On Tuesday night, Tara Reid and her "Sharknado" co-star Ian Ziering appeared on "Shark After Dark," a live show that runs at night as part of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week lineup.
At one point in the show, Reid announced that she had done some prior research because she didn't want to sound "stupid," but it seems she didn't spend enough time doing her homework when she attempted to explain what whale sharks are, resulting in a rather confused ramble.
"So I look up sharks on the Internet and I see whale sharks. And I'm like it must mean a whale and a shark had sex. And then I think, well how does a whale and shark have sex?" And that was only the beginning.
To the sounds of a snickering audience, she was asked, "Was there a video of it?" To which Reid said, "No, there is a thing called whale sharks, and then I realized whales are mammals and sharks are animals, so they have nothing to do with each other."
And just when everyone thought she was done, she went on, adding, "So basically the dolphins have sex with each other, but the sharks don't, so I thought, 'How is it such a thing?' But the difference is, there is a whale shark, which is the biggest shark in the ocean - he's also scary - and then you have the great white, who's also scary. There are over 400 kinds of sharks, but the whale shark is kind of interesting because he's not so mean."
Ian Ziering and the show's host Josh Wolf didn't bother to hold back their smirks, followed by sheer mockery. As one pointed out, there's also a tiger shark - and that is not a literal meeting of tiger and shark. And neither is the whale shark.
The whale shark is named for its huge size. It's the largest fish in the sea, at 40 feet long, about the size of a yellow school bus.
Its enormous, wide mouth filled with teeth is not a killing machine, so we gotta give Tara some credit because she was right saying that it's "not so mean." Instead, whale sharks open their mouth wide to gulp up tiny animals, known as plankton, and plants.
The gentle giants are found predominantly in warm tropical waters, migrating each spring to the continental shelf of the central west coast of Australia.
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