1. Jump the shark is a term to describe a moment when something that was once great has reached a point where it will now decline in quality and popularity.
Fonzie jumps the shark
Origin of this phrase comes from a Happy Days episode where the Fonz jumped a shark on waterskis. Thus was labeled the lowest point of the show.
2. It is the precise moment when you know a program, band, actor, politician, or other public figure has taken a turn for the worse, gone downhill, become irreversibly bad, is unredeemable, etc.; the moment you realize decay has set in.
Tom Cruise jumped the shark the moment he jumped Oprah's couch.
by M. R. Traska Sep 19, 2005
by M. R. Traska Sep 19, 2005
