Timon & Pumbaa in Stand By Me (Theatrical Version)

Timon & Pumbaa in Stand by Me is a musical short film based on the Disney animated film The Lion King and the TV series Timon & Pumbaa. Timon sings "Stand By Me" along with three frogs while various unfortunate events keep happening to Pumbaa (Timon doesn't notice this). The short was released in theaters on December 22, 1995, attached to Walt Disney Pictures' Tom and Huck. It was also featured as a music video on selected VHS releases from Walt Disney Home Video in 1996, including A Kid in King Arthur's Court, The Big Green and Disney Sing Along Songs: Topsy Turvy, and was eventually inserted as a short episode of Timon & Pumbaa. The theatrical version contains the Walt Disney Pictures logo and opening titles and end credits, while home media and television standard-definition printing remove the Walt Disney Pictures logo and its original end credits and edit the opening scene to make it a music video (zooming at the very last scene). The theatrical version remained lost until it was recently discovered in a high-definition Russian-dubbed printing. It is unknown if the remastered version retains the 1990 Walt Disney Pictures logo, uses the current Disney logo, or excludes any logo (due to still being paired as an episode). Due to the Timon & Pumbaa TV series being remastered in high definition and cropped to the widescreen format worldwide, it is highly possible that the theatrical version might exist once again for all current printings (including international English broadcasts). It is unknown if the remastered TV series (including the remastered short film) may be added to Disney's streaming service set to be launched in 2019.