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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He has a summer job as a scarecrow. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The real man inside of the snowman is apparently the sort of person who will take a seasonal job as a seasonally-appropriate anthropomorphic sculpture, e.g., a snowman in winter, or a scarecrow in the summer. It's funny because this isn't a real job, and even if it was, the type of person who would accept it is very odd."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You promised me you would stop after you lost your arm from that paper cut! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The person writing in the giant book only has one arm pictured, so it's plausible that the other one is lost: specifically, the joke is that this person really likes to write in a big book despite the fact that the giant pages caused a giant paper cut which caused the person's arm to entirely get cut off. This is much more damange than would be caused by a smaller paper cut from a smaller book. It's not clear why they are so intent on writing in this book, and their partner wishes they would stop before they lose their second arm."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The pen is mightier, but that looks awesome. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A reference to the saying \"the pen is mightier than the sword\" which says that laws/written words are more powerful than physical force in the modern world. These people are questioning that saying: upon seeing the sword out-of-place in the desk, they are in awe of its physical appearance/strength. This is a funny push-back on the common adage."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: My wife won't let me put one in the back yard. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Couples sometimes argue about whether or not they should add a pool to the backyard. Here, the wife said no, so instead of giving up on the pool, the husband put one in their home office. Technically, it's not in the back yard, so the husband didn't disobey his wife's request."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: All his pitches have been inside. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on words. An \"inside pitch\" in baseball usually means a pitch that is close to the batter. But here, \"inside\" literally means inside a house --- the woman on the phone is exasperatedly explaining that she's tired of her spouse, the pitcher, playing baseball inside their house."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This is the most advanced case of Surrealism I've seen. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Surrealism is an art style which focuses on incongruent, impossible, and unnerving scenes; here, that art movement is repurposed as a disease --- and if someone was infected with surrealism, in the advanced stages, their body might separate in similarly impossible/un-nerving ways like impossibly having a separated head, torso, and legs."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Tell me about a time you identified a problem that others didn't see coming. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "In job interviews, people will often ask behavioral questions like this one. However, usually, the skillset they are asking about isn't one that the candidate is using in real time. Here, the interviewer literally doesn't see the giant asteroid coming down from space because he's facing away from it. In contrast, the interviewee can identify it. It's funny because the interview question is easy to answer because they can just describe the present moment, but they both may die because of asteroid impact."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Really God, you worry too much. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The giant hand belongs to god, and the doctor (who looks rather bored) is telling god that his health is fine. This is unusual because presumably, god wouldn't be prone to mortal health problems and wouldn't need a doctor/wouldn't worry about this sort of thing."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If you think this is annoying, just wait. In a few miles, they switch to binary. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The road signs here are in roman numerals, which are notoriously difficult to read. However, on this unusual road, the signs get even more difficult to read, because, according to the female passenger, the numbers will soon be binary, i.e., sequences of ones and zeros that are difficult to immediately translate into values for the driver."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm up here. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the common trope that men's gaze can drift to revealing parts of a woman's body if their are sexually interested in them. The trope states that the woman will sometimes say \"my eyes are up here\" --- but here, while the male turkey is looking at the human-like legs in fishnets, because of how a turkey's entire body is above the legs, instead of \"my eyes are up here\", it gets reduced to \"I'm up here,\" i.e., \"most of my entire body is above where you are looking.\""
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I wish they would just go back to tapping our phone lines. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Governments sometimes tap phone lines (as in: the patriot act). But this goes a step further: instead of just listening in via tapping the phone lines, the government has literally deployed an army of monsters to watch everyone to make sure everyone is behaving."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Relax. The DVR is set. You can catch the game tomorrow. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The man would rather be watching the sports match than go out to dinner with his partner on a date. The woman is re-assuring him that they are recording the game so he can watch it tomorrow, but he still needs to be tied down to his chair. It's funny partly because of the stereotype that men sometimes prefer sports to romantic evenings."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You bought the sofa, you find the remote. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "It's a common occurrence that a TV remote gets lost in the sofa, and one must find it to change the channel. But here, the sofa is scary and dangerous monster. The wife is telling the husband that it's his job to find the lost remote in the sofa, which would be a risky job considering, e.g., if you reached your arm into this couch it might bite it off."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Look, you agreed to a trial separation. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the idea of trail separation not being as definitive as divorce. This couple agreed to live apart temporarily without becoming divorced, but are still attached both by marriage, and in this case, literally by a tandem bike. The bike is a somewhat awkward not-full-separation, just like a trial separation."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: That's it. I'm returning those narciscissors today! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"narciscissors\" is a mashup of the words narcissist and scissors. If there was a product called \"narciscissors\": the narcissist part might cause someone to make flattering hedge trimmings of themselves. This might be annoying to the wife who has to live in a house with these ridiculous sculptures of her husband."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Once tax season is over, you can go back to being the only child. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Your taxes can be reduced in the US if you have children: by claiming more dependents on your tax return, you get to pay less to the government, which everyone tries to do. Here, the man is humorously bending the tax rules by treating the family dog as a human child to save tax money. The human child is not happy about it, but the parent assures the kid that it's only for tax season that they need to do this charade."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Isn't this the same guy who got shipwrecked in our wading pool? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A man who gets lost in a sandbox as if he were stranded in the desert, as depicted, is not so bright because it's difficult to put oneself in a dire situation within a benign children's play area. The kids refer to another analogous situation when the same man put himself in a dire situation (shipwreck) within a benign children's play area (wading pool)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I couldn't find a real naked woman to ride with me in the H.O.V. lane. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The H.O.V. lane is a prioritized traffic design that allows cars with multiple occupants their own lane. Here, the man wants to go in the lane, but only with a naked woman passenger. Possibly because of the oddity of this request, no one took him up on it, and so, he has a naked doll instead to trick police offers to not giving him a ticket for illegally driving alone in the H.O.V. lane."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: How about we just stay in tonight? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "To \"stay in tonight\" usually means for a couple to relax/get take-out food/stay in bed instead of going out to restaurants and bars. But here, the people don't have a choice of going out: they are in prison. The funny part is that the statement implies that they had a choice and are simply selecting this of their own free will when they're not."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Please use a coaster. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "People use coasters to prevent glasses from damaging wood surfaces like desks --- but here, the object that needs a coaster is a disembodied head. One would think that a person in this situation would comment on the disembodied head, but the man behind the desk is most worried about preserving the desk, and simply asks the head to use a coaster."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Would you at least use coasters? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The man not sitting on the table is asking the three people on the table to use coasters. It's unusual to put chairs on a table like this during a meeting, and the man likely didn't join them because of how weird it is. While he's weirdly accepted that they will sit on the table, he's asking them to at least not scratch the surface with their chairs by using coasters. It's funny because it's unclear why the people wanted to be on the table."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'll take this and the granny dress. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A reference to the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood. A \"wolf in sheeps clothing,\" as depicted, is an idiom meaning a nefarious actor who appears innocent: here the wolf is the same (also nefarious) wolf as in Little Red Riding Hood: who kills a grandmother and wears her clothes as a disguise."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your tattoo escaped. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A surreal joke about a tattoo coming to life. People sometimes get dragon tattoos --- if such tattoos could come to life, that would offer a reasonable explanation for how this enormous dragon could be in this pool. The nonchalance of the statement makes it funnier --- as if tattoos escaping like this happens often."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your last job sounds terrible. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The people rowing the boat are slaves --- their conditions seem dire and their job terrible. But, even the rowers take pity on the businessman, who they judge to have an even more terrible job previously. This surprising conclusion is joke is about how modern jobs are cushy, but might still feel like slavery in some ways (even though they aren't really comparable)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: That's why they call him The Kid. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A reference to the outlaw \"Billy the Kid\", who got his name because his face/appearance looked useful, but this person is called \"The Kid\" because they are acting like a child by bringing a balloon to a shootout in the wild west town. It's humorous partly because we expect him to lose the duel with the person with a gun, but he has somehow survived long enough to get a nickname."