Aaaaaaayyyyyyy!

A quasi-defense of the very episode of Happy Days that spawned the phrase "jumping the shark":

...the show ran for 164 more episodes after “Hollywood: Part 3” (which was Happy Days’ 91st), and that it remained in the Top 25 for five of its six remaining seasons. In two of those, seasons five and six, it finished the year in Nielsen’s Top 5. I’d also note that after the shark jump, there are 12 more minutes left in “Hollywood: Part 3,” wrapping up all the rest of the story that fills up this three-parter. Really, the jump is just a cliffhanger introduced at the end of part two and then fairly quickly resolved in part three. It’s not really the main driving action of “Hollywood,” and to focus on it exclusively is to misremember what these episodes were actually about....The “Jump The Shark” worldview ultimately strains to transform every misstep into an outrage, which is a habit that becomes easier and easier, if that’s all a person wants to do. It’s a sour legacy.