Hardly Working: Jump The Shark

[@Rockymountainpie]

they jumped the freakin carp

[@sevenseveen1337]

they had a perfect game going to, every time they have a perfect game going thEY FREAKING SELL OUT THEY JUMPED THE CARP

[@hydqjuliilq27]

They just made it MySpace

[@owen-cu6gr]

@@sevenseveen1337 Don't let your voice get to that octave.

[@Joshuavila_jpg]

Exactly rice

[@thetong1982]

I love this skit. They crush so many tropes on here. New actor replaces old (Amir), moving to a new location/environment (LA), introducing a once famous person as a new central character (Tony Hawk), spinoffs (Streeter), a ridiculous stunt that would never happen on older episodes (Jumping the Murph), the pregnancy that never occurs in a hospital (Jeff).

[@hittingyouoverthehead]

You missed proposal and marriage.

[@christianmccauley7340]

Ashcool true

[@AliFareedMC]

it is funnier when you explain it

[@Silverwind87]

And the Next Generation.

[@Silverwind87]

@@AliFareedMC nobody asked

[@iambicpentakill971]

The best part is Sarah's expression when he says, "Antonio Hawk".

[@nicholassrivas]

Emily and murph married. They moved to LA. Streeter left. The hardly working got a new cast. I guess you can say the baby judged can be a metaphor for all the new shows that were born? Also the celebrities making cameos like rick fox.

[@dogspines1514]

Wait Emily and murph got married? I didn't know that

[@emoney187]

Kendall otoole Wait, for real?!

[@dogspines1514]

+emoney187 yea 😂

[@dogspines1514]

Is pat still there?

[@tFighterPilot]

Kendall otoole Pat and Sam.

[@thenoblepoptart]

Little did they know they would actually jump the shark when they moved to LA

[@bdeamon1]

along with celebrities, marriages in the cast, a spin off channel, a new class, and a baby judge

[@tFighterPilot]

Bdeamo N I mean, there's Brian and Emily who got married, but what about the rest?

[@DrAlexWaite]

+tFighterPilot Susanna Wolfe and Caldwell

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

+tFighterPilot Celebrity guests, CH2, and a whole cast of new writers.

[@Roronoa2zoro]

They had a perfect game going and they jumped the friggin' carp!

[@krookyj]

Isn't it kinda weird that a few years later, CollegeHumor ACTUALLY jumped the shark?

[@daftbanna7202]

Not really

[@wesley2936]

@@daftbanna7202 If you're going to disagree twice, just disagree once. If you're going to disagree twice, just disagree once.

[@daftbanna7202]

@@jose.a.a.a I have no fucking idea

[@daftbanna7202]

@@wesley2936 lol

[@cullycoop]

CH better than ever now bruh

[@xavierstonelucky7]

it's every single cliche from every single failing sitcom or show that is close to the end. Love it!

[@YechanSong]

amir looks buffer than usual haha

[@YourPalJamieEllis]

A buff and a cool

[@TheJokerscene]

Holy shit, Murph before he went psycho.

[@revoltingfatbitch7504]

murph went psycho?

[@Level99Chickens]

I have been laughing at the way Jeff says the Supreme Court Justice line for the past 13 years.

[@morbidchid]

I loved this one. Amir being replaced, Streeter getting a spin off. Genius.

[@MyComputerSucks2]

As hilarious as this episode is, it makes me sad because it makes me realize that one day, Hardly Working WILL be over :(

[@ashleylightheart126]

yeah...

[@ScoopMeisterGeneral]

@@ashleylightheart126 I'm not beefing, YOU'RE beefing.

[@tastytizzler1383]

one day, but I'm watching this video right now, because it's brand new! So don't worry about it we have plenty of time...

[@repressedtears8568]

zamn

[@Strummie]

Really wish “Hardly Working: The New Class” wasn’t actually a thing. They jumped the freaking carp.

[@CostcoGlizzy]

@drgabethebabe Jumping the shark was a term used to describe a moment where a popular franchise reaches a decline in quality or popularity. It is caused mainly by futile attempts of trying to revive a series using absurd storylines or unlikely plot twists as shown in the video. i.e. Baby being born, sudden proposal, Spinoffs, unlikely cast additions, etc. Hope it helped!

