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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Picayune Pachyderm Panics Populace."
* AgentMulder: The bird bath owner, the daughter/Genevieve, and the moderator, Mr. Pratt.
* AgentScully: The orderlies, the mother/Marsha, and Robert Bruce Cameron.

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\n* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The headline reporting on the mass hysteria created by the elephant sightings is "Picayune Pachyderm Panics Populace."
* AgentMulder: The bird bath owner, the daughter/Genevieve, and the moderator, Mr. Pratt.
Pratt, all immediately believe the elephant is real when they see it for the first time, but they have trouble convincing others.
* AgentScully: The orderlies, orderlies who take away the mother/Marsha, bird bath owner, Genevieve's mother Marsha, and "prominent scientist" Robert Bruce Cameron are all convinced the elephant is a hallucination or dream, as elephants five inches tall don't exist in nature. Marsha changes her mind when she sees the elephant for herself, but the orderlies and Robert Bruce Cameron.Cameron remain none the wiser.



* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The elephant. Its tiny size makes it this by default.

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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The elephant. Its elephant, thanks to a combination of its tiny size makes it this by default.and its usually helpful behaviour (holding out clothes pegs for the woman hanging laundry out to dry, carrying the microphone from Robert Bruce Cameron back to Mr. Pratt, etc.).

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* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: A man calls the police to report there's a tiny elephant in his birdbath, which results in him being deemed insane and taken away. In reality, you can't have someone committed to an asylum just because they said something ridiculous; such decisions need to be made by a medical professional. Realistically, the call would be mistaken for a prank and the man would have been fined.



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* RandomSmokingScene: A dock worker who's the first to see the diminutive elephant.

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A dock worker who's the first to see the diminutive elephant.



* SharedMassHallucination: An expert appears on TV to dismiss the tiny elephant sightings as this, but is undercut by [[InstantlyProvenWrong the elephant wandering into the studio]].
** When this short was used in ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters,'' this was remade into a ''Series/{{Nightline}}''-like news segment with Daffy himself as the expert. It ends similarly, with the Ted Koppel {{Expy}} howling in laughter as Daffy is rendered a public laughingstock.

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An expert appears on TV to dismiss the tiny elephant sightings as this, but is undercut by [[InstantlyProvenWrong the elephant wandering into the studio]].
** When this short was used in ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters,'' ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters'', this was remade into a ''Series/{{Nightline}}''-like news segment with Daffy himself as the expert. It ends similarly, with the Ted Koppel {{Expy}} howling in laughter as Daffy is rendered a public laughingstock.



-->'''Man''': But I did! I did see an elephant in my bird bath!
-->'''Asylum Worker''': Sure, sure, I know. [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba I keep a giraffe in mine!]]
* YouWatchTooMuchX: A little girl tells her mother that there's an elephant in her dollhouse. The mother rolls her eyes and says, "Too much television," and puts her back in bed.

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-->'''Man''': -->'''Man:''' But I did! I did see an elephant in my bird bath!
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'''Asylum Worker:'''
Sure, sure, I know. [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba I keep a giraffe in mine!]]
* YouWatchTooMuchX: A little girl tells her mother that there's an elephant in her dollhouse. The mother rolls her eyes and says, "Too much television," and puts her back in bed.bed.
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'''Punch Trunk''' is a 1953 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Cartoon directed by Creator/ChuckJones.

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'''Punch Trunk''' "Punch Trunk" is a 1953 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Cartoon directed by Creator/ChuckJones.
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* MistakenForInsane: A man calls up the police department when a 5-inch-tall elephant takes a bath in his birdbath. However, when help arrives, it's not to get rid of the elephant but to have the man committed and taken away, believing that he's nuts.
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: This is the response given by the orderlies when they take away the man who claims to have seen the tiny elephant in his birdbath:
-->'''Man:''' But I did! I did see an elephant in my birdbath!\\
'''Orderly:''' Sure, sure, I know. I keep a giraffe in mine.
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* FaintinShock: Characters who do this towards the diminutive pachyderm include the dock worker, the mother (Marsha), and Mr. Pratt.

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* FaintinShock: FaintInShock: Characters who do this towards the diminutive pachyderm include the dock worker, the mother (Marsha), and Mr. Pratt.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The drunk barfly simply chides the tiny elephant for being late. When he turns back, he mutters, "[[PinkElephants He always used to be pink!]]"
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* ConjoinedEyes: The blonde woman doing laundry when she sees the minuscule elephant and twice with Mr. Pratt, the moderator. His eyes become this before making an announcement about Dr. Robert Bruce Cameron's comments, then his eyes conjoin again afterwards, and he faints. Also, the circus cat upon realizing what he caught wasn't a mouse.


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* FaintinShock: Characters who do this towards the diminutive pachyderm include the dock worker, the mother (Marsha), and Mr. Pratt.
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** When this short was used in ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters,'' this was remade into a ''Series/{{Nightline}}''-like news segment with Daffy himself as the expert. It ends similarly, with the Ted Koppel {{Expy}} howling in laughter.

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** When this short was used in ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters,'' this was remade into a ''Series/{{Nightline}}''-like news segment with Daffy himself as the expert. It ends similarly, with the Ted Koppel {{Expy}} howling in laughter.laughter as Daffy is rendered a public laughingstock.
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* MistakenForBadVision: A man who's just bought new glasses sees the tiny elephant, then goes back to the optometrist to punch him in the face.
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-->'''Therapist:''' I think it all began when my father refused to take me to the circus...
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'''Punch Trunk''' is a 1953 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Cartoon. Directed by Creator/ChuckJones.

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'''Punch Trunk''' is a 1953 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Cartoon. Directed Cartoon directed by Creator/ChuckJones.



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* OneShotCharacter: That five-inch-tall elephant, among others.



-->'''Asylum Worker''': Sure, sure, I know. I keep a giraffe in mine!

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-->'''Asylum Worker''': Sure, sure, I know. [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba I keep a giraffe in mine!mine!]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The woman at the therapist is just about to go into her teacher spanking her a lot when the psychiatrist spots the elephant and interrupts her.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Marsha is just about to go into her teacher spanking her a lot when the psychiatrist spots the elephant and interrupts her.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Marsha The woman at the therapist is just about to go into her teacher spanking her a lot when the psychiatrist spots the elephant and interrupts her.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Marsha is just about to go into her teacher spanking her a lot when the psychiatrist spots the elephant and interrupts her.
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** When this short was used in ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters,'' this was remade into a ''Series/{{Nightline}}''-like news segment with Daffy himself as the expert. It ends similarly, with the Ted Koppel {{Expy}} howling in laughter.
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\nUsed in ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters''.
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* PinkElephants: A drunk man sees the tiny elephant, prompting him to scold it for being late, and even comments that it's usually pink. He's one of the few characters in the short to not react to the elephant with stunned shock and terror.

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* PinkElephants: A drunk man sees the tiny elephant, prompting him to scold it for being late, and even comments that it's usually pink. He's one of the few characters in the short to not react to the elephant with stunned shock and or terror.

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