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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I wish I could help you, but I'm a real-estate lawyer. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A re-framing of a zoo as a prison. Zoos have lions in cages, but in this universe, lions also can be patrons of the zoo, including this lion in a suit who is apparently a real-estate lawyer. To get the imprisoned lion out, he might be seeking a criminal lion lawyer."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Listen, Satan, can I call you back? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Adam and eve, when they were kicked out of the garden of eden, sided with satan's temptation; in this case, adam is literally talking on a cell phone to satan, which unusual/humorous for the literal beginning of time."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your availability comes off as desperation. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about the distractions of the modern world. A common complaint is that people can't sit down and have a conversation without doing something else like being on a phone or reading. In this world, the only one being present is chastised: if you don't have a distraction in this world, you're too desperate and socially available/needy."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I don't know how to tell him it's not his. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Usually, when a couple discusses a child \"not being his,\" it refers to a woman's infidelity, which is a hard topic to discuss. Here, however, it's not a partner cheating, it's a man nesting on a giant egg: the egg obviously isn't his child because humans don't lay eggs, and so the usual expression takes on a humorous new meaning: the woman can't seem to convince the man that the egg isn't his child, despite the fact that it's obvious it couldn't be."
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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: "
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"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 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: "
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"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: 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: "
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"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: Remember that domino factory? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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: This may burn a little. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A doctor's treatments may sometimes cause a burning sensation, e.g., a vaccine might cause a localized burning sensation, so this is a phrase a doctor might say. However, the treatment here, while it may cause a burning sensation, is not usual. Magnifying glasses focus light, sometimes so much so that they can light things on fire at their focal point, which may cause a burn. It's funny because it's not clear why the doctor is treating his patient with a magnifying glass that will burn him."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It deployed when her carriage rear-ended an ox cart. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The woman's oversized ruff collar is juxtaposed against the modern invention of an air bag. Air bags deploy during car crashes --- and here, the collar inflated during a collision between a carriage she was riding in and an ox cart as a safety mechanism. It's funny in part because, while it explains the oversized collar, collars are cosmetic rather than functional."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Beware the hidden service charge. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A reference to the trojan horse, which enabled soldiers to sneak into a fort undetected. Much like sneaking soldiers into a fort, hotels might sneak hidden charges into room service: the soldiers have seen this trick before, and are referring to how room service can similarly be a trap."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, no! We don't test on animals. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Usually, when a company (e.g., a shampoo or cosmetics company) says they don't test their products on animals, they don't conduct cruel tests at all. But here, the company, while technically not experimenting on animals, instead does the much worse thing of experimenting cruelly on humans --- as evidenced by the man running in a hamster wheel in a cage."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Strangely enough, you are the first person to ask about the clock. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The most interesting thing in this person's living room is clearly the unicorn bust: the implication is that this man found and hunted a mythical creature. However, his house guests instead are focusing on the much more benign clock --- they are the first people he's shown his house to that attend to the clock instead of the unicorn."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Come on! Do you have any idea how long it took to get through the turnstiles? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The shepherd is trying very hard to get his sheep onto the subway, even going so far as to painstakingly get each sheep through the ticketing turnstiles at the station entrance. Now he's encountered another difficulty: the overcrowded subway car he can't fit on, and he's quite exacerbated at this point. It's funny, in part, because despite his drive to get the sheep on the subway, it's unclear why he has the sheep there in the first place."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The instructions should have mentioned that you need a body of water. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about an incompetent pair of mobsters attempting to kill the man on the roof via cement shoes; they are incompetent because they are following a step-by-step instruction manual to do this, and have overlooked the obvious: you need a body of water to throw the person with cement shoes to kill them, and now they are driving around frantically trying to find one. It's funny in part because they are not being discrete: the incompetent pair has simply put the victim on the roof for everyone to see/try to intervene."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Easy for you to say, you're cured! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the word \"cured\". People go to therapy to have their mental problems remedied or cured. But \"cured\" can also refer to a meat preparation technique --- here the therapist is cured bacon, and the patient is an egg (which is not cured). The egg is saying that the therapist doesn't understand his problems because he's \"cured\" in both senses."
