Jumping the shark has jumped the shark...

[Win Treese]

> "Jumping the shark" was originally a media critic term. It referred to
> an episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie was supposed to jump his
> motorcycle over a shark tank, and the show ended up with an ending
> that did not include Fonzie chewed up and eventually digested. The
> original meme was that this was the pivotal moment when the show lost
> all credibility, that it became clear that the show's producers had
> given up trying to work within the fictional universe that they had
> created.

Fascinating. So I googled "jumping the shark", which yields:

http://www.jumptheshark.com on the TV series that have done it.

Rolling Stone magazine's list of bands that jumped the shark:
http://www.rollingstone.com/games/jumptheshark/default.asp

and more...

    - Win