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Why Fonzie Jumping the Shark on Happy Days Ruined Everything

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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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@FactsVerse 2 года назад

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@nucleartaco1236 Год назад

Fix your god awful sound editing

@Nabooru 9 месяцев назад

Do your other videos have you talking over the clips that you're playing? I'll happily watch more videos if I know that the editing has improved!

@kalphil4385 3 года назад

When a sitcom adds a new cute little kid you know it's the end of that show.

@douglashaner6802 3 года назад

The Cousin Oliver Syndrome. Different Strokes tried it and sealed its doom.

@marcstevens3761 3 года назад

Cousin Oliver.

@Mikevdog 3 года назад

True

@marcstevens3761 3 года назад

@@douglashaner6802 Instead of griping about things, Cousin Oliver could have gone on to star in a documentary about John Denver. They look the same.

@idriveastationwagon1534 3 года назад

Even thought it’s a cartoon but fairly odd parents wasn’t the same after poof and especially after Chloe was added

@tehsolace 2 года назад

Some editing feedback - make sure to avoid mixing narration on top of clips wherein people are talking. Viewers tend to slip focus when hearing two voices at once, resulting in neither really being heard entirely. Either mute the clip or narrate around/between the dialogue.

@hass89 2 года назад

Damn man that was so frustrating!! I can't hear either!

@Nealson454 2 года назад

I thought i had another video open in another tab somewhere.

@gabrielxavier2676 2 года назад

I'm not an editor of any kind, nevertheless, I was coming to comment the exact same thing, so damn frustrating

@brendalg4 2 года назад

He probably forgot

@niilokakskaks7873 2 года назад

jump shark moment of this video

@ClassifiedRanTom Год назад

You don’t Jump the Shark in movies, you Nuke the Fridge.

@RayManiac90 2 года назад

I think this is a main problem with American tv shows, networks don't let the shows end when they need it, it happens way to often

@bilkywaygalaxy Год назад

Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are two of the very few exceptions. Both shows ended at their peak

@Shiirow 2 месяца назад

Jumping the shark is usually when a show over stays its welcome. you can stretch creativity only so far for any premise. its sad to see a show end but I think its for the best more often than not.

@chumdog90 3 года назад

I lost interest in a lot of shows when they started making far-fetched, unrealistic episodes or changed/added characters.

@johnLennon255 2 года назад

Like it’s always sunny in Philadelphia

@martymcfly5764 6 месяцев назад

Everyone does.

@big8dog887 3 года назад

The Happy Days episode where Fonzie jumped the shark was indeed the negative turning point in terms of quality, but not for the reason that everyone thinks. That show was part of a three part episode. In part 1, we are introduced to a new character, Fonzie's cousin Chachi. From there, the show degenerated into the "Fonzie-Chachi Variety Hour", primarily aimed at pre-teen girls who read Tiger Beat. Chachi burning down Arnold's was symbolic in so many ways.

@Tgogators Год назад

Indeed, it was never the same once Richie and Ralph left.

@seanmurphy7011 Год назад

Yeah, jump the Shark doesn't mean it isn't popular anymore. It just means there is a discordance in the show.

@phalynwilliams4119 Год назад

Yes. The tone or thematic nature of the show in question 🙋‍♀️ changes into something much different from the original point of the series. Hence, jumping the shark 🦈 . Ayyy!!!! 👍

@lisamorrison214 5 месяцев назад

I completely disagree

@TheWelcome7 2 месяца назад

@@Tgogatorsyes that’s when the final nail on the coffin was done, when Ron Howard left, it was obvious he was the heartbeat of the show and Henry Winkler knew it and the added cast officially made the show suck!!!

@anakin1977 3 года назад

The Flintstones did not jump the shark when Pebbles was born, rather it was when they introduced The Great Gazoo to the series and from there everything collapsed

@ChadtheHammer 2 года назад

I was going to say the same thing. The birth of Pebbles was the most watched episode in the entire searies and I believe it was the most watch animated episode of any series of all time.

@spacedaniel492 2 года назад

@@ChadtheHammer idk i bet there are some simpsons or anime episodes that have topped that. South park even.

@ChadtheHammer 2 года назад

@@spacedaniel492 At the time it was. Not sure if it's been broken.

@francescaa8331 2 года назад

Jumping the shark is not the cause of the decline - it's a symptom of the fact the writers know there's a decline and they're doing desperate things to save the show. A pathetic attempt to save a show that is going downhill. Happy Days was losing ratings, and so they came up with this thing where fonzi water skis and jumps a shark.

@TheNorthernMist Год назад

agree, I forgot about that until you mentioned it.

@QueenSnowPea 3 года назад

1. When Mork and Mindy got married 2. When Sam and Diane on Cheers slept together 3. When the character Seven came on Married With Children 4. When Oliver came on the Brady Bunch Anytime a cutsie pie bowl haircut kid came on a sitcom it was pretty much over.

@orangebucky 3 года назад

I stopped watching Married with Children when that kid (Seven) became a regular on the show

@LovieB 3 года назад

@@orangebucky it was terrible after that.

