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* StrappingYoungLad[='=]s secret song from their album ''Heavy as a really heavy thing'', "Satan's Ice Cream Truck." about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

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* The original version of ''AssaultOnPrecinct13'' 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.

* A ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' 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.]]

* In an episode of ''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).]]

* The Topps trading card series ''Weird Wheels'' had a card titled [[http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Weird-Wheels/imagepages/image52.html Bad Humor Truck.]]

* A ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode 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.]]

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' episode "Yankee Doodle Bugs", an ice cream truck shows up during the [[BeyondTheImpossible Continental Army's]] winter encampment at Valley Forge, it's loudspeaker merrily playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy". [[RuleOfFunny The irked soldiers promptly shoot it full of holes]].

* In the novel ''The Clairvoyant Countess'' by Dorothy Gilman there is a significant ice cream truck company run by a very scary bad guy.

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

* There's one in ''Legion''. [[spoiler:The truck's completely normal. The driver however...]]

* There's one in ''Legion'' if the trailer is any indication... [[spoiler:The truck's completely normal. The driver however...]]

* ''Nice Dreams'' a Cheech & Chong's film, they have an ice cream truck named "Happy Herb's Nice Dreams." Take the words, "Ice Creams" and add a "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.

* A Mister Whippy van also appears in ''28 Weeks Later''. The trope is teasingly hinted at and then averted.

* One episode of ''TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'' 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. 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 heroes of ''Killer Klowns From Outer Space'' are "helped" by two idiots who "work" by driving an ice-cream truck.

* Freddy Krueger in ''Freddy's Nightmares'' had one stored nearby from his power plant base.

* ''MoralOrel'' - Pedo/Serial Rapist truck driver instead. Fortunately by the third season he's been put through the Electric Chair, though he's left some... [[{{Understatement}} lasting impact]] on one of his victims.

* ''TheDrewCareyShow'' has an old ice-dream truck being used to distribute Buzz Beer. Disappointing when kids find out they don't have any ice cream, and rude when they keep getting asked, but not actively evil.
* In the second episode of the original ''Life on Mars,'' Sam Tyler drives a witness incognito in an ice cream truck, hoping to spot a suspect. Unfortunately for the kids, Gene Hunt tags along too.

* Freddy Krueger in ''Freddy's Nigtmares'' had one stored nearby from his power plant base.

* [[InvaderZim "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 infamous book series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark gives a short story called Mr. Ice Cold. The ice cream truck and it's driver look innocent enough at first. But then, a boy notices that there's one door on the truck that is never opened. One day he decides to take a quick peek inside the door and gets a nasty shock. Let's just say that Mr. Ice Cold prefers a different kind of treat besides ice cream.

* There's a poem called ''The Emperor of Ice Cream'' that's sort of hard to interpret, but the first stanza is definitely talking about an ice cream man, and the second is definitely talking about a dead body. Whether the first is the cause of the second can't be determined, but it's all rather creepy. [[http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides4/emperor.html Critics]] seem to favor the theory that it's about the wake of the old lady who's lying dead in the second stanza. In that case, the partying in the first stanza might be seen as life-affirming or callous.

*** Also in StephenKing's KingdomHospital

* In ''{{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 ''black bear''.

** Also in StephenKing's ''Kingdom Hospital''.

* In FullmetalAlchemist, the "Funny Bear" ice cream truck shows up in Central to hand out ammunition, mortars, and other materiel. 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.

* The original version of ''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.

* ''TheDrewCareyShow'' has an old ice-dream truck being used to distribute Buzz Beer. Disappointing when kids find out they don't have any ice cream, and rude when they keep getting asked, but not actively evil.