Timon and Pumbaa: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Timon and Pumbaa Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Super Hog-o
Apr 3, 1997
After an inspiration from a Lightning Lard comic, Pumbaa becomes a superhero.
Don't Have the Vegas Idea
Apr 3, 1997
To get money for lobsters (which is mistakened for bugs), Timon and Pumbaa get jobs in an act involving White Lions.
Ivy Beleagured
Apr 4, 1997
Timon and Pumbaa go to college, but the students like Pumbaa more.
Broadway Bound and Gagged
Apr 4, 1997
Timon and Pumbaa compete against each other to make the best broadway play.
No-Good Samaritan
Apr 10, 1997
A leopard king's daughter mistakens Timon and Pumbaa as the ones who saved her from Ed the Hyena. This causes her father to appoint them as her bodyguards.
Living in De Nile
Apr 10, 1997
After Timon eats a Scarab Beetle, Tutun Pharaoh throws Timon and Pumbaa in the pyramid for all eternity.
Miss Perfect
Apr 11, 1997
Pumbaa mistakenly wins a beauty pageant when a fly gets trapped a machine and begins to neglect Timon.
Hakuna Matata U.
Apr 11, 1997
Timon and Pumbaa start a university teaching others about Hakuna Matata. Only a sloth and a smart owl show up to their disbelief.
One Tough Bug
Apr 17, 1997
Timon targets a strong bug to eat while Pumbaa acts like a hippie to prevent Timon from catching it.
Pirates of Pumbzance
Apr 17, 1997
Timon and Pumbaa get jobs as pirates working for Captain Bloodbeard, but it's not as Pumbaa hoped for.
Pig-malion
Apr 18, 1997
Timon and Pumbaa enroll in a hedgehog professor's university where Pumbaa is smart and Timon procrastinates.
Why No Rhino
Apr 18, 1997
Timon and Pumbaa run a safari to get money from a rich couple, even if it's finding the rare Blue Rhino.
War Hogs
Apr 24, 1997
Timon and Pumbaa join a warthog army only to find out that a war is starting.
The Big No Sleep
Apr 24, 1997
Pumbaa keeps Timon up all night to see the Porkeswanees, but them not sleeping attracts the Sandman.
Mister Twister
Apr 25, 1997
Timon and Pumbaa need a job in order to raise the membership fee for the "Bug Of The Month" club. When all Pumbaa's ideas go wrong, Timon suggests becoming tornado watchers, which
Don't Be Elfish
May 1, 1997
Timon wants a video game for Christmas. So he and Pumbaa get jobs at the mall, Pumbaa being Santa and Timon being an elf. Timon makes kids meet his every need or they won't get to
Lights, Camera, Traction
May 1, 1997
Pumbaa helps Timon become a movie star to impress a female meerkat.