√𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoI have no idea what this is aboutmedia.piefed.worldexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1107arrow-down1external-linkI have no idea what this is aboutmedia.piefed.world√𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewabasso@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·15 days ago“Nuke the fridge” is up there with “Jump the shark”
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down7·15 days agoNot at all. Jump the shark is a high point that the show is not expected to reach again. Nuking the fridge is more of a final humiliation.
minus-squareCubbyTustard@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·15 days agoyou think that the fonz jumping over a shark on his motorcycle was the High Point of Happy Days and that’s why they call it that? 😂
minus-squareDr. Bob@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-215 days agoIt wasn’t a motorcycle, it was on water skis. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs9M1m-dpgM
minus-squarenetvor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoOT, but the comment under the video is pure gold: “Sharks have a similar metaphor, ‘swam under the Fonzie’.”
minus-squareSparkyBauer44@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·15 days agoJumping the shark is when the plot is lost and a ridiculous next move makes it apparent that the value is gone and the entity has become a joke of itself. That’s my interpretation. I did not google.
“Nuke the fridge” is up there with “Jump the shark”
Not at all. Jump the shark is a high point that the show is not expected to reach again.
Nuking the fridge is more of a final humiliation.
you think that the fonz jumping over a shark on his motorcycle was the High Point of Happy Days and that’s why they call it that? 😂
It wasn’t a motorcycle, it was on water skis. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs9M1m-dpgM
OT, but the comment under the video is pure gold:
“Sharks have a similar metaphor, ‘swam under the Fonzie’.”
Jumping the shark is when the plot is lost and a ridiculous next move makes it apparent that the value is gone and the entity has become a joke of itself. That’s my interpretation. I did not google.