A couple of years ago I created this scene depicting the famous “Jumping the Shark” scene from the TV show “Happy Days.” Here, Richie Cunningham drives the boat pulling the Fonz on water skis as he leaps over a shark to prove his bravery. This is the origin of the phrase often used to describe the point where a TV series becomes lame.
This has been featured in a few of the Bay Area LEGO Train Club displays over the past couple of years, and I have included some of those photos in the gallery below.
Here’s the original video:
A friend posted this as a comment on Facebook in response to this entry… Henry Winkler reprising his jump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jm6B31HKBw