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	Jumping the shark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jumping the shark is a metaphor that has been used by US TV critics and fans to denote the tipping point at which a TV series is deemed to have passed its peak.
		Many have noted the shark episode as the moment when they realized the show was no longer worth watching, considering the scene to be unrealistic and of poor quality, making it impossible to maintain suspension of disbelief.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jumping_the_shark (2066 words)

	Jumping the shark - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Some would say he jumped the shark when he sat with Michael Moore at the 2004 Democrat convention -- a worthy moment, to be sure, but his demise actually was of a more serious nature.
		In January 1992, at a formal dinner with Japan's prime minister, former President Bush jumped the shark with an untimely case of stomach flu.
		Well, he is a counterculture phenom: He jumped the shark with the single-bullet theory, jumped again with Robert Bork, and went for Round 3 with his "Scottish law" vote on Clinton's impeachment.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/zito/s_404382.html (555 words)

	In honor of Jumping the Shark
		But some people use "jump the shark" to mean the high point episode, the last good episode before the show went down hill.
		However you define it, "jumping the shark" seems to mean the moment after which the show just is not as good.
		Marcie had been divorced for a season or more, which itself was a jump the shark moment, because the actor left the show.
	homepage.mac.com /padnick/iblog/C190715106/E1277907056/index.html (855 words)

	unblague: Jumping the shark
		I think the phrase "jumping the shark" has been sufficiently absorbed by pop culture that everyone knows what it means and where it comes from.
		"Jump the shark" -- that's the catchphrase for television shows which have peaked and are on the decline (and use silly stunts like jumping a shark, trips to interesting places or introduce a child character to the show in a vain attempt to save viewership and prop up interest).
		I think that would be "jumping the couch".
	unblague.blogspot.com /2006/05/jumping-shark.html (164 words)

	What is Jumping the Shark? - Associated Content
		Jumping The Shark is a popular topic of conversation among college students.
		Jumping The Shark is a relatively new idea on the pop culture landscape.
		Jumping The Shark is something that happens to almost every great television show, as even the best show premises wear out after a while, leaving the writers to try and find ways to keep the show entertaining even when it is has run out of steam.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/18569/what_is_jumping_the_shark.html (343 words)

	Jumping The Shark - The Next Level Forum
		I think the phrase "jumped the shark" jumped the shark at the very least 4 years ago.
		The Simpsons jumped the shark with the Frank Grimes episode.
		Dude, the Happy Days episode where he jumped the shark was done in the 80s, IIRC.
	www.the-nextlevel.com /board/showthread.php?t=26401 (1041 words)

	Jump The Shark...what is this all about? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We call it "Jumping the Shark." From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same.
		The term "jump the shark" was coined by my college roommate for 4 years, Sean J. Connolly, in Ann Arbor, Michigan back in 1985.
		Jumping the shark applies not only to TV, but also music, film, even everyday life.
	www.jumptheshark.com /about.htm (492 words)

	'Jumping the Shark' by Matt Hill - Get Underground columns
		Usually the shark jumping moment at a job involves me having to clean up an unruly customer’s fecal matter from the floor of a poorly lit bathroom as I wonder where my life took a wrong turn.
		To jump the shark, you have to have something worthwhile to begin with; there has to be a reason that people remember that moment when everything turned to shit.
		To jump the shark is certainly better than not even being able to approach the tank to begin with.
	www.getunderground.com /underground/columns/article.cfm?Article_ID=1855 (3672 words)

	Jumping the Shark Quizzes and Trivia -- FunTrivia
		A television show that has lost its creative edge is said to have "jumped the shark".
		* This one jumped the shark when a wrecking ball came crashing into the hospital when a terminal cancer patient was walking in there and narrowly missed it.
		* This one jumped the shark when one of the secondary characters, a love interest, was discovered to be someone in the witness protection program.
	www.funtrivia.com /ql.cfm?cat=12089 (495 words)

	Blawg Review: Jumping the Shark
		Ron Coleman, who hosted an entertaining Blawg Review #2 at Likelihood of Confusion back in the day, says this law blog carnival has "jumped the shark" with the unconventional Blawg Review #48 at Rethink(IP), which Ron thinks should be the last of Blawg Review.
		Jumping the shark is not self-referential lawyer lingo to confuse clients and annoy David Giacalone.
		Jumping the shark is a metaphor used by US TV critics and fans since the 1990s to denote the moment when a TV series is (in retrospect) deemed to have passed its peak.
	blawgreview.blogspot.com /2006/03/jumping-shark.html (523 words)

