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Bad Humor Truck
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Ah, the ice cream truck. That all-American, summertime staple of childhood. But what's this? The truck's driver is a Child Hater who's doing this as a front to sell drugs. Or maybe he's a child molester who can't keep his Mr. Softie in his pants. Or he's an uncaptured Serial Killer who's stashing the bodies away between the fudge pops and the Creamsicles. Worst of all, maybe he won't stop to sell the protagonists some ice cream. And his truck is either an Alleged Car (either played straight or exaggerated), redesigned from a paddy wagon or a discarded military vehicle, or looks as if it was featured on an episode of Pimp My Ride (Truth in Television: there really was an episode of Pimp My Ride in which an ice cream truck driver calls upon Xzibit and his ride-pimping crew to make his ride a cool one). And that happy, tinkly music somehow only adds to the creepiness. For some reason, ice-cream truck drivers in fiction are hardly ever as wholesome as one might expect. Sub-Trope of Creepy Stalker Van and Sweets of Temptation. May overlap with Monster Clown. The trope is named after the Good Humor ice cream company. Compare Sinister Car. |
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In an episode of Happy Days, Fonzie quits his vehicle-repair job and must find a new way to make a living. He tries driving an ice cream truck, but he hates it because "Whenever I got it up to speed, some kid started chasin' after me wavin' a dime!" | |
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The Tales from the Crypt episode "People Who Live in Brass Hearses" features an ex-con trying to get revenge on an ice cream truck driver who, unbeknownst to the ex-con and his brother, is actually a pair of Conjoined Twins joined at the back. By the end, one twin has been murdered, and the other continues to drive around in the truck with his dead, decaying twin still attached. | |
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In the Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! episode "High Society Scooby", Agents 1 and 2 drive an ice cream truck to lure Scooby and Shaggy into a trap. | |
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The Far Side plays with this several times. I cuss, you cuss, we all cuss for asparagus! There's another strip with the self-explanatory Liver-And-Onions Truck. And kids are hiding from the truck, implying they'll get the treats whether they like it or not. There's also the "Vaccination Van", and the van's driver is actually hoping that kids mistake him for the usual ice cream truck. Another time, a starving man wandering a desert encounters a hilariously out-of-place ice cream truck, only for the driver to inform him he's sold out. |
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In Nice Dreams, Cheech and Chong have an ice cream truck named "Happy Herb's Nice Dreams". Take the words, "Ice Creams" and add an "N" in front and make "Creams" into "Dreams". Naturally, they sell marijuana from the truck, along with ice cream. How "wholesome" this is depends on your views. | |
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In Secret Six, the villainous (albeit protagonist) Ragdoll once stole an ice cream truck for the gang to escape in. This van is full of not creamy treats, but dangerous mercenaries. And creamy treats. | |
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, features the Bad Humor Man (Steve Whitmire), who is the Trope Namer. | |
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One of the minor villains from Chew had the ability to make ice cream, that would give anyone who ate it fatal brain freeze (meaning that it would literally encase said person's head in a block of ice). Naturally, he stole an ice cream truck in order to sell his ice cream to the unsuspecting civilians. | |
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One of the specials for The Adventures of Pete & Pete, "What We Did On Our Summer Vacation", revolved around Mr. Tastee, an otherwise-amiable ice-cream man who always wore a mask in the shape of a grinning soft-serve cone and was hinted to have a shady past (it's implied he's local eccentric rich lady Mrs. van de Vere's ex-husband Leonard). In fact, the episode implies that the entire ice cream man profession, with its wandering routes and bright, happy masks, is actually an informal brotherhood for those seeking to escape and/or forget. | |
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The Tom and Jerry movie has one of the villains steal an ice cream cart and use it as his vehicle in the finale. There's even a shot from the cart's point of view of him stalking towards it with an evil grin on his face. | |
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Detective Thorne's informant in Hellraiser: Inferno is a sleazy ex-con ice cream man who has covered the inside of his truck with pornographic images. | |
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Tosh.0: In this music video, Tosh plays an ice cream truck driver who drives recklessly even before he starts drinking. | |
