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Flashback: 30 Years Ago Today, The Fonz Jumped A Shark
What the hell am I talking about, you ask? Well, serendipity would have it that I was talking to someone about the expression "jumping the shark" today. This term comes from the infamous moment on September 20, 1977, when "The Fonz" from "Happy Days" donned his famous leather jacket, went water skiing, and jumped a shark on his skis.
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Barack Obama Has Already Been in The West Wing
This article Buzz pointed out yesterday about Barack Obama being the real-life inspiration for Jimmy Smits' character, Matt Santos, got me all shades of nostalgic for The West Wing. Now granted, by the time that story line rolled around, I daresay the show had, ahem, Jumped the proverbial Shark, but the article is a good read and a nice blend of Ballot Bowl '08 and the Boob-tube.
Writer and producer Eli Attie said,
"Some of Santos's insistence on not being defined by his race, his pride in it even as he rises above it, came from that."
Teenage Mutant Golden Girls
Mashups have officially jumped the shark with this one. Someone decided to pay homage to the Golden Girls via the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and somehow produced something totally literal and off-the-wall. And unlike most mashups that get you to think about the mashed-up things differently, this one manages to illuminate neither TGG or TMNT.
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