History Trivia / TwentyOneJumpStreet

** Creator/EmmaStone was considered for Molly, but she was too busy filming ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''. Creator/JenniferLawrence and Creator/JunoTemple auditioned for the role.

* DawsonCasting: In Universe done by the 20-something cops whenever they go undercover as high school teenagers.

* {{Irony}}: Johnny Depp signed onto the show mainly because he wanted to work with Frederic Forrest, the actor playing Captain Jenko. But Jenko was killed off after just 6 episodes, and Depp was stuck on the show (to his increasingly vocal discontent) until the end of Season 4.

* OutOfOrder: "Blackout" (to add further to the confusion, this episode is a.k.a. "Business As Usual") is (in airing / numbering order) the last episode (26) of Season 4 and the last episode character Hanson appears in--his character is next [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Chuck Cunninghammed]] out of existence without any set-up. Taking a look at the last episodes of Season 4 though, it becomes clear that episode 20, "Last Chance High", actually subtly set up his character leaving--during it, he discusses with Penhall stuff like "Aren't we getting too old for this?", "We should move on", and "[Their gag] the [=McQuaid=] brothers are dead, finito!". The episode then ends with Penhall agreeing they've grown out of this phase, and giving Hanson a big man-hug. This clearly was to be the last episode character Hanson was supposed to appear in. The "Blackout" episode apparently was pushed back to the end of the Season because it was deemed controversial (dealing with high school students physically attacking their teachers at school), which explains why it is such a weird ending for the Season.

* ScienceMarchesOn : In Season 2's "Big Disease With a Little Name", Hanson goes undercover as a bodyguard to a teen with Aids; in Season 5's "The Girl Next Door", [=McCann=] goes undercover to investigate a hit-and-run of a teen who turned out to be HIV positive; [[spoiler: it turns out that he'd infected his female friends-with-benefits with the virus as well, which was the motive]]. Not only does the show now distinguish between Aids and HIV positive (which didn't often happen at the start of the epidemic), but the Season 5 episode acknowledges the advancements in treatment; the teen in Season 2 dies a fairly short time after being diagnosed, but in Season 5 a HIV positive character is taking AZT, and ends the episode by getting into a drug trial that might extend her life even further.

* ActorAllusion:
** Ice Cube's verse from "Straight Outta Compton" plays as he talks to Jenko and Schmidt.
** When planning for their party, Schmidt and Jenko jokingly wonder how they are going to get alcohol, since neither one has a fake ID, a reference to ''Film/SuperBad''. Jonah Hill and Dave Franco were also high school classmates in that film too.
** When Schmidt and Jenko are being briefed on HFS, two usernames can be seen as 'Chanchan' and 'Brielar'.
** A partial example. Molly is starring in a production of ''Peter Pan''. Brie Larson had auditioned to play Wendy in the [[Film/PeterPan 2003 version]].
* CareerResurrection: Ice Cube seems to have found his niche as a comedic AngryBlackMan after a string of flops and unremarkable films.
* DawsonCasting: Although the movie parodies this with Jonah Hill (29) and Channing Tatum (32) trying to pass for high school students, it's still played straight with the actors playing the actual high school students. Brie Larson was 22 and Dave Franco was 27, both playing 18-year-olds.

** At the time Channing Tatum was pretty solidly typecast as an action star or romantic lead. This marked his first big comedy and, along with ''Film/MagicMike'', showed that he had [[LeslieNielsenSyndrome quite a flair for it]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Emma Stone was considered for Molly, but she was too busy filming ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''.

!! General:
* TruthInTelevision: Whether or not it was deliberately inspired by the show, using young-looking police officers undercover as high school students has ''actually been done''. Read about the real-life example of Alex Salinas [[http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/real-life-21-jump-street-undercover-cop-returns-to-high-school/ here]].

** One actor, Don S. Davis, even appeared no less than 6 times in different roles, including twice as a (different) high school principal, and one as a prison warden.

* BadExportForYou: Inverted. All but the German DVD's suffer from terrible ClumsyCopyrightCensorship, with missing music and scenes, but the German release features the original music and show. It has the full original audio included even in the English tracks on some episodes, although other episodes only have correct music on the German audio track.