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If all goes well, we'll get them back after the audit. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "This company has done some extremely shady financial activities, so much so, that external auditors have comically taken away even their clothing. It's funny to think of a shareholder meeting for a company that's doing so obviously badly, and yet, they are happy to do their best and continue with the presentation naked."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I can give you the tools, but you have to do the work yourself. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the words \"tools\" and \"work\". Therapists often ask for emotional buy-in from their clients: there's no passive cure that they can impart, so while they can provide the emotional tools for healing, the patient has to meet them in the middle by doing the emotional work with the tools. But here, the tools and work are literal, not emotional: the literal tools are soap and a brush, and the work is literally scrubbing, which ties together why the patient is in a bath tub."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We get it. You're straight. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "This is a joke about toxic masculinity. The man wants to do yoga, which is seen by some as a feminine activity. To compensate for his insecurity, he brings a manly, big rug instead of a purportedly feminine yoga mat. The instructor's retort addresses his insecurity by saying that his overcompensation is overkill."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Don't look at me that way—I wanted a giant cat. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The giant dog is slobbering all over the furniture and the woman is looking to the man for help. The problem here is clearly the size of the dog --- if it were normal sized, it wouldn't be a problem. But, the man fails to recognize that the size is the problem instead attributing their current predicament to the fact that its a dog. It's additionally partly funny because of the tension between cat people and dog people."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Wave to him. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "While his political opponent is putting on an impressive show, if the politician getting advice were to wave to the juggling politician, it might distract him enough such that the chainsaws would kill him by sawing into his body. If his political opponent was dead, he would win the election, which makes it good practical (albeit dark) advice"
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: She left a note. No, I haven't read it yet. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "An angry wife left her husband, and she left a note, presumably detailing her issues with him. This joke takes the anger one step further, instead of simply leaving the note, she literally stabbed him in the back, leaving the note lodged on the knife. It's funny in part because the man is relatively calm about being literally stabbed in the back, talking to his friend on the phone calmly about his partner's departure."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: And for you goats—thou shalt not marry a dragon or ox. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about the incompatibility of romantic relationships according to Chinese Zodiac signs. The tablets, written in Chinese, have been passed to Moses as eternal rules, like the ten commandments. But, instead of general, eternal principles like \"do not kill\", god has humorously commanded that people with particular zodiac signs are incompatible: usually, this sort of thing is seen as just superstition, so it's funny to think god is superstitious."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: What we have here is a reptile dysfuntion. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"erectile dysfunction,\" which is a medical diagnosis that people sometimes receive. In addition to being a simple pun that addresses the snake around the man, there's a slight crudeness to the joke because snakes look somewhat phallic."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Thank you for agreeing to meet remotely. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "To \"meet remotely\" usually means to meet over a video call, but here, \"meet remotely\" takes on a second meaning: to meet in-person, but in a remote location. The person with the coconut cocktail is organizing the meeting: he more relaxed than his co-worker, suggesting he might not be as dedicated to his job (or is perhaps his boss with less accountability)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I hate fashion week. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about an unusual promotion for a baseball team --- \"fashion week\" is a fashion industry event where many designers showcase new types of clothing with models/runway shows. Here, the owner of the baseball team is forcing a similar promotion on his players, as shown by the player wearing fancy high heels. It's a weird promo in part because wearing high heels probably makes it much harder to play baseball, so the players hate it because the team will lose."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Get naked, jump in, and make this marriage work! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A strange piece of advice from the marriage counselor about how the couple might re-kindle their marriage. The couple is skeptical that a naked bath is what's stopping them from having a good marriage, but the purported therapist nonetheless enthusiastically suggests it. The funny part is that this therapist doesn't seem credible."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I know you have the law and the facts on your side, but I'm going with the dancing girls on this one. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Judges are supposed to be impartial, but this judge sides with the showiness of the dancers rather than the boring (but correct) lawyer. This is an exaggeration of a concern of the judicial system: that the facts of a case may matter less than a lawyer's presentation."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You better hope that was rain I just felt. