore, the inspector is coming the current day, which makes the two panic.

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The inspector tells Zazu that his official tally of the animal population is off-by-one.

Zazu swiftly cleans up his house and hides the mess to another part of his tree. But he soon realizes that the place he hid the mess is where the inspector is. When Zazu opens the door, causing the mess to get back in, the hornbill finds the inspector in his trash can.

The inspector tells Zazu that he's not concerned about the mess, he's concerned about his official tally of the jungle animal population being incomplete, stating that there is one animal he forgot to include. He therefore fires Zazu from his job and has Gopher take the hornbill's place. After getting thrown out of his tree, Zazu goes on a quest to find which animal he forgot to count.

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Rafiki helps Zazu find the one animal he forgot to count.

After recounting the animal population, Zazu falls asleep and has a nightmarish vision that he is surrounded by 1's. After Zazu wakes up, he runs into Rafiki. When he asks Rafiki if he knows which animal he forgot to count, the mandrill guides him to a pool and shows him his reflection, making the hornbill realize that the one animal he forgot to count was himself. Zazu therefore flies back to include himself on his official tally and get his job back.

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Zazu shows the inspector his now-complete list of animals.

While Zazu is on the way to his home, he finds some animals being incorrectly placed: elephants on trees, giraffes in holes, and fish in the sky. He sees that Gopher is responsible for the problem. While the inspector scolds Gopher for his job, Zazu returns and shows the inspector his now-complete list of animals. The inspector then begs Zazu to return to his job, stating that he never should have fired him in the first place and the hornbill agrees, with the two shaking wings.

However, it is shown that Zazu and Gophers jobs are switched (although they are back to their original positions by the episode "Zazu's Off Day Off").

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Guest Starring[]

Appearances[]

Characters

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Organizations and Titles

Trivia[]

  • This episode is the first to center on Zazu.
  • Scar makes a cameo when Zazu cleans out his trash can.[2]

Media[]

References[]


Season 2 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa
Palm BeachedJamaica Mistake?Oregon AstrayNew Guinea PigIsle of ManhoodPuttin' on the BritsKlondike ConIsle Find OutBeetle RomaniaRumble in the JungleWide Awake in WonderlandZazu's Off-by-One DayAnimal BarnRoach HotelAfrica-Dabra!I Don't BoliviaShopping MauledLibrary BrouhahaCatch Me if You KenyaScent of the SouthMonster MassachusettsHandle with CaribbeanForbidden PumbaaWashington ApplesauceAlcatraz-MatazOahu Wahoo!I Think I CanadaZazu's Off Day OffBeast of EdenSense & SenegambiaTimon on the RangeThe Man From J.U.N.G.L.E.Maine-IacsFiji-Fi-Fo-FumRome AloneAmusement BarkOnce Upon a TimonHome is Where the Hog IsBeethoven's WhiffBumble in the JungleMind Over Matterhorn
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