The Fonz is large and in charge

Late '70s TV
TV now: lots of choices, complex, full of itself. TV then: three networks with C's in their name, simple, fun. Luckily, in Columbus, we had Warner QUBE which featured special cable boxes that were interactive. It was out of control! You could press buttons on your QUBE box to control what football plays semi-pro football teams called during a REAL game or what the characters did in soap operas. Columbus was the first town in the world to get Nickelodeon (1979), which only showed Pinwheel back then. You could press the buttons on the QUBE box to make Plus win the "I got you last" war! I'm not shitting you. In Columbus, we are badasses.

Three's Company had some really hot chicks and was hilarious. Jack had to pretend that he was gay in order to keep Roper from thinking that Jack was living in sin. You think that somebody who was so concerned about "living in sin" would really hate gays, but you learn not to ask questions. Once Furley took over, the show really rocked. Don Knotts is a crazy fuck! Sure, the show "jumped the shark" when Chrissy left, but that's OK. Damn, I think that I'm going to put a jumped-the-shark time on each show. Yeah...	Still riding the shark here
Happy Days was set in the '50s, which is a decade that I hate, but it was the kind of good side of the '50s. You know, with the hot rods and drive-ins. In the '70s, they were nuts about the '50s, and since we're nostalgic about the late '70s, we are thrown into a crazy nostalgia-for-nostalgia time warp that we will probably perish in. Jumped the Shark: When Fonzarelli started getting all father-figure on everyone's asses.	Fuck preachy Fonz!
CHiPs, for one thing, had a rokken theme song. Ponch and John rode Kawasakis instead of Harleys, which really pissed people off for some reason. Sorry that they wanted their bikes to run every day! CHiPs also had a horribly inaccurate stock-car racing episode, which all shows in the late '70s to mid '80s were required by law to have. I sometimes wonder how Cale Yarborogh was able to stand idly by while the producers of The Dukes of Hazzard royally fucked up NASCAR in the many episodes that he was in. Even "The Brady Bunch Christmas" (filmed circa 1990) had an inaccurate stock car racing scene. Jumped the Shark: CHiPs '99
You know what pisses me off? People passing off something from another decade as being from the '80s! I don't know how many people act like Scooby Doo was an '80s show. It actually started in the late '60s, but I included it because it was biggest in the '70s and I'm sure as hell not going to put up a '60s section. Hippies suck. One of the main draws of this show is the incessant drug references, such as the food consumption, paranoia, and laughing. Jumped the Shark: The exact second when Scrappy showed up.	Did somebody actually scan a placemat?