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Given a cartoon image and a caption. Caption: It's alley mode. Question: Generating an explanation of why this image/caption combination is funny. Answer: 
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A play on the words "a la mode", which means "served with ice cream." Instead of this cake being served with ice cream (a la mode), it's served "alley mode", which sounds similar, but literally means in the modality of a street alley, as depicted.