The BEST episodes of Timon & Pumbaa season 3

Every episode of Timon & Pumbaa season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Timon & Pumbaa season 3!

The show stars Timon, a meerkat, and Pumbaa, a warthog, both characters from the Disney animated film The Lion King and its sequels. The characters are normally seen having misadventures in the jungle, but sometimes find themselves across the globe in various settings.

Last Updated: 9/26/2024Network: Toon DisneyStatus: Ended
star
9.69
32 votes

#1 - Jamaica Mistake?

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/2/1996

Timon and Pumbaa pursue a supposed moth into a scary house where they are imprisoned by vampire bats.

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Palm Beached
star
9.67
33 votes

#2 - Palm Beached

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/1996

Timon and Pumbaa's newest napping spot is moved to a posh hotel. After being evicted by hotel manager Concierge Quint, they repeatedly try to sneak back in.

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star
8.50
4 votes

#3 - I Don't Bolivia

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/30/1996

A criminal toucan named Toucan Dan talks Timon into releasing him from a cage. After recapturing Toucan Dan, Timon is again talked into releasing him, leading to a cycle of recaptures and re-releases. The episode ends with Timon impersonating Toucan Dan, the Vulture Police capturing Timon, Toucan Dan impersonating Timon... and Pumbaa having to determine which is which.

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Maine-iacs
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7.67
3 votes

#4 - Maine-iacs

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/4/1996

Timon and Pumbaa accidentally arrive at Boss Beaver's lumber mill where they, due to having violated a large number of safety regulations, are forced to take jobs.

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Once Upon a Timon
star
7.67
3 votes

#5 - Once Upon a Timon

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/11/1996

When Timon and Pumbaa refuse to tell Zazu about themselves, Zazu has Rafiki tell him why Timon is an outcast from his meerkat colony and how he first met Pumbaa.

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star
7.67
3 votes

#6 - Washington Applesauce

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/14/1996

A voracious worm eats the apples of Apple Valley, threatening the continued existence of the annual apple festival. Timon and Pumbaa are hired to catch the worm.

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star
7.67
3 votes

#7 - Fiji-Fi-Fo-Fum

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/4/1996

In order to afford dinner for Bestest Best Friend Day, Pumbaa trades his and Timon's cow for three magic bugs. At night, the bugs create a huge beanstalk that takes Timon and Pumbaa up into the clouds to a giant grasshopper.

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Klondike Con
star
7.50
4 votes

#8 - Klondike Con

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/16/1996

While mining for gold in the Klondike, Timon and Pumbaa join forces with a friendly man named Courteous Quint, who is Claim Jumper Quint in disguise. Although Quint repeatedly fakes saving Timon's life, Timon refuses to trust him.

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star
7.33
3 votes

#9 - Zazu's Off Day Off

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/21/1996

It's Zazu's day off, but before he can enjoy it, he is informed that Jumbo Jumbo is causing problems at the river. Zazu reluctantly has to fix the problem.

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Home Is Where the Hog Is
star
7.25
4 votes

#10 - Home Is Where the Hog Is

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/18/1996

Pumbaa hears a distress call from the warthog sounder he was banished from while he and Timon eat bugs off a battered Jeep. It's up to the two to save the warthogs from the Guinea fowl that guard the entrance to the sounder.

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star
7.25
4 votes

#11 - Mind Over Matterhorn

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/25/1996

In order to get to Paris, France, Timon and Pumbaa attempt to get past a billy goat toll guard in numerous ways.

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star
7.25
4 votes

#12 - Isle Find Out

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/16/1996

After observing a colony of flamingos standing still for hours, Timon becomes obsessed with finding out what they are up to.

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Africa Dabra!
star
7.25
4 votes

#13 - Africa Dabra!

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/30/1996

The Rabbit teams up with Timon to form a magic act for a talent competition, but also tricks Timon and Pumbaa into breaking up.

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Wide Awake in Wonderland
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7.25
4 votes

#14 - Wide Awake in Wonderland

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/23/1996

The insomniac Pumbaa makes Timon read him warthog/meerkat versions of The Ant and the Grasshopper and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Timon dislikes every story he reads, so he makes one up.

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Oregon Astray
star
7.25
4 votes

#15 - Oregon Astray

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/9/1996

Pumbaa gets a lazy Timon and himself jobs as dam builders for Boss Beaver, leading to Timon becoming a workaholic, knowing that he'll be rich within days.

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Catch Me if You Kenya
star
7.00
2 votes

#16 - Catch Me if You Kenya

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/7/1996

Timon and Pumbaa try to pass a vicious tiger in order to break into a butterfly collector's collection to free the butterflies.

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Timon on the Range
star
7.00
3 votes

#17 - Timon on the Range

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/28/1996

When the criminal Cisco Pig goes missing, his gang mistakes Pumbaa for their leader. Timon makes sure to take advantage of their mistake.

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star
7.00
4 votes

#18 - Zazu's Off-by-One Day

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/23/1996

Zazu gets fired from his job after he forgets to count one single animal on his (nearly) complete list of animals. He sets out in a quest to find out which animal he forgot.

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star
7.00
2 votes

#19 - Scent of the South

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/7/1996

Pumbaa turns to a skunk's expert help when he thinks he can't be bestest best friends with Timon anymore because of his smell. But Timon thinks Pumbaa's left him for the skunk because of her smell.

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star
6.80
5 votes

#20 - New Guinea Pig

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/9/1996

Pumbaa gets tired of his tusks, so Timon decides to sell them to the Three Natives.

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I Think I Canada
star
6.75
4 votes

#21 - I Think I Canada

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/21/1996

A carnivorous wolverine enrolls Timon and Pumbaa in a training camp so they can get in better shape.

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Forbidden Pumbaa
star
6.67
3 votes

#22 - Forbidden Pumbaa

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/14/1996

Timon tries to save Pumbaa from an alien robot sent to abduct one warthog.

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Beethoven's Whiff
star
6.67
3 votes

#23 - Beethoven's Whiff

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/25/1996

Timon is trying to conduct Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but Pumbaa keeps messing everything up, leading the two to be forced by Simba and Rafiki to clean up the mess they made.

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star
6.67
3 votes

#24 - Bumble in the Jungle

Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/25/1996

In this Fantasia-esque episode, Timon and Pumbaa try to catch a bumblebee.

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star
6.50
2 votes

#25 - The Man from J.U.N.G.L.E.

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/28/1996

Timon impersonates the famous superhero Super Duper Hero X to make money. When he is subsequently kidnapped by the superhero's arch nemesis Chromosome Quint, Pumbaa and Speedy the Snail have to save their friend.

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