@LovieB 3 года назад

@@orangebucky & they got rid of him too.😆😃🤣

@txvoltaire 2 года назад

They have a baby, and 2 years later, the kid has graduated from med school (well, in soap operas, anyway)!

@jeremyjames7009 2 года назад

When Negan was introduced in Walking Dead.

@stevemartin6144 3 года назад

Dallas jumped the shark when we learned at the end of a season, all we had watched in dedication was just a dream. That was the last episode that I watched.

@phalynwilliams4119 Год назад

I remember a few years ago an old co-worker of mine told me that his grandmother 👵 cursed at the tv 📺 after we all woke up from Pam’s bad dream 😴. Now that was jumping the shark 🦈 for sure. 😂 We were glad to see that Bobby, Patrick Duffy, came back but come on. Also, that season of Dallas got more and more bizarre the season before they brought Bobby back. The whole tone and thematic style of the show was vastly different. They jumped the shark 🦈 for sure.

@joaquinm9148 4 месяца назад

I heard that also happened in Season 9 of Rosanne

@Mike-en4ye 3 года назад

Skiing with a leather jacket. 😂

@The1uptriforce 3 года назад

Nope pebbles didn't ruin the Flintstones The Great Gazoo did

@cartooncentral263 Год назад

Why do people hate The Great Gazoo.

@martymcfly5764 6 месяцев назад

@@cartooncentral263 because he sucked. Who wants some pompous little @$$hole flying around their head 24/7 whilst hurling insults in an English accent the entire time? Certainly not I.

@TheMotz55 2 года назад

I saw the jump-the-shark episode when it first aired. Even as a kid, I thought it was terrible. Fonzie looked ridiculous wearing that leather jacket in the hot sun. It weakened the Fonzie character.

@MeYetAgain Год назад

hmm is it the jacket that's why he looks so incredibly weird? I was focused on his bottom, cause it looks like he's wearing a nappy. Maybe that's a result of the leather jacket

@dylanarcher827 7 месяцев назад

Yes - IMO its not the jumping of the shark that ended Fonzie's cool, it was the sight of him wearing short shorts with a leather jacket while lying on the beach.

@lisamorrison214 5 месяцев назад

No, the Fonz was the coolest

@TheMotz55 5 месяцев назад

@@lisamorrison214He was before all of this jumping the shark nonsense.

@swn32 2 года назад

I don't know understand how a channel with so many subscribers doesn't have proper audio mixing.

@Worlds-Collide 3 месяца назад

Or is factual

@migue4793 3 года назад

Don't forget Bewitched. Many say it jumped a plethora of sharks when the 2nd Darrin replaced Dick York and again with the birth of Adam. Hard to believe ABC ordered two more seasons of Bewitched, but luckily Liz Montgomery was intelligent and decided to leave while the ratings were still good.

@DCMarvelMultiverse 2 года назад

The Great Gazoo is when Flintstones jumped.

@FactsVerse 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@kar5431 Год назад

When Dino started talking.

@SirKnight1096 3 года назад

Turn down the sound on the videos you're reviewing. They shouldn't be heard over you.

@marcstevens3761 3 года назад

I loved the early episodes of Happy Days, as it had a really Fifties Feel about it. The Fonz becoming The Star, snapping his to turn on the juke, jumping the shark, Mork & all of the added actors really spoiled the original plot of the show,

@marcstevens3761 3 года назад

You are so right. Have no idea where Mork, or even Spike fit into a show with a teenage fifties feel to it. Joanie Loves Chachi was awful as well.

@superjoeny 2 года назад

The Simpsons: When Skinner was Armin Tamzarian Family Guy: When Brian died How I met your mother: All those "little ways down the road" segments + season 9 Two and a Half Men: When Charlie died Thats 70s Show: When Kelso and Eric left The Office: This is a very debatable one for everybody, but ill go for when Michael left. Cheers

@chestercheetoe2397 2 года назад

Himym's was actually for the better, it gave the series direction towards an actual endpoint. The only problem is the humor reduced in quality from S7-S9 with S9 being the worst.

@chazarcola7639 2 года назад

WHAT ULTIMATELY KILLED HAPPY DAYS was not the shark jumping moment from season 5. The death of the series actually came in season 10 when THE PRODUCERS FOOLISHLY REMOVED SCOTT BAIO AND ERIN MORAN from being the central focus of their program and sent both to star in the spinoff JOANIE LOVES CHACHI. By seasons 7, 8 and 9 of HAPPY DAYS, Scott and Erin had already become THE HEART OF THE SHOW. The spinoff was the equivalent of performing an unnecessary heart transplant operation upon a terminally ill patient. Season 10 felt exactly like that. HAPPY DAYS WAS KILLED BY THE ABSENCE OF JOANIE AND CHACHI.

