Jump The Shark

MORE FUNGS9 Jump The Shark (NAPSA)—Can you remember the moment your favorite TV show went bad? Was it the moment when a new character was introduced, the romantic leads shared their first passionate embrace or the whole gang took a trip to Tahiti? It might come in the form of a live taping, a cele- jumpthe shark’| Prity guest appearance, or a very special episode. In that moment, viewers know the show has When does a show lost its edge “jump the shark”? and begun a An ingenious new painful slide to the TV gravebooktellsall. ———__ yard. The show has “jumped the shark.” While moments such as these spell doom for a TV show, they become pure entertainment in Jon Hein’s ingenious book Jump The Shark: When Good Things Go Bad (Plume, $10). The title stems from the moment Happy Days lost its edge, says Hein, which for him was the episode in which Fonzie jumped overa shark. Jump The Shark: When Good Things Go Bad is available wherever booksare sold.