Bryce Dallas Howard has revealed she has never seen an episode of Happy Days, the classic TV show that made her father Ron ...

It’s been 50 years since Steven Spielberg induced intense selachophobia — or galeophobia if you prefer — to a wide swath of ...

Fonzie Jumps the Shark on Happy Days (Episode 5.3) 1977. Watch on . Said to have been coined, at least in one account, at a late-night college bull session at the University of Michigan in 1985 by ...

The low-key thrills are a far cry from the stunts Winkler’s Happy Days character was known for. Fifty years ago, in a 1975 Happy Days two-parter, Winkler’s “Fearless Fonzarelli” performed a dangerous ...

Actor-drummer reflects on how Henry Winkler jumped the shark Monkee in new interview. ... Happy Days aired between January of that year and July 1984 (though Fonzie jumped the shark in ’77).

TV LEGEND: The inspiration for Fonzie jumping over a shark on Happy Days was because Henry Winkler's father pushed his son to tell the producers about using his son's water-skiing skills on the show.

The idiom “jumping the shark” is well-known, referring to the 1977 episode of the American sitcom Happy Days, in which the character of Fonzie jumps over a live shark while on waterskis.

Fans say a TV show has “jumped the shark” when it has become irredeemably outlandish. The term, after all, comes from the 1977 episode of Happy Days in which Henry Winkler’s Fonzie jumps ...

Fans say a TV show has “jumped the shark” when it has become irredeemably outlandish. The term, after all, comes from the 1977 episode of Happy Days in which Henry Winkler’s Fonzie jumps ...