The 2016 campaign has jumped the shark. Specifically, the shark from Jaws.
In a conversation with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee declared that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may be rough around the edges, but when the chips are down, he’s the person you can trust to save your life – not unlike Captain Quint in the film Jaws.
And they wonder why Hollywood hates them pic.twitter.com/7YJxixbzVf
— JORDAN OKUN (@Jzokun) October 11, 2016
“He’s like Captain Quint in the original movie Jaws,” Huckabee said. “He’s vulgar, he’s salty, he might even get drunk ... But hold on here: he’s the guy who’s gonna save your butt and save your family. And so, at the end of the day, when he kills the shark, you’re happy about it.”
Huckabee, who has long been a critic of American popular culture, continued with the analogy. “Now, Hillary is the shark,” Huckabee said. “She’s going to eat your boat, she’s gonna have open borders, immigration out the kazoo, and so the choice is, do you vote for Captain Quint, who’s gonna save your family, or do you vote for the shark? That’s the choice you get to make.”
Kelly, clearly a scholar of summer blockbusters, burst Huckabee’s bubble by reminding the former governor that Quint was devoured by the shark.
“Now, governor, I hate to be the one to tell you this,” Kelly said. “Captain Quint got eaten by the shark.”
“But he died saving the other people!” Huckabee protested, laughing.
“But he died!” Kelly said. “Went down in flames and the shark won out between the two of them.”
Huckabee continued, despite the blow to his theory.
“The shark didn’t win! The shark got blown up! Look, any analogy can fall apart, Megyn,” Huckabee said, laughing. “Come on, work with me!”
Kelly rounded out the segment by singing Quint’s song from the film, Farewell And Adieu to You Fair Spanish Ladies.
Actor Richard Dreyfuss, who starred as Hooper, the dreamy oceanographer, in the film, backed up Kelly’s assertion on Twitter:
Quint did not kill Jaws. https://t.co/jSSRmGE9hD
— Richard Dreyfuss (@RichardDreyfuss) October 11, 2016
