Specifically from season 12, episode 8, "The China Problem" from 2008.
It's making fun of the idea of media makers "raping our childhoods" in particular Spielberg and Lucas violating Indiana Jones by releasing Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull earlier that year.
Jumping the shark is when the plot is lost and a ridiculous next move makes it apparent that the value is gone and the entity has become a joke of itself. That's my interpretation. I did not google.
Everyone keeps blaming the aliens but I didn’t that they were that bad a fit. But the movie was terrible and at that but where LeBouf started swinging through the trees I was ready to walk out.
Personally i can't get onboard with aliens when the rest of the series is cemented in the religious supernatural. The two genres are mutually exclusive in my head.
That said I do get that aliens are the pop culture thing in the timeframe where that film was set so the decision makes sense. Execution was just piss poor.
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 111 pts · 301d
It's obviously from South Park.
Specifically from season 12, episode 8, "The China Problem" from 2008.
It's making fun of the idea of media makers "raping our childhoods" in particular Spielberg and Lucas violating Indiana Jones by releasing Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull earlier that year.
Anyway, that's so two thousand and late.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 300d
So this is where chuds got tgeir idea for culture war...
sploosh@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 300d
That shit's been going on for way longer than South Park has existed.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 300d
Also a reference to deliverance
Velypso@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 300d
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charonn0@startrek.website · 33 pts · 301d
It's George Lucas and Steven Spielberg violating Indiana Jones.
remon@ani.social · 27 pts · 301d
The movie really was that bad.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 300d
The only thing I remember from it was the refrigerator scene because it was so wtf.
wabasso@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 300d
“Nuke the fridge” is up there with “Jump the shark”
Steve@startrek.website · -2 pts · 300d
Not at all. Jump the shark is a high point that the show is not expected to reach again.
Nuking the fridge is more of a final humiliation.
CubbyTustard@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 300d
you think that the fonz jumping over a shark on his motorcycle was the High Point of Happy Days and that's why they call it that? 😂
DrBob@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 300d
It wasn't a motorcycle, it was on water skis. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs9M1m-dpgM
netvor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 287d
OT, but the comment under the video is pure gold:
"Sharks have a similar metaphor, 'swam under the Fonzie'."
SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 300d
Jumping the shark is when the plot is lost and a ridiculous next move makes it apparent that the value is gone and the entity has become a joke of itself. That's my interpretation. I did not google.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
And those 🐜 That was the only movie I've watched in a movie theater that was so bad that I fell asleep
starrysonics@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 300d
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 300d
They could have just not had the monkeys. They added nothing to the story and were the most egregiously bad CGI.
twinnie@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 300d
Everyone keeps blaming the aliens but I didn’t that they were that bad a fit. But the movie was terrible and at that but where LeBouf started swinging through the trees I was ready to walk out.
The newer one’s not too bad though.
Luckaneer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 299d
Personally i can't get onboard with aliens when the rest of the series is cemented in the religious supernatural. The two genres are mutually exclusive in my head.
That said I do get that aliens are the pop culture thing in the timeframe where that film was set so the decision makes sense. Execution was just piss poor.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 300d
"He he, get em georgie boy!!! Stick em up on the pinball machine!!!"
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 300d
How did we let George Lucas and Steven Spielberg rape Indiana Jones?
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 300d
$
einlander@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 301d
It's RFK checking a teen boy who has low sperm count if he is circumsized because circumcision causes autism.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 300d
Given all the rehashes lately, seems even more relevant now