Fonzie meets Baywatch to jump the shark (video)

[pesco]

Originally published at: Fonzie meets Baywatch to jump the shark (video) | Boing Boing

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[gracchus]

There’s a good chance all those sequences were filmed on the same stretch of L.A. beach.

[generic_name]

Yer gonna need a bigger Hasselhoff.

[anon33932455]

Just a reminder that Evel Knievel did it first, before the Fonz, even.

Evel Knievel - "Shark Jump" 8mm Film 1/31/77

Well, tried to. He crashed on a practice run, broke his collarbone, and couldn’t jump the next day. Maybe the inspiration for the Fonz, tho.

When Evel Jumped the Shark

[Mister44]

What happened to the life guard? Did she die?

[euansmith]

With the new soundtrack, Jill Riley’s death is pretty dang brutal.

Henry Winkler’s charisma and charm is a wonderful thing to see.

[euansmith]

Yes. I only know because I watch Allison Pregler’s Baywatching channel on YouTube.

Baywatching: Shark Derby

[Shuck]

I really didn’t expect that the least absurd of the two sequences would turn out to be Fonzie jumping the shark…

@gracchus

There’s a good chance all those sequences were filmed on the same stretch of L.A. beach.

I wondered if it wasn’t the exact same location, but it looks like it probably wasn’t - Happy Days was filmed in Malibu, on the same beach where they shot “Rockford Files,” whereas Baywatch was set/mostly filmed about 14 miles East in/near Santa Monica.

@Mister44

Did she die?

The Hoff saves her from the shark, then she dies of an aneurysm, just to screw with the audience.

[McGreens]

@gracchus

There’s a good chance all those sequences were filmed on the same stretch of L.A. beach.

But how did anyone find it without signs?

[grima]

Sit on it, Potsie.