Nueva Jersey, mediados de los 60. Richard Kuklinski, un hombre frío de origen polaco, lleva una doble vida: es a la vez un implacable asesino a sueldo de la mafia pero también un padre de familia casado.
Un policía de Los Angeles recibe su primer destino en una comisaría que está siendo trasladada a un nuevo edificio. Nada parece que vaya a turbiar la paz del lugar, hasta la llegada de un furgón que custodia a un famoso criminal, que ha de pasar la noche en la comisaría.
Mike, un joven que acaba de perder a sus padres, observa a su hermano Jody mientras éste asiste al entierro de su mejor amigo. Mike ha seguido a su hermano sin que él lo sepa, obsesionado con la idea de que, tras el funeral, abandone la ciudad para siempre. A la salida del cementerio, Mike es testigo de una escena muy extraña: un hombre alto alza el féretro, lo introduce en un coche fúnebre y desaparece. Mike describe la escena a su hermano, quién lo toma por loco. Molesto por la incredulidad de Jody, Mike vuelve al cementerio de Morningside al anochecer, infiltrándose en la morgue donde además de descubrir una serie de extrañas criaturas espectrales, se hace con una poderosa esfera de plata que pertenece al misterioso hombre alto.
Tommy Basilio es un hombre verdaderamente acabado que acaba de perder a su novia Theresa embarazada, a manos de su mejor amigo y jefe, Rob, perdiendo de rebote su propio empleo como mecánico de coches. Tommy encuentra consuelo temporal conduciendo la camioneta de helados de su difunto tío Al, pero pronto se enamora de Debbie, su joven ayudante de apenas 17 años, hermana además de su ex-novia. La única salida que le queda a Tommy es acudir a su bar favorito, el Trees Lounge y beber sin parar.
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Mary moves back to her suburban hometown to find that the suburbs are scarier in more ways than she ever remembered.
During a warm summer day in the middle of the desert, a young man enters an ice cream parlour to order some ice cream. But his ambition to cool himself may end up getting the better of him, as just one more scoop could prove to be one too many.
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage to prevent a shrewish woman from committing suicide on the way back home. The woman is ungrateful and makes threats against the them unless they look after her. They spend a chaotic evening trying to keep her hidden from their wives.
Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.
When a Wall Street firm downsizes, a well-to-do trader finds himself living with his parents and driving their ice cream truck.
Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to poor children for free, their boss, incensed, chases them off, and they take refuge in a nightclub, where they disguise themselves as female dancers. One misunderstanding follows another, until the impresario seeks them out, offering them a job as a comedy routine.
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Lencho's hot summer day changes when he meets a paletero man named Sacarias, under the shade of a giant tree.