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I personally have never heard anybody say "Nuked the fridge" instead of "Jumped the shark." Actually, I haven't heard anybody say "Jumped the shark." in months. I.m starting to think that perhaps Mr. Spielberg needs a breath of air that didn't come from up his own butt.

Well Nuke the Fridge is a pretty new turn of phrase. And it only applies to movies.
But Jumped the Shark is probably older than the internet and applies to everything.

In Fallout New Vegas, I found a fridge with a skeleton and an Indiana-Jones style hat. LOL

Random I know but you reminded me of that.

I use Nuke the Fridge, and so do all my buds. Could just not be your friends are saying it.

We should combine them into a saying not quite as good as either...
I'm thinking Fridge the Shark.

I haven't seen the term used outside of a few of the more pathetic movie critics.

I've never heard the term " Nuked the Fridge" until this very moment, Jumped the shark however I've been hearing ( and on occasion using) since Mr. Fonzirelli made that now famous leap.

warpcrafter wrote:http://collider.com/steven-spielberg-jurassic-park-4-indiana-jones-5/122561/#more-122561

I personally have never heard anybody say "Nuked the fridge" instead of "Jumped the shark." Actually, I haven't heard anybody say "Jumped the shark." in months. I.m starting to think that perhaps Mr. Spielberg needs a breath of air that didn't come from up his own butt.

Oosfrabah, calm down, its a phrase that a lot of people adopted after the latest Indy film, myself included. Those of you hating on us that use it have no right to, the nuking the fridge scene was way more ridiculous than the Happy Days shark jumping scene.

chaos0xomega wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:http://collider.com/steven-spielberg-jurassic-park-4-indiana-jones-5/122561/#more-122561

I personally have never heard anybody say "Nuked the fridge" instead of "Jumped the shark." Actually, I haven't heard anybody say "Jumped the shark." in months. I.m starting to think that perhaps Mr. Spielberg needs a breath of air that didn't come from up his own butt.

Oosfrabah, calm down, its a phrase that a lot of people adopted after the latest Indy film, myself included. Those of you hating on us that use it have no right to, the nuking the fridge scene was way more ridiculous than the Happy Days shark jumping scene.

Hmm, I don't know about that...Indy climbing into a fridge for " protection" males about as much sense as anything else we were told to do in case of a nuclear blast, remember " get under your desk and cover your head"..?, so at least the act of getting into the refrigerator makes some sense...silly as it is.
Fonzie on the other hand simply showed thousands of kids that risking your life to be cool was perfectly fine...

FITZZ wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:http://collider.com/steven-spielberg-jurassic-park-4-indiana-jones-5/122561/#more-122561

I personally have never heard anybody say "Nuked the fridge" instead of "Jumped the shark." Actually, I haven't heard anybody say "Jumped the shark." in months. I.m starting to think that perhaps Mr. Spielberg needs a breath of air that didn't come from up his own butt.

Oosfrabah, calm down, its a phrase that a lot of people adopted after the latest Indy film, myself included. Those of you hating on us that use it have no right to, the nuking the fridge scene was way more ridiculous than the Happy Days shark jumping scene.

Hmm, I don't know about that...Indy climbing into a fridge for " protection" males about as much sense as anything else we were told to do in case of a nuclear blast, remember " get under your desk and cover your head"..?, so at least the act of getting into the refrigerator makes some sense...silly as it is.
Fonzie on the other hand simply showed thousands of kids that risking your life to be cool was perfectly fine...

Yeah, but my generation grew up in a post-fonzie/post-cold war world where jumping the shark is not as ridiculous as it sounds and we weren't convinced that wooden desks would save us from a 20+ Megaton nuclear explosion. To us, 'nuking the fridge' is quite possibly the most ridiculous concept anything could have ever tried to convince us of.

Ive never heard this saying before this thread and i dont expect to hear it ever again.

chaos0xomega wrote:Oosfrabah, calm down, its a phrase that a lot of people adopted after the latest Indy film, myself included. Those of you hating on us that use it have no right to, the nuking the fridge scene was way more ridiculous than the Happy Days shark jumping scene.

By the way, its Goosfraba not Oosfrabah... And no ones hating. We're just ridiculing you.

I only applies to overdone film series, not individual films.

Are we sure it's not 'Nuke the Victim" or 'Blame the fridge"?

alarmingrick wrote:Are we sure it's not 'Nuke the Victim" or 'Blame the fridge"?

Maybe it's " Blame the shark for nuking the victim in the fridge"..?

I heard 'Nuke the Fridge' as a take on 'Jump the shark' right after Indiana Jones 4 came out because it was so bad.

ZUUL MOTHER FU-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Lord Poison wrote:ZUUL MOTHER FU-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Thread won!

chaos0xomega wrote:To us, 'nuking the fridge' is quite possibly the most ridiculous concept anything could have ever tried to convince us of.

You speak only for yourself.


Personally, 9-9-9 is the most ridiculous concept anyone's tried to convince ME of.

Melissia wrote:
Personally, 9-9-9 is the most ridiculous concept anyone's tried to convince ME of.

