The Mr Whoopee is an ice-cream van featured in every 3D Universe game, except Grand Theft Auto Advance.
Design[]
The Mr Whoopee is evidently designed as a vehicle based on a van or box truck, intended to carry ice cream and other frozen foods.
In Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, the Mr. Whoopee has a unique, modern design, with the headlights and grille resembling those of a 1986 Ford Transit, while the van itself can also resemble a deformed Toyota LiteAce/TownAce.
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, it resembles a modified Boxville step van, and in real-life, resembling a Chevrolet Step Van [P-10] being similar in design but considerably smaller. In most of its appearances, the decorations on top of the van serve as sexual references. In GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories, it resembles a large pair of breasts, whereas in GTA San Andreas, it resembles a penis. The GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories renditions are exceptions, with only a single ice cream swirl and a chocolate bar.
One of the special attributes of the vehicle is a musical jingle that can be toggled on or off with the horn button. The melody used for the van in all games is the same as that used by the Ice-Cream Van in Grand Theft Auto 2, except for GTA San Andreas. The GTA III version has no horn or radio, and holding the horn button will simply turn on the jingle. The GTA Vice City version has a radio, but lacks a horn; holding the horn button does nothing.
Performance[]
Due to its size, the Mr Whoopee is fairly slow and suffers in steering and braking. In addition, the Boxville-style renditions are top heavy and lead to proneness to rolling if not driven carefully. The van in GTA San Andreas is significantly slower than the van in other games. The van in GTA Liberty City Stories can also easily blow up after few collisions, thereby making it the weakest vehicle in GTA Liberty City Stories. Most renditions have powerful-sounding diesel engines, however, the van in GTA III has a gasoline engine, while the GTA San Andreas version has a much weaker-sounding diesel. The Mr. Whoopee vans are front-wheel drive in GTA III and GTA Vice City, and rear-wheel drive in all other games.
3D Universe Overview[]
| Acceleration (0-60 mph in Seconds) |
Top Speed (mph / kmh) |
Gears | Engine | Drivetrain (FWD / RWD / AWD) |
Mass (kg / lbs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | 90 / 145 | 4 (GTA III & GTA Vice City)
5 (GTA San Andreas — GTA Vice City Stories) |
Diesel | FWD (GTA III & GTA Vice City)
RWD (GTA San Andreas — GTA Vice City Stories) |
1700 / 3748 |
| N/A | N/A | 4 (GTA III & GTA Vice City)
5 (GTA San Andreas — GTA Vice City Stories) |
N/A | FWD (GTA III & GTA Vice City)
RWD (GTA San Andreas — GTA Vice City Stories) |
Cannot be observed |
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Prominent Appearances in Gameplay[]
Grand Theft Auto III[]
- I Scream, You Scream - Claude has to steal a Mr Whoopee after collecting the briefcase in Harwood. Then, after rigging the vehicle with explosives, parks it in Atlantic Quays to lure the gang members in the area.
- Import/Export - The Mr Whoopee is one of the 23 vehicles wanted for the Portland Island portion of the Import/Export side mission.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
- Cherry Popper Ice Cream Company purchase cutscene - The Mr Whoopee is forced to spawn at the beginning of the cutscene by the mission script. It is the one that is visible in the background during the cutscene. After the cutscene is finished, the vehicle disappears.
- Distribution - Tommy needs to sell the first 50 "ice creams" to turn the ice cream factory into an asset. The mission can be played infinitely.
- Sunshine Autos Import Garage - The Mr. Whoopee is one of the 24 vehicles wanted by Sunshine Autos for its import garage. Placed on the fourth and final list.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
- Scooter Shooter - The Mr. Whoopee is considered as the first and the second target in the side-mission by the Colombian Cartel with no protection.
Locations[]
Grand Theft Auto III[]
The Mr Whoopee is one of the rarest vehicle in the game, along with Flatbeds and some other vehicles. Finding it in traffic is very difficult. However, on mobile versions, the truck is much easier to find, though still uncommon.
- On rare occasions, it can be spotted driving around Saint Mark's, Chinatown, Portland View, Trenton, Rockford, Liberty Campus and Cedar Grove.
- It can also be rarely found driving around Cochrane Dam, where it is more common. (In the mobile version, the Mr. Whoopee spawns more frequently, making it less rare.)
- During Vigilante and Firefighter missions, though very rarely.
- At the Import/Export garage, Portland Harbor, after all vehicles on the list have been delivered.
- Can be acquired if not detonated in I Scream, You Scream.
- The vehicle is also more common when another Mr. Whoopee is driving around, for example in the mission I Scream, You Scream.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
- Cherry Popper Ice Cream Factory, Little Havana. The player must buy the factory for the van to spawn. Entering the van starts the Distribution side mission, unless it is pushed from its spawning position.
- During Vigilante missions, though very rarely.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
- Inputting the "beach party cheat" or the "Clown theme cheat" will make it become very common to spawn.
- It is a rare sight in the game, only spawning around the beach areas of Santa Maria Beach, Verona Beach and Playa del Seville in Los Santos.
- One can be found parked outside a rest stop in Las Payasadas. It only spawns when arriving from the west. If the player arrives from any other direction a Hotdog and a Bobcat will spawn in its place instead. This has been tested and confirmed on Xbox 360 and PC.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
- It can be found in the Scooter Shooter side mission.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories[]
- It can only be found parked on the grounds of the Washington Beach Fairground near the Chunder Wheel.
Trivia[]
General[]
- "Whoopee" is a 1920s slang term for sexual intercourse, another reference to the van's sexual nature.
- Mr. Whoopee is most likely a portmanteau of "Mr. Whippy", a brand of ice cream vans and products in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, and Mister Softee, an ice cream van brand operating in the United States.
3D Universe[]
- The driver of the Mr Whoopee in GTA San Andreas is depicted as an obese ice cream man dressed as a clown. His appearance is made to be similar to the clown pictures seen on the truck. He will also spawn if the "Clown theme" cheat is inputted into the game.
- A slogan seen on the Mr. Whoopee in GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories is "It's Cherry-Popping Good". "Popping the cherry" is a euphemism for losing one's virginity.
- In fact, two cherries can be found on top of the whip cream mount on the roof of the van. Also, in keeping with the sexual innuendo, if viewed from top, the whip cream mounts, with the cherries in the center, look like two women breasts.
- The GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories feature an ice cream swirl with a chocolate flake, a reference to the popular "99" ice cream served in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- The jingle of the GTA III rendition is the same as that of "Mr Lolly", another ice cream van from the DMA Design (later Rockstar North) game Body Harvest.
- The slogans on the Mr Whoopee, "Please Stop Me!" and "I Will Chill Again!", foreshadow the later Rockstar North game Manhunt (specifically the blood-inscribed writing on the masks of some of the Smileys) which was in concurrent development with GTA III. These slogans are retained in the GTA Liberty City Stories model.
See Also[]
- Boxville
- Ice-Cream Van - Grand Theft Auto 2 equivalent.
- Mr. Tasty - Grand Theft Auto IV equivalent.