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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I can remember when she was just a fuzzy yellow intern. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about career growth, but with a chicken. Baby chicks are fuzzy and yellow; and this is when the chicken joined the company. Now she's more senior and a fully-grown chicken."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Stop fighting it, kid—everyone eventually sings in the shower. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrase \"swims with the fishes\", which means to die, especially if one has been murdered. The mobster put the person in cement shoes, which normally causes them to drown in a body of water. But, instead of getting murdered, the person eventually will literally \"sing in the shower\" instead."
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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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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Frankly, Sheila, I find this the most awkward part of our divorce agreement. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "During a divorce, couples compromise to divide assets, but a dog they both love can't be divided. Humorously, instead of sharing the dog by having it at different times, this couple has been ordered to walk the dog with two leashes at the same time, which partly defeats the point of the divorce because they have to awkwardly see each other frequently."
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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: "
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"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."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He's been on that same story for hours. I'm beginning to think he can't read. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A surprisingly nonchalant response to a giant rat reading a newspaper in these people's living room. Instead of pointing out the number of odd things about the situation, the relatively benign \"he can't read\" is what is worrying the woman, which is funny, because obviously, rats can't read."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: For God's sake, Dave, you're thirty-five—just use the stairs. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The romantic story of Rapunzel details two young lovers who endure significant hardship to be together: the prince must climb the princess' hair in the cover of night, etc. But here, the couple is older and more accessible to each other -- Rapunzel is \"over\" the romantic hair climbing of their past and is telling her partner to just use the stairs. A play on the trope that long-term relationships get more boring over time."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Move the car. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A crude joke about bird poop. Pigeons are notorious for pooping on cars, and so people try not to park under birds. Here, the birds are large and so the people assume that their car is in extra deification danger, and thus are trying to move it."
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"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: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Let Table Seven know that there will be a slight delay on the risotto. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The chefs in this kitchen are in a state of chaos --- there's nudity, a knife fight, a mess everywhere, etc. The waiter nonchalantly says in response that the risotto will be slightly delayed, which is technically true, but presumably, there would be much bigger problems to attend to like the ongoing knife chase."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You were right—putting him on commission changed his attitude. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A \"bull in a china shop\" refers to someone who is not careful and breaks things in situations that require care. In this case, the literal bull has surprisingly reformed to be more careful simply by changing occupations within the store."
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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: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: There's water everywhere Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Someone might call a plumber to fix a leak in their house --- leaks usually result in flooding and \"water everywhere.\" But here, while the same concern is stated, the water is the ocean. it's funny because it's not clear what the plumber is supposed to do to fix it."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We should be able to finish the album today, as long as no one rings the doorbell. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "When a doorbell rings, its common for dogs to become startled, stop everything they are doing, and bark loudly: in this case, that would set a chain reaction of havoc off -- the cats would become scared of the barking and run away, etc. The recording people are confident that this is the only thing that could foil their odd plan to record this pet-band playing music."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I say we start the meeting without him. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "It's a common annoyance to wait for the final person to join a meeting before starting. These people look like they have waited an extremely long time for the final person, so long that they are sleeping and setting up camp; they finally after an absurd about of time decide to do the meeting without him."
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"role": "user",
"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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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Weren't there three of you? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about the third diner falling off the roof. This odd restaurant has very few safety constraints, and has tables on the roof with no guards against falling. A waiter asking where a member of a dining party is is not unusual (e.g., if they want to wait to make sure everyone is there before taking orders), but here, it's because they fell to their death, as their dining partners looked on."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Botox. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The moai statues have been made more conventionally attractive via a face-lift --- the hiker explains to the other that this is the result of a botox injection. While botox can have this effect in humans, it's funny in part because it isn't possible to give a botox injection to inanimate stone carvings."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Shall I keep reading? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about a man who has spent too long reading to someone --- he's read to them so much that they've literally died, perhaps of boredom, and their body is being eaten by birds. An over-exaggeration of the feeling of boredom one might experience if someone was reading something to them that they don't care about. It's funny because the man reading doesn't seem to realize that he's literally killed the other person of boredom, and offers to keep reading even after their death."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm thinking about quitting the band. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A surreal joke about a marching band leader tirelessly marching into a desert, with her band following her. However, only two of the band's most dedicated members remain, and they look as if they have been travelling for many days. It's funny because, for these most committed members, they are only now considering quitting the band by not following the leader, whereas their more reasonable colleagues probably stopped following days ago."