@kfoster3616 Месяц назад

indeed

@legiontheatregroup 3 года назад

I believe the premise for this episode, like the one in a prior season where Fonzie jumped his motorcycle over a line of garbage cans, was based on what Evel Knievel was doing at the time. He had recently attempted a much publicized television jump of his motorcycle over a pool of sharks. It turned out bizarrely as he injured himself doing a practice run earlier in the day and was in the hospital at the time of the live TV broadcast that was supposed to feature the stunt. The live show ended up being rather awkward (I recall watching it live as a child) and has never been repeated or made available for modern viewing.

@jackkircher1755 3 года назад

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Henry NEVER rode the motorcycle since he was afraid of it they did a great job hiding that fact!

@brendalg4 2 года назад

@@jackkircher1755 Not the point of what Roderick said,... he wasn't talking about if Henry did it himself or not. His point is that Evel Knievel was doing the same at the time... so this was not out of line for Happy Days to do

@666t 2 года назад

Just weeks before Fonzi jumped the shark Evil did his last jump, yes Evil jumped a shark thus ending his career. Evil jumped a shark first.

@analcommando1124 2 года назад

Good point. When judging content decades later on youre unaware of the cultural events taking place at the time the tv show was made. Simple fact is that when these episodes aired people had no issue with them and they rated very highly. The 5th season of Happy Days was the 2nd highest rated TV show in America.

@timmitchell3870 2 месяца назад

I vividly remember the scheduled Evel Knievel jumping-the-sharks event that never happened. I think I was 8. And I never actually put it together until you made the connection now - but I'm now pretty certain Knievel himself figuratively jumped the shark when he literally DIDN'T jump the sharks. In fact, he never had a major stunt again.

@horrorfanrikki8038 3 года назад

That's funny that your talking about this today..lol!..I just watch Happy days"Jump the shark"episode last night on Metv!! 😎👍

@8solange 3 года назад

Me too!!!

@CLUB-th7pp 3 года назад

I grew up on Happy Days , I got plum pissed off when FRIKN Chachi came on the show. NEVER WAS THE SAME .

@stanmaxkolbe 3 года назад

HOOAH! Me too and when I saw it I changed the channel.

@emanuelmota7217 2 года назад

you're

@trhansen3244 2 месяца назад

The real jump the shark episode was the two parter The Graduation.

@paulheart5178 2 года назад

My favorite tv show of all time was "The Walking Dead". It in my mind had two moments that "Jumped the Shark". The first is where the producers made us think that Glen was eaten alive and had died on a season finale. The second and worse one for me was when Neegan killed Glen and Abraham in the horrific way portrayed. After that I quickly lost interest in the show. For six years though it was an incredible show for me.

@vhfgamer Год назад

I got pissed at the show when they killed dale.

@ScottJB Год назад

Same. When they showed Glen's eyeball popped out it felt overly gratuitous and trollish. Then they dragged on BORINGLY after those deaths. I made it about 3 episodes after that, bailed, and never looked back. I was a major fan beforehand.

@jordanleveritt7028 Год назад

@@ScottJBi mean thats exactly what happened in the comics so crying about it changes nothing

@Ninja_Warrior99 6 месяцев назад

I agree and also quit watching TWD shortly after the Nagan episode.

@paulheart5178 6 месяцев назад

@@ScottJB I think I lasted 3 or 4 episodes as well. It wasn't the violence that disturbed me as I actually loved that in the show. The first one was the fake death of Glen, waiting for the next season to start and having to wait I think FOUR episodes into it to find out he hadn't died. I loved the fact that no one was safe so to say on the show but to me Glen was like Rick. An untouchable. Not only that I really really liked the character too.

@christophertsiliacos8958 3 года назад

The TV Western 'Bonanza' "jumped the shark" with the passing of Hoss Cartwright. RIP Dan 😢

@scotmark 2 года назад

To me, many shows jump the shark when an "it'll never happen" relationship which is foiled at every turn for several seasons eventually ends up in the pair getting married, and the alien introduction is when the stork dumps a load on them - there's no recovering from that one. 😼

@erikswanson224 3 года назад

I have found when a TV show starts running out of ideas what to do with characters they usually get somebody married off.

@robertrissearbeobie5612 3 месяца назад

or have a baby.

@adambilge2834 3 года назад

Happy Days jumped the shark in Season 3 when it became The Fonzie Show.

@juliuscepeda9655 3 года назад

At least Season 3 had Pat Morita as Arnold. That was the last great thing with the show. I was never too impressed with Al. You can also say that Happy Days jumped the shark when they added Chachi.

@8solange 3 года назад

I hated the way they made such a big deal over him in rvery episode. When it was on once a week you didn't notice it so much, but watching reruns every night you really notice it!!

@texasrockshillcountry6574 3 года назад

As much as I liked the Fonz, I have to agree with you. When it became all about Fonzie it lost it's original appeal. Writing Chuck out was STUPID, assuming that nobody would notice.

@williamdillard4291 2 года назад

I agree totally

@darkclouds09 2 года назад

@@juliuscepeda9655 That's very true. The world would be a much better place if no one knew Scott Biao existed.

@flawaii-pines6858 2 года назад

When MacGyver starting hanging out at the teen center.

