Charlie the Tuna was created by Cleo Hovel and based on Tom Rogers' friend [[Henry Nemo]]. Nemo is known as the "creator of jive", which resembles the loose-lipped slang used by Charlie the Tuna.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Aaron|first1=Jane|title='Sorry, Charlie' reminiscent of 1940s yet steadily fades from modern speech|url=http://www.lincolnjournalonline.com/news/2017-04-06/Front_Page/Sorry_Charlie_reminiscent_of_1940s_yet_steadily_fa.html|accessdate=1 November 2017|newspaper=[[Lincoln Journal (Georgia)|The Lincoln Journal]]|date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107020949/http://www.lincolnjournalonline.com/news/2017-04-06/Front_Page/Sorry_Charlie_reminiscent_of_1940s_yet_steadily_fa.html|archive-date=7 November 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