* FakeNationality: Ioki's character was originally written as Japanese, while the actor was Vietnamese. This was retconned to make the character Vietnamese as well and that he'd just been ''pretending'' to be Japanese.
* {{Irony}}: Johnny Depp signed onto the show mainly because he wanted to work with Frederic Forrest, the actor playing Captain Jenko. Jenko was killed off after just 6 episodes, and Depp was stuck on the show (to his increasingly vocal discontent) until the end of Season 4.
* MissingEpisode: The ''Blackout'' / ''Business As Usual'' episode is the last episode of Season 4, but isn't included on Season 4 DVD's. It instead is on the Season 5 DVD. Some more cynical fans think this was done to use Johnny Depp's popularity to sell more Season 5 DVD's--Johnny Depp appeared in Seasons 1-4 but not in 5, and this episode in question is his last one.
* OutOfOrder: ''Blackout'' (to add further to the confusion, this episode is a.k.a. ''Business As Usual'') is the last episode (26) of Season 4 and the last episode character Hanson appears in--his character is next [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Chuck Cunninghammed]] out of existence without any set-up. Taking a look at the last episodes of Season 4 though, it becomes clear that episode 20, ''Last Chance High'', actually subtly set up his character leaving--during it, he discusses with Penhall stuff like "Aren't we getting too old for this?", "We should move on", and "[Their gag] the [=McQuaid=] brothers are dead, finito!". The episode then ends with Penhall agreeing they've grown out of this phase, and giving Hanson a big man-hug. This clearly was to be the last episode character Hanson was supposed to appear in. Also evidenced if you take close notice of Hanson's hair during Season 4: it grows longer over the Season, but during the episodes of the latter half of the Season, it sometimes switches length, indicating that episodes were switched in order. In any case, the ''Blackout'' / ''Business As Usual'' episode, apparently was pushed back to the end of the Season because it was deemed controversial (dealing with high school students physically attacking their teachers at school), which explains why it is such a weird ending for the Season. The episode also for whatever reason [[MissingEpisode wasn't included]] on the Season 4 DVD when that came out.

** There were two episodes (''Afterschool Special'' and ''Say It Ain't So, Pete'') that featured Fuller going undercover as a teacher, quickly figuring out a student was illiterate, and convincing the student to learn how to read.
* ScienceMarchesOn : In Season 2's ''Big Disease With a Little Name'', Hanson goes undercover as a bodyguard to a teen with Aids; in Season 5's ''The Girl Next Door'', [=McCann=] goes undercover to investigate a hit-and-run of a teen who turned out to be HIV positive; [[spoiler: it turns out that he'd infected his female friends-with-benefits with the virus as well, which was the motive]]. Not only does the show now distinguish between Aids and HIV positive (which didn't often happen at the start of the epidemic), but the Season 5 episode acknowledges the advancements in treatment; the teen in Season 2 dies a fairly short time after being diagnosed, but in Season 5 a HIV positive character is taking AZT, and ends the episode by getting into a drug trial that might extend her life even further.

** Jason Priestly ([[RetroactiveRecognition of later]] Beverly [[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Hills 90210]] fame) played a troubled teen in ''Mean Streets and Pastel Houses'' and later played a different character in ''Two For the Road''.

** One actor, Don S. Davis, even appeared no less than 6 times in different roles, including twice as a high school principal, and one as a prison warden.

** One actor, Don S. Davis, even appeared no less than 5 times in different roles, including one as a high school principal, and as a prison warden.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Though supposedly set in the U.S., the fact that ''21 Jump Street'' is shot in Canada is made by the fact that the extras/bit parts were hired locally and thus do decidedly non-US things like say "grade 3" instead of "3rd grade" and write graffiti with words ending in "-our" instead of "-or". The only slightly blurred "Beautiful British Columbia" license plates are also a dead giveaway. Though when a license plate is clearly visible, it says "Beautiful Evergreen State", which is the Washington state nickname, but with the British Columbia plate design.

