The purpose of this group is two-fold. One purpose of this group is to provide a place for those who feel that "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" nuked the fridge. The second purpose of this group is to explain and promote the phrase "nuke the fridge."

Nuke the fridge is a phrase with a meaning similar to jump the shark. It is used to refer to the moment in a film series(usually a half-serious genre) that is so ridiculous and incredible that it lessens the excitement of subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or suspense. Such moments are felt to mark the beginning of a low point in the quality of the franchise, as it attempt to explore more absurd avenues.

The term comes from the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which, near the start of the movie, Harrison Ford's character survives a nuclear detonation by climbing into a kitchen fridge, which is then blown hundreds of feet through the sky whilst the town disintegrates. He then emerges from the fridge with no apparent injury. Later in the movie, the audience is expected to fear for his safety in a normal fistfight.

Fans of the Indiana Jones series found the absurdity of this event in the film (among others such as the vine scene, waterfall scene, and cgi ants and prairie dogs) to be the best examples of the lower quality of this installment in the series, and thus coined the phrase, "nuke the fridge".

The phrase is also a reference to the phrase "jump the shark", which has the same meaning, only applied to a television series instead of a film series.

This phrase is currently not in common use as it is a new term. The term originated at imdb by user Beachedblonde.

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The purpose of this group is two-fold. One purpose of this group is to provide a place for those who feel that "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" nuked the fridge. The second purpose of this group is to explain and promote the phrase "nuke the fridge."

Nuke the fridge is a phrase with a meaning similar to jump the shark. It is used to refer to the moment in a film series(usually a half-serious genre) that is so ridiculous and incredible that it lessens the excitement of... (read more)