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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Stop me if you've heard this one. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The bartender is nonchalantly responding to a bar joke occurring in real life. \"A rabbi, a priest, and a minister walk into a bar...\" is a popular, stereotypical beginning of a bar joke. This sort of joke is commonly viewed as overdone, and the humorous part is that, even if it were happening in real life, a very jaded person might say something indicating their boredom at the overdone-ness of the situation, i.e., \"stop me if you've heard this one\" means \"stop me if you have heard this stereotypical joke before.\""
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Gesundheit. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A physical joke about what might happen if someone sneezed while getting acupuncture. While this probably wouldn't literally physically happen, the implication is that the person sneezed, and all the needles transferred from her to the acupuncturist, which is funny. We know this because the doctor is saying \"Gesundheit,\" which is what is said after someone sneezes."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Thank God, Fashion Week is over. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The man with the unusual outfit is going to the bar on Friday after his bad week at the office: \"fashion week\". \"Fashion week\" is an industry event where clothing designers showcase extravagant, unusual, and highly artistic outfits: the duck and no pants look depicted might be one of them. But here, instead of displaying the outfits on trained models, this office is displaying outfits on regular office employees who might not enjoy the eccentric clothing."
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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: If you see something, say something. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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]\""
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'd like to try group therapy with a different group. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Group therapy is usually conducted with a collection of people with a common set of experiences, and a common method of engagement, e.g., going around in a circle and talking. But here, the men are getting their therapy by watching the sports game, leaving the woman alone in the session. This plays on the trope that, on average, men and women have different emotional capacity to undertake introspective forms of therapy (with men being less capable)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Don't look at me that way—I wanted a giant cat. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The giant dog is slobbering all over the furniture and the woman is looking to the man for help. The problem here is clearly the size of the dog --- if it were normal sized, it wouldn't be a problem. But, the man fails to recognize that the size is the problem instead attributing their current predicament to the fact that its a dog. It's additionally partly funny because of the tension between cat people and dog people."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I know I have a book in me. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Get naked, jump in, and make this marriage work! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A strange piece of advice from the marriage counselor about how the couple might re-kindle their marriage. The couple is skeptical that a naked bath is what's stopping them from having a good marriage, but the purported therapist nonetheless enthusiastically suggests it. The funny part is that this therapist doesn't seem credible."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Carry on. I'll just be a fly on the wall. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "In the business context, \"a fly on the wall\" means a participant in a meeting that is simply there to listen-in and not participate. But the \"fly on the wall\" here is literal --- the man is literally on the wall."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: She thinks her bomb bay makes her look fat. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A trope of women dressing in fancy clothes is that they fear the clothes will \"make them look fat\". If a woman was a fighter plane, the joke is that the woman would still be worried about her appearance, but instead of clothes fitting poorly, she's worried about the bomb bay making her look fat."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I always knew we'd wind up together. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrase \"wind up together,\" which is usually a figurative expression to describe two lovers who get married, but did so without an intentional plan. Here, however, the two giraffes have their necks literally wound together."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I wanted you to meet our colon specialist before we miniaturized him. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "An allusion to \"Fantastic Voyage\" wherein a submarine crew gets miniaturized and sent into a person's body. In this case, the person in the diving suit is a doctor who will perform colon surgery from the inside."
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"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: "
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"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."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Between you and me, the owner can't unload this fast enough. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "To \"unload\" a property would mean to sell it quickly, but the double meaning of \"unload\" also applies to unloading a washer or drier: it's not clear if the owner wants to sell quickly, or just move the clothes out of the appliances."
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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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"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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"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: That's a rare medium. Well done. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the terms \"rare\", \"medium\", and \"well done\"; these three phrases are steak temperatures that people prefer, which ties in the the barbecue. But on the other hand, in the art context, a \"rare medium\" would be a piece of art that is constructed with uncommon materials; the uncommon material is the burgers he's cooking. The \"well done\" is re-framed as a congratulatory message for barbecuing well."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: What disease are you crawling for? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the idea that people run marathons for charities --- people train for running events, get their friends to sponsor them financially, and then donate the money to charity; this provides both social good and motivation for running. Here, it's not a marathon, but a desert crawling competition of some kind --- the question means: \"which charity are you supporting by crawling in this event?\""
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: My last office had a castle. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A silly joke about employees who work in fish bowls --- sometimes, fish bowls have decorations like fake seaweed or castle sculptures. While in the real world it would be impressive to work a desk job in a castle, here, the castle of the previous job is just a small, fake castle decoration in a fish tank."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If I'm not back at the maze by eight, my wife reels in the damn string. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A minotaur famously lives in a labyrinth/maze. But, this mythical creature is at a bar lamenting about everyday problems with everyday people --- in this case, the minotaur's everyday problem is that his wife wants him home early (by 8PM), but his home is the maze. To \"reel in the string\" means to figuratively shorten his leash, i.e., his wife reduces his freedom (e.g., to go to a bar)."
