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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Mind if I cut through? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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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"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: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Weren't there three of you? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about the third diner falling off the roof. This odd restaurant has very few safety constraints, and has tables on the roof with no guards against falling. A waiter asking where a member of a dining party is is not unusual (e.g., if they want to wait to make sure everyone is there before taking orders), but here, it's because they fell to their death, as their dining partners looked on."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Do you want to go for L-U-N-C-H and maybe a W-A-L-K? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Dogs often learn the word \"walk\" and get excited if someone says it: so humans disguise the word by spelling it out so they don't recognize it and they don't feel guilty for not taking them on a walk in the moment. Here, the humans want to go to lunch separate from their co-worker dogs, so are spelling out the word lunch to not invite them."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: There goes my novel. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about Moby Dick; in the famous novel, the main character Ahab (represented by the seated man) is on an obsessive quest to kill a whale named Moby Dick who bit his leg off. The novel is written from the perspective of the sailor Ishmael, who is in the background talking. But here, Ahab gets a cat, and plays with it instead of obsessing over the whale. Ishmael's laments about how his plan to write the novel Moby Dick has been derailed by the cat, Ahab's new hobby."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I smell a horse. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrase \"I smell a rat\" --- a \"rat\" in the figurative mobster context refers to a police informant that has infiltrated the group. Instead of a figurative rat, here, the mob boss smells a literal horse, which is behind him. Humorously, the horse (whose disguise is only a pair of sunglasses) is indeed a figurative rat, because it's affiliated with the police --- there's a cop overtly riding on it, and it's wearing a police outfit."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You wouldn't believe it! I met a man at the pet store. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "\"Meeting someone\" in everyday situations like a pet store is how many romantic relationships start. However, here, the woman on the phone actually bought a small pet man at the store."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He's always had his head in the clouds, but THIS ??? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"head in the clouds\" --- usually, this is a figurative expression to describe a dreamer, an absent minded person, etc. But here, the person outside the plane not only is absent minded, but also, literally has his heads in the clouds by virtue of standing on a cloud at cruising altitude for the plane."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: He's been on that same story for hours. I'm beginning to think he can't read. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A surprisingly nonchalant response to a giant rat reading a newspaper in these people's living room. Instead of pointing out the number of odd things about the situation, the relatively benign \"he can't read\" is what is worrying the woman, which is funny, because obviously, rats can't read."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Now who's laughing all the way. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A reference to the song \"Jingle Bells\" --- in that song, humans are riding in a sleigh being pulled by animals, \"laughing all the way\" to their destination as the animals work to pull them. This cartoon flips the holiday song on it's head: the reindeer have taken over and are now the ones laughing, instead of santa, the human."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Free will is overrated. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "This couple looks normal, except for the fact that they are controllable like marionettes using the lines attached to them. They seem happy: they enjoy being controlled (by an unknown puppeteer) and having no free will. This joke plays on the idea that free will has downsides: making decisions can be difficult."
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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: Anyone have an objection? Please? Anyone? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The man doesn't want to get married as much as the woman does: she's clinging to him while he looks horrified. When people get married, officiants ask the crowd if there are any objections, and the man is hoping someone raises one. It's funny because the man could stop the marriage of his own accord, but is too afraid of his partner to do it."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I didn't get it at first either, then it hits you. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on words. Modern art is hard to understand at first but a revelation about the meaning of the work could figuratively \"hit you\" after some time. But here, the deer are literally \"hit\" by a vehicle on a highway, where they would be standing if they were looking at these signs outside of the gallery."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You two seem oddly suited. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Two people being \"oddly suited\" usually means that their personalities are surprisingly compatible, despite having many differences. But here, they are literally \"oddly suited,\" i.e., they are wearing odd suits for a party (diving suit, space suit)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This part of the job is easy—it's the whoopee-cushion testing that annoys me. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The joke is about people who have the weird job of quality assurance testing of novelty items like nose/glass disguises and whoopee-cushions. This caption surprisingly implies that all of these items are made in the same factory."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm just saying, after this haircut, it's difficult to trust you. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about precision with sharp objects. Here, the archer apparently gave this person their haircut, and they think it's ugly. They are planning to shoot an apple off the other person's head, which requires deft coordination with a sharp object, i.e., the arrow. But the person with the haircut doesn't trust their capacity with sharp objects, because the scissors used to cut their hair weren't used skillfully, as the haircut turned out ugly."
