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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: To be fair, Martha, you did just kill one of their kids. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about mosquito parents being enormous --- it's common for people to kill mosquitoes by slapping them before they bite, but if mosquito parents were very large as depicted, they might try to beat up the person who killed their kid; the man nonchalantly says that this is an expected and justified outcome for a benign action."
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So a doctor walks into a bar—this is not a joke by the way. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "\"So a doctor walks into a bar\" is often the beginning of a bar joke --- but here, the doctor is physically injured and telling his patient about it. We can deduce that the doctor must have walked into a literal physical bar of some kind, and experienced these injuries as a result."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Anything to declare? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "\"Anything to declare\" is a question asked by customs at airports. Heaven's gates are adorned with barbed wire, implying that, oddly, heaven has as high of security as international borders. It's funny because one might assume heaven would be free of worldly security concerns, but apparently not."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Once tax season is over, you can go back to being the only child. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Your taxes can be reduced in the US if you have children: by claiming more dependents on your tax return, you get to pay less to the government, which everyone tries to do. Here, the man is humorously bending the tax rules by treating the family dog as a human child to save tax money. The human child is not happy about it, but the parent assures the kid that it's only for tax season that they need to do this charade."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Isn't this the same guy who got shipwrecked in our wading pool? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A man who gets lost in a sandbox as if he were stranded in the desert, as depicted, is not so bright because it's difficult to put oneself in a dire situation within a benign children's play area. The kids refer to another analogous situation when the same man put himself in a dire situation (shipwreck) within a benign children's play area (wading pool)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I miss the screaming. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke that refers to meat substitutes. As a vegan alternative for sharks, they have been given a mannequin, which substitutes for a human. Much like people find faults in meat substitutes (e.g., they miss the taste of meat), the sharks find faults in the mannequin --- apparently, they miss the human screaming. It's funny/cute to think that sharks are trying to go vegan."
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"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: Tell me you kept the box and receipt. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Ancient people didn't set up the Parthenon from an Ikea-style kit, but here, they are failing to assemble it by following the instructions. Because the building is not working out, the implication is that they will return the kit, but need the box and receipt to get a refund."
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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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"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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"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: On second thought let's skip the play. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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."
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"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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"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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"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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"content": "There's a trope that young people may rob you if you walk down a dark alley at night. But, this caption suggests that if you go down before 5PM during the day old, people would rob you --- this references that old people tend to go bed early. This is funny because 1) we usually don't expect old people to be criminals (particularly these folks who look well off); and 2) the man seems quite nonchalant about the situation, accepting that it was their fault."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So a doctor walks into a bar—this is not a joke by the way. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"So a doctor walks into a bar\" is often the beginning of a bar joke --- but here, the doctor is physically injured and telling his patient about it. We can deduce that the doctor must have walked into a literal physical bar of some kind, and experienced these injuries as a result."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Didn’t you see the light? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrase \"see the light\". Figuratively, it means to have a revelation about a period of doubt, sometimes in a religious way. Here, satan, a fallen angel of god who sometimes masquerades as a good angel, has not seen the light. But here, he also hasn't seen the literal street light, causing a car crash. The angel is surprised satan didn't see the light in either sense."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He has a summer job as a scarecrow. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The real man inside of the snowman is apparently the sort of person who will take a seasonal job as a seasonally-appropriate anthropomorphic sculpture, e.g., a snowman in winter, or a scarecrow in the summer. It's funny because this isn't a real job, and even if it was, the type of person who would accept it is very odd."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Relax. The DVR is set. You can catch the game tomorrow. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The man would rather be watching the sports match than go out to dinner with his partner on a date. The woman is re-assuring him that they are recording the game so he can watch it tomorrow, but he still needs to be tied down to his chair. It's funny partly because of the stereotype that men sometimes prefer sports to romantic evenings."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It’s time you learned about managing people’s expectations. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A common lesson in the adult workplace is not to set expectations for your work too high: the dad using a small shovel has set low snow-clearing expectations, whereas the child has set expectations too high by taking the larger snow shovel. The dad is teaching the child this lesson."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This is the last time I park on this side of town! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "When people park on the wrong side of town, sometimes their cars are robbed. But here, the wild-west parallel is that, if a cowboy \"parks\" his horse on the wrong side of town, a robber might steal the skin from it. It's funny not only because the caption frames a modern concern in a wild-west light, but also, because the robbers were quite thorough."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Good news! We have a solid lead on who stole your liver. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "If a doctor and a private investigator were to team up, they might be trying to solve the unusual crime of who stole their patient/client's liver. It's an unusual combination of professions that don't usually interact, and funny because, if someone's liver were really stolen (also quite unusual, perhaps impossible), they might make for a good team."
