[quote="TheLionPrince"]There is a line in
Brian Tiemann's version of the script in which Zazu says, "Take that, you stupid..." [/quote]
That line actually
is in the film. I was just watching my DVD of the Diamond Edition last night, and it is there.
[quote="Simba the Lion King"]Well I don't see why they would ADD a scene to the story that made it redundant.[/quote]
First of all, you have to take 1.5/3 with a grain of salt because it was made to be funny. Secondly, they were trying to give Timon and Pumbaa more role in the battle than was shown in the first film. In battle, everyone participates redundantly. If you watch the original movie and think that each character only fought when you can see them or if they did keep fighting that none of their moves and/or skirmishes were similar to the others, then you're just being ridiculous. Every character taking on any additional hyenas or groups of hyenas off-screen would be a redundant scene. They aren't "adding a scene that made it redundant," they are showing a different scene to give insight into what we didn't see before, and, just like with the scene when they are fighting the hyenas with the tunnels not being in the first movie, adding the "Mr.Pig" scene to 1.5 would have been redundant. Fans had already seen that scene. With 1.5, they wanted to show other things, the "story within the story." So, naturally they won't include every scene from the original because we already
know those things happened. They're going to show us things we didn't see, and if it's redundant alongside an original scene, then the scene we already know of will remain in the first film and we will be shown another one. But that doesn't mean the scene 1.5 didn't show didn't happen.