Fuller Blouse House. DJ Tanner Fuller, wrestling. Professional wrestling. Doing a head-scissors on a luchador.
I mean, Fuller House starts off already having jumped the shark. The entire show jumped the shark before the first episode even started airing.
So when a show has already jumped the shark, what do you call it when it somehow manages to find another level of shark-jumping criteria, but you can’t exactly go back and unjump the shark, so that it can be jumped in a more appropriate place?
You call it DJ Tanner Wrestling.
This is obviously the successor to jumping the shark, because the shark was jumped long, long ago, before something way cornier, out of place and completely unexpected like DJ Tanner Wrestling occurs. Therefore, the successor to jumping the shark, or what comes after jumping the shark, surely must be a DJ Tanner Wrestling moment:
When a show has already jumped the shark, but found another gear to do something else that’s absurd and out of place.
Like DJ Tanner, wrestling.
And to think, I never thought anything would surpass Carl Winslow and Steve Urkel versus the Bushwackers in an episode of Family Matters. Yet, it’s all so appropriate, considering Full House was always the king of the mountain when it came to ABC’s TGIF lineup, and Family Matters was always the second-in-command, depending on whom you ask.
Sure, it’s taken 22 years and a remake-reboot-spinoff, but DJ Tanner wrestling certainly reclaimed that crown and literally, redefined the television trope game in the process.
