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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: They keep watch on the offshore accounts. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Offshore accounts are bank accounts run by island nations where wealthy people keep money to avoid taxes. Here, the Moai statues, which normally are on Easter Island, have haircuts which make them look like wealthy businessmen from the USA. The idea is that these modified Maoi statues' job is to make sure that the wealthy businessmen's money is safe on the island."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You better hope that was rain I just felt. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The cop is trying to get the person to stop illegally flying a dog instead of a kite --- the joke is that, unlike kites, dogs can urinate, which might cause the police offer to get urinated on from above. The cop is trying to get the person to stop flying the dog, and it's likely the punishment would be worse for the man if the officer was peed on. The officer points out that the liquid he felt, for the sake of the man's punishment severity, is hopefully rain and not dog pee."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 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: It could be a combination of things. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"combination of things\" --- doctors often have difficulty finding the cause of symptoms because their causes can be caused by multiple factors, i.e., a combination of things. But here, the patient is a combination safe, which is unlocked by a literal combination."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: How many times do I have to tell you, don't call me at work! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "In a circus act, a lion plays the part of a ferocious and scary animal --- but, this phone conversation humanizes the lion by pointing out that they are only acting/doing their job. As a result, they have everyday concerns about their employment, e.g., this lion is embarrassed that their spouse called them at work and seeks work-life separation."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Dr. Ogden just called to say your mercury levels are on the high side. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "When doctors treat older humans, they measure things like cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. But, in this odd world, the walrus is being treated by a human doctor, and his medical problems are related to mercury, which is a problem for sea life like fish. The woman looks on disapprovingly, almost as if mercury levels were affected by the walrus sneaking unhealthy foods."
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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: The piano's in tune, but the house is a little flat. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on words: \"flat\" can mean that an instrument is out of tune, like the piano could be (but isn't). The house is literally \"flat\", however, i.e.: it has been flattened to the ground."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I got your message. How can I help? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about a message in a bottle and who is likely to receive it. Following the common \"stranded on a desert island\" trope, the person on the island sent out a plea for help by putting a message in a bottle, and throwing it into the ocean. However, the bottle didn't make it to a city, it was received by an unhelpful whale. The whale has their heart in the right place and came to help, but ended up just crushing the person."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Backstabbing was already prevalent--we just added a twist. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the terms \"backstabbing\" and \"twist\". Figuratively, backstabbing in an office would refer to betrayal, e.g., by passing someone over for a promotion. But here, the backstabbing in the office is literal. Furthermore, the \"twist\" is indeed a figurative twist, i.e., an unexpected turn of events. But, it's also a literal twist added to the backstabbing: instead of stabbing with knives, employees are backstabbed with literally twistable \"keys\" that are usually used to wind up, e.g., toys."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It just looked so uncool to wear a seat belt in the Batmobile. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A dark joke about batman dying in a car crash. We know the angel on the right is batman because the black wings are similar to accents on the batmobile, and we know he died because he's in heaven talking about how he didn't wear a seatbelt."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This may burn a little. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A doctor's treatments may sometimes cause a burning sensation, e.g., a vaccine might cause a localized burning sensation, so this is a phrase a doctor might say. However, the treatment here, while it may cause a burning sensation, is not usual. Magnifying glasses focus light, sometimes so much so that they can light things on fire at their focal point, which may cause a burn. It's funny because it's not clear why the doctor is treating his patient with a magnifying glass that will burn him."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We get it. You're straight. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "This is a joke about toxic masculinity. The man wants to do yoga, which is seen by some as a feminine activity. To compensate for his insecurity, he brings a manly, big rug instead of a purportedly feminine yoga mat. The instructor's retort addresses his insecurity by saying that his overcompensation is overkill."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Do YOU remember what you had for lunch last Thursday? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The shark being interrogated has eaten a person, and the cops are showing a picture of the person they ate to them. The cops accuse the shark of eating the person on Thursday, and, in defense, the shark retorts that he doesn't remember, and justifies this by saying that it's normal to not recall that type of detail: the cops also probably couldn't remember what they had for lunch a few days ago. The joke is that lunch isn't a small unimportant detail for the shark because they killed someone."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: She left a note. No, I haven't read it yet. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "An angry wife left her husband, and she left a note, presumably detailing her issues with him. This joke takes the anger one step further, instead of simply leaving the note, she literally stabbed him in the back, leaving the note lodged on the knife. It's funny in part because the man is relatively calm about being literally stabbed in the back, talking to his friend on the phone calmly about his partner's departure."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Does our plumber do exorcisms? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A Clawfoot Tub is a type of bath tub with legs, here, that tub has come alive with the person inside, and it's walking down the hallway. An inanimate object might come alive if a demon possessed it. In this case, the man is asking if their plumber, who is familiar with clawfoot bathtub repair, is also capable of doing an exorcism (i.e., a ritual to rid someone/something of a demonic possession): both skills would be useful in this case."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You call THAT pushing? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about childbirth. The woman is pushing her kids up the hill in the stroller, but the quote references the pushing associated with the pain of labor/giving birth. The woman has had a few kids and is unimpressed with the \"pushing\" the man is thus unimpressed with the man who is only pushing a rock up a hill."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Would you at least use coasters? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The man not sitting on the table is asking the three people on the table to use coasters. It's unusual to put chairs on a table like this during a meeting, and the man likely didn't join them because of how weird it is. While he's weirdly accepted that they will sit on the table, he's asking them to at least not scratch the surface with their chairs by using coasters. It's funny because it's unclear why the people wanted to be on the table."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We're really looking for someone with more lab experience. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The turtle is applying for the job of running in the mouse wheel, but because turtles are not as commonly used as subjects in laboratory studies, its application is gently rejected. It's a play on the term \"lab experience,\" which in a usual job application for a research position might refer to hands-on experience conducting experiments, but here refers to hands-on experience being a test subject."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm thinking about quitting the band. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A surreal joke about a marching band leader tirelessly marching into a desert, with her band following her. However, only two of the band's most dedicated members remain, and they look as if they have been travelling for many days. It's funny because, for these most committed members, they are only now considering quitting the band by not following the leader, whereas their more reasonable colleagues probably stopped following days ago."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: The guy you're looking for waltzed out of here an hour ago. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the word \"waltzed\" --- if a private investigator were looking for a suspect at a bar to be told that the person \"waltzed out of there\", that would simply mean they left. But, given that the victim of the crime is a ballet dancer, it suggests that the perpetrator may have also been a dancer, and perhaps literally waltzed out of the bar, i.e., danced their way out."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, at least he made curfew. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about a nervous teenager trying to not get in trouble with his parents. Teenagers often have curfews, i.e., times by which they must be home by, otherwise they might lose, e.g., driving privileges. Here, the teenager was very close to being late and was rushing home so fast that they crashed into their house. The parents are nonchalant about the destruction, and look at the bright side: at least he technically made it home in time."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: RELAX! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The hulk is a superhero who becomes a super strong monster when he's angry. It's funny to imagine him trying to teach a yoga class --- if he was mad that someone wasn't relaxing enough to do yoga, he might become the hulk, smash them into the wall, and yell \"RELAX\"!"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You call THAT pushing? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about childbirth. The woman is pushing her kids up the hill in the stroller, but the quote references the pushing associated with the pain of labor/giving birth. The woman has had a few kids and is unimpressed with the \"pushing\" the man is thus unimpressed with the man who is only pushing a rock up a hill."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Wake up, Harold! You're having another of your delusions of grandeur. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "This scene takes place in a man's mind --- in his delusion, he is a judge in a courtroom, perhaps passing judgement on one of his rivals. This is a delusion of grandeur because judges have a lot of power. But, his daydream is interrupted by his wife entering the room, which manifests as her walking out of a door in the judges stand (in real life, she probably just walked into the room he was in)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Botox. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The moai statues have been made more conventionally attractive via a face-lift --- the hiker explains to the other that this is the result of a botox injection. While botox can have this effect in humans, it's funny in part because it isn't possible to give a botox injection to inanimate stone carvings."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Come sweater season, you'll be back! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: How many times do I have to tell you, don't call me at work! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "In a circus act, a lion plays the part of a ferocious and scary animal --- but, this phone conversation humanizes the lion by pointing out that they are only acting/doing their job. As a result, they have everyday concerns about their employment, e.g., this lion is embarrassed that their spouse called them at work and seeks work-life separation."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Don't blame me—I voted for the other thing. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"Don't blame me—I voted for the other guy.\" which is what people say if the political party in power does something unsavory, but they voted for someone different during the election. Here, the \"thing\" is a monster terrorizing the city, and the person yelling apparently voted for a different monster during an election. It's funny to think about an election between two monsters, and why the person feels the monster they voted for wouldn't have terrorized the city."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Can you please pass the cow? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "When drinking coffee or tea, people often add cream, and may ask others to pass it if it's on the other side of a table. But here, the mugs are huge, so instead of asking for a small cup of cream, they are asking for the entire cow, which is the appropriately-sized cream dispenser for these huge drinks."
