While normally this topic would normally explode on lists regarding shows and their shark jumping moments... House M.D. sent house to rehab seems like a nice shark jump point, or Family Guy a bit after returning from cancellation...
My shark jumping rant comes cause I just watched the Suite Life movie.
My biggest beef with the movie is that the story is TOO over the top for a Zack and Cody movie.
Yes, the show had a couple of Over the Top moments (most of them coming from the Suite Life On Deck spin-off) But sadly this was NOT the Shark Jumping Point of the show. Sure a movie about a mad scientist using a mutant fruit to fuse twins into a hive minded army seems a bit over the top or far-fetched, but Suite Life did NOT jump the shark here. It's a nice point to jump the shark, but Zack and Cody's Shark Jumping involves a special person... One that I tend to ban from my lingo, because she pops up too much! This time is the one with the symbiote on!
Before anyone points out the previous Suite Life cross-over
I am aware of it!
According to the First Cross-Over (That's so Suite Life of Hannah Montana)
That's So Raven, Hannah Montana, and Suite Life of Zack and Cody are in the same universe.
Cross-over #2 Keeps Hannah Montana and Suite Life, but Adds Wizards of Waverly Place!
Ignoring the fact that Selena Gomez has appeared as 3 Different characters on the 3 shows.
OK I can't ignore that... Sure on Suite Life she was a one-Episode throw away character, but She had a few appearances on Hannah and was Hannah's NEMESIS!! That's a bit too hard to ignore. Wouldn't that raise questions? Although the writers "Cleverly" avoided having Miley/Hannah at the same time and place where Alex Russo (Selena's character from WoWP) showed up, we have to assume that in this Universe They know about the existence of Mykaela (Selena's character from Hannah Montana) AND The Twins should have noticed that she looked exactly the same as a girl they knew from Boston. Ugh! Well then again, the writers think kids are stupid...
Now ignoring that, we have the problem that in this universe, MAGIC exists. Yeah there have been some weird eps. of Suite Life and Hannah (mostly the ones from the "When you wish upon a star" theme from Disney) but none of them had Ground breaking events that affected the continuity of the show... Thus making them canonical.
While most kids won't pay attention to that, the fact that MAGIC exists and it's canon due to a forced crossover bothers me. Mostly because it stands out like Stallone in drag on a Miss America contest. Sorry for the mental image. Now had it been an easily discarded episode if nothing important had happened, but that's the episode in which Cody and Bailey officially become an item... Thanks to Hannah... Sadly this event puts WoWP as part of the Suite Life canon. The one show that doesn't belong there.
Heck even the one episode from I'm in the Band (Weasels on Deck) makes more sense than Having Wizards of Waverly Place on Suite Life.
Now back to the movie. Even with the huge mess that Suite Life has for Rules in its Universe the movie felt a bit over the top... even if it had "Pseudo-science" backing it up. The whole Astral Projection fight between Zack and Cody and the mini submarine battle... Groan inducing... The movie is not that bad but it clashes a bit with the show...
Needed since I'm talking about jumping the shark!
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