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Yukon Con
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Yukon Con
YukonCon
Attribution information
Director

   Tony Craig
   Roberts Gannaway

Writer

Kevin Campbell

Production information
Series

The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa

Season

1

Episode

5a

Air date

September 23, 1995

Episode guide
Previous

"Cooked Goose"

Next

"Doubt of Africa"

Oh, Pumbaa, don't ever, never, ever let the lure of material wealth come between us... never, ever, ever again!
Timon[src]

"Yukon Con" is the first segment of the fifth episode of Season 1 of The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, and the ninth episode of the series overall. It premiered on September 23, 1995 on CBS' Saturday morning line-up, alongside "Doubt of Africa".

Official synopsis[]

"Timon and Pumbaa go gold mining in the Yukon, and Timon falls prey to the manipulations of Kusko Quint."[1]

Plot summary[]

Timon and Pumbaa are in Canada looking for gold. Pumbaa is doing all the hard work, while Timon relaxes and reads magazines. Pumbaa doesn't think it's fair that they split the gold if he's the only one doing everything. Timon gets angry and draws a line saying that "everything he finds on his side, he can keep it, and everything Pumbaa finds on his side, Pumbaa can keep it".

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Pumbaa finds a gold nugget.

Pumbaa then finds a giant gold nugget, while Timon only finds a bottle cap labeled Caribou Cola. While Pumbaa is impressed by what Timon found, the angry meerkat forces him to stay on his side of the line. While there is a conflict between Timon and Pumbaa's friendship, a mysterious man watches Pumbaa's gold nugget from above and decides to steal it soon.

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Kusko Quint manipulates Timon into stealing Pumbaa's gold.

The scene switches to the Yukon Dance Hall, where there's a party for Pumbaa, who is upset because he misses his best friend. While a girl tries to cheer the warthog up, Timon watches from a window outside, freezing cold. Although he is jealous of Pumbaa's richness, he is too pride to go. The man from earlier shows up and reveals himself to be a con artist named Kusko Quint. He convinces Timon that the gold belongs to Timon and that he should steal it from Pumbaa. Timon is reluctant to do so since he is Pumbaa's friend, but Quint tells him not to worry about it and hatches a plan on how he can steal the gold, which is Timon distracting Pumbaa with a little "show", while Quint puts the gold in a bag.

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Timon and Pumbaa promise to never again let material wealth come between their friendship.

Quint and Timon meet backstage, with Quint giving Timon the bag and running away. Pumbaa then shows up and wonders what Timon has in the bag. The guilty Timon can't keep the secret and tells Pumbaa that he stole the gold and that it's inside the bag, but when Pumbaa looks inside, the bag is empty, making Timon realize that he got tricked and the two team up to retrieve the gold nugget. While Timon and Pumbaa chase Quint (and his pet snow dog) for the gold, but end up falling but landing safely in a deep snow. When they can't to a frozen lake, they can't find Quint. Quint breaks the ice, puts a motor in the ice where Timon and Pumbaa are on and sends them away

Timon apologizes to Pumbaa and offers him the Caribou Cola bottle cap Timon found earlier, and they become friends again. They decide that they'll never let money interfere on their friendship. They crash into a submarine, and a rich man appears saying that he has been searching for a bottle cap like that for 17 years and will pay any price for it, so Pumbaa and Timon fight over the bottle cap.

Voice cast[]

Starring[]

Guest Starring[]

Appearances[]

Characters

Species

Locations

  • Yukon
    • Dance Hall
    • Submarine

Trivia[]

  • This marks the first time Kevin Schon voices Timon in an episode of the series.
    • Nathan Lane and Kevin Schon share Timon's voice in this episode during the character's lines.
  • Kusko Quint's name is likely a play on the Kusko River, a 702 miles river which flows right through the Yukon.[2]

Media[]

References[]

  1. Watch The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa Full Episodes. Disney+. Accessed 12 November 2019.
  2. Kuskokwim River. Wikipedia. Accessed 11 August 2022.


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