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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 ...
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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 ...
Due to the nature of the episode—which effectively works as a tie-in—various long-term characters from both The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen make cameo appearances. [7] 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 ...
As far as real-life Fonz, Henry Winkler, is concerned, his "jump the shark" moment will never jump the shark. If anything, the beloved actor has doubled down on being the face of jumping the shark ...
Representations of the shark are common in popular culture in the Western world, with a range of media generally portraying them of eating machines and threats.In some media, however, comedy is drawn from portrayals of sharks running counter to their popular image, with shark characters being portrayed as unexpectedly friendly or otherwise comical.
The list of examples of shark-jumping moments seems to be getting back to where it was about a year ago, with people listing any potential shark jumping moment on any series. For example, Roseanne and The X-Files have 3-4 different moments listed. The list really needs to be trimmed to clear-cut examples, again, per the consensus reached above.
The Shark Fighter (played by Rhys Darby) – A wavy-haired, knife-wielding ocean vigilante, the Shark Fighter is, as his name would imply, a man skilled in the art of fighting sharks, a mission he assumed after his lover was eaten by one many years prior. In the episode "The Shark Fighter!", he teams up with The Aquabats to help defeat a roving ...