TV LEGEND: The inspiration for Fonzie jumping over a shark on Happy Days was because Henry Winkler's father pushed his son to tell the producers about using his son's water-skiing skills on the show.

Jumping the shark is a fun thing that happens in media when something just forgets in its entirety what the point of a series was, and goes so far off the rails that the track is no longer in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’d think Winkler would be disgruntled about being immortalized as the face of sitcom downswings, and Hein jumped directly into ...

It's one of the most infamous moments in television history. On the Sept. 20, 1977 episode of ABC's hit sitcom Happy Days, Fonzie, the lovable tough guy portrayed by Henry Winkler, strapped on water ...

For younger fans, R5-D4 was just a droid that appeared in one scene in the first Star Wars movie, later re-titled Star Wars: A New Hope. This was the droid that Uncle Owen was going to buy from the ...