Todd’s Movie Blog

The Shark has jumped itself.  What am I talking about?  Back in the nineties Jon Hein popularized the term Jump the Shark, meaning a show has hit it’s peak and is now going down in terms of quality, referring to the episode of Happy Days where Fonzie, in his leather jacket and on water skis, jumped over a shark.  Jump the Shark started out as a website where fans voted and discussed when other shows did something similar; The Conners win the lottery on Roseanne, the entire cast moves from Milwaukee to LA on Laverne & Shirley, or Spock jams with Space Hippies on Star Trek. But all good things must come to an end.  While surfing around Wikipedia the other day I came upon an article about Hogan’s Heroes that referenced it had never Jumped the Shark.  Curious I went to the Jump the Shark website and got redirected to  TV Guide/Jump the Shark.  My only thought was the irony of the Shark having jumped itself.