Most blatant / lame shark jumps in TV history - Page 2

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Posted: 5/20/2005 9:22:28 AM EDT

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Magnum PI never jumped the shark.

Big +1

I think CSI jumped the shark last night when they snatched the dude out of the boobie trapped grave and dumped dirt on it.

Yeah, and the 3lbs of Cemtex rigged to explode with a pressure switch went of like a fart in church.

CSI jumps the shark with every episode. What a boatload of suck.

Posted: 5/20/2005 9:23:01 AM EDT

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Any sitcom that ever added a kid more than halfway through the show.

Big +1.

Posted: 5/20/2005 9:24:35 AM EDT

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Any sitcom that ever added a kid more than halfway through the show.

Big +1.

Like the random cousin that showed up towards the end of The Brady Bunch? Man, that kid was ugly.

Posted: 5/20/2005 9:25:01 AM EDT

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When KITT got the Superpursuit mod, and what was supposed to be rocket nozzles never spit fire.

No way dude... super pursuit mode ROCKED!!!

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer adding Dawn - Buffy's 14 year old sister.

And the fact that they kept her throughout the remainder of the series is a double backflip jumping of sharks.

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I think if it wasn't for Oliver, Brady Bunch would still be on....

How about on ER when Carter goes to save Luca in Africa.

Posted: 5/20/2005 9:27:38 AM EDT

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How about on ER when Carter goes to save Luca in Africa.

ER jumped the shark the episode after Dr. Green died. It went downhill from there. It stopped focusing on the relationships between the ER staff and began targeting a liberal social agenda. (Carrie's lesbo relationship and adoption etc.) I cannot stand to watch the show now.

Posted: 5/20/2005 9:34:48 AM EDT

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What TV series most brutally, blatantly jumped the shark? Alternatively, what TV series NEVER jumped the shark?

My entry - Magnum PI never jumped the shark.

I disagree. Magnum jumped the shark several times, but always recovered with a kick ass follow up episode. For example...the Luther Gillis episodes absolutely suck. Also the episode where he inherits a fortune and an estate as a joke. That episode was lame. But the two worst shark jumping themes were Higgins' twin brothers by different mothers and the episode where the gunmen in ape and pig masks hold up the King Komehameha club.

The writers knew when they had a suck episode, but always went back to the winning formula and brought the show back to earth.

Posted: 5/20/2005 9:39:02 AM EDT

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How about on ER when Carter goes to save Luca in Africa.

ER jumped the shark the episode after Dr. Green died. It went downhill from there. It stopped focusing on the relationships between the ER staff and began targeting a liberal social agenda. (Carrie's lesbo relationship and adoption etc.) I cannot stand to watch the show now.

But doctor Pratt might have found his dad and Alex ran away from home, oh the drama continues..............
TV this season sucked the big one anyway or I'm getting short attention span

Posted: 5/20/2005 9:44:24 AM EDT

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How about on ER when Carter goes to save Luca in Africa.

ER jumped the shark the episode after Dr. Green died. It went downhill from there. It stopped focusing on the relationships between the ER staff and began targeting a liberal social agenda. (Carrie's lesbo relationship and adoption etc.) I cannot stand to watch the show now.

But doctor Pratt might have found his dad and Alex ran away from home, oh the drama continues..............
TV this season sucked the big one anyway or I'm getting short attention span

This season sucked. It is pretty well know that when you add new characters to a show, you are circling the rim trying not to get sucked down the toilet. They have a completely new cast (almost anyway), the new Doc's have no life. Entire episodes focus on stupid inane details of a characters life rather than the relationships and hardships of working in a trauma unit.

I do have a sick fantasy about the Indian doc though.

Posted: 5/20/2005 9:46:23 AM EDT

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Entire episodes focus on stupid inane details of a characters life rather than the relationships and hardships of working in a trauma unit.

That's because shows like that are written for women and gay men.

Posted: 5/20/2005 9:49:49 AM EDT

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Entire episodes focus on stupid inane details of a characters life rather than the relationships and hardships of working in a trauma unit.
That's because shows like that are written for women and gay men.

What are you trying to say?

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:02:50 AM EDT

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When KITT got the Superpursuit mod, and what was supposed to be rocket nozzles never spit fire.

No way dude... super pursuit mode ROCKED!!!

It HAD potential. It sucks EXACTLY as it transpired.
Rocket nozzles which are really little red circles. A transformation that turned a fairly aerodynamic car into a rolling brick, in the process making it go much faster, somehow, thus getting it back up to the speed it could go in the first season. What was with that sliding nose array, anyway?

