On September 20th, 1977, the character of Fonzie (played by Harry Winkler) on "Happy Days" "jumped the shark" (literally) on the season five episode, "Hollywood: Part 3". The scene became the origin for the popular idiom "jumping the shark", which means that a creative work has reached a point where it has been exhausted and is introducing ideas that are extremely exagerrated. The term was coined by radio personality Jon Hein in 1985, and he later created the website, JumpTheShark.com, in 1997 that had a list of 200 television shows that he believed "jumped the shark" and why they did.
