21 Jump Street (TV Series) Fun with Animals (1988) User Reviews

Booker tells a joke, but not the punchline

[j62590 · 8/10 · 13 November 2010]

Booker is working Internal Affairs and infiltrating Jump Street. But, by the episode's conclusion, in a bit of "Hollywood good fortune", Booker is "lent" to Jump Street by IA, so now he can appear in the rest of the episodes. Wow. Didn't see that coming.

Anyway, what bother's me most... is Hansen asks Booker if he's really a jerk or just acting like one because it's fun. Booker responds with a joke that I guess you could get away with on TV back in the 80's, "A polack, a puerto rican and a jew are on a cruise ship when it hist and iceberg. ship's going down and there's only one space left on the lifeboat..." BUT HE DOESN'T GIVE THE PUNCHLINE!!! If anyone knows it, please post. It's nagging me.

An Introduction to a New and Complicated Character

[evelind7 · 10/10 · 4 September 2009]

This episode introduced the viewers to Officer Dennis Booker, played to perfection by actor Richard Grieco. In the story, Booker comes off as being self-centered, bigoted and uncaring, which leads Officer Tom Hanson (Johnny Depp) to think that he somehow is involved in the brutal attack of a teenage girl in the school he is investigating.

Booker is a interesting character for 21 Jump Street because he is different from the rest of the gang. He lives for fun and seems to hold a few secrets from the rest of the crew. While Officer Doug Penhall trademark is that he is funny and goofy, Ioki's trademark is that he is clean and somewhat a loner and Hanson is very involved in his job while keeping a sarcastic sense of humor, Booker can tend to be mean-spirited and Hanson wonders if this is all an act or if in reality he is showing his true feelings.

I felt it was a good way to begin Season 3 of 21 Jump Street and found this a very refreshing episode and one of my favorites. Great acting, great story and I give it a 10.