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[DMczaf]

Topic came up in IRC, pretty funny stuff

http://www.jumptheshark.com/

Mine's was New York Undercover when they killed off Eddie (co-star) and then threw in a whole new cast and turned the show into Mission: Impossible :lol

 

[Jim Bowie]

Girl sweathog.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Wouldn't use the word "favourite" but Married With Children when they adopted Seven comes to mind.

 

[shoplifter]

the original.

 

[kumanoki]

You know a sitcom has jumped the shark when there's a very special episode where the family is moving and they remember all the good times they've had in the impossibly big house, and at the end of the show the mother of father looks back through the door fondly and turns off the lights one...last....time. Awwwwww.

 

[Matlock]

Urkel.

 

[Jim Bowie]

Dude, Urkel was like in the second episode.





...oh.

 

[Dram]

OZ - when they introduced that aging drug, that aged you the number of years you were supposed to be in prison.

 

[3phemeral]

OZ - when they introduced that aging drug, that aged you the number of years you were supposed to be in prison.

I've never seen it... but can you explain to me how that would make any sense?

 

[Dram]

I'm not sure, it was some experimental drug they were testing on prisoners. The way they explained it was, the doctors would set the drug for the number of years you were supposed to be in prison for; and then over the days or weeks, your body would grow to the age you were supposed to be released.

Needless to say it was crap; after that Oz went downhill:

Illegal immigrants being held in Oz, waiting to be deported- well you can guess how that ended

Fights over a cell phone, that somehow managed to get by the guards

Having an inmate about to be dramatically executed, only to cancel it at the last minute. You think he's going off of death row, but then a few episodes later he's executed.

I'm a sucker for watching all the episodes :lol. It just seemed like they ran out of ideas. The last season was especially bad; I thought the series would end with bang, and it seemed like that's where they were going. But the ending was terrible, and came out of nowhere.

 

[Teflar]

Tanks attacking hospitals in ER, anyone? :lol

 

[BojTrek]

Merth on Mork and Mindy... AHHHH!!!

 

[Guzim]

the original.

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

 

[shuri]

I barely watch tv except for the news,

They're showing reruns of Dallas everyday here on a local tv channel, and I watch it with my sister while we eat, the show is so fucking fruity beyond words; some main character died a earlier season (Bobby?), and after that, the show's ratings were going down in the next season. So what did they do?

They changed the story so that the whole last season (aka the Bobby-less season since he was dead) was a dream in some chick's mind. And thats how they brought that actor back.

Holy fuck thats retarded. What were they smoking? Dallas has to be the most convulted show ever, I really like how lots of story arcs actually never finish, they just.. go away. Or maybe its the fact that I dont watch it every day.

Watching that show is like a drug, I think its a mix of the fruity '70-'80 outfits, the extreme bad acting, the fact that they have 3 different set settings (an office, a restaurant, or at the ranch) or the way they always do some dramatic stare everything time somethings happen.

 

[Baron Aloha]

These aren't really my favorites but...

Melrose Place - The show peaked when Kimberly blew up the apartment complex. It was all downhill after that. The explosion resulted in the death of one person and the blinding of another as well as some injuries. Kimberly ended up being placed in a mental institution only to be released just a few short weeks later. Then she got a job as a psychiatrist to treat crazy people... when in fact she was crazy. :lol

90210 - When Brenda left.

NY Undercover - same as DMczaf.

Sopranos - season 3 (it started to rebound a little with season 5 though)

 

[teiresias]

Speaking of jumping the shark, I know "The West Wing" did it a while ago, but last night I heard saw a commercial for the show that literally made me burst out laughing. It went something like this . . .

"Next week, the best season of 'The West Wing' gets better. As the President goes down who's going to run the country? Oh, and did we mention . . . the asteroid headed towards earth?"

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Baron Aloha]

Speaking of jumping the shark, I know "The West Wing" did it a while ago, but last night I heard saw a commercial for the show that literally made me burst out laughing. It went something like this . . .

"Next week, the best season of 'The West Wing' gets better. As the President goes down who's going to run the country? Oh, and did we mention . . . the asteroid headed towards earth?"

:lol :lol :lol

:lol :lol :lol

Yeah I thought the exact same thing when I saw the commerical the other day.

 

[Guzim]

"Next week, the best season of 'The West Wing' gets better. As the President goes down who's going to run the country? Oh, and did we mention . . . the asteroid headed towards earth?"

:lol :lol :lol

Are you serious?

 

[teiresias]

:lol :lol :lol

Are you serious?

"Oh, and did we mention the asteroid heading towards earth" is STRAIGHT from the commercial!!! I couldn't believe it!!! I mean, they had to be playing it for laughs, and maybe it was a joke.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Speaking of jumping the shark, I know "The West Wing" did it a while ago, but last night I heard saw a commercial for the show that literally made me burst out laughing. It went something like this . . .

"Next week, the best season of 'The West Wing' gets better. As the President goes down who's going to run the country? Oh, and did we mention . . . the asteroid headed towards earth?"

:lol :lol :lol

Lol, I saw that as well. I just started laughing when it came on. :lol

 

[Dan]

IMPACT WINTER
9pm 2004-12-15 ALL NEW!

