Something good might come out of the awful, new Indiana Jones movie. A growing online campaign is building around the infamous moment when Indy survives a nuclear blast by hiding in a refrigerator, getting blasting miles and surviving without a scratch. This hilariously bad moment will be immortalized as Nuking the Fridge, the movie version of Jumping the Shark.
Jumping the shark originated back in a 1977 Happy Days episode where Fonzie literally jumps a shark. The infamous moment came to define when a series overstays its welcome, doing something silly to renew interest like killing off a character or being to should-be lovers actually together.
Nuking the Fridge will hopefully now be used to embarrassingly lampoon movie franchises that overstay their welcome.
2 Comments
August 1, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Thank you! I had heard this a few weeks ago, and forgot it.
November 21, 2008 at 3:08 pm
As a maffer of tact, the entire movie is full of moments like that, from the “magnetic” aliens with remarkably acrylic plastic skulls to the killer ants. But I second the motion.
BTW, I predict that The Mentalist will jump the shark in episode 8.