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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: Throw us a doughnut! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the word \"doughnut.\" On the one hand, a doughnut is a sweet food that is often eaten with bitter coffee/teas for balance. But also, a doughnut looks like a life preserver, which is a flotation device that could be quite useful during a shipwreck, which is why the people in trouble are requesting it."
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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: If you think this is annoying, just wait. In a few miles, they switch to binary. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The road signs here are in roman numerals, which are notoriously difficult to read. However, on this unusual road, the signs get even more difficult to read, because, according to the female passenger, the numbers will soon be binary, i.e., sequences of ones and zeros that are difficult to immediately translate into values for the driver."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He's not as bad as the last manager. That one was abominable. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"abominable snowman\", which refers to the Yeti, a popular fictional snow monster from the Himalayan mountain range. The current boss is a normal snowman, whereas, the previous boss was apparently not only abominable (i.e., very bad), but was also possibly literally the Yeti. The employees of this clothing store have a hard job, but it humorously used to be worse when the Yeti was their boss previously."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, at least somebody remembered about casual Good Friday. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A playful combination of the phrases \"Good Friday\" and \"casual Friday\". \"Good Friday\" is a christian holiday that takes place close to Easter, as represented by the Easter bunny costume. Casual Friday is a common office policy that encourages people to wear less formal clothes to the office, which the Easter bunny costume would be. So, on casual Good Friday, an Easter bunny outfit being worn to work would be appropriate."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Do you struggle endlessly through here often? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "\"Do you come here often\" is a common conversation starter at bars (where the woman is). Sisyphus would be unlikely to encounter such a woman, yet, she is trying to start a romantic conversation with him by adjusting the conversation stater to his eternally damned situation."
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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: I'm really more of a painter-gatherer. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrase \"hunter-gatherer\" --- the deer these two cavemen are hunting look like cave paintings instead of actual deer. So, instead of hunting normal deer, they prefer to interact with the painting deer, and they are \"painter-gatherers,\" as a result."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It's not magic. It's a Georgia ballot box. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A jab at the US state of Georgia's election processes. Historically, Georgia has a reputation for enacting policies that cause voter suppression. Here, the magician is making a ballot disappear (similar to a common magic trick of making a rabbit disappear), but instead of it being a trick he's just shredding ballots, and alluding to the idea that, in effect, this is what might as well happen to ballots when they are cast in unfair Georgian elections."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It’s the new Mustang. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"mustang.\" A new mustang, in the modern world, refers to the Ford Mustang, which is a type of car. But, mustang is also a type of horse. Here, the cowboy's new mustang is an upgraded type of mechanical horse, which intersects both interpretations."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If we just ignore it, maybe it'll go away. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about financial collapse on wall street. Wall street has a famous statue of a bull which \"represents the courage and can-do spirit of Americans,\" but the cartoon suggests that sometimes, for the stock market crashing, a more appropriate mascot might be an ostrich hiding its head in the dirt, as a representation of ignoring problems and hiding from them."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We should be able to finish the album today, as long as no one rings the doorbell. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "When a doorbell rings, its common for dogs to become startled, stop everything they are doing, and bark loudly: in this case, that would set a chain reaction of havoc off -- the cats would become scared of the barking and run away, etc. The recording people are confident that this is the only thing that could foil their odd plan to record this pet-band playing music."
