When discussing jumping the shark, in the show Community Troy says "There was an episode of Happy Days where a guy LITERALLY jumps over a shark, and it was the best one!"

The original post: /r/television by /u/visiny on 2024-05-11 10:46:40.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

I actually kind of agreed when he said it. Loved that line when I first heard it, because I remember at the time finding Happy Days so boring that I thought jumping over a shark could literally only be an improvement.

That being said, I do find it ironic to refer to Happy Days because the fonzie was always shown to be “the cool guy” so I just thought that was a natural extension of the character. And incidentally Happy Days actually went on for like, an additional 6 seasons (more than the 5 seasons it took to introduce the shark jumping episode) so I always thought that was funny too, clearly it seems the show didn’t “exhaust its core intent and introducing new ideas that are discordant with, or an extreme exaggeration of, its original purpose” if the show still had 6 more seasons of material.