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[[File:sweet-tooth-concept-art.jpg|link=Twisted Metal|frame|This truck serves 41 flavors of ''TERROR AND CHAOS!'']]
{{quote|''"SUCK'' ''my'' ''POPSICLE!"''
|Decal on Skids's/Mudflap's ice-cream truck mode in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' }}
Ah, the ice cream truck. An all-American 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 pedophile who can't keep his Mr. Softie in his pants? Or, worse yet, he's an uncaptured serial killer who's keeping the bodies between the fudge pops and the Creamsicles? 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''.
For some reason, ice cream truck drivers in fiction are hardly ever as wholesome as one might expect. The trope is named after the Good Humor ice cream company. May overlap with [[Monster Clown]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* 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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* 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.
== [[Live
* The ''[[M.I. High]]'' episode "Animal Spies" had a SKUL agent basing himself out of an ice cream truck.
* A ''[[Tales from the Crypt]]'' episode ("People Who Live In Brass Hearses") featured an ex-con trying to get revenge on an ice cream truck driver {{spoiler|who, unbeknownst to the ex-con and his brother, was actually Siamese 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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* ''[[Gahan Wilson]]'' has an ice cream man opening the compartment to reveal a truckful of frozen child corpses. "Wrong door!"
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Tim Minchin]] did a routine on the jingles of ice cream vans, referring to them as "[[Black Comedy|the mating call of the kiddy fiddler]]".
{{quote|'''[[Tim Minchin]]:''' Sorry, sorry, that's totally inappropriate. It's awful what I just did there when you think about it; I just made the assumption that having an ice cream van makes you a pedophile. It's awful... It's probably the other way around.}}
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* In the flash game ''[http://games.adultswim.com/cream-wolf-twitchy-online-game.html Cream Wolf]'', the Ice Cream Truck driver is actually a Werewolf who's fattening kids up so that he can bait them back to his place when full moon arrives and proceed to "Make new flavors" out of them. It's even complete with a creepy jingle during midnight.
* One of the enemies in ''[[Toejam and Earl]]'' is a phantom ice cream truck that randomly appears and disappears and tries to run down our alien heroes.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the Refreshment Vendors in The MOTHERLODE! dungeon instance, their ice cream chests come with [[Freeze Ray]]s. Silly as this sounds, they may be the most dangerous mobs before the first Boss of the instance.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* From the webcomic ''[[A Softer World]]'' "[http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=223 Scoot Scoot Scoot]"..▼
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/06/12/funny-pictures-and-you-will-like-it/ This page] at ''[[LOLcats|I Can Has Cheeseburger]]''.
* The plot of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8srEvrF90-s Who's Hungry?] starts with one.
* The ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' has dealt with ''two'' SCPs like this:
** [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-490 SCP-490], the Man-Eating Ice Cream Truck. A living vehicle with no driver (trying to drive it is clearly not safe) its cheery melody is actually [[Magic Music|hypnotic, and used to lure victims.]] It is indeed stocked with ice cream, but some of it is made of human flesh (and ''labeled'' as such!) obviously made from the remains of its victims.
** [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1386 SCP-1386] isn’t quite as dangerous, as the being inside the truck (only its arm - which is long, spindly, with three long fingers - has been seen) does what an ice cream man is supposed to do (as in, sell ice cream). However, it doesn’t like people who aren’t happy, growling or blaring the truck's bullhorns like a siren if such people come near. It also seems to like playing jokes on humans by fulfilling their requests in odd ways, like giving them salad-flavored ice cream, a hoagie made of ice cream (to a customer who asks for an "ice cream sandwich"), or even using some sort of hose to drench a customer with ice cream! It has, however, been known to kill one or two deadbeats who refused to pay it, and the prices can vary wildly, from incredibly cheap to outrageously expensive, in one case charging $16.27 for a single Push-Pop.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Dexter's
{{quote|'''Ice Cream Man:''' I can't even eat ice cream anymore, because of ''the pain!'' '''''All because of you and your stupid pennies!!!'''''}}
* ''[[Moral Orel]]'' has [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Mr. Creepler]], a pedophile and serial rapist. Fortunately by the third season he's been put through the Electric Chair, though he's left some lasting trauma on one of his victims. Sadly, he's only one of the several [[Complete Monster]]s of the series.
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* An early episode of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' featured an ice cream truck that blared ominous-sounding propaganda from its speakers.
{{quote|YOU LIKE ICE CWEAM. YOU LOVE ICE CWEAM. YOU ''LOVE'' IT. YOU NEED IT. YOU MUST HAVE ICE CWEAM. YOU CANNOT RESIST ZE ICE CWEAM. TO RESIST IS ''HOPELESS''. YOUR EXISTENCE IS ''MEANINGLESS'' WITHOUT ICE CWEAM.}}
* ''[[The Fairly
* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' episode "Yankee Doodle Bugs", an ice cream truck shows up during the [[The American Revolution|Continental Army's]] winter encampment at Valley Forge, it's loudspeaker merrily playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy". [[Rule of Funny|The irked soldiers promptly shoot it full of holes]].
* ''[[Cars]]'': The first opponent Tormentor (Mater's monster truck wrestler alter ego) had to face in ''[[Pixar Shorts|Monster Truck Mater]]'' is a modified ice cream monster truck named Ice Screamer.
* When [[The Bully|Boog]] is behind the wheel of the Frosty Bus, there's no chance for [[Fanboy and Chum Chum]] to get their Frosty Freezy Freeze.
* A common gag in most of the [[Tex Avery]] cartoons would show the bad guy apparently holding up an armored car/stagecoach (or whatever was period-appropriate) only for the camera to pull back and show he's actually robbing an ice cream truck.
* 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. {{spoiler|(He got the frequency wrong and ended up tapping into the hearing aids of all the retirees living there.)}} Ironically, he had never imagined [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check| that selling ice cream could be so profitable]]...
* Hinted at on ''[[Family Guy]]''; local pedophile Herbert wanted an ice cream truck.
* 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.
* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', evil ice cream men are [[Mooks]] that work for both [[Big Bad Duumvirate|Father and Mr. Boss.]]
== [[Other Media]] ==▼
* The Topps trading card series ''Weird Wheels'' had a card titled [https://web.archive.org/web/20120206052228/http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Weird-Wheels/imagepages/image52.html Bad Humor Truck].▼
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Kenneth Bianchi, one of the Hillside Stranglers, worked as an ice cream man. A suspected victim of his disappeared when she went out one day to buy a cone.
* Fred West, another serial killer, also worked as an ice cream man. While one, he accidentally ran over a kid.
▲== Other ==
▲* The Topps trading card series ''Weird Wheels'' had a card titled [http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Weird-Wheels/imagepages/image52.html Bad Humor Truck].
▲* From the webcomic ''[[A Softer World]]'' "[http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=223 Scoot Scoot Scoot]"..
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