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What (who) is jump the shark - definition
ENGLISH IDIOM
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![[[Fonzie]] ([[Henry Winkler]]) on water skis, in a scene from the 1977 ''[[Happy Days]]'' episode "Hollywood, Part 3", after jumping over a shark](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fonzie jumps the shark.PNG?width=200 "[[Fonzie]] ([[Henry Winkler]]) on water skis, in a scene from the 1977 ''[[Happy Days]]'' episode \"Hollywood, Part 3\", after jumping over a shark")
jump the shark
The precise moment when you know a tv show, rock band, or actor has gone downhill.
The Brady Bunch jumped the shark the day Cousin Oliver joined the cast.
The Brady Bunch jumped the shark the day Cousin Oliver joined the cast.
Jumping the shark
The idiom "jumping the shark" was coined in 1985 by Jon Hein in response to a 1977 episode from the fifth season of the American sitcom Happy Days, in which Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps over a shark while on water-skis. The phrase is pejorative and is used to argue that a creative work or outlet appears to be making a stunt in a seemingly exhaustive attempt to generate elevated attention or publicity to something that was once perceived as popular, but is no longer.
Blackburn Shark
1933 TORPEDO BOMBER FAMILY BY BLACKBURN
Blackburn B-6 Shark; Blackburn T.9 Shark; Blackburn B.6 Shark
The Blackburn Shark was a carrier-borne torpedo bomber designed and built by the British aviation manufacturer Blackburn Aircraft. It was originally known as the Blackburn T.
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Jumping the shark
The idiom "jumping the shark" is pejorative and is used to argue that a creative work or outlet appears to have reached a point where it has exhausted its core ideas and is introducing new creative ideas that are discordant with its core nature. The phrase was coined in 1985 by Jon Hein in response to a 1977 episode from the fifth season of the American sitcom Happy Days, in which Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps over a shark while on water-skis.
Examples of use of jump the shark
1. Don‘t jump the shark, Google," commented John Battelle, author of Search and a keen observer of the battle for dominance online between the top triumvirate of search engines – Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.