Rocky Mountain Lie

"Rocky Mountain Lie" 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 leads Pumbaa on a wild goose chase around the Canadian Rockies to search for Pumbaa's new bug friend who Timon believes he accidentally ate.

Plot
At the start of the episode, Timon and Pumbaa are snowed in at a cabin and they have trouble opening the door. The door finally opens and the two pop out of the snow. Timon suggests that he and Pumbaa split up to find food. Timon uses a periscope to look for food. He sees a rock which he assumes that there are bugs under it. The meerkat lifts the rock and sees a paper that says "Bugs gone to Florida."

Timon takes another rock and there's nothing. The meerkat finds another rock, lifts it up, and finds a grizzly bear. Meanwhile, Pumbaa looks for food while singing a verse of Jingle Bells. The warthog finds an icicle with a bug stuck on it. Pumbaa goes to the cabin with the icicle and places it on a table. When Pumbaa is about to eat the bug, the bug sneezes and tells Pumbaa to keep up what he's doing. Pumbaa finds out that he's a stinkbug and tells the bug that he also has a stinky problem. The two become friends and Pumbaa goes to get some woods for fire while the bug lies on the table.

As the bug lies down, three other bugs find him and apologize to him for what they've done and ask him to join their group. After the bugs leave, Timon comes in the cabin starving. A spider throws a bug to the table and Timon gets excited and eats the bug. Then, Pumbaa comes in with woods. Pumbaa sees that the stinkbug is gone, making Timon believe that he ate him. Pumbaa tells Timon that he's a stinkbug and Timon passes out and has a nightmare of him being in a court room for lying to Pumbaa, surrounded by bugs that look like the stinkbug Pumbaa met.

After the nightmare, Timon lies to Pumbaa that a grizzly bear broke into the cabin and kidnapped the stinkbug. Pumbaa falls for it and he and Timon go searching for the bug. The two run into a cave. Timon tells Pumbaa that the bear and the bug are in there and pretends that he's rescuing the bug from the bear. After that, Timon sees a grizzly bear and he and Pumbaa get chased by it. After the two lose the bear, they run into three grizzly bears who are about to eat them.

The stinkbug gets kicked out of the group again and sees that Timon and Pumbaa are about to get eaten by grizzly bears. The big sneezes and makes a huge snowball as he's falling, causing the bears to run away. Timon and Pumbaa see the bug and Timon realizes that this was the bug Pumbaa was talking about. The meerkat apologizes to his friend for lying and Pumbaa accepts his apology. The three get to the log where the bugs are and the stinkbug suggests that Timon and Pumbaa eat them.