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Jumping the Shark

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Jumping the Shark	comment	Jumping the Shark is the moment when an established Long Runner series changes in a significant manner, ranging from a contrived gimmick to a full Retool. This can be the result of circumstance, though it is more often a desperate attempt to overcome flagging ratings and/or attract new viewers. Unfortunately, it doesn't work; looking back, viewers realize that the change actually caused or hastened the show's demise. The expression comes from an episode of the TV series Happy Days in which Fonzie, dressed in his trademark leather jacket, literally jumps over a shark while on waterskis — a sharp break from the show's previous focus on "everyday American life in the 1950s." In hindsight, that was the moment where Fonzie started getting more focus, being Flanderized in the process into a superhuman, impossibly 'cool' dude. In short order, he took over the entire show. Even those who liked Fonzie — and most did — had to admit that Happy Days wasn't better with him as the main lead. It wasn't even in line with Fonzie's own character development: in a landmark earlier episode, he seriously injured himself while jumping his motorcycle for a televised stunt, admitting afterward that he was stupid to be so reckless. When he jumped over a shark, Fonzie seemingly forgot that important lesson, and it was the first sign that Happy Days was going to abandon its premise in an effort to stay fresh. By the time ABC canceled Happy Days in 1984, it had become a shell of its former self, with several of the original cast gone, and was mainly notable for launching Mork & Mindy through a Poorly Disguised Pilot episode. "Jumping the shark" has since entered common parlance to refer to the moment when a Long Runner work or franchise goes into unrecoverable decline. The term was originally coined in the mid-1980s by writer Jon Hein. Notably, it was only after Happy Days ended that anyone realised what the turning point had been; it's difficult to spot a shark-hurdle in real time. As Fonzie and his waterskis fade from cultural memory, "nuking the fridge" (named after an infamous scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) may become the new term of art, but only the wording is new: the frustration and disappointment are as old as serialized media itself.note TV Tropes does not consider "Nuking the Fridge" a separate or well-defined concept from "Jumping the Shark" — in fact, "Nuking the Fridge" as a separate trope and as a redirect to this trope is a member of the Permanent Red Link Club because people kept trying to add it without being able to define it. Jumping the shark can happen at any time in an established work's run. While it's often used in reference to the show's last gasp, a drastic change to stay on the air which doesn't work, some shows drag on for years after the turning point: Happy Days went on for seven more seasons after Fonzie's shark-jumping stunt, with other changes in cast and situations; it was just really boring. It's also possible for a show to jump several sharks during its twilight years, leading to what we call Seasonal Rot. How to spot a shark jump It's difficult to define a shark jump, especially given how commonly the term is used for complaining about plot twists you don't like. But there are a lot of telltale signs, and if you see them, the show had better have some really good writers to make it seem like a worthwhile decision.
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Jumping the Shark / int_102a22a7	comment	Ansem Retort had this to say, after Jesus turned Marluxia into a gay dragon:
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Jumping the Shark / int_1823f32a	comment	In Sharknado 2: The Second One, Fin runs across the backs of several sharks to reach his friends. Martin jokes, "Talk about jumping the shark!"
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Jumping the Shark / int_18916544	comment	The Fillmore! episode "The Unseen Reflection" invokes this as the culprit's motivation. Vampirita superfan Terri got her hands on an advanced copy of the newest book from her cousin in the publishing industry and discovered it was absolutely horrible. The title character suddenly betrays her allies because she's now dating her "sworn, genetic Arch-Enemy" in a way that was never built up or hinted in the previous 22 books. Because she'd been sworn to secrecy on getting the book in advance, Terri couldn't warn her best friend Torrey so she discretely sabotaged their entries for a contest to be included as characters in the next book. TQ, a fan of the rival series Citizen Fang, read a single page of the advanced copy and stated it was horrible even for a Vampirita book. The series author admits she halfassed the book by completing the entire thing on a single plane trip to Milan, and by now has only been continuing Vampirita for her paychecks and due to her contract.