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"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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"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: Another nasty hokeypokey injury! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The hokeypokey is a dance that involves specific movements of arms and legs in a complicated fashion, including a \"turning around\" step. The joke is that, because dance is complicated and involves twisting arms/legs around, it's actually dangerous and commonly causes absurd injuries like this twisted around leg."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Let's not mistake his confidence for leadership. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Confidence in action is not the same as competence --- leaders will often confidently make terrible decisions. The hiker walking on the side of the mountain is confidently doing so, but it's a terrible idea for people to do because they will fall off the cliff if they follow. So, the two followers are being prudent to not mistake confidence for high quality leadership, they will probably live as a result."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Gee, you guys really are having trouble meeting your recruitment quota! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about the difficulty of recruiting of executioners. Being a member of a firing squad is likely not a popular job, and so instead of getting qualified people, this prison appears to be handing a gun to anyone willing, even a dog. The person about to be executed nonchalantly quips that they can't find qualified people."
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"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: "
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"content": "These two people are defending themselves against a crowd of zombies using two very different methods. One has a standard gun to shoot and kill zombies. The other has baked cookies with nuts in them in the hopes that some of the zombies have severe nut allergies and will die after eating the cookies. It's funny because cookies usually aren't used as a weapon, and it's not clear why the baker thought this would be more effective than a gun."
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"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: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I have some good news—we're letting you go. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the words \"letting you go\" -- normally, if your boss was to \"let you go\" it would be bad news, because they would be firing you. In this context, \"letting you go\" means removing you from your straight jacket, which would be good news. Because the boss also has a straitjackets, the employee might be getting fired from this company where everyone wears straitjackets, but that would still be good news because this is a terrible workplace."
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"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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"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: I liked my old spin class better. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the word \"spin class\" --- normally, a \"spin class\" is a type of fitness class that involves a group of people riding stationary bikes together in a room. Here, \"spin class\" is a different meaning: the spin is the rotation of a washing machine in a laundry mat. This unusual type of spin class is probably not as effective or fun, and it's unsurprising that the person in the machine dislikes it vs. cycling."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The third quarter is going to be delicious. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"delicious\" --- in a usual office setting, if third quarter was going to be delicious, it would be figuratively so, i.e., with juicy gossip, people getting fired, lots of drama, etc. But here, the third quarter will be literally delicious because the person growing vegetables for the company will share them in the future, which will make for delicious food. It's funny in part because the usual interpretation is about dark enjoyment of office politics, but the literal interpretation is about a wholesome vegetable feast."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We need to screen our organ donors more closely. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"organ donors\" --- an organ donor usually refers to someone who opts in to having their organs donated after their death; these folks might be screened for health conditions to make sure transplantation is safe. But here, the organ donor is someone who gave the musical instrument organ to the church; a more close screening process for someone donating a musical instrument would have presumably caught the fact that the organ isn't an instrument, it's a radiator."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Honestly, I’m not sure you’re partner material. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the word \"partner\" --- in the context of a law firm, a \"partner\" is a high ranking lawyer at the firm. But here, everyone at the law firm is dancing on a table, and so \"partner\" takes on the second meaning of dancing partner. Here, the lawyer might not achieve law partner possibly because he isn't a good dancing partner."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I wear the pants but my wife controls them. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke that plays on two marriage tropes: who \"wears the pants\" in the relationship (i.e., who takes on the traditionally masculine role) and who is really in control (i.e., the trope is that women exert most of the control behind the scenes). But here, these tropes are literal: the man is literally wearing weird pants held up by drones, and the wife is literally controlling the contraption via remote control access of the drones."
