TLK *Sigh* -tings

[HasiraKali]

Awesome. :lol: There was a whole category for TLKoB on kids Jeopardy a few years ago. :)

I sent out an email from work last week about the huge sleepover we have on Saturday. I put at the end "So Be Prepared. Haha." and someone wrote back "Do I spy a Lion King reference in there, Amanda?" :lol: They know me too well.

[Marikunin]

yesterday in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated some basketball player said that his favorite movie is TLK....yay! :)

[Wolfman Jack]

I was watching the Weather Channel this morning and they usually take a few minutes to show temperatures in foreign cities. Along with the temperature they show a panning shot of an area in the city they are talking about.

They showed Hamburg this morning and all I saw was "Der Konig Der Lowen." Made me laugh to myself.

[Tiikeri]

One of my colleagues at work has a TLK mug. Normally it doesn't grab my attention, but when you consider that the people I work with are in their 30s and 40s and have no interests in anything other than football and page 3 girls, I found it quite amusing x)

[imported_kiara]

Last friday it was the first show of 3 or so with this new TV program called "Talented Peeps Contest 2007". Its a program where peeps with weird talents can show them up and be judged, and only 6 will win and go to the final rond. Anywayz, the 7th number for the nights show was a girl with a monkey plushie. She said she was a ventriloquist and was gonna do a little number with her friend Totto (the monkey plushie). So she said there on the chair and talked with the monkey and answered and so, and played with the judgers too, which was fun XD The monkey insulted one of them that normally works with contracts for artists stuff and host the IDOL show a bit. Then the monkey was asked what he wanted to be, and he said he wanted to be king. And it all ended up with the monkey singing I just cant wait to be king, with the girl (cuz he was so shy in front of that contract guy XD) singing Zazus lines. In the end she looked a bit confused and i thought as well as her that she sang wrong line, but after thinking a bit she didnt, and she got to the final :D

[This Land]

Originally posted by Safila
I found a tin that has picutres on it from TLK and that has a wind up key on it and it plays Circle of Life, filled it with easter eggs and sent it to This Land. *_*

indeed you did :D

[HasiraKali]

I was watching Law and Order this afternoon and while Brisco and Green were questioning a bodyguard on the street, a bunch of taxis with TLKoB signs on top drove by in the background. It was awesome. :lol:

[Azerane]

Originally posted by Safila
I found a tin that has picutres on it from TLK and that has a wind up key on it and it plays Circle of Life, filled it with easter eggs and sent it to This Land. *_*

Oh my gosh, you actually sent chocolate that far in the mail?!?! :lol: awesome. And I have two of those musical wind up tins, they've had a couple recently :D

Just a few little sightings to report I guess. We have a new lecturer for my biology class this term, and in the example diagram of the digestive system, she had put a picture of simba's head at the start of the digestive system to better illustrate where the head was :p Hehe, it made me smile.

Then in another class today, we were rewriting lyrics to a song and one guy said "yeah, no worries mate, hakuna matata." :D

[Haleo]

I found a Mufasa mask on EBay. XD

[HasiraKali]

Originally posted by Haleo
I found a Mufasa mask on EBay. XD

What's it look like? I wanna seeeee!

[imported_kiara]

why isnt this thread pawprinted? O_o

well anyway, while being on the circus (http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/KiaraZ/RANDOM%20EVENTS/STOCKHOLM/2007%20May%2019th%20-%20Circus/) today, a guy sang circle of life when the llamas were out O_o i was like "Crap, my mp3!" but my friend said she would record it on the cellphone (and she did in 3 parts) and send to me so i could listen, cuz my digital camera doesnt want to record movies with sound >_< After they had camels and sang the main title song for Aladdin, which was understandable, but CoL and llamas has what in common? :confused: We thought about that for long after and still wonder XD

[Safila]

Tonight on the Tv on the news, they were interviewing this family about something and they had 3 children, and they were all wearing TLK T-shirts...:lol:

[Marikunin]

On the Simpsons episode: Simpson Safari....the title alone speaks for itself. :D

EDIT: 400 posts! WHOOOOO!!!!

