Jumping The Shark

[Master]

Ahhhhhh.

Then how come people do it here all the time?

[Tracer]

Actually I really liked that episode. I thought the Simpsons Jumped the Shark when they killed Maude.

[Sqoon]

*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.

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.

[gamevet]

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.

[Diff-chan]

*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.

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.

[soundwave]

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.

[Lordmrw]

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?

[Dolemite]

What's the deal with this Frank Grimes episode of The Simpsons? I never saw it. Why was it so bad?

[arjue]

why am i reading thiss. i ask my self

[Sqoon]

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.

Like I said, I will hear no argument.

Oh, you'll be hearing it boyo.

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)