Funny pop-culture website, JumptheShark.com, chronicles the moment when your favorite TV show has reached its peak and it’s all downhill from here. “The term ‘jump the shark’ […] refers to the telltale sign of the demise of Happy Days, our favorite example, when Fonzie actually ‘jumped the shark.'” For Star Trek, there are votes for “Spock’s brain is taken” and also for “Singing (Spock and the space hippies)”.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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