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Kip Williams  
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 More options Oct 11 2012, 12:35 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.tv
From: Kip Williams <mrk...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:35:10 -0400
Local: Thurs, Oct 11 2012 12:35 pm
Subject: Re: Classical SF query
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Minixie wrote, On 10/11/12 12:27 PM:

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:16:48 -0400, Kip Williams wrote:

>> Minixie wrote, On 10/10/12 6:29 PM:
>>> ALL shows eventually jump the shark, usually sooner.

>> This partakes of the well-known nature of generalizations.

> Name a show that *didn't* jump the shark, other than because it was
> canceled before that could happen -- those short-lived shows that either
> were tragically killed in infancy by network mismanagement (Firefly) or
> were mercy-killed when the network realized that it had been born with its
> shark pre-jumped (Defying Gravity).

Even with the pile of qualifications you hastily added, "The Simpsons,"
"South Park," "Fawlty Towers," "Cracker (UK)," "Rocky and Bullwinkle,"
"The Venture Brothers," "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Futurama," and "The
Daily Show" come to mind.

Kip W
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