[imported_kiara]

ok, i just watched this Talent 2007 again, its semi final now (the monkey that sang just cant wait to be king went to the final 3 weeks ago if i didnt mention) and there was a magician competing today. First he had some cards and told the judgers to pick one, then he was about to guess what card it was with help from his ?dangerous animal?. As soon as he opened the animals box ?The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? from TLK3 started to play, and out from the box comes a marionette pluffie (a yellow duck) XD First he picks wrong card but then he take the right one, and when he got it, ?The Lion Sleeps Tonight? started to play :D

I recorded the duckie, it was just so fun I couldn?t stop laugh during his 5 minutes on stage XD (its not fun without music i notice, but it shall be a hippie song there from some movie :D)

*click*: http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/KiaraZ/?action=view&current=P5250016.flv

[zazulover01]

Wow, I haven't posted in a long time.

My mom got me this comic, Blokheds, and at first it was kind of confusing and I wondered why my mom just randomly picked this comic. That is until I saw this:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e320/zazulover01/lionkingref.jpg

[Marikunin]

On the news yesterday evening, Oprah took about 100 of the girls from her new school in Africa to Johannesberg (sp?) to see their first play-the Lion King, celebrating over 10 years on Broadway. It features an all South African cast. Needless to say, both my sister and I spazzed out when we saw this.

[LunarCat]

^ oh that's so cool!! yay Oprah!!! :D

[imported_kiara]

i wish i could have seen it too :D

I havent seen any TLK related nowadays, but remember that ventriloquist girl who sang Just cant wait to be king with her monkey? Well, she won the final and 1.000.000,- :D She didnt do a TLK number for the final number tho .. but the number was very cool anyway ^^

Show if someone wants to see ... (http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/KiaraZ/Movies/?action=view&current=P6010140.flv)Still no bloody sound >_<

[Marikunin]

Originally posted by Haleo
I found a Mufasa mask on EBay. XD
everything's on eBay. :haha:

[The-Lioness]

Oh my gosh, at goodwill there was a HUGE simba plushie. Or kopa? Looked more like kopa with the hair tuft, but I think it was supposed to be simba.. It was $5. I'm upset now because I didnt have $5 to buy it. XD
Maybe I'll get lucky and it will still be there next time I go. 8D

[Marikunin]

Today, when I went to Little Shelter in Long Island, *http://www.littleshelter.com*, there was a cat named Simba. :)

[Lucy Lioness]

Last night I was watching the new BBC drama series Jekyll (http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/jekyll/) . (Based on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It turns out that Mr. Hyde has a love of Disney, especially TLK. He had a music CD called 'The Lion King and other Disney Classic Songs' (or something like that).

Also, Hyde kept on comparing himself to a lion taking over another pride. He mentioned 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight' as well. In a very violent situation.

[imported_kiara]

While reading this thread, they played CoL (original with EJ) on the news, it was something about an artist putting out big pics of jungle animals in town, to bring the jungle to us, and in the background they played the song while they interviewed peeps and showed some pics. Everyone thought it was a great idea what the artist had done :D

[imported_kiara]

sorry for double posting but i found the ventriloquist girl and monkey who sang JCWTBK on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEWEyn5E_j8 :D

[HasiraKali]

DUDES! The opening dance on So You Think You Can Dance tonight is to the Lioness Hunt from TLKoB! :D Too bad the choreography suuuuuuucks. >.> <.<

[imported_kiara]

oh my, i wanna see!! :gasp:

[Dyani]

OMG When I went to the gym today, the first music video that came up was Elton John's Circle Of Life. I had never seen it before. It. Is. Amazing.

:gasp:

[LunarCat]

At Adventure Camp we watched Lion King twice and everyone loved it! :D

[lion_roog]

I was watching a show called "Reba" and a character named Van said "I don't believe in ghosts...I believe in the Circle of Life - Hakunatatatatata!"

[HasiraKali]

:lol: I remember that episode. I think I mentioned it in here a while back. Was it on today? My mum watches that show religiously.

[lion_roog]

Originally posted by HasiraKali
:lol: I remember that episode. I think I mentioned it in here a while back. Was it on today? My mum watches that show religiously.

:haha:...I don't know if you get the CW station...but it was on that station, I always watch all those shows on there while I work out in my 100 degree room...:D

[HasiraKali]

So who watched Jeopardy today? ;) Final Jeopardy.

[imported_kiara]

i saw some Rubix Cube Balls with TLK pictures (3 of them) on a website .. *wants* >.<

Havent seen much TLK lately .. My uncles and I and some others had a big discussion about it recently tho XD

[Lion_King_300]

Originally posted by HasiraKali
So who watched Jeopardy today? ;) Final Jeopardy.

Oh man... I usually watch Jeopardy (at least the final question) but I missed it today? Was there a TLK reference? What was the clue?