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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: "
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"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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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You were with Ringling Brothers? I was with Lehman Brothers. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about the 2008 financial crisis: both the clown and the bartender were fired and worked for \"Brothers\" --- the Ringling Brothers (a circus company) for the clown, and \"Lehman Brothers\" (an investment bank) for the bartender. The similarity of the names and their intersecting sad stories makes the situation unusual and funny."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Oh, now you want to talk, when all week it was all 'Do Not Disturb.’ Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about a surprisingly combative relationship between a housekeeper at a hotel and a guest. The secretive guest very much does not want to be disturbed, and left the small sign on the doorknob indicating as such for the week of their stay. But now, they are on the other side of the door engaging with the housekeeper, who cautiously approaches with a gun. It's funny in part because the potential reasons for this escalation are humorous, e.g., perhaps the guest is a criminal, and the housekeeper is an undercover agent who has been trying to covertly stop them."
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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: On second thought, it's more of a sandals day. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man is clearly not dressed for work properly (because he's naked), but while he recognizes that he's dressed inappropriately, he's focused on the innocuous choice of shoes rather than the glaringly obvious fact that he can't go to work naked."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You think Alcatraz can hold me? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Indignant prisoners may threaten the judge during sentencing in various ways, e.g., threatening to escape from Alcatraz, a high security prison on an island. In this case, however, the prisoner is in swimming gear, which suggests that Alcatraz might actually not be able to hold him because he could just swim away from the island."
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"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: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Next week, I'll move Heaven for you. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"I'd move heaven and earth for you\" means: \"I'd do anything for you\". Here, the man is moving earth; in reference to this saying, this implies he will next move heaven for her."
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"role": "user",
"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: 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: Why don't you get the coffee this morning? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You're just like your mother. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "This line is commonly stated by exacerbated and frustrated parents when their child is misbehaving in a way that reminds them of their partner. But here, the line takes on an additional odd/humorous meaning because these are centaurs and reverse-centaurs. The ambiguity of the genetics, the other parent, what the bad behavior is, etc. contributes to the joke being funny, because it's still a topical/appropriate comment for this hereditarily-confused centaur world."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You don't have to tell me it's a vanishing breed. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"vanishing breed\". \"A vanishing breed\" can figuratively refer to any category of something that is decreasing, e.g., \"honest politicians are a vanishing breed\". But here, \"vanishing breed\" is literal: the type of horse is \"vanishing,\" i.e., it's literally invisible, and \"breed\" refers to a literal breed of horse; so both words take on a new more literal meaning."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Yes he's still out there...and he looks serious. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Suburbanites are notorious for watching for crime in their neighborhoods, and this man is doing that from his window onto his lawn. But, he sees a Moai statue and is treating it as if it were a suspicious person, e.g., expecting it to be able to move or expecting it to be dangerous. While it looks serious, unlike a person standing on the lawn who looks serious, the statue is probably not a real threat."
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"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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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It's curb to table. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"farm to table,\" which describes restaurants that attempt to source ingredients directly from farms. Here, they are sourcing instead from the curb, specifically, the trash cans on the curb that the waiter is bringing in. It's funny that people would willingly pay for this garbage food, and that the restaurant would proudly advertise their sourcing."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Still not level. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Hunting trophies (e.g., the head of a lion) can be hung on walls, but typically the animals are dead and taxidermied. Here, the lion surprisingly comes alive to eat the man trying to straighten it on the wall. Even more surprising: the nonchalant woman seems to only care about the levelness and not the well-being of her partner."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Botox. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The moai statues have been made more conventionally attractive via a face-lift --- the hiker explains to the other that this is the result of a botox injection. While botox can have this effect in humans, it's funny in part because it isn't possible to give a botox injection to inanimate stone carvings."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Who has the floor? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"has the floor\" --- a phrase that figuratively means \"who has the right to speak right now in this meeting\". But here, the question is literal: the meeting has no floor, and so the person is asking literally who took it."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Yes he's still out there...and he looks serious. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Suburbanites are notorious for watching for crime in their neighborhoods, and this man is doing that from his window onto his lawn. But, he sees a Moai statue and is treating it as if it were a suspicious person, e.g., expecting it to be able to move or expecting it to be dangerous. While it looks serious, unlike a person standing on the lawn who looks serious, the statue is probably not a real threat."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: On second thought, it's more of a sandals day. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man is clearly not dressed for work properly (because he's naked), but while he recognizes that he's dressed inappropriately, he's focused on the innocuous choice of shoes rather than the glaringly obvious fact that he can't go to work naked."
