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All of the original 21 Jump Street characters in one way or another are dealing with trauma from the past and reliving high school forces them to confront it. His childhood screwed him up and now he’s paying for not coming to terms with it. When he finally divulges this to Hanson, we see a core facet of what made 21 Jump Street so great and what the first film ran with. This is all a cover for a secret he’s never revealed to anyone, that his mother killed herself when Penhall was six.

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Yeah, the A plot about a student killing himself and Hanson’s reaction to it is well intentioned if somewhat heavy handed but it’s the B plot where the episode really shines.ĭoug Penhall, one of the series main cops and Hanson’s partner, at first brushes the suicide off and cracks jokes. Best Years of Your Life: Season 2 Episode 20Īn episode about suicide sounds like the complete opposite of the 21 Jump Street movies, but go with me here.

In the second film however Schmidt has sex with Maya, Captain Dickson’s college age daughter and it leads to one of the funniest blow-ups in cinema history. In the first film Schmidt develops a crush on Molly but the two never have sex. He lays down the ground rules for the team and, like Fuller in the original series, won’t take any back talk. He was brought in to change the way Jump Street operated, making it more professional.ĭickson is doing the same thing in the film, albeit way more in your face.

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His introduction, where he refuses to coddle the team, was the direct inspiration for Captain Dickson’s speech at the pulpit in the first film.įuller in the TV series was much more restrained than Dickson, since he was specifically created to be the exact opposite of Jenko, a laid back hippy. With the death of Jump Street’s first captain, Jenko (more on that name in a bit), Adam Fuller is brought in to lead the team. Gotta Finish the Riff: Season 1 Episode 7 Whether this happened during the case or after remains unclear. In the film, Jenko gets hit on by his science teacher and while he doesn’t return her affection, he does later have sex with her in the closing montage of the film. Read more: The Best TV Shows Hidden on Netflix These episode choices reflect how the people behind the films got exactly what made 21 Jump Street great and was able to translate that across genre lines, from drama to action comedy. We’ve tried to avoid obvious choices, like any of the various prom episodes simply because there was a prom in the first movie. The influences from that marathon are shown in both of the 21 Jump Street films and we at Den of Geek have picked out just a few episodes that made the biggest impact. In developing the 21 Jump Streetmovie, directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord rewatched the first four seasons of the series while working on the story. They weren’t even technically reboots, what with the original characters showing up in cameos. “Great, another pointless remake.” But lo and behold, both 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street were astounding.

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I mean come on, I’m sure when you heard they were making a 21 Jump Street movie you rolled your eyes. The 21 Jump Street movies are a cinematic triumph in part because they defied all expectations.

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