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 ...

Fonzie jumping the shark | Walt Disney Television via Getty Images . The episode in question, “Hollywood: Part 3,” aired on Sept. 20, 1977.

For most viewers of Happy Days, the wildly popular ABC sitcom of the 1970s and early 1980s, the sight of Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli jumping over a shark on water skis during the September 20, ...

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.

On September 20, 1977, the popular television show Happy Days aired the infamous show (Episode 5.3) which shows the cooler-than-you character Arthur Fonzarelli (aka Fonzie, The Fonz) jumping over ...

Fonzie's leather jacket-clad shark jump was definitely an odd narrative choice, but it didn't push the series off a creative cliff toward cancellation. (Also, ...

Jan mentioned I had written the episode of “Happy Days” where Fonzie jumped the shark and was working on a piece about it for the Los Angeles Times. A young man in his 20s at the reception ...

Bob Brunner, a writer-producer on the classic ABC sitcom "Happy Days" who named Henry Winkler's "Fonzie" but also -- as legend has it -- suggested the character jump a shark in a now-infamous 1977 ...

Kari Lake morphs into 'The Fonz' and jumps the shark, again ... If shark jumping were a sport, Lake would be an Olympic gold medalist. Worst thing that could have happened to her is happening.

On Sept. 20, 1977 — 39 years ago today — The Fonz LITERALLY jumped a shark on "Happy Days." Soon after, a new phrase would enter the lexicon of TV terminology.

Back in 1978, Happy Days invented the TV franchise idiom “jumping the shark” by literally having Winkler’s legendary character do just that. From the moment the Fonz completed his famous ...

Everyone knows "jumping the shark," a phrase which jumped the shark years ago. But when is the last time you actually watched Fonzie jump the shark? Jeff Pearlman offers a detailed analysis of the ...