Lio by Mark Tatulli for August 29, 2023

Sorry, Charlie.

Wrong brand, Lio.

Lio, or anybody else his age, would probably say Who are you?

Why? Is it someone you know?

Obviously a tuna with good taste.

Celebrity cameo in today’s “Lio”…

Just remember: you can’t tuna fish!

But Charlie WANTED to be dragged out of the sea by a hook, cut in pieces, and packed in cans. He AUDITIONED for that.

Well, you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish.

Should have been Flipper.

“Crunk?” Must be using the wrong utensil…

Fair is fair. You eat fish too….

Ask any mermaid you happen to see…

We don’t want tuna with good taste. We want tuna that tastes good.

Charlie says love my good and plenty

For younger readers, this is a reference to comical Starkist tuna TV commercials that featured Charley The Tuna who inexplicably wanted to be caught, gutted, canned and eaten but, fortunately for him, could never make the cut.

It may be poor Charlie’s cousin.

Charlie himself is a sponsor and spokesperson promoting that human beings should eat the ‘chicken of the sea’. He’s one of the biggest sell-outs ever there was!

at least with Bumblebee tuna, it’s a whole different species.

8^)

Admittedly, I do not like tuna

This must be an old “Lio”. I haven’t opened a can of tuna with a can opener in many years.

Bumble Bee & Chicken of the Sea aren’t as incredulous.

When I was a kid and Charlie first appeared I thought it was like a prisoner in a dungeon begging, “Torture me first.”

Lio’s cephalopod may want to “talk” to Charlie.

Sorry Charlie. Mercury or no, it’s still delicious and cheap.

You can be sure it’s Charlie-safe tuna.

Sorry, Charlie.