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Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

Why do we say \u2018jump the shark\u2019?<\/h2>\n\n
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FONZIE SCHEME<\/strong> Henry Winkler pictured in the 1977 Happy Days<\/em> scene that spawned a much-used saying <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

A TV trope was born when, in <\/span>Happy Days, <\/em>Fonzie… you guessed it, jumped over a shark<\/span><\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span> <\/h5>\n\n

To \u2018jump the shark\u2019 is when a television show in decline introduces a gimmick in a desperate attempt to rejuvenate its ratings, only to fail. The \u2013 rather literal \u2013 origin of the phrase is the wildly popular 1970s sitcom, <\/span>Happy Days. <\/em>In the fifth season, the beloved character Fonzie, the leather-jacket-wearing, jukebox-hitting greaser played by Henry Winkler, accepts a challenge to water ski off a ramp over a penned-in tiger shark. For a show about an everyday family in the US Midwest in the 1950s, the stunt felt out of place \u2013 at least, it did to University of Michigan roommates Jon Hein and Sean Connolly, who coined the phrase \u2018jump the shark\u2019 and set up a website to record other times television shows lost their way in ridiculous fashion. But in truth, this wasn\u2019t a jumping the shark moment for <\/span>Happy Days: <\/em>the show ran for another six seasons, only ending in 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Q&A Why do we say \u2018jump the shark\u2019? \u2022 SHORT ANSWER A TV trope was born when, in Happy Days, Fonzie… you guessed it, jumped over a shark \u2022 LONG ANSWER To \u2018jump the shark\u2019 is when a television show in decline introduces a gimmick in a desperate attempt to rejuvenate its ratings, only to fail. 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