It's a pretty cool site. I love the Diff'rent Strokes section where they talk about the "very special" child molester episode where the old guy that ran the bicycle shop tried to get Arnold and Dudley drunk and fuck them up the ass. Or the Facts of Life episode where someone actually tried to rape Natalie, like anyone would actually try at attempt any sort of sexual contact with that fat ulgy puss-bucket.
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It's a pretty cool site. I love the Diff'rent Strokes section where they talk about the "very special" child molester episode where the old guy that ran the bicycle shop tried to get Arnold and Dudley drunk and fuck them up the ass. Or the Facts of Life episode where someone actually tried to rape Natalie, like anyone would actually try at attempt any sort of sexual contact with that fat ulgy puss-bucket.
Jesus, those really happened? Now I wish I'd actually been watching sitcoms back in the day.
That site seems to have something against Ted McGinley. Beats me why, he ruled as Jefferson on Married with Children.
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Eh that site's cool if you watch alot of television, I can't be arsed to keep up with any of those shows though, the only thing I make an effort to watch regularly is Globetrekker.
Dude, the bicycle shop owner/molester(Gordon Jump) was the station manager of WKRP in Cincinnati which was weird enough. Sitcoms always did those "special' eps.
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I remember he made Arnold and Dudley play "Jungle Adventure" with their shirts off while he took pictures.
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I guess it's these people's hobby, which is cool and all, but I never could understand the point or interest in knowing all this stuff. People on that site know names of producers, directors, everything they've ever done, completely unknown second string actors and their histories, the tiniest, most trivial facts about their tv shows... I'd literally have to have an actor's bio database website open right along with that one to follow it at all.
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So, what does "jump the shark" mean, anyway?
You've been handed a website called jumptheshark.com and you're still asking?
Near the end, Happy Days had an episode where the cast goes to Hawaii. The Fonz is shown water-skiing, jumping a ramp, and jumping over a shark. Many see it as the exact moment when Happy Days went from a good show to crap.
Get it?
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The Simpsons jumped the shark with the Frank Grimes episode. This is the truth, I will hear no debate.
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I knew diff was going to go with the Simpsons...although even a bad episode of that is better than a good episode of most shows, thanks to the voice cast just being fantastic. Recent eps have brought the show almost back to its former glory.
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I knew diff was going to go with the Simpsons...although even a bad episode of that is better than a good episode of most shows, thanks to the voice cast just being fantastic.
Bad episodes are bad episodes. And bad Simpsons is one of the worst shows on TV. It's just not funny. Sure, it may be better than a good episode of most shows, but most TV shows are utter and complete shit. If a bad episode of The Simpsons is better than those, its still utter shit.
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I wouldnt know. But I am skeptical.
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diffX: It's not true. Recent episodes are better. But it's hard not to get worse when you've hit the bottom. They're definitely better, but they're no where near seasons 3 - 9 caliber.
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Master of course you agree. You can't disagree with fact.
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I thought Simpsons jumped the shark at the end of the gun episode, where Marge puts the gun into her purse. Really, that was completely out of character and the humanity of the show began to slowly leech out from thereon.
The Frank Grimes episode was the first one that made me want to scream "What the fuck is your problem, you asshole?" at Homer, but the episode is still pretty funny.
I think the Simpson Jumped the Shark a long time ago. When you have an episode, where Homer is the mascot for the Springfield baseball team and you find nothing funny about it, you have to wonder if the writing has gone stale.
Happy Days pretty much died, when Richey left the show. When the Fonz jumped the shark, it was probably the last episode the Richy appeared in. All this Cousin Jenny, Fonz the teacher crap, was too much to handle.
*pushes glasses up*
I thought Simpsons jumped the shark at the end of the gun episode, where Marge puts the gun into her purse. Really, that was completely out of character and the humanity of the show began to slowly leech out from thereon.
Which came first, the FG one or this? The FG one was still the JTS episode. Like I said, I will hear no argument.
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The Frank Grimes episode was the first one that made me want to scream "What the fuck is your problem, you asshole?" at Homer, but the episode is still pretty funny.
No it wasn't.
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Happy Days pretty much died, when Richey left the show. When the Fonz jumped the shark, it was probably the last episode the Richy appeared in. All this Cousin Jenny, Fonz the teacher crap, was too much to handle.
As I stated in the previous page Fonz jumped the shark in episode 90--Richie was around for years after that. In any case I believe a long running series can jump the shark and jump back--maybe even several times. Some shows never recover though.
Also Frank Grimes appeared in Season 8 in the episode "Homer's Enemy" -- the "Cartridge Family" was season 9 where Homer gets a gun--it was actually pretty funny.
