The WORST episodes of 21 Jump Street

Every episode of 21 Jump Street ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of 21 Jump Street!

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

Last Updated: 3/6/2026Network: FOXStatus: Ended
Wheels and Deals (2)
star
6.08
13 votes

#1 - Wheels and Deals (2)

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1989

Working on a tip from Booker, the Jump Street cops join a motorcycle caravan in order to bring Raymond Crane to justice.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
Best Years of Your Life
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6.13
16 votes

#2 - Best Years of Your Life

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1988

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.

Directors: Bill Corcoran
How I Saved the Senator
star
6.17
12 votes

#3 - How I Saved the Senator

Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/1990

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.

Writer: Gary Rosen
The Dreaded Return of Russell Buckins
star
6.33
12 votes

#4 - The Dreaded Return of Russell Buckins

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/26/1989

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

Directors: Rob Iscove
A.W.O.L.
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6.40
15 votes

#5 - A.W.O.L.

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/19/1989

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.

Directors: Mike Robison
Things We Said Today
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6.44
9 votes

#6 - Things We Said Today

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1989

Ioki is confronted by a teenage boy with a gun, who three years earlier Ioki had talked into turning in his drug abusing family.

Directors: Tucker Gates
School's Out
star
6.50
18 votes

#7 - School's Out

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/1988

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.

Directors: Kim Manners
Back from the Future
star
6.55
11 votes

#8 - Back from the Future

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/1990

In the 21st century a young cop hoping to revive the Jump Street program interviews the retired officers who were there when it all started.

Directors: Peter DeLuise
Writer: David Stenn
Woolly Bullies
star
6.56
16 votes

#9 - Woolly Bullies

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/19/1989

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.

Directors: Bill Corcoran
Low and Away
star
6.56
32 votes

#10 - Low and Away

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/1987

Penhall joins the school baseball team in order to keep an eye on one of its star players, whose life has been threatened when his father agrees to testify against the mob.

Directors: Bill Corcoran
Chapel of Love
star
6.59
17 votes

#11 - Chapel of Love

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/1988

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

Directors: Michael Robinson
Brothers
star
6.60
10 votes

#12 - Brothers

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/1990

Doug has a strained reunion with his estranged younger brother Joey when Joey is assigned to the Jump St. team. Doug comes to his aid after Joey is brainwashed into joining a religious cult he was investigating.

Directors: Don McBrearty
In the Name of Love
star
6.63
8 votes

#13 - In the Name of Love

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1991

Mac has to date a daughter of a reputed drug dealer in a confidential FBI case at the same time he is trying to rebuild a relantionship with an old flame.

Directors: Zale Dalen
Tunnel of Love
star
6.67
12 votes

#14 - Tunnel of Love

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/13/1990

Hoffs and Garrett must deal with a DEA officer while working undercover at a massage parlor suspected of being a front for a drug operation.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
Don't Stretch the Rainbow
star
6.68
19 votes

#15 - Don't Stretch the Rainbow

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1987

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

Directors: Kim Manners
Nemesis
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6.69
16 votes

#16 - Nemesis

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/26/1989

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.

Directors: Ken Wiederhorn
Writer: John Truby
Buddy System
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6.73
11 votes

#17 - Buddy System

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/1990

McCann joins up to be the partner of a mentally handicapped youth in a school buddy system, to investigate the murder of the boy's former partner.

Directors: Jorge Monte
Raising Marijuana
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6.76
17 votes

#18 - Raising Marijuana

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/17/1988

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.

Directors: Bill Corcoran
Film at Eleven
star
6.78
9 votes

#19 - Film at Eleven

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1991

After finding the missing daughter of a famous reporter, Mac tries to solve the mistery behind the missing.

Directors: Peter DeLuise
Rounding Third
star
6.78
9 votes

#20 - Rounding Third

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/1990

After volunteering to become a Little League coach Penhall learns that one of the players was kidnapped by his father, from his mother and step-father.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: Gary Rosen
Brother Hanson & the Miracle of Renner's Pond
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6.79
19 votes

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

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/13/1988

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.

Directors: Bill Corcoran
Awomp-Bomp-Aloobomb, Aloop Bamboom
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6.80
10 votes

#22 - Awomp-Bomp-Aloobomb, Aloop Bamboom

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1990

Hanson and Penhall find a way to get out of the cold while remaining on the job as they trail a suspected bomber to Florida during spring break.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
How Much is That Body in the Window?
star
6.80
20 votes

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

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1987

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.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
Higher Education
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6.81
21 votes

#24 - Higher Education

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1987

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

Directors: Larry Shaw
The Worst Night of Your Life
star
6.83
46 votes

#25 - The Worst Night of Your Life

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/1987

Hoffs is not convinced that the captured suspect in an arson case at a Catholic girls school is the guilty party and believes that the real culprit will strike again at the school's prom.

Directors: Rob Bowman