Jumping the Shark

On my other blog, Who Is That Toon? I linked to a website called Jump The Shark. Mick commented that it would be an interesting quiz to find out the meaning. Well, I'm just going to go ahead and tell you. Jump the Shark is a term that was created by Jon Hein and his friends. This is from his website:

Q. What is jumping the shark?

A. It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it "Jumping the Shark." From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same.

Mr. Hein and his friends say the term comes from an episode of "Happy Days" where Fonzie is in California and actually jumps a shark while on water skis while wearing his leather jacket. The Fronz jumped the shark. AAAAAIIIIHHHHHHHH (Thumbs Up)

Okay for an example. The Astros' World Series jumped the shark when Roy Oswalt gave up 5 runs in the fifth inning of game 3, going from being up 4-0 to being down 5-4.