@jarrodr779 2 года назад

Frasier jumped the shark when Niles told Daphne his feelings for her just before she was meant to get married and then they got together. The Office jumped the shark when Steve Carell left. The Simpsons jumped off a cliff after about Season 9. Everybody Loves Raymond when Robert and Amy got together resulting in Amy being a regular as well.

@RuFi0000000 2 года назад

The audio on this needs some serious work. Your voice is compressed well, but the problem is - when you put compressed vocals from a condenser mic on top of vocals in the background, it becomes extremely difficult for the brain to focus on what is being said. The audio clashes very badly, because you keep putting tracks of the characters talking alongside of YOU talking, and sometimes the volume of the characters talking is as loud, if not louder than the narration! The drop in quality for this video happened at 6:15 when you have a cacophony of sounds all clashing together. When you were reviewing the video, you didn't hear any of this because you wrote the script, so you were focusing on your own words and didn't notice how much of a distraction the background noise is. It's important to have someone else check for these kinds of issues. Similar to a producer who makes music, listener fatigue will change your perception of your work, so be sure to have other people review it before its sent out. Everything else was perfect though, good job and great vid. edit: looks like this was already addressed, sorry.

@neneshubby Год назад

Good Times- When they killed off James Saved by the Bell - When they went to college Hawaii Five-O - When Chin was killed off and Dano left Different Strokes - When Mr Drummond got married Three’s Company - When Cindy replaced Terri The Love Boat - 2 words. Ted Mcginley

@trhansen3244 2 месяца назад

I disagree in the strongest terms some of your selections. But this is America and you have the right to your opinion. And I will die to protect that right!

@neneshubby 2 месяца назад

@@trhansen3244 Uh, ok. That's fine but Its just television shows. Not that serious.

@ginahumble5966 2 года назад

Moonlighting! Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard. Absolutely a classic, detective/romance comedy. I watched it with my mom and sister all through my preteen years. We even bought special popsicles to eat while watching. I named my black rabbit David Addison and my orange cat Maddie Hays and watched them chase each other around the yard. But for the show, Amazing chemistry between David Addison and Maddie Hays. When they finally actually got together… the show was irrevocably ruined…. It had nowhere to go….

@FactsVerse 2 года назад

Absolutely, we feel the same way! Thank you for sharing your sentiments and for watching our content. What other types of video would you like to see on our channel?

@andromedaiscoming185 3 года назад

South Park jumped the shark for me when the boys stopped being believable as kids and just became avatars for social commentary.

@LouieKaboom 2 года назад

That show needs to be put out to pasture. It actually should have happened 5 or 6 years ago.

@MrMaldonadoErick 2 года назад

Like... After the first three seasons?

@arliemoses4272 11 месяцев назад

I couldn’t watch it after PC Principal was added, plus the ‘member-berries.

@coffeespoons5925 3 года назад

SNL - jumped the shark many many yrs ago ..

@bobert8618 3 года назад

...after Tina Fey left, the writing took a dive-

@HerrEllsworth 3 года назад

Multiple jumps in fact!!

@matthewstanton9633 Год назад

There is one MAJOR!! Jump the shark moment which should really the correct way to define how to utterly ruin a long running series. I give............. Scrappy F***King doo !!!

@kirkwarburton2277 2 месяца назад

Oh yes! The one that popped into my mind immediately. I’m surprised I didn’t see it more in this comment section.

@ShawnCaldwell11 3 года назад

Notice @3:15 Ron Howard is standing next to a pinball machine called "Nip-It" the same line Barney Fife used In The Andy Griffith Show

@PCarDriver87 11 месяцев назад

It's true, "jumped the shark" just sounds so good.

@HollywoodInside1960s 11 месяцев назад

yes

@moriah1394 Год назад

The sound in the background concurrent with narrator is distracting. Lowering the background sound and raising it only when narrator not speaking would make this more watchable.

@judyl.761 3 года назад

For me, the alien added to Happy Days was absolutely when it DIED. Soooo stupid. Although jumping the shark was a close second.

@neiljohnson9686 3 года назад

Yeah it was weird but it launched a great career

@leecosey7003 3 года назад

New York Undercover when one of the main characters left the show

@jimmy1154 Год назад

When he jumped the garbage cans at Arnold's, he didn't wear his leather jacket. Wearing it while waterskiing in the ocean cemented the ridiculousness of the image of Fonzie jumping a shark.

@southernoregoncatmom6519 3 года назад

I just saw this last night!

@TELLViSiON 3 года назад

When I was a kid I used to watch the show in France and there was no laugh tracks in the early french dubbed versions, same for "the love boat", which really surprised me when i found out they were both sitcoms...

@MeYetAgain Год назад

apparently they once accidentally left the laugh track on MASH in a UK airing & the tv station's phones absolutely overloaded with people calling to WTF??????? the track lol. We never had laugh tracks on MASH or the love boat in Australia either, I also had no idea the love boat was a sitcom till you just said it (although I was too young to watch it, but I knew the theme song, cause my parents did) Happy Days I don't know about on the laugh track, hard to remember, possible it could have

@edwardcricchio6106 3 года назад

For us purists, the show jumped the shark at the end of Season 2.

