Pride Lands

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... oh wait, wrong story!

Someone posted two original The Lion King scripts from the 1990!
https://sites.google.com/site/disneylionking1990script/

Rafiki was named Kwashi back then... and he was the narrator!

Simba: Hey. I really am looking for my cousin. Have you seen her.
Baby baboon 1: Maybe Uncle Kwashi know.
Baby baboon 2: Yeah. He know everything.
(...)
Kwashi: (When Kwashi speaks we recognize his voice: he's the narrator.) What have we here?

Mufasa thinks that Rafiki is ulgy:

Simba: Papa, what was that ugly thing?
Mufasa: Kwashi?
Simba: No, the one that tried to eat us.

They have known each other since Mufasa's childhood:

Kwashi: "you must remember that I knew his father, Mufasa, as a cub, and knew Mufasa's father too."

Aaaand where Zazu slept?

Zazu, napping away in Mufasa's mane, is disturbed by his master's facial acrobatics.

It's funny because it's true:

Simba: Want to play "King of Beasts"?
Nala: How do we play that?
Simba: I go to sleep and you hunt me up something to eat.

I'm sure this was already discussed somewhere in the Tree.. Oh, here's the link: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=757t&start=1545
Maybe we should cut that into a separate thread?

I never made it through the older script. I can't put my finger on what's wrong with it, but I couldn't read it for long. Thanks for the quotes, they're fun!

The newer one, on the other hand, is very interesting. And it explains why some amazing but totally out-of-context illustrations in TAoTLK book come from, like this one. But I can see why it never made it into production, and I very much prefer the final version over this one.
Update: the pics being discussed here also illustrate one of these scripts.