Timon & Pumbaa Evolution in Movies & TV Shows & Cartoons (1994-2024)

evolution of Timone and Pumba Timone and Pumba made their debut appearance in the 1994 animated movie The Lion King as major characters voiced by Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella here Timon and Pumba are portrayed as animated mircat and warthog friends which are nearly Inseparable and are shown together constantly teon is a wise cracking and self-absorbed mircat who's known for claiming pumba's ideas as his own but he also has a good heart and his loyal to his friends and family Pumba is clever and sometimes has childlike naivity in addition to his flatulence issues but nevertheless he can be a fierce Warrior charging into battle like a battering ram having a strong sense of loyalty and devotion towards his friends in the movie they played a significant role by helping a young Simba survive after he had ran away from home and then teaching and raising him for many years as one of them while developing a very close bond of friendship between them in the end after the three returned to the Pride Rock Timone and Pumba helped Simba fight Scar and gain his rightful place as the king of the pride lands most notably when they created a hoola distraction to distract Scar's hyenas and Pumba single-handedly defeated shenzi Bonsai and Ed eventually they stood on top of Pride Rock along with Simba and Nala when Rafiki presented Simba and Nala's newborn Cub Kiara to the animals of the pride lands Timone and pum appear next in the animated TV show of the same name as the central characters voiced Again by Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella the show predominantly focuses on their lives showing them having Many Adventures in their jungle home and across the globe it also highlights and expands on their friendship showing their liking and occasional conflict with each other as well as sheds light on their backstories this was shown in the episodes Once Upon A Timone which reveals timone's origin and how he first met p where it is shown that tone was a member of a colony of Mir cats who each had a specific Duty and home is where the hog is Pumba is shown to be a member of a Sounder of warthogs who banished him due to his foul smell and as a result Pumba spent his life as a loner until he met and befriended Timone it is also revealed in the episode Tanzania zi that before Timone met Puma he had a best friend named Fred who is a mircat who loves to laugh and play around while Pumba is shown to be very popular among the jungle usually gaining the chance to live the Glamorous Life but eventually giving it up for Timone Pumba makes a cameo appearance in the 1996 animated movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame during the ending scene where frolo is chasing quazi and Esmeralda out into the balcony with gargoyles one of which is actually Pumba next Pumba makes an appearance in the 1996 animated movie Aladdin and the King of Thieves during Aladdin and and Jasmine's wedding ceremony the genie changed into Pumba quoting the famous Hakuna Matata line Timone and Pumba appear next in the 1997 musical The Lion King on Broadway again as major characters played by Tom Allen Robbins and Max cassella here they're played with the use of puppetry with their roles in the story remaining practically the same only difference being a few lines and a few scenes such as the hola scene changed to the duo performing the Charon Pumba makes a brief cameo in the episode Good Neighbor kruella being seen with the other farm animals Timone and Pumba make their next appearance in the 1998 animated movie The Lion King 2 Simba's Pride again as major protagonists voiced by Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella in the story Timone and Pumba have moved to live at Pride Rock and are tasked by Simba to babysit and protect his adventurous daughter Kiara replacing zazu's original role a few years later when a now adolescent Kiara goes on her first hunt they are hired to make sure she won't get hurt the duo spends a morning doing just that until their childish bickering distracts them from their mission allowing Kiara to wander off alone and then meet a Rog lion cub named Kovu at one point Kovu gets taken into Pride after rescuing Kiara and Timone and Pumba are the first to grow a fondness for him however when they hear Kovu is genuinely working for zer which is his mother and an enemy of Simba they immediately revoke their views and Kovu gets banished afterwards they discover that Kiara has left Pride Rock to find Kovu and tell this to Simba Heron and Pumba later assist Simba and his pride in the battle against kovu's vengeful