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Jumping the Shark / int_1afbf6c5	comment	The Transformers: Rescue Bots episode "Movers and Shakers" features Blades, while dealing with the rogue robot that was the episode's problem, jumping over a statue of a shark and even saying the Fonz's catchphrase.
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Jumping the Shark / int_1cf9029e	comment	In DEATH BATTLE!, when Wiz describes the Flightpack from Robocop 3 as part of their analysis on "Robocop vs Terminator", he mentions that it "helps (Robocop) jump sharks".
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Jumping the Shark / int_2212773a	comment	In the Angel episode "Smile Time", the owner of the eponymous puppet show makes a deal with demons to keep his show on the air when it starts losing ratings. Unfortunately, he neglected to Read the Fine Print. While the term "jump the shark" is never actually used, Gunn's research reveals that the demons have tried this before:
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Jumping the Shark / int_2275c659	comment	One episode of House has House, bored out of his skull during clinic duty, constructing a racetrack from medical tape, tongue depressors, and cards. At the end of the track is a ramp, and under the ramp is a shark. Cuddy catches the car in midair before it reaches the shark. Whew...
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Jumping the Shark / int_22d87fc9	comment	An episode of That '70s Show has Fez, imagining how cool it would be to be Fonzie, having a daydream of himself performing the original jump. Hyde comments that this was the worst moment in television history, and Fez confesses that he stopped watching the show after that. It's interesting, because this is more of a modern perspective rather than one commonly held at the time it aired... like pretty much everything on That '70s Show.
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Jumping the Shark / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons is a Long Runner with some serious self-awarenes: One episode shows the characters running out of plots because they're either doing things that they've already done (e.g. Bart buys a race horse but Lisa had already done that) or noticing things they should already know (e.g. Marge's gambling problem). Then comes an improbable twist where the horse jockeys turn out to be elves in disguise, complete with schlocky musical number. Comic Book Guy throws a lampshade on it by wearing a "Worst Episode Ever" shirt. One Couch Gag has the family jump a shark to land on the couch, only for Homer to lose both legs. One of the Clip Show episodes features a song lampshading both clip shows and the sort of absurd plots that normally constitute a shark jump, complete with a still image of Homer on waterskis. It's also a meta reference to Matt Groening's claim that you'll know The Simpsons has jumped the shark when they introduce something like the Great Gazoo. "They'll Never Stop 'The Simpsons'" (which was part of a Clip Show) features an image of Homer jumping over a shark (about 28 seconds in), just before launching into a series of stupid ideas that the show could pursue in the future. Two of them (Marge as a robot, and Abe marrying Selma and not Patty) actually happened in later seasons.
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Jumping the Shark / int_2aaa6ba	comment	The Grand Tour episode "A Massive Hunt" has Richard and Jeremy discuss how swimming is forbidden in RÃ©union because of shark attacks:
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Jumping the Shark / int_3138dd1	comment	Bug Martini: Signs Your Life has Jumped the Shark.
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Jumping the Shark / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community Season Finale: Troy wants to move in with Abed, but Genre Savvy Abed says their friendship would jump the shark if they did. Troy responds that when Fonzie literally jumped the shark, it was the best episode ever.
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Jumping the Shark / int_3cd90f30	comment	In the Arrested Development episode "Motherboy XXX", Barry Zuckercorn — played by Henry Winkler, Fonzie himself — visits Buster on a dock, where his hand has been eaten by a seal. On his way to make a Product Placement for Burger King, he is forced to physically jump over the shark.
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Jumping the Shark / int_3d5c05c9	comment	Bob the Angry Flower ramps a shark on a motorcycle. Into space.
