Jumping the Shark
Have you ever heard of the phrase “jumping the shark”? Actually it’s a metaphor when a television series has passed its climax or peak, and after that everything is going down hill, quality wise.
The phrase was taken from a scene off the classic comedy “Happy Days” which had Fonzie jumping over a shark on his water-ski.
In the famously misguided episode, the character of Arthur Fonzarelli, played by Henry Winkler, takes waterskiing lessons and ends up jumping over a shark. Many television fans feel that after Fonzie jumped over the shark, the show had obviously hit rock bottom and the rest of the episodes were just a matter of passing time until “Happy Days” was canceled by the network [source]