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"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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"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: "
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"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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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You always get like this when there's a full Earth. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Odd/scary behaviors are said to occur during a full moon; in this case, the \"full earth\" out the window either implies that these people live in a space house, or that the house occasionally jumps into orbit. The contrast between the man's nonchalance and the woman's lucidity about the absurdity of being in space is humorous."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Next week, I'll move Heaven for you. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"I'd move heaven and earth for you\" means: \"I'd do anything for you\". Here, the man is moving earth; in reference to this saying, this implies he will next move heaven for her."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Looks like another side-rise is springing up. 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 \"high rise\" --- sometimes people talk about these tall buildings being constructed in their neighborhood as a sign of the neighborhood changing. But here, the building is sideways, so the casual observation is repurposed to be about a \"side rise\"."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You don't have to tell me it's a vanishing breed. 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 \"vanishing breed\". \"A vanishing breed\" can figuratively refer to any category of something that is decreasing, e.g., \"honest politicians are a vanishing breed\". But here, \"vanishing breed\" is literal: the type of horse is \"vanishing,\" i.e., it's literally invisible, and \"breed\" refers to a literal breed of horse; so both words take on a new more literal meaning."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I've never been snookered so properly before. 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 \"snooker\" --- \"snookered\" comes from old-time victorian-era british english (the person pictured appears to be from this era) and means to be bested or thwarted. But, snooker is also a variant of billiards, as pictured. So: this person was snookered (lost the game) at snooker (the game)."
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"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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: Thank you for agreeing to meet remotely. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"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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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Can't I just laugh till it hurts? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A dominatrix is a person who consensually inflicts pain on people who have a particular fetish for experiencing pain. Here, the clown does not have that fetish for physical pain, and instead, is asking if he can laugh until it hurts, instead of undertaking the usual physical pain from the dominatrix, e.g., being whipped. It's funny because of the juxtaposition of physical pain and laughing pain."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, just hear him out. Maybe we are being too defensive. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the word \"defensive\" --- in the football context, playing \"too defensive\" might mean a team might not be trying to take control and push offensively on the field. But, for a therapist, being \"too defensive\" refers to a psychological frame of denial, which can stop people from mentally moving past their problems. It's funny partly because strong, manly football players are the sort of people one might expect to be too emotionally defensive."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Cancel the molten lava cake. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This odd restaurant serves dishes that are dangerous natural disasters, like the depicted tornado/hurricane soup. If this restaurant were to serve a lava cake (usually: a benign gooey chocolate cake), we can imagine that it would consist of actual molten lava which would be dangerous. The diner looks displeased with these natural disaster disruptions to his meal."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Try counting rats. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A reference to the phrase \"rat race\", which is shorthand for hard, soul-sucking work that often takes place in cubicles. The person is having trouble falling asleep in the office, so instead of counting sheep (a usual strategy for falling asleep), she suggests he should count rats in the figurative rat race around him."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I told you we should have salted the roads. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Usually, salting the roads would prevent ice from building up, and so a politician might advocate for that for transportation safety. But here, salting the roads would cause the giant snail to dry out because moisture would be removed from its body, killing it, and saving the city."
}
] | |
[
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, don't put it on the menu if you can't catch one. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A snooty diner at a restaurant might complain that an item shouldn't be on the menu if the supply has ran out. Here, the employee of the restaurant is a bear, so instead of the complaint being about running out of inventory bought from a supplier, the complaint is about running of out fish because the bear couldn't catch one in the river. It's funny partly because, if a bear were to work at a restaurant, catching fresh fish might be a reasonable job because they do that in the wild regularly."
