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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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Ansem Retort had this to say, after Jesus turned Marluxia into a gay dragon: | |
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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. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Grand Tour episode "A Massive Hunt" has Richard and Jeremy discuss how swimming is forbidden in Réunion because of shark attacks: | |
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Bug Martini: Signs Your Life has Jumped the Shark. | |
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Melonpool, after a decade of time-travel history-changing shenanigans, had gotten so convoluted that the author decided on a massive retcon, whose fuzzy science rationale actually had the acronym Jump the S.H.A.R.K.. | |
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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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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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Bob the Angry Flower ramps a shark on a motorcycle. Into space. | |
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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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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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A Freefall strip features a shark tank, but warns people away from jumping over it. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Irregular Webcomic! addressed Jumping the Shark (both literally and figuratively) in an arc starting here. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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xkcd has this comic's Alt Text: | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, this is referenced and lampshaded during a boat chase: | |
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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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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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In Unwinder's Tall Comics, Unwinder laments the decline of his former favorite webcomic: | |
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In The Venture Brothers, the Monarch references this trope regarding henchmen: | |
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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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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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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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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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Wipeout couldn't resist mentioning the trope; an episode featured an elimination game called "Jump the Shark", where players had to, well, jump over a spinning shark. | |
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The penultimate episode of The Colbert Report literally did it in the opening credits. | |
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In one episode of Bonus Stage, Joel exclaims, "Come quick! We're about to travel over Shark World! I don't know why we haven't done this already." In another episode, Joel states that there are "some sharks [he] refuses to jump". | |
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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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Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide has an episode about making and taking dares that incorporates one character jumping a bicycle over a tank with a shark in it. | |
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Knights of the Dinner Table #151 is titled "Jump the Shark". It features Gary Jackson coming Back from the Dead. It's actually one of several suggestions floated by the writers in the joke section on the back page for how the comic could jump the shark — several issues previously. And apparently, the writers were planning to do this even before that list, making this a case of Self-Deprecation. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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From RedLetterMedia: | |
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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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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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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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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 à la 24, having a Dallas-style murder mystery, having a Cousin Oliver show up, and having an Evil Twin à la Knight Rider. | |
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Mentioned in the Regular Show episode "The Heart of a Stuntman". | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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 precedented—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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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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Mentioned by name in Questionable Content, when Faye finally stops being even the least bit curious about Pintsize's antics. | |
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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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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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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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PvP combined it with Breaking the Fourth Wall in this strip and also used it here. | |
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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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In the intro for Mega Man's Christmas Carol 3, Proto Man has gotten fed up with Christmases that go sour and the doctors acting bizarrely, with this game's Paper-Thin Disguise scenario leading him to outright call it shark-jumping territory. Seeing as this game was released after a lengthy delay, it's definitely intentional. | |
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In the Sealab 2021 episode "Sharko's Machine", Sharko, a Cousin Oliver parody who is Marco's half-shark illegitimate son, is seen jumping over several Fonzies during an absurd Hard-Work Montage. | |
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Episode 15 of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series had this exchange at the end: | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Bruno the Bandit, the protagonist literally has to jump a shark, to be more successful getting readers. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Team Umizoomi has an unusual variation where a shark jumps with the Team. | |
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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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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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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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