However, the filmmakers felt Timon's verse wasn't working, so they scrapped it in favour of Pumbaa. When the song selection was changed to 'Hakuna Matata', Timon's backstory was primarily the focal point instead of Pumbaa's. This song was an inside look at Pumbaa's life as he and Timon taught Simba how to live in bliss. It was finally decided that the two would be changed to outcasts this gave Simba someone to turn to after his exile.īefore Hakuna Matata, Pumbaa and Timon were to sing Warthog Rhapsody.

In the earliest versions of The Lion King, Pumbaa and Timon were children residing in the Pride Lands that grew up with Simba. He was banished from the sounder due to his gas odor, which was appalling even by warthog standards, and spent his life as an outcast until he met and befriended Timon. The Timon & Pumbaa episode ' Home Is Where the Hog Is' reveals that Pumbaa was a member of a warthog sounder, where he had a mate named Sharla. For Pumbaa, it was very embarrassing and left him afraid of socializing. When Pumbaa came to drink the water, his smell caused all the nearby animals to flee. They mention that Pumbaa once went to a water hole in the savanna but let out very smelly gas, causing monkeys to fall from the trees to the ground because of the stink.

According to a flashback featured in Hakuna Matata, Pumbaa had problems with gas when he was younger.

2.6 Timon and Pumbaa's Wild About Safetyīefore Timon and Pumbaa find the jungle, Pumbaa says he is alone.

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