your show's SHARK JUMP

[RobertScorpio]

We all have favorite shows that have, yeah I know its over used, Jumped the Shark. What are some of your best best examples of Shark Jumping?

For me, here are some..

When Danno leaves HAWAII FIVE 0 (big time FIVE 0 fan here)

Three's Company..When Ropers/Chrissy left

Heroes..Yes, I think this show jumped the shark and, for me, its when the older Petreli son "lived" after the season one cliffhanger..once it became apparent that some of the more important characters really dont stay dead, it lost me...

What are some of yours?

Rob

 

[JonathonWally]

"Jumping the Shark" is old and busted.

"Nuking the Fridge" is the new hotness.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ 'Nuking the Fridge'?

 

[RobertScorpio]

^ 'Nuking the Fridge'?

is that a INDIAN JONES thing? Because thats the moment his series jumped the shark as well..

Rob

 

[IndyJones]

^ 'Nuking the Fridge'?

It's from the Kingdom of the Transdimensional Alien Crystal Skull.

 

[sidious618]

Stargate- "Moebius" and everything beyond it.
Stargate Atlantis- When Mallozzi and Mullie took over.
24- When Bauer tortured his brother for no reason otherwise than that they needed a cliffhanger. Then again, it had jumped the shark a shitload of times before that but that instance was the last straw for me.
Boston Legal- When it became clear that they had no idea what they were doing with new cast members.
Jericho- The second season.

 

[LutherSloan]

The Simpsons- Not sure of the exact point, but I knew it had 'jumped the shark' for sure when I heard they were retconning the established idea that the two kids were born in the 1980s, and moving it to the 1990s. WTF.

 

[RobertVA]

Sliders: Jumped the shark when they wrote Professor Arturo and Wade out. Jumped the Great White Shark with the Quin discovering he had been hidden in our dimension by his parents (compounded by nepotism hiring his real life brother as the brother his character didn't know he had). Jumped the Blue Whale when the two brothers were literally merged into one character for the last season ("series" for those on the East side of the pond).

 

[Kelthaz]

I'm throwing in a new term. Growing The Beard. It refers to everyone's favourite Commander growing a beard and thereby drastically improving his show. One episode or one event that marks when the show finds its legs.

Buffy: The Vampire Slayer

Growing the Beard - School Hard (Great to Fantastic)
First Jump - The Gift. (Fantastic to Good)
Second Jump - Conversations with Dead People (Good to Pure Shit)

Xena: Warrior Princess

First Jump - Sacrifice Part II (Fantastic to Boring)
Growing the Beard - Ides of March (Boring to Great)
Second Jump - Eve (Great to Pure Shit)

Justice League

Growing the Beard - Twilight (Great to Fantastic)
First Jump - Divided We Fall (Fantastic to Boring)

Star Trek: Voyager

Only Jump - Equinox (Inconsistently Great to Awful)

 

[Aragorn]

Boston Legal- When it became clear that they had no idea what they were doing with new cast members.

Uhh... that started with season two.

 

[Hermiod]

I'm throwing in a new term. Growing The Beard. It refers to everyone's favourite Commander growing a beard and thereby drastically improving his show. One episode or one event that marks when the show finds its legs.

That's superb, I'm going to use that one!

 

[Da'an]

Charmed. After they introduced the "Magic School" the series kinda went downhill from there.

Obviously they were trying to jump on the Harry Potter bandwagon, but ended up jumping the shark.

I'm throwing in a new term. Growing The Beard. It refers to everyone's favourite Commander growing a beard and thereby drastically improving his show. One episode or one event that marks when the show finds its legs.

That's superb, I'm going to use that one!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingTheBeard

 

[Aragorn]

Would NCIS fit the grow-the-beard? Mark Harmon had a beard for a couple episodes, shaved it off but left an ugly mustache for several episodes, then shaved it off and was back to where he was before.

 

[Kelthaz]

I'm throwing in a new term. Growing The Beard. It refers to everyone's favourite Commander growing a beard and thereby drastically improving his show. One episode or one event that marks when the show finds its legs.

That's superb, I'm going to use that one!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingTheBeard

You just couldn't let me take credit for it, could you?

 

[Admiral_Young]

Smallville...after season four 's finale when Clark, Chloe, and Lana graduate from high school and the second meteor shower hit bringing Brainiac. This is the point where you move all your main characters to Metropolis and come back in September as Metropolis! You could also maybe include the end of season three when Lois debuts as jumping the shark.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

^ 'Nuking the Fridge'?

It's from the Kingdom of the Transdimensional Alien Crystal Skull.

I feel like saying- because loads of people seem to have a problem with the aliens and the skull- that the crystal skulls as a depository of alien or extradimensional knowledge is a well established myth dating back many thousands of years. People seem to view it as a WTF? plot, and say it was too wierd, but it's mythology, no different from the Holy Grail.

 

[Shazam!]

is that a INDIANA JONES thing? Because thats the moment his series jumped the shark as well..

Except it totally isn't. If anything, it was the swinging monkeys jungle giant waterfalls bendy trees bit.

 

[Da'an]

^ 'Nuking the Fridge'?

It's from the Kingdom of the Transdimensional Alien Crystal Skull.

I feel like saying- because loads of people seem to have a problem with the aliens and the skull- that the crystal skulls as a depository of alien or extradimensional knowledge is a well established myth dating back many thousands of years. People seem to view it as a WTF? plot, and say it was too wierd, but it's mythology, no different from the Holy Grail.

Yes but they're probably not meant to be real skulls of living beings that have crystal skeletons and come back to life when you reattach them.

 

[Shazam!]

Yes but they're probably not meant to be real skulls of living beings that have crystal skeletons and come back to life when you reattach them.

And the Holy Grail isn't meant to grant you eternal life and destroy a temple if you walk over a certain bit.

 

[Silent_Bob]

^ 'Nuking the Fridge'?

It's from the Kingdom of the Transdimensional Alien Crystal Skull.

I feel like saying- because loads of people seem to have a problem with the aliens and the skull- that the crystal skulls as a depository of alien or extradimensional knowledge is a well established myth dating back many thousands of years. People seem to view it as a WTF? plot, and say it was too wierd, but it's mythology, no different from the Holy Grail.

And i feel like saying the Crystal Skull myths do not date back thousands of years, because the first one was made in the 19th century. There is absolutely nothing, zip, zero, zilch about Crystal Skulls in any of the mythology of the Ancient Civilizations of the Middle and South Americas.

Shaping the skulls of infants into odd shapes yes, strange looking people referred to as Outsiders or Visitors from the Sky, yes. But Crystal Skulls are nothing but a hoax. Any mythology attached to them is a modern invention.

As for when my own show Jumped the Shark, it would be 'Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps', when Johnny attempted to jump over a shark and was eaten. It marks the point when the show went from mediocre with moments of comic genius, to just abysmal.