[quote="TheLionPrince"]I think Lynx hit the nail on the head. In a book titled
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart by Jim Dawson, it was written that:
[quote="
Jim Dawson"]The fart was certainly wafting in polite company in 1994, when Walt Disney Studios, once a bastion of middle America propriety and tight-assed taste, became woozy from the aroma of box office flatulence. (According to several animators who worked for him, Uncle Walt was himself notoriously and blissfully flatulent in the presence of others.) Disney's animated blockbuster,
The Lion King, not only features a warthog named Pumbaa whose farting power is prodigious, but includes a song about it called "Hakuna Matata" (Swahili for "no worries"), which was nominated an Academy Award. According to the song, "When he was a young warthog he found his aroma lacked a certain appeal, he could clear the savannah after every meal." Ernie Sabella, the voice of Pumbaa, told
The New York Times that farting was not originally in the script but added on the spot when Nathan Lane (voicing Pumbaa's meerkat sidekick Timon) encouraged him to make an impromptu fart noise while they were recording the script. The directors laughed and decided it would be a great idea. "We never thought we would use it," said Sabella, but Pumbaa's farts became a running gag.[/quote][/quote]
Oh wow what an interesting read! Thanks for sharing. Guess that clears things up then. And I suppose they made Pumbaa fart because pigs are suppose to be dirty animals....though in reality they aren't really
. But like Julie said, it's suppose to lighten the story after such a dark scene
.