@theoneandonly6431 3 года назад

You're right. After the 2nd season, this show just got worse and worse. I can hardly sit thru any episode after season 2 today without changing the channel. The writing, acting, and directing on this show was horrible.

@rosietaracena1495 3 года назад

Purists? For Happy Days? Hahaha...

@edwardcricchio6106 3 года назад

@@rosietaracena1495 yes, those of us who only liked Seasons 1 & 2. Not filmed in front of an audience. When it was a story of a family growing up in the 1950s, without the silly Borscht Belt humor and Fonzi was just another character. That is a Happy days purist.

@rosietaracena1495 3 года назад

@@edwardcricchio6106 I still laugh at calling any sitcom fan a purist.

@edwardcricchio6106 7 месяцев назад

@@rosietaracena1495 We are part of a group known as "The Happy Days Purist Society". It means we only like the first 2 seasons, that is how we got our name.

@anameofsomesort959 2 года назад

Ron Howard is also the narrator of Arrested Development, making the reference that much more humorous.

@sleepydragonzarinthal3533 2 года назад

to me, jumping the shark just meant going over the top for no other reason than to do it, a gesture or something so unnecessarily over the top it works against itself and feels forced or just dumb, when people get carried away on their own wave, thereby losing awareness, perspective. We all know a kid who claims to have jumped from high up with a bed sheet as a parachute, of course they always did crazy stuff and got hurt a bit here and there, but then they went and jumped the shark playing skydiver and got hurt much worse than usual. Marriage proposals and weddings often jump the shark, most advertisements are basically built around the idea, to be so absurd and over the top that you can't forget you saw it.

@carlblumenstock338 3 года назад

Better than the Kardashittins!

@DarkGengar1969 Год назад

Married With Children when the Bundys adopted Seven during ironically enough the seventh season!!! Seven mysteriously disappeared during the eighth season!!!

@JanosTerroz Год назад

I like how you showed WW2 footage when mentioning Vietnam war.

@joeschmo7145 Год назад

The fast and the furious movie series progressively jumped the shark with each release.

@67lilbear 3 года назад

Anytime Ted McGinley joined a TV sit-com's cast you know the show has jumped the shark...

@rosietaracena1495 3 года назад

Nope, MWC got better with him.

@markcampbell924 3 года назад

@@rosietaracena1495 HAPPY Days was a FUNNIER SHOW when BAG ZOMBROSKI (NEIL J SCHWARTZ and CHUCK CUNNINGHAM 2 RANDOLPH ROBERTS Were on Happy Days HAPPY Days became even a lot funnier when ROGER PHILLIPS (Ted Mcginley) Jenny Piccalo Cathy Silvers EUGENE BELVIN (Denis Mandel) and MELVIN BELVIN (Scott Bernstein) Joined Happy Days in 1980. BAG Zombroski Neil J Schwartz was a wonderful Practical Joker when he Played practical jokes on Richie Postie and Ralph BAG was e member of the Demons and Bag played the Drums in Richie's band. Eugene Belvin Denis Mandel Was a friend of CHACHI Arcola (Scott Baio)and Eugene Belvin liked Jenny Piccalo Cathy Silvers. Melvin Belvin Scott Bernstein was the brother of Eugene Belvin Denis Mandel. Melvin liked KC CUNNINGHAM played by Crystal Bernard. Garry Marshall should have Kept Chuck Cunningham (Randolph Roberts) on the show. When Randolph Roberts played Chuck Cunningham he was funnier than Gavan O Herlihy the first actor to play Chuck Cunningham. The writers of Happy Days gave Randolph Roberts more Air Time than Gavan O Herlihy. Ted McGinley AKA ROGER Phillips was the most hilarious basketball coach And character that I've ever Seen on a sitcom. Cathy Silvers AKA Jenny Piccalo was marvelous as Joanie's best friend Also I wish that the heavyset guy named MOOSE played by Barry Greenberg and liked to Eat hamburgers and fries And drink milkshakes and Was a regular customer at Arnold's Drive In was also A great customer. In the Episode where Fonzie Henry Winkler wanted to have a Drag race with Sqizzy (Alan Abelou) everyone was grounded for having a drag race and Marsha Simms Beatrice Colen said "these Drag races just kill business" and then Moose Barry Greenberg and a girl Carry Williams dance at Arnold's Drive In

@rosietaracena1495 3 года назад

@@markcampbell924 Maybe write a book?

@LovieB 3 года назад

@@rosietaracena1495 I liked Steve & Jefferson.

@keythdanielsen6936 3 года назад

@@markcampbell924 How about a little brevity? Not enough people pay attention to you when you talk? I skipped over your ponderous meandering.

@jeremyzak654 2 года назад

Dukes of Hazzards jumped the shark when Bo and Luke were replaced by Coy and Vance Duke.

