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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Oh, shit! What if your sister-in-law is also right about God?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "One of the hiker's sister in law believed in bigfoot, which turned out to be correct --- the hikers spotted the mythical creature. But, the sister also believes in god --- so this occurrence has made both hikers question whether or not god is real too." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: He's done.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the word \"done\" --- to be \"done\" in a restaurant context usually means to be finished eating. But here, \"done\" refers to the chef's literal death, so instead of the customers being finished eating, the chef is done living, i.e., dead." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Is it weird that we have a pet?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The bird family has a moment of self-awareness when they realize their pet bird is weird, because it's also a bird, like them. Humans, for instance, don't have human pets, so why would birds have bird pets?" } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Yes, they're new shoes, but it's no one you know.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The shoes are made of alligator leather. The person is ensuring his pet alligator that he wouldn't make shoes out of him or his friends." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I wish I had those knees.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about old folks and body envy --- sometimes, people will see other people with physical characteristics they want and say/think \"I wish I had those legs/arms/abs/etc.\". But here, the old people are envious of a crash test dummy's knees, so the request comes across as one for a prosthetic knee replacement rather than something aesthetic." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: My bedroom? That’s where the sleep happens.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Sometimes, people will make a light sexual reference by saying \"the bedroom is where the magic happens\". But here, prior to saying this caption, the person probably said \"my living room is where the magic happens\" in a literal sense. Underwhelmingly, this eccentric person only uses his bedroom for sleep." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I'll let go of the stick when you let go of the stick.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Both dogs are wearing Elizabethan collars while facing each-other, so we can't see what they are doing. The caption implies that they are playing tug of war over a stick --- the stick is in both of their mouths. It's funny because the caption paints a vivid picture of what's happening, but it's obscured, so it requires visual imagination." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: No one crosses the Pirates of Penn Station.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "\"Penn Station\" sounds like \"Caribbean\" --- here, a person is being made to walk the plank in a subway station, which is a punishment enacted by this group of pirates (of Penn Station, a popular subway station in New York City). There are no pirates in Penn Station, but it works because \"Pirates of Penn Station\" sounds like \"Pirates of the Caribbean,\" a popular film franchise." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Of course—we wait forever, then two come at the same time.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Trains in New York City are notoriously late/in-optimally scheduled. Here, the backpackers have been waiting in the woods for the trains (instead of a station), but even in absurd case, the trains are still poorly scheduled and two show up at once." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Maybe we should do the firings in the basement?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A dark joke about a company that fires people in an office on the roof. The implication is that someone was fired and jumped off the building in despair. The tonedeaf company only now realizes that firing people on a roof is a bad idea because of this." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Check to see if it's still raining.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The umbrella is so big that the people holding it can't tell if it's raining or not because they are physically so far from the edge of the umbrella, which would make it hard to see that far." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I never know what to pack.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "This is an absurd joke about the difficulty of packing for trips: the man is not a good planner, and so he, in a surreal fashion, has packed live fish and water instead of useful, normal things like clothes." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: The doctor says I have only three months to party.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Doctors sometimes give prognoses of \"three months to live\"; but, while this person may have received such a prognosis, they are more concerned about their \"three months to party\", as evidenced by the beer helmet they are wearing in their hospital bed." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: It's amazing to think he started out in the lobby.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "\"Starting in the lobby\" usually would refer to a someone who climbed the entire corporate ladder starting as a low-level employee like a secretary in the lobby. But here, the plant is the boss; lobbies of office buildings often have decorations like this, so, like a human could, the plant also started in the lobby." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: He really did appoint Chris Christie as Secretary of Transportation.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke poking fun at Chris Christie's weight and also the double meaning of \"subway\" (as transport, and as a type of sandwich) --- because Christie is an overweight politician, the joke is that if Christie were the secretary of transportation, he would replace the subway in new york with a literal subway sandwich." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Quit joking, you guys, and grab my legs again.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A turtle flying in the air with geese (as depicted) is impossible, unless the geese and the turtle were friends, and the geese were carrying the turtle. That's what's implied by what the turtle is saying: that the picture shows a brief moment where the geese let the turtle go as a joke, and the turtle is about to fall." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: You the Ponzi varmint that lost our nest egg?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A reference to Charles Ponzi, the namesake of the \"Ponzi scheme\", which is a failed scam investment. Ponzi is at the desk watching profits go down, and the country folks whose money he was playing with are at the door and want answers for where their money is. A reference to how big city bankers play fast and loose with the investments of people who they will never know or meet." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: My name is Gary, and I'll be annoying you.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about performers playing for guests of a restaurant while they are eating. Performers like the man with the tuba will sometimes enter restaurants and perform, in the hopes that the guests will leave them tips; however, most people find their performances annoying. Here, the person says \"and I'll be annoying you\" tonight, which is similar to what a waiter would say, \"and I'll be serving you\" tonight; but the role they play isn't serving food, it's playing music. It's funny in part because of how up-front they are about their potential annoyance." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: We uncoupled.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the word \"uncoupled\" --- for trains, uncoupling cars is to disconnect them physically. But here, \"uncoupled\" refers to a romantic breakup. The train is crying because the physical disconnection of a train car was with a train car they were in love with." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: You're in luck. A slot for you just opened up in our kitchen.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the word \"slot\" --- for employment, a \"slot opening up\" would figuratively refer to a job opening that a candidate could fill. But here, the candidate is a piece of bread, and the \"slot\" is a literal slot, as in a vertical toaster." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Your sins are forgiven, but not your co-pay.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Catholic confessionals involve priests listening and forgiving the sins of churchgoers --- in this case, the confessional is an MRI machine, which costs a lot of money to use. The play on words is: the persons sins are forgiven by the priest, but the priest cant \"forgive\" (i.e., cancel) the copay medical cost." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Try the stairs. This takes an eternity.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The people in the flames are in Hell, i.e., eternal damnation. But they are also in an elevator shaft, and elevators are sometimes slow, and said to \"take an eternity.\" The nonchalance of the dammed souls is funny: despite their predicament, they calmly recommend the stairs because the \"hell elevator\" just takes too long (an eternity)." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: And tomorrow, I'll teach you how to build a nest.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A surreal joke about a man learning how to be a bird. The bird has somehow convinced him that today, he will learn how to fly, and tomorrow, he will learn how to build a nest. This bird teacher perhaps doesn't realize that people can't fly and the man will probably die if he tries to fly, so there won't be a tomorrow to teach him how to build a nest." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I'd divorce you, but we need the firewood.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A refernce to a scene from the movie Annie Hall. In the movie, the line goes: \"My brother thinks he's a chicken\" ... \"But we need the eggs\"; here, the husband think's he's a tree, but, surprisingly, he actually is a tree, and the wife mirrors the line from the movie: they need the firewood." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Don't worry, it's just a front.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on words: to \"put up a front\" means to pretend to be someone you're not --- in this case, a tough person. \"A front\" can also refer to a weather front, where pressure differentials lead to storms. The clouds are both a weather front and are putting up a front of toughness--- the people aren't worried because the clouds are just posturing and the storm won't be that bad." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I am pleased to announce that Dopey will be leaving us to pursue a career as White House Chief of Staff.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A political joke about bad cabinet selections. When a president is newly elected, they select people for particular jobs in their administration, but here, the president has selected \"dopey\", one of the dumbest seven dwarfs from Snow White, to be the chief of staff. Such a president is probably not intelligent themselves, hence, this is a jab at them." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Your priors are going to be a problem.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The defense attorney is warning Death that his prior criminal record is going to be a problem. Usually, for sentencing, a lawyer will discuss a client's prior record and lay out how that might affect their sentence. But here, death has literally killed every single human in history, and if he were humorously on trial, his sentence might be quite severe." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Your card's been declined.