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:06:00 AM EDT

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I think if it wasn't for Oliver, Brady Bunch would still be on....

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:09:46 AM EDT

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This season sucked. It is pretty well know that when you add new characters to a show, you are circling the rim trying not to get sucked down the toilet. They have a completely new cast (almost anyway), the new Doc's have no life. Entire episodes focus on stupid inane details of a characters life rather than the relationships and hardships of working in a trauma unit.

Actually Er has had a lotof jumping moments. How about a frickin helicopter falling on Romano... after he gets his arms lopped off I think the previous season. How much bad luck can one guy have?

The whole continual thing with Abby's mom an brother was pretty annoying.

The romance they have been trying to build with Luca and that chich witht he kid... how long do they have to drag that one through the mud?

But I think the shark jump is Africa simply because it takes a whole portion of a show based in Chicago and take it to Africa to battle war lords and shit... to me that is the epitome of shark jumping when you take the show out of its own element.

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When KITT got the Superpursuit mod, and what was supposed to be rocket nozzles never spit fire.

No way dude... super pursuit mode ROCKED!!!
It HAD potential. It sucks EXACTLY as it transpired.
Rocket nozzles which are really little red circles. A transformation that turned a fairly aerodynamic car into a rolling brick, in the process making it go much faster, somehow, thus getting it back up to the speed it could go in the first season. What was with that sliding nose array, anyway?

The only way they could have made that any better is if they put KITT and super pursuit mode into a Delorian.

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:10:00 AM EDT

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Millennium. Season 3, after Frank Black's wife died. That was a good show that augered in FAST.

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:15:18 AM EDT

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This season sucked. It is pretty well know that when you add new characters to a show, you are circling the rim trying not to get sucked down the toilet. They have a completely new cast (almost anyway), the new Doc's have no life. Entire episodes focus on stupid inane details of a characters life rather than the relationships and hardships of working in a trauma unit.

Actually Er has had a lotof jumping moments. How about a frickin helicopter falling on Romano... after he gets his arms lopped off I think the previous season. How much bad luck can one guy have?

The whole continual thing with Abby's mom an brother was pretty annoying.

The romance they have been trying to build with Luca and that chich witht he kid... how long do they have to drag that one through the mud?

But I think the shark jump is Africa simply because it takes a whole portion of a show based in Chicago and take it to Africa to battle war lords and shit... to me that is the epitome of shark jumping when you take the show out of its own element.

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When KITT got the Superpursuit mod, and what was supposed to be rocket nozzles never spit fire.

No way dude... super pursuit mode ROCKED!!!
It HAD potential. It sucks EXACTLY as it transpired.
Rocket nozzles which are really little red circles. A transformation that turned a fairly aerodynamic car into a rolling brick, in the process making it go much faster, somehow, thus getting it back up to the speed it could go in the first season. What was with that sliding nose array, anyway?

The only way they could have made that any better is if they put KITT and super pursuit mode into a Delorian.

<dramatic snarl> Super Pursuit Mode, KITT. Buckle up, Marty!</dramatic snarl>
Like that?

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:22:56 AM EDT

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Xena kind of jumped the shark when she had a kid. What was up with that

Yeah, I watched Xena. What about it? You wanna fight?

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:31:53 AM EDT

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Miami Vice finally "jumped the shark" when Crocket got amnesia and became a big drug lord. Then he "recovered," and turned all his amigos in... and rejoined the Vice Squad, after a two-week administrative review. Oh, he shot a bad cop during that "phase," too.

Other than that stuff, I LOVED the show!

ETA: OOO, skid2964 beat me to it!

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:34:32 AM EDT

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Millennium. Season 3, after Frank Black's wife died. That was a good show that augered in FAST.

+1.

It never materialized as I thought they had pitched it, as a profiler, went more X files ish, understandable since Carter wrote/concieved of it, IIRC.

But, yeah, I missed a single episode, and suddenly his wife is dead and the .gov is trying to kill him or something.

Smoking hole about three weeks later, it seemed.

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:38:25 AM EDT

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Rockford Files never really had a "shark jumping" episode, with the possible exception of Ritchie Brockleman episodes and "Justa Coupla Guys." I suspect the latter was a lame attempt at a pilot show. Nevertheless, like all things "Rockford," I loved it.

The Rockford Files was better than anything else on TV. Too bad it's gone.