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The Iceman. "Mr Freezy" Pronge is a hitman who gets his nickname from this trope, including using the freezer to store bodies to confuse the time of death. | |
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After Hours: the only vehicle amongst the raging, lynch-happy crowd of SoHo New Yorkers chasing after Paul Hackett is Gail's "Mister Softee" truck, driven by what is probably the craziest member of the whole group (she's the one who made said angry lynching crowd hunt Hackett, after all, in an act of Disproportionate Retribution). | |
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Charlie's uncle Jack from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is all but stated to be a child molester. He shows up to a school chess tournament driving an ice-cream truck in the episode "Frank vs. Russia," from which he spies on the kids. | |
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The Simpsons episode "Bart of Darkness" opens with Springfield suffering a blistering heatwave. An ice cream truck comes down the street with the driver shouting, "Ice cream! Ice cream!" ...but, when the children run up to it, they hear his entire sentence: "I'm all outta ice cream!" And then, right after that comes another, similar truck: | |
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Dr. Claw's henchmen Brick and McKible drive an ice-cream delivery truck in Inspector Gadget 2. Oddly enough, its trunk is large enough to accommodate Claw's escape jet. | |
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The eponymous character in Some Guy Who Kills People works at an ice cream parlor. | |
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Looney Tunes In "Yankee Doodle Bugs", an ice cream truck shows up during the Continental Army's winter encampment at Valley Forge. The irked soldiers promptly shoot it full of holes. Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips has Bugs in an ice cream truck selling ice cream bars loaded with hand grenades to Japanese soldiers. |
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One of the enemies in ToeJam & Earl is a phantom ice cream truck that randomly appears and disappears and tries to run down our alien heroes. | |
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An episode of Justice League features a man in an ice cream truck prominently, and he does have a dark secret, although this example is more like the Charmed subversion listed above. By the end, we learn he's been driving that truck for 40 years, give or take a few days and is glad to finally escape! | |
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In the storybook that goes along with the Melanie Martinez Concept Album Cry Baby, Cry Baby is kidnapped by a wolf who is also an ice cream man (in the song "Tag, You're It"). Who she later kills ("Milk and Cookies"). | |
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It's also used sometimes by The Joker. | |
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The M.I. High episode "Animal Spies" had a SKUL agent basing himself out of an ice cream truck. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, the "Funny Bear" ice cream truck shows up in Central to hand out ammunition, mortars, and other materials. The enemy forces radio each other to watch out for the ice cream truck, so Mustang's team repaints it as the "Funny Bear" hot dog truck. | |
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Psychotic clown Javier in The Last Circus drives one. | |
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In Snapshot (1979), Angela gets stalked by her ex-boyfriend Daryl using an ice cream truck. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-490 is an ice cream truck that operates by itself between 2 to 5 AM local time to lure in people with the jingle it produces to the back of the truck. After this event is over, the freezer is observed to be stocked with frozen treats made of human blood and flesh, sold as a "Super Surprise Flavor!" SCP-1386 becomes hostile if potential customers don't appear sufficiently happy and cheerful, and downright violent if they try to get out of paying full price. Otherwise, it's a regular ice cream truck, aside from the fact that it is apparently sapient. |
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Episode 3085 of Sesame Street has an ice cream company called "Bad Humor", run by grouches. They sell ice cream flavors that appeal exclusively to grouches, such as chocolate pickle and spinach vanilla crunch, and will not stop ringing their bells until someone buys their ice cream. | |
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The Wacky Races (2017) episode "Unraceable" has Dick Dastardly banned from participating in the Wacky Races and forced to try different jobs. One of the jobs he tries is ice cream man, which he gets fired from because he only gives the children broccoli-flavored ice cream and he lets the ice cream cones get covered in dirt before giving them to the children. | |
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The title character of Mr. Mercedes drives this as well, though apart from spying on the protagonist, he doesn't do anything too horrible while behind the wheel because it would be too easy to trace things back to him. | |