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"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: "
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"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]\""
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So, which one of you varmints is mine? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the word \"varmint\" (commonly used in the wild west by cowboys like this man) --- which can refer to a pest in the literal sense (e.g., a raccoon or a squirrel), but also, can refer endearingly to a troublesome child. Here, the man can't distinguish between literal and figurative varmints, which is surprising, because the baby is his own child."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Be careful, the bald spot is slippery. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The joke is about the businessmen having an oddly nonchalant response to hell literally opening up in their office. Instead of taking this as a sign about their company or practices, they instead simply walk over the dammed souls, only commenting that one's bald head is physically slippery."
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"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: 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: So, when did the 'check mustard' light come on? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A normal vehicle that breaks down might have the \"check engine\" light on, which a mechanic might ask about the timeline of. Here, the car is the Wienermobile, which might instead have a \"check mustard\" light instead. It's funny partly because it's unclear what the check mustard light would indicate about the hot dog repair."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He wants to know if you can move your seat up. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Moving a front seat up is an everyday request from people sitting in the backseat of cars if they don't have enough room. The whale is making this request: the contrast between how unusual it is that the whale is in the backseat and the benign-ness of the request is what makes it funny."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The hours here are obscene. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Swear words are often visually represented by a mix of various punctuation marks: in this case, the clock contains a lot of punctuation, which makes the hours literally obscene. \"Obscene hours\" would usually mean a job that requires very long or unusual hours."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He won't last long. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Usually, people might say that someone \"wont last long\" to mean that they can tell a new situation for someone will not go well and they'll quit, e.g., in this case, when a new employee at a company won't fit in. But here, the new employee is made of bubbles, which literally do not last long because they pop, so the joke is that he physically won't last long (instead of socially)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Could you trim the sides but leave it feathered on top? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the word \"feathered\" --- it's possible to cut and style hair in a \"feathered\" fashion, which refers to a particular look. Here, \"feathered\" takes a literal meaning, because there's a pigeon on the man's head: in this case, \"leave it feathered on top\" is a request to the barber that humorously means that the bird should be left alone."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This town ain’t big enough for anyone. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrase \"this town ain't big enough for the two of us\" --- this is a thing cowboys say to each-other to insight a duel, and refers to the idea that the two combatants each have big egos and only one can survive. But here, the \"town\" is a tiny island, and even the lonely cowboy can not physically fit. So, the phrase is: the town isn't big enough \"for anyone\"."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Call security and tell them to circle the wagons! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "An old-time boss from the wild west, after being attacked by arrows, calls security for help, but instead of modern help, he asks them to \"circle the wagons\", which is a defensive maneuver used to protect livestock during the 1800s when people traveled by wagon train. The contrast between the modern surroundings and the 19th century boss/attackers is funny; it's unclear if security uses normal of-the-time measures, or uses 19th century tactics like circling wagons."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I don't know how to tell him it's not his. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Usually, when a couple discusses a child \"not being his,\" it refers to a woman's infidelity, which is a hard topic to discuss. Here, however, it's not a partner cheating, it's a man nesting on a giant egg: the egg obviously isn't his child because humans don't lay eggs, and so the usual expression takes on a humorous new meaning: the woman can't seem to convince the man that the egg isn't his child, despite the fact that it's obvious it couldn't be."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Let's just give him the damn cheese. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Scientists often run mice through mazes as part of science experiments, but here, the mouse in the experiment has not only solved the maze, but has solved the maze by transcending the experiment and building a jet pack --- the scientists decide that this subject has done more than enough, and should just be given the cheese which acts as a reward in the maze because this mouse has gone above and beyond."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I thought you said it wouldn't need much attention. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "People sometimes say plants won't need much attention, i.e., it will live if you forget to water them for a while, and it will grow in low or high light conditions. While cacti are often said to \"not need much attention,\" here, the plant care routine has gone so wrong that the plant has come to life and is chasing the owners."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Miley’s here. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A reference to the Miley Cyrus music video \"Wrecking Ball\", in which she rides a wrecking ball into a side of a building. Instead of being surprised by the destruction, the everyday people react as if they invited Cyrus to their house and were anticipating that she would arrive in this destructive fashion."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, sir, this is Fenway. You're looking for Jurassic Park. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the names \"Fenway Park\" and \"Jurassic Park\". Fenway Park is a professional baseball stadium in Boston, whereas Jurassic Park is a fictional theme park full of dinosaurs from a movie. Here, the pitcher is explaining to the caveman that he doesn't belong in the baseball park, and instead, belongs in the more primitive park with the dinosaurs."