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"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: He needed a place to park his wheel. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A person might construct a garage because they want to park their car in it; but because cavemen don't have cars, the joke is that the caveman was looking for a place to park his carved wheel, which is a common trope associated with cavemen. It's funny in part because the construction of a modern garage implies technological advancement, whereas the stone wheel is primitive."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 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: 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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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Which kid do you want? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about a man keen to get divorced. In addition to eagerly building a brick wall to separate himself from his spouse, he is wasting no time to ask questions about custody that would normally be really tricky to answer. Bluntly: he's so excited about the divorce that he simply asks which kid she wants, which isn't even how custody usually works."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 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: They call it kitsch and release. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the term \"catch and release\", which refers to the process of returning fish to the water after a fisherman catches them. Catch sounds like \"kitsch\", which refers to objects with poor aesthetics, but are ironically appreciated: such an object would be a mounted game fish (or the even kitschier, Big Mouth Billy Bass toy), which one of the fish has been transformed into by the fisherman instead of just catch-and-releasing him."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I see our time is almost up. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A dark joke about a weird therapist's office that is located on the subway tracks. \"Time being up\" is a usual way for a therapist to end a session, but in this case, \"time almost up\" refers to them getting hit by the train and perhaps dying."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You were with Ringling Brothers? I was with Lehman Brothers. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about the 2008 financial crisis: both the clown and the bartender were fired and worked for \"Brothers\" --- the Ringling Brothers (a circus company) for the clown, and \"Lehman Brothers\" (an investment bank) for the bartender. The similarity of the names and their intersecting sad stories makes the situation unusual and funny."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: There goes my novel. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about Moby Dick; in the famous novel, the main character Ahab (represented by the seated man) is on an obsessive quest to kill a whale named Moby Dick who bit his leg off. The novel is written from the perspective of the sailor Ishmael, who is in the background talking. But here, Ahab gets a cat, and plays with it instead of obsessing over the whale. Ishmael's laments about how his plan to write the novel Moby Dick has been derailed by the cat, Ahab's new hobby."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Listen, Satan, can I call you back? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Adam and eve, when they were kicked out of the garden of eden, sided with satan's temptation; in this case, adam is literally talking on a cell phone to satan, which unusual/humorous for the literal beginning of time."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This suit looked way better in the store. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Sometimes, clothes you try on in a store look better when you are deciding to buy them or not. Here, the idea is taken to the extreme: the person in the diving suit bought the \"suit\" without even noticing it was a diving suit (and looks out of place for the party)/"
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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: 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: Your tattoo escaped. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A surreal joke about a tattoo coming to life. People sometimes get dragon tattoos --- if such tattoos could come to life, that would offer a reasonable explanation for how this enormous dragon could be in this pool. The nonchalance of the statement makes it funnier --- as if tattoos escaping like this happens often."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, you come in on four. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the phrases \"come in\" and \"four\" --- if a marching band were practicing their routine, they would probably discuss particular beats on which instruments \"come in,\" or join the piece (e.g., \"on [beat] four\"). But in an elevator talking to the person trying to literally \"come in\" to the elevator, on \"four\" refers to floor four: the phrase would mean that the person shouldn't enter the elevator on the current floor because it's not the fourth floor."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your slogan should be 'Rest assured. My wife will do it.' Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The man, Walter Gruenby, is planning to run for political office, but he's very lazy (indicated by his relaxing in the yard), compared to his wife. While the man has aspirations of political grandeur, his wife retorts by saying she does everything for him, including potentially doing all of his political work, and he should thus change his slogan. A play on the idea that wives do everything and husbands do very little."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You’re in luck! It's cannabis. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The man has an unusual medical condition that causes plants to grow from his skin. Instead of curing him of this condition, the doctor points out that the plants are marijuana plants, which would be good either because he could sell what he grows, or he could smoke it and enjoy using drugs. A doctor that sees these upsides of his condition (rather than curing them) comes across as humorously untrustworthy."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 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: One of us is about to die. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "The fish can't breathe in the air and the birds can't breathe underwater. The joke plays on the ambiguity of the situation because it's not clear whether this scene is taking place under water (the bird will die) or in the air (the fish will die)."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I bet the bride of Frankenstein gets to cuddle. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"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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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Anything to declare? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "\"Anything to declare\" is a question asked by customs at airports. Heaven's gates are adorned with barbed wire, implying that, oddly, heaven has as high of security as international borders. It's funny because one might assume heaven would be free of worldly security concerns, but apparently not."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This is the most advanced case of Surrealism I've seen. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "Surrealism is an art style which focuses on incongruent, impossible, and unnerving scenes; here, that art movement is repurposed as a disease --- and if someone was infected with surrealism, in the advanced stages, their body might separate in similarly impossible/un-nerving ways like impossibly having a separated head, torso, and legs."
