For Tommmo

[sqbr]

[Poll #1051306]

The motivation for this is that Someone Who Shall Remain Nameless hadn't heard of The Fonz. (Or Happy Days, or jumping the shark. Craziness!)

Anyone else who wants me to post a poll for them feel free to ask, though be warned I am likely to add extra questions on a whim :)

Comments

[auntpol.livejournal.com]

But I do know what jumping the shark is. I just haven't seen ...any...Happy Days. Well, maybe an episode. Enough to know who the Fonz is.

[edible-hat.livejournal.com]

Happy Days defined "jumping the shark". They did it when the Fonz literally jumped over a shark.

[infamyanonymous.livejournal.com]

Although I know well that 'Ayyyyy' may be the correct response, how could I not click the others?!

[alias_sqbr]

And thus, ticky boxes :)

[miss-kittylix.livejournal.com]

I know the Fonz says Ayyyyy - but I love Mr T's 'I pity the fool'. Have you seen the add for a chocolate bar on billboards with Mr T? It says something hilarious like "Get some nuts". I love silly things.

[tommmo.livejournal.com]

The TV commercial is even better. A guy takes a dive during a soccer match and is moaning and whining, and Mr T rocks up in a tank, throws a chocolate bar at his head and say "Quite your whinin', or else you'll meet my friend PAIN." :)

[goth-grrl.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. THAT IS AWESOME. I miss the A Team :(

Also, Sophie, while I can remember Happy Days, I choose not to.

[alias_sqbr]

That is an entirely understandable reaction :)

[justadecoy.livejournal.com]

As seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kn8YdVGZhs

[alias_sqbr]

Heh

quit your jibberjabber fo'!

[robthesilent.livejournal.com]

jibberjabber indeed ah ha ha
:)

[alias_sqbr]

That's why it's ticky boxes and not radio buttons: you can pick them all :)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

I know who The Fonz is, that he jumped over a shark on Happy Days, and that this is how "jump the shark" began because fans considered this The Start of The End, but, having never seen the show, I can't decide that for myself. =)

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, I haven't actually watched much of it myself, just absorbed it by osmosis from pop culture.

[mandragora2003.livejournal.com]

Wha?

I got the A team stuff, but...?

Where popular culture is concerned, I am a neanderthal. I know this well.

[alias_sqbr]

Ayyy: Fonz catchphrase
Jump the shark:do something utterly tacky, signifying the beggining of the end of the show. From an episode where The Fonz literally jumped a shark
There is no spoon: the matrix
SPOON: The tick

Now you're fully up to date and hip to the modern groove :)