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"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: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Let's let him keep your ball. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The monster took the ball the dog was playing with prior to this --- because the monster is quite intimidating, the man decides to tell his dog that they will not risk the danger, and will simply let the evil looking monster keep ball. This is funny in part because, instead of running away, the man nonchalantly and calmly states the course of action."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 'Til death do us part\" was the agreement, Susan. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about wedding vows --- the man apparently was excited to get some alone time from his spouse after they have both died; this accords with their common wedding vow \"til death do us part.\" But, death has not done them part, and the wife (skeleton) still wants to be with the husband, even though he didn't agree to anything post-death."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Heal! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: How about some help carrying the groceries? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The shark is carrying a human which the sharks plan to eat. When humans are carrying their food, they might be coming back from the grocery store with bags, and might request help from their partner to carry the bags. While the sharks are having a similar benign discussion about carrying groceries, but the implication of the human as groceries to be eaten makes it funny."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You're gonna have to roll me outta here. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "After eating too much, people sometimes feel bloated like a balloon, and exaggerate by saying that they need to be \"rolled out\" because they feel unable to even walk. But here, while the people are eating a lot, \"rolled out\" takes on a second meaning, because they are eating wheels, which are capable of literally rolling."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Long time no sea. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"sea\" --- \"long time no see\" is something people say to each-other after they meet up for the first time in an extended period. But here, \"sea\" transforms the meaning to mean: \"it's been a long time since you've been in the ocean,\" which is an accurate comment for someone who has been paddling a boat through the desert for many miles."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Get naked, jump in, and make this marriage work! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A strange piece of advice from the marriage counselor about how the couple might re-kindle their marriage. The couple is skeptical that a naked bath is what's stopping them from having a good marriage, but the purported therapist nonetheless enthusiastically suggests it. The funny part is that this therapist doesn't seem credible."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Will No. 3 please step forward and achieve satori. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So you're the infamous Sudsy Malone. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on \"Bugsy Malone\", which is the name of a fictional gangster. \"Sudsy\" sounds like \"Bugsy\", but refers to the suds associated with taking a soapy bath. So: the person in the bottom bunk/bath is \"Sudsy Malone\"."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It's down the hall, but don't fall in. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Because the furnature in this house is bizarrely large, the toilet presumably would be as well. The person is giving them directions to the restroom down the hall, but if they sat on the toilet to use it, they would be in danger of falling in the bowl due to its size."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: How about some help carrying the groceries? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The shark is carrying a human which the sharks plan to eat. When humans are carrying their food, they might be coming back from the grocery store with bags, and might request help from their partner to carry the bags. While the sharks are having a similar benign discussion about carrying groceries, but the implication of the human as groceries to be eaten makes it funny."
}
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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: I always knew we'd wind up together. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the phrase \"wind up together,\" which is usually a figurative expression to describe two lovers who get married, but did so without an intentional plan. Here, however, the two giraffes have their necks literally wound together."
}
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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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He wants to know if you can move your seat up. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Moving a front seat up is an everyday request from people sitting in the backseat of cars if they don't have enough room. The whale is making this request: the contrast between how unusual it is that the whale is in the backseat and the benign-ness of the request is what makes it funny."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Didn’t you see the light? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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[
{
"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]\""
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I don't know how to tell him it's not his. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Usually, when a couple discusses a child \"not being his,\" it refers to a woman's infidelity, which is a hard topic to discuss. Here, however, it's not a partner cheating, it's a man nesting on a giant egg: the egg obviously isn't his child because humans don't lay eggs, and so the usual expression takes on a humorous new meaning: the woman can't seem to convince the man that the egg isn't his child, despite the fact that it's obvious it couldn't be."
}
] | |
[
{
"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\"!"