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Jumping the Shark / int_3f231b84	comment	The creation of Indominus rex in Jurassic World is fueled by the executive's desire to attract new visitors, and counteract the Park's lower entry rate. This is lampshaded by one park-goer:
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Jumping the Shark / int_3f287309	comment	Fear & Hunger: Termina: Karin uses the phrase in a newspaper article you can potentially find, accusing the entire continent of Europa of having done so when they allowed the Bremen Empire to form a State Sec. This is despite the game being set in 1942, 32 years before the premiere of Happy Days.
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Jumping the Shark / int_3fbd173e	comment	A Freefall strip features a shark tank, but warns people away from jumping over it.
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Jumping the Shark / int_404622d6	comment	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In "Sweet Stench of Success", Bloo becomes an advertising icon who gets his own sitcom spinoff. The preview after the very first episode is, "Tune in next week when Deo jumps a shark!" In the final episode, "Goodbye to Bloo", Bloo thinks Mac is moving away forever and tries to come up with something big they can do for their last day together. After Mac shoots down several of his suggestions as things they have already done before (all of them references to the plots of previous episodes), Bloo decides that the only thing left to do is to Jump the Shark. Unable to find a shark in time, he settles for walking over a fishbowl containing a fish with a paper fin.
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Jumping the Shark / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: An episode named "Jumping the Shark" features a kid believed to be the third Winchester brother. It includes a poster advertising "Fonzarelli's Water Skiing Event", and the diner where they meet the kid is called "Cousin Oliver's". In the end, he really is their brother but is already dead, and he stays dead. Referenced again at the end of the episode "The Real Ghostbusters":
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Jumping the Shark / int_453a04b0	comment	The Fairly Oddparents: A Cut Song from The Movie, "Channel Chasers", had Timmy jumping a shark with a guy who looked a lot like the Fonz. The episode that introduces Wanda's twin sister Blonda has a side plot consisting of Timmy doing various "EXTREEEME!!" stunts. The very first stunt was him rocketskating over a shark tank.
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Jumping the Shark / int_4999ebde	comment	Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps once had lead character Johnny attempt (off-screen) to exactly emulate Fonzie's stunt. Given that he died in the attempt and it was a live episode, the producers were no doubt lampshading these facts. At one point Janet even does a Fonzie impression. The title of this "very special episode" is "When Johnny Met Sharky".
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Jumping the Shark / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft has a daily quest in Krasarang Wilds called "Jumping the Shark", in which your character, with his or her bare hands, jumps on a shark and beats the daylights out of it. This is far from the most outlandish thing most characters have done by this point.
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Jumping the Shark / int_4b5dbe41	comment	Dante and Randal in the Clerks: The Animated Series reminisce about the iconic scene from Happy Days, except in their recollection, the shark came back and ate Samuel L. Jackson.
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Jumping the Shark / int_4d1ba412	comment	Gordito in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja literally jumped over a winged, flying shark. The alt-text defended the move with "Look, it was the only way he could dodge it". Of course, by Dr. McNinja standards this isn't that unusual an event.
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Jumping the Shark / int_504bb54c	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales a zombified shark leaps over a boat trying to devour two characters.
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Jumping the Shark / int_5178149f	comment	The series finale of Batman: The Brave and the Bold is all about this trope. Bat-Mite, tired of the show's Lighter and Softer nature, conspires to get it cancelled in the hopes that it'll be replaced by a Darker and Edgier Batman show. He does this by using his Reality Warper powers to inflict several classic shark jumps on the show, including giving Batman a love interest and sickeningly cute daughter, inserting obvious toy tie-ins, changing Aquaman's voice actor (to Ted McGinley, no less), giving Ace the Bat-Hound a very familiar nephew, moving the show to Malibu, and finally making Batman use guns. Ambush Bug (voiced by Henry Winkler himself) tries to save the day by telling Batman that they're in a TV show and if they don't get back to normal fast, declining viewership will destroy their world. They're too late to save the show, but at least they manage to salvage its dignity. As for Bat-Mite, not only does he not get what he wanted (the replacement is a CG-animated show about Batgirl), but Ambush Bug points out that since he's part of Brave and the Bold, the cancellation affects him too, and a silly character like him would never be included in a Darker and Edgier Batman show. Bat-Mite vanishes into thin air, while the other characters have a party and Batman thanks his viewers for their support.