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:45:38 AM EDT

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Looking through that website, I agree "The Young Ones" never jumped the shark.

The Simpsons has, or did a few years back I should say. When they made Homer completly and indescribably stupid. Yes it is still funny, but its on the downward spiral.

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:50:19 AM EDT

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Xena kind of jumped the shark when she had a kid. What was up with that
Yeah, I watched Xena. What about it? You wanna fight?

PHAGH!

j/k. I used to watch Buffy.

Posted: 5/20/2005 10:53:43 AM EDT

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Rockford Files never really had a "shark jumping" episode, with the possible exception of Ritchie Brockleman episodes and "Justa Coupla Guys." I suspect the latter was a lame attempt at a pilot show. Nevertheless, like all things "Rockford," I loved it.

The Rockford Files was better than anything else on TV. Too bad it's gone.

+1

I loved that show.

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:05:26 AM EDT

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Joan of Arcadia just jumped the shark. They added a male character - the devil.

And sure enough, they just leaked out info that the show will be cancelled and replaced with a show called "The Ghost Whisperer." They think that a younger audience will be more excited about talking to ghosts than to God.

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:06:30 AM EDT

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Millennium. Season 3, after Frank Black's wife died. That was a good show that augered in FAST.

Oh my GOD yes. Season 2 ended awesome, then they basically IGNORED it in season 3. The Apocalypse? Oh well, no, just an isolated virus outbreak. Everything back to normal now...

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:09:16 AM EDT

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Honeymooners NEVER had a shark jumping episode.

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:11:37 AM EDT

[#26]

Kill Your TV.

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:15:30 AM EDT

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The Simpsons has, or did a few years back I should say. When they made Homer completly and indescribably stupid. Yes it is still funny, but its on the downward spiral.

I agree. It's just not as funny as it used to be. The last really funny season was probably season 8. Now it's all about the guest stars they can get on the show.

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:17:27 AM EDT

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I was about to say Seinfeld... until I remembered the Susan dying from licking envelopes thing.

How about the original Twilight Zone... not really a jump there.

Another Buffy Jump... "Once more, with feeling".

Married with Children jumped pretty hard on sevral occasions... but that show pretty much blew out the gates.

All in the Family.... a few jumps: Archie's niece; Edith rape (what a weird epiode);

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:25:20 AM EDT

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This season finale on "That 70s Show" with everyone moving away. I also agree on Homer becoming very stupid on the past few seasons of "The Simpsons".

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:34:08 AM EDT

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This season finale on "That 70s Show" with everyone moving away. I also agree on Homer becoming very stupid on the past few seasons of "The Simpsons".

I prefer stupid Homer over post-Tracy Ulman/first couple seasons of Simpsons before Homer's voice was even what it is today. The animation sucked in the early seasons too. The writing, at times, was better but the show really started getting good around what... season 3?

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:45:20 AM EDT

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What about when they put Shecky Greene on an episode of Combat?

thanks,
Ron

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:46:55 AM EDT

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"Once more with feeling" did not jump. Whedon took some remarkable risks in his scripts: the silent episode, The Body, and the musical version. "Objects in Space" on Firefly was a long riff on existentialist philosophy, and the idea that objects had only the meanings humans assigned to them. I think almost all of them worked.

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:52:09 AM EDT

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"Once more with feeling" did not jump. Whedon took some remarkable risks in his scripts...

+1

(I even have the Once More, With Feeling CD "Soundtrack"...

)

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:53:22 AM EDT

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Anybody remember any shark jumps in Starsky and Hutch?

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:55:33 AM EDT

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"That 70's Show" now that Eric is going to Africa, Jackie moved to Chicago, and that lame-ass sitcom device, "a totally unrelated person moves into the house" has been invoked yet again in the form of Red's war buddies' son, whathisname.

They should just kill this one.

I thought the 70's show jumped when they graduated high school.

Posted: 5/20/2005 11:57:44 AM EDT

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M*A*S*H never jumped the shark...IMHO the greatest TV show EVAR!

MASH jumped the shark for me when Radar left.

Posted: 5/20/2005 12:03:11 PM EDT

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M*A*S*H never jumped the shark...IMHO the greatest TV show EVAR!

Except for being an advanced liberal brain-washing technique, I agree. Was very watchable. Now? I cannot stand it.

Posted: 5/20/2005 12:09:19 PM EDT

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When the General Lee magically shrunk to model car size for jumps, and aliens came to Hazzard County.
When the A-Team got captured and were working for some freak for the last season. When that wierd guy from the Bronx came to the show to be the Team's hero.
When KITT got the Superpursuit mod, and what was supposed to be rocket nozzles never spit fire.

