This is the new term for when a television series runs out of new material and begins making
ridiculous subplots that
inevitable lead to the downfall of the show. Previous generations have called it "
jumping the shark" after a bold move by the Fonz.
The prime example of this was in an episode of Lost called "Tricia Takanawa is dead", where
the climax of the episode was when a titanic man named Hurley drove a broken VW hippy van down a hill for no apparent reason.
"Man that episode
reminded me of when Lost got pushed
downhill in a hippy van lol."