[@popcornfilms1]

Flash forward to 2018 and New Class is in full effect. They jumped big and hard.

[@akulahirpada1993]

*2016

[@SlightlyInactive]

Damn. But they have josh, Vinny and pat cast on some episodes. But the new cast is alright, some skits are good but some are shitty and too politically correct. Oh and don’t forget about mike trap who has been apart of college humour since 2010 or so- but started out on dorkly as a voice actor

[@MOTM1234]

Flash forward to 2020: BANKRUPT

[@DiamondDaveGtr]

ahhhh they jumped the carp maaaaan

[@DiddntFindANameLol]

They had a perfect game going!

[@edslushie570]

They predicted the future!

[@magicalmysteryollie]

The ironic thing is that a lot of them did move to LA, and there's a new Hardly Working cast in NY (seemingly just filling in the void, without any of the charm of the old gang) now.

[@mitchawesomefoot6139]

Actually from what I gather from J&A's podcast and Morning Drawfee, the new Hardly Working cast (Murph, Emily, Pat, Sam, Josh) is in LA actually and a lot of the originals stayed in NY. Sarah and Streeter work for SNL, David for Fallon and Dan for John Oliver. (and Owen who showed up later for The Daily Show) Jake and Amir did move to LA, but I don't think either works for CH anymore aside from doing their videos. Oh and Jeff moved to LA, there's a video up of Streeter driving him to the airport or something. He works for Buzzfeed now, he's shown up in a few of their videos. CH does still has offices in NY, though, along with their sister site dorkly (and I think busted tees too). Caldwell and Nathan work there, they were in some random videos and now do the show Morning Drawfee here on youtube.

[@emmablowguns]

Mitch Awesomefoot I think Jeff works for Buzzfeed now.

[@MetroidFreak123]

That's a bummer. Buzzfeed is a pretty lame site, in my opinion.

[@alifa9675]

no Jeff already moved to work on youtube right now

[@dungeonmunky]

They jumped shark something like six times in those two minutes. Props to them!

[@briguylf11]

i should be studying for my finals. i can't stop watching these videos.

[@NewWaveArch90]

For all the people who don't get it, the term "Jump the Shark" is defined as the moment in a TV show when the producers introduce a ridiculous character, an insane plot twist, or a spinoff, to boost ratings. The term comes from an episode of "Happy Days" where Fonzie literally jumps a shark on water skis.

[@tomfurness3109]

Did they replace Amir in this episode...?

[@IKillionaireFTW]

+Tom Furness no.

[@Arian545]

+Tom Furness What are you talking about? He just got a haircut

[@PaulMagnusSrensenClark]

+Tom Furness Didn't you see him? He was right there!

[@LiamEsterly]

There is another Amir who works for CollegeHumor, he just works on the website.

[@DudeyLad]

You're suffering from Amir Jackman blindness

[@Jameskaimuki]

Now pat has left too, and Ricky is doin something else. I think Sam is the only one left.

[@mickomoo]

I think Murph is still there right?

[@little200bro7]

mickomoo no

[@mvwinf]

Jameskaimuki pat's still there! he's just writing far more than he's acting, but you can see him in the credits in the descriptions of newer vids

[@OhplsAndrew]

But he died in a plein cresh.

[@TeeBreak]

They jumped the freakin carp

[@thelastreaper9726]

This was an emotional roller coaster

[@BrixXSM]

"ESPECIALLY you, Antonio." I never thought you could make an art form of mock-fucking things up. But there we have it.

[@wierdo301]

wtf did i just watch lol

[@mathewgee3467]

MTV in a nutshell.

[@stuart8504]

Is it kinda weird they actually did move to LA now....?

[@Ephraim32]

They mentioned LA a few times in old skits. I'm kinda wondering if they planned on moving earlier

[@KairiHawkeye]

I love it when they're acting the tropes

[@mynameiskamari]

after wikipedia-ing the phrase 'jumping the shark' i now have an understanding

[@mehbobotorp2373]

Wtf did I just watch....?

[@that_one_momo_guy]

+Mehbobo Torp why aren't more people saying this?

[@TheSchmoyohoFan]

is that jake playing amir?

[@johnytwotimes1]

have you never seen a Jake and Amir episode?