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A surprisingly underwhelming message delivered by someone jumping out of a large novelty cake. People will sometimes order \"pop out cakes\" that contain people that jump out to deliver a surprise message, e.g., \"happy birthday\", or \"congrats on retirement\". Here, the cake was ordered, but the payment didn't go through, so instead of delivering the positive message, the person jumping out of the cake delivers the far more underwhelming message that the cake still needs to be paid for. It's funny in part because the cake provider ruined the cake to deliver this message, when they could have informed the buyer in a more straightforward manner." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: This is why I hate cross-country skiing.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the term \"cross-country\" --- in skiing terms, this refers to a particular type of skiing over long distance, flat areas. However, these skiiers are literally going \"cross-country\" as in, trying to ski across the country, including its deserts, which are not possible to ski in." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I didn't mean your day wasn't hard, too.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Couples sometimes compare/bicker about how hard their work days were --- here, the cow and bull are a couple. The cow is pouting because the bull isn't sympathetic about the her day, but the bull's day really does seem harder because, as evidenced by the swords stabbed in its back, it was in a bullfight. It's funny not only because the animals are having a stereotypical couple conversation, but also because the cow doesn't really seem to care about the swords, which mirrors emotional disconnectedness of human couples fighting." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Every night, when I try to sleep, I can't stop thinking about work.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about \"counting sheep\" --- this is a method people use to calm down and fall asleep. But for herding dogs, counting sheep is literally part of their job, and so, this activity might cause them to stress about work, which is the opposite of the intent of the action of counting sleep before bed." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I prefer his later jumps.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the phrase \"I prefer his later works\" --- this is often said of famous artists with careers long enough that it justifies preferences over different parts of time. But here, it's \"later jumps\" --- in reference to the idea that the work of art is actually the skydiving statues." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I have to say, I'm not a big fan of cloud computing.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the words \"cloud computing\" --- usually, cloud computing refers to a type of computing that takes place in a figurative cloud, i.e., a cluster of computers located offsite accessible through the internet. But here, the parachuter is using a computer in the literal clouds, and is looking like he is having a lot of trouble doing so." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Maybe this thing isn't a compass.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The two stranded people are lost in the desert: the suggestion is that they didn't realize that a watch (which has rotating hands, causing them to go in circles endlessly) wasn't a compass (which points consistently). Watches and compasses look similar physically, so it's humorous to think that someone could mistake the two." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Not so fun when you're the one being charged, is it?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the word \"charged\". Generally, bulls charge towards bull fighters in the bullring, sometimes causing injury to the person. But, here the person is charging the bull in a legal sense with a lawsuit, likely related to the literal physical charging the fighter endured in the ring." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Tell my 1:30 things got way gnarly.... Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A playful joke that plays upon people's desire to not work. The boss, who is usually assumed to be the most serious about work, on a whim cancels his 1:30 meeting to go surfing because the waves look good. The employees are surprised by their boss' willingness to drop everything and go surfing." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: See Spot run. See Spot run. Who wrote this crap?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The reading dog is leveraging a surprisingly sophisticated criticism of the book See Spot Run (about a dog Spot). Dogs cant read, and so the idea that one not only can this one read, but also, it can know that \"see spot run\" is a simple/boring story with an childishly simplistic depiction of its life is funny." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I was hoping for eternal rest.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "\"Eternal rest\" is a phrase that refers to death. Here, the dead people are in heaven, but instead of getting a literal rest in the afterlife, humorously, the transportation in heaven is bicycles, which require physical work to use. The people were promised \"eternal rest\" before dying, but after dying, are unable to physically rest because they have to pedal their bikes." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I am from Doctors Without Offices.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the term \"Doctors Without Borders,\" which is a popular humanitarian organization that focuses on providing medical care around the world --- instead of being a doctor with that organization, this doctor is without an office because he is treating his patient walking on the street; so, he is from the silly but similar sounding \"Doctors Without Offices\"." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Not the return to inside dining I was expecting.