YMMV / 22 Jump Street

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • All of the scenes involving Mr. Walters and Eric from the first film.
  • Jenko pointing out that Dickson gave Schmidt a high-five for sleeping with a girl, who turned out to be Dickson's own daughter.
• Even Better Sequel: A vast majority of critics are hailing it as such, an absolute rarity for the comedy genre in particular. It helps that there is a great deal of Leaning on the Fourth Wall about the very nature of sequels.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Jenko's rant about the use of homophobic slurs in 2014 can be a little awkward if you're aware that Jonah Hill was embroiled in a controversy over his use of a homophobic slur at the time of the film's release. Even more so, when you realize it was the same one used in both instances.
  • While neither figure is harshly made fun of, the allusions to both Tracy Morgan and Maya Angelou make for odd coincidences, given how, just before the film's release, the former was critically injured in a car accident and the latter passed away.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the first movie, Dickson warns Jenko and Schmidt to not sleep with any students. Cue this movie, where Schmidt ends up sleeping with Maya, Dickson's own daughter.
  • The sequel montage in the credits becomes even funnier following the announcement that the next film is set to be a crossover with Men in Black. The actual sequel is arguably more absurd than any of the fake ones.
  • Wyatt Russell plays a college student here. In Everybody Wants Some!! he's a thirty-year-old man posing as a college student, just like Schmidt and Jenko.
  • When Jenko and Schmidt are trying to blend in with the drug dealers at the beginning of the film, the latter refers to one of them as a "Mexican Wolverine". In Logan, he finds out that he has a Mexican daughter.
  • The "I'm not fucking Spider-Man!" joke now that Phil Lord & Chris Miller have produced and Lord co-wrote Spider Man Into The Spiderverse.
• Ho Yay: Big time between Jenko and Zook from their first meeting on during football practice.
  • Most dialogue between Jenko and Zook has romantic/homoerotic overtones.
  • Subsequently, Jenko and Schmidt have some as well — and Schmidt seeing both loudly working out is almost him watching a sex tape.
  • Upon seeing that Jenko has a better friendship with Schmidt, Zook decides that they are better together, and allows the two to resume said partnership without conflict. To be fair, though, Zook must have realized that Jenko was undercover.
  • People mistake Schmidt and Jenko for a couple on more than one occasion, and the film generally treats Zook as "the other man" threatening to derail their partnership.
  • Jenko drops his Q-tip into Zook's meat sandwich. The resultant product is called a "meat Q-tip" sandwich, shortened to Meet Cute.
  • Zook says he and Jenko can be like the Dynamic Duo, except they'll both be Batman.
  • Jenko trying to get Zook to play with lobsters before cooking them is a reference to a similar scene in Annie Hall between Woody Allen and his lover.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "My name is Jeff", Jenko's half-hearted paper-thin attempt at playing along with Schmidt's Mexican impression near the start of the movie, was easily one of the most popular (and subsequently overused) memes of 2014, especially on outlets like Vine.
  • "Schmidt fucked the captain's daughter!" has been infamously been used in video game memes in regards to similar situations, such as Robin, Chrom, and Lucina or Joker, Sae, and Makoto replacing Schmidt, Dickson and Maya respectively.
• One-Scene Wonder: Patton Oswalt as the tenured philosophy professor who admits to not particularly caring about his job, and points out two of his students that he's sleeping with.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Schmidt's mom, to a degree, although that's mostly because she's not in the limelight and is more supportive of her son without nearly ruining his work.
• Signature Scene: Schmidt fucked the captain's daughter.
• Squick: Mr. Walters dropping his pants and flashing his new vagina to Jenko and Schmidt in a deleted scene.
• Tear Jerker: Schmidt not having as good a time in college as Jenko, followed by him being exposed and having to leave, at which point his Love Interest dumps him. That guy really deserved a hug, and it's a good thing his parents were there to give one.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: During the end credits, Schmidt & Jenko are shown being given increasingly outlandish assignments in mock Jump Street sequels. Some fans have noted that some of them actually sound like good films.
• The Woobie: This time around, it's Schmidt who doesn't have as great a time at college. Despite initially hanging around with Jenko a lot, the latter ends up spending more time with Zook and the sports teams, leaving Schmidt alone. Later, he gets exposed and has to leave, resulting in his Love Interest dumping him.

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