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Max Keeble's Big Move featured one of the antagonists as a rather maniacal ice cream driver who would love to torture the protagonist while on his newspaper route. He even modified his truck to have an ice cream cannon (at least in the opening dream sequence). His undying hatred of Max Keeble is because Max reported his Jerkass behavior to his superiors. | |
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Grand Theft Auto III has a mission by El Burro called "I Scream, You Scream", which the protagonist must park a Mr. Whoopee ice cream truck with a bomb inside (and the 'jeengle-jeengle music turned on) near a group of rival gang members, then run away and blow it up. | |
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Monty tries a job as an ice-cream truck driver, but terrifies kids when he unwittingly wears melted cherry popsicle stains all over his white suit. | |
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The Hub series The Haunting Hour has the episode "Catching Cold." Marty, a Big Eater boy who loves ice cream especially, discovers a mysterious ice cream truck called "Kreamy Kold" that drives around his neighborhood at night playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" in a minor key. After being gifted a cone on his doorstep, he discovers that Kreamy Kold's treats are so incredibly delicious that all other ice cream tastes bad in comparison. Marty gradually becomes more and more obsessed with Kreamy Kold (in a manner disturbingly reminiscent of drug addiction), to the point where he lays out a spike strip just to catch the truck. When he finally does, though, he discovers that the vehicle needs a human soul to fuel it—a fact he learns from Jimmy Jeffries, the last kid in his neighborhood who got hooked on Kreamy Kold thirty years ago, and who has since grown into a fat, insane man who's been sealed inside the truck for all that time. The episode ends with Jimmy finally getting to leave and screaming "IT'S ALL YOU CAN EAT!" as a terrified Marty is locked inside the Kreamy Kold truck, which drives off into the night with its new captive... | |
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Butch in Chopping Block once tried to do this, only to learn that you should probably turn the music off after you kill the driver. | |
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Billy Kincaid, an early Spawn villain, is a pedophile and Serial Killer who uses an ice cream truck to get closer to children, whom he then kidnaps and murders. When he catches him, Spawn is shown as having brutally murdered Kincaid by stabbing him to death with Popsicle sticks and the other end of an ice cream scoop. As well as a whole two-stick popsicle. | |
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In an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent the victim of the week is living in an ice cream truck, and using it as a base to sell bootleg DVDs. | |
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The mobile game series Ice Scream centers around an evil ice cream man named Rod, who lures children into his van and uses them to make ice cream. | |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (IDW): In issue #178, the Blue Ninjas launch an assault on Broca Beach. The head Blue Ninja masterminds the operation from a heavily armed ice cream truck that he uses to mow down Cobra forces. Firefly detonates the home of Wade Collins while driving an ice cream truck in issue #215. |
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Yet another drug-dealing ice cream truck in "Find Your Happy Place" episode of Life. Crews' take-down isn't perfectly smooth: | |
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The Books of Magic: Near the end of Peter Gross's run on the 1994 ongoing, the demon Barbatos dresses as an ice cream man and drives an ice cream truck. | |
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Freddy Krueger in Freddy's Nightmares had one for luring in kids stored in his power plant base. | |
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The music video for "Loco" by Coal Chamber features an evil ice cream man. Throughout the video, he subjects the band to a "A Clockwork Orange" style torture via a child's viewfinder toy. This same ice cream man also appears on the album's artwork. | |
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Cars: The first opponent Tormentor (Mater's monster truck wrestler alter ego) had to face in Monster Truck Mater is a modified ice cream monster truck named Ice Screamer. | |
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LEGO "The Tumbler: Joker's Ice Cream Surprise" set features an "Uncle Joker Icecream Surprise" truck. Not only are the popsicles that come with the set a sickly transparent green, but flicking the the giant ice cream cone model on the roof activates a cannon that launches a torpedo out of the back of the truck. Surprise indeed. The titular vehicle in "Ice Cream Truck Police Chase" from LEGO City features all sorts of tools for the city's collection of highly-visible crooks, who in this set are decked out in ice cream cone costumes (interestingly, they invert Pink Girl, Blue Boy.) In addition to providing convenient storage for burglary tools, it also has a hook for smash and grabs, and the cone opens up to reveal a cannon that launches some sort of goop. |
