When will "Jump the Shark" Jump the shark?

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A quick search reveals this - just in post titles:

**Murphy’s Law has jumped the shark

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Opposite of jump the shark

So, has the SDMB jumped the shark?

Has Stephen King jumped the shark?

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John McCain has officially jumped the shark

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Has CSI Jumped The Shark? **
I know what it means, but didn’t the Fonz litterally jump the shark about 30 yrs ago? Can’t we come up with something else or at least keep the catch phrase confined to described TV shows that are past their prime and not use it for everything? And why am I suddenly noticing all these “jump the shark” references only in the last month or two? Is this term recently coined or did someone resurect it?

Not enough vitrol for the pit.
Not expecting a factual answer, so no GQ
So here we are in MPSIMS

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I like the expression. It has no direct competitors, and damn it, we need something to express that notion. I’ll even go out on a limb and say it’s here for good.

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I’m with you, it needs to stop.

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I think the problem is over-use. People are all too quick to declare that something has jumped the shark. Now that it’s being used for things beyond TV shows especially.

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It’s Henry Winkler’s birthday today, BTW.

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So it is!

I read Winkler’s bio on wiki. Apparently on an ep of Arested Development, he jumped over a dead shark that was laying on a pier. It’s pretty classy that he can poke fun at himself.

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In my opinion, it jumped the shark when I heard a radio interview with the founder of the site, defending the website’s decision that Friends had jumped the shark, despite (at the time) being more popular than ever. His response: “The public doesn’t get to decide what jumps the shark - we do.”

Ever since that, I’ve had a hard time taking the concept seriously…especially now that it can mean absolutely anything.

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That people are discussing whether the phrase itself has jumped the shark mean that it has indeed jumped the shark.

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I hope this phrase doesn’t make it quite over the shark, and the shark hasn’t eaten in months.

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For that matter, I seem to recall engaging in a discussion (not on this board, or, indeed, on the Internet) of this nature back in 2002, and it wasn’t an original discussion even then.

This would seem to suggest that discussing whether the phrase “jumped the shark” has jumped the shark has, in turn…

…nah, I’ll resist it.

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OK, I’ll allow you all to fight my ignorance. I have never heard the phrase “jump the shark” and don’t have a clue what it means.

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I just posted in the Opposite of jump the shark thread, that I thought the Jumptheshark.com has jumped the shark.

The Never Jumped list used to be short and very accurate. It has now been inflated to meaninglessness.

Jim