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The cop is trying to get the person to stop illegally flying a dog instead of a kite --- the joke is that, unlike kites, dogs can urinate, which might cause the police offer to get urinated on from above. The cop is trying to get the person to stop flying the dog, and it's likely the punishment would be worse for the man if the officer was peed on. The officer points out that the liquid he felt, for the sake of the man's punishment severity, is hopefully rain and not dog pee."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The guy you're looking for waltzed out of here an hour ago. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the word \"waltzed\" --- if a private investigator were looking for a suspect at a bar to be told that the person \"waltzed out of there\", that would simply mean they left. But, given that the victim of the crime is a ballet dancer, it suggests that the perpetrator may have also been a dancer, and perhaps literally waltzed out of the bar, i.e., danced their way out."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I’m going to give you something for your humanity. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Because the doctor is an alien, they might assume that being an alien is \"normal\" --- so, being a human is the disease, and the alien apparently has a prescription drug/\"cure\" to turn the human into an alien."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: RELAX! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The hulk is a superhero who becomes a super strong monster when he's angry. It's funny to imagine him trying to teach a yoga class --- if he was mad that someone wasn't relaxing enough to do yoga, he might become the hulk, smash them into the wall, and yell \"RELAX\"!"
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm so glad that 'lumberjack' is more a look than an occupation these days. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Lumberjacks cut down trees, and so the trees are especially happy that the couple is just wearing plaid (\"lumberjack\" clothing) instead of trying to chop them down."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: In our opinion, you won't make it past the holidays. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Gingerbread men are cookies often baked at the holidays. Doctors are often tasked with giving prognoses for difficult medical conditions that involve death. Here, their prognosis of \"not making it past the holidays\" refers to the probable outcome of the gingerbread man being eaten during the holiday season (and not \"making it\" past that time)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: They keep watch on the offshore accounts. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Offshore accounts are bank accounts run by island nations where wealthy people keep money to avoid taxes. Here, the Moai statues, which normally are on Easter Island, have haircuts which make them look like wealthy businessmen from the USA. The idea is that these modified Maoi statues' job is to make sure that the wealthy businessmen's money is safe on the island."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We need to screen our organ donors more closely. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"organ donors\" --- an organ donor usually refers to someone who opts in to having their organs donated after their death; these folks might be screened for health conditions to make sure transplantation is safe. But here, the organ donor is someone who gave the musical instrument organ to the church; a more close screening process for someone donating a musical instrument would have presumably caught the fact that the organ isn't an instrument, it's a radiator."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'd suggest you keep them away from the gingerbread men. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "These odd female dancers are being sold at the meat counter as a product: while this remains unexplained, the butcher's advice is to keep these women away from gingerbread men, which are a type of cookie shaped like men. One would want to keep the men and the women apart because romantic hi-jinks between the men and women might occur."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Thank you for agreeing to meet remotely. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "To \"meet remotely\" usually means to meet over a video call, but here, \"meet remotely\" takes on a second meaning: to meet in-person, but in a remote location. The person with the coconut cocktail is organizing the meeting: he more relaxed than his co-worker, suggesting he might not be as dedicated to his job (or is perhaps his boss with less accountability)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Sorry I'm late. I hit every traffic light coming home. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrase \"hit every traffic light\" --- usually, \"hit\" is a figurative expression someone would say if they encountered lots of red lights at traffic stops driving home: this would cause them to be late because red lights cause drivers to stop. But here, \"hit\" takes on a literal meaning: because the giraffe is the one coming home and giraffes are tall with long necks, they literally physically hit their head on every single traffic light."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We never should have sold those air rights, Ed. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The couple on the bottom apparently sold the air rights above their property, not realizing that whoever they sold the rights two would be able to construct an entire parallel house/property above them. The people on the bottom have a more cramped property now that their vertical neighbors live so close. It's funny in part because of the contrast between the benign/everyday nature of legal concerns vs. the whimsical idea that an upside-down house could be constructed."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I clearly recall choosing hell over high water. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A reference to the idiom: \"hell or high water\": in this case, they were literally given the choice, and despite apparently choosing \"hell\", they were given \"high water\", as depicted."