Elephant Parts
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- Elephant Parts was also the name of a British adult humour comic.
Elephant Parts is a home music video made by Michael Nesmith, former Monkee, in 1981. Nesmith produced the video with the money he inherited from his mother, the inventor of Liquid Paper. Elephant Parts is one hour long and features five full length music videos including the popular songs "Rio" and "Cruisin'". The latter video featured a wrestler named Steve Strong, who bore a remarkable resemblance to Hulk Hogan, playing one of the song's primary characters, Sunset Sam, along with Lucy and Ramona. There are various comedy sketches in between, notably "Elvis Drugs", "Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority", "The Tragically Hip" (which was the inspiration for the name of the Canadian band), "Large Detroit Car Company", "Mariachi Translations", recurring comic blackouts that ended with the catchphrase "Just to prove a point!", and several series of bits with a lounge singer and a pirate, respectively, as well as a game show called "Name That Drug". Elephant Parts won the first Grammy in the Music Video category.