@marblox9300 2 года назад

The Walking Dead jumped as soon as it began.

@nancyhey1012 3 года назад

Definitely I think that the introduction of Mork changed the nature of the show much more than the shark episode did.

@michaelc.6532 2 года назад

Yes. Even as a kid I was bothered by an alien on the show.

@nancyhey1012 2 года назад

@@michaelc.6532 I actually thought the show Mork and Mindy was pretty funny. And I liked the way Robin Williams played the character. But yes, having an alien on a show the genre of Happy Days was rather awkward.

@anthonycerulli5524 2 года назад

I agree and disagree. It definitely changed the realism of the show, but seeing as how people in the 50s were obsessed with aliens it does make sense

@nancyhey1012 2 года назад

@@anthonycerulli5524 that’s true, I agree with that. The producers were just responding the growing interest of people at that time to the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. That was a real interest, whereas the shark episode was just pandering to the idea that young men should prove their bravery and manhood by doing something dangerous.

@williamwilkinson8735 2 года назад

@@nancyhey1012 ..yep the Fonz was just being himself responding to a challenge like it say it wasn't out if his character ....

@JaniceClick 3 года назад

I watch arrested development constantly and never realized he jumps the shark got dammit lol. Too good

@PungiFungi Год назад

This episode was the direct response to Jaws. Every other tv show aped the latest blockbuster in the theaters. Even Sheriff Lobo had a shark episode.

@TFfangeek Год назад

The Simpsons jumped the shark with the episode "The Principal and the Pauper" when Principal Skinner was revealed to be a fraud named Armin Tamzarian who decided to live the life of his friend who supposedly died in the Vietnam War. Even though the episode was written as a joke, the general public hated the idea of Skinner being a fraud so much that everyone questioned which character from The Simpsons was going to be tarnished by the production staff. This lead to a gradual decline in ratings that The Simpsons has never recovered from despite airing to the present day.

@monkeyshake3508 3 года назад

I've always known "jump the shark" meant doing something solely for ratings no matter how ridiculous the premise or how poorly it fit into the shows reality.

@raptsullivanstew1919 3 года назад

Me too. Maybe somebody should do a podcast and call it “Meet the Alien” and fix the issue. “Jump the Shark” should be for ratings and “Meets the Alien” would be the downfall of the show. As someone did mention above has a better ring to it.

@brendalg4 2 года назад

Jump the shark is from people thinking that episode was when Happy Days started going downhill. That's not when it happened. Jumping the shark was in line with Fonzie's character as the video describes

@brendalg4 2 года назад

It didn't start going downhill in the Meets the Alien either. Robin did so well that they gave him his own show...

@phalynwilliams4119 Год назад

@@brendalg4 Mork worked because Robin Williams had a charm to him. So did Henry Winkler so the fans stayed with the show because the shark 🦈 episode was good natured and campy. No real harm and the show’s characters were in a totally different place and space California so the strangeness of the episode fit into the vibe of a different environment. One could argue that is why and how the show or The Fonz jumped the shark 🦈. After the shark 🦈 bring on the alien 👽

@brendalg4 Год назад

@@phalynwilliams4119 I think it started going downhill when the regulars started leaving

@DavidThomas-fb8bq 3 года назад

Ted mcginley was the shark. He really finished the show off, and a few others he was in.

@gregl2249 2 года назад

Little house on the prairie--when one of the daughters goes blind -can’t believe they missed this one

@lisamorrison214 5 месяцев назад

Mary really did go blind in real life.

@Mikevdog 3 года назад

Richie leaving was the real start of the end.

@marcstevens8576 3 года назад

It was The End.

@graciesaccardo9363 3 года назад

Still love this show 😍😍 🙏🥰😍

@jackkircher1755 3 года назад

Ordinarily, I enjoy FV but I just couldn't enjoy this one. Do you know why? Because the background volume over powered the marathon! I just couldn't hear what he was saying very well. Please work on this snafu because it is very distracting! Thank you.

@alfe1402 Год назад

The OC jumped the shark when Marissa Cooper died in the third season. Show never recover and was cancelled at the fourth season.

@marioreds7826 7 месяцев назад

it didn't ruin the series, as it was already declining. it rather marked the moment Happy Days was officially not worth watching anymore.

@TheCosmicVagabond 3 года назад

Always hated this show, especially Fonzie. Henry Winkler is only 5'6" and looks ridiculous riding a motorcycle. They play music from Jaws during the scene and all the extras are obviously from the 1970's. The whole show was just so lame! 😵

@evelynnogueras 2 года назад

@Matt Jones 😂

@nycinstyle 7 месяцев назад

Jackie Gleason, the master comedian/entertainer has his most well known show, "The Honeymooners," and it is a big reason why he actually is known by so many people. He was very wise, knew the business. He ended the show after only one season. “I knew what we were doing was good,” said Gleason. “And that’s why I quit doing it. Because I didn’t think we could sustain the quality of it. I liked The Honeymooners too much than to just throw it away.” The producers did not believe Gleason, at first. They couldn't believe he would just walk away from the show like he did. During an interview with late talk show host Johnny Carson, Gleason also admitted they were running out of ideas. He said he didn’t want to force storylines that didn’t work. “If we had gone any further, we might have spoiled it,” said Gleason.