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It just looked so uncool to wear a seat belt in the Batmobile. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A dark joke about batman dying in a car crash. We know the angel on the right is batman because the black wings are similar to accents on the batmobile, and we know he died because he's in heaven talking about how he didn't wear a seatbelt."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Take away the computers and they’re just sitting ducks. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the phrase \"sitting ducks\" --- figuratively, sitting ducks are vulnerable people. The joke from the professor is that, if computers were taken away from their students, they would be incapable and vulnerable, a reference to dependence on technology. But, because the students are literally ducks, if you took the computers away, you would literally be left with a room full of ducks sitting down."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: When did you first encounter my client's balloon? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A man with a hook for a hand is on trial. Apparently, his crime was popping a balloon, which he did either purposefully or accidentally, with his hook. It's funny partly because it's unclear what type of balloon popping crime would be significant enough to put him on trial."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Honestly, I’m not sure you’re partner material. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the word \"partner\" --- in the context of a law firm, a \"partner\" is a high ranking lawyer at the firm. But here, everyone at the law firm is dancing on a table, and so \"partner\" takes on the second meaning of dancing partner. Here, the lawyer might not achieve law partner possibly because he isn't a good dancing partner."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Why don't you get the coffee this morning? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This bedroom is quite dangerous --- there are holes in the floor that would be easy to fall into. These two people are apparently taking turns navigating these hazards, and one is saying it's the other person's turn to brave them to grab them both coffee to bring back to the safe bed. It's funny because it's not clear why they are trying to live normally in this overtly dangerous place."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I can keep it together during the ceremony. The reception is where I fall to pieces. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on \"keep it together\" and \"fall to pieces\" --- people at weddings will often get wrapped up in the emotion of the event, and end up crying: that is, they figuratively don't \"keep it together\" and do \"fall to pieces.\" However, both these take on a literal crumbling interpretation for a wedding cake: it's easy to keep it together for a cake during the ceremony because no one is eating cake yet. But, during the reception when people eat the cake, the cake literally is cut into different pieces to serve."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Last time I'll book a discount vasectomy, for sure. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Spaying/neutering pets is a commonly performed operation for animal sterilization performed at animal shelters; the human equivalent sterilization procedure is called a vasectomy and is usually more expensive due to higher quality, human medical requirements. But here, the two men are trying to save money by having their operations done at an animal shelter. It's funny in part not only because this is an unusual way to save money, but also, because vasectomies only are performed once per person, so this is literally the last time the person will do this procedure, even if they liked it; the quote implies they aren't enjoying being locked in an animal cage."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You call THAT pushing? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about childbirth. The woman is pushing her kids up the hill in the stroller, but the quote references the pushing associated with the pain of labor/giving birth. The woman has had a few kids and is unimpressed with the \"pushing\" the man is thus unimpressed with the man who is only pushing a rock up a hill."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He wants to know if you can move your seat up. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Moving a front seat up is an everyday request from people sitting in the backseat of cars if they don't have enough room. The whale is making this request: the contrast between how unusual it is that the whale is in the backseat and the benign-ness of the request is what makes it funny."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Technically, I'm guarding two posts. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on words: to guard a \"post\" usually means to patrol a location, but here, the guard in the hammock is just relaxing and not working. However, in another sense he is guarding the two literal posts his hammock is attached to, which he argues means that he's technically doing twice the expected work."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If we truly believe in golf, I don't think we have much of a choice. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Armed conflicts are usually between two sides with opposing ideals; in this case, the golfers fighting the army would mean that they are standing up for their core principle: golf. This is not a core principle worth risking violence for, but they are considering it."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Any final thoughts? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A therapist might say \"any final thoughts\" prior to a session ending, but here, \"final thoughts\" refers to death. The therapist is a bit late to ask about these though, because her client has died and is in a coffin. It's funny in part because she seems to not have noticed yet, despite looking intently directly at it."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm just saying, after this haircut, it's difficult to trust you. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about precision with sharp objects. Here, the archer apparently gave this person their haircut, and they think it's ugly. They are planning to shoot an apple off the other person's head, which requires deft coordination with a sharp object, i.e., the arrow. But the person with the haircut doesn't trust their capacity with sharp objects, because the scissors used to cut their hair weren't used skillfully, as the haircut turned out ugly."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This would work out a lot better if we had kids. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This couple’s car probably broke down, and, unusually, now they are rowing from the car’s windows to move it which would be quite difficult. Not only is it absurd to think using oars will help move a car at all, but, it's funny that the proposed solution to their prediciment is to get more people to row, i.e., their hypothetical children, instead of, e.g., calling a mechanic."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This is what we get for walking down a dark alley before 5 p.m. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "There's a trope that young people may rob you if you walk down a dark alley at night. But, this caption suggests that if you go down before 5PM during the day old, people would rob you --- this references that old people tend to go bed early. This is funny because 1) we usually don't expect old people to be criminals (particularly these folks who look well off); and 2) the man seems quite nonchalant about the situation, accepting that it was their fault."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Let's just give him the damn cheese. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Scientists often run mice through mazes as part of science experiments, but here, the mouse in the experiment has not only solved the maze, but has solved the maze by transcending the experiment and building a jet pack --- the scientists decide that this subject has done more than enough, and should just be given the cheese which acts as a reward in the maze because this mouse has gone above and beyond."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Fellas, your empathy for victims is outstanding. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A dark joke: firemen, police officers, and priests might all be involved if someone was to commit suicide by jumping off a building, and in the process, they might build empathy for victims. But here, they take their empathy too far and literally step out on the edge to understand the victim."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 4B wants you to make her husband disappear. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Magicians can often perform illusions to make objects disappear. In this case, the man is putting on a magic show for an entire apartment block -- because the magic show has intersected with people's living situations, they are making requests having to do with their home life via texting the magician's spouse (next to him on the roof). One person, the resident of apartment 4B, is experiencing marital troubles and has requested that her husband be disappeared to solve her problems."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Personally, I think Prozac is a lot easier. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"As funny as a barrel of monkeys\" is an idiom that refers to the plastic barrel of monkeys that's a children's toy. The delivery man is assuming that the other person ordered a barrel of monkeys to make himself happier, and quips that he feels that prozac, and antidepressant, might have the same effect, but be easier to use."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: But how will we raise the kids? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ideological differences, e.g., religion, between parents are often considerations prior to two people having kids because it's desirable to have a consistent moral framework to raise kids with. In this case, the ideological difference is about geometric art."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Watch your step, I think this street is paved with Good Intentions. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the figurative saying \"The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions\" --- this saying means that good intentions, left unchecked, can often lead to the worst outcomes. But here, the street is literally a path to hell, and so the man is saying it must be the street from the saying."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, after you beheaded the groundskeeper, we had to go with something low-maintenance. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The king doesn't like the cacti decorating his throne room, but cacti are low-maintenance plants that don't require a lot of water, and grow easily. They had to switch to low-maintenance plants because he had the groundskeeper killed so there wasn't anyone to take care of the plants, but it seems like he regrets this decision."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm really more of a painter-gatherer. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the phrase \"hunter-gatherer\" --- the deer these two cavemen are hunting look like cave paintings instead of actual deer. So, instead of hunting normal deer, they prefer to interact with the painting deer, and they are \"painter-gatherers,\" as a result."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Could you trim the sides but leave it feathered on top? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the word \"feathered\" --- it's possible to cut and style hair in a \"feathered\" fashion, which refers to a particular look. Here, \"feathered\" takes a literal meaning, because there's a pigeon on the man's head: in this case, \"leave it feathered on top\" is a request to the barber that humorously means that the bird should be left alone."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Remember that domino factory? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about an unusual construction company which demolishes buildings that have humorous interactions with the wrecking ball. Here, the wrecking ball is similar to a bowling ball knocking over the pins, and the workers are discussing the previous jobs. Like bowling pins, dominos are also knocked down after being arranged, and the wrecking ball accordingly played the same role at the domino factory."