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Jumping the Shark / int_52eb7183	comment	Irregular Webcomic! addressed Jumping the Shark (both literally and figuratively) in an arc starting here.
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Jumping the Shark / int_52eecc0c	comment	Fanboy and Chum Chum referenced jumping the shark during the episode "Total Recall": One of the shows they liked had the title character, an octopus spy named Agent 8 jump a shark. They found the show got better after.
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Jumping the Shark / int_59cbd290	comment	Two Best Friends Play: After making two episodes independently, they were picked up by the Machinima Youtube channel. They referenced this "selling out" in their next video, Donkey Kong Country Returns, by having Kong physically jump over a shark enemy.
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Jumping the Shark / int_5ae0bec6	comment	WWE: Lampshaded by JBL and Michael Cole on the 9/27/13 edition of WWE SmackDown, when Jinder Mahal and The Great Khali use flutes to charm Santino Marella's Cobra in the middle of a match with Heath Slater. Lampshaded again by Edge during an episode of The Cutting Edge in 2010, in the midst of his feud with the Anonymous RAW General Manager. As he put it, they went from "Stone Cold" Steve Austin stunning Vince McMahon to Edge arguing with a computer. This eventually led to Edge going on a crusade against everything stupid in the WWE.
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Jumping the Shark / int_5ba6595e	comment	The fifth-season premiere of Reno 911!, entitled "Jumping the Shark", featured Lt. Dangle attempting to jump over a normal fish tank containing a small shark. Naturally, he doesn't quite make it over, and Hilarity Ensues. Incidentally, it was the first new episode to be aired after the release of The Movie.
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Jumping the Shark / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary uses a gag about a shark tank and a motorcycle ramp as a promise that even though the strip's invoking Time Travel as a Reset Button, it's just this once and that's not what it's going to be all about from now on.
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Jumping the Shark / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	In the season four premiere of Wizards of Waverly Place, Alex lies to the reporters that Lady Gaga was going to jump over a shark tank while riding on a motorcycle.
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Jumping the Shark / int_5ce00127	comment	In the Rocky IV review, a completely ridiculous robot that drives in is introduced as the Shark-Jumper 5000. It appears again in the introduction of Game Boy in the commentary for the Captain N: The Game Master review.
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Jumping the Shark / int_61f5a326	comment	Shark Jumping is dedicated to reviewing TV shows (such as How I Met Your Mother, Glee, or The Fairly OddParents!) and occasionally even movies, trying to pinpoint the exact moment they jumped the shark.
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Jumping the Shark / int_626a75bc	comment	BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend has Ragna say that Valkenhayn is jumping the shark when he prepares for his Uber-Verboten Attack in his joke end.
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Jumping the Shark / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic refers to it on occasion: In the Rocky IV review, a completely ridiculous robot that drives in is introduced as the Shark-Jumper 5000. It appears again in the introduction of Game Boy in the commentary for the Captain N: The Game Master review. Mentioned twice in the Independence Day review, although he didn't think the movie was good in the first place, so he was likely confusing the term for something else. Mentioned with a whole rant about how much the shark is abused in the review of The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia when the Rock Biter rides a bike singing "Born to be Wild". Although since he made it clear the series went downhill with the second movie, this again was misusing the term. Then again, there is no accurate fan speak term for that moment popular enough for him to rant that way about it, so it slides by with Rule of Funny.
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Jumping the Shark / int_63230cb	comment	In Dragon Ball Z Abridged's "Episode of Bardock", it takes Bardock a long time to realise that he's gone into the past, and once he does:
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Jumping the Shark / int_63708064	comment	Web Soup host Chris Hardwick used this phrase when a video in their "Things You Can't Un-See" segment was legitimately disgusting and nauseating. (It was a gaping foot wound crawling with live maggots.)
