To: LanaTurnerOverdrive
I propose a moratorium on the phrase “Jump the Shark.”I don't even know what it means.
23 posted on
08/02/2007 10:13:29 PM PDT by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: Cobra64
24 posted on
08/02/2007 10:18:04 PM PDT by
SlowBoat407
(It's never a good time to get sucked into an evil vortex.)
To: Cobra64
The phrase “Jump the Shark” is a reference to the televisions show “Happy Days”. It refers to an event in a television show (or by analogy any other long-running cultural product, or series of cultural products) which epitomizes its decline (usually into absurdity) and presages its demise.
In the episode in question The Fonz jumped over a shark on water skis.
26 posted on
08/02/2007 10:19:49 PM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: Cobra64
I propose a moratorium on the phrase “Jump the Shark.” I don't even know what it means.
It's a reference to "Happy Days' going into the absurd by having Fonzie do a water ski jump over a shark. Anything else that has gone off the deep end can be said to have "jumped the shark". See also: www.jumptheshark.com
27 posted on
08/02/2007 10:19:56 PM PDT by
SlowBoat407
(It's never a good time to get sucked into an evil vortex.)
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