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"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: Welcome to the greatest living room on Earth! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The slogan for the popular Ringling circus is \"The Greatest Show On Earth\", and while there is a circus ring here, instead of being a show, this ring doesn't contain any of the interesting parts of a circus like the animals or performers, and instead just exists in a living room."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Now that I met your family, I want you to meet mine. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about a man dating a fish. When couples date for a while, they often meet each-other's families. Here, the caption implies that the fish/man couple just met the fish's family in the ocean, and are perhaps on the way to meet the man's family on land. It's funny because it's a surprising framing of why a man and a fish might be leaving the water together."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Beware the hidden service charge. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A reference to the trojan horse, which enabled soldiers to sneak into a fort undetected. Much like sneaking soldiers into a fort, hotels might sneak hidden charges into room service: the soldiers have seen this trick before, and are referring to how room service can similarly be a trap."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Sorry I'm late. I hit every traffic light coming home. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the phrase \"hit every traffic light\" --- usually, \"hit\" is a figurative expression someone would say if they encountered lots of red lights at traffic stops driving home: this would cause them to be late because red lights cause drivers to stop. But here, \"hit\" takes on a literal meaning: because the giraffe is the one coming home and giraffes are tall with long necks, they literally physically hit their head on every single traffic light."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Be careful, the bald spot is slippery. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The joke is about the businessmen having an oddly nonchalant response to hell literally opening up in their office. Instead of taking this as a sign about their company or practices, they instead simply walk over the dammed souls, only commenting that one's bald head is physically slippery."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It could be a combination of things. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the term \"combination of things\" --- doctors often have difficulty finding the cause of symptoms because their causes can be caused by multiple factors, i.e., a combination of things. But here, the patient is a combination safe, which is unlocked by a literal combination."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm sorry, this is Tic-Tac-Toe—applications for Hangman are down the hall. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A stick figure, out of place in an otherwise normal office scenario, might be interviewing for the job of the stick figure from the word game \"hangman\". This building apparently offers interviews for various game roles, e.g., Tic-tac-toe."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So you're the infamous Sudsy Malone. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You're voting with your pacemaker again, Hargrove! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Criticizing someone \"voting with your heart\" means that they are not acting logically, and instead following their emotions. The boss is instead criticizing the man for \"voting with his pacemaker\"; a pacemaker is an artificial, robotic heart. This is an ironic criticism, because the man is voting in-line with the robots, and instead of his heart representing voting emotionally, his pacemaker represents voting with the interests of the robots."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: For God's sake, Dave, you're thirty-five—just use the stairs. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The romantic story of Rapunzel details two young lovers who endure significant hardship to be together: the prince must climb the princess' hair in the cover of night, etc. But here, the couple is older and more accessible to each other -- Rapunzel is \"over\" the romantic hair climbing of their past and is telling her partner to just use the stairs. A play on the trope that long-term relationships get more boring over time."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Gee, you guys really are having trouble meeting your recruitment quota! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: When they said, \"Take us to your leader.\" I don't think they meant your mother's house. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This is a joke about in-laws. Pop culture depictions of aliens often have them requesting that the first humans they make contact with take them to the leaders of humanity. The woman is driving them to her mother's house, and the man, who feels stifled by his mother-in-law, is reminding his wife that her mom isn't their all-powerful leader. It's funny that this benign concern is on his mind in light of the fact that a giant spaceship is tailing them."
}
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"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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[
{
"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: It’s the new Mustang. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the term \"mustang.\" A new mustang, in the modern world, refers to the Ford Mustang, which is a type of car. But, mustang is also a type of horse. Here, the cowboy's new mustang is an upgraded type of mechanical horse, which intersects both interpretations."
}
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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: Regime change is never easy, dear. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the phrase \"change is never easy\" --- this is a phrase that couples might say to each other to comfort them after, e.g., a family member passes, or their children move out. Here, \"regime\" is inserted, which forms the term \"regime change\", which refers to the usually violent change of governments during, e.g., revolutions. The nonchalance of the woman and the worry of the man looking at the soldiers enacting the regime change is what makes it funny."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: And for you goats—thou shalt not marry a dragon or ox. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about the incompatibility of romantic relationships according to Chinese Zodiac signs. The tablets, written in Chinese, have been passed to Moses as eternal rules, like the ten commandments. But, instead of general, eternal principles like \"do not kill\", god has humorously commanded that people with particular zodiac signs are incompatible: usually, this sort of thing is seen as just superstition, so it's funny to think god is superstitious."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You promised me you would stop after you lost your arm from that paper cut! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The person writing in the giant book only has one arm pictured, so it's plausible that the other one is lost: specifically, the joke is that this person really likes to write in a big book despite the fact that the giant pages caused a giant paper cut which caused the person's arm to entirely get cut off. This is much more damange than would be caused by a smaller paper cut from a smaller book. It's not clear why they are so intent on writing in this book, and their partner wishes they would stop before they lose their second arm."