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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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"role": "assistant",
"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: My sister’s coming over. You could at least throw on a slipcover. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "People often clean up the house and put on better clothes when guests are coming over. Here --- the joke is that the woman sees her husband (who is a couch) as completely naked, which would be inappropriate for her sister to see. So --- instead of encouraging him to put on clothing (a more usual case, if he were just a normal naked person), because he is a couch, clothing for a couch would be a slipcover, i.e., a couch-shaped cloth covering that people sometimes install to maintain their furniture's quality."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Great, now they all want a scarf. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The woman knitted a single scarf (which probably took a long time) for one snowman; that snowman apparently told all of their snowman friends about it and they all want one. However, it's unlikely she'll be able to make so many before they melt in spring because kitting as a hobby isn't fast enough to produce at a mass scale. The caption is her regret about the kind act of making one snowman one scarf."
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"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: "
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"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: If you're so civilized, why don't you use a coaster? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The woman from modern times is looking at the primitive caveman: the caveman doesn't want to be looked down upon, and so argues that the modern woman is actually not so modern for a benign reason: that she's not using a coaster for her mug (which is seen as a civilized/polite thing to do)."
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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: When you don't want one, they're everywhere. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about the difficulty of finding a cab when you need one, and the ease of finding one when you're not looking for one. This joke takes the idea to an extreme: here, the men are not seeking a cab, and are even inside of a building, and cabs are so comically abundant that one is coming up the stairs."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It's down the hall, but don't fall in. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Because the furnature in this house is bizarrely large, the toilet presumably would be as well. The person is giving them directions to the restroom down the hall, but if they sat on the toilet to use it, they would be in danger of falling in the bowl due to its size."
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"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: "
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"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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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: There goes my novel. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about Moby Dick; in the famous novel, the main character Ahab (represented by the seated man) is on an obsessive quest to kill a whale named Moby Dick who bit his leg off. The novel is written from the perspective of the sailor Ishmael, who is in the background talking. But here, Ahab gets a cat, and plays with it instead of obsessing over the whale. Ishmael's laments about how his plan to write the novel Moby Dick has been derailed by the cat, Ahab's new hobby."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: And make mine a decaf. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "This joke is about how thankless internships can be. Interns are often tasked with thankless, difficult jobs. In this case, the intern is not only getting specific coffee orders for the business, but also (in an exaggerated fashion) doing the extremely dangerous tightrope walk."
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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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"role": "user",
"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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"role": "assistant",
"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: The window cleaner brings a pastry. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A surreal joke about a wise old man who lives on the side of a building --- the rock climber didn't expect to encounter him, but, without missing a beat, the old man says that the window cleaners (who also spend time on the side of the building) treat him well by bringing him pastries (implying that the rock climber should also have brought him a pastry)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I thought you said the cloud was secure. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on words: companies often invest in cloud computing technologies to increase security --- but here, the company has invested in a literal cloud to host their meeting. But, this literal cloud is insecure: the man on the beanstalk has inadvertently infiltrated the meeting by climbing up."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I think it's just a phase. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"phase\" --- the moon (depicted here with a winking emoji) experiences phases in the form of the light patterns from the sun that are, e.g., waxing or waning. But here \"phase\" means an emotional phase --- a person (particularly a teenage) might be \"going through a phase\" if they are acting strangely. The moon is going through an emotional phase by acting strangely, i.e., by having a winky face."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I smell a horse. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the phrase \"I smell a rat\" --- a \"rat\" in the figurative mobster context refers to a police informant that has infiltrated the group. Instead of a figurative rat, here, the mob boss smells a literal horse, which is behind him. Humorously, the horse (whose disguise is only a pair of sunglasses) is indeed a figurative rat, because it's affiliated with the police --- there's a cop overtly riding on it, and it's wearing a police outfit."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Mind if I cut through? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Golfers sometimes cut through difficult to cross places to hit their ball as it lies, to save strokes. But here, the golfer is cutting through a very inappropriate place: an operating room. Furthermore, his \"cut through\" statement takes on a second meaning: it's as if he is asking if he can \"cut through\" the patient, as in: participate as a surgeon during the operation."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I bet the bride of Frankenstein gets to cuddle. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a vampire getting romantically rejected after requesting to cuddle with the woman. The \"bride of frankenstein\" is a famous film about a scientist creating a bride for a monster. The dejected vampire is jealous of the monster from the movie, claiming that the monster's bride from the movie at least let the creature cuddle with her."
