2010-11-16
Explanation
This single-panel comic depicts an ice cream truck driver who has taken his truck onto a boat and is sailing offshore, playing his jingle music over the water while taunting the children on the beach: "HAHAHAHA! You'll never get to me now!" The caption reads, "Summer isn't as fun since the ice cream man got a boat."
The humor lies in the absurdity of the scenario. The ice cream man's entire business depends on being accessible to children, yet here he has chosen to make himself completely unreachable, seemingly just to torment them. It plays on the childhood experience of desperately chasing the ice cream truck, escalated to a comically impossible degree. The joke also subtly suggests the ice cream man has gone mad with a kind of petty power, enjoying the control he has over children's summer happiness.