Dealer's Choice Cut

"Dealer's Choice Cut" is an episode from The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa.

Synopsis
Timon plays a game of poker with some of the jungle animals. When Pumbaa is put up for bid against a man from a meat producing business who wins, Timon must rescue Pumbaa from being made into someone's lunch.

Plot
At the start of the episode, Pumbaa sees Timon preparing to play a game of poker with some jungle animals. Pumbaa wants to play too. The meerkat teaches his friend how to play poker, but Pumbaa doesn't quite understand the rules. So Timon makes Pumbaa just watch him and the animals play.

Night comes and Timon, a giraffe, a parrot, and a vulture are about to play poker. Pumbaa shows up with a bug, but Timon makes Pumbaa just watch the game. Then a man, Farmer Joe, shows up and plays with Timon and the animals.

The jungle animals later leave and now it's just Timon and Farmer Joe who are playing against each other while Pumbaa reads the rule book. Farmer Joe beats Timon at poker and he decides to take Pumbaa to his place where he's about to make the warthog someone's lunch.

Timon follows them. The meerkat gets in the building and sees Pumbaa about to get roasted. Timon tries to make his friend escape, but Pumbaa keeps to Timon about the rules just like in poker. The warthog then gets roasted. The scene cuts to a family about to eat Pumbaa, but then it shows that they're actually eating the rule book, which means that it was the book that got roasted and not Pumbaa.

Timon is lying on the floor sobbing. Then Pumbaa wakes him up with water and Timon is happy to see that his friend is still alive.