Point of Shark Jump: When Did Any Given Television Show Jump?

I loved the ending. Then I watched the premiere of 'John From Cincinatti' and then went online to see a deluge of posts from people who hated it and was pretty surprised. I thought it worked perfectly, though I still don't buy into the interpretation that Tony was killed. Mainly because it's just too simple and basic a concept for a show that was so comfortable in the ambigious. Would the guy who never again referenced the Russian in the Pine Barrens really offer the audience closure on something as important as the ending? I didn't see it as an FU to the audience, I saw it as having enough faith in the audience that we wouldn't need to be hand-fed a definitive ending.

 

The "survivalist/hostage-taker" episode of A & E's Longmire seemed as if
it were written and directed by someone who had never seen any previous
episodes of the show. Thank goodness they got some of their mojo back later
on in the season.

 

While I admit there were some aspects around that time that didn't ring true, I enjoyed the show until the final end. Top ten show of all time for me.

 

House returned to form the last season putting Foreman in charge and getting rid of Cutty.

 

That's buying the FARM

 

OH, THAT RUSTY! when they replaced the parents . . .

 

I never liked the show that much to begin with. As great as Hugh Laurie was, the rest was fairly predictable and the storyline was always pretty mundane.

(X) is a (Y) and faints, hemorrhages, freaks out and winds up in the hospital. It's initially thought it's (Z) and medical procedure is initiated, but wait! The patient isn't responding! House gets cranky and wise cracks to family and colleagues. Lo and behold, at the end, epiphany! Patient is close to death but House figures it out with about 5 minutes left in the episode. Genius! Saved!

 

I'm surprised they didn't replace him with Ted McGinley.

 

Chemo. They always try chemo.

 

When Frank Pembleton left "Homicide" and when Jerry Orbach left "Law & Order"

 

that was one of the prime offenders. i wonder if the viewers noticed back in the day, its really obvious the dip when going from a season 1-2 episode to one of the drearier last season eps.
I guess its not as bad as the bob-less bob Newhart shows when Emily/howard/jerry had to take the workload

 

not sure if its been mentioned but 'its always sunny......'
the episode when dennis gets married (season 6 opener I think?)
signal long slide

 

And the real Mary actually went blind so not a shark jump.

 

A farm is a kind of store, isn't it???

 

They had to get somebody bigger to hide Rusty's growth!

 

Topher Grace ain't a big star, but he works in some big projects - he had a decent-sized role in "Interstellar", and he's been in other fairly prominent projects.

Kunis has had the best post-"70s Show" career of the bunch, IMO. Kutcher is closer to "where are they now?" than Grace at this point - he's more famous but he doesn't seem to land in anything potentially interesting anymore...

 

At Bone the Fish there are quite a few different opinions over a jumping moment for Little House.

25 Votes Albert burns down the school (Alice Garvey and Mary's baby burn to death).

23 Votes Day One (Too much Cryin).

19 Votes Albert is addicted to morphine. (They had to do a drug special?)

10 Votes New kids in town (James and Cassandra Cooper).

9 Votes Day one (Sucked from the start).

6 Votes Mary & Adam Arc (They regain their sight!)

5 Votes New kid in town (Albert)

5 Votes Laura gets married (She got really preachy).

5 Votes Never Boned

3 Votes Hair care (Laura loses the pigtails)

3 Votes New kid in town (Nancy Oleson)

3 Votes A very special... (The fire).

2 Votes True Story Not Really True (Almost everything about Mary is false).

2 Votes Running Off Into The Distance (When will Laura figure out that doesnt fix things?)

2 Votes A very special... (Albert's drug problem)

1 Vote A very special... every episode

1 Vote The Last Episode. (They blew up the whole town...REALLY?)

1 Vote Exit Edwards, Enter Garvey (Colorful Mr. Edwards replaced by dull Garvey)

1 Vote New kid in town (Shannen Doherty)

1 Vote A very special ... (Albert's girlfriend is assaulted)

 

Bringing back the X-Files and creativity was dead on arrival..
Scully And Mulder where not themselves.

 

Hasn't he landed into Kunis?

 

Ashton Kutcher is said to be worth a whopping $160 million because of his tech investments, which include Skype, Foursquare, and AirBnB. Don't forget he was in two different hit sitcoms: That '70s Show and Two and a Half Men. I think he has more money than all the other actors from his previous '70s show combined.

 

I feel like Black-ish has jumped with this current season. Started with the obligatory ABC sitcom Disney Parks episode, and has been really really preachy since then. The actors are still great (Jennifer Lewis always cracks me up as Ruby), but the scripts are just super subpar.
Fresh Off the Boat, too, while it's still funny enough that it hasn't exactly jumped yet, really shifted negatively between seasons 1 and 2, with Eddie Huang no longer narrating and focus going more towards the whole family instead of just the Eddie character.

 

I give up around that time too, I think that was when they replaced Laurie with a different actress too.

 

While I normally love red-heads, I've never understood the appeal of Donna Give me Laurie or even Jackie any day.

 

Joan of Arcadia- It was great at first until they introduced a friend from over the summer, can't remember her name, it was dreadful though.

The Ghost Whisperer- When they killed off JLH's husband and then she met someome she saw as her husband, but she was the only one who saw him like that, silly.

Happy Days- No one has satisfactorily explained why Howard Cunningham was wearing late '70s aviators in 1962.

 

I'll happily watch Happy Days until Arnold's burns down, then it's no thanks from me. Even when I saw that episode as a young kid, I knew it was for the worst.