[@ibrokeyourlamp6995]

That's not Jake...

[@DendyJungle]

Unfortunately we did eventually get Ch the new class and it was all BuzzFeed rejects who only wanted to talk about how gay and foreign they were

[@pitlempens1741]

This plays like a fever dream version of Mr. Show, and that show is already a fever dream

[@frostyliciousmayne]

I'm stuck in a loop of deciding to go do something else but then just watching another CH video in the playlist like they were a couple of episodes ago >_

[@Mazarakian]

Dude Hardly Working The New Class is here And it sucks Like Adam, Emily, Anu and Will all need to go. Owen and Paul can stay.

[@valerielute9183]

I came around on Adam and Emily, but I'm always suspicious when they get a new staff member.

[@Mazarakian]

VJ Lute Idk Adam is the worst for me, and Emily is good when she's not trying to be sporadic and weird, but this is hardly working, that's in their job description. As well it's the fact that they are actual writers of collegehumor vids and maybe its just my personal taste but their quality has REALLY dropped.

[@Issung123]

Murf is not the same, he also needs to go, this channel is now dead, a husk of its former greatness.

[@valerielute9183]

Yeah, when I responded to this thread seven months ago, I was still enjoying some of the more recent videos, but I feel like there has been a really sharp decline in that time.

[@Issung123]

Your not wrong.

[@grus]

This was the single most random hardly working episode i have ever seen in my entire life

[@Jenema2]

I like the refrence of how every mildly popular sitcom gets a million freaking spinoffs

[@Comraderob1]

"Next Tuesday at 8" was clearly code for 2014 when they actually moved...lol

[@maxytheripper]

Easy Street should be a real show.

[@wearethebomb42]

It's funny how their video parodying shows jumping the shark was literally their shark jumping moment.

[@TheCrazyWolfe]

i like it when randomness happens every now and then, but this was just too much at once to enjoy

[@JustAnAccountx]

They changed the background, and they jumped the freakin' shark.

[@ncjptv]

"jump the shark" is when a tv show reaches its peak and starts to decline in quality

[@DigitalPuppeteer]

for those of you who dont understand, the term jumping the shark is when a tv series goes to whacky lenghts to find plot lines, crazy spin offs, or replaces actors without any reason things of that nature

[@samuelperezgarcia]

The hell... I watched this immediately after the Shrinking Ray skit, didn't know they mentioned one here too. O_O

[@Mulletland]

I can't believe so few people actually understand this. It's brilliant.

[@MaxOakland]

"Multiple times, yes!" 😂

[@tFighterPilot]

They really predicted the future with "hardly working the new class"

[@brendanc3477]

When the baby is born that's totally a quote from fallout 3 lol

[@GoalieDaniel]

I swear to god, I thought I was watching a complete synopsis of Scrubs.

[@aaronchase3292]

the term came from the series "Happy Days" when Fonzie jumped over a bunch of sharks in an attempt to impress his friends. The show wasn't doing so well but it still lasted a few more years after that.

[@repressedtears8568]

LMAO Jeff was offscreen for a second at 1:20 but I could recognize his scream bc he does it all time

[@Rassamdul]

i have to go to school in an hour.. and i need to take a bath... i havent slept last night... and im still watching these... 109/165

[@SeanOB188]

It surprises me how many people don't know the meaning of "JUMP THE SHARK." wow.

[@TheAllKnowingTribute]

Jump The shark, a term used to describe the highest point of Tv sitcom, the phrase was coined on "Happy Days" where the Fonz tried to jump a shark, speedos, leather jacket hairdo and all. There's a wiki page for more info.

[@TheLizGang]

"wait...this is a tiny baby supreme court judge!"

[@YTMLP]

Tony Hawk, Baby Judge and Easy Street are still a better lineup than NBCs' must-see Thursdays.

[@TheDeev]

This is so appropriate for the show that has broken shark-jumping records. A Christmas special- jump #1; a "look back" episode-jump #2; "A very special episode" #1- the wedding-jump#3; "A very special episode" #2- the baby- jump#4; and the obligatory "cute baby" episode-jump#5. Jim and Pam deserve the Ted McGinley award for killing a show. The only way to save the show is to kick them off into a spin-off and go back to being about.... An office!

