Lion King — 1 1 2 Internet Archive

Here, Rafiki shows Timon the "threads." One thread: Timon never leaves the colony; he becomes a bitter tunnel-foreman; Scar wins because no one leads Simba to the jungle. Another thread: Pumbaa is caught by hunters in season two; Simba never learns vulnerability. A third thread: Timon and Pumbaa find Simba dead of poison berries on their first night; they die of shame three days later.

What appeared was not the direct-to-video Lion King 1½ she remembered from childhood. This was the ur-version . The one the directors, Bradley Raymond and others, had sketched before Disney’s "meta-humor" mandate took over. The timecode in the corner read 1999-02-31 —a date that never existed. lion king 1 1 2 internet archive

The story you know is the one that survived. Here, Rafiki shows Timon the "threads