I remember a couple years ago for kids week they had a set of clues taped by the Clue Crew from The Lion King on Broadway theater (I believe it was still the New Amsterdam) in New York City, that was really cool!

Here are some pictures from that episode, shown are Jimmy and Carol of the Clue Crew giving the clues on stage:


http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-10-18_DJ_18.jpg
Answer: This "Lion King" song tells us "the sun rolling high through the sapphire sky keeps great and small on the endless round"

Question: What is "Circle of Life?"

http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-10-18_DJ_02.jpg
Answer: It's a memorable moment in "The Lion King" when this baby lion cub is presented to the world atop Pride Rock

Question: Who is Simba?

(She even looks like she could play Rafiki!)

http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-10-18_DJ_04.jpg
Answer: Many of the costumes and sets in "The Lion King" were inspired by the art of this continent, where the show is set

Question: What is Africa?

http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-10-18_DJ_14.jpg
Answer: The title of this famous song from "The Lion King" means "no worries" and it's Timon and Pumbaa's motto

Question: What is "Hakuna Matata?"

http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-10-18_DJ_17.jpg
Question: In the stage version of "The Lion King", Zazu is no birdbrain--he's the aide-de-camp to this lion, Simba's father (Zazu squawks "Aide-de-camp!")

Answer: Who is Zazu?

---

Quite easy questions, but remember these are fifth and sixth graders!

[imported_kiara]

just when i was about to go to the lappy The Simpsons started on the TV and i saw a quick view of the TLKoB sign outside the theater there. It was a musical about Itchy and Scratchy, and they played the whole Circle of Life song with own text (Circle of Knife), and the whole scene was so TLKoBish XD .. Pics :p :

Opening (http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/KiaraZ/THE%20LION%20KING/P7260004.jpg)
Finale (http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/KiaraZ/THE%20LION%20KING/P7260008.jpg)

[Lion_King_300]

Originally posted by HasiraKali
So who watched Jeopardy today? ;) Final Jeopardy.

Category: Theatre Around the World

Answer:

This Swahili phrase has been said or sung more than 450,000 times in theatres all over the world

(scroll down for answer)


:thinks:






:thinks:





:hmm:





:confused:






:knowdees:




What is Hakuna Matata?

Good question! If I had watched the show and seen that category I would only guess that the question would be about TLKoB.

At least 1 of the 3 players got it right... and it was the smart one. The other two answered "Bravo" and "Kumbaya"!

[DarkPaw]

Originally posted by Lion_King_300
The other two answered "Bravo" and "Kumbaya"!

Bravo? :confused: Since when is that Swahili? :lol:

[HasiraKali]

:lol: There are a lot of words in the English language that are Swahili or based on Swahili, but "bravo", isn't one of them. :lol: I felt bad for the girl. I really didn't want that one kid to win. He seemed snobby.

[DarkPaw]

Exactly my point. :lol: Well, not everyone is obsessive (or at least knowledgeable) as we are.

[HasiraKali]

There's a Walmart here that has one of those things that kids can ride on for 50 cents shaped like Pumbaa. I freaked out when I walked in and saw it. :lol: It plays some weird generic song that sounds vaguely like Hakuna Matata. I'm going to try to go over there again this weekend and take some pictures. ;)

[DarkPaw]

People at the zoo always make references to Pumbaa when they see our Visayan pigs and our Babirusas. I don't bother to tell them he's neither of these species...And they seem to get it right when they say, "Rafiki!" at the Mandrills and "OMG TIMON!" at the meerkats. Too bad I won't be around when they "bring back" the Lions (AKA moveable pieces of living furniture) for the Simba references...

[imported_kiara]

I just got back from Spain (tis why i have been so absent latest 10 days XD) and over there i saw lots of TLK things. For one thing statues and CoL music, i also watched Chicken Little for the first time and the intro there had the TLK sun, and while reading a book (yes believe it or not but im reading a book on 300 pages about a complicated murder! :gasp: ) it said "she put the baby in bed and turned on The Lion King on the TV for the older kid, just to make sure she would be alone in the kitchen with her husband to take the abuse he gave her" .. I was like Woot! XD Nice choise.

