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The episode title is a humorous reference to the phrase "jumping the shark", coined when Fonzie did a water ski jump of a shark pen on the television series Happy Days. The phrase is used to describe shows that have peaked and are in decline.
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When former Area 51 Man-in-Black Morris Fletcher appears, claiming that a female friend of The Lone Gunmen is actually a super-soldier, Doggett and Reyesattempt to locate her but find that the situation is graver than they first expected.
Morris Fletcher narrates the exploits and adventures of John Fitzgerald Byers, Melvin Frohike, and Richard Langly (the Lone Gunmen). Describing them correctly as geekish heroes, he recounts their journey from the beginning to the present, including the addition of their allies, Jimmy Bond the oafish but goodhearted assistant and Yves Adele Harlowth...
Introductory Details
1. This episode features the final appearance of Morris Fletcher and the deaths of the Lone Gunmen. The Lone Gunmen later appear as ghosts to Mulder in the season finale "The Truth" and then as a hallucination to Mulder in the Season 10 episode "Babylon" 2. The phrase "jump the shark" comes from an episode of Happy Days, in which the character Fonzie literally jumped over a shark on water skis. The scene was considered "the end of Happy Days" and the phrase was later adopted to refer to the m...
Locations
1. Fletcher's boat explodes 20 miles west of Harbor Island, Bahamas. 2. Fletcher first meets Doggett and Reyes at the US Coastguard base, Miami Beach, Florida. 3. The two men carrying out the terrorist plot, both work at Hartwell College, Keaney, New Jersey. 4. The Lone Gunmen are buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.
Memorable Quotes
1. Those who fight the good fight, don't always win.- Morris Fletcher 2. People like you never managed to grind him down. They never stole his spirit. He never gave in, he never gave up, and he never sold out, right up to his last breath. And he's not dead. Guys like that live forever.- Langly, about Joey Ramone 3. We never gave up, we never will. In the end, if thats the best they can say about us, it'll do.- Byers 4. Frohike:Buddy, fight the good fight. 1. Langly:Both of you. 2. Byers:Never...
Starring 1. Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully 2. Robert Patrick as Special Agent John Doggett 3. Annabeth Gish as Special Agent Monica Reyes 4. Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner Guest Starring 1. Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers 2. Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike 3. Dean Haglund as Richard Langly 4. Michael McKean...
Jump the Shark on WikipediaJump the Shark on IMDbMy vote for jump the shark moment: In Season 8 when they revealed that Mulder had brain cancer. The major issues with this plot point were: They'd already done "main character has brain cancer."
Apr 21, 2002 · Jump the Shark: Directed by Cliff Bole. With Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Mitch Pileggi. The Lone Gunmen, with the (unwanted) aid of Morris Fletcher, must stop a destructive virus from entering the populace.
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- 2002-04-21
The idiom "jumping the shark" or "jump the shark" is a term that is used to argue that a creative work or entity has reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with, or an extreme exaggeration of, its original purpose.
What is Jump the Shark (The X-Files)? Jump the Shark is the fifteenth episode of the ninth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files.
Meaningful Name: "Jumping the Shark" is a term tv show fans and critics use for the moment a show has changed to much that they consider anything that follows as its death spiral (which, technically, is what happens to The Lone Gunmen in this episode).
