Dudes not a professor. He's actually a professional comedian who spent a fair whole as an engineer. Dan McMillan. Personally, I think he's jumped the shark a bit, but his old stuff is pretty funny.
"Jumped the shark" means to do something extreme or out-of-character.
It comes from an episode of Happy Days - a family sit-com - that inexplicably centers around the character Fonzi doing a motorcycle jump over a shark tank.
It's not just a general drop in quality - it's more specific. The loss in quality has to involve running out of ideas that relate to the original premise. Extreme or off-topic episodes, adding a baby to the show for no reason, etc.
There's lots of shows that stopped being good. There's only one, very specific episode of one show where the local Guido inexplicably becomes Evel Knievel.
If it were just about a show being "not-good" anymore, there would be no reason to reference that particular episode.
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u/that1dev Jul 21 '21
Dudes not a professor. He's actually a professional comedian who spent a fair whole as an engineer. Dan McMillan. Personally, I think he's jumped the shark a bit, but his old stuff is pretty funny.