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The Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street

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The Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and...

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  1. Background image for Slippin' Into Darkness
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Slippin' Into Darkness

    S3:E2

    Hoffs and Ioki go undercover in a Guardian Angel-type street patrol whose members have a vendetta out for a drug dealer who Hanson is trying to set up for a bust.

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  2. Background image for Orpheus 3.3
    8.3/10(247 votes)

    #2 - Orpheus 3.3

    S2:E16

    Hanson blames himself for failing to prevent the shooting death of his girlfriend in a convenience store robbery and becomes obsessed with revenge.

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  3. Background image for A Big Disease with a Little Name
    8.2/10(211 votes)

    #3 - A Big Disease with a Little Name

    S2:E13

    Dorothy an old girlfriend of Penhall's, who walked out on him two years ago, returns and decides to move in with him. Hanson gets assigned to protect a student with AIDS who is being made to feel unwelcome in class.

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  4. Background image for Bad Influence
    8.1/10(257 votes)

    #4 - Bad Influence

    S1:E8

    Hanson and Penhall try to locate some missing juveniles, while Ioki tries to find a link between a teenage prostitution ring and a series of burglaries.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  5. Background image for Mean Streets and Pastel Houses
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Mean Streets and Pastel Houses

    S1:E13

    Hanson goes undercover as a punk rocker in an effort to stop a feud between two rival gangs from turning into a war.

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  6. Background image for I'm OK- You Need Work
    8.0/10(187 votes)

    #6 - I'm OK- You Need Work

    S2:E15

    Hanson becomes trapped in a private drug clinic where he had himself placed in order to investigate claims of patient abuse made by a kid he once busted on drug charges.

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  8. Background image for Fun with Animals
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Fun with Animals

    S3:E1

    Hanson is assigned Booker as his new partner and the two don't hit it off as Booker's racist attitudes lead Hanson to believe that Booker raped a black student.

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  9. Background image for The Currency We Trade In
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Currency We Trade In

    S3:E3

    A popular sports writer finds his whole life ruined when Penhall believes his ex-wife's allegations of his being a child molester.

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  10. Background image for Coach of the Year
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Coach of the Year

    S3:E4

    Penhall and Booker join a high school football team in attempt to prove that the coach's negligence led to the paralyzing injury of one of the players.

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  11. Background image for Whose Choice is it Anyways?
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Whose Choice is it Anyways?

    S3:E5

    Hoffs goes undercover as a pregnant teen to investigate threats of violence being made to a family planning center by anti-abortionists.

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    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Hell Week
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Hell Week

    S3:E6

    Hanson and Ioki must endure hell week as fraternity pledges in order to gain the confidence and get evidence on a gang rape which occurred at a frat party.

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    Writer:Bill Nuss
  13. Background image for The Dragon and the Angel
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Dragon and the Angel

    S3:E7

    While working undercover in a Vietnamese streetgang, Ioki learns of a communist businessman who may be able to help his grandmother who is still in Vietnam.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Blu Flu

    S3:E8

    Everyone in the Jump Street unit gets blue flu when the police force goes on strike forcing Captain Fuller to team up with a rookie cadet.

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  15. Background image for Swallowed Alive
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Swallowed Alive

    S3:E9

    Hanson becomes an inmate in a juvenile detention hall in order to investigate the murder of one of the inmates.

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  16. Background image for What About Love?
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - What About Love?

    S3:E10

    Dorothy and Penhall split up forcing Penhall to move in with Ioki. Hoffs becomes involved with a city inspector, who is auditing Jump Street's records.

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  17. Background image for Woolly Bullies
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Woolly Bullies

    S3:E11

    Penhall's encounter with a bully while undercover causes the members of the Jump Street unit to reminisce about their dealings with bullies while they were in school.

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  18. Background image for The Dreaded Return of Russell Buckins
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Dreaded Return of Russell Buckins

    S3:E12

    Hanson goes after an old friend who wrote an article exposing the Jump Street program causing Hanson to get suspended from duty.

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  19. Background image for A.W.O.L.
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - A.W.O.L.

    S3:E13

    An old Army buddy comes to Fuller seeking the Jump Street unit's help in bringing in an AWOL soldier who will be classified a deserter if he doesn't return to base within two days.

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Nemesis
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Nemesis

    S3:E14

    Booker is laiden with guilt when after he infiltrates a gang of drug users that kill one of their own whom they suspect is an undercover cop.

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    Writer:John Truby
  21. Background image for Fathers and Sons
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Fathers and Sons

    S3:E15

    Fuller and the Jump Street unit are given a lot of flak and told to pull off the case when city hall learns Hanson and Penhall are about to bust the mayor's son on drug dealing charges.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - High High

    S3:E16

    The Jump Street cops enroll in a performing arts school to bust a drug ring being run there.

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  23. Background image for Draw the Line
    8.0/10(136 votes)

    #22 - Draw the Line

    S4:E1

    Booker resigns from the police force after solving a case that gets Hanson out of prison.

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    8.0/10(148 votes)

    #23 - 2245

    S4:E16

    Hanson tries to convince a juvenile inmate on death row to appear in a film intended to keep his peers out of prison.

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  25. Background image for Besieged (2)
    7.9/10(188 votes)

    #24 - Besieged (2)

    S2:E3

    Hanson and Hoffs go undercover in order to put a crack ring out of business. Penhall, working on the same case, returns to squad car and becomes convinced that his new partner killed a drug pusher.

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  26. Background image for 16 Blown to 35
    7.8/10(236 votes)

    #25 - 16 Blown to 35

    S1:E12

    Hoffs enrolls in a teen modeling school after several of its graduates end up appearing in pornography.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Slippin' Into Darkness" is the best rated episode of "21 Jump Street". It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by James A. Contner and written by Clifton Campbell, it aired on 11/11/1988. This episode scored 0.7 points higher than the second highest rated, "Orpheus 3.3".