Did he wait this long to apologize?
The show was stupid and eventually we went from the 1050s in Happy Days to some weird time in between 1950s to 1970s. I cancelled TV a year ago due to 24x7 propaganda especially O pro in between the “dumb white man” commercials.
TV is s**t.
To me, the show jumped the shark right after season 1, after which Richie’s brother Chuck disappeared, never ever to be heard from or spoken of again. It was a cute series about an innocent time, then (to paraphrase the Fonz), Whoa!
I momentarily wondered why the concept hadn’t already attached itself to another phrase, like “danced with the gorilla” or “battled the carrot,” but then I realized that by the time the most infamous episodes of Man From UNCLE and Lost in Space aired, the shows had already descended into absurdity, so the offending stories were merely low points, not turning points.
It works great on Obama quote threads, as does this:
My father and I long before “Happy Days” show would call it “Talking Seaweed” from the old “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” series.
Of course just because things start to get stupid, doesn’t mean the masses will stop slopping it up.
The “jump the shark” moment for the 1970s era show “What’s Happening” has to be when the main characters went to a Doobie Brothers concert and Re-Run was caught by the band taping the show (on some really cheesy Radio Shack cassette recorder). The Doobie Brothers then proceeded to lecture the entire cast on the evils of taping a concert - as if there was this huge black market out there for bootleg live versions of such dreck as “Taking It To The Streets.”
HEY!
The show really jumped the hark when Fonzie stopped wearing white T-shirts and started wearing black T-shirts instead.