Jumping the shark

Jumping the shark is an idiom created by Jon Hein that is used to describe the moment when a television show begins a decline in quality that is beyond recovery. The expression comes from a scene in Happy Days, in which the central characters visit Los Angeles, where a water-skiing Fonzie, wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, jumps over a confined shark, answering a challenge to demonstrate his bravery.

The picture above features an athlete jumping over a shark in a tank, AKA one of the most infamous/expansive artwork in the world : The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, by Damien Hirst. The piece is literally a shark in a pool of formaldehyde.

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