History Main / BadHumorTruck

* Music/SteveTaylor's "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good" is about an ice cream truck driver who bombs an abortion clinic because "if we run out of youngsters, I'll be out of a job." Contrary to some misunderstandings, Taylor does ''not'' support this point of view, and was intending to mock and vilify it ("Ain't nothing wrong with this country that a few plastic explosives won't cure!")

* In the storybook that goes along with the Music/MelanieMartinez ConceptAlbum ''Music/CryBaby'', 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 ([[MurderBallad "Milk and Cookies"]]).

* In [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Glasgow]] in [[TheEighties The '80s]], there were [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ice_cream_wars turf wars]] between rival criminal gangs selling drugs and stolen goods out of ice cream vans.

* From "The Winker's Album (Misprint)" by Mudic/IvorBiggun:

* From "The Winker's Album (Misprint)" by Ivor Biggun:

[[caption-width-right:350:This truck serves 41 flavors of ''TERROR AND CHAOS!'']]

Ah, the ice cream truck. That All-American, summertime staple of childhood.

* Episode 3085 of ''Series/SesameStreet'' has an ice cream company called "Bad Humor", run by grouches. They sell ice cream flavors that appeal exclusively to grouches, such as chocolate-covered pickle and spinach vanilla crunch, and will not stop ringing their bell until someone buys their ice cream.

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* Bubs's Baloney Sammich Truck from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' 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 [[FarSideIsland "the beach"]] resulted in zero sales. (This was, by the way, before food trucks became a thing.)

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'' 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 ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' episode "High Society Scooby", Agents 1 and 2 drive an ice cream truck to lure Scooby and Shaggy into a trap.

* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' has [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' 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.
* An ice cream truck in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' refuses to stop for Tuck, so Jenny uses a giant magnet to pull it back.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' [[TheMovie 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 [[MemeticMolester stalking towards it with an evil grin on his face]].
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'', there's one of these: the driver gets pissed off at Bessie because she reports him to his manager [[spoiler:(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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' 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:
--> '''Truck driver:''' Chili! Red-hot Texas-style chili! And we got ginger ale; boiling hot Texas-style ginger ale!
* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' featured an ice cream truck that blared ominous-sounding propaganda from its speakers.
-->YOU LIKE ICE CWEAM. YOU LIKE ICE CWEAM. YOU ''LOVE'' IT. YOU CANNOT RESIST ICE CWEAM. TO RESIST IS ''HOPELESS''. YOUR EXISTENCE IS ''MEANINGLESS'' WITHOUT ICE CWEAM.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has recurring antagonist Mr. Crocker (Timmy Turner's teacher who [[SadistTeacher 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.

* ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'': The first opponent Tormentor (Mater's monster truck wrestler alter ego) had to face in ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Monster Truck Mater]]'' is a modified ice cream monster truck named Ice Screamer.
* When [[TheBully Boog]] is behind the wheel of the Frosty Bus, there's no chance for WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum to get their Frosty Freezy Freeze.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' 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.)]]
** It verges on CutLexLuthorACheck 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 [[HypercompetentSidekick Shego]] throws out their entire stock to [[DeliciousDistraction bait a horde of children]] into blocking Kim's pursuit.
* Hinted at on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''; 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!".
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'', the villain Gatlocke has a fleet of vehicles, including an ice cream truck that's been given the Mad Max treatment.

* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': 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 BedlamHouse for his creepy behavior.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' 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 [[FaceHeelTurn his ex-sidekick Barnacle Boy]], the ice cream cone in question has a lit fuse, which he fails to notice before he eats it.
-->'''Mermaid Man:''' Goes right through me every time...
* The ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

* The ''Series/MIHigh'' episode "Animal Spies" had a SKUL agent basing himself out of an ice cream truck.
* The ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS5E5PeopleWhoLiveInBrassHearses People Who Live in Brass Hearses]]" features an ex-con trying to get revenge on an ice cream truck driver [[spoiler:who, unbeknownst to the ex-con and his brother, is actually a pair of ConjoinedTwins 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]].
* One episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' 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.