[HasiraKali]

Here are some pictures of that ride thinger I was talking about the other day. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/hasirakali/TLK/100_7475.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/hasirakali/TLK/100_7476.jpg

Haha. :lol:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/hasirakali/TLK/100_7477.jpg

[imported_kiara]

zomg XD i wanna take a ride too :lol:

[HasiraKali]

If I could have, I'd have taken it home. :lol:

[imported_kiara]

theres a mickey mouse riding thing in my home town, and above it on the wall its a huge disney picture, but like every classical movies except TLK is showing on it x.x

[imported_kiara]

.. i found the duck show with the 2 TLK songs in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ97acgoMO4&mode=related&search= :D

[Kiara Serengeti]

I have a Pumbaa Ride at my Walmart Neighborhood Market.
Some dance group was doing a dance to Grasslands Chant (?) on the last epi of 'So You Think\Dance"

Here is the surprisingly addictive 'Simpsons' parody of TLKoB: http://youtube.com/watch?v=leSR1z_aeLU

Note that a non-existant play starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick is advertised on a marquee :)
:knowdees: :slimey:

[Tiikeri]

Hmm, one car I parked today had that Ultimate Disney album on the stereo, and CoL was playing when I was driving it.

[This Land]

BBC Radio One

Chris Moyels show

its always on when im working, and they where talking about Hakuna Matata and what it meant.

i see if i can get a repeated recording ^^

Edit:

I have the Recording, i got it off The BBC Website, you can hear reapted shows that have been on air, online ^^

Click Here to listen ^^ (http://media.putfile.com/Lion-King-On-BBC-Radio-One---Chrish-Moyles-Show)

ok it isnt a sighting, its a hearing XD

[misty]

i seen the timon and pumbaa series b4 and i think its kinda realated 2 the lion king!In some of the episodes, they say some of the quotes from the 1st movie!

[imported_kiara]

in the serie Brandy and Mr Whiskers, mr Whiskers say something and then is like " ... or was it Hakuna Matata?"

[HasiraKali]

I'm on hold with Disney Dining and they just played Circle of Life. I hope it's a sign. :D

[Vidan]

Doctor Who, "The Christmas Invasion" (2005)

SYCORAX LEADER:
I can summon the armada and take this world by force!

THE DOCTOR:
Well, yeah, you *could*, you could do that, course you could, but *why*? Look at these people, these human beings, consider their potential. From the day they arrive on this planet and blinking, step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen, more to do... no, hold on... sorry, that's the Lion King... but the point still stands!

[lion_roog]

I was watching "Drawn together" and they did a parody of the Lion King. The elf dude on the show escaped and left his friends (who were stuck in a van at a mall parking lot) and ran into two homeless dudes. they later started singing a song with made up words to the tune of Hakuna Matata. Later on, the elf dude saw Mufasa in a puddle of urine and decided to go back and rescue his friends. When he said goodbye to the homeless guys, he called them Ernie and Nathan.

[HasiraKali]

Haha. I haven't seen that show in forever. I didn't know it was still on.

[Azerane]

I was in the pet store the other day (yes, the pet store) and was walking past the section with dog toys... and they had a pumbaa squeaky toy for dogs :p

[This Land]

Originally posted by Vidan
Doctor Who, "The Christmas Invasion" (2005)

SYCORAX LEADER:
I can summon the armada and take this world by force!

THE DOCTOR:
Well, yeah, you *could*, you could do that, course you could, but *why*? Look at these people, these human beings, consider their potential. From the day they arrive on this planet and blinking, step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen, more to do... no, hold on... sorry, that's the Lion King... but the point still stands!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4gK707z_ME :D

[HasiraKali]

Originally posted by Azerane
I was in the pet store the other day (yes, the pet store) and was walking past the section with dog toys... and they had a pumbaa squeaky toy for dogs :p

:lol: I'd never get that for my dogs though, because they might mistake all the Pumbaa stuff lying around my room for their toys.

[Guntur]

Can You Feel The Love Tonight @ Ikea :D.

[lion_roog]

On King of the Hill, Hank was talking to a Buddhist monk who thought Bobby was the Dalai Lama reincarnated...The monk was saying some parable or something, and Hank said to him: "That doesn't make any sense, quit talking like a song from the Lion King."

[Daniel]

the latest one i've seen is in Talladega Nights.

I laughed my arse off when I heard it :D

[HasiraKali]

Originally posted by Daniel
the latest one i've seen is in Talladega Nights.

