History Main / BadHumorTruck

* Subverted in ''{{Charmed}}'': The ice truck driver was a good guy, while [[EnfantTerrible the children were demons]].

* The detective's informant in ''{{Hellraiser}}: Inferno'' is a sleazy ex-con ice cream man who has covered the inside of his truck with pornographic images.

Ah, the ice cream truck. An all-American staple of childhood. 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 LittleKidLover who can't keep his Mr. Softie in his pants? Or, worse yet, he's an uncaptured serial killer who's keeping the bodies between the fudge pops and the Creamsicles? And his truck is either an AllegedCar (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 ''Pimp My Ride''.

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

* The beginning of ActOfValor has the Chechen terrorist Abu Shabal driving what looks like an ice cream truck in the Phillipines to a school. Said Ice Cream Truck turns out to be a suicide car bomb, which kills the US Ambassador, his son, and sever Phillipino schoolchildren.

* There's one in the first episode of ''MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''.

* In an episode of ''DextersLaboratory'', the ice cream truck driver has a grudge against Dexter because he once paid him with a heavy jar of pennies which caused him [[DisasterDominoes to trip and break his tooth]] which in turn made him lose his apartment, his car, his girlfriend and forced him to live under a bridge, effectively causing [[DiabolusExMachina his entire life to be ruined]]; and thus refuses to stop for him.

* ''MoralOrel'' has [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast 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.

* ''Max Keeble's Big Move'' 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 Showtime series ''Masters of Horror'' 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.

* ''HeyArnold'' had an ice cream man named "The Jolly Olly Man" (voiced by [[TheSimpsons Dan Castellaneta]], using a voice that sounds like a mix between his normal voice and a bitter, insane take on Arnie Pie [the helicopter news reporter who hates Kent Brockman]) who hated kids and in one episode was on the verge of getting fired because his attitude was hurting sales. In another episode, he tried charging kids $20 for ice cream during a heat wave.
* ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' had an entire organization of ice cream men that were keeping all the ice cream for the adults.

-->[[Understatement 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.]]

* Subverted in an ''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.

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' episode "Yankee Doodle Bugs", an [[BeyondTheImpossible ice cream truck]] shows up during the [[TheAmericanRevolution 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]].

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

* The Hub series ''TheHauntingHour'' has a story called "Catching Cold," about a fat boy who pursues an ice cream truck and how the ice cream truck seems to favor him. [[spoiler:Turns out the ice cream truck is haunted and traps those who are so obsessed with ice cream that they are willing to actively chase down the truck. It was also behind the disappearance of a boy in the late 1970s/early 1980s who did the same thing as the fat boy now and is now a fat, insane man who is more than willing to let the boy of 2011 trade places with him so the ice cream truck can feed off his soul]].

Ah, the ice cream truck. An all-American staple of childhood. 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 LittleKidLover who can't keep his Mr. Softie in his pants? Or, worse yet, he's an uncaptured serial killer who's keeping the bodies between the fudge pops and the Creamsicles? And his truck is either an AllegedCar (either played straight or exaggerated) or it looks as if it was featured on an episode of ''Pimp My Ride''.

Ah, the ice cream truck. An all-American staple of childhood. But what's this? The truck's driver won't give you any ice cream? Hates kids? Has a dead body in the trunk?

* The SesameStreet [[TheMovie movie]], ''The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland'', features the Bad Humor Man (SteveWhitmire), who is the TropeNamer.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cream_Man_(film) Ice Cream Man]]'', a horror film starring Clint Howard as a killer ice cream man.

* Not exactly ice cream truck, but a couple of [[StephenKing Stephen King's]] 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 some time prior to the events of the story. All the stuff he needs are in his milk truck.
* Subverted in an 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.

* Freddy Krueger in ''FreddysNightmares'' had one for luring in kids stored nearby from his power plant base.

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

-->''"SUCK'' ''my'' ''POPSICLE!"''
--->-- Decal on Skids's/Mudflap's ice-cream truck mode in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

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

* ''GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' has a campaign where it turns out the ice cream factory is owned by a nasty old woman who hates children, who only uses ice cream as a front for her cocaine trafficking operations, and the ice cream trucks, instead of selling ice cream, sell drugs. When you actually get the factory and ice cream truck, both of them are horribly glitched and unusable (saving at the factory corrupts your save file), so really it's the factory and truck that are at fault. Taking one of the ice cream trucks to another business you own, a car dealership/chop shop, helps complete the main storyline. "We need you to steal...um....take...we need an ice cream truck, okay?" It's also impossible to sell ice cream to kids, even if you wanted to, considering [[HideYourChildren there are no kids in the game]].

* FairlyOddParents has Crocker's van, which is often disguised as an ice cream truck.

* The first opponent Tormentor ([[{{Cars}} Mater]]'s monster truck wrestler alter ego) had to face in ''[[PixarShorts Monster Truck Mater]]'' is a modified ice cream monster truck named Ice Screamer.

* Mafia hitman Robert Pronge drove a Mister Softee truck to appear incospicuous.

* From the webcomic "A Softer World" http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=223 Scoot Scoot Scoot..

* The ''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 of him [[MemeticMolester stalking towards the cart with an evil grin on his face]].

* [[InvaderZim "YOU LIKE ICE CWEAM. YOU LOVE ICE CWEAM. YOU]] ''[[InvaderZim LOVE]]'' [[InvaderZim IT. YOU NEED IT. YOU MUST HAVE ICE CWEAM. YOU CANNOT RESIST ZE ICE CWEAM. TO RESIST IS]] ''[[InvaderZim HOPELESS]]''[[InvaderZim . YOUR EXISTENCE IS]] ''[[InvaderZim MEANINGLESS]]'' [[InvaderZim WITHOUT ICE CWEAM."]]

* The first opponent Tormentor ([[{{Cars}} Mater]]'s monster truck wrestler alter ego) had to face in [[PixarShorts ''Monster Truck Mater'']] is a modified ice cream monster truck named Ice Screamer.

--->-- Decal on Skids's/Mudflap's ice-cream truck mode in [[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]

* Skids and Mudflap of the ''[[{{TransformersFilmSeries}} Transformers]]'' films take this trope one step further, as they actually ''are'' the ice cream truck ([[CombiningMecha 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[[hottip:*:i.e. ''SUCK MY POPSICLE'']]. It is, however, played for laughs.

* ''KidsNextDoor'' had an entire organization of ice cream men that were keeping all the ice cream for the adults.

* 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]].

* ''LawAndOrder'':