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"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: "
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"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."
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"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: "
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"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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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Actually, I'm not crazy about long walks on the beach. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A common romantic line when dating is to say \"I like long walks on the beach.\" But here, the man is wearing high heels, which are notoriously painful to walk long distances in. So, he prefers to wear high heels, and not to walk long distances on the beach."
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"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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"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: But how will we raise the kids? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Ideological differences, e.g., religion, between parents are often considerations prior to two people having kids because it's desirable to have a consistent moral framework to raise kids with. In this case, the ideological difference is about geometric art."
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"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: "
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"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."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You bought the sofa, you find the remote. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "It's a common occurrence that a TV remote gets lost in the sofa, and one must find it to change the channel. But here, the sofa is scary and dangerous monster. The wife is telling the husband that it's his job to find the lost remote in the sofa, which would be a risky job considering, e.g., if you reached your arm into this couch it might bite it off."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 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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"role": "assistant",
"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: O.K., they're yours, but I still don't know where you got that fourth ace. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The priest and the devil had been playing cards where the stakes were the people's souls. The devil cheated at this card game. It's funny in part because, even though the priest recognizes that the devil pulled an extra ace from nowhere, he doesn't seem to register or expect that the devil cheated. His response to turning over these souls to satan is humorous nonchalant."
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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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"role": "assistant",
"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: I wrote \"middle aged.\" Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"middle aged\". People often specify age preferences for meeting potential partners on a dating app. While these two are on a date, it's an accident: the woman wrote \"middle aged\" to specify she was looking for someone between roughly 40 and 60 years old. But, she got someone from the \"middle ages\", which was a time period in Europe from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, when there were knights in armor."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I know you have the law and the facts on your side, but I'm going with the dancing girls on this one. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Judges are supposed to be impartial, but this judge sides with the showiness of the dancers rather than the boring (but correct) lawyer. This is an exaggeration of a concern of the judicial system: that the facts of a case may matter less than a lawyer's presentation."
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"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: "
},
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"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."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He has a summer job as a scarecrow. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The real man inside of the snowman is apparently the sort of person who will take a seasonal job as a seasonally-appropriate anthropomorphic sculpture, e.g., a snowman in winter, or a scarecrow in the summer. It's funny because this isn't a real job, and even if it was, the type of person who would accept it is very odd."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm haunted by the faces of my victims. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "In therapy, people will sometimes emotionally work through their guilt if they feel they have wronged people before, i.e., if they have victimized them; in extreme cases, they might be haunted by the memory of their victim's (human) faces. Here, the fisherman's victims are the many, many fish he killed during the course of his job that he can't stop thinking about. It's funny because people normally don't feel guilty for killing fish, let alone feeling guilty for each individual one (e.g., fish meat is usually measured in pounds, not lives)."
}
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[
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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: "
},
{
"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: It feels good to get out of the museum for a night. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A human couple might consider going to the museum for a night to be an exciting date night. Here, the mummies, who usually reside in the museum (e.g., the history museum's egypt section), have the opposite perspective: for them, it feels like an exciting date night to get out of the museum for a night and be normal people in a normal house. It's funny that a human couple and a mummy couple could switch places (home/museum) to both have exciting date locations."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If their dog starts humping your leg - let it finish. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A crude joke about the enormous dog not pictured, but implied to exist. People often tie their dogs up with chains, but the chain here is enormous and powerful, suggesting the dog its attached to is very large and strong. So, if it were to start humping your leg (normally, one would push a dog doing this away), it's safer to just let it continue rather than anger it."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I am useless until I have my morning turkey. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People often drink coffee in the morning because it contains caffeine, an energizing drug: many people report that they are incapable of working without coffee, i.e., that they are \"useless\" without it. The surreal joke here is that the man is holding an entire turkey, and instead of having coffee every morning, eats an entire turkey, and is apparently useless without it."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Who would have thought they'd actually give money to a bank! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about the bank bail-outs during the 2008 recession. Banks made a bunch of risky loans, and then were bailed out by the federal government despite their bad behavior. This joke pokes fun at the idea that the bankers feel they tricked the government as they walk out of congress with piles of cash. The irony is that banks have a lot of money, which is the contrast the caption points to."