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theclam5678
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12:20:54 PM Sep 3rd 2010
Shouldnt this have a troper tales section so we can get examples of less literal shark jumping
Komodin
12:25:17 PM Sep 3rd 2010
edited by Komodin
xanderglz
02:28:23 PM Jan 12th 2011
Oh, so Tropers are brainless flamers now? I don't see why not, since the So Okay Its Average Troper Tales section has been doing well for quite a lot of time.
Premonition_45
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12:02:54 PM Sep 24th 2010
Doesn't this trope qualify as a Subjective Trope? Very often, what one fan considers a show's shark-jumping moment, another may consider its beard-growing moment.
crazyrabbits
06:30:26 PM Jan 15th 2011
It may be a subjective trope, but that won't stop people from flooding the page (and any eventual subpages) with discussion and dissenting views on at what point a show "jumped the shark".

I used to be a user on the original JTS.com, and I saw bad things got over (in terms of both page size and arguments between users over different moments - the page for Lost was like a battlefield). Trying to integrate that sort of system into this site would require an entirely new index, and would make it the most subjective article on the site, bar none.
129.15.127.253
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11:31:14 AM Oct 17th 2010
After Ianto and the rest of the gang were killed off brutally and without logical cause, the DW spinoffs became dead to me.

Has anyone else had a show ruined for them when their characters where chopped?
Danlemagne
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05:13:32 PM Nov 4th 2010
Is there some reason there's no Anime and Manga section here? Just wondering.
Blork
07:09:03 AM Nov 13th 2010
It's an English-language internet meme based on a US show. The phrase probably isn't that well known in Japan.
Danlemagne
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05:13:37 PM Nov 4th 2010
edited by Danlemagne
Sorry, double post.
kroozer101
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01:42:40 PM Jul 16th 2011
Who removed the page quote? I don't remember it accurately enough to reprint it, and I have no idea where it came from, but I DO remember that it was funny as hell. Is there any way to find it again?
AnonymousMcCartneyfan
02:01:35 PM Jul 16th 2011
I replaced said quote (for future reference, recently cut stuff is normally in the history). But I think another quote might be more fitting, since what the quote is describing is probably Sequelitis.

Jump The Shark is something that, in the platonic ideal, should apply to single serial works, preferably Long Runners. The Trope Namer happened when Reverse Cerebus Syndrome combined with the Fonz's Marty Stu status became too clear.
JusticeReaper
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05:51:59 PM Dec 8th 2011
Is it possible for anime to jump the shark? (I ask because I don't see any anime examples at all.) If it is possible, then I'd like to posit a possible example from the anime genre: the recent revelation in One Piece that Princess Shirahoshi is the weapon Poseidon.
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