Post acceptable alternatives to "Jump the shark."

[Baitball Blogger]

This is an issue of concern on DU. The hipness of this website is being jeopardized by the use of the outdated term "Jump the shark."

So, in an effort to move the discussion forward I started a thread to entertain alternatives, because the only thing I can come up with is swan song, and that's older than jump the shark.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Choke the Chicken!

I think it has to be a verb followed by an article and then an animal.

Pump the Monkey!

[intheflow]

4. I do not think these things mean what you think they mean.

[Dr. Strange]

2. "Sliced the hamburger in a counter clockwise motion."

[Shadowflash]

3. Screwed the pooch.

My grandmother used that one a lot.

[intheflow]

5. "Gone 'round the bend" popped into my mind.

Older than both jump the shark and swan song, but completely undated as there are still bends to go around.
Also, there's always the perennial internet favorite, OTT.

[Orrex]

6. Nuked the fridge

[Xyzse]

9. LOL!!!

Ah, Crystal Skull reference.

[harmonicon]

7. It's a bit of a mouthful, but here it is:

"Have a discussion about 'acceptable' alternatives to 'jump the shark.'"

[siligut]

8. "Julie Andrew's boobs" better yet, "Mary Poppins' boobs"

Fucking something up in a last ditch effort to save it. Not allowing something to go out in dignity. It is actually becoming an art form now.

[Orrex]

10. I won't hear a negative word said about Julie Andrew's boobs.

Shame on you.


Shame.

[Xithras]

13. Having seen the clip of Julie Andrews exposing her boobs...

I can't possibly see how anyone could have anything negative to say about them

[Scuba]

43. Link?

[TeamPooka]

49. in Blake Edwards film SOB. It's a good one, check it out.

[Scuba]

51. Nah, I'm weird enough already.

[siligut]

14. They are lovely boobs

I just didn't want to see them, more than that, I didn't want her to show them.

[Xithras]

11. Jump The Shark didn't get outdated. It was brutally murdered.

The founders sold out, and the new owners killed it off. The more general use of the term died off shortly after the site did.

I don't of anything that has really replaced it. Bone The Fish has tried, but it hasn't really caught on the way it's predecessor did.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. We are truly in a post apocalyptic jump the fish era.

[LiberalEsto]

12. skipped the minnow nt

[geardaddy]

16. Well, I guess you'd have to come up with a similar disappointing moment in a series

where the series began to suck.

Or maybe a disappointing ending.

Like "The Beav grew up" or "The Beav hit puberty"

[Bucky]

24. or "The Beav got shaved"

I may need to work on that one.

[ksoze]

17. "A Duffy dreaming in the shower"

The infamous season 8 opener where Patrick Duffy (Bobby) who was killed off in season 7 shows up in the shower of ex-wife Pam (Victoria Principal) with the explanation that the entire season 7 was "just a dream".

[Baitball Blogger]

18. The writers should have been fired,

and the fans...they should have dropped that show at that point.

[Bucky]

25. But they got Bobby back! Is a wasted year not worth at least that?

By the way, the phrase should be "Soaped up the Ewing"

[TeamPooka]

50. lmao

[bif]

19. Blew the load.

[benld74]

20. looped the loop

[rug]

21. Pulled a Trump.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

42. +1

[Honeycombe8]

22. Do the limbo? Tippecanoe and Tyler too? Don't worry, be happy? Hey, Macarena! nt

[Art_from_Ark]

37. Who let the dogs out?

Where's the beef? Love me, love my Pet Rock

[Honeycombe8]

40. Who? Who? nt

[Bucky]

23. Felated the minion

That's a steak joke.

[Bucky]

26. What about "Even Cousin Oliver couldn't save this shit"

I offended someone yesterday pointing out that Megan Calvet Draper is basically the Cousin Oliver of Mad Men.

[eShirl]

30. Cousin Oliver for the win.

[Baitball Blogger]

36. I don't know Cousin Oliver.

I would prefer, "even Elizabeth Banks couldn't save this shit." But, that doesn't portray the same idea as "Jump the Shark" where something that was once trendy has resorted to something so unfeasible that it lost its trendiness.

[arcane1]

27. Has "Jump the Shark" jumped the shark?

[Baitball Blogger]

34. According to the DU word fashion police.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

28. "Married Jeannie"

[intheflow]

41. The Complete Fifth and FINAL Season...

...for a reason!

[eShirl]

29. Shit the Bed.

That's considered acceptable, no?

[Glassunion]

31. Hump the Dolphin.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

32. Hired Ted McGinley

Similar idea to The Fonz jumping a shark in Happy Days episode.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

33. Like a razor cut on Hot Lips....

[geardaddy]

35. Killed off Henry?

or Let Trapper Go?

[Throd]

38. I use "Crawled up the shark's ass"

[solara]

39. Popped the cherry?

[NoPasaran]

44. Went Whig

[KurtNYC]

45. "Poochie"

He's totally in your face!

[Major Nikon]

46. Pinched the loaf

[Baitball Blogger]

47. Frankly, I think this entire thread has pinched a loaf.

I don't see anything here that comes as close as "jump the shark" to communicate that something has lost popularity.

[Major Nikon]

48. You asked for acceptable alternatives, not good ones