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"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: "
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"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: I just don't care that much about Medicare anymore. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "US politicians constantly argue about whether or not the government should provide healthcare (medicare) or not --- the debate has been going on for decades, so long, that the utility of the debate for this politician is no longer. He has literally died and gone to heaven, and while he's still doing political campaigns, the issue isn't as pressing post-death because healthcare isn't needed for those who have already died."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He's not as bad as the last manager. That one was abominable. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the term \"abominable snowman\", which refers to the Yeti, a popular fictional snow monster from the Himalayan mountain range. The current boss is a normal snowman, whereas, the previous boss was apparently not only abominable (i.e., very bad), but was also possibly literally the Yeti. The employees of this clothing store have a hard job, but it humorously used to be worse when the Yeti was their boss previously."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So, you're saying you didn't miss your last two appointments? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The therapist thinks that his patient, the chameleon, missed his last two appointments because chameleons blend in with their environments. The chameleon was actually at the appointment, but blended in with the couch, so the therapist didn't see him."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I wouldn't say ‘favorite’ animal... Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Noah only takes two of each animal on the ark. Here, the defensive Noah took many more than 2 giraffes, and is being interrogated for that decision."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It deployed when her carriage rear-ended an ox cart. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The woman's oversized ruff collar is juxtaposed against the modern invention of an air bag. Air bags deploy during car crashes --- and here, the collar inflated during a collision between a carriage she was riding in and an ox cart as a safety mechanism. It's funny in part because, while it explains the oversized collar, collars are cosmetic rather than functional."
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"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: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Can't wait to see the look on his face when we put these back on the tree. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Aliens are often portrayed as all-powerful beings who have technology far beyond human capacity. These aliens have the capacity to beam up leaves to their spaceship, and even to put them back onto the tree as if they never fell. While they have amazing technology, they still indulge in the low-class activity of pranks, which is surprising."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: That was the wakeup call from Hell. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Wakeup calls in hotels are often jarring because they are often made from the front desk quite early (e.g., 4-5AM). But here, the wakeup call is even more extreme (\"from Hell\" = extremely bad version): it explodes the phone to make sure the person gets up. A funny over-exaggeration."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So, you're saying you didn't miss your last two appointments? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The therapist thinks that his patient, the chameleon, missed his last two appointments because chameleons blend in with their environments. The chameleon was actually at the appointment, but blended in with the couch, so the therapist didn't see him."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You're voting with your pacemaker again, Hargrove! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Criticizing someone \"voting with your heart\" means that they are not acting logically, and instead following their emotions. The boss is instead criticizing the man for \"voting with his pacemaker\"; a pacemaker is an artificial, robotic heart. This is an ironic criticism, because the man is voting in-line with the robots, and instead of his heart representing voting emotionally, his pacemaker represents voting with the interests of the robots."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He could have just written his name on his yogurt. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Roommates sometimes eat each-others food in a shared fridge, which causes tensions if people wanted to keep food for themselves. Writing one's name on food items is a common system roommates use with a shared fridge to make sure people don't eat what they shouldn't. But here, one of the roommates has gone over the top with a new system to prevent people from eating his yogurt: locking up the fridge/kitchen and putting traps everywhere it so it's inaccessible."
