Worst case of Non-Happy Days Shark Jumping

[MrScorpio]

Poll question: Worst case of Non-Happy Days Shark Jumping

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. The final season of "The Brady Bunch". I mean...really? Cousin Oliver?

[Very_Boring_Name]

4. Married With Children did the same thing with that little kid "Seven"

Annoying, empty characters are bad, especially when they're children.

[brettdale]

8. I hated that

Not as much when that punk ass snot face kid joined different strokes.

[GoCubsGo]

11. So did a lot of others.

"Family Ties" and "The Cosby Show" (Lisa Bonet's character's stepdaughter) come to mind. And, that awful 1990s sitcom with Kirk Cameron and Alan Thicke whose name I have mercifully blocked from my memory. I guess at that time, when they ran out of ideas, they threw a "cute" kid into the mix. It amazed me how they went from babies to smart-alec five-year-olds in the matter of a season or two.

[Akoto]

36. You're thinking of "Growing Pains," re Cameron and Thicke. n/t

[MilesColtrane]

2. Season three of Millennium

Season two started introducing more overtly supernatural elements, hinting at a good old, genuine, biblical, good v. evil apocalypse.

The end of the first season only hinted at this with ""Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions", a truly great episode.

Unfortunately, Chris Carter took over the third season from Morgan & Wong and steered it back to a CSI-like killer of the week format.

[kentauros]

18. When that show was on the air,

I preferred it to X-Files, even though I watched that, too. Millennium was just so much better! I don't think I saw the last few episodes, though. For some reason, when shows start failing in their ratings, stations begin fucking with their schedules even more, so I missed a fair amount of the third season.

[BlueIris]

23. Is that why Millennium went bad? I thought it was because FOX

demanded that Millennium be reformatted to resemble the X-Files, complete with a female Scully to Frank Black's Mulder.

But if it was really Chris Carter and his big ol' bong, that explains a lot.

[Very_Boring_Name]

3. Other: Every season of the simpsons after season 10

If the Simpsons were a brand new show, starting from its current season, it would be cancelled after 3 episodes.

[jmowreader]

5. Every episode of Ellen after her character came out

It changed from "funny comedy show" to "weekly lesson in lesbianism."

Weekly lessons in lesbianism is what The Real World was for.

[dimbear]

6. Ruthless destruction of the 3rd wall in Northern Exposure.

Uh uh.

[Frank Cannon]

7. The "mustache" episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man

AKA, the Adventures of Bionic Wayne Newton.

[brettdale]

9. The last few epsiodes of prison break

I mean, his mother, really???? that was soap opera type writing.
Killing off Bellick, killing off and michael, and the biggest crime
of them all, sending TBAG back to jail.

[CBGLuthier]

10. L O S T

The entire 6th season.

Yes lets turn an interesting Science Fiction show into a fantasy about the afterlife.

Ugh.

[edhopper]

15. I think they jumped it

around season 3. But I agree 6 was horrid.

[meegbear]

12. The TVLand network when they premiered "Chasing Farah" ...

it was a realty show all about Farah Fawcett, before she became ill of course. They had, I think, the VP of programming on the first episode and he says that doing a show about Farah is "the Holy Grail of reality television."

Thank God I didn't have a brick handy. After that, the whole channel has gone to shit.

[stuntcat]

14. TV Land :(

TV Land's about the only tv I can watch. It's a shame they had to start playing bullshit.

[ohiosmith]

13. All Star Trek episodes after Gorn. Movies included.

[dawg]

16. I thought I was the only person who remembered Space 1999.

Apparently, there is at least one other.

[kentauros]

19. I remember it and so does Call Me Wesley!

Although I object to calling the second season the "final season". Yes, it was the last, but it was also only the second season! :P

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Space 1999 jumped the shark in the opening credits of the first episode

What was different about the second series?

[InvisibleTouch]

32. I remember it too. Loved it!

I don't agree that the second season was a shark jump. It was very different from the first, but both seasons had their virtues. The only thing that really bugged me was that they never explained what happened to Victor between season 1 and season 2 - and while they did tell us what happened in one of the novelizations, it was so anticlimatic that it virtually cried out for a fanfic correction.

[RedCloud]

17. Star Gate (once the Universe series took over)

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

31. SGU sucks balls, & it doesn't qualify as "Stargate" to me

for the same reasons ST: Enterprise doesn't count.... utter shite.

;-)

[BlueIris]

21. The West Wing, post Aaron Sorkin.

Dude hit the flush button on his way out the door.

[LynneSin]

22. Oh come on, you can't have a list like that and not include MASH

The show started to jump the shark when Larry Linville (aka Frank Burns) left the show and completed the jump when Gary Burrough (Radar) left. I mean that middle section there were a few standout episodes but I couldn't stand MASH after RADAR was gone - just too preachy and not enough laughter.

[BlueIris]

24. Personally, I think it flamed out after Mike Farrell grew a mustache.

That's sort of when I knew it was going south. Hair care changes tend to augur in fins and wet suits.

[LynneSin]

25. That kinda happened in the time range that I mentioned

Frank Burns left end of season #5
Radar left beginning of season #8 (although he wasn't featured as much in season #7)
BJ grew the mustache beginning of season #7.

To be honest, I do think the first year with Winchester was decent (season #6) It was kinda neat to see Hawkeye and BJ having to go up against someone who was 'superior' to them instead of dealing with 'inferior' Frank. I think that year they were just warming up the motorcycle finding a shark to put in the poll.

[mucifer]

33. Last season of "Buffy the vampire slayer"

Great show but it really lasted about 2 years too long.

[Taverner]

26. Land of the Lost with Uncle Jack Marshall

I mean, come on! A family member just happens to show up right after the father makes it out?

[Faygo Kid]

27. Pretty tough to beat Roseanne. How about Niles hooking up with Daphne?

That was the end for Frasier.

[GoCubsGo]

30. I dunno.. I kinda liked having Roseanne win the lottery.

Granted, many of the subsequent episodes were pretty damn stupid. In fact, I hated the actual ending, when it turned out it was all a novel, and her life sucked even worse than originally portrayed. I really wanted that family to have a better life than what they did in all the previous seasons.

[Kat45]

34. I hated the last season of Roseanne because it turned the entire show into a lie.

When she talked about her novel, she said she not only made up a lot of stuff, she also changed things. She switched the husbands of her daughters because she thought they made more sense that way. She said Jackie was really a lesbian but she changed her entirely. What was the point of watching all those years of the show if it was all made up. (Yes, theses stories are fiction anyway, but that was ridiculous.)

[BlueIris]

38. Yeah, it WAS the end. Should have been the end.

For some odd reason, though, I actually wanted them to hook up...couldn't see why it wouldn't work. I still contend it might have, if it hadn't been for the way the writers decided to handle Jane Leeves' pregnancy (the 'fat' farm.) Awful. That got things off on the worst foot imaginable and totally sucked all the potential funny out of the relationship plotline.

[NightWatcher]

28. when the Andy Griffith Show came on in color

[Frank Cannon]

37. AKA after Don Knotts and the good writers left.

They only had five-year contracts.

[provis99]

29. Final season of Battlestar Galactica.

what a horrible letdown to a great show.

[bigwillq]

35. I like the last season of Roseanne

Thought it was kooky but enjoyable and entertaining. I wouldn't have written it that way, but I didn't think it was awful.

Ed. note: Roseanne is my fave show of all-time.