# ID: Elephant making pot roast **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885 "2015-08-14T23:52:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885/1 "2015-08-14T23:52:26Z")
When I was a kid, probably late-'60s or early-'70s, I saw an animated cartoon where an elephant explains how to make pot roast. He procured a pot, and then covered it with peanut butter. I don’t remember if he put it into an oven. Does that ring a bell for anyone? It may have been an ‘insert’ on a ‘variety’ cartoon, or it may have been a Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch cereal commercial. It seems to me it was a recurring character, so it may have been a cereal commercial. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885/2 "2015-08-15T00:19:06Z")
Babar? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885/3 "2015-08-15T00:27:15Z")
Definitely not Babar. ---
**Author:** ![cardinal\_fang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal_fang/32/15316_2.png) [@cardinal\_fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardinal_fang)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885/4 "2015-08-15T01:05:34Z")
[Tomfoolery](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145638/)? ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885/5 "2015-08-17T19:21:43Z")
[101 Elephant Jokes?](http://www.amazon.com/101-Elephant-Jokes-Robert-Blake/dp/B000T8M1KK) One of my favorite books when I was little but I don’t remember if it had any cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885/6 "2015-08-17T20:18:25Z")
None of those. I’m pretty sure it was animated, but as I type this I wonder if it was a guy in an elephant suit. The only show I can think of where I may have seen it is _The Banana Splits Show_, or else a Cap’n Crunch commercial. But it could have been somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885/7 "2015-08-17T20:37:52Z")
Google suggests it may have been _[Tomfoolery](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145638/)_(or _The Tomfoolery Show_), in particular a sketch featuring Enthusiastic Elephant (I Googled “pot roast,” “elephant,” and “peanut butter”). ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885/8 "2015-08-17T20:48:46Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > Google suggests it may have been _[Tomfoolery](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145638/)_(or _The Tomfoolery Show_), in particular a sketch featuring Enthusiastic Elephant (I Googled “pot roast,” “elephant,” and “peanut butter”). Too late to edit: here’s a [YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo0DjdCn6pk) featuring an episode of _The Tomfoolery Show_; the pot roast skit isn’t in it, but the elephant is – maybe it’ll look familiar. It’s a Rankin-Bass production, interestingly. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-elephant-making-pot-roast/727885/9 "2015-08-17T22:05:03Z")
This prompted a weirdly tangential memory from elementary school, from a lesson that must have been trying to teach about pronouns or something like that. The idea was that we were supposed to explain to our teacher how to make a peanut butter sandwich, but every time we said “it”, he assumed that we were referring to a piece of paper with “IT” written on it. Now that I write it out, I can see that it has nothing at all to do with what you were looking for. But weird how that just cropped up out of nowhere.