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: There's mutiny in the air. Also Viennese dark roast, but mainly mutiny. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Pirates, like the one working at the cash register, often would mutiny if they felt they were being mistreated by their captain; you can say that there's a broad consensus a a mutiny is coming by saying it's figuratively \"in the air\". But, in this coffee shop, the smell of Viennese dark roast is literally in the air: this contrast of figurative serious mutiny threat and literally coffee both being in the air is funny."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: They keep watch on the offshore accounts. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Offshore accounts are bank accounts run by island nations where wealthy people keep money to avoid taxes. Here, the Moai statues, which normally are on Easter Island, have haircuts which make them look like wealthy businessmen from the USA. The idea is that these modified Maoi statues' job is to make sure that the wealthy businessmen's money is safe on the island."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I put some beer on the hook. I figure if that's what got him into this mess it should be able to get him out. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A man fell through the ice because he was drunk (indicated by the body outline in the ice), and his friend, instead of trying to save him by diving in, humorously thinks that fishing with a beer as bait will be sufficient to save his drunken friend. Also, a partial play on the saying: \"I got myself into this mess, and I can get myself out.\""
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This would work out a lot better if we had kids. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This couple’s car probably broke down, and, unusually, now they are rowing from the car’s windows to move it which would be quite difficult. Not only is it absurd to think using oars will help move a car at all, but, it's funny that the proposed solution to their prediciment is to get more people to row, i.e., their hypothetical children, instead of, e.g., calling a mechanic."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Remember when your rubber seal broke? I'm pregnant. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Condoms are a common form of birth control referred to as \"rubbers\". In this case, the woman is dating a blender, which also has a rubber seal and is notorious for leaking, e.g., smoothies. The joke connects these two disjoint rubber things in a way that makes sense in a world where women date blenders."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We have to find a better way to record our meetings. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Meeting recordings usually happen, e.g., via note taking, via video recording, etc. The goal is to provide an exact reference of the discussion for future interested parties. But this company has humorously employed a set of parrots to listen in --- this type of bird is technically capable of repeating human speech. But, it's likely to be inefficient --- the parrots memorize and repeat incompletely and at their own discretion, and are difficult to control, defeating the point of the meeting recording."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Yes, I asked very politely. But he still says the rest room in there is for employees only. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "It's unusual that a desert island would have guards around it; instead of explaining why these people are being carefully guarded despite how remote the island is, the people nonchalantly are most annoyed by not being able to use the employees-only bathroom."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It's big and blue. You can't miss it. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A lost cowboy riding a seahorse might be looking for the ocean, which is what the other cowboy is providing directions towards. The ocean is what is big and blue, and because it's so big, it's difficult to miss. It's funny that the seahorse cowboy could find himself so far from the ocean because it would be hard to get this far without trying to."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: An optimist would see the room as half dry. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the \"glass half full/empty\" thought experiment, which is used to identify optimists (who see a glass as half full) vs. pessimists (who see a glass as half empty). The wife who is on the dry side is telling her spouse to look on the bright side/be optimistic and stop complaining about the rain on his half. It's funny because her dismissiveness is partly driven by the fact that she's not experiencing the rain, so doesn't really understand where he's coming from."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Let’s hope for some nut allergies. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "These two people are defending themselves against a crowd of zombies using two very different methods. One has a standard gun to shoot and kill zombies. The other has baked cookies with nuts in them in the hopes that some of the zombies have severe nut allergies and will die after eating the cookies. It's funny because cookies usually aren't used as a weapon, and it's not clear why the baker thought this would be more effective than a gun."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The guy you're looking for waltzed out of here an hour ago. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the word \"waltzed\" --- if a private investigator were looking for a suspect at a bar to be told that the person \"waltzed out of there\", that would simply mean they left. But, given that the victim of the crime is a ballet dancer, it suggests that the perpetrator may have also been a dancer, and perhaps literally waltzed out of the bar, i.e., danced their way out."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I think my wife is having us tailed. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man is cheating on his wife with this other woman, and apparently she has noticed. Sometimes, to prove their partner is cheating someone will hire a private investigator to spy on the cheating spouse --- however, this private investigator is not being subtle, he is literally in the middle of the bed while the cheaters are in the act of cheating. It's funny because the man has somehow not noticed the obvious investigator until this point, and still seems unsure of his existence."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You're gonna have to roll me outta here. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "After eating too much, people sometimes feel bloated like a balloon, and exaggerate by saying that they need to be \"rolled out\" because they feel unable to even walk. But here, while the people are eating a lot, \"rolled out\" takes on a second meaning, because they are eating wheels, which are capable of literally rolling."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You’re in luck! It's cannabis. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man has an unusual medical condition that causes plants to grow from his skin. Instead of curing him of this condition, the doctor points out that the plants are marijuana plants, which would be good either because he could sell what he grows, or he could smoke it and enjoy using drugs. A doctor that sees these upsides of his condition (rather than curing them) comes across as humorously untrustworthy."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I knew they were smart. I didn't know they were sarcastic. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The dolphins are sarcastically reveling in the stranded doom of the two people on the island. Instead of trying to help the pair of people, they are making fun of them by replicating the island, tree, and people with an elaborate pose. This pose requires a lot of smarts to do, but, the people didn't realize that dolphins were smart enough to be sarcastic."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, at least somebody remembered about casual Good Friday. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A playful combination of the phrases \"Good Friday\" and \"casual Friday\". \"Good Friday\" is a christian holiday that takes place close to Easter, as represented by the Easter bunny costume. Casual Friday is a common office policy that encourages people to wear less formal clothes to the office, which the Easter bunny costume would be. So, on casual Good Friday, an Easter bunny outfit being worn to work would be appropriate."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It was a very hostile takeover. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A hostile takeover in the business world happens when a company attempts to acquire another against the boards wishes. But here, the hostility of the takeover is literal and exaggerated: the old board members are put in the pillory as a form of public humiliation, in addition to having their company taken over."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Better make that a large pizza. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The nonchalance of the man is funny: he's aware that a monster is about to break into his apartment, but he continues to calmly sip wine and only reacts by casually upgrading his pizza order to accommodate the monster's appetite."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So a doctor walks into a bar—this is not a joke by the way. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"So a doctor walks into a bar\" is often the beginning of a bar joke --- but here, the doctor is physically injured and telling his patient about it. We can deduce that the doctor must have walked into a literal physical bar of some kind, and experienced these injuries as a result."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You're gonna have to roll me outta here. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "After eating too much, people sometimes feel bloated like a balloon, and exaggerate by saying that they need to be \"rolled out\" because they feel unable to even walk. But here, while the people are eating a lot, \"rolled out\" takes on a second meaning, because they are eating wheels, which are capable of literally rolling."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I can't believe my eye! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A person doing a fancy dive off the end of a plank is unusual, because this is usually used as a method of execution; so pirate on the ship is surprised, but instead of saying \"I can't believe my eyes,\" a normal expression indicating surprise, he says \"my eye\" because he's a pirate wearing a traditional pirate eyepatch, which causes him to only be able to see out of one eye."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Free will is overrated. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "This couple looks normal, except for the fact that they are controllable like marionettes using the lines attached to them. They seem happy: they enjoy being controlled (by an unknown puppeteer) and having no free will. This joke plays on the idea that free will has downsides: making decisions can be difficult."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So you're the infamous Sudsy Malone. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on \"Bugsy Malone\", which is the name of a fictional gangster. \"Sudsy\" sounds like \"Bugsy\", but refers to the suds associated with taking a soapy bath. So: the person in the bottom bunk/bath is \"Sudsy Malone\"."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Thank you for agreeing to meet remotely. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "To \"meet remotely\" usually means to meet over a video call, but here, \"meet remotely\" takes on a second meaning: to meet in-person, but in a remote location. The person with the coconut cocktail is organizing the meeting: he more relaxed than his co-worker, suggesting he might not be as dedicated to his job (or is perhaps his boss with less accountability)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We've been struggling to enlist millenials. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The sailors are trying to recruit millennials using these new flags. Millennials are broadly tech savy because they grew up with the internet, and so the sailors think the best way to communicate with them is using emojis."
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