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# It was identified upon retrospect ''20 years later'', meaning it had the benefit of hindsight ''and'' it wasn't a knee-jerk reaction.

How could the show fix that without [[Canon ~~Dis Continuity~~|ignoring the episode completely]]? There are plenty of other ways to jump the shark, but those are rare diamonds of crap... [[Sturgeon's Law|in the rough of crap]]. It's near impossible to tell when a show has jumped the shark until after the fact. The variety of the votes on [http://jumptheshark.com/index.jspa Jump The Shark] are a testament to that. Worse, if people are just rushing to declare jumping the shark for any moment they don't like, it comes across as [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like]].

How could the show fix that without [[Canon Discontinuity|ignoring the episode completely]]? There are plenty of other ways to jump the shark, but those are rare diamonds of crap... [[Sturgeon's Law|in the rough of crap]]. It's near impossible to tell when a show has jumped the shark until after the fact. The variety of the votes on [http://jumptheshark.com/index.jspa Jump The Shark] are a testament to that. Worse, if people are just rushing to declare jumping the shark for any moment they don't like, it comes across as [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like]].

Even worse than that, there are folks who feel the series is [[Tainted by the Preview]] - the show doesn't even have to be released for someone to declare it Ruined FOREVER. The same goes if the show has only been on for a couple of episodes before people start making dramatic statements of this nature; if the show's just started, that usually means that the producers are still seeing what works and what doesn't, so any reasonable viewer might have to allow for at least a few stumbles.