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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: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Is that a new outfit? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "This is an oddly nonchalant thing to say if one's partner was dressed in a hazmat suit. Usually: this is the sort of comment one would make if someone had a new shirt or a new pair of shoes, not a hazmat suit. Given that the woman is probably wearing the suit for a good reason, it's partly funny because the man's nonchalance/ignorance might be putting him in literal danger."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Mind if I cut through? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Golfers sometimes cut through difficult to cross places to hit their ball as it lies, to save strokes. But here, the golfer is cutting through a very inappropriate place: an operating room. Furthermore, his \"cut through\" statement takes on a second meaning: it's as if he is asking if he can \"cut through\" the patient, as in: participate as a surgeon during the operation."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: My sister’s coming over. You could at least throw on a slipcover. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People often clean up the house and put on better clothes when guests are coming over. Here --- the joke is that the woman sees her husband (who is a couch) as completely naked, which would be inappropriate for her sister to see. So --- instead of encouraging him to put on clothing (a more usual case, if he were just a normal naked person), because he is a couch, clothing for a couch would be a slipcover, i.e., a couch-shaped cloth covering that people sometimes install to maintain their furniture's quality."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I wish you'd come in when it was just a chip on your shoulder. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A \"weight on your chest\" and a \"chip on your shoulder\" are both figurative expressions that refer to problems or stresses that people silently bear. While not usually directly compared, a literal \"weight on your chest\" (pictured) is apparently more difficult to deal with because its heaver, and the \"chip\" can become the \"weight\" if left unaddressed."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Two thousand eyes, but it still takes you all day to read the morning paper. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A fly with many eyes presumably should be able to read a newspaper quickly, but it still can't. The woman is slightly annoyed that her bug spouse is spending all day reading the paper instead of doing something else."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I told my ex I'll take her back if she drops some weight. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the words \"drops some weight\" --- figuratively, to drop weight usually refers to go on a diet; this man has apparently broken up with his partner because she is too fat. But, she takes ironic revenge in the form of her literally dropping a weight, i.e., a cinderblock, on his head."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I think we made a wrong turn at puberty. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The two older men are too mature for this situation of teenagers driving a car wildly and irresponsibly. The joke is that on their trip, there's a physical place called \"puberty\", and at that road juncture, the two should have gone towards the direction of maturity instead of this immature direction. It's partly funny because puberty is often framed as an important figurative juncture in life, whereas here, it's a literal juncture."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: There's really nothing to it. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the phrase \"nothing to it\" --- in the context of rock climbing, this phrase would usually mean that \"there's no particular special skill required, it's easy to rock climb!\" But, because there's literally no surface the person is rock climbing on, the climber is referring to the fact that he's literally climbing nothing."
}
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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: I suspect some people will deny this ever happened. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about creationists denying evolution. Here, the body outlines at the crime scene form an evolutionary chain, and provide strong evidence for evolution. But, much like someone might deny that a crime happened as a cover up, the detective suspects that, despite this evidence, creationists will still not believe evolution ever happened."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm supposed to call my doctor if it lasts more than 4 hours. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A crude joke about erections. People with erectile dysfunction will sometimes take medication to help, but are told that if the medicine works for longer than 4 hours, it's a problem. But here, while Rapunzel is usually the person lowering her hair, the prince tried to resolve their problem by taking medication to grow his own hair instead."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Fine—next time you slay the dragon and I'll cook. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "We expect that slaying a dragon is harder than cooking, but actually, the knight seems to have an easier time, as evidenced by the extremely messy kitchen and disheveled looking cook; this inversion of expectation is funny."
}
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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: 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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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[
{
"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: He won't last long. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Usually, people might say that someone \"wont last long\" to mean that they can tell a new situation for someone will not go well and they'll quit, e.g., in this case, when a new employee at a company won't fit in. But here, the new employee is made of bubbles, which literally do not last long because they pop, so the joke is that he physically won't last long (instead of socially)."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm sorry, this is Tic-Tac-Toe—applications for Hangman are down the hall. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A stick figure, out of place in an otherwise normal office scenario, might be interviewing for the job of the stick figure from the word game \"hangman\". This building apparently offers interviews for various game roles, e.g., Tic-tac-toe."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Mind if I cut through? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Golfers sometimes cut through difficult to cross places to hit their ball as it lies, to save strokes. But here, the golfer is cutting through a very inappropriate place: an operating room. Furthermore, his \"cut through\" statement takes on a second meaning: it's as if he is asking if he can \"cut through\" the patient, as in: participate as a surgeon during the operation."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'd like to try group therapy with a different group. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Group therapy is usually conducted with a collection of people with a common set of experiences, and a common method of engagement, e.g., going around in a circle and talking. But here, the men are getting their therapy by watching the sports game, leaving the woman alone in the session. This plays on the trope that, on average, men and women have different emotional capacity to undertake introspective forms of therapy (with men being less capable)."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: How soon can you start? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The prior employee who had this job is getting violently chased out of the building and they need a replacement for him quickly; this is a metaphor for a toxic workplace. Even though the applicant might not want to work here because it's a bad job, he literally can't see how toxic the workplace is because he's facing the wrong way."
