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In (Fictional) Defense of Jumping the Shark

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This is one of those internet videos that is going to be primarily funny for old TV buffs -- since the majority of it just consists of a straightforward plot summary of a TV episode that’s more than 30 years old -- so naturally I enjoyed it: James Urbaniak interviews the fictional writer of the "Jumping the Shark" episode (played by Dave "Gruber" Allen). Ironically, the fake writer makes a somewhat better case for the episode than the real writer did.

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