where did the saying sorry charlie come from
Charlie the Tuna The advertisements depicted Charlie (voiced by actor Herschel Bernardi) as a hipster wearing a beret and coke-bottle glasses, whose goal is to be caught by the StarKist company. Charlie believes that he is so hip and cultured that he has "good taste," and he is thus the perfect tuna for StarKist. Charlie is always rejected in the form of a note attached to a fish hook that says, "Sorry, Charlie." The reason given by the narrator (voiced by Danny Dark) for the rejection was that StarKist was not looking for tuna with good taste but rather for tuna that tasted good. Some of the commercials ended with Charlie appeasing the viewers: "Tell 'em, Charlie sent you". These commercials were animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.[5]