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- 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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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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"Jump the Shark" is the fifteenth episode of the ninth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States on April 21, 2002 on the Fox network.
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.
This is sort of a layered question for me to personally answer, because I feel like there were multiple reasons for why it “jumped the shark” at different times. I think in terms of the mythology, season 5 was when it started to lose sight of itself.
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.
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.
"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 broadcast.