}
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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: He needed a place to park his wheel. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A person might construct a garage because they want to park their car in it; but because cavemen don't have cars, the joke is that the caveman was looking for a place to park his carved wheel, which is a common trope associated with cavemen. It's funny in part because the construction of a modern garage implies technological advancement, whereas the stone wheel is primitive."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, I said to play with more attitude. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on words: \"attitude\" and \"altitude\" sound the same. The pianist was given the request by his instructor to play with \"attitude\" (e.g., by playing more aggressively) but instead, he is doing the much more difficult act of playing with \"altitude\" by climbing to the top of a mountain with his piano."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I have to warn you, I don't exactly have a bladder of steel. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People on window seats in airplanes need to climb over people in aisle seats in order to access the bathroom at the end of the plane: this can be annoying because of how cramped the space is. Here, superman, also known as \"the man of steel\" is warning his seat-mate that he will need to get up to use the restroom because, despite his name, he doesn't have a \"bladder of steel,\" i.e., he will need to use the bathroom to pee frequently."
}
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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: Anyone have an objection? Please? Anyone? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man doesn't want to get married as much as the woman does: she's clinging to him while he looks horrified. When people get married, officiants ask the crowd if there are any objections, and the man is hoping someone raises one. It's funny because the man could stop the marriage of his own accord, but is too afraid of his partner to do it."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If I'm not back at the maze by eight, my wife reels in the damn string. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A minotaur famously lives in a labyrinth/maze. But, this mythical creature is at a bar lamenting about everyday problems with everyday people --- in this case, the minotaur's everyday problem is that his wife wants him home early (by 8PM), but his home is the maze. To \"reel in the string\" means to figuratively shorten his leash, i.e., his wife reduces his freedom (e.g., to go to a bar)."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So what makes you think we need a health inspector? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The outlines of the bodies on the ground imply that many people die in this bar; the cause of death is perhaps poison or unsanitary conditions because the health inspector has been called, though the owner is in denial."
}
] | |
[
{
"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: Carry on. I'll just be a fly on the wall. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "In the business context, \"a fly on the wall\" means a participant in a meeting that is simply there to listen-in and not participate. But the \"fly on the wall\" here is literal --- the man is literally on the wall."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I think we made a wrong turn at puberty. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The two older men are too mature for this situation of teenagers driving a car wildly and irresponsibly. The joke is that on their trip, there's a physical place called \"puberty\", and at that road juncture, the two should have gone towards the direction of maturity instead of this immature direction. It's partly funny because puberty is often framed as an important figurative juncture in life, whereas here, it's a literal juncture."
