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Chris HallbeckIt’s weird how before the internet when you had an idle thought like “I wonder how many episodes of Happy Days they made?” you would just carry on with your life instead of getting trapped in a 3 hour deep Wikipedia hole.
ladyteruki@Chrishallbeck : but for those of us who don't have a life, what a boon !
Jima 
@Chrishallbeck @qlaras That's why I answer that brand of question via IMDb — less risk of that slippery slope (255).
WGAvanDijk
tudza@jima @Chrishallbeck @qlaras Wikipedia usually answers my tv/movie questions quickly. IMDB less so. However, back when I had just a feature phone I downloaded the entire IMDB database ( they allowed that then, now? ) and constructed a web site to query it. The four line input form was formatted to fit on my little Nokia.
Bill Barnes@Chrishallbeck if you can call that living
Martin, Regulus Tithonium@Chrishallbeck it’s true, but at the same time it’s kind of a relief to be able to go “Hey Siri, how many episodes of happy days were there?” and just… know the answer. Better than having to plan a trip to the library to do research for such a trivial question.
Stuart McHattie 👨🏼💻@tithonium I found some web results. I can show them to you if you ask me again from your iPhone.
Non_Saturatio (Langile)@Chrishallbeck Yeah... :daydreaming:
Spyou ⏚@Chrishallbeck try a night to read all the synopsis of all episodes of "plus belle la vie" ^^
Over The Rainbow 🍆
Trinsec@Chrishallbeck Now with internet I'd just look it up, would go like 'mm, ah yeah, that many? okay' and then carry on with my life. Rabbit/Wikipedia holes are too small for me for some reason. 😋
(By the way, the answer is 255 episodes)
(By the way, the answer is 255 episodes)
@trinsec @Chrishallbeck So Happy Days wasn't a two bit show. It was an 8 bit show.
JoeLamportHas the value of knowledge been enhanced or diminished by greasing the skids of information gathering?
We live in an era characterized by the hyper-inflation of information, in which the currency of learning may be of diminishing worth.
Ertain@Chrishallbeck I sort of know that feeling.
Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦@Chrishallbeck How can you post that and not include the actual number!?
(255 across 11 seasons according to Google and Wikipedia.)
Helma
Tony WellsThis sounds like an easy question until you consider the spin-offs and have to decide how to count crossover episodes, especially the two parters.
The first episode was set in 1955 and aired in 1974. That's like watching a nostalgic show set in 2004 now. The show theme tune would be Hay Ya! by Outkast.
Dentaku (Thomas Renger)@Chrishallbeck @giardino You seem to have never gotten lost in a paper encyclopædia.
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦@Chrishallbeck Or you’d buy a bunch of books like “Encyclopedia of TV Trivia” and “The Book of Lists” etc.
THIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVED@Chrishallbeck sounds like you have jumped the shark
GeoffreyWinn@Chrishallbeck I just look stuff up and remember it.
Wendy Lady@Chrishallbeck some of us relied on social interactions and old wives tales of a thing someone thought they once saw on a retro show on VH1.
kolya@NerdRage42 @Chrishallbeck
and most of the time that was good enough. who cares how many episodes Happy Days has.
and most of the time that was good enough. who cares how many episodes Happy Days has.
Mondgesicht@Chrishallbeck O have never watched a single episode of this show but I know about the "jumping the shark" saying that derived from it, because, yes, I fell into this hold once.
||| /\ |/ [ []@Chrishallbeck we just need more discipline 😄
Richardus@Chrishallbeck Ot forget complete how something works because you don't need to remember it anymore. It's most times one search away for remember it.
It feels like internet is bad for the brains and memory.
LAUREN@Chrishallbeck @lisamelton I have this thought everyday.
Jim. From Kansas.@Chrishallbeck I had a book called "Total Television" to answer those kinds of questions.
I was a big, big hit at parties.
Waterluvian@Chrishallbeck “agree to disagree” arguments were my favourite pastime.
I’ve really got to wonder… what % of opportunities to practice debating skills were those arguments for kids and teenagers?
Allan Chow@Chrishallbeck there was this strange pergatory pre-shark jumping period
Scott Raymond 
@Chrishallbeck Just three hours?
Matthew AbbottJust thank your chosen benevolence you didn’t somehow make your way to the TVTropes page for Jumping the Shark.
Sandra Hoenle (she/her) 🇨🇦
Dek@Chrishallbeck add IMDb to Wikipedia and you have my rabbit hole of choice
Curtis Smith@Chrishallbeck You say that like getting trapped in a three hour deep Wikipedia hole is a bad thing. 😂
Sarah E Bourne@Chrishallbeck Or you just go to the local bar and ask the bartender, who would call the library. Wait a minute, that usually turned out to be kinda expensive...
AT-AT Assault 🏳️⚧️~~Wikipedia~~ TV Tropes will ruin your life.
Weasel@Chrishallbeck
In the old days I would get similarly trapped just looking up a word in the dictionary.
In the old days I would get similarly trapped just looking up a word in the dictionary.
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Rai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦
The TinCan Android@Chrishallbeck now thanks to the internet, when you ask everyone just yells “JUMP THE SHARK!!!” at you.
Jose A Lerma@Chrishallbeck Turns out that a Wiki rabbit hole is a thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_rabbit_hole
Thanks for sending me down one 😂
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Thanks to you. Now I have to study.
Before the internet, someone wouldn’t dangle a challenge like that to a mob of unruly strangers, some of which think that they saw most of the episodes when they were aired, and now possessed with the urge to gather the children and talk about the coolness of leather jackets.
D. Creemer@Chrishallbeck you need to read this:
COD (@[email protected])
Trust me on this. You absolutely want to spend 10 minutes reading about this random pedestrian bridge in Minnesota. https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge #bridge #bridges #highways #civilenginerring #history #Minnesota
@dcreemer Two months!
Richard@Chrishallbeck We didn't know the count, but we could give you a plot synopsis of any episode you asked about.
DragonLady24@Chrishallbeck That's great! Thanks for that!
Michael@Chrishallbeck I grew up with a set of hardbound encyclopedia and would get trapped in searches or perusing.
MistherFrenchFries@Chrishallbeck You say ‘trapped’ with an admirably subtle level of kink. 😘
Sarah W@Chrishallbeck
Thank goodness for the internet as last night I wondered what dog's belly buttons look like.
Try finding your dog's without help! They're very discreet.
Thank goodness for the internet as last night I wondered what dog's belly buttons look like.
Try finding your dog's without help! They're very discreet.