* OutOfOrder: ''Blackout'' (to add further to the confusion, this episode is a.k.a. ''Business As Usual'') is the last episode (26) of Season 4 and the last episode character Hanson appears in - his character is next [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Chuck Cunninghammed]] out of existence without any set-up. Taking a look at the last episodes of Season 4 though, it becomes clear that episode 20, ''Last Chance High'', actually subtly set up his character leaving - during it, he discusses with Penhall stuff like "Aren't we getting too old for this?", "We should move on", and "[Their gag] the [=McQuaid=] brothers are dead, finito!". The episode then ends with Penhall agreeing they've grown out of this phase, and giving Hanson a big man-hug. This clearly was to be the last episode character Hanson was supposed to appear in; also evidenced if you take close notice of Hanson's hair during Season 4: it grows longer over the Season, but during the episodes of the latter half of the Season, it sometimes switches length, indicating that episodes were switched in order. In any case, the ''Blackout'' / ''Business As Usual'' episode, apparently was pushed back to the end of the Season because it was deemed controversial (dealing with high school students physically attacking their teachers at school), which explains why it is such a weird ending for the Season.

* ScienceMarchesOn : In Season 2's ''Big disease with a little name'', Hanson goes undercover as a bodyguard to a teen with Aids; in Season 5's ''The Girl Next Door'', [=McCann=] goes undercover to investigate a hit-and-run of a teen who turned out to be HIV positive [[spoiler: it turns out that he'd infected his female friends-with-benefits with the virus as well, which was the motive]] Not only does the show now distinguish between AIDS and HIV positive (which didn't often happen at the start of the epidemic), but the Season 5 episode acknowledges the advancements in treatment; the teen in Season 2 dies a fairly short time after being diagnosed, but in Season 5 a HIV positive character is taking AZT, and ends the episode by getting into a drug trial that might extend her life even further.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series is ''extremely'' 80's, not just with everybody's [[EightiesHair hair]] and clothes, but with the social issues it addressed, and how it depicted society - it's a clear picture of what the 80's were like.

** Jason Priestly ([[RetroactiveRecognition of later]] Beverly [[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Hills 90210]] fame) played a troubled teen in ''Mean Streets and Pastel Houses'' and later returned in ''Two for the Road''.

!! The TV show:

!! The film:

* RecycledScript: The Season 4 episode "Old Haunts in the New Age" seemed this to Season 1 episode "Worst Night of Your Life". Both are Halloween episodes; are about arson in schools; feature a character that at first seems to clearly be the offender but isn't [[note]]In Season 1, the girl that broke into school to get a tape back, and is arrested; in Season 4, the girl that had psychic visions of fires to come[[/note]]; in both, the police officers reveal their true identity pretty quickly to these respective previous suspects and then go on to work together with them to get the ''real'' arsonist; in both, religion or spirituality played a role (the 1st took place in a Catholic school, the 2nd was about spiritualism); both ended with the police officers attending a Halloween prom undercover; and a fire breaking out at that prom despite the efforts of police and the schools to prevent this; and the fire doing no physical damage to anyone, but revealing the real arsonist at the prom, who then got arrested.

* BadExportForYou: Inverted - the American [=DVDs=] suffer from terrible ClumsyCopyrightCensorship, with missing music and scenes, but the full version can be found in some foreign releases. On the German DVD sets the full original audio is included even in the English tracks on some episodes, although other episodes only have correct music on the German audio track.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Though supposedly set in the U.S., the fact that ''21 Jump Street'' is shot in Canada is made by the fact that the extras/bit parts were hired locally and thus do decidedly non-US things like say "grade 3" instead of "3rd grade" and write graffiti with words ending in "-our" instead of "-or".
** The only slightly blurred "Beautiful British Columbia" license plates are also a dead giveaway. And the bus route prominently displayed in the credits: Hastings.
** When a license plate is clearly visible, it says "Beautiful Evergreen State", which is the Washington state nickname, but with the British Columbia plate design.
* DawsonCasting: By the ''cops'' inside the show.
** As well as the students, especially in later seasons.

* Irony: Johnny Depp signed onto the show mainly because he wanted to work with Frederic Forrest, the actor playing Captain Jenko. Jenko was killed off halfway through season 1, and Depp was stuck on the show (to his increasingly vocal discontent) until the end of season 4.

* YouLookFamiliar: Two prominent examples are Jason Priestly and Lochlyn (Rick) Munro, who played different characters in multiple episodes.

