You may have heard the term Jumping the Shark but do you know where it originated from? While the term didn’t get traction until the late 1990s it goes back to the 1970s sitcom Happy Days.
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Happy Days was one of the biggest hits of the 1970s and its biggest star, Fonzie, was a pop culture icon at the time. The show premiered on the ABC network in 1974. The first season of the show revolved around the Cunningham family and The Fonz played a minor role. But he quickly became a fan favorite and by the second season, he was elevated to one of the main stars of the show.
Over the next few seasons, The Fonz became the most popular character, with kids everywhere saying “Ayyy” and carrying lunch boxes with Fonzie’s face plastered across them. Then, at the beginning of the fifth season, the producers decided to have Fonzie jump over a caged shark on water skis and we got the seed of what would become part of our modern lexicon.
While many people think the episode where Fonzie jumped the shark ruined everything, Happy Days went on for another six seasons before getting cancelled. Jumping the shark was only halfway through its run.
Nearly 20 years after the Happy Days episode aired, a website popped up that discussed when various television shows jumped the shark. The term came to mean the moment when a popular show took a turn for the worse and started to go downhill.
In this video, we’ll look at how Happy Days ended up at the jumping the shark moment and how the show’s cast and crew feel about creating such a culturally significant moment. We’ll also look at several other popular shows that jumped the shark.
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Why Fonzie Jumping the Shark on Happy Days Ruined Everything
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28 авг 2024