Former Monkee Mike Nesmith, a pioneer in the music video industry, created the one-hour music and comedy pastiche Elephant Parts--the title derives from the old fable of the six blind men and the elephant. There is no real throughline, merely a series of satirical vignettes, some running several minutes, others a few seconds. The bits include Nesmiths rendition of Cruisin, the opening Rodan gag, an extended Name That Tune parody involving the proper identification of controlled substances, and Nesmiths out-of-left-field diatribe about the oil industry. Nesmith tried to transfer the insouciance of Elephant Parts to television, but the ensuing Television Parts failed. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide