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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.
If you follow the actual definition of jumping the shark (the point where some changes were made and the true decline started), it would have to occur when the show was still riding high and I'd say "Hollywood AD" is very much beyond that point.
Apr 21, 2002 · The title is a humorous reference to the phrase "jumping the shark," an expression from Hollywood: Part 3 (1977) (where Fonzie water-skis over a shark), used to describe shows that have reached their peak and started to decline in quality.
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- Cliff Bole
- 2002-04-21
The episode title is a humorous reference to the phrase "jumping the shark", which is used to describe shows that are in decline and therefore try a gimmick to get attention. Plot. The episode begins with Morris Fletcher (Michael McKean) on a boat in the Bahamas
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.
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 moment when a series is past its best and begins to go into decline.
"Jump the Shark" is the 197th overall episode of The X-Files. As the result of scheduling conflicts and limited timeslots, the episode did not receive additional airings on Fox outside its initial...
