The Lion King

The Lion King , a 1994 Disney animated film, is a coming-of-age story in which a lion cub and heir to the throne of Pride Rock learns his place in the world.

Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff . Screenplay by Irene Mecchi , Jonathan Roberts , and Linda Woolverton . Songs by Tim Rice and Elton John .

Dialogue

Simba: Dad! Dad, dad, dad, dad, dad!

Sarabi (sleepily, over Simba): Your son is awake.

Mufasa: Before sunrise, he's YOUR son.

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• Timon: "Let me get this straight. You know her; She knows you, but she wants to eat him and everybody's okay with this? Did I miss something?!"

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• Simba: "I finally got some sense knocked into me. And I've got the bump to prove it. Besides, this is my kingdom. If I don't fight for it, who will?"

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• Mufasa's Ghost: "Simba, you have forgotten me."
• Simba: "No, how could I?"
• Mufasa: "You have forgotten who you are, and so forgotten me. Look inside yourself Simba, you are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life."
• Simba: "How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be."
• Mufasa: "Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true King."

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• Zazu: "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, nobody knows my sorrow..."
• Scar: "Oh come now, Zazu, lighten up,sing something with a little bounce in it!"
• Zazu (thinks a moment): "It's a small world, after all!"
• Scar: "No! No! Anything but that!"

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[Simba burps off-screen.]

• Timon: "Whoa! Nice one, Simba."
• Simba: "Thanks. Man, I'm stuffed."
• Pumbaa: "Me too. I ate like a pig!"
• Simba: "Pumbaa, you are a pig."
• Pumbaa: "Oh. Right."

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• Timon: "What do you want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?"

[Drumbeats]

• Timon: "Luau! If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat, eat my buddy Pumbaa here because he is a treat! Come on down and dine on this tasty swine, all you have to do is get in line! Are ya achin'..."
• Pumbaa: "Yep, yep, yep!"
• Timon: "...for some bacon?"
• Pumbaa: "Yep, yep, yep!"
• Timon: "He's a big pig!"
• Pumbaa: "Yep yep!"
• Timon: "You could be a big pig too! Oy!"

[Timon and Pumbaa scream and run off, chased by the hyenas.]

(To find out why they really did the diversion, see The Lion King 1 1/2 .)

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• Banzai: "The little majordomo bird hippity-hopped all the way to the birdie boiler."

[He stuffs Zazu in a mini-volcano vent.]

• Zazu: "Oh no! Not the birdie boiler!"

[Zazu screams as he is launched like a rocket.]

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• Shenzi: "Well, well, well, Banzai, what have we got here?"
• Banzai: "Mmm...I don't know, Shenzi. Uh, what do you think, Ed?"
• Ed: (crazy laughter)
• Banzai: "Just what I was thinkin'. A trio of TRESPASSERS!"
• Zazu: "And quite by accident, let me assure you. A simple navigational error."

[He is about to leave when Shenzi stops him.]

• Shenzi: "Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait. I know you. You're Mufasa's little stooge."
• Zazu: "I, madam, am the king's Majordomo."
• Banzai: (to Simba) "And that would make you..."
• Simba: "The future king."
• Shenzi: "Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?"
• Simba: "Puh. You can't do anything to me."
• Zazu: (nervous) "Technically, they can. We are on their land."
• Simba: "But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers!"
• Zazu: "Ix-nay on the upid-stay."

[Banzai shows up before them.]

• Banzai: "Who ya callin' upid-stay?"

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• Banzai: "Yeah, we could have whatever's...lion around!" (laughs)
• Shenzi: "No, wait, wait, wait, I got one, I got one! Make mine a cub sandwich! What'd you think?" (laughs)

[Ed makes noises and points to where Simba, Nala and Zazu are.]

• Shenzi: "What, Ed? What is it?"
• Banzai: "Hey, did we order this dinner to go?"
• Shenzi: "No. Why?"
• Banzai: "'Cause THERE IT GOES!!!"

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• Rafiki: "Shh. It's a secret.

[leans towards Simba]

• Rafiki: "Asante sana, squash banana, we we nugu mi mi apana."
• Simba: "What does that mean?"
• Rafiki: "It means you're a baboon, and I'm not! Hee hee hee hahaha."

Cast (voices)

Jonathan Taylor Thomas - Young Simba

Matthew Broderick - Adult Simba

James Earl Jones - Mufasa

Jeremy Irons - Scar

Niteta Calami - Young Nala

Moira Keely - Adult Nala

Nathan Lane - Timon

Ernie Sabilla - Pumbaa

Robert Guillaume - Rafiki

Rowan Atkinson - Zazu

Madge Sinclair - Sarabi

Whoopi Goldberg - Shenzi

Cheech Marin - Banzai

Jim Cummings - Ed

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