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I don't like the way Adam looks at you. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "These are a snake couple that live in eden, and the female snake has a human butt. This feature apparently makes the male snake jealous because the human Adam is purportedly attracted to the part-human snake."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Please use a coaster. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People use coasters to prevent glasses from damaging wood surfaces like desks --- but here, the object that needs a coaster is a disembodied head. One would think that a person in this situation would comment on the disembodied head, but the man behind the desk is most worried about preserving the desk, and simply asks the head to use a coaster."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He's his own best friend. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the phrase \"man's best friend.\" The dog throwing the stick to himself is doing so alone, and taking the role of a human owner who might otherwise throw the stick. So, instead of being \"man's best friend\", he is his own best friend, and he doesn't need humans."
}
] | |
[
{
"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 thought you said it wouldn't need much attention. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People sometimes say plants won't need much attention, i.e., it will live if you forget to water them for a while, and it will grow in low or high light conditions. While cacti are often said to \"not need much attention,\" here, the plant care routine has gone so wrong that the plant has come to life and is chasing the owners."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Harry, the whole point of leaving England was to blend in. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about Prince Harry and Meghan moving to America. They moved to America in part to avoid the media attention associated with living in the royal family. The joke here is that, Harry still feels the need to wear a royal-looking outfit, which causes the pair to not blend in."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: And this is our new incentive plan. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "An \"incentive plan\" is usually a type of employee compensation that rewards people financially for meeting specific performance targets. But here, the company can't afford to pay extra, so their incentive plan is the electric chair: the implication is that employees must meet targets or they will simply be killed. A dark but humorous joke about how some companies view their employees as disposable."
}
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[
{
"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."
}
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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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I think we made a wrong turn at puberty. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The two older men are too mature for this situation of teenagers driving a car wildly and irresponsibly. The joke is that on their trip, there's a physical place called \"puberty\", and at that road juncture, the two should have gone towards the direction of maturity instead of this immature direction. It's partly funny because puberty is often framed as an important figurative juncture in life, whereas here, it's a literal juncture."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I can’t skip. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A reference to the Wizard of Oz --- in that story, the group of protagonists often skip down the yellow brick road. But, this potential fifth character (the sailor with the peg leg) was rejected by the party because he is physically unable skip due to his leg. It's a petty reason for the party to pass him over."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I see you are unfamiliar with French Mythology. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A reference to escargot. While the centaur is a glorious mythological creature from greek mythology, the joke is that if France had a comparable mythological creature it would be a half-man, half-snail, like in escargot. The snail main is slower and less impressive physically than the centaur."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm up here. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the common trope that men's gaze can drift to revealing parts of a woman's body if their are sexually interested in them. The trope states that the woman will sometimes say \"my eyes are up here\" --- but here, while the male turkey is looking at the human-like legs in fishnets, because of how a turkey's entire body is above the legs, instead of \"my eyes are up here\", it gets reduced to \"I'm up here,\" i.e., \"most of my entire body is above where you are looking.\""
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, sir, this is Fenway. You're looking for Jurassic Park. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the names \"Fenway Park\" and \"Jurassic Park\". Fenway Park is a professional baseball stadium in Boston, whereas Jurassic Park is a fictional theme park full of dinosaurs from a movie. Here, the pitcher is explaining to the caveman that he doesn't belong in the baseball park, and instead, belongs in the more primitive park with the dinosaurs."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: When did you first encounter my client's balloon? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A man with a hook for a hand is on trial. Apparently, his crime was popping a balloon, which he did either purposefully or accidentally, with his hook. It's funny partly because it's unclear what type of balloon popping crime would be significant enough to put him on trial."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You can tell the judge why you were doing CX in a XXV. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The police officer is from roman times (horses, outfit) --- such a police officer would use roman numerals for numbers, so instead of arresting the speeding person for doing \"110mph in a 25mph zone\", they scold them for \"doing CX in a XXV\"."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"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: 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: 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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Somebody carve 911. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The person with the dinosaur attached to their leg is in immediate medical danger due to the bite --- in the modern world, such a dangerous occurrence would be responded to by calling 911 for emergency medical help, but here, there are no telephones, and communication happens instead via carving into walls (though, it's unclear exactly how carving 911 would lead to medical help arriving)."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This is an oddly nonchalant thing to say if one's partner was dressed in a hazmat suit. Usually: this is the sort of comment one would make if someone had a new shirt or a new pair of shoes, not a hazmat suit. Given that the woman is probably wearing the suit for a good reason, it's partly funny because the man's nonchalance/ignorance might be putting him in literal danger."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Except here it's always good cop, good cop. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the phrase \"good cop, bad cop\" --- two homeless angels are loitering in heaven as two angel cops come by. Instead of the usual \"good cop, bad cop\" routine where one officer pretends to be nice and the other is mean as a strategy to get a confession, in heaven apparently all cops are good, so it's \"good cop, good cop\"."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It deployed when her carriage rear-ended an ox cart. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The woman's oversized ruff collar is juxtaposed against the modern invention of an air bag. Air bags deploy during car crashes --- and here, the collar inflated during a collision between a carriage she was riding in and an ox cart as a safety mechanism. It's funny in part because, while it explains the oversized collar, collars are cosmetic rather than functional."
