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People really didn't know that there was a 21 Jumpstreet tv show?

posted 9 years ago by krypton_son
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So some friends and I were talking about this movie at work today and when we all stated that the tv show was much better a couple of 20 something girls seemed shocked and surprised that it was a tv show in the 80's. Hard to believe, but I guess it was before their time. I used to watch the show all the time when it was new. Have the complete series on dvd, Booker too. How many people on here didn't know that?

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[–] Eclectic_Flamingo 9 years ago

Love the show.
Johnny Depp apparently hates it which made me curious as to why he's in this. Maybe he wanted to be killed off? I'm not the biggest fan of this movie but it's funny and I like that they tried to do something different with the story. I noticed alot of similarities in Channing's character and Doug Penhall which I'm sure were Intentional. I didn't now Booker was on DVD. I personally though Greico was overrated.

"You can never have enough big white belts."-Big Bob Pataki

[–] jpowers4667 9 years ago

Then I guess there's a large population of idiotic 20-year-olds who missed a large portion of the meta-based jokes. So, they probably laughed along with everyone else without having a clue what they were laughing at.

Apparently, it's hard to look something up on the phones they are constantly glued to.

[–] anteater_fan 8 years ago

Hey buddy, you might want to get off the computer before the retirement home staff has to escort you back to your room.

I didn't realize that 20-some year olds laughing at a comedy movie was such a crime if they never saw the original TV show the movie was based off of. But hey, we gotta crap on the younger generation any chance we get, right? Get off your high horse and go back to telling the neighborhood kids about how much candy you used to get for a quarter when you were their age.

[–] novastar_6 8 years ago

I didn't realize that 20-some year olds laughing at a comedy movie was such a crime if they never saw the original TV show the movie was based off of. But hey, we gotta crap on the younger generation any chance we get, right? Get off your high horse and go back to telling the neighborhood kids about how much candy you used to get for a quarter when you were their age.

Well for the younger generation wanting people to believe they're so smart, they ought to be able to determine between comedy and crap, 'ass' and 'dick' for 2 hours is not comedy but they sure got your money anyway, didn't they?

It's just a simple fact that the majority of 'entertainment' today is cheaply thrown together mass produced crap to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and it doesn't matter if people actually LIKE it or not, as long as they can con enough people into paying to see it, they'll make 10 more just like it, the box office isn't strictly built on who LIKED it, just who parted with their money to see what it was like.

[–] AdamWei1 9 years ago

It's kind of depressing the great reception this movie got because the original show was such a great drama with comedic elements and personally I would have preferred they kept the big screen remake more in that vein with two new Tom Hansen's and Doug Penhall's which could have still starred Hill and Tatum! Plus the fantastic Brie Larson was kind of wasted just like supposedly in Trainwreck!

[–] superherolu 9 years ago

If you're in your 20s you wouldn't have seen it or heard about it. It's not like Friends that still has reruns on all the time

[–] novastar_6 9 years ago

If you're in your 20s you wouldn't have seen it or heard about it. It's not like Friends that still has reruns on all the time

Except people in their 20s have this thing called the internet, and it has a site called IMDb, and if you were a fan of The A-Team or Greatest American Hero you could read through the other shows Stephen J. Cannell made and you'll find 21 Jump Street in the list. Or if you were a fan of Johnny Depp you could read through his filmography, and again, you'll find the show.

I'm 25, and yeah I never heard of the show, NOBODY around me knew anything about it, but I found out about it when I was 12 because of a little show that used to be on VH1 called I Love the 80s, and from the little bit they showed it looked like the coolest show ever, I just HOPED that one day they'd put it on DVD so I could see it, and when I first saw it in the store, I was ecstatic.

[–] not_richjenkins 8 years ago

I'm 25, and yeah I never heard of the show, NOBODY around me knew anything about it, but I found out about it when I was 12 because of a little show that used to be on VH1 called I Love the 80s

So you're criticizing people for not knowing about a show that you saw clips of on I love the 80s. You do know that show is, ya know, terrible?

[–] bulldogsnbutterflies 8 years ago

I know right?? I came across an episode of the series on TV last weekend, and I mentioned it to some of my coworkers. They were like "Johnny Depp had a TV show?" and my favorite one was "Johnny Depp wasn't in 21 Jump St...." he was in the TV show and had a cameo in this movie, somebody wasn't paying attention... I'd really like to see a movie like the TV show, or better yet, recreate the show, maybe with the same charictors, or the children of those charictors. Like maybe they could have Hoffs and Penhall's sons working with Ioki's daughter... who knows, but it was a really good show that could probably do very well as a reboot