BARTLET PARALYZED BY MS AT CHINA SUMMIT -- As Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and his staff arrive in China for a critical summit, he is still suffering from the paralyzing side-effects of MS. Meanwhile, an asteroid is headed for the U.S., leaving Josh (Brad Whitford) and Leo (John Spencer) to deal with the potential consequences. Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Stockard Channing, Dule Hill and Jimmy Smits also star. TV-PG

:lol :lol :lol

What the fuck? That's ridiculous!

 

[Anthropic]

The West Wing is infamous for it's totally bullshit "coming next week" commercals. A few weeks ago, the scene was Toby handing CJ his resignation...It turned out to be a practical joke they were playing on CJ (it being her first day as Chief of Staff). Last season, there was a commercial where Leo put down a phone and says "The President's gone AWOL"...It turned out the guy on the other end of the phone was the President who was phoning in to tell Leo he was simply running late. There was another incident where there was a scene put in where Charlie gets slapped by an ex-girlfriend outside the Oval Office that seemed to be there just for the "coming next week" commerical the week before.

That's not to say that The West Wing has or has not jumped the shark yet...It may have jumped the shark when the President's daughter was kidnapped...I'm not sure. Wat I do know is that John Wells intends to screw up the cast so it can continue in perpituity like ER does (where they can just keep replacing characters).

 

[N Coward Parody]

David's "kidnapping" in the fourth season of Six Feet Under. Sloppy, sloppy writing. The show had begun its descent several episodes before (each of the characters were slowly but surely becoming parodies of their former selves, amongst other things), but that particular plot stroke was so dreadfully abysmal I couldn't believe I was watching it.

Any Six Feet Under fan knows what I'm talking about. Yech. Used to be the best show on TV... Kate Robin did a far better job as story editor than Craig Wright... Which figures, considering how fucking hammy and maudlin his plays are...


*Noel Coward Parody

 

[The Shadow]

Favorite? Probably 7 of 9.

 

[Manics]

Favorite? Probably 7 of 9.

I figured the entire Star Trek series jumped the shark right when they made another spin-off other than TNG.

 

[ManaByte]

Speaking of jumping the shark, I know "The West Wing" did it a while ago, but last night I heard saw a commercial for the show that literally made me burst out laughing. It went something like this . . .

"Next week, the best season of 'The West Wing' gets better. As the President goes down who's going to run the country? Oh, and did we mention . . . the asteroid headed towards earth?"

:lol :lol :lol

Now that's must see TV. When is the West Wing on anyways?

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Tanks attacking hospitals in ER, anyone? :lol

Even better was after Romano had his arm chopped off by a helocopter, he goes up to the roof to recieve another airlifted patient. Romano sees the chopper, has flashbacks, freaks out and runs does to the street to gather himself... then the chopper wrecks and lands on him.

I think ER jumped about three sharks that season.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Fantasy Island: When Mr Roarke went from clever entrepeneur who could pull any fantasy off, to weird White Magician always battling the devil.

MASH: I'm not sure when it started sucking, but the moment I knew for sure was when Winchester had some secret which turned out to be him helping Korean orphans in secret. This is the same guy who was trying to swindle locals when the currency changed over a year or two earlier. MASH pretty much grew a heart of gold for everybody by the end of the series. Bleah.

WIn Ben Stien's Money: When Jimmy left.

 

[Matt]

The West Wing jumped the shark when Aaron Sorkin left before the beginning of last season. The show instantly went from being the best on television to being almost complete trash. The new writers have no idea what to do, so they keep throwing random shit around. It also has taken the same idea of “drama” that other shows have that everyone always being a little (or a lot) pissed at each other makes for good character interaction.

Man, do I miss The West Wing, and I wish this...thing pissing on its grave would just die. Well, at least I have the DVDs, and Bravo.

 

[Teflar]

Even better was after Romano had his arm chopped off by a helocopter, he goes up to the roof to recieve another airlifted patient. Romano sees the chopper, has flashbacks, freaks out and runs does to the street to gather himself... then the chopper wrecks and lands on him.

Haha, I heard about that, but I didn't see it. Yeah that show has been on waaay too long.

And that meteor in West Wing sounds about as dumb. Ahh, why won't they just let good shows die with dignity??

 

[Cafeman]

The premier episode of the 2nd "reality" show.

Dukes of Hazzard, without the real Dukes. (still remember the episode ... these 2 Bo/Duke lookalikes show up, Boss Hogg takes his cigar out of his mouth and whispers .. "Coyyyy and Vancccce Duuuke!" like everyone's know about 'em for years...)

Happy Days #1 = Fonzie jumps shark, #2 = Joannie Loves Chachi

Lois & Clark ... when bad comediennes started to show up as villains & stealing Superman's powers & giving them to Lois Lane

Smallville .. this season?

MASH -- never!

 

[WedgeX]

"Oh, and did we mention the asteroid heading towards earth" is STRAIGHT from the commercial!!! I couldn't believe it!!! I mean, they had to be playing it for laughs, and maybe it was a joke.

:lol :lol

I saw that not five minutes ago and died.

From laughter and the stupidity of it all.