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The phrase jump the shark comes from the episode of Happy Days when the Fonz ( the epitome of all things cool when I was a kid) literally 'jumped a shark' whilst water skiing. Since that point , you watched the show in a totally new light - and the show for you was never the same again. There's even a whole webisite (of the same name) dedicated to this whole saga.

Here's three to be going on with :

!) When that kid " Seven "suddenly appeared on "Married With Children", then vanished again as if nothing had ever happened.

2) When they changed Becky on Roseanne for that girl from Scrubs, and then back again.

3) Scrappy Doo. Words fail me for the raping of my childhood memories

When Fox Mulder "died" (the first time) at the end of X-Files series 3.

A fairly extreme one is the death of Bobby Ewing and the subsequent year and a bit of Dallas being written off as a dream.

Scrappy Doo. Indeed.

I doubt many of you will be familiar with this, but the "War of the Worlds" TV series...

The first season was cheesy, geeky, with dodgy effects ... but ultimately pretty good fun. Some good central characters really made the show (where else would you get an eccentric hippy genius, a biologist mom, a native American army colonel and a black wheelchair-bound martial arts expert?).

They obviously had a re-think for the second season, and in the first episode killed off two of the best characters, blew up their base, subtly changed the setting from "today" to a dystopian "almost tomorrow" and, finally, brought in Adrian ("Highlander: The Series") Paul as the new main lead.

Bag of shite.

MASH after the 2nd season f**king bleeding heart liberal sh*te

Just thought of another: Look Around You went from 1st series: 10 minute pure genius spoofs of Schools TV programming, to 2nd series: 30 minute second rate spoofs of Tomorrows World that reused all the best jokes of series 1 while managing to spoil them all.

Thanks ants. Thants.

Pants.

When Donna from "That 70s Show" dyed her hair blonde, I actually wept.

There's only RED Hot Donna

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:When Donna from "That 70s Show" dyed her hair blonde, I actually wept.

There's only RED Hot Donna

IZ.

Aye! AYe! AYE!

I wonder when they´ll first produce a programme where all characters die in a big catastrophy and on series 2 continue in heaven. Ort hell. Or Hades, or wherever otherworldish..

A diferent thing is the miraculous morphing of aircraft and cars on a number of films. I noticed that on some elderly spy storry that played at WW II time, where a JU 52 took (german, three engines, one vertical tail fin) off with, then grew a fourth engine and an extra tail shortly after to become an Avro Lancaster, dropped two engines and looked supciously like a Whittley, just to be a DC3 Dacota in german camouflage when touching down. That´s way better than any stealth design you could think of..

Re: car morphing:

Embarrassing admission, but on Eldorado, when Marcus Tandy's car blew up, I noticed that the Renault Alpine he drove morphed into a Triumph TR-7 shortly before the explosion.

eotunun wrote:I wonder when they´ll first produce a programme where all characters die in a big catastrophy and on series 2 continue in heaven. Ort hell. Or Hades, or wherever otherworldish..

we had something like that here if I'm not mistaken.
it was called the Raf and Ronny show, at some point they died and the next year they continued in heaven

I was a major Millennium fan for the first season, the second was sh!t and the third tried but at that point they could not return to a acceptable level.

Victoria from Emmerdale went to Spain a ginger came back brunette and trasformed facial.. as did Robert all those years ago - must e something in the water over there.

Rosie Webster used to be blonde then turned into a goff.

Tracy Barlow had a kidney and face transplant.

Peter Beale has changed too.



Do I watch too many soaps?

Debaser wrote:Victoria from Emmerdale went to Spain a ginger came back brunette and trasformed facial.. as did Robert all those years ago - must e something in the water over there.

Rosie Webster used to be blonde then turned into a goff.

Tracy Barlow had a kidney and face transplant.

Peter Beale has changed too.



Do I watch too many soaps?

Yes

christophe wrote: I was a major Millennium fan for the first season, the second was sh!t and the third tried but at that point they could not return to a acceptable level.

First season of Millennium was ace!


First 20-30 episodes of Miami Vice was great too.
The rest... naaaah.

Minder : When Terry left to be replaced by some wimpy looking 'nephew' who wouldn't be able to fight his way out of a wet paper bag.

8 Simple Rules: After John Ritter died they replaced him with not only Jim Rockford..but also with of all people.. David Spade !!


I'm racking my brain.. But there must be a ton of them out there!

The Sopranos : Pains me say it, But it lost the plot for a while with all the 'dream sequences' in the recent series ! Why for the love of all things Holy, why!!!?

Roseanne was required viewing at Chateau B'Last for many a year, then the plot had them winning the lottery and it all went Pete, the last two series were like slow death.

*ahem*

My friend and I were discussing this a few weeks ago.

The most recent episode of South Park "Stanley's Cup" jumped the shark in a big way. (You'll only have seen it if you're in America or of you've been downloading them.) I love South Park and don't mind the sick humour, but that one was just HORRIBLE.

Debaser wrote:Rosie Webster used to be blonde then turned into a goff.

Oi, blonde goth here.

Dan wrote:The most recent episode of South Park "Stanley's Cup" jumped the shark in a big way. (You'll only have seen it if you're in America or of you've been downloading them.) I love South Park and don't mind the sick humour, but that one was just HORRIBLE.

Or if you've been to Sweden.

Peter Beale has changed too.

indeed. into a corpse, many years ago.

emilystrange wrote:

Peter Beale has changed too.

indeed. into a corpse, many years ago.

aye..i thought he was pushing up the daisy's too...but as i'm not a great watcher of soaps i wasn't going to say anything for fear of looking even more stupid than i already do

What's a petebeale, please?

emilystrange wrote:

Peter Beale has changed too.

indeed. into a corpse, many years ago.

So what is Lucy's twin brother called?

Moonlighting-After they did it

weebleswobble wrote:After they did it

Just like real life then?