WTF: Jump the Shark has JUMPED THE SHARK!
Reporting live from the DailySkew newsplex: popular and iconic website JumpTheShark.com has officially jumped the shark. What happened to Jump the Shark? This is not a joke. TVGuide bought them out. The domain name no longer exists. It is now http://www.tvguide.com/jumptheshark. But that’s not all:
There is no A-Z cateogory of all the shows in the original Jump The Shark database.
All links take you to TVGuide.com.
All of the old comments are GONE.
When you click on a Jump the Shark category such as “Birth” you are taken to a lame 30 Rock blog article that some intern wrote. No other shows. No history. 100% corporate sponsorship. Three comments. You must register with your e-mail. Total bait and switch scam. There are links all around that try to copy Yahoo OMG! Entertainment news. This is because entertainment news and gossip is still the #1 distraction for humanity.
Here’s what the message boards are saying:
“I can’t even find the archives for old shows now. It’s horrible.”
“the user comments are what made the site, they took the human part of it away”
“Ummm…. .does TV Guide even know what Jump The Shark means? It looks like the site went from a kind of user-reviews of TV to a really long-format TV guide. I don’t see anything there other than reviews of shows that are coming out this/next season.”
“The original JUMP THE SHARK website was one of the Internet’s first (and best)websites way back in 1996-7. I loved going to it and leaving online posts talking about when my favorite tv shows (and hundreds of shows were available to comment on) did themselves in. I loved the Little House on the Prairie page. I cannot believe that TV Guide, whose signature paper-back sized television guide has in and of itself become a money-losing shell of it’s own former pre-Internet, pre-Digital glory days, could sweep in and literally destroy this formerly awesome JUMP THE SHARK website. It is butt-awful now!! Face it,TV Guide,you should have been put out of business when the Internet was born.”
“Just another instance of Web 2.0 ruining the creativity and user-based content of Web 1.0. Unfortunately, if this is what it takes to make the Web profitable, we are stuck with it.”
“One more “new and improved” disaster. The old site wasn’t perfect but it was fun; liked being able to get to a show quickly via alpha listing without a bunch of advertising. Think this latest visit will be my last; just isn’t worth checking out now. “If it ain’t broke…””
SO there we have it, friends.
Jump the Shark has jumped the shark. Welcome. It’s all about what Tony Vahl was saying ever since last November: Embrace the Shark.
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wow.
Its like jump the shark times itself,
or jump the shark squared.
Ive been tired of hearing people say “jumped the shark” for at least the past few years now so maybe people can stop saying it now that “jump the shark’ has now jumped itself, or whatever.
cant we just say something peaked, or reached its zenith at some point instead?
why try to pinpoint the first moment of decline?
or a least say “it went stale when…”
instead of saying “jumped the shark”
sorry, its just one of my many peeves, id rather have everybody go back to saying “it was all downhill from there” instead of “jumped the shark”.
i always found the phrase a little annoying.
I cant help it.
I remember about five years ago after having heard the phrase repeatedly wondering about its origin.
and then it was explained by the happy days episode when the fonz jumped his bike over a shark, and I remember thinking, does anybody even watch happy days?
Is that even shown on nick at nite?
why give birth to such an obscure phrase?
and then everybody was saying it and I found annoying as most catch phrases are, the become passe and people stop saying them which is what i think needs to happen with “jumped the shark” as a phrase now that corporate america murdered somebody elses grassroots original idea for a website.
ive been to the site before as everyone else has, it wasnt bad.
sorry to hear about its demise.
R.I.P.
“jumped the shark”
both as a website and as a catch-phrase.
it time to hang it up.
instead do what I do and start making up your own catch phrases.
people will sometimes say “what?”
and then I explain it is a saying or a slang for whatever, and they start doing it in conversations with other people too.
its fun.
Agreed.
Sign the petition here to bring the website back! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/jumpedtheshark
http://WWW.BONETHEFISH.COM is the new JTS go there vote and commente!
i just remembered how i liked the old website and decided to go there.. but man was I in for a surprise!! talk about the irony. lol
I tried to get a lawsuit against that Jon Hein for selling intellectual content that he didn't own, but there weren't enough people interested. That damn sellout got away with murder, and got rich off of selling stuff that belonged to the people that wrote it– myself included.
The Web Archives still has a copy of the content, albeit really slow loading…RIP JTS http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://jumptheshark.com
forget about archive.org; TV guide has blocked it.
actually, some of the archives are fully operable. i couldn't get to the 2008 comments, but it worked for most of the 2007 and earlier ones.
FYI- TV Guide has been actively blocking the content from the web archives at the internet archives. Thanks TV Guide for raping our classic favorite site, and then hiding the old USER GENERATED CONTENT!!! Thank god someone created http://www.bonethefish.com