Once upon a time there was a television show called Happy Days. Around mid-life of the series they did an episode called Jumping the Shark. It was a ridiculous premise where one of the main characters, The Fonz, wearing a leather jacket, did a water ski jump over a caged shark. This was a low point in the series, but it spawned the term “jumping the shark.” It is a pejorative phrase suggesting a lack of creativity, the inability to create something meaningful, or overreaching for political agenda purposes.