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"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 today, which makes the two panic.
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.
Rafiki helps Zazu find the one animal he forgot to count.
After recounting the animal population, Zazu falls asleep and has a nightmare 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.
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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Trivia[]
- This episode is the first to center on Zazu.
- The scene between Zazu and Rafiki mirrors the scene between Simba and Rafiki in The Lion King.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
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| Season 2 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa |
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