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, people weren't allowed to eat inside restaurants because the virus spread through the air. When restrictions lifted, there was a return to indoor dining. But these folks have returned to inside a whale's stomach, which is an unexpected and absurd way of returning indoors." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: As long as it has 4 wheels, 2 headlights and 1 steering wheel, we're happy.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A weird joke about someone giving birth to a car in a hospital. Often, people hope that their babies don't have major birth defects, but don't care about other facets like gender. Here, the potential birth defects (e.g., 3 wheels) are car related." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I faked my applause.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Sometimes people will fake orgasms when having sex with someone, and then confess after. But here, the politician in bed is humorously confessing not that they faked an orgasm, but that the applause in the background of their speech was faked." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Unless you want a very long ride in a very small car, I suggest you start talking.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about what would happen if a clown were a \"bad cop\" in an investigation, using threats to get information/a confession. A threat that a clown might use is not a \"long ride\" (i.e., prolonged interrogation while driving) in a normal cop car, but a long ride in a clown car, which are very small. The phrase \"very long ride in a very small car\" has a nice symmetry to it that sounds threatening." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: The gravy boat is docked at the wharf.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A \"gravy boat\" is a special serving dish used for gravy during thanksgiving: it is normal sized, i.e., less than a foot long. But, the turkey here is giant, and so to get gravy for it, you might need a literal \"gravy boat\", i.e., a full sized boat filled with gravy (which according to this butcher is docked at the wharf)." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: You both know Jane. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A reference to Jane Goodall. Goodall is a scientist who is famous for studying chimpanzees, as represented by the ape at the party. This party is likely a scientific conference on biology, but the unusual part is that the subject of the study, the chimp, is invited. Both the peer scientist and the chimpanzee know Goodall, but for different reasons." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Row v. Wave.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on \"Row v. Wade\", a supreme court case which established a woman's right to access abortions. Here, the wave looks like Donald Trump, a conservative politician who is attempting to overturn row v. wade so women can't legally access abortions. And, the public in the boat who support a woman's right to choose are literally rowing a boat against the wave. So both \"Row\" and \"Wave\" have double meanings." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Yeah, yeah—and I invented the ticket.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Cavemen invited the wheel, and the caveman is using this as rationale for why he shouldn't get a speeding ticket. The officer isn't buying that the caveman invented the wheel, and responds sarcastically that he invented the ticket (while giving the caveman the speeding ticket)." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Where do the voices tell you to go?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about how a self-driving car might be commanded by voices of users of that car. People, particularly with schizophrenia, might go to therapists to help manage voices they hear. But the car isn't schizophrenic --- people are literally giving it verbal commands of what to do, which makes the idea of it getting therapy for the voices funny because we know the car isn't hallucinating." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Remember that time you made me laugh and people came out of my nose?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If a human laughs while drinking a liquid like water or milk, the liquid can come out of their nose. Here, the monsters are not consuming liquids, rather, they are eating a whole city, so instead of water/milk coming out, one of the monsters is recalling a time people came out of its nose. Because this occurrence can be embarrassing to the person who has stuff coming out of their nose unless they are in very close company, the dinosaurs may also be close friends or old romantic partners, which makes the quip cute." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Why do I wonder at times whether you are fully honest with me, Henry?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about a spouse whose distrust of their partner seems justifiable. If the man was cheating on the woman (or doing some other nefarious activity), there might be some subtle signs of him being disloyal. But here, the cue is comically obvious: he is coming home entirely naked; even the house dog can see that he's acting suspicious. The joke is a indirect way of saying that Henry, the husband, is clearly not trustworthy." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Does he know why we invited him to the barbecue?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If a cow were to be invited by humans to a barbecue, it wouldn't be to hang out and swim in the pool, as the cow is doing: it would be to be killed and eaten, e.g., as hamburgers. The caption questions whether or not the relaxing cow understands that he's in serious danger of being turned into food." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Honey? The baby's outsmarted me again.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It's sometimes difficult to get babies to sleep at night --- this parent was trying to make their baby sleep, but somehow, the baby tricked them into putting on the baby's pajamas and made the parent get into the crib, accomplishing the baby's goal of not sleeping. It's funny to think how intelligent the baby would need to be to pull this off. Also, based on the parent's message over the baby monitor to their partner, apparently this isn't the first time this has happened." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: It's time that child went on a diet.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Children often jump in pools in a cannonball position to cause waves. Usually, the waves aren't this big, which implies the kid cannonballing is so big that they caused a big wave rather than a small splash. The parents seated by the pool are thinking that this is a good indication that their kid needs to lose weight by going on a diet." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Why did you think angels had wings?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The angels are sitting on eggs, like chickens. In this situation, the older angel is explaining that the reason angels have wings is that they reproduce like birds, i.e., they raise eggs by nesting with them. This is surprising because usually angels are thought of as heightened forms of humans, and wings are seen as an empowering addition. But here, the angels have to raise eggs, and the younger angel seems disappointed by this." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Last internship I was a coatrack.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about bad internship jobs taken to an extreme. These two interns act doing the menial task of holding in/out paperwork, which could easily be accomplished by a simple file folder or shelf. Accordingly, another job that could be done by a human that's usually done by an inanimate object is holding up clothes like a coatrack. It's funny to think of how bad these people's internships are, which plays on the thankless nature of real internships in the real world." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: They do say results will vary.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The woman is surprisingly dismissive of her partner's extreme side effects from taking a hair growth medication. Usually, for such a medicine, \"results may vary\" is a hedge against hair not regrowing stated in commercials (like the one they are watching for the medication) --- but here, the surprising outcome is that the hair grew too much all over the man's body." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Looks like you're already familiar with the side effects.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The side effect of this man's prescription drug is that it turns him into a centaur. This funny part is how nonchalant the pharmacist is about this side effect: her response is as if she sees this very unusual side effect quite regularly, and it's not a big deal. Apparently, the only action required is to be familiar with the side effect, as if it were a more benign one like drowsiness." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I assume this is one of your easier assignments.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about the risks of old-time construction labor. Death incarnate has been assigned to work on the empire state building construction with the other employees. While this is a difficult work assignment for the others, this is an \"easy assignment\" for Death because people die regularly on this construction site by falling." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: What makes you think you were not our first choice?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Jobs sometimes make offers to top choice candidates before others. Here, the boss has literally lined up his preferences in chairs in front of his desk: the person at the back of the line is the only one remaining and has figured out that he was the last choice. This is a play on the feeling of not being wanted by an employer, and them not being forthcoming with the idea that others were preferable (but didn't join)." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Sorry about your garage. We're having him declawed tomorrow.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "People often declaw their cats to make them less good at scratching: this person's cat is enormous and destroyed a garage. It's funny for two reasons: 1) it's not clear that declawing a giant cat would have saved the garage, so the remedy isn't meaningful; and 2) the man is very nonchalant about his pet wreaking havoc in his neighborhood." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: My agent says it will be worth a lot more after I’m dead.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about the work of artists becoming more valuable after they die, which is a common trope. Here, the agent is the one in the suit; he is correct that cavepaintings are probably worth a lot in the modern world. It's funny because while the trope applies to the modern world, it's humorous to think of the cave-people being aware of it, e.g., because they don't even have monetary systems." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: In this economy, you have to let the vacation come to you.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The joke is about a man saving money not by going on vacation doing cool activities like scuba diving, camping, playing baseball, etc., but instead, staying at work, and simply wearing the garments associated with these leisure activities. The joke is funny because the joy of vacation isn't just wearing the clothes, is the escape from work --- however, the speaker points out that he can only afford this type of non-vacation." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I know I don't look familiar, but, believe me, I eat here all the time.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about mice in kitchens. Some restaurant kitchens are infested with pests like cockroaches, or in this case, mice. The mice eats at the restaurant frequently because it has infested the kitchen and, e.g., eats scraps from the floor or from storage. The mouse is eating like a normal patron now, but this doesn't change the fact that he literally eats there all the time." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I have a feeling they are going to treat us like dirt.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Vacuums suck up dirt, and to be \"treated like dirt\" means to be treated poorly. The people are worried that because the aliens came in a vacuum, they will be literally and figuratively treated like dirt." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: He's the lifeguard during high tide.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A humorous explanation for why a life guard would need to be on a tower that tall; the tides on this beach apparently fluctuate unrealistically significantly, i.e., by tens of feet. While such an extreme tide change would be dangerous, in this odd beach/town, they still find it reasonable to have a life guard who oversees leisure activities even at high tide, which is a funny set of priorities." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: They say jolliness skips a generation.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The jolly green giant is usually depicted as jolly; but here, the character is destroying a city. \"Skipping a generation\" implies this may be the son of the jolly green giant; sometimes personality traits parents have that are not present in children are said to \"skip a generation\"." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: He was a terrible pet—why did we think he'd make a great coffee table?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A surreal joke about a man trying to convince his wife that the hippo he bought for a pet was a good idea. After failing to convince his wife that the hippo is a good pet, he has repurposed the hippo as a coffee table by placing it in the middle of their living room. She is again unimpressed with its functionality in this capacity." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: You know, I can never define irony, but I know it when I see it.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It's extremely ironic that death himself would die: so ironic that the person points this out as an exemplar of the often difficult to pin down concept." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Relax, she prefers dachshunds.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A visual joke about snakes eating dogs: two people are walking their pets, one of their pets is a dog on a leash, whereas the other one is a snake that looks a lot like a leash, but isn't. If the dog owner encountered this snake and the snake's owner, they might fear the snake would eat their dog, but the snake's owner attempts to calm the dog owner by saying that while the snake does eat dogs, it prefers to eat dachshunds, a different type of dog. This probably doesn't comfort the dog owner." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Marketing sent me. I'm the new, fresh face of death.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Marketing departments will sometimes try to modernize their brand with a \"fresh, new\" face, and this company of death is doing the same with this new employee who isn't adopting the traditional grim reaper clothes. It's funny in part because it's not clear why death needs a marketing agency: it's inevitable. Also, death relates to decay, age, etc., so having a \"new, fresh\" face contrasts the brand by default." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: And all because of the account that got awa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-y .... Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A reference to \"The Man That Got Away\" by Judy Garland, which is a famous pop song about a lost love that is sung with a piano accompaniment. The cartoon depicts a boss playing piano during a meeting --- and so, the popular lyric is modified by replacing \"man\" by \"account\". Instead of a lost love, the song becomes about a more benign case: a business deal that fell through. It's funny in part because the boss is not only acting a bit over-dramatic, but also, forcing his employees to listen to his signing, which isn't exactly professional." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I'm starting to regret that haircut.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A reference to the fairy tale Rapunzel: in that story the princess invites a prince she loves to join her in her inaccessible tower by lowering her hair, and the hair acts as a ladder for the prince. But here, the girl in the top of the tower has just gotten a haircut, so she can't lower her hair for the boy to climb, and she is stuck in the tower alone." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Are you now, or have you ever been?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A meta joke about interrogating someone who doesn't exist. Usually, \"Are you now, or have you ever been ...\" is followed by a concrete detail, e.g., \"involved with the victim?\" or \"financially tied to the company?\" But here, the person being interrogated doesn't exist, and so the question is complete, and turns into a philosophical question about the nature of existence, instead of a benign factual question." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: So why did you leave Red Lobster?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "During interviews, potential employers like the man in the suit will often ask about why their interviewees left prior positions. In this case, the lobster obviously quit his job at red lobster because a lobster's job at the restaurant is to be eaten." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Janice, hold all my calls. Indefinitely.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A vulture often circles over a nearly dead animal in the wild to scavenge its corpse for food. The joke here is that, the vulture has identified the man as someone about to die, and, surprisingly, he also agrees: he nonchalantly tells his secretary to hold his calls/work forever, because he's about to die. He doesn't seem to care that he's about to die, and instead focuses on his benign work obligations, which is funny." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: It comes with its own remote.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about big televisions needing similarly big remotes --- big, widescreen television are sold in electronics stores. While the remote are normal sized, the joke here is that each big tv also comes with a big remote." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Of course he had a hand in this!. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "\"Hand in this\" usually means that someone played a part in a larger act that many people contributed to. But here, the man literally has his hand inside of a ventriloquist doll. Also, it's funny to think that a doll could be playing a part of a larger conspiracy because the doll is controlled by the man, who may just be attempting comically to shift blame away from himself." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: 'Bad news. They found the proof in the pudding.'. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A phrase on the idiom: \"the proof is in the pudding,\" which means that the best way to know about something is to experience it. Here, the idiom takes on a literal meaning --- the chef is in prison, and presumably on trial for a crime; his lawyer is telling him that they literally found proof that he did the crime inside a pudding dish that he cooked." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: There's a warm front coming through this afternoon.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The joke is that a lifeguard, a safety measure at a pool, could be required if the ice rink melted into water. However, a warm front, even in the winter, probably wouldn't be enough to melt the ice rink and turn it into a pool. Nonetheless, the lifeguard, unusually placed at the rink, believes this might happen." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: It's never done.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the word \"done.\" In the context of barbecue, \"done\" means to be well-cooked. But, the man is barbecuing a briefcase instead of meat, and, as a result the statement becomes a commentary about the drudgery of work --- how work seems to be never finished." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Cancel my twelve-oh-one.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about the precise time of executions: here, the man is set to be executed at exactly noon, by the order of the state. But, he's still working at his desk, and thus has meetings. So: he cancels a meeting he had at 12:01 because he will be dead by then. The preciseness of the meeting time is the key indicator of his execution time." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Since when did the pizza delivery guy get his own pole?. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If a pizza delivery person were to try to go down a normal firestation poll (the circle), the pizza might be physically caught on the top floor. The joke is that this new shaped hole would fit a pizza box better, and the firemen are surprised that, even though they sometimes order pizza, that the pizza delivery guy got an entire square pole carved for him." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: If there's a ring in here, Hank, I swear to God . . .. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Hiding an engagement ring in a glass of champagne or a piece of cake can be a classy way to propose marriage. But, the woman is skeptical of the same proposal method being applied to the trough, which would not be a classy or appropriate way to propose." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Yeah, well, it got me through college and law school, and it'll get me through here, too.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Being a judge is a well paying job that wouldn't require washing dishes as a supplement. However, the implication is that this judge needs to keep doing his school-time job as a dishwasher as a reliable, comforting, and unusual activity." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: If he wasn't an internist he is now.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the word \"internal\" --- an \"internist\" is a \"doctor of internal medicine;\" because the lion has eaten the doctor, he is internal to the lion's stomach. So, if he wasn't an \"internal\" medicine doctor before being eaten, he's \"internal\" now." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: This is what I get for convicting the janitor.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A joke about how janitors are under-appreciated. The judge sentenced the janitor to a prison sentence, rendering the janitor unable to clean the courtroom. So --- the judge regrets his decision, because, as a result of not being cleaned by the janitor, the room is a total mess." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: In retrospect, I should have been more specific when I told the genie I wanted to be in a rock group and have women climbing all over me.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The man was given 3 wishes by a genie and asked to be a rock star and have lots of women interested in him romantically. But, his wording of being in a \"rock group\" and have \"women climbing on him\" have secondary literal interpretations, which the genies adversarially interpreted. The \"rock group\" is a group of holds on a rock climbing wall, and \"climbing all over me\" is literally rock climbing over his head as a rock climbing hold." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Nice catch, son, now close the deal.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the term \"catch\" --- usually, a \"nice catch\" in the context of fishing would be a literal big fish. But here, the father is congratulating the son on a big \"catch\" in the business sense, i.e., a valuable client that one is competing to attract the attention of --- going one step further, the child is encouraged to \"close the [business] deal\". It's funny in part because it takes a wholesome fishing trip and makes it into a more ruthless introduction to the business world for the child." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: It's a thongbird.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the word \"songbird\", which is a common type of bird. Here, instead of the birdwatchers seeing a songbird, they see a similarly sounding \"thongbird\", which is identified because the bird is wearing a thong." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: So that's where all the furniture went.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The cave wife is upset at the cave woman for building the pile of rocks because the rocks also acted as the furniture in their house. It's not clear why the man did this to their house; and also, because cave people don't usually have furniture, imagining their fancy, elaborate rock furniture house is funny." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: It's sloppy work like that that gives the mob a bad name.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The reason why the mob has a bad name is because they commit crimes and extort local businesses. But here, the mob boss humorously claims that their poor reputation is due to their \"sloppy work\", which in this case, is a relatively benign aesthetic concern about using different sized buckets for the cement shoes they are using to kill this person." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: This can only end in a draw.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on words: in the wild west, cowboys duel with guns, so to say an interaction can only end in a \"draw\" sounds like a threat of a duel, i.e., drawing guns. But here, they are riding chess pieces, and chess games often end in chess draws." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: Believe me, I've tested a lot worse things when I was in pharmaceuticals.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A rat testing a pair of synthetic wings is unlikely to enable him to fly: he probably will crash to the ground and become injured. But his response to the worried pigeon is that the prior testing he signed up to do, pharmaceutical drug testing, was more dangerous. Rats are often really test subjects for real-world drugs as part of early trials, and so while this situation is surreal, his past does seem plausible: experimental drugs might be more dangerous than jumping off a building." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: It's only fair. He has a man cave.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A figurative \"man cave\" is a room in a house that a husband has control over; usually, the \"man cave\" would be used for watching sports, drinking beers, etc. While it's not usually a literal cave, a nest with two women is pictured; the caption implies that, for fairness, she made the \"woman nest\" in response. The implication is that the man cave might be a literal cave for these people who live outdoors/in nature." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: It's for my back. You have two more questions.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A wise old mountain man is a trope, and such a character might whimsically offer passerby the answers to three questions. These questions would likely be philosophical (e.g., \"What's the meaning of life?\"), but here, the hiker used one of his questions to ask about the yoga ball, which is more mundane in comparison (though still unusual for this trope)." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I think this can all be traced back to my mother ship.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the word \"mother\" --- in therapy, people will sometimes trace their emotional issues back to their parents, e.g., their mothers, which makes the first part of the joke normal. But the final word, ship, forms \"mother ship\", which is a type of space ship from which other space ships are launched. So: unexpectedly but appropriately, the patient in the rocket's problems don't derive from their mother, but from their \"mother ship\"." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: This particular species is believed to have travelled in troupes.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The word \"troupes\" sounds like the word \"groups\" --- biologists will often speculate as to whether or not extinct species \"traveled in groups\" based on fossil records. But here, because the dinosaurs are dancing together, they are travelling in a \"dancing troupe\", which is funny." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: We can't be overthrown, but we can be swayed.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on the words \"overthrown\" and \"swayed\" --- in a political sense, to overthrow royalty means to kill and replace them, and to sway them means to convince them to be on one's side. But both these political terms also apply to the hammock they are sitting in: to overthrow from the hammock would be to literally turn it upside-down so they fall, and to sway the hammock would mean to gently push it so that it rocks back and forth." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: I'm here here to review the fall collection. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A play on words. \"Fall collection\" can refer to fashion design: this is the \"fall collection\" the well dressed man in a suit is talking about. However, the \"fall collection\" he will get is the collection of fall leaves that the other man is raking up." } ]

[ { "role": "user", "content": "Given a cartoon image and a caption.\nCaption: O.K., counsellor, we heard your argument. Now tell us a story.. Question: Generating an explanation\n of why this image/caption combination is funny.\n Answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "If the supreme court justices were all trying to go to bed, they might request a bed-time story. This is funny in part because the lawyer, whose job it is to make precise legal arguments, is now being officially called upon to tell the justices a bedtime story. This implies that his argument wasn't really important, and that the justices just wanted to go to sleep." } ]