Most television fans are familiar with the phrase “jumping the shark,” but not everyone knows the origin story. Formerly popular shows that drag on too long get accused of jumping the shark when they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty six years ago, Arthur Fonzarelli took a big jump for Happy Days — and a giant jump for TV history. The long-running ABC ...

These days, it’s common parlance for TV fans to talk about a show “jumping the shark” when it starts declining in quality, usually due to some unexpected plot point or storyline. The origins of the ...

It’s a term that’s come to stand for the moment in which a TV show goes beyond the point of no return, cemented in a sad decline towards complete irrelevance. It was coined after an episode of Happy ...

It's one of the most infamous moments in television history. On the Sept. 20, 1977 episode of ABC's hit sitcom Happy Days, Fonzie, the lovable tough guy portrayed by Henry Winkler, strapped on water ...