** they may be some of the most prominent, but a re-watch of the series, especially by someone old enough to have watched it the first time round reveals a huge amount of "I know that guy!"; almost every working actor of the right age in the right geographical area appeared in Jump Street at some point, including Blair Underwood, Sherilyn Fenn (who became one of Depp's ex-fiancee's), Christina Applegate (who was even starring on Series/MarriedWithChildren at the time), Jada Pinkett Smith, Vince Vaughn, Robyn Lively, Bridget Fonda, Shannen Doherty and Christine Elise (who both starred in Beverley Hills 90210 with Priestley at various times), and even Brad Pitt!

* Irony: Johnny Depp signed onto the show mainly because he wanted to work with the actor playing Captain Jenko. Jenko was killed off halfway through season 1, and Depp was stuck on the show (to his increasingly vocal discontent) until the end of season 4.

** they may be some of the most prominent, but a re-watch of the series, especially by someone old enough to have watched it the first time round reveals a huge amount of "I know that guy!"; almost every working actor of the right age in the right geographical area appeared in Jump Street at some point, including Blair Underwood, Sherilyn Fenn (who became one of Depp's ex-fiancee's), Christina Applegate (who was even starring on Series/MarriedWithChildren at the time), Jada Pinkett Smith, Vince Vaughn, Robyn Lively, Bridget Fona, Shannen Doherty and Christine Elise (who both starred in Beverley Hills 90210 with Priestley at various times), and even Brad Pitt!

* RecycledScript: The Season 4 episode "Old Haunts in the New Age" seemed this to Season 1 episodes "Worst Night of Your Life". Both are Halloween episodes; are about arson in schools; feature a character that at first seems to clearly be the offender but isn't (in Season 1, the girl that broke into school to get a tape back, and is arrested; in Season 4, the girl that had psychic visions of fires to come); in both, the police officers reveal their true identity pretty quickly to these respective girls / previous suspects and then go on to work together with them to get the ''real'' arsonist; in both, religion or spirituality played a role (the 1st took place in a Catholic school, the 2nd was about spiritualism); both ended with the police officers attending a Halloween prom undercover; and a fire breaking out at that prom despite the efforts of police and the schools to prevent this; and the fire doing no physical damage to anyone, but revealing the real arsonist at the prom, who then got arrested.

* PlayingAgainstType: The directors of these films are best known for ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''. Lampshaded by a TV spot for ''The LEGO Movie'', which played up that it was from the directors of ''21 Jump Street'' and ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'', then adding, "Neither of which have anything to do with this movie."

* DawsonCasting: Although the movie parodies this with Jonah Hill (29) and Channing Tatum (32) trying to pass for high school students, it's still played straight. Brie Larson was 22 and Dave Franco was 27, both playing 18-year-olds.

* ActorAllusion: Ice Cube's verse from "Straight Outta Compton" plays as he talks to Jenko and Schmidt.
** When planning for their party, Schmidt and Jenko jokingly wonder how they are going to get alcohol, since neither one has a fake ID, a reference to ''Film/SuperBad''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Many actors appeared on the TV series who became famous later, including ''Creator/BradPitt'', Courtney Thorne-Smith, Peri Gilpin, Jason Priestley, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Bridget Fonda, and more.
** While they never became famous, Greg Kean and Bo Foxworth are known to some Music/BeachBoys fans as the actors who played Brian and Carl Wilson in 1990's made-for-TV biopic ''Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys.'' Kean appears in one episode as the brother of a rape victim, while Foxworth is a homophobic military school cadet in another.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Short of a ProductionPosse, the film includes Brie Larson and Johnny Simmons in the cast and Michael Bacall as the scriptwriter; all three were involved with ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''.
** Deputy Chief [[Creator/NickOfferman Ron]] [[Series/ParksAndRecreation Swanson]] transfers them to Jump Street, [[Series/ThirtyRock Dr. Spaceman]] moonlights as a high school drama instructor, and [[Series/TheOfficeUS Erin Hannon]] became an AP Chemistry teacher after leaving Dunder Mifflin. Completing the NBC Thursday Comedy cameo fourfecta, [[Series/{{Community}} Rachel]] was a hipster cool kid in high school before she got to Greendale.
** [[NewGirl Nick Miller]] shows up briefly as the school principal to reprimand Schmidt and Jenko on their first day of school.
** Fugazi's father in RealLife also [[MiamiVice worked undercover]].
** Music/IceCube as Dickson.