> Honestly, I think the episode with hippies in space searching for the Eden
> planet was worse than Spock's Brain. <shudders>
http://www.jumptheshark.com/
>From the website:
It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television
program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's
all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it jumping the shark.
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"Jumping The Shark" was the Happy Days episode where Fonzie jumped over the
shark tank with his motorcycle. To many, that was the moment that the series
started to go downhill.
The website is dedicated to defining those "Jumping The Shark" moments on
other shows and series.
You might be interested to know that the "Singing Hippy" episode was voted
number two, only to be beaten by "Spock's Brian" for the defining moment
that the series started to go downhill.
This is an unrelated but funny (and accurate) comment made on the Star Trek
page on that site:- -- When the 4th guy in the landing party is a guy with a
red shirt, and Kirk says "Bones, Spock, come with me. You, guy in the red
shirt, go check behind that big rock." ---
Here are the top three voted "Jumping The Shark" moments for:
ST:TNG
1. Wesley Crusher (no surprise here!)
2. Day One (the first moment of the first episode)
3. The movie.
Deep Space Nine:
1. Day one.
2. Dax's death
3. Federation vs. Dominion war
Voyager:
1. Day one.
2. 7 of 9 (hey! I liked the T&A factor)
3. The Borg need help.
Ally McBeal (just for purposes of comparison)
1. Day one
2. Billy's death.
3. Ally looses too much weight.
My own "Jumping The Shark" moments:
The Postman movie:
1. When Kevin Costner got involved.
Star Trek (all series)
1. When they CONSTANTLY screw with the time-space continuum
2. Warp Core ejection system is the most unreliable hardware on board.
3. Just once, not be able to solve a problem.
4. Computer explosions are lethel - gives new meaning to "computer crash"
Enjoy!
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Gary L. Nunn
Delaware Ohio
A good way to threaten somebody is to light a
stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and
hold the burning fuse up to the phone.
"Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."
