Susie appears at this point, and Calvin cracks a joke about elephants being the Republican mascot; however, Susie does not get it as she cannot see the elephant. At dinnertime, Calvin (now muddy all over) is noticed by his mother and forced to take a bath; he interprets his mother's disgust as shock towards his elephant form. After bathing, he transmogrifies back into a boy but, to his surprise, is unable to remember the vocabulary after changing back.