[@MsITSMOI]

i have wactehd 109 episodes on hardly working today .. i plan to watch the rest tomorrow ... AT WORK

[@whatsthisidonteven]

This aged both like milk and like wine, like at the same time. Almost all the cues in this video ended up happening one way or another (even the video description itself in a very meta way lol), but the "new class" (Brennan and co.) is actually fine.

[@Dm3qXY]

Amir is my favorite character. Sup !

[@TheTrueGOATS]

FOR THOSE WHO DONT GET IT: It's a bunch of cliches that are found in popular sitcoms.

[@PsychoSoldier01]

*raises fist* COMIC SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!

[@cupofteam]

Look up the tv phrase 'jump the shark' and there you go

[@thegrumpysnorlax]

this is so much funnier when i know what jumping the shark is

[@dopplegangerdavid]

now this actually feels like college humor

[@captainautobots]

Can't wait for the gritty reboot.

[@WorldOfTheLeaf]

I hope you guys do realize what "jump the shark" means. It's when tv shows just put in plot twists, random new neighbors, marriage,departure, replacemnt of charcters, etc. If you think the titles of some CH videos are weird, try looking it up before you judge

[@MrTotallynotJosh]

Video 109 on my playlist...im getting there!

[@adrimilo]

this was random... thats why we love collegehumor(y)

[@Kango234]

HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS

[@Charathlie]

O god I couldn't get over the fact that "Amir" was buff

[@FilthyGamerZ]

Every tuesday a teenager eats a waffle, now i eat chicken 7

[@KannaGanga]

if you reeeaaalllyy close at amir, you'll realise that it looks slightly like its not him.

[@lesssugarcandy6011]

Amir so jacked back then

[@DarkOkamiAlpha]

did anyone else notice that the baby grew like 10 times bigger when he was a judge?

[@MrRamone420]

Best Hardly Working ever

[@thexyouthxattack]

WHEN ARE THEY GUNNA GET TO THE FIREWORK FACTORY!!!!!

[@Meuhandle]

1) Hold your breath. 2) Copy all of these steps. 3) Go to two other video. 4) Paste it in the comments.

[@Fiji552]

I hear that music at the beginning and think it's an ad

[@slycooper459]

I never noticed the good throw in the last shot

[@JrGrissom]

Jump the Shark is the title of 15th episode in the 9th season of the X-Files. Although the episode is about a alien super-soldier who kills a college professor and deals nothing with this video, I thought you'd like to know.

[@Book5550]

It's a Happy Days reference. Most Sitcoms ''jump the shark'' eventually.

[@CabbagePatchBaby]

I think most of the people who disliked this didn't understand the joke.

[@RoughThief]

That...was miserable. Well, 'cept the "whether or not he's brutally maimed in the process" line. That was pretty damn cool

[@whothehelll]

i have no idea what jump the shark is, but this was entertaining as fuck

[@BebopMan]

The sad thing is College Humor really did jump the shark when Sarah left.

[@maxword3]

I was actually waiting for someone literally jump a fucking shark

[@M4N1F3570R]

please google "jump the shark" b4 watching this video. i did, and it made it understandable.

[@brandonkeller478]

That Tony hawk looks like tobuscus' brother

[@masterjon3]

i'm not watching this anymore

[@Schubert34]

Everyone who doesn't understand the title should just pause and google it before watching the video.

[@TubularToob]

lawl, if i can deliver travis pastramas octuplets, I can do this

[@JacquelineMeHofferbergah]

@LoveFromBelow1993 I apologize then. I was just trying to give people a reference so that they would understand the episode. Some people don't know of the phrase "jumping the shark". I didn't mean anything hurtful by it.

[@BlackMagister]

You need to understand a bit of TV history to get this video

[@Shaqstheman000]

Italian4Evz, when a show goes too far (usually due to the writers having no new ideas) they usually do what has been depicted in the video: Have a character do something crazy, bring in random guest stars, have a spin off with one of the characters, have two characters finally get together, bring in a new actor when an old one quits and pretend that nothing has changed, bring in new, shallow characters or even start a new show.

[@edpavez]

what is this I don't even

[@Jimkid118]

amir, have you been working out?

[@Legumne]

the most epic "what the FUCK" moment of all time...OF ALL TIME