"jumping the shark"

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Mon Oct 20 18:48:28 UTC 2003


On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 11:41 AM, James A. Landau wrote:

> from Time magazine...
>
> ... Now "jumping the shark" is the term used for that moment when a
> series
> hops the track and starts its inevitable downhill slide.

a recent book is devoted entirely to a catalogue of television shows
and the moments when they jumped the shark.

arnold



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