}
] | |
[
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Oh, hey, I almost didn't recognize you outside of work. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about \"Moby Dick.\" In the story, the one-legged protagonist is a sailor ruthlessly chasing down the whale who ate his leg. The joke is that both the whale and the sailor only did these acts as a job, and that off the clock, they casually ran into each-other at the grocery store. While work colleagues not recognizing each-other outside of the office is a common occurrence, it's surprising that the obsessive sailor has disconnected from his work enough to not even recognize his biggest rival in life."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, what I said was we need more stakeholders. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"Stakeholders\" sounds like \"snakeholders\": stakeholders would be a normal office request, but the two people holding a snake have surprised their boss by becoming literal snakeholders instead."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Now that I met your family, I want you to meet mine. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a man dating a fish. When couples date for a while, they often meet each-other's families. Here, the caption implies that the fish/man couple just met the fish's family in the ocean, and are perhaps on the way to meet the man's family on land. It's funny because it's a surprising framing of why a man and a fish might be leaving the water together."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Both the movie and I will be released this summer. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the word \"release\" --- to release a movie means to allow public showings of it, e.g., in theaters. This actress stared in a movie that will be released this summer, according to her respond to the talk show host. But \"release\" in this case also refers to a release from prison --- the actress has apparently committed a crime and her sentence ends also in the summer."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Be careful, the bald spot is slippery. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The joke is about the businessmen having an oddly nonchalant response to hell literally opening up in their office. Instead of taking this as a sign about their company or practices, they instead simply walk over the dammed souls, only commenting that one's bald head is physically slippery."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Worse than a cold. It's a common cold. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on words. \"common cold\" in the modern world refers to the usually benign illness, but for this king, a \"common\" cold would mean a cold that only commoners (and not royalty, like himself) get. The doctor is suggesting that the \"common\" cold is not only a sickness, but also beneath his status as king."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I feel a vibration. Can you call my cell phone again? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A surreal joke about a man attempting to locate his cell phone that has been eaten by an alligator. While it's not clear how the alligator ate the phone, to locate it, he's asking his assistant to remotely activate the vibration feature via calling it. The vibration can help him locate the phone because, while the sound might be dampened, he can feel through the skin/stomach its location."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Will the gentleman be alive for dinner, sir? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a butler preparing dinner for a scientist and his subject. The scientist is trying to bring the monster back to life; the butler is wondering if the monster will be alive in time for dinner, and if he should prepare extra food for this potential dinner guest."
}
] | |
[
{
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: When you don't want one, they're everywhere. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about the difficulty of finding a cab when you need one, and the ease of finding one when you're not looking for one. This joke takes the idea to an extreme: here, the men are not seeking a cab, and are even inside of a building, and cabs are so comically abundant that one is coming up the stairs."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Will the gentleman be alive for dinner, sir? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a butler preparing dinner for a scientist and his subject. The scientist is trying to bring the monster back to life; the butler is wondering if the monster will be alive in time for dinner, and if he should prepare extra food for this potential dinner guest."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We really need to revisit our immigration policy. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The realistic looking head has immigrated to live with the Moai, who look uncomfortable because the new head looks different. This is a play on the idea that people are sometimes uncomfortable with outsiders coming in to their country; even the inanimate Moai statues want to update their policy accordingly."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: There may be some lingering resentment. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People sometimes hang hunting or finishing taxidermy trophies of their kills/catches on their walls. The taxidermy has come to life and bit the man who was the one who killed him. It's thus understandable that the fish (if it could come alive) would resent its killer; the man nonchalantly quips about their tenuous relationship."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If we just ignore it, maybe it'll go away. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about financial collapse on wall street. Wall street has a famous statue of a bull which \"represents the courage and can-do spirit of Americans,\" but the cartoon suggests that sometimes, for the stock market crashing, a more appropriate mascot might be an ostrich hiding its head in the dirt, as a representation of ignoring problems and hiding from them."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: My last office had a castle. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A silly joke about employees who work in fish bowls --- sometimes, fish bowls have decorations like fake seaweed or castle sculptures. While in the real world it would be impressive to work a desk job in a castle, here, the castle of the previous job is just a small, fake castle decoration in a fish tank."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We met at the mini bar. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A common way for people to meet romantic partners is at a bar. Here, the woman is talking about how she met her partner, but because the person is very small, instead of the common case of meeting at a bar, they met at a mini bar, in reference to his size. It silly in part because a mini bar is a feature of a hotel room, not where people would meet."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Which kid do you want? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a man keen to get divorced. In addition to eagerly building a brick wall to separate himself from his spouse, he is wasting no time to ask questions about custody that would normally be really tricky to answer. Bluntly: he's so excited about the divorce that he simply asks which kid she wants, which isn't even how custody usually works."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Let's continue this discussion over a hot barrel of coffee. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Everything on the man's desk is over-sized, so perhaps everything in this company is too: instead of a mug of coffee, they will be drinking an entire barrel."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I feel a vibration. Can you call my cell phone again? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A surreal joke about a man attempting to locate his cell phone that has been eaten by an alligator. While it's not clear how the alligator ate the phone, to locate it, he's asking his assistant to remotely activate the vibration feature via calling it. The vibration can help him locate the phone because, while the sound might be dampened, he can feel through the skin/stomach its location."
}
] |