Word: fonz
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...Administration lackey transcribing Scott McClellan's exact words with one hand and stabbing Joe Wilson's wife in the back with the other. At the media criticism forum on the Poynter Institute site, one correspondent channeled the audience?s reaction through what appeared to be the voice of the Fonz: "Stevie is a bad boy. He's not cool...
...from the writers of “Frasier.” Channing looks to have just been resuscitated from some experiment in cryogenics. She’s scary. As for the man of the house, let’s just say Winkler isn’t really the Fonz. He’s just a crazy old man now. Go away. —Staff writer Alexander C. Britell can be reached at abritell@fas.harvard.edu...
...jargon is what a show does when it pulls an outrageous stunt in a desperate attempt at a ratings boost--and usually suffers a terminal decline instead. The term, which the creators of jumptheshark.com say they coined, was inspired by the Happy Days episode in which a water-skiing Fonz jumps over a shark. Lately the term is being adopted in business to describe the point at which a once strong company or brand begins to slide. AutoWeek's review of the new turbocharged Volkswagen Beetle, for instance, says the car "threatens to jump the shark...
...bridged kids' and adult entertainment since the heyday of Walt Disney and Chuck Jones, but the field went through a long creative slump in the '70s and '80s, as programmers churned out Saturday-morning knock-offs made mainly to shill toys (My Little Pony) or repurpose sitcom characters (The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang). Today cartoons have undergone a renaissance, as kids' channels such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have given their animators the freedom of auteurs. Smarter and more idiosyncratic, these animators have created shows like Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls that have become not just hits...
...Russell Crowe arrives and goes into his customary mode, holding court among younger actors; he's a sort of Fonz character among the adoring young Turks. He joshes with the people who approach him, but becomes almost respectful when Steve Taylor, the producer of a local shoestring cable TV show, introduces him to "the Prince of Belgium" - a flaxen-haired man who resembles nothing so much as a middle-aged weatherman from Minneapolis...