The Guild 9-17-2002 When did your fav TV show Jump the Shark?

Jump the Shark ^

[BigWaveBetty]

This site offers alphabetical listings of TV shows, movies and assorted other happenings that when you pick one out you can see when most people thought the show started down hill.

A few examples of bad (liberal) shows so we can giggle.

Jump the Shark home page.

WARNING: some of the language used in the comment part of these pages can be expressive!

The Rosie O'Donut Show

First Show 1996
Last Show 2002
Genre Talk
Network SYN
Slot Day Various
Slot Time Various
Jumped The Shark when....

Votes
Day One................... 35
Tom Selleck's appearance.. 29
Never Jumped.............. 17
She's a hypocrite......... 12
Rosie is an expert
on all social issues....... 7
Not That There's Anything
Wrong With It (Rosie)...... 4
Elmo....................... 3
Singing.................... 3
The Barbra Striesand
interview.................. 3
Party of Five cast appears. 1
Click the title to see the rest and viewer comments.

Meet the Press

First Show 1947
Last Show ?
Genre Talk
Network NBC
Slot Day Sunday
Slot Time Various
Jumped The Shark when...

Votes
Tim Russert takes over... 10
Special Guest Star
(Jesse Ventura) 1 Special Guest Star
(Rush Limbaugh) 1 Special Guest Star
(Hillary Clinton) 1 Special Guest Star
(John McCain) again 1
Click title for comments.

The West Wing

First Show 1999
Last Show ?
Genre Drama
Network NBC
Slot Day Wednesday
Slot Time 9 pm
Jumped The Shark when...

Votes
Never Jumped... 146
A Very Special...(the terrorist episode) 39
Ted McGinley... 23
The LEFT wing... 19
Will he or won't he run?...
18 The President has M.S.... 15
Death (Mrs. Landingham)... 14
Third Season finale... 12
Day One... 11
Special Guest Star (Lily Tomlin)... 8
Special Guest Star (Mark Harmon)... 7
First Season Finale... 7
Aaron Sorkin gets busted... 6
Click title for more votes and comments.

TED McGINLEY...
Jump the Shark's Patron Saint

Ted is the patron saint of shark jumping. Chances are that if Ted is anywhere near your cast, consider the show on the downward spiral. That's not to take away from Ted's fine acting skills. Consensus here enjoys Ted more on the big screen (Revenge of the Nerds) than on our sets. Then again, we wouldn't have a patron saint...thanks Ted!

Never Jumped

An overwhelming majority of "Never Jumped" votes is required for safe passage here. And you've got to have more than a handful of total votes as well. We present the few, the proud...

The Simpsons
Police Squad!
Newhart

WKRP in Cincinnati
The Prisoner
Magnum, P.I.

The Tick
Barney Miller
The Rockford Files

Homefront
The Larry Sanders Show
Freaks and Geeks

The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Odd Couple
Fawlty Towers
St. Elsewhere

Have fun with your favorite or not so favorite show!

[BigWaveBetty]

Harry Beladummy is on Donahue right now!

Good article on him and Powell by Larry Elder: What if Colin had attacked Harry?

[BigWaveBetty]

That site will keep you two busy for hours! Have fun! :-)

[pubmom]

Back in the 80's I loved "The Equalizer." I wish I could say it never jumped, but after Edward Woodward had his heart attack and they added Richard Jordon to the cast, things went downhill. Mickey Kostmayer (Keith Szarabajka) was given less face time when the Harley Gage character (Jordon) joined the cast, something that did not make me happy. (Mickey had a great, sarcastic wit and was charming in a naughty boy kind of way) The show became too preachy on social issues, they even had an episode about gun control that guest starred Sally Jesse Raphael! I still have all my taped episodes and I love them all, but the show did jump. (tears:(

The Equalizer First Show 1985
Last Show 1989
Genre Drama
Network CBS
Slot Day Wednesday
Slot Time 10 pm
Jumped The Shark when... Votes
Never Jumped 26
Edward Woodward has a heart attack 7
Day One 1
Special Guest Star (Adam Ant) 1
Casual clothes 1
Richard Jordan 1
Social crusading 1
The Prisoner ripoff episode 1

[BigWaveBetty]

Clintoon is such a blight on this country, we'll be cleaning up his messes for years to come.