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A Mister Whippy van also appears in 28 Weeks Later. The trope is teasingly hinted at and then averted. It should be noted that Mr. Whippy is a real company, that operates in the UK as well as Australia and New Zealand. |
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has a campaign where it turns out the ice cream factory is owned by a nasty old woman who hates children, who only uses ice cream as a front for her cocaine trafficking operations, and the ice cream trucks sell drugs instead. When you actually get the factory and ice cream truck, both of them are horribly glitched and unusable (saving at the factory corrupts your save file), so really it's the factory and truck that are at fault. Taking one of the ice cream trucks to another business you own, a car dealership/chop shop, helps complete the main storyline. "We need you to steal...um....take...we need an ice cream truck, okay?" It's also impossible to sell ice cream to kids, even if you wanted to, considering there are no kids in the game. It's entirely possible to run people over with the truck...but that's possible with all vehicles. Bonus: A secondary mission ends with the player murdering about a dozen mysterious people on the rooftop of the ice cream business based on an intercepted call. |
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A Touch of Frost: Detective Inspector Frost once caught someone using an ice cream van as a front for dealing drugs while investigating a totally unrelated case, tipped off by the fact a legitimate ice cream vendor he was questioning as a possible witness was angry about the new guy undercutting him. The ice-cream man returns the favour by stopping the perpetrator of the other case Jack is working from escaping the cops by ramming their stolen car with his van. | |
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In the Batman comics, Mr. Freeze has hijacked an ice cream truck on at least one occasion. Though he stole it mainly to survive, as he can only live in cold temperatures. It's also used sometimes by The Joker. The Batman '66 story "Mr. Freeze Breaks the Ice"/"Batman Doesn't Play Nice" has Mr. Freeze pose as an ice cream man to sell the citizens of Gotham devices called you-coolers during a heat wave as a front to manipulate the people into helping him freeze over Gotham City. |
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In Friday, Smokey owes weed money to the drug dealer Big Worm, who uses an ice cream truck as a cover-up. Big Worm takes one customer boy's money without giving his order saying he's closed and is incredibly rude to the kids in general. | |
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In the short story "Ice Cream Bus" from Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection, the bus looks normal, and the driver is a typical handsome Bishōnen, but it lures children away and slowly transforms them into ice cream, which/who they eat as they transform into ice cream. | |
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In Trees Lounge, Loser Protagonist Tommy is given the opportunity to drive his beloved Uncle Al's ice cream truck after the latter has a heart attack while making his rounds. However, the surly, slovenly drunkard Tommy fails to make a good impression with the neighborhood kids, who miss Uncle Al's friendly demeanor, and it's only after Tommy's teenage acquaintance Debbie drops in to assist on his rounds that business picks back up again. Unfortunately, this leads to a very inappropriate situation between Tommy and Debbie later on, and after hearing of this Debbie's enraged father takes a baseball bat to the truck, converting it into The Alleged Car. | |
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In Watch_Dogs, several regular ice cream trucks are located and driven around Chicago, while one mission starts with Jordi Chin asking Aiden to use the new IED's to blow up the ice cream truck he hijacked and hid corpses in after a Noodle Incident on the highway. | |
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The intro page for the web game Free Icecream features the Player Character and her friend being lured toward a dirty-looking ice cream truck with "Free Icecrem" sloppily painted on the side. | |
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The heroes of Killer Klowns from Outer Space are "helped" by two idiots who "work" by driving an ice-cream truck. | |
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There's one in Legion. The truck's completely normal. The driver, however... | |
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An episode of The King of Queens has Doug buy an ice cream truck only to be stalked by another truck driven by an unseen driver with snakeskin boots who tries to kill him at every opportunity. Eventually Doug sells the truck back to the original owner at a loss. We then see the owner talking to another prospective buyer while the camera zooms in on his boots... | |