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, if it isn't the Gym Reaper. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the term \"grim reaper\" --- who is an iconic character with robes and a scythe representing death. Here, \"gym\" sounds like \"grim\", and the \"gym reaper\" at the door has similar characteristics to the grim reaper (sythe, robes), but is dressed in workout clothing like tennis shoes and sweat pants that one might wear at a gym."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The heating system is pretty old but very reliable. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People buying houses often ask about infrastructure like heating systems, which can be outdated: here, the heating system is reliable because the house literally contains hell, which is covered in fire."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Please! I have a wife and two thousand kids! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the common plea people use in dire situations: \"I have a wife and two kids;\" this is stated to try to have people take mercy and not kill someone. But here, the victim of the bear is a fish about to be eaten, and fish tend to have many more than two kids, so the phrase is updated with the fish-version of it: two thousand kids."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Tell me about a time you identified a problem that others didn't see coming. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "In job interviews, people will often ask behavioral questions like this one. However, usually, the skillset they are asking about isn't one that the candidate is using in real time. Here, the interviewer literally doesn't see the giant asteroid coming down from space because he's facing away from it. In contrast, the interviewee can identify it. It's funny because the interview question is easy to answer because they can just describe the present moment, but they both may die because of asteroid impact."
}
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"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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[
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"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."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Relax. The DVR is set. You can catch the game tomorrow. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man would rather be watching the sports match than go out to dinner with his partner on a date. The woman is re-assuring him that they are recording the game so he can watch it tomorrow, but he still needs to be tied down to his chair. It's funny partly because of the stereotype that men sometimes prefer sports to romantic evenings."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your insurance company got back to us. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about the inadequacy of some insurance plans --- the joke is that some plans don't cover many procedures and the resulting medical bills can be significant. The \"NO\" from the company was so strong, that the paper literally caught on fire."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Will No. 3 please step forward and achieve satori. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "In a police lineup, suspects are often called upon to perform small tasks to help identify perpetrators, e.g., turning, or opening their mouth. The police officer nonchalantly asks for a non-trivial task of the holy lineup: to achieve sudden enlightenment (satori). The informality of this request is funny."
}
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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: 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."
}
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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: "
},
{
"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: You border patrol are good. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about the difficulty of crossing the US-mexico border. Often, people will try to get into the US by crossing in very remote locations --- here, the person has tried to sneak in by going all the way to the moon. However, the border patrol guard, the astronaut holding the American flag, has found the attempted border crosser even here, to which the person can only complement the border patrol."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Come sweater season, you'll be back! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The woman is breaking up with the man probably because of all of the goats he keeps in the house. His response is that when the weather gets cold, she will come back to their relationship because on of the benefits the goats provide is fur for sweaters."
}
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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: "
},
{
"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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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I hate connecting through Roswell. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The US army used to do nuclear bomb testing in Roswell, New Mexico; nuclear radiation can cause defects. In this case, the passenger from Roswell is so irradiated he's comically turned into this gross blob, which the man doesn't like sitting next to."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It’s time you learned about managing people’s expectations. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A common lesson in the adult workplace is not to set expectations for your work too high: the dad using a small shovel has set low snow-clearing expectations, whereas the child has set expectations too high by taking the larger snow shovel. The dad is teaching the child this lesson."
}
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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: It feels good to get out of the museum for a night. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A human couple might consider going to the museum for a night to be an exciting date night. Here, the mummies, who usually reside in the museum (e.g., the history museum's egypt section), have the opposite perspective: for them, it feels like an exciting date night to get out of the museum for a night and be normal people in a normal house. It's funny that a human couple and a mummy couple could switch places (home/museum) to both have exciting date locations."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Oh, great. More office drama. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A nonchalant response to the death of a coworker. The co-worker literally died and was buried in the cubicle, and the only thing the other employees think is that they will have to deal with office drama. This is a usual response to a benign drama like someone spilling coffee, but not appropriate for someone who literally died."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: In our opinion, you won't make it past the holidays. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Gingerbread men are cookies often baked at the holidays. Doctors are often tasked with giving prognoses for difficult medical conditions that involve death. Here, their prognosis of \"not making it past the holidays\" refers to the probable outcome of the gingerbread man being eaten during the holiday season (and not \"making it\" past that time)."
