tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21925184548261025.post496819951239305119..comments2010-09-01T22:30:21.515-05:00Comments on SFD @ 2KoP: Day #14 — What to do?Susan Bearmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14991968368214219371noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21925184548261025.post-59577960228292719922010-01-20T23:18:06.578-06:002010-01-20T23:18:06.578-06:00Hello friend! I wondered if anyone on the prompts ...Hello friend! I wondered if anyone on the prompts list might not know the origin of that phrase...<br /><br />In the 1970s TV series Happy Days, after it had been running for a long time and the actors looked to be 10 years too old for high school, and all the likely story lines had been used up, there is an episode in which Fonzi jumps over a shark. I can't recall whether it was in a dream sequence or what; but ever since then, when a TV series (or anything at all) seems to have lost its way and gone beyond its limits (and is getting really stupid), one says it "jumped the shark."<br />And now you know.<br />- LisaLisa Romeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522310766694189857noreply@blogger.com