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The Batman '66 story "Mr. Freeze Breaks the Ice"/"Batman Doesn't Play Nice" has Mr. Freeze pose as an ice cream man to sell the citizens of Gotham devices called you-coolers during a heat wave as a front to manipulate the people into helping him freeze over Gotham City. | |
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Eetu ja Konna: One scene shows the American government agents trying to capture the titular characters riding a surveillance truck poorly disguised as an ice cream truck. | |
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The NCIS episode "Judge, Jury..." involves Team Gibbs bringing a killer to trial — a killer who, twenty years earlier, poisoned several children with treats from his truck, one of whom died. Unfortunately, the killer gets Off on a Technicality — and then falls victim to a Vigilante Execution. | |
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In the original show, the pedophile celebrity in "Smoke" has an assistant drive an ice cream truck to playgrounds; he hides inside to scout out potential "playmates". | |
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Villains & Vigilantes had an early villain compendium note Opponents Unlimited that included a villain who drives an ice cream truck loaded up with weapons. It's a lure, you see, to kidnap kids so he can sell them to organ harvesters. | |
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In the novel The Clairvoyant Countess by Dorothy Gilman there is a significant ice cream truck company run by a very scary bad guy. | |
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One episode of Kim Possible set in Florida had Drakken staking out in an ice cream truck with the intent of tapping into the MP3 players of all the teenagers on Spring Break, making them his mind-controlled slaves. (He got the frequency wrong and ended up tapping into the hearing aids of all the retirees living there.) It verges on Cut Lex Luthor a Check when Drakken notes how profitable the ice cream sales are - though still not enough to dissuade him from the mind-control scheme. He is, however, anguished when Shego throws out their entire stock to bait a horde of children into blocking Kim's pursuit. |
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In a segment of 1000 Ways to Die, a drug dealer named Salvador uses an ice cream truck as a front to distribute drugs, but after escaping from an attempted holdup by a meth addict, Salvador takes a turn too fast, and the truck’s freezers suffer a freon leak that poisons him. Oh, and the truck crashes. The segment is named "Rocky Roadkill," and its nickname: "Ice Fiend Man." | |
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The Masters of Horror episode "We All Scream for Ice Cream" is about a demonic, undead clown who works in an ice cream truck. His method is to sell ice cream to children, who then cause their parents to melt into a colored mess not unlike that of melted ice cream as soon as they bite into it. | |
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Prom Night III: The Last Kiss has Mary Lou Maloney appear as an ice cream vendor to a teacher, whom she kills with a pair of cones and an electric mixer. | |
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The Drew Carey Show has an old ice cream truck being used to distribute Buzz Beer. Disappointing when kids find out they don't have any ice cream, and rude when they keep getting asked, but not actively evil. | |
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Cow and Chicken: The "I Scream" Man (aka I.B Red Guy) hates both ice cream and kids, and only took the job because he misunderstood the title as "I Scream, Man", because screaming is his hobby. He ends up getting arrested and hauled off to a Bedlam House for his creepy behavior. | |
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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) has a scene in which a violent street gang drives menacingly back and forth past a parked ice cream truck. After they've apparently moved on, a little girl comes up and buys a cone while her father is using a phone booth up the street. After she leaves, the gang ambushes the driver and knocks him unconscious; meanwhile, the little girl, unaware of all this and discovering that she was given the wrong flavor, returns to the truck... and gets shot and killed point-blank. Not to mention that the ice cream vendor keeps a sizable revolver stashed in his cab. Presumably for self-defense, but you never know... |
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One episode of Malcolm in the Middle featured a cranky, sadistic ice cream man who refused to sell any ice cream to the kids despite all of them being stuck for hours on a blocked road in the desert... yet let the kids watch him eat an ice cream bar inside the refrigerated truck. | |
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Shameless (UK): the Maguires use an ice cream van as a front for dealing drugs and give Frank a job on it. ("If someone asks for a smartie... give them a pill. If someone asks for a polo... give them a pill.") Backfires somewhat when Frank takes some himself and ends up giving pills to an old woman who wanted some actual smarties. | |