I figure it was when KATT came on the scene.

Your Knight Rider Fu is weak. It was KARR not KATT.

Posted: 5/20/2005 12:18:21 PM EDT

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Knight Automated Roving Robot!=KARR

Posted: 5/20/2005 12:36:53 PM EDT

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Entire episodes focus on stupid inane details of a characters life rather than the relationships and hardships of working in a trauma unit.
That's because shows like that are written for women and gay men.

So which one are you?

Posted: 5/20/2005 12:38:39 PM EDT

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"That 70's Show" now that Eric is going to Africa, Jackie moved to Chicago, and that lame-ass sitcom device, "a totally unrelated person moves into the house" has been invoked yet again in the form of Red's war buddies' son, whathisname.

They should just kill this one.

That 70s Show jumped the shark when Eric and Donna didn't move away to college. It was a logical end to the show.

Posted: 5/20/2005 12:39:23 PM EDT

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Holy moses.

Y'all watch too much TV.

Yes I do. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-60 hours a week.

Def. 40 hours a week as the TV is on all the time when I'm at work.

Posted: 5/20/2005 12:42:29 PM EDT

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I think if it wasn't for Oliver, Brady Bunch would still be on....

Oliver was the beginning of the end for that show. I like to think that if Oliver hadn't shown up, we would have seen the true Brady family.

Mike and Carol become raging alcoholics, Alice dies of a heart attack while fucking Sam the Butcher, Greg and Marcia are arrested for incest, Peter becomes a drugged out loser, Jan goes to college and starts dating a Black Panther, Bobby turns homo and brings his Latino lover Carlos home, and Cindy becomes a porn star.

Now that's a show.

Posted: 5/20/2005 12:56:30 PM EDT

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Xena kind of jumped the shark when she had a kid. What was up with that
Yeah, I watched Xena. What about it? You wanna fight?

Yeah but Eve was a hotty when she grew up! Xena really went downhill after that cause she made Xena look so ugly.

Posted: 5/20/2005 2:48:15 PM EDT

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I think if it wasn't for Oliver, Brady Bunch would still be on....

Oliver was the beginning of the end for that show. I like to think that if Oliver hadn't shown up, we would have seen the true Brady family.

Mike and Carol become raging alcoholics, Alice dies of a heart attack while fucking Sam the Butcher, Greg and Marcia are arrested for incest, Peter becomes a drugged out loser, Jan goes to college and starts dating a Black Panther, Bobby turns homo and brings his Latino lover Carlos home, and Cindy becomes a porn star.

Now that's a show.

That is pretty much what happened only everyone did different things. Dad was a alcoholic homo. Mom was banging Greg. Greg banged Marcia. Eve was some lesbo leaning activist. Peter and Bobby became lazy fat asses and Cindy did a porn.

I have found myself saying this alot lately. Aint it funny how life imitates art sometimes?

Posted: 5/20/2005 3:02:43 PM EDT

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South Park LEAPS the shark every episode, but in their case it is a good thing.

Posted: 5/20/2005 4:41:09 PM EDT

[#47]

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Kill Your TV.

No. Fuck that.

Posted: 5/20/2005 4:52:42 PM EDT

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South Park LEAPS the shark every episode, but in their case it is a good thing.

When then entire theme of the show is going off the ramp and landing in the water to swim with the sharks... it really doesn't even qualify. I don't think they could jump the shark if they wanted to because they pretty much ARE the shark.

Posted: 5/20/2005 5:07:47 PM EDT

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When then entire theme of the show is going off the ramp and landing in the water to swim with the sharks... it really doesn't even qualify. I don't think they could jump the shark if they wanted to because they pretty much ARE the shark.

Posted: 5/20/2005 5:11:10 PM EDT

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Xena kind of jumped the shark when she had a kid. What was up with that
Yeah, I watched Xena. What about it? You wanna fight?

PHAGH!

j/k. I used to watch Buffy.

I watched both.....

I didn't mind Dawn on B:TVS but the whole 7th season blew chunks.

Pretty much the same for the last season or two of X:WP.
+1 on the Xena baby shark jumping. Actually, having a kid wasn't the actual shark jump. The whole destroyer of the Olympian gods thing & the suspended animation/entombed in ice for 20yrs so the baby is now fully grown bit was the shark jump.

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