The Infamous 'Happy Days' Episode; Pitching at WESTDOC
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
"Jumped the Shark" may be the most famous thing Fred Fox, Jr. has ever written and in a way he didn't even write it-- not that phrase exactly. Fox is the Happy Days writer behind the now infamous episode that inspired the iconic catchphrase 'jumped the shark.' Fox discusses writing the episode and its aftermath, and answers the question, "Why water skiis?" Then we go to the West Coast Documentary and Reality Conference, where eager producers and willing television executives engage in speed pitching.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.6 | If you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time. |
| 0:12.2 | Everybody thinks your business, business, really, really, all white life. |
| 0:18.0 | He doesn't clean, clean. |
| 0:19.7 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.6 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:22.9 | Hollywood. |
| 0:24.4 | This week on the business, the writer behind an infamous episode of Happy Days talks about accidentally creating an iconic catchphrase. |
| 0:32.9 | Then, speed pitching at West Dock, a conference for documentary and reality producers. |
| 0:37.9 | The first The Hollywood News banter. |
| 0:40.1 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:44.2 | You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:49.5 | What's with him? |
| 0:50.3 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, Hollywood. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm joined in the studio by John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:00.6 | Hello, John. |
| 1:01.2 | Hello, Kim. |
| 1:06.1 | So, John, opening Friday, social network, buzzy movie. |
| 1:06.8 | What do you think? |
| 1:09.4 | Is it all that, the story of the Facebook founders? |
| 1:12.4 | The producers would say so. This is a really interesting film. It's certainly getting some of the best reviews of any movie that's coming |
| 1:16.0 | out right now. And young males, according to the audience surveys, are incredibly interested |
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