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Can Ted McGinley help?

http://www.jumptheshark.com/forum/Ted-Mcginley/22

Ask Ted McGinley.

http://www.jumptheshark.com/forum/Ted-Mcginley/22

"Ted is the patron saint of shark jumping. Chances are that if Ted is anywhere near your cast, consider the show on the downward spiral. That's not to take away from Ted's fine acting skills. Consensus here enjoys Ted more on the big screen (Revenge of the Nerds) than on our sets. Then again, we wouldn't have a patron saint...thanks Ted!"

Adam Savage: I worked on Star Wars Episodes I and II, on the Matrix films, on AI and Terminator 3;

Hang on. Didn't those movies suck? Maybe Adam is the film equivalent of Ted McGinley?

I'd rather see the show go out on a high note than to jump the shark. Two of my favorite shows are Seinfeld and The Simpsons. Seinfeld went out at the top, so whenever I catch a rerun of it, I can be sure I'll enjoy it. With The Simpsons, I usually avoid the reruns because at this point there are more bad episodes than good ones. I hope I'll be able to enjoy reruns of Battlestar Galactica for a long time to come.

http://www.jumptheshark.com/index.jspa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

I guess this means Linux has finally Jumped the Shark?

I think it is pretty much a universally accepted fact making something "In Space" is pretty much an undeniable jump the shark moment.

So Ben Browder is the Ted McGinley of Sci-Fi?

Apparently you haven't been on Slashdot too long. There's not much fact here; just entertainment for fanboys of LUNIX...err, Linux and The Simpsons.

If you're looking for facts, turn to USA Today. If you're looking at venting some immature prepubescent frustration, come to Slashdot. You'll be welcomed with open arms.

Let's see...

• Computer's defunct video card business
• 3DO's failed game consoles
• chip startup that screwed up a deal with Nintendo
• the never successful WebTV
• Microsoft's canceled Ultimate TV satellite TV recorder

Is it just me, or does this guy sound like the Ted McGinley of the tech industry?

Did anyone else watch that and NOT think "Bobby Ewing in the shower?"

That being said, if they pull it off, it'll be a monumental acheivement.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_the_shark and http://jumptheshark.com/

It originally referred to an episode in "Happy Days" where the lead character literally ski-jumps over a shark. It's now become slang for any pointless, spectacular, diversion/stunt by a TV show or company (or whatever) that has run out of ideas, is on its way down, and can only retain public attention via these stupid stunts.

Perhaps a better animal-based metaphor for stunts over plotlines would be "LOTR has slid down the trunk"

I think TV Star Wars just jumped the shark before it even started...

...not until Sergey Brin and Larry Page jump over a shark tank on their motorcycles... After that there'll be a cute but irritating cousin who comes to live with them, and after that, they all move to LA and take up professional surfing and crimefighting.

THEN it's all over. Or at least has jumped the shark... Same thing.

http://www.jumptheshark.com/

It's not like they hired Ted McGinley. There are actors that can doom a series, but Scott isn't one of them.

4. Jumping the Shark (Malcolm in the Middle, Will and Grace)
5. The thing everyone waited for happened (Cheers, Moonlighting, soon will happen to Lost and Desperate Hosuewives)

These are usually considered to be the same thing. In fact, at http://www.jumptheshark.com/, Character A and Character B Finally Having Sex After Six Seasons Of The Fans Wanting It To Happen is one of the biggest reasons a show jumps the shark.

I guess for that matter, changes in the cast can cause a show to jump the shark as well. Lots of people felt that Happy Days (the original shark-jumper) jumped the shark upon losing Richie Cunningham to the void.

You can infer all you want. But jumping the shark means

"A defining moment when you know that your favorite television show has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on... it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it jumping the shark."

That expression was taken from the episode of _Happy Days_ when Fonzie jumped a shark on a "motorcycle". As someone who watched that episode in original broadcast, and have seen many other things, least among them TV shows, jump the shark, I can tell you that the sharkjump is the climax. After that, it's all downhill. Any subsequent event of any importance would be something other than "downhill", and destroy the metaphor. Jumping the shark is taking something to its limit - not a failure to live up to the limit.

Browder coming onto the show has nothing to do with "jumping the shark" unless the show goes downhill after that.

I'm intererested to see if Browder and Black's characters are going to be anything like Crichton and Sun (i.e., how much on Farscape was acting and how much was personality).

The Hallmark Channel really went downhill once they stopped showing "Hart to Hart"

Yeah, I hear what you're saying -- I can still get my Robert Wagner fix whenever I want by popping in an Austin Powers DVD. But what about Stefanie Powers??

• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault by Electronic Arts
• Star Wars Battlefront by Lucasarts
• Asheron's Call by Microsoft
• Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay by Vivendi
• ...etc...

Showing a simulation of a sport with consistently low ratings on a channel with consistently low ratings. It's brilliant! If Ted McGinley was the host, they'd when an Emmy for sure.

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You may think that MST3K is the nadir of witlessness, and that people who are not creative enough to craft thier own funny comments suck, however here's what I think about it.

http://www.jumptheshark.com/e/enterprise.htm They did, and it has received 21 votes so far.