I laughed my arse off when I heard it :D

Bwahaha. I laughed so hard at that in the theater. No one else thought it was that funny apparently. I had it as my MSN user pic for a while too. :lol:

[Marikunin]

I was watching Cops 2.0 a few days ago. While some guy was being arrested for dealing marijuana, I noticed a small TV in the corner of the screen...it was playing TLK! (The scene with Rafiki talking to Simba under the stars)
I promptly spazzed out. :)

[imported_kiara]

speaking of seeing a TV in the background, in the news paper yesterday (on the front page as well) there was a pic of a family and story how they won a million and now a year later had a million to pay back cuz they just kept buy things .. And in the background on the pic you can see the familys new widescreen TV very big and with a great quality so that you could see what they were looking at at the moment: The Timon & Pumbaa show :D There was a pic of Timon with a cheese on his head .. cant remember what episode that is atm >.<

[lion_roog]

On Law & Order: SVU detectives Benson and Stabler were talking to an FBI dude about how bootleg DVDs are used in terrorism by Al Qaida. The FBI guy said "Last month we confiscated 15,000 copies of the Lion King, each with a message for sleeper cells".

[Lion_King_300]

I just got out of class today at the University of Washington and decided to get some lunch on the Ave (University Avenue, just off-campus), and all of a sudden I thought I heard the "Nants Ingoyama" chant from TLK! I really thought I was hearing stuff so I started to walk closer and it started getting louder...

Turns out one of the Frats on Greek Row - Sigma Alpha Epsilon, was blaring "Circle of Life" from the TLK movie over a loudspeaker while a few of the brothers were dancing to it on their frat balcony. One was holding some kind of plushie over the balcony like Rafiki - It was hilarious! And they looped the song, so it started again right after it ended. , and it was drawing quite a crowd.

I thought it was TLK rememberance day or something but seriously it was so loud you could hear it halfway across campus-people were like "What the hell is that???" Lion King music???" :lol:

Definitely the first time I've ever seen this kind of TLK sighting before in public.

It made my day :)

[lion_roog]

On the show "Just Shoot Me", Jack Gallo tells his daughter, Miya, "You were heckling our wedding vows", to which Miya replied "The woman was quoting the Lion King!"

[lion_roog]

I was watching the Simpsons and Homer was driving down the highway looking at signs, and one sign read:

Mr. T
Is in the
Lion
King

and it showed Mr. T in a lion costume...:D

[LunarCat]

Roog where do you find all these sightings!!! xD you see them everywhere!

[imported_kiara]

I got a whole list from a website youve prolly been hearing about, but its like thousands of movies and series where TLK has been mentioned and how :lol: I tried look for them all when getting hands on a certain movie in the list.

[lion_roog]

Originally posted by Lunarcat
Roog where do you find all these sightings!!! xD you see them everywhere!

:haha:...I'll just be watching TV and I'll see it...the Simpson's one was from a new episode.

[lion_roog]

On American Dad they showed Francine giving birth in the African plains with a mandrill helping her out. The mandrill had a staff like Rafiki, broke some sort of fruit over the baby, and put some of the fruit on its forehead. Then the mandrill held it up in the air and started making noise.

[Kopa]

I saw that on American Dad Roog and I laughed :lol: It was funny how Stan had the ear plugs in and as soon as he took them out....:lol:

[nathalie]

I was walking in Ghent last Sunday, and there was this guy, selling balloons.

He had Disney balloons, but strangely enough not from the ones he had painted on his car/truck thing (what's the English word for this? haha)

On 1 side, Lion King ^^

[imported_kiara]

i took some pics of a circus truck that had TLK painted on it .. very ugly .. Ill see if i find it somewhere in my overloaded PB :D

[Tiikeri]

Omid Djalili singing CoL in his stand up DVD :D

[Roku]

I was watching the travel channel and they mentioned Festival of the Lion King. Man, I wanna see that show...

[lion_roog]

I'm watching this standup comedian named Godfrey and he says "When you call my house, it's like the Lion King...'Is Godfrey there?'... 'No, Godfrey is not here'...'Mufasa?!'"

[Kalahari]

I once saw a vender selling hermit crabs and one of them had a little Pumbaa on it's shell.

[HasiraKali]

TLKoB was just an answer on Jeopardy. :lol: The catagory was "Songs from Musicals" and the clue was "One by One" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"

[Lion_King_300]

Wow, talk about a giveaway clue! I hope that was the $200 question.

If I were to write a whole category with TLKOB as the answer here's how I'd do it:

$200 - "One by One" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"

$400 - "One by One" and "I Just Can't Wait to be King"

$600 - "One by One" and "The Stampede"

$800 - "One by One" and "Grasslands Chant"

$1,000 - "One by One" and "Shadowland" or "Endless Night" - only knowable if you've seen the show or heard the soundtrack

Cool to hear that TLKOB got some exposure again!

