Summary: After floodwaters threaten the Pride Lands and Bunga comes up with a quick fix, Kion and the other members of the Lion Guard learn that the quick and easy solution to a problem is not always the best.
This episode contains examples of:
- An Aesop: The easiest solution isn’t always the best solution for a big problem.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Bunga.
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: Bunga gets a heaping helping of this when the other animals believe that he is the wisest animal in the Pride Lands, and he starts to dispense terrible advice and act high handed with the other members of the Guard. By the end of the episode, after his quick fix solutions fall apart, he accepts that he's not as wise as he thought he was and is back to his usual self.
- Big "WHAT?!": The rest of the Lion Guard's reaction to Pumbaa declaring Bunga to be "the Sage of Hakuna Matata Falls".
- Did Not Think This Through: Bunga's plans in a nutshell. While he means well, he chooses the quick and easy solutions to problems without truly thinking things through, and all his advice is short-sighted and causes more problems than it solves. When a real crisis develops because one of his quick fixes fails spectacularly he is dumbstruck, and it falls to the rest of the Guard to save the day.
- Foreshadowing:
- After the Lion Guard race off to find Bunga, the camera pans to the stick in the rock that was supposed to stop the flooding water from pouring out, and shows that it is starting to leak. Later, the rocks give way and the Guard has to race to get the animals still in the valley out.
- Kion expresses reservations about checking on Ushari. Ushari later bites Kion in the Season 3 opener, and the ensuing fact he has to leave guarantees Kion and the Guard do not come back for Simba's Pride.
- Human Traffic Jam: As the Lion Guard tries to save various animals from the flood caused by the burst dam, Ono accidentally leads them into a dead-end canyon. Realising this, the buffalo come to a sudden stop, and all the other animals behind them (Beshte, Thurston and his mate, Fuli, Bunga and Mtoto) crash into the back of them one after another.
- "I Am Great!" Song: “Bunga the Wise”, sung by Bunga along with Timon and Pumbaa as they boast about his supposed wisdom.
- One-Woman Wail: Heard as the Guard gets behind Kion before he roars the water away.
- Ostrich Head Hiding: Deconstructed. Bunga tells an ostrich who's scared of hyenas to hide her head in the ground to avoid seeing them. When the rest of the Lion Guard see her doing this, they point out that ostriches don't actually do such a thing. After they help the ostrich to pull her stuck head out, she complains about how hard it is to breathe down there.
- Poor Communication Kills: Rafiki states that honey badgers are some of the smartest animals in the Pride Lands, but gets distracted before he can finish his sentence. This causes Bunga's Acquired Situational Narcissism as the other animals praise him as the “wisest of all”, leading to all sorts of problems.
- Smarter Than You Look: How everybody reacts when Bunga's plan to damn the floodwater actually works. Rafiki even clarifies that honey badgers are some of the smartest animals in the Pride Lands... but only when they think things through. Naturally, because Bunga doesn't think things through, his advice causes more problems than he means to solve.
- Tempting Fate: Timon boasting about how great Bunga's idea for stopping the flood of water was... before the dam of rocks bursts and releases all the water.
- Title Drop: By Timon and Pumbaa when the members of the Lion Guard happen upon Bunga's tent, where he gives the animals of the Pridelands advice.
- Too Dumb to Live: The baboons refuse to leave a tree that's about to fall over a cliff simply because they don't want to get wet.
- The more gullible animals who went for Bunga's advice blindly are this, as they should have some common sense. Bunga means well, but his ideas don't always work.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Fuli's reaction to Bunga's newfound career as advice-giver and sage is an exasperated remark of "Seriously?!"
