Jumping the Shark/Quotes

They did a bunch of jumps over a wall and a cruise boat but missed some sharks and didnt jump them (ITS AN INTERNET THINGY)

—Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami

Yup, the shark had its slippers on, was relaxing on the couch, now it's hurriedly getting dressed while his wife shrieks at him, "I thought you weren't doing jumps this late anymore!"

—Mike Nelson, Spider-Man 3 Riff Trax

"These shows didn't 'jump the shark'. That doesn't do them justice. No, these are shows where the creators simply said, 'Fuck it', flew out of the water, broke the bounds of the earth's atmosphere and set a course for the center of the Sun. They took their shows down in a blaze of batshit insane glory, and we were there to watch."

—Cracked}, 6 TV Shows That Completely Lost Their Shit

"The way I look at it, it's really not jumping the shark if you never come back down."

—Chuck, Supernatural

"Now we've established that Renegade 3 didn't so much jump the shark as repeatedly jump up and down on the shark whilst screaming "Look at me, I'm Mr. Jumpy Sharko!"

—Dr. Ashen

"They don’t just jump the shark, they go back and beat the shark to death, then chop it’s body into chum to attract more sharks! Which is cool. Heh. Chopped sharks."

—Jarrys Kid, explaining the recent plot twists in Guilded Age

"Oh, and for the record, there was an episode of Happy Days where a guy literally jumped over a shark, and it was the best one!"

—Troy Barnes, Community

Let me make one thing perfectly clear. This is not jumping the shark. I'll repeat that again. This is not jumping the shark, no no no...THIS IS JUMPING THE SHARK, COMING BACK, SHOOTING IT IN THE BALLS, RAPING IT, EATING ITS FLESH, CONSUMING ITS SOUL, MOUNTING ITS HEAD ON THE WALL, AND THEN DOING THE SAME THING TO TWELVE MORE FUCKING SHARKS JUST TO BE SAFE!!!

—The Nostalgia Critic, on the Rock-Biter's Character Derailment in the third movie of The Neverending Story