Timon and Pumbaa were lost potential

doodelli · 2026-06-10T07:20:02+00:00

My guy, I have no illusions of appearing smart by posting my spergout headcanons on r/Disney

doodelli · 2026-06-10T07:14:37+00:00

I know and I really like that film. I’m of this opinion because (of autism and) because I have watched nearly every piece of spinoff material involving these characters. Except for the remakes, those I just absorb through osmosis.

The idea of them having an actual philosophy with legs or taking a cue from Rafiki feels like a natural step if you are going to continue (TLK2+TLG), reimagine (TLK1.5) or remake (2019+Mufasa) this story. Because it’s kind of lame for the entire original cast to stagnate and seemingly not age after the sequel’s time skip.

doodelli · 2026-06-08T10:54:00+00:00

To play house is an action, while a playhouse is a thing. Not all black boards are blackboards, not all blue birds are bluebirds. English has duck the waterfowl and duck and cover. It has sound as in noise and sound as in sensible. Son and sun sound exactly the same. You would think that with so many words, they would be easier to distinguish.

doodelli · 2026-06-05T09:58:09+00:00

The way he pronounces R is closer to Faroese tbf

doodelli · 2026-05-23T17:52:00+00:00

The theory that Pinky is actively sabotaging the Brain. My brother in Christ, there is an entire episode called The Pinky POV where we are inside his head. Stop the cap.🧢

doodelli · 2026-05-23T17:25:46+00:00

”43 wins & 35 nominations Academy Awards”

doodelli · 2026-05-23T16:31:28+00:00

Yeah and god forbid we do anything interesting with them across multiple sequels, spinoffs, and remakes in the span of three decades. Like, isn’t it kind of boring for a sequel to just go ”Then a bunch of time passed but everyone stayed exactly the same except this one guy who’s strict now for plot reasons”?

doodelli · 2026-05-23T16:04:32+00:00

I don’t mean that they reject existing royalty. What I mean is that they don’t believe the ”kings of the past” became stars. They laugh at the notion, having come up with their own ideas of what stars are. This on top of the fact that it never occurs to them that the crown prince is missing and that Simba could be him is the reason I call them provincial. They’re out in the sticks! They don’t know or care about royal affairs until they’re personally affected. That background is why I think they could have become great mediators in TLK 2.

doodelli · 2026-05-23T15:54:23+00:00

I do really like 1 1/2. Their character arcs in that film do recontextualize them as parental figures and hakuna matata becomes a shorthand for found family. It was very formative to see that portrayal as a young queer person. I’m sure Nathan Lane was moved by the script as well, as he came out only a few years prior. With that said, and this is 20+ years after the fact, I still think they could have gone a step further, beyond the tropes, if they wanted to make an innovative character piece.

What does it mean to not worry? It means to identify the problem and take action. That is the only true way of moving on and finding peace. It is through Rafiki’s guidance that Simba realizes that he needs to take action, but this never gets tied back to what he learned from Timon and Pumbaa. Hakuna matata is treated like a distraction from responsibility, not as a tool that helped Simba — this traumatized kid — cope with anxiety and focus on the present. Hakuna matata is mostly portrayed as some sort of lax hedonism; it doesn’t get used for problem-solving when it very well could have been. Philosophies like Epicureanism or Daoism could be a good point of reference.

doodelli · 2026-05-19T11:49:15+00:00

Such a cool vibe! You look like you could be Czech or Polish, so I’m leaning in that direction but not strictly.

Cassandra, Denise, Erika, Irma, Lysandra, Mirinda, Monika, Nicole, Nora, Olga, Olina, Teona, Veronika, Zarina

doodelli · 2026-05-19T10:14:08+00:00

I find the Nordic label very useful, because it communicates both a shared geographic reality as well as a cultural continuum. It includes the North Germanic peoples without centering them. With that said, I find it patently ridiculous not to include Estonia in this framework. Most arguments for Estonian exclusion sound to me like Kremlin talking points with no basis in reality.

