Jumping the Shark: Dean's Deep-water Dive

Townhall ^ | 21 Jan, 2004 | Jonah Goldberg

[bastantebueno55]

OK, it could be called other things, too. But whatever it was, he sounded like he meant to go to a proctologist but accidentally visited a chimney sweep instead.

ROFLMAO!

Dean has spent the better part of a year running as the candidate of rage. With his bulging neck and slightly mirrored eyes, he looks like the Hulk in that interim stage in between man and monster, you know right before he rips his clothes and turns green.

PMPTRDC! (peeing my pants tears running down cheeks)

[pbear8]

Please get a Restraining Order out on this man. Keep him away from normal Americans.

[freebilly]

Too bad he's imploding so soon. I wanted him around for The Big Show. I don't think it'll be a 45+ state sweep against Kerry....

[beckett]

I have seen the phrase "jump the shark" pop up a few times over the last couple of years but I never made the effort to investigate where it came from. Thank you Jonah.

[medscribe]

From Peggy Noonan today (paraphrasing here):

There used to be an old joke about George HW Bush...that he reminds women of their first husband. Well, Howard Dean reminds women of the first husband that they had to get a restraining order against!

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061705/posts

The Howard Dean Re-Mix (The Funniest Thing You Will Hear On FR Today)
Right Magazine ^ | 1-20-04

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061359/posts

cRazY Dean remix..... (for fellow bored insomniacs)
The song ^

Song upload
here's a video: Howard Dean Loses His Mind

-more-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061217/posts

 

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061315/posts

Audio Clip of Dean Losing His Mind
The Drudge Report ^ | 1/19/04
...watching the meltdown is fun. I"ve been reading over at Blog for america. LIke leader like follower the insanity spews forth in the comments.

See Howie Meltdown Live...Click Here

Calling Rob Reiner and Martin Sheen...your little tin god is melting.
Howard Dean Loses His Mind

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061217/posts

Dean SNAPS!! On Foxnews!!!

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061631/posts?page=9#9

The Man from Hate. What Dean really stands for. (Chucky Alert! Choppy, Choppy)
NRO ^ | January 20, 2004, 9:15 a.m. | By Timothy P. Carney

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061700/posts

Democratic presidential candidates preach hate
Agusta Chronicle ^ | December 28, 2003 | Herman Cain

 

 

 

[pbear8]

Howard probably self-medicates too.

[ambrose]

Disc jockeys like Howard Stern are already - unfairly, it should be said - playing Dean's diatribe against the soundtrack of Nuremberg rallies.

THIS, I'd like to hear. LOL.

[shekkian]

Dean has driven the tank.

[sweetliberty]

"he looks like the Hulk in that interim stage in between man and monster, you know right before he rips his clothes and turns green."

Now that would be a great graphic. LOL!

[aodell]

Dean is a maniac. If I had to choose between him and Clinton - he or she - I'd be hard pressed to tell which was the lesser of two evils.

[leadpenny]

Jumping the Shark, eh?
For my generation, I'll remember it as Mayberry when Barney Fife left the show.
Or, when Chester left Gunsmoke.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is a great TOON on all the Demoncratic candidates wrapped up in a Mars Rover theme:

ROVERS

[KC_Conspirator]

Disc jockeys like Howard Stern are already - unfairly, it should be said - playing Dean's diatribe against the soundtrack of Nuremberg rallies.

I don't think thats unfair at all. He sounds and gestures wildly like a two bit dictator, but more like Mussoulini than Hitler.

[Flashlight]

...Dean has driven the tank....

you said it. tho, actually I think this is worse than Dukakis's ride.

in later years we'll be saying of candidates who implode, "he did a Howard Dean" or "that was a Howard Dean moment"

[LS]

My son had a good line about Howard: "With Dean, you never know if you're getting SmeagelDean or GollumDean."

[Schnucki]

Don't forget to vote on when CNN jumped the shark!

[FeliciaCat]

My boyfriend listens to Howard Stern every morning on the way to work..he was telling me about this yesterday..he said it was hysterical. Stern is giving Mad Howie a REALLY hard time...

[billhilly]

"OK, it could be called other things, too. But whatever it was, he sounded like he meant to go to a proctologist but accidentally visited a chimney sweep instead. "

The funniest line that I have seen in print in ages.

[Wright is right!]

""I have seen the phrase "jump the shark" pop up a few times over the last couple of years but I never made the effort to investigate where it came from. Thank you Jonah."

Jonah only gave a partial explanation. Jumping the shark can also mean that point where a TV show loses sight or abandons its original premise - OR does something so credibility-busting that it drives viewers away in large numbers. For instance, "Dallas" in the 80's jumped the shark when the big cliffhanger resolution over "who shot JR" showed that "it was all just a dream." Viewers don't like to be jerked around like that, and the audience numbers plummeted thereafter.

"The West Wing" jumped the shark after its second season when it got so preachy that only hard-core leftists could stand it. The original premise focused on the staff, with very little of the prez himself. But Sheen insisted on a huge role, and it lead to Shark Jumping.

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jumped the shark when it started putting on celebrity versions. In fact, many shows have begun their tanking process when doing celeb versions. Even though the celebs donate their winnings to charity, they are nonetheless all ALREADY millionaires, so the charm is lost. Most of them are also fairly un-versed in anything outside their chosen field, so they appear stupid and ignorant, not the way the Amurrican Pipple wish to see their celebrities. SHARK!

We could have thousand-reply threads on TV shows and when they jumped the shark.

Michael