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Jump the Shark (1997)
Vote on the exact moment your favourite TV show started going downhill.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Meme Machine
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to the next card you play.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 1997
A website where Jon Hein and his readers named and voted on the moment each TV show 'jumped the shark' and began to decline.
Hein and his roommate Sean Connolly coined the phrase in 1985, after a Happy Days episode in which Fonzie water-skis over a shark. His 1997 site made it famous, and he sold it to TV Guide's owner Gemstar in 2006 for over $1 million.
In 1997: Hein launched it with his verdicts on about 200 TV shows; readers soon added their own.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Meme Machine: Where the jokes everyone repeated got started.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page.
Put it on your site
Run Jump the Shark, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1997. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Jump the Shark in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