}
] | |
[
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, don't put it on the menu if you can't catch one. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A snooty diner at a restaurant might complain that an item shouldn't be on the menu if the supply has ran out. Here, the employee of the restaurant is a bear, so instead of the complaint being about running out of inventory bought from a supplier, the complaint is about running of out fish because the bear couldn't catch one in the river. It's funny partly because, if a bear were to work at a restaurant, catching fresh fish might be a reasonable job because they do that in the wild regularly."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm only here for the summer. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Lifeguards are traditionally seasonable employees that are only hired during the summer; these jobs usually require less dedication/training. Office jobs, on the other hand, are usually not temporary. It's funny to imagine this employee's surprise to find that his boss a seasonal employee (because he's dressed as a lifeguard); this might mean that the employee's work will have less oversight or that the company rotates management so frequently, they might as well be seasonal."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: On second thought let's skip the play. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, which took place at a play. This man is getting ready to go to a play and has a vision of himself as Lincoln; because he wants to avoid being assassinated, due to this premonition, he suggests to his partner that they not go to the play after all."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: On second thought, it's more of a sandals day. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man is clearly not dressed for work properly (because he's naked), but while he recognizes that he's dressed inappropriately, he's focused on the innocuous choice of shoes rather than the glaringly obvious fact that he can't go to work naked."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Put it down slowly, the mothers are very protective of their young Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The giant beach ball is intimidatingly large, and the woman is encouraging the man to put down the smaller ball as if the giant beach ball is the protective parent of the small one. This is like a mother bear protecting her young, but beach balls are inanimate and don't reproduce, so it's surprising."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I didn't get where I am by trying to please. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The CEO of a company will often explain who they had to make many sacrifices to get to the top. But here, the CEO is a cat and all the employees are dogs. The cat must have had to fight especially hard against the status quo to achieve her position."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Stay with me, sir. It's almost recess. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a childish politicians with short attention spans. The two advisors are explaining something very important (it looks like a pandemic spreading), and apparently the politician is inattentive, simply hoping to go outside to play like a child. It's funny in part because it plays on the idea that politicians are not actually smart and don't actually care about people."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Heal! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the words \"heel\" and \"heal\". A doctor might hope their patient would heal from a disease. A dog might be taught \"heel\" as a command which means for your dog to come and stand next to you. Here, the doctor's command has both meanings, because the dog is the patient."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I was wrong. This meeting is still boring. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The boss was so bored in the meeting that he had the idea for everyone to get naked to make it more interesting. Surprisingly, everyone seems to have agreed, but even everyone being naked couldn't make a meeting interesting. It's a reference to how boring meetings are."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I didn't get where I am by trying to please. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The CEO of a company will often explain who they had to make many sacrifices to get to the top. But here, the CEO is a cat and all the employees are dogs. The cat must have had to fight especially hard against the status quo to achieve her position."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, at least he made curfew. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a nervous teenager trying to not get in trouble with his parents. Teenagers often have curfews, i.e., times by which they must be home by, otherwise they might lose, e.g., driving privileges. Here, the teenager was very close to being late and was rushing home so fast that they crashed into their house. The parents are nonchalant about the destruction, and look at the bright side: at least he technically made it home in time."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your meal came with a toy? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "For humans, popular fast food chains often give children toys with their meals, e.g., the Happy Meal from McDonalds. But for dinosaurs, the meals are humans --- and the dinosaur on the right ate a human with a hat (i.e., the \"toy\"), whereas the human the dinosaur on the left ate didn't come with a toy (i.e., wasn't wearing a hat)."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Now don't you wish you hadn't done so many helium shots? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People often regret drinking so much because being drunk can be unpleasant, as is having a hangover. But here, instead of doing too many alcohol shots, the person on the ceiling did too many helium shots. Helium is less dense than air, and so things filled with it tend to float, e.g., like balloons, or this man. As his partner points out, he might regret it because he'd probably rather be in bed vs. on the ceiling."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If you see something, say something. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Waiters at restaurants will often ask if people want anything from the menus by saying, e.g., \"see something you like?\" ---but this restaurant is on the new york subway station, which broadcasts \"If you see something, say something.\" as a terrorism fighting message, e.g., if you see someone doing something that could potentially be dangerous, the message encourages riders to say something and contact a number. The restaurant and subway intersect via this message: \"if you see something [on the menu you want to order], say something [to the waiter]\""
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Decaf. They can't be far away. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about the impact of caffeine. The two wild-west police officers have encountered the previous night's hide-out of the criminals, but because the criminals drank decaffeinated coffee instead of caffeinated, they likely have less energy to be on the run because caffeine energizes people. So: because they drank decaf, they aren't as far as if they had caffeniated."
