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muriel_volestrangler

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4. "Jump the Shark" means to become bad, ridiculous etc. *after having been good* or at least OK

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Sep 24, 2021, 12:09 PM

Sep 2021

As in the original Happy Days use of water-ski jumping over a shark - out of place in the situation of the comedy, and a sign they'd run out of decent ideas for it. And it'd have to go back to being "OK" to then do it again. You might apply it to Sinema, but Taylor Greene was never even "OK" in the first place. She's always been an awful excuse for a human, from the moment she became known.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene jumps the shark AGAIN saying Green New Deal serves "Communist China" [View all] steve2470 Sep 2021 OP

She's just catering to the general intelligence level of her fans. Buns_of_Fire Sep 2021 #1

Yes to that and I say Prof. Toru Tanaka Sep 2021 #6

What does this even mean??? skypilot Sep 2021 #2

The Green New Deal Communism! ShazzieB Sep 2021 #8

There are seriously not enough facepalms in the world for this one! Initech Sep 2021 #3

"Jump the Shark" means to become bad, ridiculous etc. *after having been good* or at least OK muriel_volestrangler Sep 2021 #4

+1000% Norbert Sep 2021 #5

Happy Days ran out of ideas LONG before that jmowreader Sep 2021 #11

Who dresses that woman? PatSeg Sep 2021 #7

Carole Baskin from the look of it. n/t BlueSpot Sep 2021 #12

I was trying to think of someone and Baskin is perfect! PatSeg Sep 2021 #14

It's sad when Adam Kinzinger is the adult in the room Patton French Sep 2021 #9

Sadly her incredibly fresh 1970s based meme was too recent a pop cultural referenence for the FOX Johonny Sep 2021 #10

That meme is about as real as she is. Aussie105 Sep 2021 #13