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wonderfly
11-05-2002, 11:47 AM
Hey, I heard on the radio this morning about a new book called "Jump the Shark". It's based on a website which has a listing of telivision shows, and it lets people decide when a show "Jumped the Shark".

the website is:

www.jumptheshark.com

So what does "Jump the Shark" mean? The creators of the website, (whom I heard on the radio) explained it this way: The creator and his friends got to talking a few years back about when there favorite shows started to suck. They maintain that every show reachs a point where all of sudden, you the viewer can say "It's all downhill from here". These creators got to talking about the old show Happy Days. There was apparently an episode where the Fonz went to the beach, and while riding on his water skies, he JUMPED OVER A SHARK! SO yeah, the show was all downhill from there.

So that's where the phrase comes from.

And I thought: Hey, this would be a great idea to discuss about cartoons! So at what point did your favorite cartoon start to suck?

Go check out the website to get some idea of what I'm talking about. They list a lot of cartoons on their index as well.

;)
Mynd Hed
11-05-2002, 11:55 AM
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49840&highlight=jump+the+shark+animated

The Search button. Know it. Use it. Love it.

(-:

Thread go bye-bye now?
wonderfly
11-05-2002, 12:36 PM
:rolleyes: smartass.

ok, fine, be that way. :( I thought something like this might have been discussed before, but I never saw it, so that's why I started the thread.

Oh well.
Mynd Hed
11-05-2002, 01:06 PM
Didn't mean to offend you there, buddy. I meant it in good humor, not to be insulting. Sorry.
Sharklady
11-05-2002, 07:33 PM
It bears repeating that 'Pinky and the Brain' jumped a giant shark, when Elmyra was added to the cast.

I really would like to know whose brilliant idea that was???
Matsuo
11-05-2002, 07:55 PM
The said Pokemon and DBZ never jumped HA!
LOLOLOLOLOL. :p
J.C.
11-05-2002, 08:11 PM
Originally posted by Matsuo
The said Pokemon and DBZ never jumped HA!
LOLOLOLOLOL. :p

Huh? You talking about the JumpTheShark website? Because, if you are, they're not listed among the shows that viewers have voted to never jumping the shark. Infact, the only animated shows in the "Never Jumped" section are The Simpsons (which I'm sure will get a lot of peoples undies in a bunch around here :p) and The Tick.

http://www.jumptheshark.com/never.htm
Digu Volz
11-05-2002, 08:58 PM
Very few shows jump the shark. Most just take baby steps.
zarius
11-05-2002, 09:10 PM
Do you mean "Prime-TIme shows" or where you mentioning Cartoons, because the don;t JUST take baby steps, they take leaps and bounds (Beast Machines, The Simpsons, DBGT...)
Daniel P
11-05-2002, 09:26 PM
Simpsons has jumped at season 10
Tom & Jerry jumped when it was for TV, so did Pink Panther
Johnny Bravo jumped 2nd season
Pinky & the Brain DEFINITELY jumped, when you-know-who was added.
MattThomasM2B
11-05-2002, 10:05 PM
Pokemon jumped at the end of Kanto/The First Movie.

DBZ......I dunno about jumping.....but it really likes to stradle that Shark....