Re:Jumping the sci-fi shark
[quote=”sgtdraino”]A series has “jumped the shark” when it makes a horrible mis-step that renders it never quite as good as it used to be. The term originates from an episode of “Happy Days” when Fonzy literally jumps a shark.
Aleternatively, a series has “punched the shark” when it is bad to begin with, but then does something that makes it THAT MUCH WORSE. Our term originates from the movie Tomb Raider 2, when Angelina Jolie’s Laura Croft literally punches a shark at the beginning of the movie.[/quote]
It’s not sci-fi, so I’m sorry that this post is jumping the sci-fi shark, but…
Then there’s that just when you didn’t think it could get any lower, crazier, or more stupid moment I call humping, pumping, or rumpy pumpying the shark. The MTV show [i]Jackass[/i] “humped the shark” with a particularly idiotic stunt when a guy in a little speedo took a sponge bath in blood before jumping into shark infested water and then simulated sex with a shark.
Incidentally, mullets rock! 8)