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== [[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]]".

 

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In an episode of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'', the ice cream truck driver has a grudge against Dexter because he once paid him with a heavy jar of pennies which caused him [[Disaster Dominoes|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 [[Diabolus Ex Machina|his entire life to be ruined]]; and thus refuses to stop for him.

* ''[[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|Complete Monsters]] of the series.

* ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' had an ice cream man named "The Jolly Olly Man" (voiced by [[The Simpsons|Dan Castellaneta]], using a voice that sounds like a mix between his normal voice and a bitter, insane take on Arnie Pie [the helicopter news reporter who hates Kent Brockman]) who hated kids and in one episode was on the verge of getting fired because his attitude was hurting sales. In another episode, he tried charging kids $20 for ice cream during a heat wave.

* 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 {{spoiler|40 years, give or take a few days}} and is glad to finally escape!

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart of Darkness" opens with Springfield suffering a blistering heat wave. 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:

* An early episode of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' featured an ice cream truck that blared ominous-sounding propaganda from its speakers.

* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' has Crocker's van, which is often disguised as an ice cream truck.

* 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]].

== [[Real Life]] ==

* The [[Violent Glaswegian|Glasgow]] [[wikipedia:Glasgow Ice Cream Wars|Ice Cream Wars]].

* Mafia hitman Robert Pronge drove a Mister Softee truck to appear inconspicuous.

* Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski froze his victims' bodies in an ice cream truck to skew the estimated time of their death.