Pronounced the same as Wi-Fi, which sets up a funny scene where Jenko asks around about the drug and gets told about the school’s actual Wi-Fi.

E.g when Jenko and Zuke pronounce the “annals” of football history as the “anals” of football history, then promise to tear up said “anals”.

There is one scene in particular where he reverts back to N.W.A. era Ice Cube after only being served a few green beans at a buffet that was particularly hilarious.

A well known example of a decent sequel that got bashed for being too similar to its predecessor is Hangover 2. Even though it would have been pretty funny on its own, it was way too similar to the original to not be compared to it, which led to some critics viewing it as worse than it really was.

22 shamelessly makes itself similar to the original to avoid this problem, but does actually expand and differentiate itself enough to make it worthy of standing on its own.

A few examples:

• Jump Street’s new office is right across the street and incredibly high tech, even though they are doing the same exact work as they did in the original. This is a reference to 22’s expanded budget (over $50 million) even though they are making a very similar movie
• There is a scene where Jenko is driving around campus with the instructions to keep the department’s budget as low as possible, but he ends up driving through an expensive robotics lab and park full of monuments and destroying everything. This pokes fun at how directors say they want to keep their budget low, but generally end up spending heavy for unnecessary explosion scenes
• There are multiple times throughout the investigation where Jenko and Schmidt come up with outside-of-the-box ideas only to have Dickson tell them to do the same thing because they are working the same case. This is a jab at how sequels, especially cop movies like this, tend to closely resemble their predecessor

When people first heard that the 1980’s TV show was getting turned into its own movie starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, few people had high hopes for it. They assumed Tatum was cast to draw in the ladies, Jonah was cast because he’s a pretty big name, and the end result would be a box office hit with awful reviews.

This is spoken by Deputy Chief Hardy, played by the hilarious Nick Offerman, in reference to their second mission at this college. But you don’t have to read too far in between the lines to see it applies to the expectations of the second movie as well.

We run into our old buddies Mr. Walters in prison, who makes some not-so-tasteful prison rape jokes at the expense of his cellmate Eric.

SPOILER(ISH)

One of the funniest parts of the movie, and one that I almost missed at first, is the fact that the duo is misled for most of the movie by a tattoo of a red fish. It took me a little while to realize that the characters were literally chasing a red herring for most of the movie.

Jimmy started off as a YouTube sensation thanks to his Life According To Jimmy channel, and has since used that popularity to land himself fairly significant roles in both Grown Ups 2 and 22 Jump Street. He plays a football player named “Rooster” in Jump Street, who is also the head of the frat Jenko and Schmidt are pledging to.