Shark Bytes

And "Josie and the Pussycats" wasn't even a H-B creation! It was a leased property.The others mentioned for the most part at HB thru the 1970s werre adapted from themn save certain superheroes.

I agree with the belowcomment only it was "TONY" Benedict, not "PAUL" Benedict, who once worked for HB. Curly being dead (and HB, I guess, and ABC getting permission from "Norman Muarer Enterprises", the company that claism the rights to the likeness, voice,and names, of the three stooges) was EXCUSABLE for Frank Welker to do "J'Jaw". But RODNEY DANGERFIELD?

I have to agree with the majority of the voters here: The Shark Jumped The Shark for sure.

While I am a huge fan of Hanna-Barbera, this particular outing was not one of my favorites. In fact, once 'Scooby Doo' and 'Josie and The Pussycats' were created, it seems there was no end to their numerous imitators: 'The Funky Phantom' (Quaking 18th Century ghost substitutes for Scooby with three more mystery-solving teens in place of Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy)-but I actually liked that one. 'Dynomutt'(Metallic canine); 'Clue Club' (Two talking dogs, three teens and a pre-adolescent girl if I recall), and so on, right down to 'Jabberjaw'. By the time this one was made, it was clear the thrill had completely gone out of watching Saturday morning cartoons. I guess it could have been due to the fact I was 14 years old but heck, I still enjoyed watching the old reruns of Bugs Bunny, The Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, The Wacky Races, and so on. The big difference was definitely in the writing. I guess by the late '70s, people like Michael Maltese and Paul Benedict had either moved on or died. In any case, the scripts they churned out in 1958 for 'Huckleberry' were far superior to what was being churned out in 1976.

One of most glaring examples of the complete lack of imagination, style or content, that characterized most animation of its day. Horrid.

it's an exact knock off of scooby doo.... with a talking shark? laaaaame

Jabberjaw didn't stand a chance! Awesome idea but bad execution from H-B's mid-Seventies studio. Jabberjaw had some very good voice acting and good character design (except for Bubbles, the Neptunes drummer, who looked a shit and talked like Gracie Allen....for the humanity did they do that?). Retro-engineering the plot of Dan DeCarlo's Josie and the Pussycats this could have been so good and Jabberjaw as a character was awesome. Unfortunately for all of us H-B set Jabberjaw in a clunky future less than high tech world that looked like it derived from episodes of Stingray and crummy pop music in the style of Earth, Wind, and Fire didn't help. I agree that the Cartoon Network short (basically a music video for Pain "Jabberjaw(Running Underwater)" was awesome...and wow who thought Bubbles was frigging hot man who would have thought someone did a great sexy redesign on her character and Shelly was also great too. Why H-B and Cartoon Network haven't used these new redesigned Jabberjaw character designs to do a new series is beyond me. Somebody on here said about this new short look that ""The Neptunes" reincarnated as a heavy-metal grunge band" just gets my goat. First off they re-imagined The Neptunes as a third wave Ska band with a little bit of a punk for Jabber which was great. Musical illiteracy pisses me off no end, folks, and this sucker will hopefully not breed in the near future!

It never jumped (like most Hanna Barbara cartoons it only had one season and had no chance to "change") and it wasn't awful. I would suggest it was the perfection of the Josie and the Pussycats model in that it eliminated the unnecessary characters. You had the male leader who was always not as interesting as the other characters, the silly airhead, the constantly perturbed female, the cowardly buddy of the main character, and finally the starring creature. By the way, people have identified the recycling of Scooby Doo/Josie and the Pussycats, the Alexandra and Shaggy characters, and the use of Curly's personality and Rodney Dangerfield's best known line, but nobody has pointed out that the character Bubbles was a complete ripoff of Gracie Allen right down to HER voice. I guess a shark doing George Burns wouldn't have worked. I also agree that that short animated video recently produced by the Cartoon Network was ten times better than the original show ever way.

Following the huge box office success of "Jaws" in 1975 it seemed almost inevitable that you'd see a cartoon about a talking shark. We got two of them in the fall of '75-this train wreck of a show being one of them. Sorry, but the idea of a shark talking like Curly of the Three Stooges and lifting Rodney Dangerfield's "I don't get no respect" line was one of the most supremely stupid premises foisted on cartoon viewers (the other being Baggy Pants & The Nitwits). The other shark cartoon was the much funnier Misterjaw, which appeared as part of The Pink Panther Show. Jabberjaw is hands down one of the suckiest cartoons ever to come from the studios of Hanna Barbera.

I agree that the laugh track overuse ruined what could of been a great show. I mean, who could of thought of a show that starred a 30foot great white shark that sounded like Curly of the 3 stooges? That laugh track though was so annoying, it went off every time Jabberjaw blinked his eyes! I remember one show when Jabberjaw picked up a phone and said "Hello" The laugh track burst out for like 5 minuets! What a joke

This was one of the best cartoons I have ever seen. They werent tokin up like the scooby gang, they werent having some girl with skunk hair tagging along(Josie), they had decent 70's music that was said to be their own, unlike scooby and the gang who would run around with someone else's music playing. They fought giant monsters and evildoers who didnt have to be dramatically unmasked. I find no flaws.

This mid 70s Hanna Barbera cartoon is still one of my favorites, but I have to admit they really overused their Glen Glenn "laugh track loop" on this show[it kept repeating the same 3 or 4 obnoxious laughs ad nauseum,it was edited out of most of the 70s Hanna Barbera cartoons that Cartoon Network and Boomerang plays that used it except for this show oddly enough!!],it burst into laughter every time Jabberjaw spoke,moved,or anything physically funny happened, I know Saturday morning kids shows of the 70s used laugh tracks to guide kids as to what they were supposed to be laughing at, but it was totally overkill on this show!! Maybe because this originally aired early in the morning and ABC thought only little kids were watching at home?

This show was off the air 4 years before I was born, but I used to watch it on Saturday mornings during the mid to late 1980s. I'm gonna have to go out on a limb here when I say that I actually thought this cartoon was funny, although I now realize that it was a complete and utter rip-off of "Scooby-Doo." The only reason my brother and I watched this was because we went hysterical every time Jabberjaw laughed! We were too young to know about the 3 Stooges at that time. But, I'll admit, this cartoon was corny as all hell, right down to the Curly laugh. However, this show jumped for me when I found out recently that Frank Welker, the guy who was (and still is) responsible for Fred Jones's voice, was Jabberjaw. My question is, if Jabberjaw was a shark, could he jump his own show?

If this cartoon was HALF as good as its theme song, Hanna-Barbera would've have a monster hit. Otherwise this was nothing but a waterlogged Scooby-Doo/Josie and the Pussycats rip-off with Curley Howard and Rodney Dangerfield guest starring.

Day one. Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby and the gang, and Curley were in an elevator on the top of the Empire State Building. The cable broke, and when NYFD finally got through, this is the mess they found. I wish that Roy Schneider would have thrown an oxygen tank in Jabberjaw's mouth and shot and blew it up.

The original show jumped Day One, a lame remake of "Josie and the Pussycats", with the current cultural trend (Jaws) thrown in. Then, a couple of years ago, Cartoon Network had a short between-show music video, with "The Neptunes" reincarnated as a heavy-metal grunge band. "Me and my friends get no respect. / What does Scooby do that we neglect? / We be puttin' all our foes in check / But me and my friends get no respect!" Ten times funnier than the original series!