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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
* [[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.}}
* 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].▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[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.
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* 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.
== [[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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