Aside from playing Simba, Jonathan Taylor Thomas is best known for portraying Randy Taylor on Home Improvement.

The swahili word "rafiki" means friend in English.

After Simba's uncle Scar murders Mufasa, Simba is manipulated into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile.

Jim Cummings, who voiced Ed, the dim-witted hyena, also made a guest appearance as Scar in certain lines of "Be Prepared" after Irons blew his voice out.