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(...) I'm sorry but...what does it mean to "jump the shark"? (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) (URL) What is jumping the shark? A. It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Just type "jump the shark" into Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky" Derek (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) "Jump the shark" is an American based slang, describing the fall from glory... when something popular/useful/inter...aging..... has lost its luster.... fails to impress or declines in its usefulness or impressiveness. Some would argue that is (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) But since I am a buck fifty short and a day late, my teacher should have taught me not to use dial up and always check to see if the answer has been already posted, man I am TOO slow to play with the big boys!!!!! Janey "Red Brick. (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This is a reference to the TV show Happy Days. The show was good for a few years, but it eventually started getting gimmicky and went down in quality. This first became apparent when they made an episode about Fonzi jumping his motorcycle over (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I'm sorry but...what does it mean to "jump the shark"? (...) Like in Star Trek (the original series) the Spock's Brain episode. -Ted (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Many people forget, however, that the 'Gamesters of Triskelion" was after 'Spocks Brain' K, it's not on 'City on the edge of Forever" or "Tomorrow is Yesterday" or "Doomsday Machine", but "Gamesters" is ranking up there in my books ;) Though, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Dave- Without question, my two most favorite times in a movie theatre were watching, for the first time, the space opening through the moon landing in 2001: A Space Odyssey and every second of Star Wars (we saw the 16:00 showing on opening day (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) I loved the end of ST4--we had Sarek and Spock do the father/son "I never used to appreciate the decision you made but now I do" (and for any Trekkie worth their salt, that's a very big thing...) and then the banter on the shuttle "Excelsior?? (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) David- The funny thing is that I was thinking about that scene just yesterday (during my 3 hour traffic delayed drive home from our current SCLTC show in San Diego). The actual lines are closer to "As I recall I opposed your enlistment to (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) I coudln't remember the exact quotation, and didn't feel like slogging thur all the quotes at IMDB to find it. Yeah, after all those years of reading books and watching TOS and such, the Spock/Sarek thing was pretty moving. "They are my (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Egad, the third season was, well...not quite as good as the previous 2... but I have a fondness for the original series. (...) I'm bummed I came in late :-) (...) My favorite two times at a theatre were watching Raiders of the Lost Ark - lord, (...) (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Yep, even the third season, in the grande scheme of the history of television, was still pretty good. It looked like the actors were having more fun with their roles anyway. (...) I would have to say that ranking up there for me was when (...) (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote: (snip) (...) And William Shatner got to act like a woman :-) ! (...) From that movie, I really like the final shot of Reeve looking toward the camera while flying...one nice curtain call scene. I need (...) (20 years ago, 24-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) When I was in university (Queens') we had Doohan as a guest speaker....the place was packed, standing room only...now I can't even remember what it was for...just that Scottie was there... We gave him an Queens' Engineering jacket....he (...) (20 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This registered wrong in my subconcious when I first read it, and today I confirmed that "Gamesters" was actually a Season 2 episode, so it wasn't hard to be better than "Spock's Brain". -Ted (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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