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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 (Film)|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
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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== [[Film]] ==
* The ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' [[The Movie|movie]], ''The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland'', features the Bad Humor Man ([[Steve Whitmire]]), who is the [[Trope Namer]].
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** And there's also ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323307/ Mr. Ice Cream Man]''.
* The original version of ''[[Assault On Precinct 13 (Film)|Assault On Precinct 13]]'' has a scene in which a violent street gang drives menacingly back and forth past a parked ice cream truck. After they've (seemingly) moved on, a little girl comes up and buys a cone while her father uses a phone booth up the street. {{spoiler|After she leaves, the gang ambushes the driver and knocks him unconscious; meanwhile, the little girl, unaware of all this and discovering she's been given the wrong flavor, returns to the truck and gets shot and killed point-blank}}. Perhaps more significantly, it then turns out that the ice-cream vendor keeps a sizable revolver stashed in his cab.
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* ''[[Help|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.
* A Mister Whippy van also appears in ''[[Twenty Eight Weeks Later|28 Weeks Later]]''. The trope is teasingly hinted at and then averted.
* Skids and Mudflap of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Film)|Transformers Revenge of the Fallen]]'' take this trope one step further, as they actually ''are'' the ice cream truck ([[Combining Mecha|both of them]]). 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 sides<ref>i.e. ''SUCK MY POPSICLE''</ref>. It is, however, played for laughs.
* There's one in ''[[Legion]]''. {{spoiler|The truck's completely normal. The driver however...}}
* 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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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The [[Violent Glaswegian|Glasgow]] [
{{quote| The conflicts, in which vendors raided one another's vans and fired shotguns into one another's windscreens, were more violent than might typically be expected between ice-cream salesmen.}}
* Mafia hitman Robert Pronge drove a Mister Softee truck to appear inconspicuous.
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