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Jumping the Shark / int_63fe06a0	comment	Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon features a scene where Rex launches a car over a shark... well, a Sharktopus, to be more exact. HUD even describes the objective as simply "Jump the Shark".
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Jumping the Shark / int_67ae1c37	comment	In Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, this is referenced and lampshaded during a boat chase:
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Jumping the Shark / int_687bd288	comment	The Trope Namer is explicitly referenced in the sequel to the Dumb Ways to Die video game, where one minigame has a character dressed like Fonzie jumping over several sharks on waterskis. Succeeding makes him grin and give a thumbs-up with a Laugh Track in the background.
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Jumping the Shark / int_691be369	comment	An episode in The X-Files titled "Jump the Shark" sees the Lone Gunmen — the quirky trio of conspiracy theorists that had lasted the show's entire run and gotten their own failed spinoff — thwarting a terrorist's plot to use a neurotoxin made from sharks (somehow). Unfortunately, they died in the process.
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Jumping the Shark / int_6a82aa53	comment	In Unwinder's Tall Comics, Unwinder laments the decline of his former favorite webcomic:
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Jumping the Shark / int_6c9193a1	comment	In The Venture Brothers, the Monarch references this trope regarding henchmen:
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Jumping the Shark / int_6cdec540	comment	A particularly oddball issue of Transformers: More than Meets the Eye features a bar named "The Jumping Shark" as a Funny Background Event.
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Jumping the Shark / int_6f06e8fc	comment	In the end-of-chapter commentary strips by two minor characters of Errant Story, one of them carries a pair of water skis and announces she'll try to jump a great white, prompting the other to note that the writer just did that. The immediate followup was an amusing subversion, too.
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Jumping the Shark / int_70814599	comment	In the self-referential 200th episode of Stargate SG-1, Marty responds to the suggestion of doing the Wormhole X-Treme! movie with Thunderbirds-style puppets by sarcastically suggesting that they have Puppet O'Neill jump over a puppet shark on a scale motorcycle.
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Jumping the Shark / int_75257ef9	comment	Jumpman Zero has a level called "Jump the Shark", which is basically a big underwater room with a shark in it.
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Jumping the Shark / int_7950b30f	comment	The penultimate episode of The Colbert Report literally did it in the opening credits.
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Jumping the Shark / int_7aa5ebea	comment	One episode of Squidbillies shows Rusty watching a TV show in which a mailman delivers mail very dramatically. Early comments that it had jumped the shark already.
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Jumping the Shark / int_87e00d8e	comment	During the Teen Titans (2003) episode where the Titans chase Control Freak into TV land, Robin finds himself on some kind of action challenge show being forced by a suspiciously familiar-looking host with a funny accent to waterski off a ramp, at which point a shark leaps out of the water underneath him.
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Jumping the Shark / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: in the episode "The One With the Cast of Night Court", Jenna Maroney is blamed by Harry Anderson, Markie Post, and Charles Robinson for making Night Court "jump the shark" for her three-part episode as werewolf lawyer Sparky Monroe.
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Jumping the Shark / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue, has a PSA on how to prolong a Long Runner series (the show had passed 17 seasons by then) where Sarge decides to do "a dangerous stunt, where one of us has to jump over a tank of dangerous marine life", with Simmons pointing out they're not going to jump the shark, literally or figuratively.
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Jumping the Shark / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: The title character addresses her thoughts on jumping the shark, by hanging up on Ron when he brings it up. It's in reference to them finally becoming the Official Couple, which they may be aware could end the show. This Fanfiction takes the idea a bit further, parodying Happy Days and then revealing it was All Just a Dream.
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Jumping the Shark / int_923dd091	comment	CollegeHumor: Parodied in one of the Next Time On Bear Shark segments in which the shark jumps a pen full of Fonzies while on water skis. The sequence doesn't actually appear in the next episode at all. The sketch "Jump the Shark": A new Spin-Off, Tony Hawk appears as a guest star, two characters get engaged, they move to a new building, Amir gets replaced, and Jeff gives birth to a baby Supreme Court justice. Finally, the whole cast gets replaced at the very end with a younger cast.