}
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[
{
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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: I have some good news—we're letting you go. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the words \"letting you go\" -- normally, if your boss was to \"let you go\" it would be bad news, because they would be firing you. In this context, \"letting you go\" means removing you from your straight jacket, which would be good news. Because the boss also has a straitjackets, the employee might be getting fired from this company where everyone wears straitjackets, but that would still be good news because this is a terrible workplace."
}
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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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: To be fair, Martha, you did just kill one of their kids. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about mosquito parents being enormous --- it's common for people to kill mosquitoes by slapping them before they bite, but if mosquito parents were very large as depicted, they might try to beat up the person who killed their kid; the man nonchalantly says that this is an expected and justified outcome for a benign action."
}
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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: "
},
{
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Remember that domino factory? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about an unusual construction company which demolishes buildings that have humorous interactions with the wrecking ball. Here, the wrecking ball is similar to a bowling ball knocking over the pins, and the workers are discussing the previous jobs. Like bowling pins, dominos are also knocked down after being arranged, and the wrecking ball accordingly played the same role at the domino factory."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: My other two wishes were ironically misinterpreted, too. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A subtle joke about a man who wished for a larger \"weiner\", in reference to his genitalia --- his wish was comically misinterpreted to be a big hot dog instead. It’s funny not only because it plays on the trope of a \"three wish\" granting entity, and also, faustian bargains/the ironic downsides of arcane magic."
}
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{
"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."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your last job sounds terrible. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The people rowing the boat are slaves --- their conditions seem dire and their job terrible. But, even the rowers take pity on the businessman, who they judge to have an even more terrible job previously. This surprising conclusion is joke is about how modern jobs are cushy, but might still feel like slavery in some ways (even though they aren't really comparable)."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: RELAX! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The hulk is a superhero who becomes a super strong monster when he's angry. It's funny to imagine him trying to teach a yoga class --- if he was mad that someone wasn't relaxing enough to do yoga, he might become the hulk, smash them into the wall, and yell \"RELAX\"!"
}
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{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: An optimist would see sushi. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about making the best of a bad situation. The man and the woman are struggling to survive on the island, when a massive shark beaches itself: the sharks looks scary and the man jumps in the water. The woman quips that the man is being unhelpful, and he should instead see opportunity in the shark's presence: they could kill and eat it (sushi). The shark looks pretty intimidating though, so this could be a difficult task."
}
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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 gather you both feel you're being manipulated. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the term \"manipulated\" --- in marriage counseling, a person might say that their partner is making them feel manipulated emotionally, e.g., if they try to make them do things they don't want to do by playing on their emotions. But here, both partners are literally being manipulated --- the counselor is talking to two puppets who are being controlled (or manipulated) by two people via sticks."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: They're trying to attract a younger crowd. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The jockeys are riding a common children's toy: the \"hobby horse\". The joke is that this particular race track switched from the real horses to the toy horses as a marketing ploy so that they could attract younger fans to watch the races. It's funny in part because it's not clear why a race track, who relies on gambling, would want to attract children with no access to money as customers."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This better be good. That floor was waxed last night! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a surprisingly callous emergency hotline office. The people answering calls are presumably trying to help people with emergencies. But, when presented with someone in an emergency directly in front of them, the crawling man needing help, they react without empathy, saying that their office was just cleaned and the person asking for help better have a good reason for messing up their floor."
}
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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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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Where were you between the hours of beddy-bye and nighty-night? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "If a teddy bear were to be accused of a crime, as depicted with the bear on the stand, they might get questioned about their whereabouts at particular times. But instead of normal times like noon or 11PM, because teddy bears are used as children's toys, it might be questioned about \"beddy-bye\" and \"nighty-night\" as time markers. It's funny because of the contrast between the seriousness of the trial context and the silliness of the time specifications."
}
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"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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{
"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: "
},
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] |