Speaking of "Jumping the Shark," one of my all-time favorite coined phrases that worked perfectly, name the time when some of the TV shows you followed "Jumped the Shark," so that we know when to stop watching the show if we've been binge watching them.
*I think everyone knows what it means, but just in case, it's the moment when the TV show has given up, or deteriorated to the point where it no longer resembles the quality that it once had.
I'll start with the one that defined it, the easiest answer for any TV series, I think:
Happy Days
When the guys went out to Hollywood, and Fonzie water-ski jumped over a shark in a cage (complete with his leather jacket on). That marked the beginning of the end of "Happy Days." The shows may have been deteriorating before that, but that was the white flag moment to surrender the show.
You name one and give your moment, and then hopefully we can get a lot of folks contributing. Dissension and debate is welcome, too, if you disagree.
* EDIT--I looked up the "definition" of "jump the shark," and I guess they view it a little differently than I do. They say it's the point at which far-fetched events are included merely for the sake of novelty, indicative of a decline in quality. In my book, that's certain a common way a show "jumps the shark," and maybe the best definition of it, but I like to think of it as anything, not necessarily just something far-fetched, that marks that moment at which the quality has declined. You use your own definition.
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Originally Posted by KSRBEvans
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