The phrase “Jumping the Shark” didn’t come about until 1985, but it was referring to a Happy Days episode from 1977 where Fonzie actually jumped over a shark. (No sharks were harmed in the making of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1977, Happy Days character Fonzie officially jumped the shark. The third part of the season 5 premiere, "Hollywood: Part 3," ...

While visiting Hollywood, Fonzie runs into an annoying character called the California Kid who challenges him to jump over a caged shark while on water skis. To prove his unflinching toughness, Fonzie ...

In TV-land the moment is infamous. One of the stars of the longtime hit TV series Happy Days, Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzerelli, played by Henry Winkler, is made to do something by the show’s writers that ...

It has been 49 years since one of the most embarrassing television tropes gained its name thanks to a once-beloved sitcom that ruined its reputation in one moment. Happy Days premiered in 1974 on ABC, ...

To say a TV show jumped the shark is to say it made a story choice so bad that viewers realized its best days were firmly behind it. Almost every show has its golden age, and the jump-the-shark moment ...

In 1977, Happy Days character Fonzie officially jumped the shark. The third part of the season 5 premiere, “Hollywood: Part 3,” aired on Sept. 20, 1977, on ABC, spawning what would become one of the ...