Rafiki's Apprentice

"Rafiki's Apprentice" is an episode from The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa.

Synopsis
Rafiki's nephew uses the Magic Stick to help him gather gourds for his uncle. But he gets in over his head.

Plot
"Rafiki's Apprentice" begins by introducing Rafiki, a mandrill. At the start of the episode, Rafiki is about to take a nap, but then runs into his nephew, Nefu. Nefu wants to be just like his uncle and Rafiki will show him how. Rafiki shows Nefu an empty room where his nephew will be doing the work. Rafiki and Nefu go to gold gorbe trees, where Nefu will be taking out all the gorbes out and put them in the empty room.

Nefu carries some of the gorbes as he goes to the empty room, thinking this is hard work. He then falls down the stairs and the gorbes magically get on the shelves. Nefu sees Rafiki's stick lying on the wall and uses it to bring the trees to life and help him place the gorbes on the shelves.

After the room is filled with gorbes, one of the trees throws more in the room and Nefu says that the room is full enough. Then, Nefu uses Rafiki's stick kill the tree with a storm. Then, things go out of control when a hard wind blows and breaks Rafiki's stick in half and it starts raining and then snowing. Nefu runs into his uncle and tells him that he did all the work himself instead of saying that the trees helped him. Rafiki becomes suspicious and then sees one of the trees throwing a gorbes.

Rafiki asks Nefu about his stick and Nefu says that he didn't see any stick. Then Rafiki tells his nephew how he got his stick and Nefu tells the truth. Fortunately, Rafiki has a closet full of sticks and takes one of them gets everything back to normal. Rafiki gives Nefu half of his old stick and the two get inside Rafiki's tree. Then Nefu accidentally changes the color of Rafiki's tree, making it look like the color of a kilt.

Trivia

 * Nefu appears in the comic This Chore's a Bore.