Stop what you're doing, right now - we've reached an era-defining pop culture watershed. Has the phrase "jumped the shark", er... jumped the shark? Monkey is indebted to Organ Grinder commentor Zampano for drawing our attention to the fact that there's a new phrase in town when you want to say a TV series - or pretty much anything else, for that matter - has lost the plot and is no longer worth bothering with: "nuked the fridge". Viewers of the new Indiana Jones film will know this refers to the scene in which Indy saves himself from a nuclear blast by stepping into a refrigerator. Jumped the shark refers to a scene in Happy Days in which Henry Winkler's Fonz quite literally, er...jumped over a shark on water skis. However, Winkler reckons Happy Days was No 1 for six years even after he jumped the shark. He also jumped a shark on Arrested Development, apparently - click forward two minutes to hear him talk about it. Blimey, it's all gone a bit meta - Monkey's head is spinning.
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