My Lion King Forum

I have watched TLK thousands of times, but actually, I still don't understand meanings of a few lines.
So please do me a favor and tell me what they really mean

Unclear lines:
1. At an elephant graveyard, Banzai says "We could have whatever's --- lion around!" And I don't have any clue about this. Does he make a kind of joke?

2. In the reunion scene, Timon says "You think you know a guy." This line is also unclear to me... I guess he wants to say that Simba is now behaving as if he is the king, but not so sure...

[quote="xLilacVixenx"]The first one is pretty simple. Lion is a common mistake for 'lying'. So if he said "We could have whatever's lying around," would that make sense? Yes; since Simba is a lion, and they intend to eat him, he made a joke out of that.

The second one is trickier, so I have no definate answer. Probably all they were going through and they couldn't even speak with Nala? I don't know. [/quote]

Thank you for the first one
But I'm still wondering what "whatever's lying around" means. Especially "whatever's"
I guess there are a lot of lying in what hyenas say, but they're try to hide it? Oh I have no idea

Mmm... I wish my English were even better

[quote="xLilacVixenx"]Lol, no. It doesn't mean 'lying' as in "I lied to my mother." Lying as in "We was lying on the ground next to his book." You see what I mean? [/quote]


Ah hah! Now I'm savvy!!
Thank you so much Vixen

Well, now I'm thinking about the second one...

I think Timon says that because he had basically raised Simba, then he turns out to be some king somewhere and was hiding all of this from him.

[quote="thechiefyness"]I think Timon says that because he had basically raised Simba, then he turns out to be some king somewhere and was hiding all of this from him.[/quote]


So, Timon is supposed to mean "You think you know who yourself are" by saying "You think you know a guy", right?

Ha. I don't think Timon and Pumbaa ever raised Simba or had the slightest interest to either. They were too immature for that. They were his friends teaching him their own responsibility-free philosophy and bad habits and to eat anything but them. That's all.

As for the second question.... The full line is "It starts. You think you know a guy..." right after Simba had told them to go away when they had full faith in that he wouldn't. They had believed Simba could never feel for a girl anything he couldn't say in front of his pals. So, generally it's just how Simba had hidden his true identity from them all those years and now at that very moment started to change in other way too, as in by driving his pals away wanting to talk to a girl alone. That's all something they never thought he would be or do to them.

[quote="SuperBabySimba"]Ha. I don't think Timon and Pumbaa ever raised Simba or had the slightest interest to either. They were too immature for that. They were his friends teaching him their own responsibility-free philosophy and bad habits and to eat anything but them. That's all.

As for the second question.... The full line is "It starts. You think you know a guy..." right after Simba had told them to go away when they had full faith in that he wouldn't. They had believed Simba could never feel for a girl anything he couldn't say in front of his pals. So, generally it's just how Simba had hidden his true identity from them all those years and now at that very moment started to change in other way too, as in by driving his pals away wanting to talk to a girl alone. That's all something they never thought he would be or do to them.[/quote]


Know I'm convinced. Thank you.

If I have another quiestion, please teach me then

"We could have whatever`s lion around", yeah. It`s a double meaning, all right. I think TLK is possibly the funniest Disney movie there is, because I like verbal humor better than physical. Genie from Aladdin is hilarious, but he can sometimes be a little too hysterical, like the stupid song he sings when Aladdin`s entering Agrabah in all his glory.

My favorite line is "what`s a motto with you". I laughed really hard when I heard that for the first time. It`s very hard to translate that, and in the norwegian version Simba asks: "What`s a motto", and Timon replies: "Nothing, but it rhymes with lotto", which is norwegian for lottery. Hardly funny at all, but it`s impossible to translate that word for word.