@FactsVerse 7 месяцев назад

We absolutely agree! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. Be safe and have a day!

@prob6820 2 месяца назад

The romance and eventual marriage between Fran Fine and Mr Sheffield ruined The Nanny.

@marcuspi999 Год назад

Jumping the shark was not the decline of Happy Days. It is super obvious that burning down Arnold's Drive-in was the "jumping the shark" moment. It's like they didn't even try after that. Arnold's gets rebuild to look like a 1970's motel lobby. Fonzie chipped in half the money to rebuild, so he owned half of it. Richie and Ralph left the show, so they amped up Chachi who was sporting a Sean Cassidy haircut. They made Joanie with a 1980s perm become Chachi's girlfriend. They introduced the real Jenny Piccolo, who's name was a running joke as the unseen bad influence on Joanie, so they ruined that. They brought in pretty boy prep schooler Roger with his frosted GQ hairdo from the 80's. Lori Beth joined the team as a main character, who married Richie over the phone (seriously) and Fonzie was Richie's stand-in. Oh, and Mrs. C loses the beehive and wears her hair down. Then Fonzie becomes a professor at a college. It was pretty ridiculous.

@Buddycoop1 3 года назад

Still funny that they cut the clothing and hair styling budget.---Everybody is wearing 1970's hair, bathing suits and clothes. I'm waiting for Fonz to pull up in a '79 Honda motorcycle and then say he's going to see Buddy Holly in concert.

@Buddycoop1 3 года назад

@@pennygretchYou missed my point. They are obviously in the 1970's but occasionally mention a 50's reference at a feeble attempt at keeping the shows original premise in place.

@edwardcricchio6106 3 года назад

@Rich Speers. Yes! The moment they went to the live audience and Fonzie as the main character, the show lost it's 50s look and feel. First thing to go was clothing and hairstyles. "The Goldbergs" has done that in the present day. Show about the 80s that looks like the 2020s.

@panteraxenos4789 3 года назад

Edward Cricchio right, after the second season it was a disappointment.

@erikswanson224 3 года назад

Yes, I noticed that too. They don't look like 50s kids, the look actors reaching early middle age pretending to be kids from the fifties. Nobody had hair that long in the 50s.

@fpg213263fu 3 года назад

In Russia the Fonz doesn't jump the shark. The Shark jumps the Fonz.

@old300texan5 25 дней назад

The Brady Bunch jumped the shark when they brought in Oliver. Oliver killed more than one show.

@x-files5551 2 года назад

Actually Happy Days jumped the the shark when they started filming before a live audience.

@trhansen3244 2 месяца назад

Not even remotely true.

@Hr-sd5sd 2 года назад

I'm tempted to add Lost In Space's 'The Great Vegetable Rebellion ' episode, but it's more a 'worst ever episode' category than jumping the shark moment.

@debmar5771 3 года назад

I always thought that the meme should be "going to Hawaii," since more shows went to Hawaii to solve some mystery than jumped an actual shark!

@trhansen3244 2 месяца назад

Happened on Barnaby Jones.

@neilm2794 3 года назад

The Simpsons after about 1999 lost its edge and became family friendly. The Big Bang Theory after Amy and Bernadette became regulars the show was watered down. I’m pretty sure I stopped watching Happy Days before this episode ever aired.

@johnLennon255 2 года назад

Wow I can’t believe you threw the Big Bang theory in there lmao. That show is garbage and always way

@mrrocknroll5284 2 года назад

Well the thing that really ruined Happy Days was Scott Baio. He ruined it before Fonz even Jumped the shark

@chazarcola7639 2 года назад

Actually, Scott Baio and Erin Moran were the show's main attraction who kept the series going on successfully for 5 or 6 more years after the shark jumping moment.

@chazarcola7639 2 года назад

When Scott and Erin were separated from their parent show HAPPY DAYS in order to star in the spin off JOANIE LOVES CHACHI, the series unsuccessfully tried to make up for their sorely missed presence with other characters like Roger, Flip, KC, Jenny, Ashley and Heather. Nothing worked. And that was the end of the program.

@666t 2 года назад

Evil Kenievel's last motorcycle jump was over a shark, the same year but before the Happy Days episode aired, it would be interesting to see which happened first

@lisalynnmarie2448 3 года назад

To be honest, I've never heard that phrase! I don't think I even watched that episode of Happy Days. But, I guess I'd say for All in The Family, that show jumped the shark when Mike and Gloria had baby Joey. The second time it jumped the shark was when Stephanie's character was brought in when Mike and Gloria moved to California. How it kept going after that, I don't know.

@trent3872 3 года назад

I agree but to be honest Archie was that show. People in this country absolutely loved Archie, because he was real, everybody knew an Archie. Everybody's dad was an Archie.

