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Early Bird Watchers
Early Bird Watchers
Attribution information
Director

Brad Neave

Writer

Etan Cohen

Production information
Series

The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa

Season

3

Episode

32b

Air date

August 6, 1999

Episode guide
Previous

"Nearly Departed"

Next

"The Spy's the Limit"

Every single day, that bird gets the juiciest worms of the Serengeti and I want my share!
Timon[src]

"Early Bird Watchers" is the second segment of the thirty-second episode of Season 3 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, and the one hundred and fifty-fourth episode of the series overall. It premiered on August 6, 1999, alongside "Nearly Departed".

Official synopsis[]

"Timon is determined to beat the early birds to his worms."[1]

Plot summary[]

Timon is about to catch a worm, but then the early bird catches the insect before him. The meerkat becomes annoyed about the bird repeatedly beating him and decides to set an alarm clock so that he can wake up before the early bird. Pumbaa tells his friend that no matter what he tries, the early bird always gets the worm.

EBW early bird & worm

The early bird catches a worm.

The next morning, the alarm clock rings, waking Timon up. However, the meerkat gets so disturbed by the noise that he misses a worm as the early bird takes it. Later that night, Timon hires a rooster to wake him up before the early bird. But when morning arises, the rooster is still asleep and Timon sees the early bird catch another worm, beating him again. Annoyed, Timon fires the rooster.

EBW Timon & rooster

Timon hires a rooster to wake him up before the early bird.

Timon decides to make a phone call to ask the person to wake him up before the early bird. During the night, while Timon and Pumbaa are sleeping, Timon gets calls from various people. Later in the early morning, the phone rings and Pumbaa answers it. The call is for Timon to let the meerkat know that it is time for him to wake up, but since Timon is still sleeping, Pumbaa decides to take a message. When Timon wakes up, he sees that the early bird beat him again. The meerkat then decides to try various ways to defeat the bird.

On the first attempt, Timon uses some instruments to try to make the early bird wake up after them. The plan fails as it results in the bird catching a worm. For the second attempt, Timon makes Pumbaa disguise himself as a worm. This idea also ends in failure as Pumbaa gets caught by a vulture instead of the early bird.

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Timon uses a "worm bomb" as an attempt to defeat the early bird.

For the third attempt, Timon paints a worm’s face on a bomb, believing that the early bird will not be able to tell the difference. He makes Pumbaa hold the worm-bomb with his mouth while he goes to the worm’s hole. But when they get there, Pumbaa accidentally eats the bomb, which explodes inside of him.

EBW Pumbaa & early bird2

Pumbaa and the early bird relax while Timon rejoices over finally catching a worm.

For his last attempt on defeating the early bird, Timon decides to trap it and send it to Siberia. As a worm comes out of its hole, Timon rejoices that he can finally eat the insect, but then a mailman shows up bringing the early bird back. When the bird takes the worm, Timon decides to stay up all night so that he can spot and catch the worm before the bird.

When morning arises, Timon is about to catch the worm, but stops for a minute to look for the early bird. When he sees that the bird is nowhere in sight, the meerkat finally catches the worm. While Timon rejoices over beating the early bird, the bird is shown relaxing with Pumbaa, trying to live a Hakuna Matata lifestyle. He tells the warthog that he has been trying to get out of his early bird business and that it was hard for him to find a replacement.

Cast[]

Starring[]

Guest Starring[]

  • Frank Welker as the early bird, the delivery guy, the male phone voice, and the rooster
  • Tress MacNeille as the female phone voice, the postal clerk, and the woman in group

Appearances[]

Characters

  • Delivery guy
  • Early bird
  • Postal clerk
  • Pumbaa
  • Rooster
  • Timon

Species

Locations

Trivia[]

  • The episode's title is a "before-and-after" of the phrases, "early bird" and "bird watchers."

Media[]

References[]

  1. Watch The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa Full Episodes. Disney+. Accessed 12 November 2019.


Season 3 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa
WhiffTo Be Bee or Not To Be BeeLuck Be a MeerkatJust When You Thought You'd Cuisine it AllLemonade Stand OffBig Jungle GameBoo Hoo BouquetTimon...AloneSo Sumo MeNow Museum, Now You Don'tVisiting Pig-nitariesThe Truth About Kats and HogsEscape From NewarkTruth Be ToldThrow Your Hog in the RingSlalom ProblemCircus JerksNest Best ThingSuper Hog-ODon't Have the Vegas IdeaHot Enough For Ya?Werehog of LondonBigfoot, LittlebrainAstro-NotsRobin HoodwinkedSerengeti WesternAll Pets Are OffBoary Glory DaysTwo for the ZooThe Swine in the StoneYou May Have Already Won Six Million BakraMy Meteor, My FriendJungle SlickersDon't Wake the NeighbearRecipe for DisasterGoing Over-Boar'dIvy BeleagueredBroadway Bound & GaggedSteel HogDealer's Choice CutSpace HamYou Bet Your TuhkusNo-Good SamaritanLiving in De NileOne Tough BugPirates of PumbzanceMiss PerfectHakuna Matata U.Pig-MalionWhy No RhinoWar HogsThe Big No SleepCommon ScentsMister TwisterDon't Be ElfishLights, Camera, TractionThe Running of the BulliesSpecial DefectsWishy WashyIce EscapadesGuru-SomeJailhouse ShockNearly DepartedEarly Bird WatchersThe Spy's the LimitReady, Aim, FireTimoncchioGhost BoostersStay Away from my Honey!Sitting Pretty AwfulHe's A Bad, Bad, Bad SportDapper Duck BurgersIt Runs GoodHot Air BuffoonsTimon in LoveKahuna PotatoMook IslandCliphangers
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