For those unfamiliar with the term “jump the shark”,
I will pull a Rand Paul and quote from Wikipedia (oops! I cited the source):
Jumping the shark is an idiom created by Jon Hein that
was used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it
begins a decline in quality that is beyond recovery, which is usually a
particular scene, episode, or aspect of a show in which the writers use some
type of "gimmick" in a desperate attempt to keep viewers' interest.
Its name is taken from a scene from a fifth season episode of the sit-com Happy Days when
the character Fonzie jumps
over a shark on water-skis.
In
its initial usage, it referred to the point in a television program's history when the program
had outlived its freshness and viewers had begun to feel that the show's
writers were out of new ideas, often after great effort was made to revive
interest in the show by the writers, producers, or network.[1][2][3]
The
usage of "jump the shark" has subsequently broadened beyond
television, indicating the moment when a brand, design, or creative effort's
evolution loses the essential qualities that initially defined its success and
declines, ultimately, into irrelevance.
