Elephant Parts of the Third Kind". Two related TV series were "PopClips" for Nickelodeon (released in 1980), and "Television Parts" for NBC in 1985. Nickelodeon's parent company, Warner Cable, wanted to buy outright the "PopClips" copyright to be expanded into an all-music video channel, but after Nesmith declined the offer, Warner Cable started work on what would become MTV. The title "Elephant Parts" refers to the parable of the blind men and an elephant where each man comes to a different conclusion about what an elephant is due to them touching only one part. When "Elephant Parts" was first released on LaserDisc
Elephant in the room have elsewhere observed, it is like the Mark Twain story of the little boy who was told to stand in a corner and not to think of a white elephant." A slightly different version of the phrase was used before this, with George Berkeley talking of whether or not there is "an invisible elephant in the room" in his debates with scientists. In 1935, comedian Jimmy Durante starred on Broadway in the Billy Rose Broadway musical "Jumbo", in which a police officer stops him while leading a live elephant and asks, "What are you doing with that elephant?" Durante's reply,