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The moment when Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water skis in a scene in Happy Days.

The term jumping the shark alludes to a specific scene in a 1977 episode of the TV series Happy Days when the popular character Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli literally jumps over a shark while water skiing. The scene was so preposterous that many believed it to be an ill-conceived attempt at reviving the declining ratings of the flagging show. The phrase has become a colloquialism used by U.S. TV critics and fans to denote the point at which the characters or plot of a TV series veer into a ridiculous, out-of-the-ordinary storyline. Such a show is typically deemed to have passed its peak. Once a show has "jumped the shark" fans sense a noticeable decline in quality or feel the show has undergone too many changes to retain its original appeal. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links Fonzie_jumps_the_shark. ... Image File history File links Fonzie_jumps_the_shark. ... Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli (also known as The Fonz or simply Fonzie) is a fictional character played by Henry Winkler in the American sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984). ... For other uses, see Happy Days (disambiguation). ... A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. ... For other uses, see Happy Days (disambiguation). ... Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli (also known as The Fonz or simply Fonzie) is a fictional character played by Henry Winkler in the American sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984). ... Look up Colloquialism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... TV redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Jump-the-shark moments may be scenes like the one described above that finally convince viewers that the show has fundamentally and permanently strayed from its original premise. In those cases they are viewed as a desperate and futile attempt to keep a series fresh in the face of declining ratings. In other cases the departure or replacement of a main cast member or character or a significant change in setting changes a critical dynamic of the show. These changes are often attempts to attract their fans' waning attention with over-the-top statements or increasingly overt appeals to sex or violence.

The term has also evolved to describe other areas of pop culture including movie series, musicians, actors or authors for whom a drastic change was seen as the beginning of the end or marking the moment the subject is "past its peak." When referring to celebrities, the related term jumping the couch is often used if the moment is a personal act of "going off the deep end".^[1][2] Popular culture (or pop culture) is the widespread cultural elements in any given society that are perpetuated through that societys vernacular language or lingua franca. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...

Origin

The phrase refers to a scene in a three-part episode of the American TV series, Happy Days, first broadcast on September 20, 1977. In the "Hollywood" episode, Fonzie (Henry Winkler), wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, jumps over a penned-in shark while water skiing. is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1977 in television involved some significant events. ... Dr. Henry Franklin Jameson Frederick Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, director, producer and author. ... For other uses, see Shark (disambiguation). ... // Water skiing began in 1922 when Ralph Samuelson strapped two boards to his feet and rigged a clothesline up to his boat on Lake Pepin in Lake City, Minnesota. ...

Even before "jumping the shark" was employed as a pop culture term, the episode in question was cited many times as an example of what can happen to otherwise high-quality shows when they stay on the air too long in the face of waning interest. The infamous scene was seen by many as betraying the Happy Days' 1950's setting by cashing in on 1970's fads of Evel Knievel^[3] and Jaws. Producer Garry Marshall later admitted that he knew the show had lost something as the crew prepared to shoot the scene. As Marshall pointed out in the reunion special that aired on February 3, 2005, however, Happy Days went on to produce approximately 100 more episodes after the "jumping the shark" episode. During the same special, in response to an audience member's question, Marshall introduced the notorious clip and noted how the show had inspired the term. Robert Craig Evel Knievel, Jr. ... Garry Kent Marshall (born November 13, 1934) is an American actor/director/writer/producer. ... is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 2005 in television involved some significant events. ...

The first public use^[4] of the phrase as a direct metaphor is reported to have been on December 24, 1997, when the jumptheshark.com website was launched by Jon Hein. According to the site, the phrase was first coined by Hein's college roommate, Sean J. Connolly, in 1985. The term first appeared in print in the May 29, 1998, Jerusalem Post newspaper article, "It's All Downhill," written by Jeff Abramowitz. is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Not to be confused with John Hein. ... is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli newspaper in the English language. ...

The phrase has been used more recently outside the realm of popular culture, representing anything that has reached its peak and has turned mediocre. If one thinks a stock or a sports team or a subcultural phenomenon has reached its peak, for example, one can say that it has "jumped the shark."

Common methods of jumping the shark

The "Jump the Shark" web site lists 18 categories fans may use to tag shows, signifying the moment at which the show jumped. The categories include:

• Same Character, Different Actor, generally caused by the departure of an unsatisfied actor
• Death and Exit … stage left, in which a character either dies or leaves the show, generally prompted by the departure of an unsatisfied actor rather than for creative purposes
• They did it, in which two main characters have sex, particularly if their sexual tension was deemed part of the show's appeal
• Moving the main characters from their familiar surroundings to a new town
• Special guest star
• A very special …: the very special episode, describing a situation comedy episode that either deals with a serious or controversial social issue or is unusually dramatic in some way.
• New kid in town, or Cousin Oliver syndrome (in reference to the character on The Brady Bunch), when a new character (often, a young child) is added to the cast, in response to former child actors who have entered adolescence or adulthood, and/or to revive falling ratings.

