Another AtD review
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MalignD at aol.com
Tue Nov 14 16:43:11 CST 2006
<< What's "jumping ths shark"? >>
It's a term (also a website) about television mainly and refers to when a
show pushes its premise a step too far and sinks the entire enterprise. (It
jumps the shark.)
The term derives from a Happy Days episode when Fonzie goes waterskiing and,
seeing a shark jumps over it, thereby forfeiting the show's agreement with its
audience about its boundaries of (un)believability.
The website, by the way, is pretty entertaining.
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