Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
Timon: Pumbaa, I don't wonder; I know.
Pumbaa: Oh. What are they?
Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that, uh... Got stuck up on that big bluish-black thing.
Pumbaa: Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
Timon: Pumbaa, with you, everything's gas.
Young Simba: Hey! Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?
Shenzi: Like... You?
Young Simba: Oops.
Young Simba: Isn't it great?
Young Nala: We could get in big trouble.
Young Simba: I know.
Timon: What do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the hula?
Young Simba: But, Zazu, you told me that they were nothing but slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers.
Zazu: Ixnay on the upidstay.
Banzai: Who you callin' upidstay?
Pumbaa: It's our motto.
Young Simba: What's a motto?
Timon: Nothing. What's a motto with you?
Timon: Who's the brains in this outfit?
Pumbaa: Uh...
Timon: My point exactly.
Answer: (1) It's a real phrase from the Swahili language and, as stated in the film, translates roughly to "no worries" (literally "there are no worries"). (2) The line is a reference to Sidney Poitier's detective character Virgil Tibbs from In The Heat Of The Night and his famous reply of "They call me Mister Tibbs" when asked what they call him back home. The film's sequel, focusing on Poitier's character, actually used the line as the title.
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