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"Jump the shark" references

Sitcom or dramatic series references

• Arrested Development has a character played by Henry Winkler, who played the Fonz in Happy Days. In the episode "Motherboy XXX", while conversing with other characters on a dock, he remarks, "I missed breakfast, so I’m on my way to Burger King," and then hops over a shark that's in front of his path.
• That '70s Show had an episode in which Fez imagines jumping over a shark, thinking how cool it would be to be the Fonz. Hyde comments that not only is it the worst idea ever, but that it also was the worst moment in television history. Fez then says he never really watched the show after that episode. In another episode, Eric asks Pastor Dave how cool Jesus is compared to Fonzie, and asks if he can jump over a shark.
• Mad TV reenacted a skit in which the infamous "jump the shark" episode was partially redone in mock Spanish, featuring dialogue such as Laverne saying "Aww, Shirl, Fonzie es jumpo el sharko!"
• The Canadian black comedy Made in Canada (titled The Industry elsewhere) had an episode entitled "Beaver Creek Jumps the Shark", where it becomes obvious to the characters that the lead show that they produce (Beaver Creek) has jumped the shark, and several of the main characters reminisce about how their own lives did the same. It would be the fifth-to-last episode of the series to air.
• An episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide featured Loomer and Cookie in a competition where they had to use ramps to jump over a pool full of sharks on a bike. Cookie decided not to do it, and Loomer attempted to do it and failed. Mat Hoffman then successfully jumped the sharks.
• The production logo at the end of the credits for the TV show Stargate Atlantis features a shark riding a tricycle jumping over a typewriter and getting hit by a falling anvil. (Falling anvils are another television-themed metaphor used to describe excessively heavy-handed writing.^{[citation needed]})
• In the 200th episode of Stargate SG-1, after receiving an idea to shoot a movie entirely with puppets, Martin Lloyd (the director of the movie) says "That'll work, a whole movie made with puppets… Maybe we can have puppet O'Neill jump over a puppet shark on a 1/3-scale motorcycle." O'Neill was played by Richard Dean Anderson, who played MacGyver, which was produced by Henry Winkler.
• When Ralf Little was unavailable to star in the seventh series of the British sitcom Two Pints of Lager & a Packet of Crisps, main character Jonny Keogh was killed off in an accident while jumping over a shark in Hawaii. This occurred off-screen during a special live episode entitled "When Jonny Met Sharky". The phrase "jump the shark" is frequently used throughout the episode as a deliberate in-joke.
• A sketch at the beginning of Reno 911!'s fifth season premiere features Lt. Jim Dangle attempting to jump over a small leopard shark. In the background, a banner can be seen which reads "Jumping the shark for autism" However, Dangle fails to actually jump the shark and instead crashes face-first into the aquarium, insinuating that the show has not yet jumped the shark despite having a (gay) marriage and a child birth as cliffhangers in the previous season's finale. The insinuation was backed up when both were effectively resolved in the fifth season's first episode when the gay marriage was deemed illegal and the baby was sold to a yuppie couple from Lake Tahoe.

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Cartoon references

• Clerks: The Animated Series featured a clip show episode consisting almost entirely of its four main characters reminiscing about previous incidents from the series. At one point in the episode, the characters reminisce about their favorite Happy Days episodes, the shark-jumping episode among them.
• Dora the Explorer began its 2003 season with an episode in which the title character literally jumped a shark.
• In an episode of The Emperor's New School Kronk becomes a TV star as part of one of Izma's plans. The whole town becomes mesmerized by Kronk's various shows. Kuzco becomes jealous and eventually joins Kronk to do a variety show. Unfortunately, no one likes the show and they all throw out their TVs. As two palace guards throw their TV off a cliff, one of them comments, "They really jumped a llama."
• In the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Sweet Stench of Success", Bloo gets a job as "Deo", a spokesperson for deodorant, which leads to a job on a sitcom titled What's The Big Deo?, and at the end of the pilot episode of this show within a show, there is an announcement saying "Tune in next week when Deo jumps a shark."
• In the beginning of the Kim Possible episode "Ill Suited", Ron Stoppable calls Kim, waking her up to ask her if they were really dating after he had a nightmare involving their first kiss (from the end of the animated TV-movie So The Drama, which was at the time the series finale until the series' popularity brought forth one more (the fourth) season). Later in the end credit scene, Ron calls Kim (and wakes her up) again and mentions several different dreams he had, including one of Kim ski-jumping over sharks.
• In one episode of Sealab 2021 Sharko jumps over a pool of Fonzies during a montage.
• In What's New, Scooby-Doo?, Scooby and Shaggy are on a remote-controlled motorcycle and jump over a tank of sharks, following which Velma says, "I never thought Scooby-Doo would jump the shark."
• The Fairly OddParents had a music video on the DVD movie Channel Chasers called "If I Lived In TV" which featured Timmy Turner waterskiing with Fonzie, in which they eventually jump over a shark.

Homer Simpson jumping over a shark in a satirical tribute to Fonzie and the declining quality of The Simpsons.