* ''Series/ShamelessUK'': 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.
* ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'':
** In the [[Series/LawAndOrder 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 ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' the victim of the week is living in an ice cream truck, and using it as a base to sell bootleg [=DVDs=].
* The short-lived '80s sitcom ''Series/JenniferSleptHere'' starred Ann Jillian as the title character, an old movie actress who had been run over by an ice cream truck and haunts her former home as a ghost.
* In ''Series/VanPires'', an innocent-looking ice cream truck is actually an evil vampire vehicle. Er, ItMakesSenseInContext.
* One of the specials for ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'', "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 [[spoiler: 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.
* The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS2E10WeAllScreamForIceCream We All Scream for Ice Cream]]" is about a [[MonsterClown demonic, undead clown]] who works in an ice cream truck. His method is to sell ice cream to children, who then [[spoiler: cause their parents to melt into a colored mess not unlike that of melted ice cream]] as soon as they bite into it.
* An episode of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' has Doug buy an ice cream truck only to be stalked by another truck driven by [[Film/{{Duel}} an unseen driver with snakeskin boots who tries to kill him at every opportunity]]. [[spoiler: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...]]

* In the second episode of the original ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}},'' 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 FlippingTheBird, causing the girls to break down in tears.

* A ''Series/GetSmart'' 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."

* ''Series/Tosh0'': In [[http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/optimo-55-souf---i-m-gipper this music video]], Tosh plays an ice cream truck driver who drives recklessly even before he [[DrunkDriver starts drinking]].
* The villains of ''Series/AceLightning'' use Duff Kent's ice cream truck to get around. They even use it to stalk and kidnap the protagonist.
* In a segment of ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'', 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."

* Not involving an ice cream ''vendor'' per se, but [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS2E19Sabotage in Season 2]] of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', [[spoiler:disgraced lawyer Geoffrey Hoytsman -- former boss of Sophia Perez, onetime girlfriend of Detective Jake Peralta, who ''busted him for cocaine use'' -- kidnaps Peralta and keeps him in an ice cream truck]].
** Although [[spoiler:Hoytsman]] mentions he got the truck from a former client whom he defended for, in his words, "a strangle-and-mangle".
* ''Series/ATouchOfFrost'': 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. [[AndroclesLion 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.

* One of the grotesque characters devised by Creator/PeterKay for his mockumentary series was an ice-cream man in Chorley, [[OopNorth Lancashire]], who is clearly in the wrong job and clearly hates children. The show focused on his failing business, and his eventual desperate resort to using the ice cream van as a front to sell untaxed, illegally imported, booze, cigarettes, and video porn cassettes. This works until one day, the police turn up and raid the van.
* Charlie's uncle Jack from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' 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.

* Music/TheRutles' song "Doubleback Alley" has a line about "the funny man in the ice cream van who [[HaveAGayOldTime talked so queer]]..."
* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad's]] secret song from their album ''Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing'', "Satan's Ice Cream Truck" about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** The song was actualized into a real demonic ice cream truck by a fan of the band from Minnesota. The truck is referred to as Hell General. General because it is made from an AM General postal truck and Hell because of where it supposedly comes from.
* Music/SteveTaylor's "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good" is about an ice cream truck driver who bombs an abortion clinic because "if we run out of youngsters, I'll be out of a job." Contrary to some misunderstandings, Taylor does ''not'' support this point of view, and was intending to mock and vilify it ("Ain't nothing wrong with this country that a few plastic explosives won't cure!")

