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Brandon Deadly Vu! from Between Thanksgiving and Christmas (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#227: Aug 15th 2024 at 8:36:02 AM

Gopher also has some prominent appearances in the show as a sidekick character to Zazu. I recall that episode where he had a day off and left Gopher to take charge. Hilarity Ensues.
I believe you're confusing two different episodes together.

There's an episode where it's Zazu's day off, but Gopher informs him that an elephant is blocking the river causing a drought, so Zazu has to spend the rest of the episode dealing with that.

In another episode, Zazu is fired for miscounting the animals, and Gopher gets his job. We never actually see how he fairs in Zazu's job, but apparently well enough that even after Zazu corrects his error, Gopher still remains in Zazu's position, with Zazu having to be his assistant.

By the way, isn't it strange that there's basically two Disney characters named Gopher?

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#228: Aug 15th 2024 at 9:39:10 AM

Oh yeah, I accidentally combined the episodes.

Still funny!

Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#229: Aug 15th 2024 at 11:50:04 PM

[up][up]It's a case of A Dog Named "Dog", so it's not that unusual.

Funnily enough, both gophers are Misplaced Wildlife, one living in the English coutryside and one on the African savanna.

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#230: Aug 18th 2024 at 6:37:27 PM

So a few of us have apparently been seeing the Mufasa trailer in front of Alien: Romulus. You know. The R-rated movie.

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#231: Aug 18th 2024 at 8:40:06 PM

Honestly, I was more concerned about why anyone thought we needed a Lion King prequel, but yeah. Maybe it's there for the same reason Alien: Romulus is: to cash in on franchise nostalgia.

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#232: Aug 18th 2024 at 11:58:33 PM

I am shocked Alien movies are still bring made despite critical panning but that's not what this thread is for.

Still, will it be nostalgia pulling if it's "Mufasa"?

Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#233: Aug 19th 2024 at 12:24:38 AM

[up]Yes? I mean, just because it's an original story, any derivative work (sequel, prequel, remake, spinoff) has nostalgia for the original work as a major selling point.

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#234: Aug 19th 2024 at 6:04:17 AM

I feel like a good amount of the box office from Mufasa will come from people looking to hate watch it, to see how bad it could be, since the Lion King remake has continued to be a critical punching bag since its release.

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#235: Aug 19th 2024 at 6:28:11 AM

I just watched YMS's reaction to the Mufasa trailer. Beside the obvious Kimba joke about the white lion antagonist, his funniest comment was how, since the facial animation is made more expressive in Mufasa than in the 2019 movie, this means the characters lose their ability to emote with their mouths and eyebrows as they age.

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#236: Aug 19th 2024 at 9:38:01 AM

[up][up]I still don't understand hatewatching. At the very least just wait for stream.

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#237: Aug 19th 2024 at 9:46:27 AM

Are they any fics that potray Kion, Fuli and Rani as One True Threesome, because I'm tempted to add them to that trope for some time.

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#238: Aug 19th 2024 at 11:15:21 AM

If you can't find fics or art depicted that trio romantically then it doesn't count even if you personally ship them.

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#240: Aug 19th 2024 at 1:07:55 PM

That is the first ship art I've seen for them together and it only has 9 favorites so I think it's still too niche to qualify.

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#241: Aug 19th 2024 at 1:28:52 PM

[up] x6 Doesn't explain why young Simba and young Nala aren't very expressive.

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#242: Aug 20th 2024 at 6:43:37 AM

A birth defect from inbreeding. …Don't look at me like that, that's one of the bullshit theories from the original anyway.

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Filip04 Since: Nov, 2023
#243: Aug 20th 2024 at 8:23:19 AM

  • Also, when Vtoony will release her compilation of zebra characters, I will celebrate it by creating WMG page for Khumba.

After waking up in the morning, I turn on my phone and see that Vtoony had released her compilation of zebras in The Lion King

Well, I'm a man of his word, and so I go to create the above page for this underrated African movie. Wish me luck!

Update: I did it!

Edited by Filip04 on Aug 20th 2024 at 6:15:29 PM

Filip04 Since: Nov, 2023
#244: Aug 26th 2024 at 6:08:43 AM

Back into this post, I see those three (black) university students on weekend breaks as African wild dogs for some strange reason.

Filip04 Since: Nov, 2023
#245: Sep 1st 2024 at 2:59:27 PM

Due to Vtoony uploading today her compilation of birds of prey in The Lion King media, I want to say something that I wanted to say for quite some time. Namely the fact that I see Hadithi as a basis for how I imagine Sitka's eagle form to look like, given that in the movie proper Sitka transformed into eagle as a spirit and it was a photo-realistic eagle (similar to Marahute from The Rescuers Down Under) and not a usual semi-realistic Disney animal like his brother Kenai, while Hadithi is the closest thing we have to a semi-realistic eagle in Disney production (besides him, Sitka and Marahute I don't remember any other non-anthropomorphic Disney eagles, with Anga not counting due to having different beak and head than previously mentioned eagles).

Edited by Filip04 on Sep 3rd 2024 at 1:34:40 PM

Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#246: Sep 1st 2024 at 9:49:57 PM

Hadithi and Anga are an example of how facial designs indicate gender in Disney animation: females have big eyes and small noses (or in this case beaks), males have small eyes and big noses/beaks.

Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#248: Sep 2nd 2024 at 12:47:11 AM

I checked both species, and African hawk-eagles don't have such large beaks either. It's probably intended to be the avian equivalent of Lantern Jaw of Justice on Hadithi, considering his hero status.

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#249: Sep 9th 2024 at 1:52:05 PM

Sad news today, as Mufasa's voice actor James Earl Jones has died at the age of 93.

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