Elephant joke

An elephant joke is a joke cycle, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes were a fad in the 1960s, with many people constructing large numbers of them according to a set formula. Sometimes they involve parodies or puns.

Examples of elephant jokes are:

Q: Why did the elephant paint its toenails red?

A: So it could hide in a cherry tree.

Q: How can you tell that an elephant is in the bathtub with you?

A: By the smell of peanuts on its breath.

Q: Why does an elephant have round flat feet?

A: So that it can walk across lily pads.

Q: Why don’t elephants use computers?

A: They’re afraid of the mouse!