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What does It Mean to "Jump the Shark"?

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drmatt | 3 years, 4 months ago
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"Jump the shark" comes from a Happy Days episode where Fonzie does a stunt of jumping a shark in a pool with his motorcycle. Critics and fans say, this was the definitive moment when a VERY popular show started to do poorly.

So, to "jump the shark" is the point in which something starts to tank/do badly/go downhill.
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'Cause I'm old enough to remember seeing that episode and go... WTF?

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deanmachine777 | 3 years, 4 months ago
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Yeah, just to add ever-so-slightly, jumping the shark episodes usually come when a show's sizable audience has begun to decline and the writers desperately begin to include preposterous plot points that end up losing even the show's most steadfast supporters.

Music artists can also jump the shark with a misguided album or single that veers away from what fans first fell in love with...

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