Another AtD review

MalignD at aol.com 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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