Pink Elephants on Parade

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Pink Elephants on Parade - Wikipedia

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"Pink Elephants on Parade"
Song
Released	1941 (1941)
Songwriter(s)	Oliver Wallace Ned Washington

"Pink Elephants on Parade" is a song and scene from the 1941 Disney animated feature film Dumbo in which Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse, having accidentally become intoxicated (through drinking water spiked with champagne), see pink elephants sing, dance, and play musical instruments during a hallucination sequence. After the sequence, Dumbo and Timothy wake up, hungover, in a tree. It is at this point that they realize that Dumbo can fly.

The song was written by Oliver Wallace (music) and Ned Washington (lyrics)^[1] and sung by The Sportsmen. The segment was directed by Norman Ferguson, laid out by Ken O'Connor and animated by Hicks Lokey, Karl Van Leuven, and Howard Swift.^[2]

The song is featured in the Disney live-action remake, directed by Tim Burton.^[3] The Pink Elephants themselves appear as human-made bubble sculptures which also come to life.

In popular culture

Covers

The song was covered by Sun Ra. A recording of this arrangement is available on Stay Awake, a tribute album of Disney tunes played by various artists, and produced by Hal Willner. The song was also covered by Circus Contraption and Lee Press-on and the Nails.
Daladubz samples the song in his dubstep song entitled "Pink Elephants VIP".
The song was re-recorded by Chicago-based electronic/industrial rock band V is for Villains.
House of Mouse pays homage to the song in the episode "Mickey and Minnie's First Trip".

Parodies

Scenes from this sequence are reused in the 1943 Disney World War II anti-Nazi propaganda film Der Fuehrer's Face.
In The Big Snooze, Elmer Fudd's nightmare includes a parody of the sequence with "ziwwions and twiwwions of wabbits" marching on top of Fudd while Bugs Bunny is at an adding machine, literally multiplying them.
The Bob's Burgers episode "Art Crawl" parodies the sequence with animals marching backwards with pink circles on their anuses.
The Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Test Stress" includes a parody of the scene with a bunch of Albert Einsteins walking around and one of them uses an "E=mc" pump.
The South Park episode "Doubling Down" references this sequence in a brief segment in which Eric Cartman, while in a hallucinatory fit of rage, visualizes a group of pink Kyles marching out of a broken heart.
"Heffalumps and Woozles" from Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh bears a strong resemblance to "Pink Elephants on Parade".^[4]
The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "One Trick Sponge" features a short musical sequence with an instrumental and visuals bearing resemblance to "Pink Elephants on Parade".
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, there's a level named "Piranha Plants on Parade", in which Piranha Plants will sing and dance.
American band Joywave created a song titled "Parade" from their debut album How Do You Feel Now? which syncs up with the visuals for "Pink Elephants On Parade".

References

^ The American Film Institute (1971). The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States, Volume 1 University of California Press. pp. 663. ISBN 978-0-520-21521-4
^ Langer, Mark, Film History, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1990). Regionalism in Disney Animation: Pink Elephants and Dumbo, pp. 305-321
^ "Dumbo Press Kit" (PDF). March 11, 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2019. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
^ Hischak, Thomas S.; Robinson, Mark A. (29 July 2009). The Disney Song Encyclopedia. Scarecrow Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8108-6938-7.

v t e Dumbo
Films	1941 animation 2019 live-action soundtrack
TV	Dumbo's Circus (1985)
Songs	"Baby Mine" (1941) "Pink Elephants on Parade" (1941)
Attractions	Dumbo the Flying Elephant Casey Jr. Circus Train Casey Jr. Splash 'n' Soak Station
Video games	Disney's Villains' Revenge (1999) Kingdom Hearts (2002) Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004) Disney Magic Kingdoms (2019)
Related	Helen Aberson-Mayer Once Upon a Studio (2023)

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