The Knight Life by Keith Knight for December 31, 2023
December 30, 2023
January 01, 2024
Transcript:
KN: I dont getit...who is this "ponize" character? KK: Its a parody of "fonzie" aka "The FOnz"!! KK: he was a lovable hoodlum character form "happy Day" a popular american sitcom form the 1970s!! KN: references from the seventies? KN: Your strip has totally jumped the shark!!
To anyone who doesn’t get it, the phrase “Jumped the shark” came from one episode of the Happy Days sitcom where the Fonz water skis over a shark. It’s considered the point where the show had definitely run out of steam and was dying. Mrs. Keef doesn’t realize that show was the very source of the phrase she uses.
“The past is prologue.” All the past.