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The Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street Season 2

Every episode of 21 Jump Street Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street Season 2!

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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 young adults.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 1 - In the Custody of a Clown
    6.6/10(194 votes)

    #1 - In the Custody of a Clown

    S2:E1

    The Jump Street unit discovers that a boy who was being used as a pawn by his feuding parents faked his kidnapping with the aid of his grandfather to get away from his parents.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  2. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 2 - Besieged (1)
    7.7/10(212 votes)

    #2 - Besieged (1)

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:Jonathan Lemkin

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  3. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 3 - Besieged (2)
    8.0/10(194 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:Jonathan Lemkin

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  4. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 4 - Two for the Road
    7.1/10(180 votes)

    #4 - Two for the Road

    S2:E4

    The Jump Street unit is investigating a counterfeit drivers license ring when Captain Fuller gets arrested for drunk driving.

    Director:Steve Beers
    Writer:Paul Bernbaum

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  5. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 5 - After School Special
    7.5/10(180 votes)

    #5 - After School Special

    S2:E5

    Hanson is unable to keep his mind on the investigation of a shooting of a teacher at an inner city school when he learns that his mother is moving in with her boyfriend.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:David Jackson

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  6. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 6 - Higher Education
    7.5/10(175 votes)

    #6 - Higher Education

    S2:E6

    A pregnant school girl fingers Ioki as the father to be.

    Director:Larry Shaw
    Writer:E. Paul Edwards

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  7. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 7 - Don't Stretch the Rainbow
    7.4/10(167 votes)

    #7 - Don't Stretch the Rainbow

    S2:E7

    Racial violence threatens to break out at an integrated school when word leaks out that a white student got a black student pregnant.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  8. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 8 - Honor Bound
    7.8/10(189 votes)

    #8 - Honor Bound

    S2:E8

    Hanson and Penhall find the military code of honor hampering their undercover investigation of a military academy where the cadets are suspected of killing homosexuals.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:E. Paul Edwards

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  9. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 9 - You Ought to Be in Prison
    7.9/10(169 votes)

    #9 - You Ought to Be in Prison

    S2:E9

    Hanson and a film star he had been assigned to protect are kidnapped by an escaped murderer.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  10. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 10 - How Much is That Body in the Window?
    7.3/10(166 votes)

    #10 - How Much is That Body in the Window?

    S2:E10

    Penhall gets close to a football player suspected of using steroids at a school where an olympic hopeful gymnast died after a performance due to steroid abuse. Hanson considers becoming a big brother.

    Director:Neill Fearnley
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  11. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 11 - Christmas in Saigon
    7.9/10(188 votes)

    #11 - Christmas in Saigon

    S2:E11

    Ioki faces being dismissed from the force when internal affairs discovers that he is a Vietnamese refuge who is using an alias. Flashback sequences show his escape from Saigon.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  12. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 12 - Fear and Loathing with Russell Buckins
    7.1/10(165 votes)

    #12 - Fear and Loathing with Russell Buckins

    S2:E12

    Hanson contemplates leaving the force and leaves town instead of going to a refresher course at the police academy he and Penhall had been assigned to take after they went drag racing to try to catch a hit and run driver.

    Director:Kevin Hooks
    Writer:Gary Skeen Hall

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  13. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 13 - A Big Disease with a Little Name
    8.2/10(219 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Neill Fearnley
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  14. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 14 - Chapel of Love
    7.1/10(154 votes)

    #14 - Chapel of Love

    S2:E14

    Past romances that didn't have happy endings are the subject of conversation at a Valentine Day Eve poker game.

    Director:Michael Robinson
    Writers:Jonathan Lemkin, Bill Nuss

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  15. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 15 - I'm OK- You Need Work
    8.1/10(192 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Neill Fearnley
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  16. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 16 - Orpheus 3.3
    8.4/10(253 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:James A. Contner
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  17. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 17 - Champagne High
    7.7/10(158 votes)

    #17 - Champagne High

    S2:E17

    Penhall & Hanson go undercover as the McQuaid brothers in a suburban high school, that recently has had inner city kids bused in, to investigate the theft of a Porsche. Meanwhile, Judy must deal with a love-sick teenage boy.

    Director:Larry Shaw
    Writer:Paul Bernbaum

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  18. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 18 - Brother Hanson & the Miracle of Renner's Pond
    6.5/10(146 votes)

    #18 - Brother Hanson & the Miracle of Renner's Pond

    S2:E18

    When a small-town teacher refuses to teach the theory of evolution after his son has a near-death experience, Hanson infiltrates the school to try to discover who's behind the recent burning of the science books.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:E. Paul Edwards

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  19. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 19 - Raising Marijuana
    6.9/10(129 votes)

    #19 - Raising Marijuana

    S2:E19

    Penhall and Ioki go undercover as the ""Swark Twins"" to get in with teenage boys working for drug smugglers. Meanwhile, Hoffs becomes romantically involved with the head drug smuggler.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:Jonathan Lemkin

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  20. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 20 - Best Years of Your Life
    7.4/10(205 votes)

    #20 - Best Years of Your Life

    S2:E20

    The suicide of a popular student, whom Hanson and Penhall had arrested the night before, leaves his family, fellow students and Hanson in a state of depression and forces Penhall to relive bitter childhood memories.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:Jonathan Lemkin

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  21. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 21 - Cory and Dean Got Married
    6.9/10(147 votes)

    #21 - Cory and Dean Got Married

    S2:E21

    Hoffs and Penhall must deal with a pursuing husband when they are assigned to escort a girl arrested for killing her father when he tried to prevent her from eloping.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  22. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 22 - School's Out
    7.5/10(147 votes)

    #22 - School's Out

    S2:E22

    Hanson goes undercover to find a student who is blowing up toilets. Meanwhile, Fuller must convince the higher-ups that the Jump Street program, which is scheduled to be deactivated over the summer, should be reactivated in the fall, and Doug decides it's time to grow up.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Eric Blakeney

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"In the Custody of a Clown" is the best rated episode of "21 Jump Street" season 2. It scored 6.6/10 based on 194 votes. Directed by Kim Manners and written by Clifton Campbell, it aired on 9/20/1987. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "Besieged (1)".