Dolphin-safe tuna, that's great if you're a dolphin. What if you're a tuna? Somewhere there's a tuna flopping around a ship going, "What about me? I'm not cute enough for you?"

In this joke, Carey skewers the selective empathy often built into consumer labels and activism. “Dolphin-safe” frames the moral problem as the suffering of charismatic animals, implying that the tuna’s death is ethically unremarkable. By giving the tuna a comic, humanlike complaint—“I’m not cute enough for you?”—he highlights how public concern can track perceived cuteness and cultural symbolism rather than the underlying harm. The line also satirizes marketing: a label meant to reassure shoppers becomes, under scrutiny, a reminder that the product still depends on killing something. The humor works by flipping perspective and exposing the arbitrariness of whose lives are counted.