Back القفز فوق سمك القرش Arabic Skok přes žraloka Czech Jumping the shark German Jumping the shark Spanish Jumping the shark Basque Jumping the shark French לקפוץ את הכריש HE Saltare lo squalo Italian 상어를 뛰다 Korean Jumping the shark Dutch
The idiom "jumping the shark" or "jump the shark" is a term that is used to argue that a creative work or entity has reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with, or an extreme exaggeration of, its original purpose. The phrase was coined in 1985 by radio personality Jon Hein in response to a 1977 episode from the fifth season of the American sitcom Happy Days, in which the character of Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps over a live shark while on water-skis.