• The South Park episode Probably begins with a "Previously on South Park" segment, in which interspliced with actual clips are cartoonized scenes of Fonzie about to jump over a shark. In the South Park version of events, Fonz doesn't make it. The South Park episode City on the Edge of Forever, which also spoofs the ubiquitous clip show by showing clips from earlier episodes but altering them such that each one ends happily with the children receiving ice cream, includes a clip of Fonzie jumping over a bus on his motorcycle, crashing into Kenny, then handing out ice cream.
• The episode 257–494 which began Season 4 of Teen Titans had Robin jump a shark while on skis. This same episode spoofed countless television shows and movies.
• In an episode of Bonus Stage, Joel Dawson says, "Phil, come look, we're about to travel over Sharkworld, I'm surprised we haven't done this already." In a later episode, Joel repeats the gag by saying "There are some sharks I refuse to jump."
• An episode of Drawn Together entitled A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special parodies very special episodes. At one point, silhouetted figures inside a bar can be seen while a shark hovers overhead, implying that shows which do very special episodes jump the shark.
• The Simpsons clip show Gump Roast (DABF12) ends with many jumping-the-shark allusions, including a shot of Homer water skiing over a shark. It includes a song in which Matt Groening and his staff answer to fans worried over comments he made that he was running out of ideas, saying "Have no fears, we got stories for years." They then give examples of supposedly upcoming episode premises such as Marge becoming a robot, Bart owning a bear, Moe getting a cell phone, and "a crazy wedding where something happens".
• The Simpsons episode The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show parodies the addition of a new character in response to a TV show's waning popularity.

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Jumping the shark in legal academia

• The 2007 supplement to Modern Criminal Procedure 11th ed. by Kamisar, LaFave, Israel, and King (a leading law school casebook) refers to "jumping the shark" in the context of the Supreme Court's increasing willingness to permit suspicionless searches. In a 2006 case, the Court held that parolees inherently have fewer expectations of privacy as a condition of their release, so police officers may stop and search parolees without any prior justification. Samson v. California, 126 S. Ct. ). In a note following Samson in the 2007 supplement, the casebook authors quote an Internet blog hypothesizing that state legislatures might attempt to apply Samson to convicted sex offenders as well:

"Given the ongoing sex offender mania and its premise of permanent recidivism as the basis for lifetime registries and prohibitions on residence and occupation and such, one wonders whether some activist legislature will now jump the shark and propose extending Samson to a lifetime forfeiture of Fourth Amendment protection for convicted sex offenders, even after the terms of the parole has ended." 2007 supplement to Modern Criminal Procedure 11th ed. (quoting http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/.shtml). Holding The Fourth Amendment does not prohibit a police officer from conducting a suspicionless search of a parolee. ... The Bill of Rights in the National Archives. ...

Term used in other contexts

• The computer game Jumpman Zero has a level titled jump the shark, which requires the player to do just that.
• The 2004 book, America (the Book): a Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, by Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show, by featuring a caption regarding the 2000 elections, in which the entire news media, led by Fox News, was said to "jump the shark" by prematurely predicting George W. Bush the winner, playing on the similarity between "jump the shark" and "jump the gun": not only did the American news media come to a premature conclusion about the election, they "jumped the shark" in that they lost all credibility with the public.
• In the skateboard video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, the player is required to jump over a shark named Fonzie.
• In the game Hallrunner at Videlectrix.com (a fake video game company set up by the creators of Homestar Runner), the player will come upon various different objects with the choice to either "talk", "fight" or "jump" them. Using the "jump" action when encountering a shark, the response is "You jump the shark. Just like Homestarrunner.com. *0 points*"
• In an op-ed on August 27, 2005, Maureen Dowd stated that George W. Bush "jumped the shark by landing on that 'Mission Accomplished' carrier."
• "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Poodle Hat has a song called "Couch Potato", which contains the lyrics:

and King of Queens jumped the shark the first minute.

I can't believe Richard Simmons ain't in it!

• In a posting^[5] on the political blog the Daily Kos, James Carville is claimed to have "jumped the shark" by labeling Bill Richardson a Judas for endorsing Barack Obama after allegedly promising to do otherwise to certain high-end Democratic Party donors whom Carville named publicly. In the same posting, the Hillary Clinton campaign is also said to have done the same.
• In a posting^[6] on the political blog TalkingPointsMemo, Josh Marshall characterizes the Clinton campaign as having "descended into something like an all-night shark hop."
• in The Huffington Post^[7] Ariana Huffington asks the "... 'Swift Boat Media' to realize that John McCain jumped the shark a long, long time ago..."

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See also

• Chuck Cunningham syndrome
• Cousin Oliver
• Fonzie syndrome
• Jumping the couch
• Marrying Irving
• Point of no return
• Rainbow Over Texas and Other Movie Colloqiualisms

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References

External links

• Video clip of the scene in "Hollywood" where Fonzie jumps the shark Youtube link
• jumptheshark.com
• Jump The Shark Yahoo! media discussion group.
• Wordspy article
• When Shows Jump The Shark
• "Jump the Shark": The TV show
• From Sanjaya to "Heroes" season finale: The Top 14 Jump the Shark moments