glee

Glee is joy that has stopped being polite. Not calm pleasure: the kind that gets into your legs, loud and a bit childish, and both are the point. An adult who admits to glee behaved like an eight-year-old for a second. Long ago the word meant music, which is why a school choir is a glee club. It has a darker half too: glee at bad news about someone you dislike. In the animation, a man in a suit leaps for joy with an ice cream.