* Music/ProfessorElemental's "Animal Ice Cream", about selling your favorite ice cream mixed with bits of your favorite animal, from the back of a stolen ice cream truck.
* From "The Winker's Album (Misprint)" by Ivor Biggun:
--> Mr Fellatio, the ice cream man
--> Goes jingle jangle int' ice cream van
--> Mr Fellatio... all the children say... "Hell-''o!''"
--> To Mr Fellatio, the ice... cream... maaaaan.
* The song "Ice Cream Man", by Sloppy Seconds, is about an ice cream man who disregards the speed limit whenever he drives, has his truck play Music/MotleyCrue due to hating the standard ice cream truck music, admits to the children being scared of him and implies that [[JustGotOutOfJail he had just been released from prison]] (while [[AmbiguousCriminalHistory not explaining what he did that resulted in his incarceration in the first place]]).
* In the storybook that goes along with the Music/MelanieMartinez ConceptAlbum ''Music/CryBaby'', 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 ([[MurderBallad "Milk and Cookies"]]).

* ''ComicStrip/{{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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* Episode 3085 of ''Series/SesameStreet'' has an ice cream company called "Bad Humor", run by grouches. They sell ice cream flavors that appeal exclusively to grouches, such as chocolate-covered pickle and spinach vanilla crunch, and will not stop ringing their bell until someone buys their ice cream.
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* Needles Kane from the ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' 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 [[VehicularCombat 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.

* 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 the full moon arrives and proceed to "Make new flavors" out of them. It's even complete with a creepy jingle at midnight.
* One of the enemies in ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl'' is a phantom ice cream truck that randomly appears and disappears and tries to run down our alien heroes.

* The intro page for the web game ''VideoGame/FreeIcecream'' features the PlayerCharacter and her friend being lured toward a dirty-looking ice cream truck with "Free Icecrem" sloppily painted on the side.
* 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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* Billy Kincaid, an early ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' villain, is a pedophile and SerialKiller 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.

** Firefly detonates the home of Wade Collins while driving an ice cream truck in issue 215.

* One of the minor villains from ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'' had the ability to make ice cream, that would give anyone who ate it fatal brain freeze (meaning that it would [[VisualPun 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.
* ComicBook/IceCreamMan follows a [[RealityWarper reality warping]] ice cream man who drives around in his truck spreading misery wherever he goes.

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* In ''Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams'', they 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.

* The heroes of ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' are "helped" by two idiots who "work" by driving an ice-cream truck.
* In Bill Forsyth's ''Comfort and Joy'', a radio personality is shaken from his post-breakup funk when he gets in the middle of a mob-grade territory war between rival ice-cream vendors (based on the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars -- see 'Real Life').
* ''Film/{{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 ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater''. 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.

* There's one in ''Film/{{Legion}}''. [[spoiler:The truck's completely normal. The driver, however...]]
* Dr. Claw's henchmen Brick and [=McKible=] drive an ice-cream delivery truck in ''Film/InspectorGadget2''. Oddly enough, its trunk is large enough to accommodate Claw's escape jet.
* In ''Film/{{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.
-->'''Big Worm:''' Whatchu want!?\\
'''Kid:''' Whatcha got?\\
'''Big Worm:''' Boy, what the fuck you want!?\\
'''Kid:''' ''[sheepishly hangs head]'' ...Gimme some chili Fritos.
* In ''Film/{{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 ''[[BearsAreBadNews black bear]]''.
* An ice cream truck is home to an illegal gun dealer in ''Film/SouthlandTales''.
* Psychotic clown Javier in ''Film/TheLastCircus'' drives one.
* Detective Thorne's informant in ''Film/HellraiserInferno'' is a sleazy ex-con ice cream man who has covered the inside of his truck with pornographic images.
* In ''Killjoy'', the titular MonsterClown uses an ice cream truck that acts as a gateway to an AbandonedWarehouse.
* ''Film/PromNightIIITheLastKiss'' 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.
* The beginning of ''Film/ActOfValor'' 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.
* The eponymous character in ''Some Guy Who Kills People'' works at an ice cream parlor.
* ''Film/TheIceman''. "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.