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Law & Order: In the original show, the pedophile celebrity in "Smoke" has an assistant drive an ice cream truck to playgrounds; he hides inside to scout out potential "playmates". In an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent the victim of the week is living in an ice cream truck, and using it as a base to sell bootleg DVDs. |
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Ice Cream Man follows a reality warping ice cream man who drives around in his truck spreading misery wherever he goes. | |
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Moral Orel has Mr. Creepler, a pedophile and serial rapist who also happens to be the local ice cream man. By season 3 however, it's stated that he died in prison, though he's left some lasting trauma on one of his victims. | |
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Needles Kane from the Twisted Metal series (who in the most recent version, was a regular ice cream man before he turned evil) drives Sweet Tooth, perhaps the most famous video game example of this...except his truck serves up missiles and other assorted armaments. He still hands out tasty kid's treats from it, just be prepared for the explosives and napalm packs in the cones and ice cream sandwiches. | |
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Scooby-Doo: The Scooby-Doo Show episode "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" featured an armored vehicle painted to act as an ice cream truck driven by wanted criminals. In the Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! episode "High Society Scooby", Agents 1 and 2 drive an ice cream truck to lure Scooby and Shaggy into a trap. |
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The Fairly OddParents! has recurring antagonist Mr. Crocker (Timmy Turner's teacher who frequently gives him Fs just because he can and is obsessed with proving the existence of Timmy's fairy godparents) frequently drive a van which is often disguised as an ice cream truck. | |
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A Get Smart episode has a KAOS agent driving an ice-cream truck — he abducts Hymie the robot by asking him to reach way inside for a fudgesicle, then shoving him in. Hymie's first words when he's released — "Here's your fudgesicle." | |
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Subverted in an Encyclopedia Brown story, where a clown who drove an ice cream truck disappeared along with a young boy and was accused of kidnapping him. Turned out they'd both been kidnapped. | |
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In the second episode of the original Life On Mars, Sam Tyler drives a witness incognito in an ice cream truck, hoping to spot a suspect. Some little girls run up asking for ice cream, only to be confronted by Gene Hunt scoffing down a cone and Flipping the Bird, causing the girls to break down in tears. | |
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In one episode of Generator Rex, the villain Gatlocke has a fleet of vehicles, including an ice cream truck that's been given the Mad Max treatment. | |
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An ice cream truck is home to an illegal gun dealer in Southland Tales. | |
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Help!: The Eastern death cult tails Ringo in a "Yippee! It's Mister Whippy!" ice-cream van. As thugs exit from the truck, one is eating a cone. | |
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An early episode of Invader Zim featured an ice cream truck that blared ominous-sounding propaganda from its speakers. | |
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In Borat, Borat and Azamat acquire an ice cream truck for transportation, and after some thought they also acquire an animal to guard the truck. So naturally there is a scene where a bunch of kids run up expecting ice cream, and instead find a black bear. | |
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Kruel: Willie Cool drives an ice cream truck around town that looks quite clean and professional... he also abducted Elliot, and later Jo (after killing her boyfriend) and takes them into the woods so he can have them as his "family". | |
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In an episode of The Mighty B!, there's one of these: the driver gets pissed off at Bessie because she reports him to his manager (just because he accidentally ran ONE stop sign in ten years of driving the truck). In Bessie's defense, she thought she was calling the actual driver; she didn't know it was the phone number of his manager's office. |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," Mermaid Man orders a prune ice cream cone with bran sprinkles from a passing truck. Unfortunately, since the truck is driven by the Dirty Bubble, Man-Ray, and his ex-sidekick Barnacle Boy, the ice cream cone in question has a lit fuse, which he fails to notice before he eats it. | |
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The beginning of Act of Valor has the Chechen terrorist Abu Shabal driving what looks like an ice cream truck in the Philippines to a school. Said ice cream truck turns out to be a suicide car bomb, which kills the US Ambassador, his son, and several Filipino schoolchildren. | |