I have a clip from an episode of Wheel of Fortune in 1995 where TLK helps this 16 year old girl win a $26,000 Camaro convertible in the bonus round... I'll try to upload it next week, it's pretty awesome. I wish that was my bonus puzzle!

[O_o]

I had 3 sightsnings last week;

1. On the wordcontest thing on TV the question was Whats the name of the cub growing up to be king i nthe lion king 1994? And no one knew the answer ...

2. I saw an ER serie of som kind where the doctor asked if they had seen TLK as it was the circle of life and the doctor #2 was sensetive and such about sad movies.

3. Before Eurovision song contest start we need a winner from this country to sing there and the first week started last week (and tomorrow they are in my town so its crazeh in city now), and a new stand up comic guy had a poem to read and it was something about TLK. The video can be found on youtube but has no energy look for it now.

[TheColorYellow]

Hmm, I saw a stuffed Nala last week. Then I saw TLK 2 on disney channel sometime before that. That's it.

[HasiraKali]

On Leno just now, he was saying that President Bush is in Africa. But he's disappointed because the leader he was most looking forward to meeting was The Lion King. :lol: The band played Hakuna Matata.

[Anyango]

Love your icon, and that is hilarious! XD I wish I could've watched it!

Well, not but like a few days ago I was watching the Travel channel and they were showing about the BEST and most Unique McDonalds. The showed the one on Broadway, and right NEXT to it was TLKoB!!! :D

[Lucy Lioness]

I went to the dentists today - and there was a poster with Timon and Pumbaa on it in the examination room (with teh big chair of doom!). I can't remember exactly what it was advertising, because I was more interested in what the dentist was doing at the time (lol) but it had to have been something to do with teeth (using my great power of deduction, hehe).

[Sombolia]

http://xkcd.com/93/

Haha. That's one of my favorite webcomics too.

[Sombolia]

Sorry for the double post.

Has anyone else seen Be Kind, Rewind yet? I don't wanna give anything away but there's a scene about TLK in it - it made me laugh so hard, haha.

It was a good movie, too, so go check it out... ;)

[LunarCat]

^ omg! is it out? i saw a trailer for it and I believe I saw a little TLK tidbit :lol: it looks really good

[HasiraKali]

Jay Leno had all kinds of predatory animals on his show on Friday. In between animals, like while they were being walked out, the band would play Hakuna Matata.

[LunarCat]

My bio teacher made a reference to TLK this morning, we're talking about gene frequency and gene pools, and he just spouts out the "shallow end of the gene pool" line. I was impressed! quite an abscure quote! :wicked::evilgrin:

[childlike_ghost]

I had a similar experiance in english class yesterday. Our teacher wants us to make a venn diagram contrasing and comparing Hamlet to TLK. It's one assignment I don't mind!

[HasiraKali]

I remember writing a paper about that in one of my university classes. :lol: I included other Shakespeare though, not just Hamlet.

[Sombolia]

I've been posting in this thread kind of a lot lately, haha oh well.

I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert is one of my favorite books; I was rereading recently and came across this passage I forgot existed. Of course if you're not familiar with Stephen's sense of humor the following might come off as kinda weird, lol:


Not content to pour their poison across the silver screen, the LA studio heavyweights who run Broadway are now evidently shipping it directly to the Heartland.

Need proof? Just look at this headline out of Wisconsin from the Appleton News-Leader:

Disney's "The Lion King" is about to hit town
The staff at the Sommers Center for the Preforming Arts is preparing for the arrival of the Broadway hit. "Everybody is very excited," said town manager Barbara Kingholm.

Sadly, these milk-fed innocents clearly don't know what they're in for.

But I've been there, so let me warn you. The effects of live theater are way harder to shake off than movies. It's frighteningly intimate and, worst of all, you've got no control. It's like breaking up with a girl in person.

When I watch The Lion King at home, I can safely end the movie before Mufasa's untimely death. But when I bring my remote control to the live performance, it doesn't work. All I can do is watch helplessly while the hyenas execute their perfect crime.

"Slow down, you wildebeests! That lion is your king!"

Apparently yelling at the stage is verboten, even if to challenge Scar to pistols at dawn.

I am always ushered out at this point, but not soon enough to spare me a harsh dose of reality. You see, a movie you can dismiss when the lights come up.

But a play? Those animals were real people.

lol TL;DR.

[LunarCat]

^ :lol: thanks for sharing that Somby! I love Stephen Colbert xD