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jon_kent wrote:Yeah i did think that, my mates is very close so perhaps he had it slightly changed

Lord Freddie wrote:There's an American phrase "jump the shark".
The Lottery trick was where Derren jumped the shark.

jon_kent wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote:There's an American phrase "jump the shark".
The Lottery trick was where Derren jumped the shark.

Its also one of the main things layman know him by or are impressed with.

I'd have "jumped the shark" (whatever that means) and so would you !

Jumping the shark is an idiom, first employed to describe a moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in quality that is beyond recovery.

In its initial usage, it referred to the point in a television program's history where it has "outlived its freshness" [1] where viewers feel "the writers have run out of ideas" and that "the series has [lost] what made it attractive."[2] These changes were often the result of efforts to revive interest in a show whose audience had begun to decline.[3]

The usage of "jump the shark" has subsequently broadened beyond television, indicating the moment in its evolution when a brand, design, or creative effort moves beyond the essential qualities that initially defined its success, beyond relevance or recovery.

The phrase jump the shark comes from a scene in the fifth season premiere episode of the American TV series Happy Days titled "Hollywood: Part 3," written by Fred Fox, Jr.[4], and aired on September 20, 1977. In the episode, the central characters visit Los Angeles, where a water-skiing Fonzie (Henry Winkler), wearing swim trunks and his leather jacket, jumps over a confined shark, answering a challenge to demonstrate his bravery. The series continued for nearly seven years after that, with a number of changes in cast and situations.