Ryan Reynolds has jokingly devised a plan to get his daughter to stop listening to "Baby Shark" by having her watch The Shallows. The infamous children's tune by South Korean edutainment company Pinkfong took the Internet by storm, quickly rising to become the most-viewed YouTube video of all time at over 8 billion views. Children across the globe have sung along to the repetitive refrain of "Baby Shark doo doo do-do do-do." The song is so popular that it spawned a Baby Shark television show currently airing on Nickelodeon.
The Shallows sees medical student Nancy (Blake Lively) pitted against a great white shark. Depressed after the loss of her mother, Nancy takes to the waves near a secluded beach and becomes stranded on a remote rock when she's attacked by the marine predator. Injured and alone, Nancy must outwit the vicious shark in order to survive. Though Jaws retains the crown as the greatest shark movie of all time, The Shallows was a hit when it released in 2016.
Reynolds joked in an Instagram post that he'd watch the movie with his one-year-old daughter, who is currently obsessed with Baby Shark. Reynolds posted a trio of The Shallows images with a caption revealing his daughter listens to "Baby Shark" every day, joking "There's only one way to fix this." Check out the post below:
Reynolds' plan is even funnier considering he and Lively are married. A lifelong fear of sharks would certainly put a damper on their daughter's "Baby Shark" obsession. It seems even celebrities like Reynolds are not immune to the song's strange power to either entrance or enrage. Kids sure love "Baby Shark," but any parent who has had to listen to it being blared out of an iPad for hours on end will glaze over when the "do"s start. Reynolds' joke is one of many gags across the Internet that poke fun at "Baby Shark" and its impressive popularity.
Reynolds is always cracking jokes via his various social media channels, from finding the humor in COVID swab tests he had to undergo on set to struggling to pronounce Rob McElhenney's name. Delayed by the pandemic, Reynolds's next starring role will be in Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard alongside Salma Hayek and Samuel L. Jackson. Then later this summer, he'll play the title "Guy" in Shawn Levy's Free Guy. All told, though Reynolds won't actually be screening The Shallows for an infant, he'll be keeping audiences entertained on screen and off for the foreseeable future.
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