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Jumped the shark around the 7th season

posted 8 years ago by hacker7-503-679471
21 replies | jump to latest

Yes. That is correct.

"Ass masters 3 was not the final chapter!!! They left too many loose Ends!!!!" - Charlie Harper

[–] Hawkeye-Costanza 8 years ago

That's cooky talk, the show never jumped the shark.

[–] ChuckCunningham 8 years ago

The term "jump the shark" has jumped the shark.

[–] znep27 8 years ago

You're just upset you weren't around to see Fonzy jump the shark.

"You gotta punch the clock, why don't you punch your boss?"

[–] ChuckCunningham 8 years ago

I was supposed to be the star of the show.

[–] pizzabagel 8 years ago

But they had you take a long jump off a short shark.

They were pretty rough, but they had something.
What was it?
I think it was the trousers.

[–] ChuckCunningham 8 years ago

Damn you, Henry Winkler!

[–] pizzabagel 8 years ago

Was that your catch phrase, Chuck? I can see why they let you go.

They were pretty rough, but they had something.
What was it?
I think it was the trousers.

[–] MikeO_64 8 years ago

Fonz was the winner. Chuck was the LOSER. To the VICTOR go the spoils.

"I must be crazy to be in a loony bin like this."

[–] theauxphou 8 years ago

The seventh season then attached itself to the shark and ate all the laughs!

[–] jlprizm86 8 years ago

I don't know how a shark could eat laughs..

[–] audierules 8 years ago

it didnt because there are actually alot of great episodes in the last 3 seasons.

[–] blondejohn 8 years ago

They never jumped the shark. The entire time they could see right into the eye of the great mammal!

[–] znep27 8 years ago

Fish

"You gotta punch the clock, why don't you punch your boss?"

[–] blondejohn 8 years ago

Whatever.

[–] avortac4 (3746) 5 years ago

This is probably the only show that has this many seasons that never jumped the shark, and where the quality never actually noticably declined.

Some seasons are not as good as others, and there are lots of cringy, clunky episodes, but as a whole, 'jumping the shark' never happened. The 'wackiest' thing I can think of, is the 'Indian Wedding' episode, the name of which I can't remember right now. Not only is it played backwards, but the story is very un-Seinfeld-ish. WEDDING in Seinfeld? Come on! The only comedy show without 'forced sappy moments' or 'forced, injected romance crap'.

[–] AP (5288) 4 years ago

There were no sappy or romantic moments in that episode. The wedding was just a backdrop to Elaine’s plot.

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 4 years ago

It jumped the shark in the final episode.

[–] CaptainCrozier (615) 4 years ago

The last two seasons, IMO, were noticeably less funny than the the rest but I would not go so far as to say the show ever jumped the shark, except, as the previous poster, said, in the final episode. Not a good ending to the series!

[–] bobbydallas (8556) 4 years ago

once LD left (season 7) the writing just got weak.