Out of everything in the ocean, squids are the ones that make the least sense and the most sense at the same time.

Ten arms, three hearts, blue blood, and the ability to shoot ink when things go wrong. If you sat down and designed the strangest sea creature possible, you’d probably end up somewhere close to a squid. And yet people are obsessed with them. Calamari, Squid Game, that giant squid on every nature documentary that always shows up at the worst possible moment.

The puns write themselves. These 83 just did it for you.

When to Use These

Posting a seafood photo or an ocean trip pic and want a caption that’s actually clever?

Find it here.

Got a friend who is weirdly into marine life and their birthday is coming up?

A squid pun in the card is exactly right for that person.

Running a seafood account or food blog and want something that stands out from the usual posts?

Grab a few from this list.

Or just send one to someone out of nowhere. Squid puns are the kind of thing that lands harder than expected.

Hilarious Squid Puns

1. Don’t squid now!

2. Squid up or shut up.

3. Squeeze every moment.

4. Keep on squidding.

5. Squidding me softly.

6. Don’t get squid-dish now.

7. We’re ink this together.

8. That squidding escalated quickly.

9. Squid or be squidded.

10. Just ink and swim.

11. Ready to squid and roll.

12. Squid-er man to the rescue.

13. That’s how I ink.

14. A squid in the right direction.

15. You’ve ink-ited my passion.

16. Inking of you.

17. Let’s ink this deal.

18. Squid-enly, I see.

19. I squidded it again.

20. Squid you not!

21. Ink it over.

22. You’re the squid to my ink.

23. It’s a squid-eat-squid world.

24. You’re my squiddo.

25. Squid-ding with excitement.

26. What a squid-uation!

27. Feeling ink-well.

28. Ready, set, squid!

29. Let’s make a squid getaway.

30. Squidding the future.

31. Squid’ll be the day.

32. That joke’s a bit fishy.

33. Always be squid-ding.

34. Squid, set, match!

35. This is tenta-cool!

36. Ink-ling of a feeling.

37. Can we ink-clude everyone?

38. You’re squidding me!

39. Squid pro quo.

40. Squidding around.

41. Squid down and buckle up.

42. Sushi and squids.

43. Let’s squid-dle out of here.

44. Oh, squid it!

45. Squid off to a good start.

46. Inking out loud.

47. My heart squids for you.

48. Squid your best.

49. There’s squid-oom for improvement.

50. Squid’s game.

51. Ink-ognito mode.

52. Ink-side job.

53. That’s ink-sane!

54. Just keep squidding.

55. Tentacle spectacle.

56. Never squid up.

57. Squid times ahead.

58. You’ve got me ink-trigued.

59. Squid marks the spot.

60. Squid-ge the bullet.

61. We squid it!

62. Squid not believe this.

63. Ink-tergalactic travels.

64. Keep calm and squid on.

65. Squid-ulate this!

66. That squid real fast.

67. That was squid-tacular!

68. Keep squid and carry on.

69. You’re ink-spirational.

70. Having a whale of a time.

71. I ink, therefore I am.

72. I’ve got an ink-ling about this.

73. A squid in time saves nine.

74. Squid all or nothing.

75. You can’t squid there!

76. Ink your teeth into this.

77. Squid vibes only.

78. Squid for thought.

79. The squid life.

80. A squid to remember.

81. Ink-teresting choice!

82. Squid will be squid.

83. That’s just ink-redible.

84. Squid’s the limit.

Ink It Over

Go back and pick the ones that made you actually laugh. Save them in your notes, send one tonight, or drop one in a caption this week. A squid pun always lands better when the other person doesn’t see it coming. Now you’re ready for it.