
Zazu: You should have been first in line!
Scar: I was first in line... until the little hairball was born.
Zazu: And the baboons are going ape over this. Of course, the giraffes are acting like they're above it all...
Simba: I'm gonna be the mane event like no king was before!
Banzai: Yeah, we could have whatever's lion around!
Simba: Hey Uncle Scar, will I like the surprise?
Scar: Simba, it's to die for.
Simba: What's a motto?
Timon: Nothing. What's a motto with you?
Pumbaa: I'm a sensitive soul, though I seem thick-skinned. And it hurt that my friends never stood downwind.
Pumbaa: I ate like a pig!
Timon: Lady, have you got your lions crossed.
Simba" Will you cut it out?
Rafiki: Can't cut it out! It'll grow right back!
Simba: I finally got some sense knocked into me. And I've got the bump to prove it.
Were puns just considered really funny in the 90's? Why do you think the creators chose to use so many? I'm not sure I know of any other Disney movies with nearly as many puns.