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Two thousand eyes, but it still takes you all day to read the morning paper. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A fly with many eyes presumably should be able to read a newspaper quickly, but it still can't. The woman is slightly annoyed that her bug spouse is spending all day reading the paper instead of doing something else."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Should we try that new place in the corner? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about \"on the corner\" vs. \"in the corner\" --- a \"new place on the corner\" would be a new restaurant that just opened on the corner of a city block. but here, there's a new place \"in the corner\" of the current room they are sitting in: the out-of-place food truck. It's funny to think how they could have possibly not visited this food truck before, it's literally next to them in their living room."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: How soon can you start? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The prior employee who had this job is getting violently chased out of the building and they need a replacement for him quickly; this is a metaphor for a toxic workplace. Even though the applicant might not want to work here because it's a bad job, he literally can't see how toxic the workplace is because he's facing the wrong way."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You're just like your mother. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You always get like this when there's a full Earth. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Odd/scary behaviors are said to occur during a full moon; in this case, the \"full earth\" out the window either implies that these people live in a space house, or that the house occasionally jumps into orbit. The contrast between the man's nonchalance and the woman's lucidity about the absurdity of being in space is humorous."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If we just ignore it, maybe it'll go away. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about financial collapse on wall street. Wall street has a famous statue of a bull which \"represents the courage and can-do spirit of Americans,\" but the cartoon suggests that sometimes, for the stock market crashing, a more appropriate mascot might be an ostrich hiding its head in the dirt, as a representation of ignoring problems and hiding from them."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Damn, I loved that giraffe. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People sometimes have pictures of loved ones or pets on their desk. While we can't see what's in the frame, it's very tall, and giraffes have long necks, so we assume that this man has a picture of his deceased pet giraffe on his desk. It's a funny, straightforward, but unusual explanation for the very tall picture frame."
}
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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: Have you considered writing this story in the third monkey rather than the first monkey? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Stories can be told in first person (e.g., \"I did X\") or third person (\"The character did X\"), and editors will sometimes critique this choice or offer suggestions about the writing style. But here, the monkey is writing, so instead of first/third person, the suggestion about perspective is first/third \"monkey\"."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This is what we get for walking down a dark alley before 5 p.m. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "There's a trope that young people may rob you if you walk down a dark alley at night. But, this caption suggests that if you go down before 5PM during the day old, people would rob you --- this references that old people tend to go bed early. This is funny because 1) we usually don't expect old people to be criminals (particularly these folks who look well off); and 2) the man seems quite nonchalant about the situation, accepting that it was their fault."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Can you please pass the cow? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "When drinking coffee or tea, people often add cream, and may ask others to pass it if it's on the other side of a table. But here, the mugs are huge, so instead of asking for a small cup of cream, they are asking for the entire cow, which is the appropriately-sized cream dispenser for these huge drinks."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Mind if I cut through? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Golfers sometimes cut through difficult to cross places to hit their ball as it lies, to save strokes. But here, the golfer is cutting through a very inappropriate place: an operating room. Furthermore, his \"cut through\" statement takes on a second meaning: it's as if he is asking if he can \"cut through\" the patient, as in: participate as a surgeon during the operation."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Think it over. I'm still the only one here who can use a can opener. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The giant cat has the power to kill the man, who is attempting to defend himself. His best defense: he reminds the cat that he's the only one who can open canned cat food by using a can opener. It's funny because, even though the cat is big and powerful, the point the man brings up about the cat's reliance on him is still a valid reason for the cat to not kill him."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Throw us a doughnut! Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the word \"doughnut.\" On the one hand, a doughnut is a sweet food that is often eaten with bitter coffee/teas for balance. But also, a doughnut looks like a life preserver, which is a flotation device that could be quite useful during a shipwreck, which is why the people in trouble are requesting it."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It's big and blue. You can't miss it. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A lost cowboy riding a seahorse might be looking for the ocean, which is what the other cowboy is providing directions towards. The ocean is what is big and blue, and because it's so big, it's difficult to miss. It's funny that the seahorse cowboy could find himself so far from the ocean because it would be hard to get this far without trying to."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It took us years to get somebody in the inside. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about birds being undercover agents. Law enforcement agencies and governments will often undertake long-term reconnaissance operations to infiltrate organizations they want to spy on. Here, the birds have their agent, the bird on the gun, as an inside source who will report to them the activities of the bird hunter. It's funny to think that birds could plan that long, and that they have a spy agency."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Don't move. I think I have something in my teeth. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man's balding head serves as a mirror for the woman. Instead of noticing that he might feel a bit insecure about his balding, she takes advantage of it like any other mirror: to identify food stuck in her teeth and remove it."
