Its April of 2020 and Day 10 of A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing Metaphors. Be it a movie, song, painting, book, idiom, etc. I plan to give a perspective to it with an explanation and a 8 line poem.
Metaphor: Jumping the Shark
Jumping the shark, is an idiom used as a metaphor to describe a moment when something that was once popular, now isn’t. Though it makes an attempt to cover up, ends up being highlighting its irrelevance. The metaphor is widely used for television series or other entertainment outlets. It is also used when a brand, design or any creative efforts evolution declines.
The phrase is known to be coined in 1985 by Jon Hein and his roommate Sean Connolly. The discussion that led to the phrase was their favorite television show that had gone downhill and other shows where similar ‘jump the shark’ moment had occurred. I am using this metaphor for ‘Jump the Shark’ people.
Poem:
Pain doesn’t fly,
Pain doesn’t evaporate,
Pain penetrates,
The question is where.
Truth or dare,
The truth and dare is,
There is never an alert,
Before you ‘jump the shark’.
To you or you to other, that thin line is never visible. It’s definitely visible when one ‘jumps the shark’ and takes the place where the repair is beyond the control of actions.
I thought it came from the episode of Happy Days where Fonzie literally jumped over a shark on waterskis…that was a weird one!
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True. That’s known to be the literal event for the metaphor! However, later coined and books written on them by Hein. 🙂
Thank you for sharing that. I did read about it while writing this post. 🙂
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By the way, I did watch that scene as well on YouTube. 😀
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I remember it because it was so weird in the context of the kind of show it was. But always interesting seeing something so innocuous as a moment in a TV show becoming an expression people use all the time.
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True. 1970’s all over through 2000’s and more. I get that. 🙂 You have a great memory. 😀
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Love the poem.
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Thank you. 🙂
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Pain penetrates- this line is so true.
What’s pain if it doesn’t mark us forever? Love the poem, P.
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Thanks a lot. 🙂
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I had never heard of this metaphor. It was nice to know more about it. 🙂 Loved your poem too.
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Thank you so much. 🙂
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Can I say going out of house is jumping the shark now?😁
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Ha ha. 😛
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Kudos to this one.
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Thanks a lot. 🙂
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Very interesting metaphor…I’ve never heard of ‘Jumping the Shark” before!
Cool poem….
I have a phrase for you (I’m not sure if it is a Metaphor): “Don’t Shine Me On!”
It was used in North America thru’out 70’s & 80’s.
It meant 1 of 2 things: I) Don’t ignore me & 2) Don’t tell me lies…
Now we both learned something Prakash!! 😉
Sherri-Ellen
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Thank you so much. 🙂
I had not heard of that. Thank you sharing. yay! 😀
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So nice
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Thank you. 😀
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