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Jesus, those really happened? Now I wish I'd actually been watching sitcoms back in the day.
you never saw the radioactive timmy episode of lassy did you?
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What's the deal with this Frank Grimes episode of The Simpsons? I never saw it. Why was it so bad?
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Which came first, the FG one or this? The FG one was still the JTS episode.
The FG one was towards he end of Season 8 and the gun one was towards the beginning of Season 9.
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What's the deal with this Frank Grimes episode of The Simpsons? I never saw it. Why was it so bad?
It's an episode where a man named Frank Grimes moves to Springfield and works at the power plant. He's suffered his whole life while Homer coasts on by. Eventually, he keeps on getting in trouble because of Homer's idiocy and when he dies (he goes insane while trying to prove Homer's a moron to the town), Homer falls asleep at his funeral and makes rude comments.
This one does start a few trends we see a lot now in the new Simpsons (endless self-referencing and in-jokes and an absolutely inhumane approach to the characters). It's still a pretty funny episode (Hank Azaria, who I think did Grimes voice, does a hilarious and fantastic job); don't listen to diffusionx, there are still a few great episodes after this one (the gun episode, the New York episode, the origin of Lisa's Sax epsiode)
This one does start a few trends we see a lot now in the new Simpsons (endless self-referencing and in-jokes and an absolutely inhumane approach to the characters). It's still a pretty funny episode (Hank Azaria, who I think did Grimes voice, does a hilarious and fantastic job); don't listen to diffusionx, there are still a few great episodes after this one (the gun episode, the New York episode, the origin of Lisa's Sax epsiode)
Wait, I remember this episode. At one point wasn't Homer upset that Grimes didn't like him so he invited him over to dinner, which (of course) turned out to be a disaster as well, with Grimes flipping out at how big Homer's house was while he lived in a tiny run-down apartment? I haven't seen that one in a while but I remember it being pretty funny.
Diff, is it that you don't like this episode, or you do and it just signals The Simpsons 'jumping the shark' to you?
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Recent eps have brought the show almost back to its former glory.
This season has been much improved so far... but I wouldn't go that far. Simpsons should have been canceled a while back and Futurama left on the air.
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I think the Simpson Jumped the Shark a long time ago. When you have an episode, where Homer is the mascot for the Springfield baseball team and you find nothing funny about it, you have to wonder if the writing has gone stale.
Dude... that episode was around season 2 or 3.
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Actually I really liked that episode. I thought the Simpsons Jumped the Shark when they killed Maude.
I think that's about where I would put it as well. There really wasn't any good reason to kill her off.
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This one does start a few trends we see a lot now in the new Simpsons (endless self-referencing and in-jokes and an absolutely inhumane approach to the characters). It's still a pretty funny episode (Hank Azaria, who I think did Grimes voice, does a hilarious and fantastic job); don't listen to diffusionx, there are still a few great episodes after this one (the gun episode, the New York episode, the origin of Lisa's Sax epsiode)
Oh, there were a couple of good episodes after the Grimes episode, but the Grimes episode was a turning point, after which it turned to shit. Simpsons got really shaky and subpar after the Grimes episode, and after a year or two of "subpar", it just got "completely terrible beyond all belief".
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Diff, is it that you don't like this episode, or you do and it just signals The Simpsons 'jumping the shark' to you?
No. I hate the episode with every fiber of my being. It was the beginning of the end for my favorite show on TV. It was awful. Why did they change Homer so much? There was no reason for it. Why didnt anybody say "hey, wait a minute, Homer's not like this" and then redo the episode? It was just crap. There was no care or anything put into it, it was all done for cheap laughs and the quick joke, and the characters you loved for years can be damned.
And this is exactly what Simpsons became not too long after this episode.
I think the last episode I watched was in Season 10 or 11, it was one where it might have had U2, or any of a million other celebrities theyve trotted out over the years. It was so awful... I just couldnt watch it anymore.
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I think the last episode I watched was in Season 10 or 11, it was one where it might have had U2, or any of a million other celebrities theyve trotted out over the years. It was so awful... I just couldnt watch it anymore.
I think the celebrity thing is there biggest problem with Jumping the Shark. It went from an every once in a while thing, to a let's fill half the season with celebrities thing, which is pure shit.
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They're falling into that trap with this season, although at least the celeb cameos are kept short. The worst one was with the rock and roll camp, ugh, nine billion musicians cracking bad jokes. George Meyer said in an interview once that he wasn't sure when Homer became a complete and total fool, but that it just kind of happened. Thankfully, Homer's intelligence is above an ape during this season, so far anyway.
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I do agree that The Simpsons have gone from one of the best show ever to being shit. They really should just kill it off.
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