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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: Both the movie and I will be released this summer. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A play on the word \"release\" --- to release a movie means to allow public showings of it, e.g., in theaters. This actress stared in a movie that will be released this summer, according to her respond to the talk show host. But \"release\" in this case also refers to a release from prison --- the actress has apparently committed a crime and her sentence ends also in the summer."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Five hundred billion galaxies and nothing’s on. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about not being able to find a TV show to watch. Sometimes, people will complain that there's nothing interesting on TV, despite there being many channels available. But here, the entire galaxy is in their living room (as a stand-in for the multitude of channels). It's funny because the scale of the options they have is the entire universe, and yet, they are bored by it all."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I say we start the meeting without him. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "It's a common annoyance to wait for the final person to join a meeting before starting. These people look like they have waited an extremely long time for the final person, so long that they are sleeping and setting up camp; they finally after an absurd about of time decide to do the meeting without him."
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"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your meal came with a toy? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "For humans, popular fast food chains often give children toys with their meals, e.g., the Happy Meal from McDonalds. But for dinosaurs, the meals are humans --- and the dinosaur on the right ate a human with a hat (i.e., the \"toy\"), whereas the human the dinosaur on the left ate didn't come with a toy (i.e., wasn't wearing a hat)."
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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: Well, don't put it on the menu if you can't catch one. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A snooty diner at a restaurant might complain that an item shouldn't be on the menu if the supply has ran out. Here, the employee of the restaurant is a bear, so instead of the complaint being about running out of inventory bought from a supplier, the complaint is about running of out fish because the bear couldn't catch one in the river. It's funny partly because, if a bear were to work at a restaurant, catching fresh fish might be a reasonable job because they do that in the wild regularly."
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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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"role": "assistant",
"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: I guarantee he brings up the whole discovering-fire thing within the first five minutes. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
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"content": "A joke about how couples sometimes gossip. While the wives are friends, the men in these two couples are apparently in a bit of a feud -- one built an impressive tower, whereas, the other invented fire. The tower builder is jealous of the fire inventor, and worries he'll bring up his invention immediately. It's funny in part because spouses sometimes have to put up with their partner's friends, even though they don't like them."
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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."
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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: 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: Yes, but just a couple of meads, probably more than an hour ago. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "After a car accident, police officers might ask whether or not people involved in the accident had been drinking alcohol. Here, the jouster is being questioned about his potential alcohol impairment because he accidentally jousted a car (as evidenced by the car door). But because he's a jouster from medieval times, he has been drinking mead instead of a more modern beverage."
}
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"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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[
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"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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[
{
"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."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Your insurance company got back to us. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about the inadequacy of some insurance plans --- the joke is that some plans don't cover many procedures and the resulting medical bills can be significant. The \"NO\" from the company was so strong, that the paper literally caught on fire."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Hi Hon. Can you meet me at the hospital in about ten minutes? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The man on the phone is pre-planning his own hospital visit. This is unusual, because one would think that he would be focused on avoiding injury from the currently-occuring situation instead of, in a surprisingly carefree and cheerful manner, telling his friend to meet him at the hospital."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, just hear him out. Maybe we are being too defensive. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the word \"defensive\" --- in the football context, playing \"too defensive\" might mean a team might not be trying to take control and push offensively on the field. But, for a therapist, being \"too defensive\" refers to a psychological frame of denial, which can stop people from mentally moving past their problems. It's funny partly because strong, manly football players are the sort of people one might expect to be too emotionally defensive."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: We never should have sold those air rights, Ed. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The couple on the bottom apparently sold the air rights above their property, not realizing that whoever they sold the rights two would be able to construct an entire parallel house/property above them. The people on the bottom have a more cramped property now that their vertical neighbors live so close. It's funny in part because of the contrast between the benign/everyday nature of legal concerns vs. the whimsical idea that an upside-down house could be constructed."
