History Trivia / TwentyTwoJumpStreet

* ActorAllusion:
** [[Creator/ChanningTatum Jenko]] suggests that he and Schmidt [[Film/WhiteHouseDown become Secret Service agents and go undercover at the White House.]] Hardy and Schmidt agree that [[TakeThat that would be terrible and nobody would want to see it]].
** Jenko spins around a female spring-breaker in a [[Film/StepUp dance-like routine]] to take down two of the Ghost's henchmen.
*** One of the potential sequels show the duo at a dance academy. ''Schmidt'' is happy because for once they're gonna do something he's good at.
** Schmidt points out that Captain Dickson's new office is [[Music/IceCube "like a cube made out of ice"]].
** Mrs. Dickson ([[spoiler:Queen Latifah]]) is asked by Schmidt's parents where she and her husband are from. She replies that she was [[Music/{{NWA}} "straight outta Compton"]], while her husband hails from Northridge.
** The coach is played by [[WesternAnimation/HomeMovies H. Jon Benjamin]], though this time he's coaching football.
** During the credits, [[spoiler: ''26 Jump Street: Art School'' features [[Film/{{Superbad}} a crude drawing of a penis and testicles]]]].

* DuelingMovies: Of a strange variety with ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'', which opened on the same day as ''Jump Street''. Although the two movies target very different audiences (barring the PeripheryDemographic), Creator/JonahHill played a part in both films. As a result, while on the marketing campaign for ''Jump Street'', Hill would find himself urging people to defy this trope and see both films, suggesting that people see ''Jump Street'' on opening Friday and ''Dragon'' with family on Sunday.

* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: [[spoiler:The ending is a clear attempt to do so, by ruthlessly mocking the idea of ''Jump Street'' becoming a CashCowFranchise by depicting Schmidt and Jenko in a series of increasingly absurd sequels]]. Of course after the critical acclaim and box office reception ''22 Jump Street'' received, another sequel was green lit anyway.

* CastingGag: During the credits, [[spoiler:Creator/SethRogen [[TheOtherDarrin replaces]] Jonah Hill because of a contract dispute.]]

* {{Defictionalization}}: During the film, Zook is required to film a scout reel and ropes Jenko (under his Brad [=McQuaid=] identity) in to make it a scout reel for the two of them. Whilst only a brief glimpse is seen of the video in the film, [[http://youtu.be/Tp_NAHgk3_8 they actually made the entire video]] and put it on {{YouTube}}.

* DevelopmentHell: The planned ''[[Franchise/MenInBlack MIB]] 23'' sequel/crossover film appears to have fallen into this (probably as an aftereffect of the Sony hack that released info about it to start); Sony's instead making ''Film/MenInBlackInternational''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film originally ended with [[spoiler:Schmidt and Jenko quitting Jump Street]], but test audiences didn't like the ending because [[spoiler:it was a depressing way to end the franchise, as they wanted to believe that Schmidt and Jenko would continue to work in the Jump Street program]]. Instead, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller shot another ending that [[spoiler:places Schmidt and Jenko in increasingly absurd assignments, ending the series on a more positive note]].

* DawsonCasting: Mercedes is played by the 30-year old Jillian Bell... [[InJoke who is 4 months younger than Jonah Hill, whose character she is constantly demeaning as old.]]

* CastingGag: During the credits, [[spoiler:SethRogen [[TheOtherDarrin replaces]] Jonah Hill because of a contract dispute.]]