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Jumping the Shark / int_971e8e24	comment	From RedLetterMedia:
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Jumping the Shark / int_9ac9d448	comment	Ultimate Spider-Man issue 67 is titled "Jump the Shark", as it's the second half of the Body Swap storyline between Spidey and Wolverine, a two-part Breather Episode following the very bleak Carnage story. To boot, both issues opened with a mini-comic of Brian Michael Bendis apologizing to the reader and engaging in a lot of Self-Deprecation.
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Jumping the Shark / int_9c153d0c	comment	Referenced near the end of Game Night. After the protagonists have spent most of the night dealing with a murder mystery game being hijacked by a real kidnapping, it turns out that was just another ruse set up by Max and Annie's neighbour. When another set of criminals shows up, Max assumes it's a last-ditch twist and declares that the whole thing's jumped the shark. Unfortunately, these bad guys are very real.
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Jumping the Shark / int_9d41fc3c	comment	In Despicable Me 2, El Macho is said to have ended his life "riding a shark with 250 pounds of dynamite strapped to his chest into the mouth of an active volcano". The death was faked, but his career as a bombastic super-villain arguably went downhill from then on.
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Jumping the Shark / int_9dc5d7c8	comment	Attack of the Show! did a parody of Discovery Channel's Shark Week with their own "Jump the Shark Week", where each day they would jump the shark in classic fashion. Methods included being attacked by a cougar Ã la 24, having a Dallas-style murder mystery, having a Cousin Oliver show up, and having an Evil Twin Ã la Knight Rider.
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Jumping the Shark / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Mentioned in the Regular Show episode "The Heart of a Stuntman".
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Jumping the Shark / int_a12cd9cf	comment	Big City Greens: The episode "Animation Abomination" has this occur in-universe with Cricket's version of the ending to the season finale of Kingdom of Lore, where the heroine suddenly turns evil and makes everything explode, thus foregoing all previously established storylines and suddenly changing the status quo without warning.
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Jumping the Shark / int_a131f925	comment	In the 101 Dalmatian Street episode "Dal-Martians", Dolly is telling a Story about how she, Dylan, and Dawkins were able to launch a UFO-shaped parade float in to the canal. When the float launches up a ramp, it shows them flying over a shark.
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Jumping the Shark / int_a332db0e	comment	The Game Theory episode "Why I Gave the Pope Undertale" starts off with MatPat saying that despite the backlash the episode "The Truth about Sans" got, he still liked it, prompting this exchange:
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Jumping the Shark / int_a40b1126	comment	Mentioned twice in the Independence Day review, although he didn't think the movie was good in the first place, so he was likely confusing the term for something else.
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Jumping the Shark / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order: During a boss battle against Caren C. Hortensia, Caren keeps transforming into more powerful forms, but her final form is a baby complete with Baby Talk. Cu Chulainn complains about how stupid this is and asks if they just jumped the shark.
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Jumping the Shark / int_aa77c796	comment	Ebott's Wake: Officer Steve claims the titular town has Jumped the Shark when Hal Greene, the town's resident madman and one of its most dangerous residents, gains the ability to use magic.context Residents of the town having Functional Magic is precedentedâ€”even human ones, at this point. It's just that Hal in particular gaining magic is both kind of a nightmare scenario and kind of unnecessary given how unpredictable he already was.
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Jumping the Shark / int_abc09ce0	comment	In an episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo? where the gang goes to the set of an action film, the director ends up modifying the script to have Scooby and Shaggy launch on a motorcycle over a tank of sharks. Velma remarks, "Never thought I'd see Scooby-Doo jump the shark."
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Jumping the Shark / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Mentioned by name in Questionable Content, when Faye finally stops being even the least bit curious about Pintsize's antics.
