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It was generally good and has 'Bad Homer' (where he's accused of sexual harrassment) which is my favourite episode of all time. 5 continues the quality.īut then in 6 the decline began. I got the 4 DVD set recently and it is brilliant. 'Homer's Enemy' with Frank Grimes, Season 8 from 1997, was the last truely fantastic episode.įunny you say that - because for me that was the moment it jumped the shark. The problem with the Simpsons is that there isn't a specific time when it 'jumped the shark' - it got notably poorer around Season 8 or 9 with the odd good episode and has steadily declined into 'The Simpsons are hilariously going somewhere again this week!'. Again, The Simpsons would be a good example of that. Or they can just keep going through the motions, even when the well has run dry, and hope that by maintaining the status quo people will be fooled into thinking 'it's as good as it ever was'. They reach a point where they can either try and shake things up to maintain interest (see Scrappy Doo or any time a 'cute kid' character is added to a show's regular cast). Long-running series, say shows that have been running for five years or more, seem to end up at a crossroads. actually I was thinking about this the other day.

#Jump the shark tv#

All great ideas, ruined by committee thinking on the part of greedy TV executives.Īs far as TV shows go. CNX jumped about three months after launch when they realised they'd run out of new programming already, and adults wouldn't watch the same damn reruns over and over again like kids do - and it jumped even further when it became The Dragonball Network. MTV Europe jumped the shark the moment it became MTV UK.

Paramount jumped the shark, I felt, when they dumped the diverse and quirky programming they had at launch and became the bland sitcom parade that is Paramount Comedy. I blame sports, No way should we have had to wait for a fornight or more while the snooker/atheletics/ etc was on.Ĭan I suggest that it is also possible for a TV channel to jump the shark - at least it is so in the UK. No more Star Trek or even Simpsons, just shallow lifestyle programs. But then the BBC was always better with Grange Hill (jumped the shark with too many posh kids) and Byker Grove (jumped the shark with too many posh kids).īBC2 Cult Zone has not only jumped the shark but left the building. I didnt know CITV had that kind of effect on people lives? From what I hear, it's a Sabrina repeating My parents are aliens repeating cheap hollow shelf on its former self. I like that they coincideded in shitness by the mid90s. I wouldn't like to know that CITV was still being great when MY life had become shit. Now CITV is a cold void (I flick it on to MAKE SURE its crap, then I turn the TV straight over. Then it did backflips with its 20 look/idents/feel.

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CITV had jumped the shark by 1995 when I stopped watching it cos secondary school was too far away for me to still be able to make it home on time and plus but to be totally unbiased, CITV jumped in 1996 when I caught like 2 mins of it, and it had some clay animation ident.