* ''Film/AfterHours'': 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 DisproportionateRetribution).
* The two killers in ''Film/{{Ghostland}}'' drive around in one.
* Mr. Snowcone, in ''Film/Freaks2018'', 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. [[spoiler:He's her grandfather, and is trying to enlist her in the war against humanity]].
* In ''Film/Snapshot1979'', Angela gets stalked by her ex-boyfriend Daryl using an ice cream truck.

* Speaking of Stephen King, while it's not exactly an ice cream truck a couple of his short stories deal with a psychopathic milkman who plants poisonous spiders in his milk box, hands out all-purpose cream laced with highly corrosive acid and cartons of poisoned drinks, and was implied to have planted a bomb in one of his packages, which went off sometime prior to the events of the story. All the stuff he needs is in his milk truck.

* In the novel ''Literature/TheClairvoyantCountess'' by Creator/DorothyGilman there is a significant ice cream truck company run by a very scary bad guy.

* Subverted in an ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/EetuJaKonna'': One scene shows the American government agents trying to capture the titular characters riding a survellaince truck poorly disguised as an ice cream truck.

For some reason, ice cream truck drivers in fiction are hardly ever as wholesome as one might expect.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' has a mission by El Burro called "[[{{Spoonerism}} 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.

* An ice cream truck is home to an illegal gun dealer in ''Film/SouthlandTales''. Website/TheAgonyBooth called this out, pointing out that an ice cream truck would bring attention that an illegal gun dealer would not want.

But what's this? The truck's driver is a ChildHater who's doing this as a front to sell drugs. Or maybe he's a [[PaedoHunt child molester]] who can't keep his [[ICallHimMisterHappy Mr. Softie]] in his pants. Or he's an uncaptured SerialKiller who's stashing the bodies away between the fudge pops and the Creamsicles. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Worst of all, maybe he won't stop to sell the protagonists some ice cream.]] And his truck is either an [[TheAllegedCar 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 ''Series/PimpMyRide'' (TruthInTelevision: 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 [[{{Pun}} cool]] one). And that happy, tinkly music somehow [[SoundtrackDissonance only adds to the creepiness]].

* In ''Film/TreesLounge,'' LoserProtagonist 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 [[TheAlcoholic 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.

* The song "Ice Cream Man", by Sloppy Seconds, is about an ice cream man who disregards the speed limit whenever he drives, has his truck play Music/MotleyCrue due to hating the standard ice cream truck music, admits to the children being scared of him and [[AmbiguousCriminalHistory implies that he had just been released from prison]].

* Creator/JunjiIto[='s=] short story "Ice Cream Bus". The bus looks normal and the driver is a typical handsome {{Bishonen}}, but [[spoiler:it lures children away and [[BodyHorror slowly transforms them into ice cream,]] [[AndIMustScream which/who they eat as they transform into ice cream]]]].

* The Hub series ''Series/TheHauntingHour'' has the episode "Catching Cold." Marty, a BigEater boy who loves ice cream especially, discovers a mysterious ice cream truck called "Kreamy Kold" that drives around his neighborhood at night playing [[IronicNurseryTune "Pop Goes the Weasel" in a minor key.]] After being gifted a cone on his doorstep, he discovers that Kreamy Kold's treats are [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood so incredibly delicious]] that all other ice cream tastes bad in comparison. Mary gradually becomes more and more obsessed with Kreamy Kold (in a manner [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin 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 [[PoweredByAForsakenChild 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, [[GoMadFromTheIsolation insane]] man who's been sealed inside the truck for all that time. The episode ends with Jimmy finally getting to leave and screaming [[MadnessMantra "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...

* Charlie's uncle Jack from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' 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.

SubTrope of CreepyStalkerVan. May overlap with MonsterClown. The trope is named after the Good Humor ice cream company. Compare SinisterCar.