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Jumping the Shark / int_aca7b22d	comment	This is referenced in an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball. In "The Test", where the universe becomes a sitcom starring Tobias, the show reaches critical mass with lazy cliches, until it ends on an All Just a Dream twist. It turns out that Tobias had gotten injured jumping a shark. The sitcom is ended for real when Tobias is liberated of his face by Gumball's repressed venom.
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Jumping the Shark / int_b3e81703	comment	Arthur, King of Time and Space: Arthur, Merlin and Gawain discuss the concept here. At the start of what turned out to be the last year, the characters discuss whether they've jumped the shark. Bors says there may have been a shark in Castle Carbonek's moat, and he, Galahad and Percival literally jumped it.
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Jumping the Shark / int_b66402e6	comment	Mentioned with a whole rant about how much the shark is abused in the review of The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia when the Rock Biter rides a bike singing "Born to be Wild". Although since he made it clear the series went downhill with the second movie, this again was misusing the term. Then again, there is no accurate fan speak term for that moment popular enough for him to rant that way about it, so it slides by with Rule of Funny.
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Jumping the Shark / int_b8c8f953	comment	PvP combined it with Breaking the Fourth Wall in this strip and also used it here.
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Jumping the Shark / int_bfa1d565	comment	In the last episode of Boston Legal after Alan accepts Denny's proposal of marriage, Denny says, "It'll be great! Like jumping a shark!"
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Jumping the Shark / int_c4a22754	comment	Episode 15 of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series had this exchange at the end:
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Jumping the Shark / int_c4df4e18	comment	In Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, one of the missions involves feeding imbecilic oil rig worker Mega's pet shark, Fonzie. That involves jumping over him on your board for some reason. Keep in mind that Mega's the kind of guy to name a shark Fonzie unironically, completely unaware of it meaning anything deeper than "That guy on that show I watched when I was like five. He was cool. Ayyyyy!"
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Jumping the Shark / int_c7cca04f	comment	In the (somewhat rushed) finale of Pushing Daisies, the Victim of the Week is killed by accidentally leaping into the mouth of a shark.
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Jumping the Shark / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI: The episode "Two and a Half Deaths" features a scene where Brass mentions the term "jumping the shark" to Grissom. Unfamiliar with what this means, Grissom asks and Brass is about to explain what it means when a scream switches the focus onto something else. In the show's final episode, Grissom is clearly aware of it, as he holds up two severed shark fins to a bunch of cops and says, "Looks like someone jumped a shark."
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Jumping the Shark / int_ccc80720	comment	In My Life as a Teenage Robot episode "In-Des-Tuck-Able", Tuck is performing a series of dangerous stunts, including riding a motorcycle over a Shark Pool. Brad provides the lampshading:
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Jumping the Shark / int_ce94ce33	comment	Parodied in an episode of Jellystone!, where a now-fearless Yakky Doodle has constructed an insanely dangerous skateboarding course; one of the obstacles is a "shark tank", which is really just Jabberjaw in a kiddie pool (Jabberjaw claims she was told there would be "hot guys").
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Jumping the Shark / int_d148f51d	comment	The Looney Tunes Show: In the "Stick to My Guns" Merrie Melodies music video (part of "Mrs. Porkybunny's"), one of the many stupid and dangerous things that Yosemite Sam does is attempt to jump over a shark tank on a motorcycle. He ends up getting eaten by the shark.
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Jumping the Shark / int_d5b5d107	comment	In Skate 3, the player attempts to jump over a statue of a shark in the opening cinematic. He fails, which is a setup for you to use plastic surgery to create your character. You can jump it in the actual game.
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Jumping the Shark / int_d6eb7846	comment	In The Replacements, Dick Daring jumps the shark twice in the second episode of the first season, with a Fonz lookalike appearing both times.
