History Main / PinkElephants

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/GreenLanternCorps'', an alien GL, Salakk, gets intoxicated by a spiked drink and actually ''creates'' a horde of pink elephantine creatures.

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/GreenLanternCorps'', an alien GL, Salakk, gets intoxicated by a spiked drink and actually ''creates'' a horde of pink elephant-ish creatures.

* ''{{ComicBook/Tintin}}'': In ''Recap/TintinAndThePicaros'', General Alcazar's men have been enjoying the shipments of whiskey parachuted to them by Alcazar's archnemesis General Tapioca. When a bus full of tourists drops into their camp, one of them comments on the sight, with his buddy asking where the pink elephants went.

-->''We'll drink beyond\\
The boundaries of sense!\\
We'll drink 'til we start\\
To see lovely pink elephants;\\

From the day I was born,\\
'Til the night I will die,\\
All my lovers will be pink\\
And elephantine!''

* Irish singer Christy Moore's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtWcBU9zdI Delirium Tremens]] recounts the various nightmares experienced by the subject after he drank a little too much, many of them based on Irish political figures of the time.

Suddenly it dawned at me I was getting the old D.T.'s\\

* Lamshaded in ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND''. Decoy Octopus manages to get drunk at 10 am, and decides to hang around the seemingly incompetent genome soldiers. After they display a significant increase in performance (read: being capable human beings), Decoy reports it to Liquid Snake. Liquid dismisses it as Decoy imagining it due to his intoxication, and Decoy counters with "I'm drunk, not schizophrenic".

* ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'' features the most infamous example where a drunk Dumbo and Timothy blow alcoholic bubbles and start seeing literal Pink Elephants on parade, leading to a nightmarish DisneyAcidSequence musical number. When they wake up, they find themselves stuck on a tall tree. This BigLippedAlligatorMoment was even the former trope image.

** PlayedWith in ''Discworld/{{Mort}}'', when one elephant gets drunk, and someone mentions that he's probably seeing pink humans.
** Detritus also sees giant hairy spiders in ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'' after performing a FingertipDrugAnalysis.

* ''Film/ClosedMondays'' involves a drunkard who goes stumbling into an art exhibition and sees the exhibits come to life in weird and disturbing ways.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The Beast of Bourbon. [[Music/TheRollingStones ♪ "Ain't I drunk enough?" ♪]]]]

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/GreenLanternCorps'', alien GL Salakk gets intoxicated by a spiked drink and actually ''creates'' a horde of pink elephant-ish creatures.

* ''{{ComicBoook/Tintin}}'': In ''Recap/TintinAndThePicaros'', General Alcazar's men have been enjoying the shipments of whiskey parachuted to them by Alcazar's archnemesis General Tapioca. When a bus full of tourists drops into their camp, one of them comments on the sight, with his buddy asking where the pink elephants went.

** When the town is accidentally dosed with peyote, TheAlcoholic Barney is able to [[SummonABiggerFish drive off his threatening monster hallucinations by consuming enough liquor to summon a friendlier pink elephant hallucination.]] Curiously enough, said pink elephant [[ShoutOut looks exactly like the ones seen in]] ''Dumbo''.

** When the town is accidentally dosed with peyote, TheAlcoholic Barney is able to drive off his threatening monster hallucinations by consuming enough liquor to summon a friendlier pink elephant hallucination. Curiously enough, said pink elephant [[ShoutOut looks exactly like the ones seen in]] ''Dumbo''.

** In "The Springfield Files" Homer sees what he thinks is an alien while going home from Moe's bar. The creature he saw was real but nobody believed him.

* Invoked in one ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'' strip, which involves an elephant borrowed from a zoo and painted pink, that Gaston plans to use to prank one of his friends with a tendency to drink. However, M. De Mesmaeker suffers collateral damage.

** The short "Punch Trunk" features a tiny elephant that wanders around the city, causing mass panic. But when a drunk sees it, all he says is "You're late" and wonders why he isn't pink this time.

->''The man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.''

* In ''[[NexusWar Nexus Clash]]'', the [[AchievementSystem Achievement Badge]] for drinking sufficient amounts of booze is actually called "Pink Elephant Rider". Due to the StatGrinding system inherent to Nexus games, it actually makes you more powerful. Exactly ''how'' is one of the few things the series' elaborate lore doesn't attempt to explain.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. At the end of "Rescue", Villa decides NoMoreForMe after seeing the antagonist disintegrate before his eyes. "It'll be pink [[InSpace asteroids]] next."

--> Oh, ow, what do I do now?
--> Pink elephants are running after me!
--> Though that stuff was smooth as silk
--> From now on I'll stick to [[DrunkOnMilk milk]]
--> Nothin' else to drink for me!