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In addition, that same season would later include the episode, " My Favorite Orkan", starring the then-unknown actor, Robin Williams. All successful shows eventually start to decline, but this was not Happy Days ' time." Fox also points not only to the success of that episode ("a huge hit" with over 30 million viewers), but also to the continued popularity of the series. In a 2010 Los Angeles Times article, former Happy Days writer Fred Fox, Jr., who wrote the episode that later spawned the phrase, said "Was the episode of Happy Days deserving of its fate? No, it wasn't.
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So, it's kind of a fun expression, and I get a kick out of the fact that they identified that episode (because granted maybe it was pushing things a little too far), but I think a lot of good work was still done after that show, and audiences seemed to really respond to it." Fred Fox, Jr But the thing that has to be remembered about the jumping the shark idea, is that the show went on to be such a massive success for years after that. And what I remember the most is, it was fun actually driving the speedboat which I did a bit of, noticing that Henry was really a pretty good water skier. I remember thinking that creatively this was not our greatest episode, but I thought it was a pretty good stunt, and I understood why they wanted to do it. Fonzie jumping over a shark it's gonna be funny, and great. You know it's hard to have great episodes one after another. and I kept saying 'Hey Donny we're a hit show, relax. It's not even very funny, and you know Fonz is jumping over a shark'. He said, 'Oh man look at what our show has kind of devolved into. "I remember Donny Most and I sitting there, looking at the script. In 2006, during his contribution to The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, Ron Howard (Richie) talked about the Happy Days episode that inspired the phrase: Response from Happy Days cast and crew Ron Howard Hein sold his company, Jump The Shark, Inc., for "over $1 million" in 2006. The site became popular, and grew with additional user-contributed examples. In 1997, Hein created a website,, to publish a list of approximately 200 television shows, and his arguments as to the moments each "jumped the shark". The stunt was created as a way to showcase Winkler's real-life waterskiing skills. In the episode, the central characters visit Los Angeles, where a water-skiing Fonzie ( Henry Winkler) answers a challenge to his bravery by wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, and jumping over a confined shark. Jon Hein and his University of Michigan roommate Sean Connolly coined the phrase in 1985 in response to Season Five, Episode 3, "Hollywood: Part 3" of the sitcom Happy Days, which aired on September 20, 1977. 1.2 Response from Happy Days cast and crew.