and bitter mother Zer and The Outsiders but get chased off and trapped by a group of Outsider lionesses until timun threatens to use pumba's Tail as a gun and use his gas on them causing them to flee in fear Timone and Pumba then returned to Pride Rock with the pride and witness Tiara Mary Kovu in the TV show House of Mouse Timone and Pumba make numerous appearances as recurring guests in the episode Timone and Pumba Pumba became best friends with Donald Duck after an argument with Timone Pumba wanted to do comedy for their performance on stage but Timo wanted to do magic in the end they were reunited after t-one took up for him when it was proven he was not a very good iian in the episode Donald's Pumba prank Pumba is kidnapped by Pete and Timone spends the evening trying to find his friend through the help of the club's staff eventually through the help of Donald Duck Pumba is returned safely in another episode dining goofy Timone complained to goofy about his and pumba's meal having bees which he did not order Pumba assured Timone not to worry as he liked them which was what worried Timone because bees give Pumba bad gas later Deone and Pumba got an order of bugs that don't give the ladder gas with lewig von Drake saying think the circle of life Timone and Pumba appear in the 2001 animated movie Mickey's magical Christmas snowed in at the house of mouse as guest characters they can be seen when Puma informs Timone of what a humbug is after hearing Donald being called such which Timon believed it was a meal also they make brief appearances during the finale song Sone and Pumba appear next in one of the Disney parody trailers Lilo and Stitch during the iconic Circle of Life scene Rafiki holds up Stitch instead of Simba which Timon announces in confusion while sitting at top Pumba jaran and Pumba are the main characters in the 2004 animated movie The Lion King one and a half who also provide commentary throughout the story voiced by Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella interestingly the movie reveals a different version from the TV show of timone's origin and how he first met Puma teone his mother Ma and Uncle Max were part of a group of Mir cats who lived on the Savannah but he was unable to do any job to a good standard and almost led to the Mir cats being eaten by the hyena shenzi banza and Ed which caused him to set off to find the ultimate Paradise where along the way he first encountered Pumba and the two became friends in the scene where Nala met Simba Tim Mo and Pumba afraid that she would take away their friend initially attempted to spoil Simba and Nala's date by letting out bees a spider and tripping the two which explains why they fell down the hill in the first movie after the duo provide their hulla distraction they encounter Ma and Uncle Max who had been searching for t-one ever since he left the mircat colony later on during the fight they defeat the hyenas by digging a massive tunnel Network sending the hyenas down Pride Rock where they get to take revenge on Scar and then Timone takes his entire mircat colony to live in The Oasis free from danger at the end of the movie in the dark theater Puma insists on watching the movie again while time on protests until all of their friends from the movie and other Disney characters come to watch it as well which causes teone to reluctantly agree to play the movie again BB Pumba can be seen in the 2005 animated movie Tarzan 2 where he meets Baby Tarzan at the outcast water hole Timo and Pumba make Cameo appearances in the 2006 animated movie Leroy Stitch during the climactic battle in the mix of Jumba juba's experiments young Pumba makes a cameo appearance in the 2007 animated movie Enchanted as one of the animals in gazelle's house Timone and Pumba reappear next in the 2008 TV show Timone and pumba's wild about safety as the main characters voiced by Bruce lanoy and Ernie Sabella Pumba and Timone star in the educational shorts centering on guidelines to a safe and healthy life many episodes begin with Timone and Pumba enjoying an activity when Timon shows an act of irresponsibility to his own well-being which causes Pumba to begin the lesson Timone can behave quite simple-minded in the shorts which supports the lines of the show that Puma is the real brains of the two antimon just steals his ideas Simone and Pumba make several appearances in the 2011 animated blooper in the movie The Lion King Diamond Edition in one outtake during the introduction of Timone and Pumba Timone accidentally pulls a muscle shooting off one of the vultures in another one Timone is seen having a hard time actually swallowing a grub and in the final one Timone and