	Truthdig - Reports - White House Jumps the Shark
		Jumping the shark—a phrase referring to the phenomenon of a long-running television series suddenly becoming irretrievably bad—has never been used to explain the rapid deterioration of a presidency before.
		I suggest that in the minds of the MSM addled America, Bush jumped the shark when he nominated his own “Leather Tuscadero” character, a swooning Harriet Miers.
		For me the “jumping the shark” moment came when Bush declared an end to hostilities in Iraq on board the aircraft carrier.
	www.truthdig.com /report/item/20060317_borowitz_jumps_sharp (1174 words)

	Sophie Cunningham: Jumping the Shark & Television Without Pity
		Their days were happy and carefree, until, legend has it; a young man called the Fonze went on a beach holiday with his friend Ritchie Cunningham and went water skiing, leather jacket and all.
		Here the legend gets hazy, but apparently a shark loomed and the Fonze jumped the shark, water skis and all.
		Assessing whether a show has jumped is a science and a show needs to have an overwhelming number of voters who feel a show has never jumped the shark to hold such an honour.
	www.sophiecunningham.com /archives/000082.html (581 words)

	Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Shark Jumping: A Historical Perspective
		In December 2005, Siva Vaidhyanathan says Google is jumping the “fair-use shark.” As you may know, the fair-use shark swims around and quotes small excerpts from other sharks.
		The Agency Blog concludes in October 2005 that Google has “officially jumped the shark” because of a collaboration with NASA that will include research and real estate.
		That’s my ’shark jumping moment.’ It made me think that all this ’seo’ and algorythm(sp?) brick-a-brack can be fixed in one simple step: advertise google in a national television commercial and find your site at spot one (okay not the correct terminology PR1 I believe) Matt, any thought’s on the “google pontiac” commercial.
	www.mattcutts.com /blog/shark-jumping-a-historical-perspective (2675 words)

	Catholic World News (CWN)
		I say the bishops "jumped the shark", to use the popular expression, when the majority sold out or abandoned the Lord just after the Last Supper.
		Since the American bishops "jumped the shark" nine years earlier when they failed to support Humane Vitae - thus inspiring a generation of dissenters - perhaps the better expression should be "snubbed the Pope," to wit:
		Technically, the Fonz jumped the Shark on waterskis rather than dropped the shark with a left hook/right cross to the snout and naked rear choke followed by a figure four leg lock.
	www.cwnews.com /offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm?task=singledisplay&recnum=3658 (800 words)

	Ubersite - Jumping the Shark
		"jumping the shark- things that used to be great" was the inspiration for my list.
		My life jumped the shark when I decided to let an old friend from high school move in with me. It's so pathetic when an established show brings back an old character that nobody liked in the first place in an attempt to change direction....
		you are mistaken, britney spears jumped the shark when she turned 18.
	www.ubersite.com /m/61813 (1520 words)

	Websnark: On jumping the shark: a fast irrelevant comment
		Different things are accused of jumping the shark, other essays and comments accuse "jumping the shark" of jumping the shark...
		Had Fonzie been in the middle of the jump, and we see "TO BE CONTINUED", and then next episode, we see, Tragically, that Fonzie's Tow Rope had come loose, and as he made the jump, he had been decellerating...
		Comment from: Maritza Campos posted at December 17, 2004 05:29 PM When CRFH jumps the shark, I'm gonna do it in a way that changes the term to "shark spanking".
	www.websnark.com /archives/2004/12/on_jumping_the.html (1366 words)

	Grey's Anatomy: jumping the shark? - TV Squad
		Saying "jumping the shark" started with Happy Days is accurate but not quite the whole story, as 99.9999% of our readership will be able to tell you.
		If this show would have a jump the shark moment it would've been when the pole got stuck into the two people and no one thought to cut it through the middle until after they killed Monica Keena.
		We can debate Jumping the Shark with Grey's Anatomy all summer long, but yes, the Izzy storyline was over the top, and for me, that was a deal breaker.
	www.tvsquad.com /2006/05/29/greys-anatomy-jumping-the-shark (1966 words)

	Jumping the Shark
		One parish of which I was a part most definitely jumped the shark liturgically when they replaced the both piano and the organ with an electronic keyboard, giving our liturgies an atmosphere that ranged between circus carnival and Holiday Inn lounge act, depending on the music involved.
		I’ve seen it happen at least twice: a parish that was vibrant, close and enthusiastic works together for years to raise money for a church building, since they’re tired of meeting in a hall.
		Now, we have to be fair about this — judging whether a church has jumped the shark runs the risk of being an ideological one — we jumped the shark when they took the vigil candles out.
	www.amywelborn.com /jumpshark/jumpshark.html (817 words)

	jumping the shark - @forums
		The thread "jumping the shark" has not received any replies for a year.
		to quote from wordorigins.com, jumping the shark is the defining moment when you know your favorite TV show will never be the same again.
		Not surprisingly, I place the "jumped the shark" point squarely at "Samshed" when Buffy and Spike first had sex.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=202829 (884 words)