}
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[
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"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\"."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I hate the way corporate thinking has taken over surfing, man. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "It's a funny contrast between the way one might expect corporations to take over surfing versus the way that they are depicted to be doing so. We might imagine a disconnected corporations soullessly promoting surfing products to make profits. But instead, the takeover involves businesspeople literally surfing, which is technically a takeover, but isn't as \"corporate\" in the cultural sense."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: If all goes well, we'll get them back after the audit. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This company has done some extremely shady financial activities, so much so, that external auditors have comically taken away even their clothing. It's funny to think of a shareholder meeting for a company that's doing so obviously badly, and yet, they are happy to do their best and continue with the presentation naked."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: You were right—putting him on commission changed his attitude. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A \"bull in a china shop\" refers to someone who is not careful and breaks things in situations that require care. In this case, the literal bull has surprisingly reformed to be more careful simply by changing occupations within the store."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Once tax season is over, you can go back to being the only child. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Your taxes can be reduced in the US if you have children: by claiming more dependents on your tax return, you get to pay less to the government, which everyone tries to do. Here, the man is humorously bending the tax rules by treating the family dog as a human child to save tax money. The human child is not happy about it, but the parent assures the kid that it's only for tax season that they need to do this charade."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: This is the most advanced case of Surrealism I've seen. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Surrealism is an art style which focuses on incongruent, impossible, and unnerving scenes; here, that art movement is repurposed as a disease --- and if someone was infected with surrealism, in the advanced stages, their body might separate in similarly impossible/un-nerving ways like impossibly having a separated head, torso, and legs."
}
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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Any final thoughts? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A therapist might say \"any final thoughts\" prior to a session ending, but here, \"final thoughts\" refers to death. The therapist is a bit late to ask about these though, because her client has died and is in a coffin. It's funny in part because she seems to not have noticed yet, despite looking intently directly at it."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I'm just saying, after this haircut, it's difficult to trust you. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about precision with sharp objects. Here, the archer apparently gave this person their haircut, and they think it's ugly. They are planning to shoot an apple off the other person's head, which requires deft coordination with a sharp object, i.e., the arrow. But the person with the haircut doesn't trust their capacity with sharp objects, because the scissors used to cut their hair weren't used skillfully, as the haircut turned out ugly."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 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: 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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[
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Not a commandment. Just a suggestion. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A joke about overbearing parents --- moses received commandments from god. But here, in addition to the commandments, god suggests moses wear a sweater; \"don't forget to bring a sweater\" is a common thing an overbearing parent might suggest to a child. It's funny partly because of the contrast between the eternal truths of the ten commandments versus the gentle suggestion to wear a sweater."
}
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"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I just don't care that much about Medicare anymore. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "US politicians constantly argue about whether or not the government should provide healthcare (medicare) or not --- the debate has been going on for decades, so long, that the utility of the debate for this politician is no longer. He has literally died and gone to heaven, and while he's still doing political campaigns, the issue isn't as pressing post-death because healthcare isn't needed for those who have already died."
}
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"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."
}
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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: Really God, you worry too much. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The giant hand belongs to god, and the doctor (who looks rather bored) is telling god that his health is fine. This is unusual because presumably, god wouldn't be prone to mortal health problems and wouldn't need a doctor/wouldn't worry about this sort of thing."