I will throw a party the day he dies.

[Utah Girl]

Miss Marple, you must tell BigWaveBetty what you plan to do when x42 dies...(this is so good.)

[Endeavor]

ER - when what's her name left to join Doug on the Left Coast

[BigWaveBetty]

I never did get to watch that show but was intrigued by it. I wish they'd run it in reruns somewhere.

If anyone watching Beladummy on MSNBC I hope you've got a strong stomach. Harry is completely outrageous!!!!

[Utah Girl]

Yes I agree about ER! Carol (Julianna Marguilies) was sooo good on ER, and her last episode was excellent.

[BigWaveBetty]

Carol Hatthaway. Can't remember her real name.

Now the Dummy on Donahue is disparaging Condi Rice!

[Endeavor]

Actually, I thought Ellen's coming out show was very good. Unfortunately, the entire next season dealt with Ellen being gay. I don't need to know all about Ellen being gay. I don't mind knowing something about Ellen being gay, but Ellen became a zealot and that was a turn-off.

I think she's really quite funny when she stays away from gutter humor. I've seen her do extremely funny stuff that happened to be appropriate for all audiences. I've seen her make a jack#ss of herself on Letterman being crude, vulgar - it was after the Heche breakup.

I also liked Rosie when she was "nicer." We all look pretty rotten in our worst moments. We're just lucky our worst moments aren't played out in international gossip rags and on the 6 o'clock news.

I'm not taking up for these two women's more obnoxious moments. I do appreciate their talent and wish them well. Which is probably a helluva lot more than they wish me - a conservative woman.

[Endeavor]

"I will throw a party the day he dies."

And honey, I will drive, fly, run/walk to wherever your party is and hoist a very tall one with ya!

[Endeavor]

Teacup, you always make The Guild proud - you're just a sweetie!

[Endeavor]

You gave a great synopsis on why we hate Clinton. Thank you.

[BigWaveBetty]

We will have such a wonderful time!!! Can't hardly wait!

Your right about Ellen, didn't care about her gayness, just didn't want to see/hear her whine about it every week.

Looking for a laugh? If you didn't hear Rush today go to this page and click on... .talk to Harry, a caller who helps Rush get to the bottom of liberal non-thinking)

Take Your Lily White Asses To London At the bottom of the page.

It's an hysterical call, Rush rips Harry (the caller) a new one!

[BigWaveBetty]

Whoops! Told you to click on the wrong call. This is the one:

(...challenge Bob to haul his lily white ass to London if he hates us so much)

[Utah Girl]

Re: Ellen and Rosie. I agree with your comments. Those two women can be extremely funny. But for some reason, when they came out (and it has happened to others), their total focus is their sexual orientation. Quite honestly, it gets to be old. I knew they were both lesbians before they "officially" came out. I thought they were funny anyway. Oh well...

[Utah Girl]

Thanks. I really try hard not to hate anyone, but I really do hate that icky couple. I despise them and their cohorts and what they did to this great nation for eight years. I see either one of them on TV or in a photo, and that old rage just comes roaring back. God help us all if the Hildabeast ever becomes prez. I honestly think that America as a nation would not survive her.

[Oztrich Boy]

Onedin Line A show about a capitalist shipping tycoon ran 9 years.

jumped the final year. reason "exit. stage left": (cast member leaves.)

There were a lot of changes over the years, but it just couldn't survive the departure of the star, Charlotte Rhodes

[Endeavor]

As a wooden boat fanatic, I'm sorry never to have seen the show.

[BigWaveBetty]

Looks very interesting! Thanks for the link OB!