When did your favorite tv show "jump the shark"?
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When did your favorite tv show "jump the shark"?
"Friends", right after 6th season when Monica and Chandler get engaged. From then on 7-10, they were just going through the motions.
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Roseanne - After they went into the diner business, things started getting rough. And the less said about the last hideous season, the better.
MASH - After Radar left. The show lowered into sanctimony and silly puns.
Get Smart - After Max and 99 got married. The episodes with Hymie are also unwatchable, even when I was a kid.
NYPD Blue - The Rick Schroeder years. However, the show did a sweet upturn with the arrival of Zack Morris.
ER - The death of Mark Greene, but I still stuck around. Then when Romano was killed, I stopped watching and haven't been back.
MASH - After Radar left. The show lowered into sanctimony and silly puns.
Get Smart - After Max and 99 got married. The episodes with Hymie are also unwatchable, even when I was a kid.
NYPD Blue - The Rick Schroeder years. However, the show did a sweet upturn with the arrival of Zack Morris.
ER - The death of Mark Greene, but I still stuck around. Then when Romano was killed, I stopped watching and haven't been back.
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Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
Roseanne - After they went into the diner business, things started getting rough. And the less said about the last hideous season, the better.
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24 -- The second half of season two, when suddenly there were 500 layers of conspiracy with about 80,000 people in on it, and not all of it added up. 24 ran with it and took it to extreme levels in later years to the point of parody.
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On Buffy The Vampire Slayer when she started "doing it" with Spike.
LaVerne and Shirley when they moved to LA.
Voyager when they started bumping into Aliens that they weren't suppose to pump into Delta Quadrant.
All in the Family when Edith died and they brought Stephie on.
Dallas when Bobbie came out of the shower.
LaVerne and Shirley when they moved to LA.
Voyager when they started bumping into Aliens that they weren't suppose to pump into Delta Quadrant.
All in the Family when Edith died and they brought Stephie on.
Dallas when Bobbie came out of the shower.
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People, haven't any of you ever heard of SPOILER TAGS!!!!!??????
Now the following shows have been ruined for me:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Laverne & Shirley
Star Trek: Voyager
All In The Family
Dallas
24
Roseanne
MASH
Get Smart
NYPD Blue
e.r. &
Friends
Now the following shows have been ruined for me:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Laverne & Shirley
Star Trek: Voyager
All In The Family
Dallas
24
Roseanne
MASH
Get Smart
NYPD Blue
e.r. &
Friends
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Originally Posted by scott1598
"Friends", right after 6th season when Monica and Chandler get engaged. From then on 7-10, they were just going through the motions.
I agree completely that this was the JTS point for Friends.
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Not a favorite, but one I enjoyed: That 70's Show: When Donna and Eric didn't get married - that should have ended the series (would have come full circle from the first episode.)
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Originally Posted by scott1598
"Friends", right after 6th season when Monica and Chandler get engaged. From then on 7-10, they were just going through the motions.
I agree that "Buffy" jumped the shark right after "Tabula Rasa". It was all downhill from there.
"Lost" seems to have jumped about 2/3 of the way through last season.
"The O.C." and "One Tree Hill" both jumped after Season 1.
"Alias" jumped after the Season 2 finale.
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Posted by Doughboy:
"The O.C." and "One Tree Hill" both jumped after Season 1.
"The O.C." and "One Tree Hill" both jumped after Season 1.
One Tree Hill, on the other hand, is not quite so bad and has not bottomed out the same way The OC has in the last two seasons.
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Nip/Tuck in the middle of Season Two, when it started ... getting sappy? Soap Opera-ism? The overreactions? I can't quite put my finger on it, but Season One was quite good compared to Season Two. Not looking forward to Season Three (if I even make it that far, as I have reshelved Season Two without completing it).
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Originally Posted by Doughboy
Season 7 was absolute crap, no doubt. But I thought Season 8 was a nice return to form for the show. It jumped again though in Season 10. And the less said about "Joey" the better.
I agree that "Buffy" jumped the shark right after "Tabula Rasa". It was all downhill from there.
"Lost" seems to have jumped about 2/3 of the way through last season.
"The O.C." and "One Tree Hill" both jumped after Season 1.
"Alias" jumped after the Season 2 finale.
I agree that "Buffy" jumped the shark right after "Tabula Rasa". It was all downhill from there.
"Lost" seems to have jumped about 2/3 of the way through last season.
"The O.C." and "One Tree Hill" both jumped after Season 1.
"Alias" jumped after the Season 2 finale.