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Jumping the shark?

posted 4 years ago by juviejay (456)
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Okay, I realize I'm over a decade late on this, but I wasn't watching the show at that time. Maybe it had jumped the shark (for me at least) earlier. But I remember hearing about it and thinking, "That's dumb."

Well, watching it was no less dumb. First Romano gets his arm severed by the helicopter, then it lands on him and kills him. Ridiculous. the odds of even one of them happening is so infinitismal that it is even beyond the suspension of disbelief necessary that to have it happen twice, well that's just a lazy, lazy insult.

They ought to change the expression from "jumped the shark" to "got maimed and murdered by the helicopter."

[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Scratch that. Now the expression is did the show "reveal it's lesbian lover's baby"?

[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Wait, hold it. Now it's "bring my chimp to the ER."

[–] JestersDead (485) 4 years ago

I guess if you work in a building that helicopters land on several times a day. And you routinely stand near its landing pad.

Then the odds aren't quite so infinitesimal.

Chuck in a pinch of poetic license, and Bob's your uncle.

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Hum, I hadn't heard about that.

[–] Alerra (244) 4 years ago

It was the storyline about Weaver's baby that seemed far-fetched for me. We have all these episodes about Sandy's family screaming, "IT'S SANDY'S BABY, NOT YOURS!" And then we actually get to the courthouse, and they're, "We just want to make sure you keep us a part of his life." Bull. That's not what you all were screaming for the past month of episodes.

And don't get me started about the scene where they're chasing Abby all around the ER while she's looking for Weaver because they think she's helping Weaver hide the baby.

[–] Sidha108 (2671) 2 months ago

The episodes with Stanley Tucci feel very “bottom of the barrel” like the show is running out of ideas and doesn’t know what direction to go.

[–] MillerJones (526) a month ago

That was based of a real story.

A lot of the stories in the the show are.

As is the case with all hollywood they twist the real story to add more entertainment.