user
Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: I gather you both feel you're being manipulated. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: 
assistant
A play on the term "manipulated" --- in marriage counseling, a person might say that their partner is making them feel manipulated emotionally, e.g., if they try to make them do things they don't want to do by playing on their emotions. But here, both partners are literally being manipulated --- the counselor is talking to two puppets who are being controlled (or manipulated) by two people via sticks.