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie: Offers a variation, with Dr. Applecheek stealing an ice cream cart to be part of The Chase. | |
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An ice cream truck in the first episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot refuses to stop for Tuck, so Jenny uses a giant magnet to pull it back. | |
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A Pearls Before Swine comic has Pig getting hit by an ice cream truck. | |
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In one of the Red Rock Cider ads, Detective Drebin is manning an undercover police unit, cunningly disguised as an ice cream van called MR POLICEY. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door had an entire organization of ice cream men that were keeping all the ice cream for the adults. Throughout the series, these ice cream men were often used as Mooks for various villains. | |
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The T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Pup Goes the Weasel" has the Weasel drive an ice cream truck as one of his attempts at luring Dudley and Snaptrap out of hiding so he can kill them. | |
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The Scooby-Doo Show episode "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" featured an armored vehicle painted to act as an ice cream truck driven by wanted criminals. | |
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Bubs's Baloney Sammich Truck from Homestar Runner is a downplayed example, as none of the locals seem disappointed with his bland offerings. Nor was he disappointed when his attempt at selling them at "the beach" resulted in zero sales. (This was, by the way, before food trucks became a thing.) | |
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In Van-Pires, an innocent-looking ice cream truck is actually an evil vampire vehicle. Er, It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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From "The Winker's Album (Misprint)" by Ivor Biggun: | |
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Mr. Snowcone, in Freaks (2018), seems like a textbook case, hanging around outside of the house and showing an abnormal interest in Chloe. Henry encourages this myth, telling Chloe that ice cream trucks have freezers full of chopped-up little children. Early in the film, Mr. Snowcone does lure Chloe into his truck and drives off with her. He's her grandfather, and is trying to enlist her in the war against humanity. | |
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Hinted at on Family Guy; local pedophile Herbert wanted an ice cream truck and is shown driving one in "And Then There Were Fewer". In "Infernal Affairs", after Ernie the Giant Chicken steals his ice cream truck, he screams, "You bastard!". | |
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Amphibia: Alien hunter Mr. X and his assistant Jenny work out of a high-tech van disguised as an ice-cream truck. When children attempt to buy ice cream, Mr. X cruelly taunts them by eating what he claims is the last popsicle right in front of them. | |
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Once Bitten: Mark has an after-school job as an ice-cream truck driver—but when he's bitten by the centuries-old Countess, his partial transformation into a vampire terrifies all the children away from him. | |
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Subverted in one episode of Charmed (1998) featuring an ice cream truck that puts kids into a hypnotic trance with its music, then sucks them into a Pocket Dimension where a shadowy being called the Nothing devours them. Turns out that the ice cream man is a good guy, while the children are demons. | |
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Skids and Mudflap of Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen take this trope one step further, as they actually are the ice cream truck (both of them). While they are Autobots (i.e., good guys), this doesn't stop them from being decidedly child-unfriendly, from yelling profanity-laced death threats through their bullhorn to posting offensive decals on their sidesnote i.e. SUCK MY POPSICLE. It is, however, played for laughs. | |
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The two killers in Ghostland drive around in one. | |
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Ice Cream Man, a horror film starring Clint Howard as a killer ice cream man. And there's also Mr. Ice Cream Man. |
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The villains of Ace Lightning use Duff Kent's ice cream truck to get around. They even use it to stalk and kidnap the protagonist. | |
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In an episode of Dexter's Laboratory, the ice cream truck always drives away when Dexter comes. After Dexter goes to extreme measures to catch it, he finds out the driver has a grudge against Dexter because he once paid him with a heavy jar of pennies which caused him to trip and break his tooth which in turn made him lose his apartment, his car, his girlfriend and forced him to live under a bridge, effectively causing his entire life to be ruined. | |
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