Actually I think this is where Stargate SG1 Jumps the Shark.

Sadly, the IRA had mostly shuttered their doors by 2000-2001. So, by the time that Star Trek: ENT was being plotted out, me and my pals had long since been reduced to sending our ill-gotten petrodollars to the likes of ETA.

(And yes, I suppose we could have supported "The Real IRA" but, quite frankly, their name is too ridiculous to even be worthy of consideration. Plus, it brings back too many memories of "The Real Ghostbusters")

And then Anakin Skywalker will jump over some sort of alien lava shark on his surfboard....

It describes that point when the show takes a dramatic turn downward....

There is a website devoted to the concept. They define it as that point when the show is at its peak, but it seems to be used as I defined it above.

Sounds much like climbing Kilimanjaro then: most of it's up until you reach the very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.

There is a website devoted to the concept. They define it as that point when the show is at its peak, but it seems to be used as I defined it above.

Science fiction fans may have be dismayed when they learnt that Firefly was being cancelled, but I buy the DVDs of Andromeda here in Australia and I'm far from dismayed. Not saying I know when it jumped the shark, but I almost stopped buying it at DVD 4.6.

The vast majority of those who voted believe that the Simpsons has yet to jump the shark.

This still doesn't mean the ISS is anything other than a giant orbiting multibillion dollar turkey.

"I swear, as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

- Arthur Carlson

Probably refers to this

P.S. And if the new planet is teeming with intelligent life, have can you call it earth like????

Jump the shark site has info about hundreds and hundreds of TV shows, and the point at which they started going south.

Dunno about your tv.. but mine has all kinds of cool moving pictures. They dance, and laugh, and shoot each other, and on Cop Rock, they even SING!

For those who don't know about this phenomenon, "jumping the shark" is a term a guy coined to describe when a TV show (or anything for that matter) has started to go downhill. It comes from Happy Days, when Fonzie jumped a shark on water skis. It was made up to be a scary and serious episode, but was clearly very very lame. After that, the show was never the same. See jumptheshark.com for more info.

For someone who even points to the webbage, you seem to be a little misguided. Fonzie jumping the shark was not 'very very lame', but when the show clearly reached its peak and could never achieve anything better than that moment, and it is from there that everything goes downhill.

'Jumping the shark' is when something has reached its peak and has nowhere to go but down. It is not when the show has all ready started to decline in quality.

I swear I saw Homer jumping a shark on skis in the previews for this season. It made me crack up. I am actually surprised they haven't done it on the show yet. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it became a running gag. I don't know if the Simpsons could ever truly jump the shark, they are all about the shark. :-)

For those who don't know about this phenomenon, "jumping the shark" is a term a guy coined to describe when a TV show (or anything for that matter) has started to go downhill. It comes from Happy Days, when Fonzie jumped a shark on water skis. It was made up to be a scary and serious episode, but was clearly very very lame. After that, the show was never the same. See jumptheshark.com for more info.

Isn't there an episode were Homer literally jumps a shark?

Actually looking at Jump the Shark it was the episode titled Gump Roast... which aired on 21 Apr 2002.

So The Simpsons jumped the shark between 8-8:30 PM EST on April 21st 2002.

I'm sorry, but so what? Star Trek jumped the shark as soon as they threw that half-baked Battlestar Galactica rip-off, Voyager, on the air. (Don't agree? Borg = Cyclons, Voyager = Galactica, far from home and lost.) Berman and Braga fucked up what could potentially be a great series by trying to do the same stupid Time War shit they did with Voyager, etc.

In the end, as much as I find the characters interesting, I just can't bring myself to care too much about the premature end of this five-year mission. You can't keep a show running, much less grabbing public interest, based on potential. This show had it, but it failed to deliver on it.

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Shark-jumping

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Ummm... Did you actually watch the last season of Northern Exposure? That series definately went on at least one season too long. I present this as evidence in support.

Compare with this.

Not every submission needs a pithy comment or lame headline.

Ummm... Did you actually watch the last season of Northern Exposure? That series definately went on at least one season too long. I present this as evidence in support.

Compare with this.

Not every submission needs a pithy comment or lame headline.

Sounds familiar to me. My first date with the woman I married was to Almost Live! I met Bill backstage, too. Thanks for the memories. :-)

I'm gratified to see that I'm not the only one that immediately remembered this scifi "prior art".

One wonders if at least one of the researchers was a fan of the show, or at least the first season.

The original 4-hour mini-series was great. The following series "jumped the shark."

I thought that as we all saw on TV, we should have all been using VR interfaces back in 1996!

Desktops? How quaint.
What about the kitchen metaphore?
Or better yet, the bathroom user interface?
What about countertops?
Or stovetops?

What ever happened to VRML?!! I've got this mungo-ass 3D accellemerator card that came with my PC, but my operating system utilizes exactly 0% of it. Where are the direct-to-brain elecronical interfaces invented by William Gibson? Why has the state of the art been polishing the same turd since 1978 ?!!!

Synchronize Swatches!