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21 Jump Street

How I Saved the Senator

Season 4, Episode 23, Aired May 07, 1990

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The Jump Street cops each relate a different version (with the teller as the hero of a film from their favorite genre), to a reporter investigating the foiled attempt to kill a senator.

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Elena Wohl

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Christian Hoff

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Jim Ishida

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Steven Williams

Captain Adam Fuller
Peter DeLuise

Officer Douglas 'Doug' Penhall
Holly Robinson Peete

Officer Judith "Judy" Hoffs
Richard Grieco

Dennis Booker (season 3-4)
Dustin Nguyen

Officer Harry Truman Ioki (season 1-4)
Johnny Depp

Officer Thomas "Tom" Hanson (season 1-4)

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A lighthearted episode for the whole cast.

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"Great"

By j7286, Aug 05, 2006

I give this episode an "A" for effort, though the joke wears thin after awhile. The idea is for each member of the Jump Street gang to tell a reporter about the pivotal event involving a Senator, using a movie genre as their mode of expression. Their imaginations take flight as 1) Ioki places himself in a 'dubbed' Asian martial arts flick; 2) Hanson sees himself as Charlie Chaplin in a black & white silent movie; 3) Blowfish winds up in a 'Halloween' horror flick; 4) Judy and Captain Fuller are characters in a 1940's backstage film noir; and 5) Penhall becomes James Bond (Roger Moore style).

The best of the bunch is Fuller in a Clark Gable guise, with Judy being allowed to sing in that segment as an extra treat. Johnny Depp as Charlie Chaplin is amusing, though it's eerily closer to Edward Scissorhands than it is to Benny and Joon.moreless
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TRIVIA (1)
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- When Penhall-as-Bond searches the laundry room for the bomb, he says, "This isn't the storage room", but his lips don't move.
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QUOTES (2)
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- Ample: I'm busted. Penhall: Why yes. Of course you are. Ample: Got a nice bankroll there. Penhall: I bet you say that to all the boys.
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- Ioki: A strange sensation began to creep up on me. Was it deja vu? Second sight? Or was it just the egg-salad sandwich that I had for lunch?
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NOTES (3)
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- This episode marks the final filmed episode of the series for Johnny Depp. Episode 81 was aired after this episode with Depp but it was filmed at an earlier date.
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- Holly Robinson sings in this episode.
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- Johnny Depp will also perform a Charlie Chaplin routine in the film "Benny and Joon" along with his silent film portrayal of Buster Keaton in the same movie.
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- Ioki's martial arts retelling (complete with apparent redubbing from chinese) is a parody of the 1972 TV series Kung Fu and 'chop-sake' movies like 1973's "Enter the Dragon". Hanson's retelling is a silent-movie homage to Charlie Chaplin 'little tramp' movies. Hoff's retelling is an homage to the 1972 film "Lady Sings the Blues", right down to the photo of Billy Dee Williams on her dressing table (Ray Parker, Jr. doubles Williams during the show). Sal's retelling is an homage to 'slasher' movies like 1974's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". In the climax of it, the murderer grows masks from many slash movie villains. Penhall's retelling is a parody of Bond movies (particularly Connery ones), in which Penhall swaggers around in a tuxedo as "Pen. Doug Hall." (and later "Hall. Doug Pen.") rather than "Bond. James Bond." He defeats "Sal Stavro Blowfish" (rather than "Ernst Stavro Blofeld") and his femme fatale "Ample O'Raunch" (rather than "Plenty O'Toole"). The Captain's is a (short) homage to westerns.
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