Don't Break the China

"Don't Break the China" is an episode from The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa. It is also one of the episodes in Dining Out with Timon & Pumbaa.

Synopsis
Timon and Pumbaa attempt to reunite a lost baby Panda with its parents by trekking all over China.

Plot
"Don't Break the China" begins by introducing Timon, a meerkat, and Pumbaa, a warthog. The episode starts with Timon and Pumbaa arriving to China to eat Chinese bugs. Timon then takes out a "fortune cockroach" and he and Pumbaa read the tag that says "You will soon bear a great reward." Timon doesn't believe the tag and then, he and Pumbaa hear and then see a baby panda crying. The panda uses Timon as a tissue to blow his nose. Pumbaa feels sorry for the panda and wants to cheer him up. Timon comes up with a "panda cheering up joke," but the panda and Pumbaa don't find it very funny. Timon then tells the panda that "it's not like he's lost and cold and alone and he may never see his parents again." The panda cries and the two now know why he's crying: he lost his parents. Timon says that if they help the panda find his parents, they will receive a great reward.

Timon, Pumbaa, and the panda go find the panda's parents, but then the three run into a cliff. The three built a bridge, but the panda is too scared to pass. Pumbaa tells Timon that it doesn't look very safe, but Timon disagrees and the meerkat steps on a plank and all the planks fall down leaving two ropes. Pumbaa, with the panda on his head and Timon on the panda's tummy, crosses the rope. But the rope breaks and the three fall, run into a Chinese man raking, then the Chinese Pavilion, and then the Great Wall of China.

Timon, Pumbaa, and the panda try to find a way out of the Great Wall of China. Timon has an idea to go under the wall. Timon digs a hole, and before the three go in, the meerkat asks the panda if he's afraid of anything that could possibly be in the hole and panda shakes his head "no" to all of the obstacles Timon mentioned. Timon is ready to get in, but Pumbaa says that the hole's too small for him to fit in. So Timon suggests that they put the panda in the hole first, but the hole is too small for the panda to go in as well. Pumbaa jumps from the top of the wall and the three get in the hole. Then they get thrown out of the ground and they land to where Timon and Pumbaa arrived at the beginning.

Timon finds his and Pumbaa's suitcase and tells Pumbaa "they're back where they started." The panda cries and Timon tells Pumbaa how it's possible that the panda lost his parents, unaware that he's under the panda's father. Timon sees the father and runs to Pumbaa's back, and the baby panda is happy to see his dad. Timon asks Pumbaa how much their reward's gonna be and Pumbaa says they already have the reward by looking at the panda happy to see his mother and father. Timon says "virtue is its own reward" and he and Pumbaa leave, but then run into three baby rhinos crying. Pumbaa says that they're probably lost and Timon says that he and Pumbaa are gonna be rich.