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Fonzie (Henry Winkler) on water skis, in a scene from the 1977 Happy Days episode "Hollywood, Part 3", after jumping over a sharkThe idiom "jumping the shark" or to "jump the shark" means that a creative work or entity has evolved and reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with or an extreme exaggeration (caricature) of its ...
Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, better known as "Fonzie" or "The Fonz", is a fictional character played by Henry Winkler in the American sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984). He was originally a secondary character, but was soon positioned as a lead character when he began surpassing the other characters in popularity. The Fonzie character was so popular ...
Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, author, director, and producer. Widely known as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the sitcom Happy Days, Winkler has distinguished himself as a character actor for roles on stage and screen.
Fonzie (Henry Winkler) attempting to jump over a shark tank while water skiing in 1977. Henry Winkler's character coined the phrase "jumping the shark" with this episode of Happy Days in 1977, ...
Henry Winkler is not ashamed to be the inspiration for the phrase “jump the shark.” “I am one of the only actors in the world who has jumped the shark twice,” Winkler, 77, told Yahoo ...
According to Winkler, his dad, Harry, is the one that set Fonzie's shark-jump in motion. "My father kept telling me to tell [ Happy Days creator] Garry Marshall that I waterskied," the 77-year-old ...
In 1980, the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution asked Winkler to donate one of Fonzie's leather jackets. [39] [40] [41] In 1985, Jon Hein developed the phrase jumping the shark in response to the season 5 episode "Hollywood: Part 3", written by Fred Fox Jr., [42] which aired on September 20, 1977. In this episode ...
Henry Winkler as "The Fonz" in 1983 and in 2023. Having car trouble? Maybe The Fonz can help! On the Oct. 25 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Henry Winkler joined host Drew Barrymore for a chat