Please explain.

Orlanth wrote:

Melissia wrote:
Personally, 9-9-9 is the most ridiculous concept anyone's tried to convince ME of.

Please explain.

I think I already did in a thread about the 9-9-9 plan. But a summary is that a flat tax is actually regressive because of the importance of money differing amongst classes (ten percent of a hundred million leaves the rich person with more than enough to get the luxury he wants; ten percent of ten thousand can be debilitating to the poor person), and sales taxes hurt the poor far more* than they do the rich, making them also regressive-- and the plan includes huge cuts in any number of taxes to corporations and the wealthy. And it's only an intermediate stage for his ludicrously stupid idea of a 30% national sales tax, which would be a huge increase in tax rate for pretty much everyone, but again, it's a sales tax and sales taxes are regressive (* those with less money spend more as a proportion of it and thus are taxed more; those with more money spend less as a proportion of it saving the rest, and thus are taxed less).

So it's basically a plan for screwing over the poor and middle class, while skyrocketing our national debt and giving huge tax cuts to the rich. And the average person is supposed to like this? Heck the best thing that could happen for Democrats is that Cain becomes the Republican candidate, because he has no diplomatic talent, weird ideas on how finance works, and no real positions on anything other than his tax plan. He'd be easy to knock over.

Melissia wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:To us, 'nuking the fridge' is quite possibly the most ridiculous concept anything could have ever tried to convince us of.

You speak only for yourself.


Personally, 9-9-9 is the most ridiculous concept anyone's tried to convince ME of.

You find the 9-9-9 tax plan more ridiculous than someone hiding in a refrigerator to survive a nuclear bomb? Keep in mind that the refrigerator was located at what could pretty much only be described as ground zero, the entire fething TOWN it was in was ripped to pieces, and the refrigerator survived largely unscathed... oh, and not once during any of the impacts did the refrigerator door come open by itself (I can tell you that this is not the case with most modern refrigerators...).

Right. What're you on and where can I get some?

Nuke the fridge is a new term for films that basically is the same as jump the shark. You don't see it as much as jump the shark though.

I'm surprised so few have actually heard of it. Ever since that atrocious new Indie movie it's become very common in some circles. Even if you've never heard anyone use it I'd expect people to be at least aware of it.

FITZZ wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:http://collider.com/steven-spielberg-jurassic-park-4-indiana-jones-5/122561/#more-122561

I personally have never heard anybody say "Nuked the fridge" instead of "Jumped the shark." Actually, I haven't heard anybody say "Jumped the shark." in months. I.m starting to think that perhaps Mr. Spielberg needs a breath of air that didn't come from up his own butt.

Oosfrabah, calm down, its a phrase that a lot of people adopted after the latest Indy film, myself included. Those of you hating on us that use it have no right to, the nuking the fridge scene was way more ridiculous than the Happy Days shark jumping scene.

Hmm, I don't know about that...Indy climbing into a fridge for " protection" males about as much sense as anything else we were told to do in case of a nuclear blast, remember " get under your desk and cover your head"..?, so at least the act of getting into the refrigerator makes some sense...silly as it is.
Fonzie on the other hand simply showed thousands of kids that risking your life to be cool was perfectly fine...

In the event of a nuclear blast, hiding under a desk is exactly what you want to do.

If you're too close to the blast, you're dead no matter what you do, so it doesn't really matter what you're doing. And, if you're in the direction of the fallout, you're in big trouble no matter what you do and probably won't have too long to live.

But, there is a distance from the blast where the explosion itself won't kill you, the blast wave is survivable, and wind patterns mean the fallout will miss you. If you're in this zone, the biggest threat you need to worry about is falling debris from windows blowing out or the roof collapsing. Being under something sturdy (like a desk) is a great way to protect yourself from that.

So, for most people in the immediate surroundings of a nuclear attack, their dead. But, there are plenty of lives that can be saved if everyone hides under a desk.

chaos0xomega wrote:

Melissia wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:To us, 'nuking the fridge' is quite possibly the most ridiculous concept anything could have ever tried to convince us of.

You speak only for yourself.


Personally, 9-9-9 is the most ridiculous concept anyone's tried to convince ME of.

You find the 9-9-9 tax plan more ridiculous than someone hiding in a refrigerator to survive a nuclear bomb

Yes, because a 0.001% chance-- an old lead lined fridge like the one Indy got in to-- is better than a 0% chance. It would help protect from the fallout and help protect from the debris.

Grakmar wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:http://collider.com/steven-spielberg-jurassic-park-4-indiana-jones-5/122561/#more-122561

I personally have never heard anybody say "Nuked the fridge" instead of "Jumped the shark." Actually, I haven't heard anybody say "Jumped the shark." in months. I.m starting to think that perhaps Mr. Spielberg needs a breath of air that didn't come from up his own butt.

Oosfrabah, calm down, its a phrase that a lot of people adopted after the latest Indy film, myself included. Those of you hating on us that use it have no right to, the nuking the fridge scene was way more ridiculous than the Happy Days shark jumping scene.

