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Jumping the shark is an idiom created by Jon Hein that was used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in quality that is beyond recovery, which is usually a particular scene, episode, or aspect of a show in which the writers use some type of "gimmick" in a desperate attempt to keep viewers' interest.

 

In its initial usage, it referred to the point in a television program's history when the program had outlived its freshness and viewers had begun to feel that the show's writers were out of new ideas, often after great effort was made to revive interest in the show by the writers, producers, or network.[1][2][3]

 

The usage of "jump the shark" has subsequently broadened beyond television, indicating the moment when a brand, design, or creative effort's evolution loses the essential qualities that initially defined its success and declines, ultimately, into irrelevance.

 

It refers to an episode of Happy Days where the Fonz literally jumped over a shark while water-skiing. It was the point where the series began a decline into stupid nonsense and was cancelled shortly after. See also:

 

The robot in Rocky 4.

The Great Gazoo in the Flintstones.

Dallas writing off two years of storylines as a dream, and a bunch of dead characters returning to the show.

Everything in The Simpsons after about 1999.

 

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It refers to an episode of Happy Days where the Fonz literally jumped over a shark while water-skiing. It was the point where the series began a decline into stupid nonsense and was cancelled shortly after. See also:

 

The robot in Rocky 4.

The Great Gazoo in the Flintstones.

Dallas writing off two years of storylines as a dream, and a bunch of dead characters returning to the show.

Everything in The Simpsons after about 1999.

 

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GreatGazoo.gif

 

I have known this for a few weeks now. 

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Why in Friends do they nearly always get the couch in Central Perk?

 

That would not happen in Aberdeen.

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