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Flashback: 30 Years Ago Today, The Fonz Jumped A Shark

GiggleSugar — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:43:04 -0700

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. TV critics and anyone with taste or brains realized this was the moment the show had finally killed itself; the moment the original premise of the show was so betrayed, its vision having veered so off course, that there was no point going on. And it's used now to describe the moment that anything betrays its original purpose. And what do you know, it was thirty years ago to the day. Freaky, man.

GiggleSugar Best of the Week

GiggleSugar — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0700

If Demi Moore and Christina Aguilera can do it, so can we. WRONG!
Vagina Monologues: The Musical.
Remember Manimal? Or trying to forget it?
Tattoos officially, finally, totally jumped the shark here.
Toilet paper wedding dresses, caviar dreams.
Johnny Has Two Daddies. And one of 'em is cool as sh•t.
This adorable dog wants to help the kitty in the computer. But he doesn't know how...
Buy one, get me free!

Barack Obama Has Already Been in The West Wing

CitizenSugar — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:00:04 -0800

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."

Attie acknowledges Obama's rising superstar image, saying,

"After that convention speech, Obama's life changed. He was mobbed wherever he went. He was more than a candidate seeking votes: people were seeking him. Some of Santos's celebrity aura came from that."

And a glorious, glorious treat for you: the video of the absolute best, classic West Wing scene, ever. Wanna see, "oh, and one more thing. In this building, when the President stands, nobody sits."? Then read more!

Sigh. President Bartlett was the best president we've ever had.

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Teenage Mutant Golden Girls

GiggleSugar — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:00:00 -0800

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. And yet, how to explain...that I love it.