Paraguay Parable

"Paraguay Parable" is an episode from The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa.

Synopsis
A lazy anteater tricks Timon and Pumbaa into competing over who can catch the most bugs.

Plot
"Paraguay Parable" begins by introducing Timon, a meerkat, and Pumbaa, a warthog. At the start of the episode, Timon catches a bug, saying that both he and Pumbaa caught it. However, an anteater eats the bug Timon caught and Timon asks the anteater why he did so. The anteater asks Timon and Pumbaa if they could catch some bugs for him because he's too lazy to get some himself. Timon tells the anteater how much trouble it takes to catch a bug.

The anteater tells Timon that he's the greatest bug catcher in the whole universe, which makes Timon feel a grateful and a little embarrassed. But then, the anteater tells that it's thanks to Pumbaa that Timon can catch bugs. Timon then talks about Pumbaa's way of catching bugs, then the anteater talks Pumbaa into telling Timon that he can't talk to him that way, then the anteater talks Timon into reminding Pumbaa that he's the one who caught the bug from earlier, and then Timon and Pumbaa have a little argument over their ways of catching bugs.

The anteater makes Timon and Pumbaa have a competition to see who can catch the most bugs on one's own. When the contest starts, Timon struggles to move a log, then Pumbaa lifts the log up and insists that he and Timon help each other catch bugs, but Timon would rather do so on his own since it's a competition. Timon and Pumbaa then catch different kinds of bugs.

After Timon and Pumbaa catch the bugs, the anteater sees how many bugs each of them caught by eating them, which surprises Timon and Pumbaa. The two caught 243 bugs and the anteater wants the two to go catch some more bugs. Timon and Pumbaa realize that the competition was a trick to go catch bugs for the anteater.

Timon and Pumbaa tie the anteater's mouth to the ground and use a construction vehicle to make the anteater spit out the bugs. After that, Pumbaa sees the bug Timon caught in the beginning and tells Timon that he's the winner of the competition. But when the anteater, who is all flat from the construction vehicle, shows up and tells the two that he's hungry, Timon gives him the bug from earlier and the suggests to Pumbaa that they call the competition even.

Trivia

 * Last episode in which Timon's voice is done by Nathan Lane.