Reeve's Law
In any news post on a forum (or group blog) about a new or upcoming sequel/entry to a series and/or franchise, the larger the forum's membership is, the chances are greater that:

1) ...at least one comment will be made about how a certain installment of the series/franchise is better than all others.

and/or

2) ...at least one comment will be made about how the series/franchise has gone downhill since a certain installment.

At least a third of the time, the first such comment will be largely to entirely off-topic from the initial post. One hundred percent of the time, the first such comment will inspire others to post comments of a similar nature.

(Don't know if any laws similar to this have been proposed; I wasn't able to come up with anything while searching the del.ico.us account.)

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	sashenka 2006-06-30 06:33 am UTC (link)
	2) ...at least one comment will be made about how the series/franchise has gone downhill since a certain installment. But if they refer to it as 'jumping the shark', they lose slightly less. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jrs1980 2006-06-30 12:04 pm UTC (link)
	I'd say they lose even more, because that phrase is beyond moldy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2006-06-30 08:46 pm UTC (link)
	So... you're saying that the phrase "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-07-01 03:04 am UTC (link)
	What does that even mean? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mcity 2006-07-07 02:33 am UTC (link)
	It's a reference to when the Fonz jumped a shark while waterskiing on "Happy Days". It has come to mean that a series has passed it's peak. (Reply to this)(Parent)