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Leave It to Beaver is a 1950s and 1960s family-oriented American television situation comedy about an inquisitive but often naive boy named Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show has attained an iconic status in the United States, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-twentieth century.

Is this some group competing with "Jump the Shark?"

Is this some group competing with "Jump the Shark?"


I was wondering the same thing, I despise "Jump the Shark" and this apparent knockoff can't be any better. :rolleyes:

Is this some group competing with "Jump the Shark?"
Jump The Shark became defunct a few years ago, when they sold out to TV Guide, who deleted all the comments :mad: .

Jump The Shark became defunct a few years ago, when they sold out to TV Guide, who deleted all the comments :mad: .

It has been like that since around February 2009. To be honest w/ you I don't think that what is left of the Jump the Shark site has been updated in at least a year and a half.

If I have enough time and energy, I intend on posting from the "spiritual successor" to the JTS site, BTF.com on every devoted sitcom message board on this website.

Define "boned"

Define "boned"

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The term "Bone the Fish" was created in direct reference to TV Guide parent Gemstar. Sometime in 2006, Jon Hein decided to sell the website known as "Jump the Shark" or "JumptheShark.com". Hein sold his company, Jump The Shark, Inc., to Gemstar (owners of TV Guide) on June 20, 2006 for "over $1 million". After Jon Hein sold it he went to work with Howard Stern. Some Howard Stern staff have speculated that the site sold closer to $5-$10 million, however. We like to say that was the point in time when the website Jump the Shark "Boned the Fish".

Around January/February 2009, Gemstar decided to redesign the website. With this new redesign they decided to scrap all the old content and make JTS a redirect to their gossip blog site. Some argue that this is the point in time when the website "Boned the Fish".

It was a complete slap in the face to the jumptheshark.com community. The icing on the cake was Gemstar had the audacity to redirect the old JTS site to a subdirectory of TVGuide.com, basically they bought page views looking for Jumptheshark.com. To show how clueless they are, they went about titling some of their blog columns "shark bites" and "dancing with the sharks" to get more readers.

This show so never boned.


One of the greatest TV shows ever made, as far as I am concerned. They can show this at my funeral.

It never boned(What a dumb word), nor did it jump the shark.

Define "boned"

Can't print it here. Needless to say, when I first saw the term popping up all over the place here I was scratching my head. "Leave It to Beaver" what???!!!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boned

I thought that "boning" at least in terms of a fish, meant literally flaying the skin of the fish "down to the bone".

I know nothing about any other definition, I assure you. ;)

I thought that "boning" at least in terms of a fish, meant literally flaying the skin of the fish "down to the bone".

I know nothing about any other definition, I assure you. ;)

I'll take your word for that. Maybe. :) But what you're describing, isn't that called DE-boning?

A quick search on Google reveals this...(I only included the first definition)

bone
bōn/
verb
gerund or present participle: boning

1.
remove the bones from (meat or fish).
"while the gumbo is simmering, bone the cooked chicken"

LITB was always wonderful. No jumping the shark, going downhill, etc. ever IMO. A wonderful endearing show - for many reasons. Just finished watching an ep as a matter of fact.

The only episode I consider weak is the one where Beaver has to wear the bunny suit. It would have worked when he was 7 or 8, but not when he was 12.

I'm going to go ahead and agree with most of you on the main question. I watched the show in reruns back in high school (faithfully and every day), and I never saw a real dip in quality.

I think it ended at just about the right time, too. If they had continued with the show, Wally would have been in college and it would have been harder and harder to keep him hanging around the house, so you would have had a 15 year old Beav alone with his folks, which would have changed the dynamic too much, I think. Also I always got the feeling that the show was about being a young boy in the 50s and early 60s, and Beav had pretty much grown out of that mode by the time the show ended.

I don't think it ever boned or got boned or what ever the term is.

I think a few years from now people are going to say when did Sitcoms Online bone the shark and some will probably say when they started posting all those boned the shark threads.

It was always a great show. :biglove:

I'm sorry, but it's just hilarious that right under "Never boned", the next option is "puberty". I'm pretty sure that's probably a time when someone may have boned, but not the show.

And no, "Leave It To Beaver" never slipped in quality. It's good from start to finish.:) :cool:

One of the greatest TV shows ever made, as far as I am concerned.I agree...... There was a lesson WITH EVERY SHOW!!

:)

I agree...... There was a lesson WITH EVERY SHOW!!

:)

Absolutely. I was really sorry Antenna pulled LITB from its lineup. You know, the show still holds up very nicely over a half century from its original airing! And I'd take it any day over 99% of what passes for television entertainment today.

Boy it would be nice to have a REP SYSTEM here so we could give POSITIVE REP to replies like the one above mine :)

Hmmmm, boning the fish...that can be taken either 1 or 2 ways :winkgrin :faint: :lol:

I voted for no Larry and Mrs. Mondello, because, imo, that is the closest the show came to boning said fish :X)

But, thanks to the amazing Eddie, they more than recovered their comedic edge and were able to avoid fishboning (puke:) completely :clap

I voted never boned. However, they lost two very great characters after Larry and his Mom left!

I voted never boned. However, they lost two very great characters after Larry and his Mom left!

Amen to that.

It has been like that since around February 2009. To be honest w/ you I don't think that what is left of the Jump the Shark site has been updated in at least a year and a half.

If I have enough time and energy, I intend on posting from the "spiritual successor" to the JTS site, BTF.com on every devoted sitcom message board on this website.

Actually I'm happy to report that all comments pre-2005 (before the sale to TV Guide) appear to be saved to this website:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070225141752/http://jumptheshark.com/

I was very happy to find this, as I (and probably 100s of other people) spent a lot of time adding comments to this site, and I was really irritated to find that TV Guide had dumped all of them when it redesigned the website in 2009.

Excellent,Merci Beaucoup :)