}
] | |
[
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I can’t skip. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A reference to the Wizard of Oz --- in that story, the group of protagonists often skip down the yellow brick road. But, this potential fifth character (the sailor with the peg leg) was rejected by the party because he is physically unable skip due to his leg. It's a petty reason for the party to pass him over."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Yes, I asked very politely. But he still says the rest room in there is for employees only. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "It's unusual that a desert island would have guards around it; instead of explaining why these people are being carefully guarded despite how remote the island is, the people nonchalantly are most annoyed by not being able to use the employees-only bathroom."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm not comfortable discussing that in front of my fish. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about group therapy --- but instead of a couple or a small group of people, this patient is getting therapy alongside all of his pets. The therapist is having trouble dealing with this difficult and preposterous patient, who deeply cares about his pets feelings about him: so much so, that he's worried about discussing particular topics that might offend his fish. While it might be appropriate to not want to discuss particular topics in usual group therapy with humans, the fish can't speak english."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Thank God, Fashion Week is over. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man with the unusual outfit is going to the bar on Friday after his bad week at the office: \"fashion week\". \"Fashion week\" is an industry event where clothing designers showcase extravagant, unusual, and highly artistic outfits: the duck and no pants look depicted might be one of them. But here, instead of displaying the outfits on trained models, this office is displaying outfits on regular office employees who might not enjoy the eccentric clothing."
}
] | |
[
{
"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: Shall I keep reading? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Technically, I'm guarding two posts. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on words: to guard a \"post\" usually means to patrol a location, but here, the guard in the hammock is just relaxing and not working. However, in another sense he is guarding the two literal posts his hammock is attached to, which he argues means that he's technically doing twice the expected work."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The instructions should have mentioned that you need a body of water. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about an incompetent pair of mobsters attempting to kill the man on the roof via cement shoes; they are incompetent because they are following a step-by-step instruction manual to do this, and have overlooked the obvious: you need a body of water to throw the person with cement shoes to kill them, and now they are driving around frantically trying to find one. It's funny in part because they are not being discrete: the incompetent pair has simply put the victim on the roof for everyone to see/try to intervene."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Hold on, the Senate Committee on Women's Health is getting out. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Women's reproductive rights are often governed by laws written largely by men. The joke here is that the entire committee on women's health is middle aged white men that look exactly the same and are out-of-touch with women's experiences."
}
] | |
[
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: And my hourly fee is six hundred dollars. You're not in Kansas anymore. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "In the \"Wizard of Oz,\" the movie that the characters in the chairs are from, the main character says \"We're not in Kansas anymore\" in reference to the fact that they have been transported to the magical land of Oz. Here, they are in an expensive lawyer's office instead of Oz, and the reason why it's \"not Kansas\" is not whimsical --- it's because the lawyers in this city (probably New York) are more expensive than in Kansas. The lawyer uses the same line from the movie to justify his high price."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"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."
}
] | |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Thank God, Fashion Week is over. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man with the unusual outfit is going to the bar on Friday after his bad week at the office: \"fashion week\". \"Fashion week\" is an industry event where clothing designers showcase extravagant, unusual, and highly artistic outfits: the duck and no pants look depicted might be one of them. But here, instead of displaying the outfits on trained models, this office is displaying outfits on regular office employees who might not enjoy the eccentric clothing."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You're gonna have to roll me outta here. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "After eating too much, people sometimes feel bloated like a balloon, and exaggerate by saying that they need to be \"rolled out\" because they feel unable to even walk. But here, while the people are eating a lot, \"rolled out\" takes on a second meaning, because they are eating wheels, which are capable of literally rolling."
}
] |