Thursday, May 17, 2012

Jump the Shark

Here's something I've always wondered: why did TV Guide buy the website www.jumptheshark.com and then kill it?

It was a fantastic site with message boards that discussed every tv show, and identified the episode that the show jumped the shark in.

If you're not familiar with "jumping the shark", the term is from the episode of Happy Days where the Fonz (Henry Winkler, who is still awesome) jumped (on water-skis) over a shark tank.


It was fantastically awful.

It usually signals the downhill slide. Think about tv shows you've enjoyed and when they jumped the shark. Oliver showing up on the Brady Bunch, appearances by Ted McGinley, the new batch of interns on Scrubs, etc

Anyway, someone should bring back this website.

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