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I Think I Canada
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I Think I Canada
I Think I Canada
Attribution information
Director

   Tony Craig
   Roberts Gannaway

Writer

Roberts Gannaway

Production information
Series

The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa

Season

2

Episode

14a

Air date

October 21, 1996

Episode guide
Previous

"Oahu Wahoo!"

Next

"Zazu's Off Day Off"

Oh boy, oh boy, a chance to get fit and healthy and strong and healthy!
Pumbaa[src]

"I Think I Canada" is the first segment of the fourteenth episode of Season 2 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, and the seventy-seventh episode of the series overall. It premiered on October 21, 1996 on the syndicated Disney Afternoon block, alongside "Zazu's Off Day Off".

Official synopsis[]

"Timon and Pumbaa are caught by a wolverine and coerced into signing up for his 'survival of the fittest' training camp."[1]

Plot summary[]

Timon and Pumbaa are relaxing on a hammock discussing about the different types of bugs they have been eating. Suddenly, a wolverine comes out of the bushes and chases Timon and Pumbaa.

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The wolverine gets Timon and Pumbaa to join his Survival of the Fittest training camp.

When Timon and Pumbaa come across a cliff, this leaves the duo no choice but to accept their fate of getting eaten by the wolverine. However, the wolverine instead announces his fitness program called the Survival of the Fittest Training Camp. He gives Timon and Pumbaa a form to join his program, with Pumbaa excited to do so, but Timon refuses as he believes that it doesn't fit to their "all-you-can-eat Hakuna Matata lifestyle." Timon and Pumbaa are about to leave, but the wolverine stops and threateningly tells Timon to reconsider. Fearing of getting eaten, Timon reluctantly signs up.

The wolverine takes Timon and Pumbaa to his training camp and make the duo get on a scale to be weighed. However, the scale mocks both Timon and Pumbaa's weight. The wolverine later shaves Timon and Pumbaa's hairs (and the tip of Pumbaa's tail) and puts hats that look like turtle shells on them. The wolverine gives them five steps on how to be fit.

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Timon and Pumbaa exercise.

The first step is for Timon and Pumbaa to remove all the fatty food out of their mouths into a bucket. Pumbaa does exactly what he is supposed to do while Timon only throws a small bug into the bucket. The wolverine makes a machine grab Timon and shake the meerkat so that all of his fatty food gets removed out of his body.

The second step is for Timon and Pumbaa to exercise. While Pumbaa is actually exercising, Timon uses different types of gimmicks to make it look like he's exercising as well when he's actually being lazy.

The third step is for Timon and Pumbaa to drink milkless milkshakes. Pumbaa drinks his milkshake while Timon pours his into a grass. Timon then sees that the milkshake makes Pumbaa stronger and the grass grows taller and punches the meerkat.

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Realizing that the fitness program was a fake and the wolverine is about to eat him, Pumbaa runs back to Timon.

The fourth step of the program is the Massage-O-Matic, where two robots each give Timon and Pumbaa a massage. The fifth step is for Timon and Pumbaa to enter the Maze of Challenges. Timon volunteers to enter first, but he instead erases the word "start" which is on one side of the white line on the ground and writes the word "finish" on the other side of the line. The meerkat then goes to relax while it is Pumbaa's turn to enter the maze and prove himself worthy.

After Pumbaa succeeds all five steps and proves himself worthy, the wolverine reveals that there is a sixth step of the program and that step is for him to eat Pumbaa. Realizing that the fitness program turns out to be a fake, Pumbaa runs back with the wolverine chasing him. Pumbaa manages to miss all the weapons the maze has while the wolverine gets caught by every single one of them. After Pumbaa runs to Timon, the wolverine is exhausted, with Timon telling Pumbaa that he knew all these exercises would be bad for their health.

As Timon and Pumbaa leave the training camp, Pumbaa wonders what he will do with all his new muscles and Timon tells him not to worry about them and that pretty soon he will turn back to fat.

Voice cast[]

Starring[]

Guest Starring[]

Appearances[]

Characters

Species

Locations

  • Forest
    • Survival of the Fittest Training Camp
      • Maze of Challenges

Organizations and Titles

  • Librarian
  • Survival of the Fittest

Trivia[]

  • The scene where Pumbaa gets chased by the wolverine and shouts to Timon, "HE'S GONNA EAT ME!" is a reference to the scene where he gets chased by Nala and shouts the same dialogue to Timon in The Lion King.
  • The episode's title is a play on the phrase, "I think I can."

Media[]

References[]

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


Season 2 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa
Palm BeachedJamaica Mistake?Oregon AstrayNew Guinea PigIsle of ManhoodPuttin' on the BritsKlondike ConIsle Find OutBeetle RomaniaRumble in the JungleWide Awake in WonderlandZazu's Off-by-One DayAnimal BarnRoach HotelAfrica-Dabra!I Don't BoliviaShopping MauledLibrary BrouhahaCatch Me if You KenyaScent of the SouthMonster MassachusettsHandle with CaribbeanForbidden PumbaaWashington ApplesauceAlcatraz-MatazOahu Wahoo!I Think I CanadaZazu's Off Day OffBeast of EdenSense & SenegambiaTimon on the RangeThe Man From J.U.N.G.L.E.Maine-IacsFiji-Fi-Fo-FumRome AloneAmusement BarkOnce Upon a TimonHome is Where the Hog IsBeethoven's WhiffBumble in the JungleMind Over Matterhorn
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