A Larson cartoon I recall is an elephant in a telephone booth, on crutches and missing a leg, talking to a man in another panel, the man sitting behind a desk with an odd wastebasket having big toenails, and the caption is the angry elephant saying: “They made a WHAT out of it?”.
I remember one by Gahan Wilson. A cartoon box depicting a semi-formal cocktail party with people milling about with drinks in hand. Among them was an elephant with a look of horror on his face. The caption said: “The party was going swell until the elephant noticed the piano keys.”
Yeah, that one is in Larson’s first “compendium” as well. The one I was thinking of had a second elephant commenting something like “Ed, look what youuu stepped in!” Larson used elephants in his work quite a lot.