Jumping the Mythical Shark

Nov 04, 2006 10:45



I stumbled upon Irregular Webcomic earlier this week. It's entertaining. He's got multiple themes that he rotates through, and sometimes crosses over between. The Mythbusters theme is pretty entertaining. I've still got a ways to go get caught up, but he's on #1378 currently, so that's a lot of reading.

This particular comic was really funny to me because I was just talking about how Mythbusters had jumped the shark. I started watching that show in it's first season. I watched it pretty religiously through the first two seasons, but then forgot about it. I started watching again this season and just couldn't bear how horrible it had gotten.

My biggest complaint is that they've abandoned the Scientific Method in favor of insanity. I watched a couple experiments from this season and kept thinking that they really hadn't proven anything. Their experimental controls were laughable at best.

From jumpingtheshark.com:

It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on, it's all downhill. Some call it climax. We call it jumping the shark.

tv, geek, comics

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