Comeback time! Smith fans rejoice! Only now, Robert Mapplethorpe is dead, Fred "Sonic" Smith is dead, the crew is older, she's off drugs. Years pass, with everyone speculating on the might have been. She leaves showbiz for anonymity in the Detroit area. Or they leave, and come back.as happened to me with Patti Smith. missing somehow when you know that instead of there being "more where that came from," or even "what if there were more", but that there is more. 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 popular, but is no longer. Your old favorites are still there, but there's something. 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. You feel embarrassed they're still around.
They screw up, not just a little, but bigtime. They can do no wrong! You're confident, even complacent about how they'll always be there, doing that thing they do, better and better. (my favorite is Sting), that has a good career, maybe a great one.
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It's like when you've got this TV series, or group, or author, or actor.
Jumping the shark is a good way to put it for another reason: the fact that a shark's dorsal fin has this looong leading edge, and then.drops off. I am told, however, that TV Guide took over the site and performed all manner of unspeakable changes on it, so I can't recommend it. Thanks to the world wide web, there is a whole website where you can discuss, research and sound off on when shows jumped the shark. It was an unforgettable day in TV history when Happy Days character Arthur Fonzie Fonzarelli proved himself king of. Originally applied to television series, the concept has since extended into other realms. Or perhaps, like in Dallas, an entire season can be declared to have not happened! Jumping the shark is a moment of peak popularity or quality, after which there is an inevitable decline. Or a show can resume after a season break - but with a different actor playing a continuing character. For instance, the main characters can hook up, as in #1 above.
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There are even specific categories of how to jump the shark.
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Fight the Future - the movie point of the X-Files storyline.David Addison and Maddy hooking up in Moonlighting.A show has jumped the shark if it has reached one of these points. The popular Web site which takes its name from the ignominious Happy Days episode in which Fonzie jumps over a shark on water skis elaborates. It indicates the point in the series' on-air run when, in the speaker's estimation, something critical happened that caused the show to begin the long (or not so long) but inexorable slide downhill to the status of junk. To ' jump the shark' is a verb applied to a television series, typically.
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