One thing that current pop culture sadly lacks is an antonym for the phrase “jumping the shark.” After all, if “jumping the shark” is the point from which a television show goes from good to crazy/bad/stupid, surely there must be an opposite. That is, there should be a phrase to describe when a show goes from “interesting premise and characters” to “holy shit, this is really f-ing good!”

In honor of tonight’s episode of Dollhouse, I’d like to nominate the phrase “reciting poetry on the phone” as that phrase. For example:

You know, “Man on the Street” is the episode where Dollhouse really recited poetry over the phone.

Yeah, it was that good.

(My initial impressions of Dollhouse can be found here.