Pumba are about to take a nap until pumba's gas drives Timone away Timone and Pumba appear next in the 2015 animated pilot movie The Lion guard Return of the Roar as supporting characters voiced by Kevin Shon and Ernie Sabella they can be first seen helping a young lioness named Zuri free her claws from a log which causes them to recall the days they were raising Simba however before the mission can be complete their adopted nephew Badger Bunga arrives and distracts Timone and Pumba with his presence announcing that he and Simba's son Kion are to be members of the new lion guard Protectors of the pride lands at first Timone and Pumba are against the idea believing hard work and danger to be against Hakuna Matata with cion later being able to change their views by claiming he needs Bunga to join due to him being the bravest animal he knows this is enough to impress Timone and Pumba who then show great pride in their nephews title and subsequently congratulate Bunga on his position in the 2016 TV show The Lion guard Timone and Pumba make many appearances as the recurring characters in the story voiced by Kevin Shawn and Ernie Sabella the show takes place in the middle of the Lion King to Simba's Pride where Timone and Pumba are now the adoptive uncles of a young Honeybadger Bunga living in Hakuna Matata Falls Pumba is shown to care a great deal for banga and is a loving supporter of all of his Endeavors while Timon is Sterner and more aggressive in regards to raising banga specifically due to his dislike for bunga's life philosophy zuka Zama in the episode The search for timu it was revealed how Timon and Pumba came to adopt Bunga while searching for utamu bugs they found an orphaned baby Bunga who latched onto pumba's leg and pleaded to stay by his side Kumba found the honey badger to be adorable and tried to convince Timone to let him stay However Timone wanted nothing more to do with parenting having already raised Simba and made an attempt to Sho Bunga away only to have his mind changed when he learned just how much of an exceptional Bug Hunter the honey badger is much to pumba's Delight Timone and Pumba can be seen in the 2016 short TV show Disney crossy Road in the episode group grapple where they face a treacherously busy road of traveling animals to catch a bug in the A's told by Emoji Emoji reimagining of the 1994 movie Timone and Pumba play the same roles as in the original movie but as their emoticon versions in the 2018 animated movie Ralph breaks the internet a screenshot depicting Pumba teone and Simba can be seen around the sorcerer hat at the Disney Animation section in Oh My Disney the 2019 CGI remake movie The Lion King features Timone and Pumba in their original supporting roles voiced by Billy akner and Seth Rogan in the movie unlike their original animated appearance Timone and Pumba have a more realistic appearance both in in terms of colors and behavior with Timon frequently walking on all fours like a real life mircat does and their outer look changed to match their real counterparts they're also less emotional despite performing their original roles there are some changes such as the scene where Timone and Pumba escort Simba to a nearby Watering Hole was omitted and instead Simba wakes up just when the duo agreed upon keeping him during the part where the vultures prepare to eat Simba Timone and Pumba run across them and Pumba does not hot kick one of the vultures unlike in the original Timone and Pumba live alone in the jungle in the original whereas here there are other fellow animals that live with them at the end the scene where Timone and Pumba performed their live bait hoola distraction to help Simba and Nala get past the hyenas was replaced with a scene parodying the intro to the Be Our Guest musical number from Beauty and the Beast with the hyenas chasing the duo before Timone can even Sing the full title to the song the 2019 Pumba version appears in the 2022 animated movie chip Andale Rescue Rangers in a scene where he mocks Bob the dwarf with mantis from Kung Fu Panda and Bob from Monsters versus Aliens shimone and Pumba appear next to the 2023 animated short Once Upon a studio with Robin Williams walking by Olaf who is drawing as he tells them to shake a leg then they join the final picture along with the rest of Disney characters Timone and Pumba can be seen in the 2024 CIA animated movie Mufasa The Lion King as supporting characters voiced by Billy ikner and Seth Rogan in the movie they play a role of additional commentators while Rafiki tells the story of two lions Mufasa and taka which is the true name of Scar to Kiara the granddaughter of Mufasa and daughter of Simba and Nala [Music]