Hmm, I don't know about that...Indy climbing into a fridge for " protection" males about as much sense as anything else we were told to do in case of a nuclear blast, remember " get under your desk and cover your head"..?, so at least the act of getting into the refrigerator makes some sense...silly as it is.
Fonzie on the other hand simply showed thousands of kids that risking your life to be cool was perfectly fine...

In the event of a nuclear blast, hiding under a desk is exactly what you want to do.

If you're too close to the blast, you're dead no matter what you do, so it doesn't really matter what you're doing. And, if you're in the direction of the fallout, you're in big trouble no matter what you do and probably won't have too long to live.

But, there is a distance from the blast where the explosion itself won't kill you, the blast wave is survivable, and wind patterns mean the fallout will miss you. If you're in this zone, the biggest threat you need to worry about is falling debris from windows blowing out or the roof collapsing. Being under something sturdy (like a desk) is a great way to protect yourself from that.

So, for most people in the immediate surroundings of a nuclear attack, their dead. But, there are plenty of lives that can be saved if everyone hides under a desk.

...Or in a fridge?
Really I was attempting to more or less examine the trains of thought behind the actions, in 1950's cold war America it would be "reasonable" to presume that Dr.Jones would believe that climbing into the fridge would somehow protect him from the blast,so despite the silliness of the actual scene...it makes a bit of sense from a certain perspective, his motivation was survival and he was simply using what was avialible coupled with the given Knowledge of the time ( get into/under something heavy for protection).
...or am I way over thinking this whole Nuke Vs Jump thing?

FITZZ wrote: I've never heard the term " Nuked the Fridge" until this very moment, Jumped the shark however I've been hearing ( and on occasion using) since Mr. Fonzirelli made that now famous leap.

What the Clown who sells chicken said.

Melissia wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

Melissia wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:To us, 'nuking the fridge' is quite possibly the most ridiculous concept anything could have ever tried to convince us of.

You speak only for yourself.


Personally, 9-9-9 is the most ridiculous concept anyone's tried to convince ME of.

You find the 9-9-9 tax plan more ridiculous than someone hiding in a refrigerator to survive a nuclear bomb

Yes, because a 0.001% chance-- an old lead lined fridge like the one Indy got in to-- is better than a 0% chance. It would help protect from the fallout and help protect from the debris.

So, can we say that Herman Caine (sp?) has "nuked the fridge"?

Piston Honda wrote:

FITZZ wrote: I've never heard the term " Nuked the Fridge" until this very moment, Jumped the shark however I've been hearing ( and on occasion using) since Mr. Fonzirelli made that now famous leap.

What the Clown who sells chicken said.

...And remember kids, you should have plenty of my deeelicious chicken in your fridge...ya never know when you'll be needing a snack when your tucked inside it waiting on the blast.

FITZZ wrote:...Or in a fridge?
Really I was attempting to more or less examine the trains of thought behind the actions, in 1950's cold war America it would be "reasonable" to presume that Dr.Jones would believe that climbing into the fridge would somehow protect him from the blast,so despite the silliness of the actual scene...it makes a bit of sense from a certain perspective, his motivation was survival and he was simply using what was avialible coupled with the given Knowledge of the time ( get into/under something heavy for protection).
...or am I way over thinking this whole Nuke Vs Jump thing?

The problem with jump the shark and nuke the fridge is that they're statements describing absudity. That Indie could hide in a fridge and survive a point blank nuclear blast, is so absurd no one can actually watch it and think that it's a reasonable turn for the story. By all rights of reality, he should be dead, and it's so blatantly obvious he should be dead that most of the audience just cut out from the film.

It's an issue of suspension of disbelief.

LordofHats wrote:

FITZZ wrote:...Or in a fridge?
Really I was attempting to more or less examine the trains of thought behind the actions, in 1950's cold war America it would be "reasonable" to presume that Dr.Jones would believe that climbing into the fridge would somehow protect him from the blast,so despite the silliness of the actual scene...it makes a bit of sense from a certain perspective, his motivation was survival and he was simply using what was avialible coupled with the given Knowledge of the time ( get into/under something heavy for protection).
...or am I way over thinking this whole Nuke Vs Jump thing?

The problem with jump the shark and nuke the fridge is that they're statements describing absudity. That Indie could hide in a fridge and survive a point blank nuclear blast, is so absurd no one can actually watch it and think that it's a reasonable turn for the story. By all rights of reality, he should be dead, and it's so blatantly obvious he should be dead that most of the audience just cut out from the film.

It's an issue of suspension of disbelief.

Well yes, I definitely agree with you there...and of course the same can be said for most "action films" to a greater or lesser degree, when we see 40 or 50 "bad guys" unloading with automatic weapons at Arnold whilst he casually walks through the incoming fire cheerfully dispatching them and delivering goofy one liners...it's esentially the same thing as Indy hinding in the fridge...it's " hero armor"...suspension of disbelief...but I've yet to hear anyone coin the phrase " Shooting the Swarzenagger" to convey absurdity in films/TV....at least not yet.