NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS INGONYAMA BAGITHI BABA!Explanation The movie's rather... attention-grabbing opening sticks in the minds of just about everyone who watches it. It's also extremely recognizable, making it easy to parody.
It's the circle of life / and it moves us aaaaaaaalllllllllll....
Jokes about "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" being Simba (unintentionally) wishing for the circle of life to take its course on his father.
It's very popular to take the scene of Scar saying "Long live the king" as he prepares to drop Mufasa off the cliff, and re-enacting it with other characters when one usurps another in some manner.
I'm Surrounded by Idiots.Explanation Scar's Terrible Trio of hyenas bring this reaction out of him. This line can be used in a situation where one is surrounded by stupidity.
Zazu singing songs to Scar Explanation A video trend where, instead of singing "It's a Small World"/"I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts", he sings other songs to try to appease Scar, which often fails, though in some videos it succeeds.
"Your [denotative term] is calling you." "Before sunrise, he's your [denotative term]".
"Mufasa-Mufasa-Mufasa!" "Ooooh, say it again!"
"THEY CALL ME MISTAH PIG! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"WHO'S THE MONKEY?!"
"Gee, I always thought [stars] were balls of gas burning billions of miles away!"
Many a fan has jokingly rewritten Simba and Mufasa's conversation about the Shadowlands so that it refers to a bitter sports team rivalry, a city (or state, or even national) rivalry, a fandom rivalry, etc.
"Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is ________." "Wow! But what about that shadowy place?" "That's ________. You must never go there, Simba!"
A screencap of Simba and Mufasa looking over the Shadowlands has been captioned with (usually sports related) jokes such as this◊.
The dialogue as Mufasa and Simba observe the Pridelands is often shortened to "One day, Simba, all these will be yours." Which led to a Monty Python joke afterwards:
Timon and Pumbaa's dialogue when they first meet Simba has been repurposed to have them discuss the dress, a photograph which became a viral internet sensation on 2015.
Timon: Gee, he looks blue. Pumbaa: I'd say brownish-gold.
For a long time, The Lion King has been accused of ripping off Kimba the White Lion. After YourMovieSucks.org debunked the "Kimba rip-off" claim on his channel, many people found out that the various Kimba series are weird, and started joking The Lion King would be a much better movie if some of the more absurd parts of Kimba were ripped off. In particular, Kimba keeps his dead dad's hide/corpse around, and even talks to it - this led to jokes that TLK would be even better if Simba dragged Mufasa's corpse around during the latter half of the film.
Thisintentionally poorly-animated version of Mufasa's death scene is often shared around the web, due to an otherwise serious scene being made silly by the strange and janky animation.
Scar himself looks like foreign, weak and with very female moves. Explanation A line from a now-deleted Youtube video making several comparisons between The Lion King and Kimba the White Lion. After YourMovieSucks.org made fun of the line in his video about Kimba, it started getting used in a lot of Scar memes.
Jokes have been made about how the part toward the end of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" where Nala gives Simba a come-hither look appears to be the moment when Kiara was conceived... and Timon and Pumbaa watched.
"Uncle Max! We're gonna watch the movie!" Explanation The ending scene of the movie where Max, despite Timon not wanting to, rewinds the movie to the beginning. Many parodies of the scene, and to a lesser extent the similar scene at the start of the film, have been created that use different movies and TV shows.
Some memes have gone around joking that they don't want a remake because they don't want to have to go through the dramatic moments and Tear Jerkers of the original film all over again.
Beyoncé's casting as Nala led to many memes revolving around her (particularly the “Beyoncé?!?” meme).
The film — despite being one of Disney's most high profile projects in years — getting such a middling critical reception resulted in some fans bringing up the old accusations of Disney bribing critics, saying they must have forgotten to send out the checks this time.
Considering how bafflingly restrained Eric Andre is during most of the press surrounding the movie, fans joked about how Eric is constantly being watched by Disney assassins to be on his best behavior in the lead-up to the film.
This fancomic isn't the only time fans have had Azizi quote some of Eric Andre's best bits.
John Oliver has said that "Invisible Beyonce" has become something of a running in-joke amongst the cast, due to her being absent for a cast photo, but photoshopped in later.
For a song called "Can You Feel The Love Tonight", the song clearly takes place in daylight, leading to many joking that it should be called "Can You Feel The Love This Afternoon", or joking about the African midnight sun, that someone forgot to turn off.
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