	Word Spy - jump the shark
		In a television show, to include an over-the-top scene or plot twist that is indicative either of an irreversible decline in the show's quality or of a desperate bid to stem the show's declining ratings.
		The phrase "jump the shark" has enjoyed such a vogue in recent months, I'm surprised it didn't turn up on the list of overused words and expressions put out by Lake Superior State University this month.
		There is a flip side to this, of course, at least in television, namely a moment when you realize that the series is going downhill, the standard has been lost and convention has taken over.
	www.wordspy.com /words/jumptheshark.asp (477 words)

	ATA Blog: Jumping the Shark Tank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It references a famous episode of Happy Days in which Fonzi jumped the shark tank with his motorcycle.
		Most people agree that this point was the beginning of a series of low points in the show, and its ultimate demise.
		This year's Washington Summit was the antithesis of the shark tank example.
	www.ataconnect.org /2006/04/jumping_the_shark_tank.html (310 words)

	purevolume™ \| Jumping the Shark
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		All songs, lyrics and pictures © 2005 Jumping the Shark.
	www.purevolume.com /jumpingtheshark/photos (84 words)

	Jumping The Shark quiz -- free game
		The addition of a new character to a veteran series often means that the shark is in view.
		The shark isn't too far behind when one appears.
		Even regularly-scheduled sports programs have a shark in the water, waiting to claim a victim.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=180582 (384 words)

	Jumping Shark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jumping Shark went to @media in London last week, and had a real blast.
		It wasn’t as social as the rest of the conference, everybody seemed to stay near the people they knew.
		You have reached Jumping Shark, for which I congratulate you.
	www.jumpingshark.be (683 words)

	Already Over: Jumping the Shark - Gawker
		If you don't instinctively cringe when merely reading the phrase "jumping the shark," then let us welcome you to the Internet, as you're obviously new here.
		Yes, we're well aware of the metatextual implications of declaring "jumping the shark" to be "already over," but what do you know -- there is some fruit hanging so low that even we won't stoop to pick it.
		Being a Gawker commenter is the new "jumping the shark." And it's already over.
	gawker.com /news/already-over/already-over-jumping-the-shark-196130.php (526 words)

	Jumping The Shark
		The term "jumping the shark" was coined by Sean Connolly in Ann Arbor, Michigan back in 1985.
		Clearly the way to prevent the daylily from "jumping the shark" is to slow the dilution of the gene pool.
		The term "jump the shark" is copyrighted and trademarked by Jump The Shark, Inc.
	home.earthlink.net /~kernels/SHARK.html (1593 words)

	Crossing the Rubicon or Jumping the Shark?
		The Fonz, during a three-episode arch on Happy Days, wearing swim trunks, his leather jacket and water skis, jumped a penned-in shark, which signaled to one and all that the show had entered an irreversible decline.
		The Neocons and the Fundies, united in the doctrine that spilling the blood of foreigners brings not only morality to America, but America to God, and hence millions of new voters into the clutches of the neocons, clearly do not see that an Imperial America is an over-extended and vulnerable empire.
		We can confidently say that the Empire, at the point of seeming triumphant, has already jumped the shark and begun its irreversible decline.
	www.strike-the-root.com /4/younga/younga2.html (841 words)

	Urban Legend Zeitgeist: Jumping the Shark
		The photograph of the jumping shark was taken by underwater photographer Charles Maxwell off the coast of South Africa.
		The anonymous Photoshop hacker flipped the picture of the helicopter and diver and pasted in the jumping shark.
		The Golden Gate Bridge is left in the background which is somewhat at odds with the caption that claims it happened in South Africa.
	tafkac.org /ulz/shark.html (225 words)

	The Mayor Speaks: Jumping the Shark
		Named after the episode of Happy Days where the Fonz jumped a shark on waterskis, Jump the Shark is a guilty pleasure that can consume many hours of your time.
		The term refers to an exact moment in time where a television show took a turn for the worse.
		Laugh at those who believe that Survivor has yet to jump the shark.
	www.joelcomm.com /2003/09/jumping_the_shark.html (178 words)

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