Also called What About That Shadowy Place · Everything the Light Touches · Mufasa Warns Simba
Mufasa gives Simba the tour, Simba spots an exception, and Mufasa explains why they avoid it. Use the last panel to reveal the one cupboard, folder, or topic nobody wants to open.
The first panel establishes a comfortable territory. Simba’s question interrupts the tour, and Mufasa’s answer supplies the exception that makes the joke.
Unlike the single-image Lion King template, this version has room for a warning. The forbidden place can be very ordinary: an old group chat, a drawer of tangled cables, or a folder nobody maintains.
The three frames come from Disney’s 1994 animated film The Lion King. During Mufasa’s sunrise lesson, Simba asks about a dark area beyond their kingdom. Mufasa tells him he must not go there. [1] [2]
Online versions replace the kingdom and its boundary with other communities or spaces. This image keeps Simba’s question printed in the middle, so the new captions only need to establish the territory and explain the exception. [2]
The Lion King introduces the conversation between Simba and Mufasa. [1]
Know Your Meme records an early edit that uses the scene to warn about an online community. [2]
User GhostlyFox-Akihiko shares another version of the altered conversation. [2]
Put your introduction in the sky above Mufasa and Simba in the first panel. The question in the middle is already part of the image. Add the reply at the bottom of the last panel.
Make the reply fit the place you introduced. An office tour might end at an abandoned project; a kitchen tour might end at the cupboard of mismatched lids.
Original captions to try with this template.
The folder called final has become the one place nobody wants to investigate.
An otherwise orderly kitchen has one cupboard that defeats the system.
The flourishing collection has one unsuccessful experiment outside the tour.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
Disney identifies the animated film and its wide release date.
Describes the original scene and records early captioned versions.