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Jumping the Shark / int_d8b3ca2a	comment	Lampshaded again by Edge during an episode of The Cutting Edge in 2010, in the midst of his feud with the Anonymous RAW General Manager. As he put it, they went from "Stone Cold" Steve Austin stunning Vince McMahon to Edge arguing with a computer. This eventually led to Edge going on a crusade against everything stupid in the WWE.
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Jumping the Shark / int_d9c602eb	comment	One "Previously On" for a two-part episode of South Park had scenes of Fonzie about to jump a shark cut in. Then when he makes the jump, he gets eaten, seeming to say "Not yet, viewers".
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Jumping the Shark / int_de7400d5	comment	Maid RPG specifically lampshades this for one of its example games, which due to player twinkery went completely and irretrievably Off the Rails (which, of course, never happens in real sessions). After Yugami, Kamiya, and Hizumi manage to derail the game into something resembling Fist of the North Star:
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Jumping the Shark / int_e034f402	comment	In Bruno the Bandit, the protagonist literally has to jump a shark, to be more successful getting readers.
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Jumping the Shark / int_e645472b	comment	Persona 3 FTW had a comic where the leads lament having to switch to the summer uniforms, followed by Fonzie jumping the shark. JC confirmed that he doesn't like the summer uniforms. Still doesn't.
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Jumping the Shark / int_e7e4190	comment	In Jake English's Mysterious Theater of Scientific Romance from the Year 3000, season 3 ends with everyone gathering around to watch Cronus jump a shark. He fails.
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Jumping the Shark / int_e96b932f	comment	In the last series of Made in Canada, the trope is discussed by the main characters in the episode "Beaver Creek Jumps the Shark", both regarding their own lives and the Show Within a Show Beaver Creek. They differ on when exactly the series jumped the shark, but several of the usual candidates are mentioned — a Cousin Oliver (actually named Oliver), supernatural elements, Shipping Bed Death, a Musical Episode, a live episode, a Real Time episode, and a guest appearance by Ted McGinley. As for their lives, they all seem to have begun their downward slides courtesy of some moment involving their Pointy-Haired Boss Alan Roy.
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Jumping the Shark / int_ec24be81	comment	In Bolt, this happens to the Show Within a Show after Penny quits. Penny's replacement comes across as a less accomplished actress, and the show is reduced to using aliens as villains — something Rhino immediately remarks on as he turns off the television.
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Jumping the Shark / int_ec80dae4	comment	The Zero Punctuation review for LEGO Indiana Jones was the first to feature a new opening video and hardcore metal theme song, as opposed to the (copyrighted) music of previous shorts. In his sign-off bit of snark, Yahtzee predicts oodles of e-mails predicting this as "his shark-jumping moment".
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Jumping the Shark / int_ed113c02	comment	In Saints Row IV, the final mission is called "Punch the Shark", even though no actual sharks are involved. "Jumping" it just doesn't quite cut it anymore.
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Jumping the Shark / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing: A certain item, equipped in the torso slot, drops from a shark. As usual, the item description contains several "examples of what plot elements may cause or be symptomatic of jumping the shark." One of the skills in the Avatar of Sneaky Pete special challenge path is "Jump the Shark", which gives you extra experience points but causes Sneaky Pete's "studio audience" to hate him (which can actually be useful to some of his skills).
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Jumping the Shark / int_f36dbe2e	comment	Team Umizoomi has an unusual variation where a shark jumps with the Team.
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Jumping the Shark / int_f3ae2950	comment	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has a trophy titled "Jumping the Shark", which you can get for destroying ten Hammerhead enemies in the game.
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Jumping the Shark / int_f44821b4	comment	In Spider-Verse, Miles Morales believes his life has reached this moment as he's being chased by the police while riding in a sentient Spider-Mobile. Animated Ultimate Peter suggests it was earlier, back in the cowboy Spider-Man's world.
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Jumping the Shark / int_fd904930	comment	The Fate of the Furious: Vin Diesel's character jumping a car over an Akulanote Russian for "shark"-class submarine in a self-deprecating Easter Egg.
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