History Main / PinkElephants

* A Strong Bad Email from ''HomestarRunner'' mentioned a drink called "Pink Elephant Pants."

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_Tremens_%28beer%29 Ale Delirium Tremens]] (itself a pretty strong brew) uses pink elephants on its labels and associated merchandise.

* One ''GastonLagaffe'' strip involves an elephant painted pink that Gaston plans to use to prank one of his friends. However, M. De Mesmeker suffers collateral damage.

Drunks see things that aren't there. Animals are the commonest, even if they don't see the titular PinkElephants.

* {{Discussed}} several times in the ''LuckyLuke'' comic ''Western Circus'': Luke sees a circus elephant in the middle of American prairie, and later mentions that if it was pink and he was drunk, he wouldn't have any questions. Some time later, after the elephant goes on a rampage chasing a guy who wronged it, Luke calms it down, saying that it was just hallucinating pink men.

* In PGWodehouse's ''Uneasy Money'', Nutty sees a monkey and assumes this. Elizabeth, who wants him off the drink, pretends not to see it.

*** Yet another cartoon ("[=HoboBobo=]") has the young elephant Bobo trying to get to New York from Africa, and told that the best way to sneak onto the ship is to paint himself pink. Because nobody will admit to themselves that they're seeing a pink elephant. It works, but it turns out to work a little ''too'' well once he gets to the city.

* [[VodkaDrunkenski Russian drunks]] tend to see "green imps" (зеленые черти) rather than pink elephants.

* Brad Wong, the ''DeadOrAlive'' series' token [[DrunkenBoxing drunken fighter]] spends all of DOA3 and DOA4 searching for a mystical wine called "Genra". At the end of 4, he actually does find it. His ending video shows him drinking it and tripping hard, though this may just be to represent his euphoria upon finally finding the liquor of legend.

* In ''[[TonyHawksProSkater Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4]]'', Ollie the Magic Bum sees pink elephants occasionally, and on the College level, he asks you to grind on some poles and logs to collect them all.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where the town is accidentally dosed with peyote, TownDrunk Barney is able to drive off his threatening hallucinations by consuming enough liquor to summon a friendlier pink elephant hallucination. Curiously enough, the pink elephant seen here looks exactly like the ones seen in ''Dumbo''.

The first recorded usage of "pink elephants" was by Jack London in his autobiographical account ''John Barleycorn'', as in the page quote.

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* A Strong Bad Email from ''HomestarRunner'' mentioned a drink called "Pink Elephant Pants."
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A common effect is NoMoreForMe -- a drunkard who sees something in TheMasquerade to throw out his bottle. Perhaps wise. Any form of drinking alcohol is offered as a reason to discount eyewitness testimony, including the statement that he must have been drunk to see that.

The first recorded usage of "pink elephants" was by Jack London in his autobiographical account ''John Barleycorn'' in the page quote.

Compare SingleMaltVision. Should not be confused with [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife real pink elephants]] (well, for a given value of "real", anyway...) although it is quite common for any character who's been drinking to confuse them.

* In Nelson Bond's "The Gripes Of Wrath", pink elephants seen in an alcoholic daze are referred to as "beasts of bourbon" by a PungeonMaster.

* In ''{{Dumbo}}'', the DisneyAcidSequence "Pink Elephants on Parade"

* In Action Comics #7 (December 1938), in a story in which {{Superman}} lifts an elephant over his head while performing at the circus, a drunk in the crowd exclaims, "I don't mind seeing pink elephants, but (-hic-) this is too much!"

* In chapter 18 of Raymond Chandler's 1943 novel ''The Lady in the Lake'', a character refers to a doctor "who ran around all night with a case of loaded hypodermic needles, keeping the fast set from having pink elephants for breakfast."
* In Charles de Lint's ''Jack of Kinrowan'', an inebriated young woman sees a biker gang hunt down and kill a little man in a seemingly magical way one night. She first assumes the scene to be a hallucination, but one item from the scene remains: the dwarf's red cap. She later discovers that whenever she dons the cop, it allows her to see into the land of Faerie. Few humans can see it, but her drunken state allowed her briefly to break through.

*** Yet another cartoon ("HoboBobo") has the young elephant Bobo trying to get to New York from Africa, and told that the best way to sneak onto the ship is to paint himself pink. Because nobody will admit to themselves that they're seeing a pink elephant. It works, but it turns out to work a little ''too'' well once he gets to the city.

* In an episode of ''TheSimpsons'' where the town is accidentally dosed with peyote, TownDrunk Barney is able to drive off his threatening hallucinations by consuming enough liquor to summon a friendlier pink elephant hallucination. Curiously enough, the pink elephant seen here looks exactly like the ones seen in ''Dumbo''.
* In another ''Simpsons'' Barney is beating on the ground, yelling "TakeThat, snakes!" Lisa complements him on rehearsing for Whacking Day (where the townsfolk whack snakes). Barney's reply: "What's Whacking Day?"

* A Strong Bad Email from ''HomestarRunner'' mentioned a drink called "Pink Elephant Pants."

Compare SingleMaltVision. Should not be confused with [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife real pink elephants]] (well, for a given value of "real", anyway...)

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* [[VodkaDrunkenski Russian drunks]] tend to see "green imps" rather than pink elephants.

* [[VodkaDrunkenski Russian drunks]] tend to see "green imps" (зеленые черти) rather than pink elephants.

Compare SingleMaltVision.