HAPPY DAYS jumps the shark
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Happy Days: "Hollywood, Part 3"
You've heard the phrase "jump the shark." But what about the episode that created it? We're talking the hugely popular 1970s sitcom about the 1950s -- Happy Days, and the Hollywood beach vacation three-parter and pseudo-Jaws riff that led to Henry Winkler's Fonzie waterskiing over a shark... and defining "TV shows going downhill" for the ages. Does the episode deserve the infamy? How much evil has Ron Howard inflicted on the world? And should you, in fact, sit on it?
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Sources:
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Interview with Pat Morita who played ARNOLD, a requirement to be seen for season 3 to be picked up
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