Adult Swim's The Elephant
2025 American animated TV special
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Adult Swim's The Elephant (also known more simply as The Elephant)[1] is an American experimental animated TV special created by Jack Pendarvis and Kent Osborne for Adult Swim.
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| Directed by | Pendleton Ward |
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| Composer | The Blasting Company |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Running time | 23 minutes |
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| Network | Adult Swim |
| Release | December 19, 2025 |
Animators Ian Jones-Quartey, Patrick McHale, Rebecca Sugar, and Pendleton Ward employed an Exquisite corpse technique in a style of triptych works, each designing and animating segments of the special independent from one another, to tell a single story with three disparate styles and tones. Ward animated the beginning, Jones-Quartey and Sugar animated the middle, and McHale animated the ending.[2] Voice performances are provided by Maria Bamford, SungWon Cho, and Jordan Jensen.
It premiered on Adult Swim on December 19, 2025 and became available to stream on HBO Max the following day.[3] It was accompanied by a behind the scenes special called Behind the Elephant.[4]
