Elephanteria Gallery 5 How Elephants are used in Media Content
Comic Strip - Mother Goose & Grimm

Media Type: Newspaper Content Type: Syndicated Comic Strip Name: "Mother Goose & Grimm" by Mike Peters ©1993 Grimmy, Inc. Publication date: 09-24-1993 Description: Elephant appears in role of grocery cashier ringing up zebras using a bar code scanner. Elephant's thought balloon says, "Dang these bar codes." Analysis: The entire scene is absurdly anachronistic. Only a very creative mind could come up with this scene. The elephant fits in on the basis of its size as is so often the case with instances of elephant imagery used in media. Only the elephant is large enough and considered intelligent enough to be operating a checkout ringing up zebras. This cartoon depends entirely on the attributes, real and imagined, of elephants.

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