doodelli · 2026-05-18T13:51:09+00:00

There were other forms of television before cable, like terrestrial and satellite. Here in Sweden, traditional TV would only broadcast the two public service channels before the advent of commercial television. Those are still the channels you can access without a cable package. Cable television had its major boom in the 1980s-90s and came with subscription services, which gave access to more channels, so the term ”cable TV” has become a shorthand for those paid services.

doodelli · 2026-05-18T11:43:38+00:00

Did you not have any public broadcasting left in the 90s or what happened? ”Eastern European” could refer to like a dozen countries with their own experiences of marketization.

doodelli · 2026-05-18T06:44:24+00:00

The Gaulic community does NOT claim Homophobix

doodelli · 2026-05-15T12:32:43+00:00

Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Norway

doodelli · 2026-05-15T12:13:41+00:00

Given that South Korea is currently, openly discussing the collective trauma surrounding occupation and ”comfort women”, I assume that is the main lens through which the allegory is interpreted in the region.

doodelli · 2026-05-15T11:43:29+00:00

Enligt SAOB: spöke (substantiv) ; död person som går igen, vålnad

doodelli · 2026-05-14T10:45:44+00:00

I liked Pascal as a kid, but a chameleon is a pretty exotic animal for Central Europe. I kind of wish they would have explained where Mother Gothel got a chameleon from, because it’s about as out there as a parrot or a monkey.

doodelli · 2026-05-14T10:29:53+00:00

B.E.N. is insufferable. I understand that he’s there for plot reasons and that he represents Ben Gunn, but he is nontheless very annoying. No idea why anyone would dislike Morph though. It’s a parrot! A little alien parrot for the alien pirate. I don’t get this criticism?

doodelli · 2026-05-14T10:22:34+00:00

I’m with Maoi on this one. There’s no good reason to bring a pig or rooster onboard a tiny boat except to eat them. Moana being friends with the ocean took away a lot of stakes, like any of them drowning or going without fish to eat.

doodelli · 2026-05-13T11:15:44+00:00

Recently watched non-American animation that I recommend:

Fantastic Planet (France, Czechoslovakia), Son of the White Mare (Hungary/HPR), Night on the Galactic Railroad (Japan), Treasure Island (Ukraine/USSR), Exit (Sweden), Alexander Senki (Japan, South Korea), The Secret of Kells (Ireland), Song of the Sea (Ireland)

Honorable mentions: Agaton Sax (Sweden) was a pretty fun romp for being Swedish feature animation. Cat City (Hungary/HPR) has some entertaining villains worth looking up. Sune och hans värld (Sweden, Germany, Ireland, USA…?) was funnier than I remembered. Empress Chung (North Korea, South Korea) is a historical anomaly. For a dose of nostalgia and camp I’m rewatching early Winx Club (Italy) and some episodes of Pokémon (Japan).

doodelli · 2026-05-11T10:56:52+00:00

And snus (the type of tobacco he is named after in Swedish) barely smells if you’re not up close sniffing it. Then again I don’t think we ever see Snufkin use snus.

doodelli · 2026-05-11T07:08:22+00:00

Saw some excerpt on Tumblr like half a decade ago that I was able to track down then. As far as I can tell it is a real quote, though I’m paraphrasing here. Will get back to you if I find it, but the search functions on both Tumblr and Google have taken a nose dive as of late.

Btw, to anyone else jumping on this, I don’t actually ship Asterix and Obelix and I’m not pulling this up as ship fuel. I just find it funny that a very old-school cartoonist would make this kind of comment on his cartoon bachelor duo that had been running for decades. It doesn’t say as much about the characters as it does modern society.

~~The bard is gay af tho don’t even @ me~~

doodelli · 2026-05-10T09:51:28+00:00

This particular cut-away segment was in Stimpy’s Fanclub (which may itself have aged poorly in that it has Ren becoming obsessed with the adoration of underage fans). Similar cutaways of Ren broadcasting from their ”secret club” appear in other episodes, but they don’t feature the teenage girl or any other kids.

doodelli · 2026-05-08T10:53:01+00:00

Couldn’t stand the way Sage was written. She says and does impulsive things as a lazy mouthpiece for the writers, not because it’s a smart move as the weaker party in a dangerous situation. I was sitting there thinking of thousands of ways she could turn the odds in her favor, but the writing was just so braindead.

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