}
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[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Great, now they all want a scarf. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The woman knitted a single scarf (which probably took a long time) for one snowman; that snowman apparently told all of their snowman friends about it and they all want one. However, it's unlikely she'll be able to make so many before they melt in spring because kitting as a hobby isn't fast enough to produce at a mass scale. The caption is her regret about the kind act of making one snowman one scarf."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Well, if it isn't the Gym Reaper. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the term \"grim reaper\" --- who is an iconic character with robes and a scythe representing death. Here, \"gym\" sounds like \"grim\", and the \"gym reaper\" at the door has similar characteristics to the grim reaper (sythe, robes), but is dressed in workout clothing like tennis shoes and sweat pants that one might wear at a gym."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: She got it in the divorce. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Batman would only take the subway if he didn't have access to the batmobile. In this situation, the onlooking man notices that, and batman insecurely retorts that he lost the iconic car in a divorce settlement. It's funny to think that batman has everyday concerns like divorce settlements."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Apparently, even the Fantastic Four can feel the pinch of the recession. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The diners are implying that the Fantastic Four had to get a job running a restaurant to make money during an economic downturn: the long arm is that of Reed Richards, a superhero with the ability to stretch his body. The contrast between superheros saving people vs. working in a kitchen during hard times is what makes this funny."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I feel a vibration. Can you call my cell phone again? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A surreal joke about a man attempting to locate his cell phone that has been eaten by an alligator. While it's not clear how the alligator ate the phone, to locate it, he's asking his assistant to remotely activate the vibration feature via calling it. The vibration can help him locate the phone because, while the sound might be dampened, he can feel through the skin/stomach its location."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Cancel the molten lava cake. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This odd restaurant serves dishes that are dangerous natural disasters, like the depicted tornado/hurricane soup. If this restaurant were to serve a lava cake (usually: a benign gooey chocolate cake), we can imagine that it would consist of actual molten lava which would be dangerous. The diner looks displeased with these natural disaster disruptions to his meal."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Now who's laughing all the way. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A reference to the song \"Jingle Bells\" --- in that song, humans are riding in a sleigh being pulled by animals, \"laughing all the way\" to their destination as the animals work to pull them. This cartoon flips the holiday song on it's head: the reindeer have taken over and are now the ones laughing, instead of santa, the human."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Who has the floor? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the term \"has the floor\" --- a phrase that figuratively means \"who has the right to speak right now in this meeting\". But here, the question is literal: the meeting has no floor, and so the person is asking literally who took it."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: No, what I said was we need more stakeholders. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"Stakeholders\" sounds like \"snakeholders\": stakeholders would be a normal office request, but the two people holding a snake have surprised their boss by becoming literal snakeholders instead."
}
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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."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Can't wait to see the look on his face when we put these back on the tree. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Aliens are often portrayed as all-powerful beings who have technology far beyond human capacity. These aliens have the capacity to beam up leaves to their spaceship, and even to put them back onto the tree as if they never fell. While they have amazing technology, they still indulge in the low-class activity of pranks, which is surprising."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: 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."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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{
"role": "user",
"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: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"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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{
"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: Well, after you beheaded the groundskeeper, we had to go with something low-maintenance. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The king doesn't like the cacti decorating his throne room, but cacti are low-maintenance plants that don't require a lot of water, and grow easily. They had to switch to low-maintenance plants because he had the groundskeeper killed so there wasn't anyone to take care of the plants, but it seems like he regrets this decision."
}
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"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Yes, but just a couple of meads, probably more than an hour ago. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "After a car accident, police officers might ask whether or not people involved in the accident had been drinking alcohol. Here, the jouster is being questioned about his potential alcohol impairment because he accidentally jousted a car (as evidenced by the car door). But because he's a jouster from medieval times, he has been drinking mead instead of a more modern beverage."
}
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"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."
}
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Isn't this the same guy who got shipwrecked in our wading pool? Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A man who gets lost in a sandbox as if he were stranded in the desert, as depicted, is not so bright because it's difficult to put oneself in a dire situation within a benign children's play area. The kids refer to another analogous situation when the same man put himself in a dire situation (shipwreck) within a benign children's play area (wading pool)."
}
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"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: 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: 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: 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."
}
] | |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: Sure, I’ve got a few minutes to kill. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: "
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "A play on the term \"a few minutes to kill\" --- this is an expression that someone might say when they are not in a rush; if the person at the bar was a normal person, this would mean that they would be happy to have a beer. Here, because death is at the bar \"a few minutes to kill\" means that death has a few minutes available to literally kill someone during."
}
] |