The Forest Hunters

"The Forest Hunters" is the fourth episode of the second season of Bambi, and the forty-eighth episode overall. It first aired on October 7, 2000, on ABC as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning.

Summary
Bambi and Thumper both stumble upon a parallel universe where forest animals are living like normal humans would while Man has become the hunted. They appear to like the new universe that they're in at first, as they don't have to worry about Man being in the Forest and hunting them down. However, there's just one problem... The forest animals are hunters themselves, which means that the duo could potentially be in grave danger! Bambi and Thumper will have to work together to get back to the normal universe before they get hunted down, but are the Forest Hunters actually bad, or is there still some good in them?

Plot
In the forest, Bambi and Thumper talk about what they have encountered in their venture today, but when Thumper tells him how Man tend to hunt forest animals, Bambi wonders how awesome it would be if they and the hunters switched roles. As they discussed the possibilities of being forest hunters and hunting down Man, they discovered a nearby lake with a magical waterfall. They proceeded to check out the place, curious as to why the waterfall was deemed "magical", but they just proceeded to play like normal, splashing in the water and jumping around, until Thumper accidentally stumbles into the magic waterfall, leaving Bambi to go after Thumper, as the magic waterfall disappears.

The duo end up in the same place as they entered through, but in what appears to be a parallel universe, where they noticed a human just grazing about in the grass, confusing them both until they hear gunshots in the distance, and the human trots off to a safe place. Bambi and Thumper began to worry, only for them to forget their worries almost immediately, when the gunshots turns out to be coming from Bambi, who appears to be different from the Bambi in the prime universe. Before any questions could be asked, Hunter Bambi takes them to his home in the forest, where his fellow forest hunters live.

After introducing his forest hunter buddies to Prime Bambi and Thumper, they give the duo their nicknames of "Bambo" and "Thump", as not to get confused with their Forest Hunter counterparts. Bambo and Thump are then sent by the forest hunters to do training to become official forest hunters. During training, they discuss why Bambi and his friends have become forest hunters in this universe, thinking that it was to "avenge Mother", but is met with the response that they always have been hunters, even his mother, confusing the deer and the rabbit as the hunter deer gives off a smirk to the duo.

One night, prime Thumper leads prime Bambi to a log cabin in the forest, where they discover to their horror that the cabin doesn't just contain human plaques from which they were hunted, but also plaques of other animals, including foxes, bears, and even deer!

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