}
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"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Past the alligator, through the ring of fire, first door on your left. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a weird restaurant with many comical traps like the depicted alligator pit and the not pictured ring of fire. The waiter is giving directions to the customer about the extreme perils of going to the bathroom in this establishment."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We have to find a better way to record our meetings. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Meeting recordings usually happen, e.g., via note taking, via video recording, etc. The goal is to provide an exact reference of the discussion for future interested parties. But this company has humorously employed a set of parrots to listen in --- this type of bird is technically capable of repeating human speech. But, it's likely to be inefficient --- the parrots memorize and repeat incompletely and at their own discretion, and are difficult to control, defeating the point of the meeting recording."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 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."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I let my mother-in-law move in with us. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "There's a trope that an angel might be given a big halo in heaven after they die if they did a particularly selfless act in their life. Here, the above-and-beyond act was letting a mother-in-law live with him and his partner. In general, having a partner's parents move in is very hard, because the in-law may interfere with the couple's independent, day-to-day romantic relationship, and so agreeing to this is a huge sacrifice. It's funny in part because this isn't the biggest possible sacrifice in life, but is under-rated as a selfless act."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He needed a place to park his wheel. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A person might construct a garage because they want to park their car in it; but because cavemen don't have cars, the joke is that the caveman was looking for a place to park his carved wheel, which is a common trope associated with cavemen. It's funny in part because the construction of a modern garage implies technological advancement, whereas the stone wheel is primitive."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Miley’s here. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: There may be some lingering resentment. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "People sometimes hang hunting or finishing taxidermy trophies of their kills/catches on their walls. The taxidermy has come to life and bit the man who was the one who killed him. It's thus understandable that the fish (if it could come alive) would resent its killer; the man nonchalantly quips about their tenuous relationship."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You’re in luck! It's cannabis. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man has an unusual medical condition that causes plants to grow from his skin. Instead of curing him of this condition, the doctor points out that the plants are marijuana plants, which would be good either because he could sell what he grows, or he could smoke it and enjoy using drugs. A doctor that sees these upsides of his condition (rather than curing them) comes across as humorously untrustworthy."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 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: You knew your wife might remarry. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The angel is scolding the deceased man for trying to stop his mortal wife from re-marrying another person by throwing the lightning bolt at her back on earth. When people die, it's common for their spouses to get married, but this man, despite being dead, isn't comfortable with that. It's funny in part because one would think that ascending to heaven would alleviate petty, earthly concerns like jealousy, but, it didn't for this man."
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"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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"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: Well, where did you think baby grands came from? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A baby grand piano is a small type of piano: the joke is that instead of being manufactured normally, pianos actually reproduce sexually, and the \"piano farm\" is in a fancy mansion in this house."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Yes he's still out there...and he looks serious. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Suburbanites are notorious for watching for crime in their neighborhoods, and this man is doing that from his window onto his lawn. But, he sees a Moai statue and is treating it as if it were a suspicious person, e.g., expecting it to be able to move or expecting it to be dangerous. While it looks serious, unlike a person standing on the lawn who looks serious, the statue is probably not a real threat."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It just looked so uncool to wear a seat belt in the Batmobile. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A dark joke about batman dying in a car crash. We know the angel on the right is batman because the black wings are similar to accents on the batmobile, and we know he died because he's in heaven talking about how he didn't wear a seatbelt."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: So, for the record, are you a duck or a rabbit? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A shadows make a reference to a popular optical illusion depicting both a duck and a rabbit: the doctor is asking a biological question to prescribe the best care, but can't tell if he should be treating a duck or a rabbit."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I got your message. How can I help? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about a message in a bottle and who is likely to receive it. Following the common \"stranded on a desert island\" trope, the person on the island sent out a plea for help by putting a message in a bottle, and throwing it into the ocean. However, the bottle didn't make it to a city, it was received by an unhelpful whale. The whale has their heart in the right place and came to help, but ended up just crushing the person."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: My wife won't let me put one in the back yard. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Couples sometimes argue about whether or not they should add a pool to the backyard. Here, the wife said no, so instead of giving up on the pool, the husband put one in their home office. Technically, it's not in the back yard, so the husband didn't disobey his wife's request."
}
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