Disclaimer: Prepare yourself for a boatload of entertainingly bad jokes.

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"I never want to drink againnnnnnnn…"

It was the morning after; and not a pleasant one.

"Well, that's what you get for drinking more than you can handle," snipped Deborah.

"Why are you mad at me…?" Shellington pulled himself out of bed, dizzy and nauseated.

"Because you kept calling me a jellybean and laughing until you fell asleep. It wasn't as funny as you thought it was. But it's okay, I forgive you 'cause you were drunk."

Shellington sighed and put his head in his paw; he felt like the whole room was spinning.

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Up in HQ, the Octopod was stationed in the Indian Ocean. It was very quiet outside, except for a little fleck of orange flitting about.

"What's that out there?" Dashi asked.

Kwazii opened up his spyglass and took a look. "Looks like a li'l fishy." He shut his spyglass. "Hey, Elekai, you wanna go see wha's out there?"

Elekai got up from his seat. "Sure." Both went down to the launch bay and exited the Octopod. They swam towards the little orange speck, which they were now close enough to to recognize as a clownfish.

"Ahoy, li'l fella," said Kwazii. "Who are you?"

"I'm Chuck," said the clownfish, "and I guess you could call me the cat's meow." He laughed at his own joke.

Elekai snorted, while Kwazii just gave him a funny look.

"Ya get it? Cause you're a cat, and you're talking to me…?" Chuck grinned awkwardly. "Guess that one fell flat."

"Yeah, it kinda did," said Kwazii.

"Well, I've been working on my act forever, so I bet I can find something to make ya grin, Roger."

"My name's not Roger," said Kwazii, while Elekai was snickering.

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About ten minutes later, Chuck was hanging out in the lab with the field researchers. "See, I'm a clownfish," he said, "and I've made it my life goal to live up to that name."

"How has that been going for you?" Deborah asked.

"I've been coming up with jokes for months," said Chuck. He turned towards Shellington, who was laying his head down on the table. "Ya wanna hear them?"

"Hunh?" Shellington looked up. "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. I've got this dreadful headache."

"Well, I bet some of my jokes oughta make ya feel better." Chuck rubbed his fins together, preparing himself. "Or should I say, otter make ya feel better!"

Shellington giggled a bit and straightened his back, leaning on Deborah's shoulder for support as he was still a bit dizzy.

"Did ya hear about the creatures in the reef? I hear they have a correlation."

Shellington chuckled, while Deborah laughed her sweet little laugh.

"And how about them dolphins? They're pretty loud, though I doubt that they do it on porpoise."

Deborah laughed and put her hooves to her face.

"Is that your girlfriend? I bet she's very deer to your heart."

"She most certainly is," said Shellington, holding Deborah close and kissing her forehead. "You were right, that did make me feel better."

Chuck did a little happy fish dance. "I'm gonna be a great comedian one day!"

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Information about the clownfish taken from Wikipedia and Fantasea Aquariums