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Has DMusic Jumped The Shark?

GTOriginal	Date: August 16, 2008 @ 8:16 AM Inquiring minds want to know...
SimonWaldram	Date: August 16, 2008 @ 8:34 AM I didn't know what this phrase meant, so I went to Wikipedia and read the following: Jumping the shark is a colloquialism used by U.S. TV critics and fans to denote that point in a TV show or movie series' history where the plot veers off into ridiculous story lines or out-of-the-ordinary characterizations, undergoing too many changes to retain the original appeal of the series. Shows that have "jumped the shark" are typically deemed to have passed their peak as after this point critical fans can point to a noticeable decline in the show's overall quality. Um...how does this relate to DM? Are you implying that the place is no longer relavant?
8111	Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:10 PM The phrase comes directly from the series "Happy Days", in particular, the episode where Fonzie jumped over a penned-up shark in a lagoon on water skis, being the dare-devil he was. The episode was so utterly ridiculous it set a precedent for other tv shows that came to a similar point where the writers seemed to have run out of decent ideas. By the time a sit-com reduces itself to showcasing "family food-fight" to get laughs,you know it's over. The Brady Bunch "Jumped the Shark" and continued to jump it when they started going on those family vacations to Hawaii and the Grand Canyon and by adopting Oliver. Guess I'm showing my age in general, and my propensity for stockpiling meaningless trivia in particular.
8111	Date: August 16, 2008 @ 4:14 PM And I think Dmusic's users continue to smash and expand the boundaries of what is considered to be ridiculous, so I don't know if the concept really applies here...
Opossum	Date: August 16, 2008 @ 5:19 PM On 16th Aug 2008, GTOriginal said: Inquiring minds want to know... I prefer Weekly World News...
Distilled1	Date: August 16, 2008 @ 8:55 PM dammit I love the Hawaii vacation and grand canyon episodes! .. and the grand canyon was an old one! now Oliver was yes jumping the shark... signed a Brady bunch fan.. and I still will watch a re run if I catch one on a Sunday afternoon!
Thaspian	Date: August 16, 2008 @ 10:01 PM many many years ago and if you don't believe me, just click the preview button
8111	Date: August 16, 2008 @ 11:06 PM Oh man, you're right...The Grand Canyon one was a lot older. Shit.
SimonWaldram	Date: August 16, 2008 @ 11:47 PM On 16th Aug 2008, billrhynes said: And I think Dmusic's users continue to smash and expand the boundaries of what is considered to be ridiculous, so I don't know if the concept really applies here... Making the musical equivalent of jumping over a shark on water ski's would be awesome!
zedsalt	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 3:27 AM We had an exchange student fom Brazil back when I was in high school. He and his windsurfing buddies used to aim for sharks and ramp off 'em. The more dangerous the shark, the cooler it was considered to hit it. But that's not what I came here to talk about; I'm here to talk about the draft... Naw,not that neither. It just seems to me that even Happy Days "jumped the shark" long before Fonzie did. It's interesting that it has become the metaphor.
GTOriginal	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 7:47 AM Personally I think Happy Days was done when it started to breed. You know, Joannie Loves ChaChi, Laverne & Shirley, Lenny & Freaking Squiggy, that sort of thing...
Cryxan	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 11:17 AM Gary, what would you consider to be the turnpoint event? (At DM, I mean.)
evansorchid	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 11:59 AM So did Fonzie survive? Inquiring minds want to know.
Tattoomom	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 12:01 PM Of course he did! He was very stylish in his water skis, teeny swimming trunks and leather jacket....
rhthesinner	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 12:48 PM
Cryxan	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 12:52 PM LOL I thought she was joking about the leather jacket!
GeneHilbert	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 3:23 PM No..........!
Jennae	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 3:46 PM @
leedsquietman	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 4:03 PM the last known sighting of a certain daredevil Brazilian exchange student - no wonder the b*stard hasn't written for years ...
GTOriginal	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 5:34 PM On 17th Aug 2008, Cryxan said: Gary, what would you consider to be the turnpoint event? (At DM, I mean.) I believe that when my own music jumped the shark, it dragged the rest of the site along with it.
GTOriginal	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 6:08 PM Hmmm... After checking out the above picture of Fonzie, I must take back what I said. My tunes could never do that.
Thaspian	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 6:55 PM I doubt your music has an effect on the site. the classic SQL errors, streaming half working/not working for what seems like(and probably has become years on end).. .... .... AND THAT FUCKING PREVIEW BUTTON! I swear when that got added I thought "man I've been gone a while, I missed DM coming into the 21st century...." then I tried using it.
Thaspian	Date: August 17, 2008 @ 6:59 PM MILLA JUNIOR!
leflaw	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 1:26 AM I can't believe you fell for that old "preview button" line....
GTOriginal	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 2:20 AM On 17th Aug 2008, Thaspian said: I doubt your music has an effect on the site... Of course it does. This is a music web site. Every artist who posts a tune contributes to the site, as does every listener who checks one out... If DM jumped at all, it happened when the focus shifted from the music to the bug hunt.
ChillinBuzz	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 2:26 AM Cryxan and I were bug hunting within weeks of joining, 6 years ago... So it can't be then! Bill, are you holding Victor's Skull in your avi? I was wondering where he'd got to lately...
GTOriginal	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 2:37 AM Yeah but you were also posting music & listening as well. Besides I was typing about the focus of the Average-Joe-Site-User like myself, not coders & admins
ChillinBuzz	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 2:43 AM I wasn't a coder 6 years ago, just a lowly musician... And I blame the witch anyway, she was the one who used to ramp people's journal comments up into the hundreds without so much as a single word.
zedsalt	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 4:20 AM Gary must've liked "Mork and Mindy"; I noticed it didn't get a mention. I wonder if Mork came before or after the shark jumping... Sorry to hear about Marcos. He was a serious Metal maniac who used to be very generous in sharing very pure coke...just before my English class...you should've seen me during the Debate portion of the Speech curriculum!
GTOriginal	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 5:58 AM Hmmmm.... Observe. Note how Mork has a rather insane gleam in his eye. I know he's from another planet but still thatstare is a bit Manson-like for me. And what do the rainbow suspenders signify? Hmmmm... Meanwhile, Mindy is ignoring him completely, because she is busy showing the viewing audience how pretty she is...
GeneHilbert	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 2:04 PM nanu nanu....
Jennae	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 2:38 PM Mearth was so great on that show
Tattoomom	Date: August 18, 2008 @ 2:56 PM I had suspenders like that!
8111	Date: August 19, 2008 @ 3:15 AM she still does...
8111	Date: August 19, 2008 @ 3:22 AM ...and Vic says "Hi"
zedsalt	Date: August 19, 2008 @ 3:41 AM I don't think the insane gleam is part of a characterization so much as part of the real-life Robin Williams. Was Mearth the character played by Jonathan Winters? Have you ever seen Williams and Winters just riff off each other off-the-cuff? I don't know when I've seen anything so funny, but they would DEFINITELY "work blue" when they did that.
Tattoomom	Date: August 19, 2008 @ 5:47 AM BILL!!!! I do NOT!! You are SO cut off!
8111	Date: August 19, 2008 @ 6:08 AM yeah...
Tattoomom	Date: August 19, 2008 @ 6:14 AM aw man! It's no fair that some women can use that as a weapon... I never could....