}
] | |
[
{
"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: "
},
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"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: "
},
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Heal! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the words \"heel\" and \"heal\". A doctor might hope their patient would heal from a disease. A dog might be taught \"heel\" as a command which means for your dog to come and stand next to you. Here, the doctor's command has both meanings, because the dog is the patient."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Welcome to orientation. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This is a play on words. \"Orientation\" is a common part of company on-boarding, meaning to introduce new employees to the company. But here, the orientation meeting of this company is a literal rotational orientation: the room is tilted, and needs to be re-oriented to be horizontal."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It's not the end of the world if he misses. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the term \"not the end of the world\". People will sometimes say that, if an event went wrong, it isn't the \"end of the world\" i.e., it's not that big of a deal. But here, it literally might be the end of the world if the angel hit the earth pinata --- i.e., if this supernatural being hit the earth with a baseball bat, it would probably cause billions of deaths and the end of the world. But if he misses, it is literally not the end of the world."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: And the worst part is this isn't my luggage. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Airplanes are often cramped spaces, and this joke takes that idea to an extreme: somehow, this passenger has been trapped in luggage (that has perhaps fallen from an overhead compartment) that isn't even his."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Backstabbing was already prevalent--we just added a twist. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the terms \"backstabbing\" and \"twist\". Figuratively, backstabbing in an office would refer to betrayal, e.g., by passing someone over for a promotion. But here, the backstabbing in the office is literal. Furthermore, the \"twist\" is indeed a figurative twist, i.e., an unexpected turn of events. But, it's also a literal twist added to the backstabbing: instead of stabbing with knives, employees are backstabbed with literally twistable \"keys\" that are usually used to wind up, e.g., toys."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Crazy people have sat in yours. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The woman is going to therapy, but refuses to sit on the office couch because \"crazy people have sat in it\". But, by being this neurotic and replacing the couch for her appointment, she outs herself as a crazy person herself. The therapist has a lot to work on."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If I had more dough, I'd be in first class. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the word \"dough\" --- dough figuratively refers to money, and the quote can mean the person would have bought a first class ticket if he had more money. But because the person is a chef, the dough takes a second meaning: literal pizza dough, that he's tossing."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Come on, George. You know he's only going to spend it on more oxygen. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People often justify not giving money to panhandlers by saying that, if they give them money \"they are only going to spend it on drugs.\" But here the panhandler is a fish who is addicted to oxygen --- the fish literally needs the oxygen to survive and cannot extract it from the air (because it has gills to extract it from water)."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Ever have the feeling you forgot to turn something off? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The nonchalant statement of forgetting to turn an oven or burner off would be common to hear in a bar --- but coming from the man in the nuclear hazmat suit, who presumably is some sort of safety operator at a nuclear plant, is quite alarming, because it implies a nearby nuclear plant is likely to explode in short order."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It seems you promised them herd immunity, sir. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on words: \"Herd immunity\" refers to a group immunity to a virus, but here -- the herd refers to a herd of sheep, and the immunity isn't viral: it's legal immunity, as evidenced by the two wolves dressed as lawyers. The sheep are mad because they are in unexpected legal trouble."
}
] | |
[
{
"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: I know I have a book in me. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"I have a book in me\" is said by aspiring writers, but it's easier to say that one has a book idea than to actually write it. Here, the turtle literally has a book in him, somewhere in the stack."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: When they said, \"Take us to your leader.\" I don't think they meant your mother's house. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This is a joke about in-laws. Pop culture depictions of aliens often have them requesting that the first humans they make contact with take them to the leaders of humanity. The woman is driving them to her mother's house, and the man, who feels stifled by his mother-in-law, is reminding his wife that her mom isn't their all-powerful leader. It's funny that this benign concern is on his mind in light of the fact that a giant spaceship is tailing them."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It's not magic. It's a Georgia ballot box. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A jab at the US state of Georgia's election processes. Historically, Georgia has a reputation for enacting policies that cause voter suppression. Here, the magician is making a ballot disappear (similar to a common magic trick of making a rabbit disappear), but instead of it being a trick he's just shredding ballots, and alluding to the idea that, in effect, this is what might as well happen to ballots when they are cast in unfair Georgian elections."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The sign said home style cooking. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"Home style cooking\" is a category of comfort food that's simple and unpretentious; restaurants often advertise this type food. But here, instead of being this category of food, this is a restaurant where, as indicated by the tables, people must cook their own food (like at home) and use a consumer stovetop (like at home). So it's literally homestyle."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Try counting rats. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A reference to the phrase \"rat race\", which is shorthand for hard, soul-sucking work that often takes place in cubicles. The person is having trouble falling asleep in the office, so instead of counting sheep (a usual strategy for falling asleep), she suggests he should count rats in the figurative rat race around him."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: To go? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The person grilling is asking whether the people would like their burgers \"for here\" or \"to go\". But, in either case, they are on the subway, which means that they will be getting it \"to go\", so there wasn't really a choice of \"for here\" in the first place."
}
] | |
[
{
"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: It's down the hall, but don't fall in. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"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."
}
] |