Do you know the expression “Jump the Shark”?
It’s from the American series Happy Dayswhich recounted the adventures of a group of teenagers in the 1950s.
The series was super popular, but after a few years, the writers no longer knew what to tell to interest viewers.
Running out of inspiration, they decided to show one of the main characters jumping over a shark while water skiing.
Since this infamous episode (which fans of the series found, rightly, stupid), we say of a series which invents all kinds of improbable and far-fetched adventures to try as best it can to capture the interest spectators that she “jump the shark”.
Let her jump over the shark.
Like when James Bond started fighting a steel-toothed giant in space.
Or that the Saint-Tropez gendarme of Louis de Funès confronted extra-terrestrials.
You look at that and you’re like, “Woah, Captain! Kessed that? The characters ofIndefensible will travel back in time and defend the Boston Strangler?
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MACISTE AGAINST THE MONGOLS
This is why the CAQ continues to fall in the polls.
François Legault’s party has jumped the shark.
The first term was spectacular. “You want national pride? We’ll give it to you! Tin, law 21! And so, law 96! Bam bam!”
As a first season, we have rarely seen better. Even the first year of Fortier wasn’t as good.
But afterwards, it’s as if the writers no longer knew what to say and had emptied their bag of ideas.
Oh hey, we’re going to build blue patents! Blue Spaces! The Blue Basket! Quebecers love blue! It reminds them of the sea, the sky, the great outdoors!
Or: oh hey, we’re going to bring in a big Swedish battery factory! François Legault in the electrical sector – that’s going to be good!
Or: oh hey, we’re going to bring the Los Angeles Kings! It’ll remind them of the good old days of the Nordiques!
It’s like the old movies Maciste.
Maciste against the Cyclops, Maciste in hell, Macist against the giants, Maciste against the ghost, Maciste against Hercules, against Zorro, against the Mongols, against the queen of the Amazons…
That’s it, the CAQ.
They don’t know what to invent anymore, they are wondering, “We have to sell electric tanks!”, “There are too many tanks!”, “People are consuming too much electricity!”, “We have to go electric!” , “There are too many immigrants!”, “There are not enough!”.
You listen to them, you no longer know what to do or where to go.
We are going forward? Are we going backwards?
Archive photo, Stevens LeBlanc
POUT PUT POUT
A leader is a person who knows where he is going.
Get in the tank, we’re going to Wildwood!
We’re going to go on this highway, stop at this restaurant, sleep at this motel…
There, he looks like a father taking a spin on a machine on Sunday.
We ride for the sake of riding.
“It passes the time,” as my mother would say.
But where are we going?
Search me. Even the driver doesn’t know it.