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* A ''Series/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]].

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': One episode features an ice cream truck that puts kids into a hypnotic trance with its music, then sucks them into a PocketDimension where a shadowy being called the Nothing devours them. Turns out that the ice cream man is a good guy, while [[EnfantTerrible the children are demons]].

* The Showtime series ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' has an episode titled "We All Scream for Ice Cream". It's 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.

* ''Series/{{Tosh 0}}'': 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]].

* [[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.

''Lt. Drebin hands him two [[VisualPun traffic cones]].''

-->'''Perp''' [''from gurney'']: You didn't say three! You didn't even ''get'' to three! You shot me on ''two''! You didn't get to three....\\
'''Reese''': He's right, you know -- you didn't get to three.\\
'''Crews''': I rounded up.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

* ''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.

* Dr. Claw's henchmen Brick and [=McKible=] drive an ice-cream delivery truck in ''Film/InspectorGadget 2.'' Oddly enough, its trunk is large enough to accommodate Claw's escape jet.

-->'''Big Worm''': Whatchu want!?
-->'''Kid''': Whatcha got?
-->'''Big Worm''': Boy, what the fuck you want!?
-->'''Kid''':''[sheepishly hangs head]''...Gimme some chili Fritos.

* In ''Killjoy'' the titular MonsterClown uses an ice cream truck that acts as a gateway to an AbandonedWarehouse.

* ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' featured one of the antagonists as a rather maniacal ice cream driver who would love to torture the protagonist while on his newspaper route. He even modified his truck to have an ice cream cannon (at least in the opening dream sequence).

* 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 finished a prison sentence]].

* ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976 '' has a scene in which a violent street gang drives menacingly back and forth past a parked ice cream truck. After they've apparently moved on, a little girl comes up and buys a cone while her father is using 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 that she was given the wrong flavor, returns to the truck... and gets shot and killed point-blank]].
** Not to mention that the ice cream vendor keeps a sizable revolver stashed in his cab. Presumably for self-defense, but you never know...

* 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 he had just finished a prison sentence.

* The music video for "Loco" by ''Music/CoalChamber'' features an evil ice cream man. Throughout the video, he subjects the band to a "''Film/AClockworkOrange''" style torture via a child's viewfinder toy. This same ice cream man also appears on the album's artwork.

* 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 he had just finished a prison sentence.

** Not to mention that the ice-cream vendor keeps a sizable revolver stashed in his cab. Presumably for self-defense, but you never know...

* ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' has an old ice-cream 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.

* [[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.

--> Mr Fellatio, the ice-cream man

* 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 during midnight.

** [[http:www.scp-wiki.net/scp-490 SCP-490]] is an ice cream truck that operates by itself between 2 to 5 AM of local time to lure in people with the jingle it produces to the back of the truck. After this event is over, the freezer is observed to be stocked with frozen treats made of human blood and flesh, sold as a "Super Surprise Flavor!"

** 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.

* 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.

* In one of the Red Rock Cider adds, [[Series/PoliceSquad Detective Drebin]] is manning an undercover police unit, [[PaperThinDisguise cunningly disguised as an ice cream van called MR POLICEY]].

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

* 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.

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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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* An episode 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.

* In [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Glasgow]] in The80s, 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.

-->-- Decal on Skids's/Mudflap's ice-cream truck mode in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

-->'''Customer:''' Give me a couple of cones.
-->''Lt. Drebin hands him two [[VisualPun traffic cones]].''

* 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]]]].

* In [[UsefulNotes/Scotland Glasgow]] in The80s, 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.

* The song "Ice Cream Man", by Sloppy Seconds, is about an ice cream man who disregards the speed limit whenever he drives, admits to the children being scared of him and implies that he had just finished a prison sentence.

* The song "Ice Cream Man", by Sloppy Seconds, is all about this trope.

* Although this one doesn't operate out of a truck, Music/TomLehrer includes a sinister (if cheerful) ice cream vendor in "My Hometown":
--> I remember Dan, the druggist on the corner, 'e
--> Was never mean or ornery,
--> He was swell.
--> He killed his mother-in-law and ground her up real well,
--> And sprinkled just a bit
--> Over each banana split.

* [[http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/06/12/funny-pictures-and-you-will-like-it/ This page]] at ''[[WebOriginal/{{Lolcats}} I Can Has Cheeseburger]]'' shows a bear poking out of the ice cream truck's window while yelling "You'll get sprinkles and you will like it".

* [[http://www.stickdeath.com [=StickDeath=]]] had one video where a man trying to sleep confronts a rude ice cream driver who refuses to cease blaring his truck's music and [[FlippingTheBird flips the guy off]] in response to his attempts at retribution.

* [[http://www.stickdeath.com [=StickDeath=]]] has a feature with one of these.

* From the webcomic ''Webcomic/ASofterWorld'' "[[http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=223 Scoot Scoot Scoot]]"..

* [[http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/06/12/funny-pictures-and-you-will-like-it/ This page]] at ''[[WebOriginal/{{Lolcats}} I Can Has Cheeseburger]]''.