@lisalynnmarie2448 3 года назад

@@trent3872 True, and I used to call my parents Archie and Edith if they were arguing when I'd drop by for a visit. My dad called me "little goil" when I got on his nerves lol Honestly though, I think all 4 of them made the show, even tho the joke was always on Archie. I'm not sure how long Archie's Place was on, but he couldn't carry it alone.

@trent3872 3 года назад

@@lisalynnmarie2448 lol good story. Yea like the saying goes, all good things come to an end

@lisalynnmarie2448 3 года назад

@@trent3872 Sadly, yes!!

@theoneandonly6431 3 года назад

I feel it lost most of it's luster when it became Archie Bunker's Place. The first few episodes were good, but after that, they had stupid storylines and introduced stupid new characters such as Archie's other niece " Billie" ( didn't like the first one, Stephanie either ), and that homely lawyer of his, Gary Rabinowitz.

@virginiacurtis4930 3 года назад

I love how Fonzie danced

@marcstevens3761 3 года назад

That's why they used Travolta for Grease instead of Henry.

@crusherbmx 3 года назад

Seinfeld jumping the shark for it's farewell episode seems perfectly planned.

@t6v5c2 3 года назад

Little House on The Prairie and The Waltons had several jump-the-shark episodes in later seasons.

@jonasthemovie Месяц назад

Burn Notice added Jessie in season 4, that was it for that series.

@HerrEllsworth 3 года назад

Well, I disagree about the I Dream of Jeannie bit. NBC had already decided the fifth season was going to be the last so the fact the ratings began to decline was a moot point. I agreed with the network that since the series was going to end, why not marry Tony and Jeannie otherwise the audience would have felt cheated. Now if you want a show that REALLY JUMPED JAWS after a will-they, won't-they tour de force, Moonlighting without a doubt.

@Trailhiker1 Год назад

The Fonz killed Chuck for his room above the garage and to get close to the Cunningham's

@trhansen3244 2 месяца назад

And there are some cut scenes where he and Mrs Cunningham were getting very close. I can only guess they realized a family show like this shouldn't have him fooling around with a married woman.

@Trailhiker1 2 месяца назад

@@trhansen3244 She was putting about all Milwaukee. Poor Mr C died with the shame

@buskavideo7149 3 месяца назад

Scrappy Doo joining my favourite cartoon show ruined my childhood 😩

@UNKLP66 5 месяцев назад

The JtS narrative also referred to a 50s theme show trending with the 70s JAWS mania thing

@TwilightAdvance 3 года назад

But the alien was Robin Williams, thats why it did not matter to anyone...

@FactsVerse 3 года назад

Thanks for watching, Von!

@patrickperalta59 2 года назад

I liked the hollywood episode where Fonz jumped the shark I didn't think it ruined the show.

@ScottJB Год назад

When the Walking Dead showed Glen super violently killed, then dragged on boringly afterwards, they jumped the shark in the ratings. Game of Thrones jumped the shark in the last episodes, but so badly that nobody even talks about the show now.

@jameskarchner8218 3 года назад

Lots of jumping the shark . Any time the best actor leaves ... or add a new ine , or when the kids change or grow up. Brady bunch with thier cousin added . Two and a half men , with Ashton , how stupid , and Alans son , only funny as a kid ,when he changed and grew up ,terrible storylines and acting . Sometimes i wonder what the producer and writers are thinking , like they ran out of ideas .

@daniellilly7591 3 года назад

100% agreed. I'd toss in "that 70's Show" replacement for Eric.

@mandycoulbeck8692 3 года назад

i enjoyed it when chachi came in it was a good show till the end

@davidurban6813 3 года назад

For me the idea of Fonzi jumping a shsrk tank with the leather jacket was just stinking lame. Jumping something on his motorcycle understandable. But jumping a shark tank NO!!!! Lame lame LAME !!! Just my opinion. Have a great day everyone.

@jackkircher1755 3 года назад

They had a stunt double do the jumping. Henry NEVER rode the motorcycle. He was afraid of it! Hard to believe, ain't it!

@harperstacey9604 3 года назад

The show should have hired new writers.

@trhansen3244 2 месяца назад

Jumping a shark is something people do. Just like many of us walk to the post office.

@kennyadams6823 Год назад

‘That 70’s Show’ jumped the shark when Foreman and Kelso left and replaced him with some idiotic wannabe. The show still focused on the Foreman’s since Hyde was living there and actually overused them. ‘2 1/2 Men’ obviously jumped the shark when Charlie Sheen left and was replaced with Ashton Kutcher. It kept going for a few years but was really unwatchable as Jake gets older and Alan falling into another situation where he gets to live with a rich playboy seems a little too convenient. ‘Roseanne’ may have jumped the shark earlier but the moment they won the lottery was the moment I couldn’t watch it any more. The whole premise is a family that middle and lower class families could relate to. Not having money for bills, needing work, everyday struggles, were all reasons people watched the show. Of course Roseanne’s National anthem debacle didn’t help either.