Talk:The Lion King (film)/@comment-25692211-20151101113021/@comment-25692211-20151104221837

But still, they could have at least introduced them beforehand. Have him meet them during the Just can wait to be King scene, where he talks to them without them figuring out his royal blood, and they're not seen again until that scene. The fact that they just happen to appear when a dark scene happened makes their role in the film feel like forced comic relief. You have to introduce your comic relief and establish their style of humor before the dark scenes, then it's easier to accept their form of humor afterwards.

For example, the Genie in Aladdin appears at the perfect point in the film. No one is dead, nothing remarkable has happened(yet), perfect scene to throw a bit of heart and humor in. But imagine if the Genie didn't start cracking jokes until Aladdin was drowning. That is exactly what Timon and Pumbaa's role feels like to me.