In an election season where the unlikeliest Hollywood figures have wound up playing a key role, we can add another one to the pile. Richard Dreyfuss has waded into the battle with a key bit of movie trivia.

There have been a lot of excuses tumbling out of the G.O.P. as they scramble to defend the language Donald Trump used in unearthed 2005 Access Hollywood footage. Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski likened it to dinner-table conversation while Rudy Giuliani and most other Trump supporters are sticking with calling it “locker room” banter. But at the very least we have to give former governor Mike Huckabee points for creativity. Trump’s former opponent joined Megyn Kelly on Fox News Tuesday and launched into an elaborate explanation as to how the film Jaws holds the key to understanding why Trump deserves to be our president. His metaphor starts slowly sinking at the 3:30 mark.

Comparing the Republican nominee’s language to that of Robert Shaw’s “vulgar, salty,” foul-mouthed fisherman Quint, Huckabee argues that Quint and Trump are the kind of men we need to save the world from sharks. (Hillary Clinton, of course, being the shark.) Huckabee may not have expected Megyn Kelly to be such a Jaws expert, though, and she quickly fact-checked him. “Now governor, I hate to be the one to tell you this,” she responded smirk firmly in place, “But Captain Quint got eaten by the shark.” Huckabee, laughing along, protests that Quint died while killing the shark, thus saving all of us.

There’s only one problem with Huckabee’s point. Quint did not, in the end, kill the shark and who would know better than Jaws star himself Richard Dreyfuss?

For the record, it’s Roy Scheider’s Brody who takes out Jaws.

But Dreyfuss didn’t stop at Quint fact checking; he proceeded to re-tweet a message from his son, Ben Dreyfuss, about how dangerous the Quint character actually is.

So Huckabee completely failed Movie Metaphors 101. But as for Jaws expert Kelly, who closed out the segment by cheerfully singing Huckabee off with Quint’s song, “Spanish Ladies,” Dreyfuss has nothing but praise.