Fonzie Jumps the Shark

this is all they could come up with to jump after the trashcan episode..

sometimes these episodes got down right ridiculous. The writers must have gotten back from a good night of reveling when they came up this idea.

the guy who sent this to me is a total nerd from edmonton canda the coldest place on the planet!

It's a well known fact that leather jackets are great when you fall into the ocean.

I've come to detest the phrase 'jumped the shark'. It's now just a defeatist knee-jerk catchphrase instead of being born of careful long-term analysis.

As soon as any TV series does even one slightly-below-average episode, people immediately say it's 'jumped the shark' and give up on it. I'm not very old, but have people always been so impatient and fickle?

The term "jumped the shark" was really supposed to apply more in retrospect - looking back, you can see that HAPPY DAYS or some other show lost it around a particular time, and a moment like this epitomizes the decline.

Saying that a _new_ episode is a jump the shark moment doesn't usually make a lot of sense. We need time to see where a show went wrong.

I should make clear that there's nothing wrong with saying you didn't like a particular episode. This is just my frustration at the Internet being used as nothing more than a dumping ground for tabloidy rants over things that are, in the end, trivial pursuits.

I will admit I'm a little guilty of it myself, though not to the "it's the end of the world, humanity has peaked" extremes that others go to.

LOL

That dude so got laid after that.

The Fonz always got laid.

Be great to have a reunion show where an older Fonz has HIV and is wasting away talking about how great life was in the 50s ;)