Aunt Tenna was never a comic strip in its own right, but was an irregular subfeature of Channel Chuckles, a daily and Sunday feature by The Family Circus cartoonist Bil Keane. In its daily form, Channel Chuckles consisted of a single panel gag on the general theme of television, or specifically relating to a particular television series or TV commercial. The Sunday version of Channel Chuckles was merely several unlinked spot gags in color, all on a television theme. The Family Circus (originally, The Family Circle) is a syndicated comic strip by cartoonist Bil Keane. ... Bil Keane (1922- ) is an American cartoonist best known for his work on the long-running strip The Family Circus, which began its run in 1960 and is still going strong. ...

One "Channel Chuckles" gag depicted the fictional character Mr. Spock from Star Trek receiving letters requesting advice on child-rearing (a reference to Doctor Benjamin Spock). Another "Channel Chuckles" gag depicted a mad scientist working in his laboratory while a nearby television intoned the slogan of a current DuPont ad campaign: "Better living through chemistry". Star Trek collectively refers to a science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series, 726 episodes and ten feature films in addition to hundreds of novels, computer and video games, fan stories and other works of fiction all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the... Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903–March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. ... This article is about the DuPont company. ...

Most of the "Channel Chuckles" gags were simple wordplay references to the titles of contemporary television programs. Probably the wittiest "Channel Chuckles" gag was the one depicting a small TV set on top of a larger TV set, each of them displaying on its screen the title of a current TV sitcom. While the upper TV set showed "Love on a Rooftop", the one underneath blared "Hey, Landlord!". A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ...

Just occasionally, Keane would subdivide the narrow space allotted to his "Channel Chuckles" feature in order to squeeze in two panels rather than the usual one. "Channel Chuckles" once featured a two-panel gag based on the titles of two current TV series. In the first panel, a man asks his wife "Why can't you be more like that show?" while pointing to a TV set as it displays the title "Occasional Wife". In the second panel, the wife points to the same TV while asking her husband "And why can't you be more like THAT show?". This time the title on the TV screen is "The Man Who Never Was".

At irregular intervals, some of the panel and Sunday gags featured "Aunt Tenna", a matronly woman with her hair done in the form of a TV antenna. The only other recurring character in "Channel Chuckles" was "Dim Viewer", a grumpy old man who always had something negative to say about whatever program was on television. A yagi antenna Most simply, an antenna is an electronic component designed to send or receive radio waves. ...