That was my favorite line from 21 Jump Street. A 25-year-old Johnny Depp played a 25-year-old undercover cop playing an 18-year-old high school student. He’d go into the school, befriend the kids and then when things started getting heated, he’d whip his badge out of his pocket and say that famous line: “You’re under arrest. I’m a cop.” Does it get cooler than that?
Yep—when a GIRL goes under cover AND gets to wear fun costumes AND kicks everyone’s butts. That’s Jennifer Garner in Alias. I wasn’t an Alias fan from the beginning (looked all Science-fictiony and confusing to me) but Frank and I were drawn in by the promo for the 2005 season. It featured agent Sydney Bristo in all her different outfits and wigs, beating up people to the tune of “I’m Crazy for This Little Lady…” by Lenny Kravitz. We were sold. We rented the DVDs from Blockbuster and got all caught up. Well, we were still confused but we got the idea—she worked for the CIA and went undercover all over the world trying to get something from the bad guys. And they would always ask her, “Who do you work for?” and she would never tell them—even when they pulled out her teeth one by one. Sydney never broke. She had cool lines too:
“What’s your name?”
“Ima.”
“Ima what?”
“Ima gonna kick your ass.”
And then, of course, she would.
I had my own Alias/21 Jump Street experience recently. I signed up to be a mystery shopper. My assignment is top secret so I can’t tell you much but let’s just say I gave an Oscar-worthy performance. They’d ask me questions and I answered all of them coolly. They couldn’t break me! Now I never did get to work in my favorite TV lines like “Ima gonna kick your ass” or “You’re under arrest. I’m a cop.” But I did get to say, “Here’s my urine sample.” Does it get cooler than that?
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I remember one time on 21 Jump Street the Asian guy was undercover with a car thief and the kid said, "How much do you think I'll get for it?" (referring to the car) and the Asian cop said, "Oh, about 5-10 years" as he busted out his badge. So smooth.
That show had me convinced that we had Narcs at my junior high. Every time a new student transfered in (especial the older-looking 9th graders) I was just positive they were cops. They always happened to befriend the 'party' clique. To this day there's still a girl I believe was a cop. TV corrupted my mind. At least I wasn't convinced we had CIA agents roaming the halls.
Wouldn't it be funny if you started dating the cop and went to the prom with him? Or maybe that's my Johnny Depp fantasy.
Isn't that every girls fantasy of Johnny while they were in High School?
I actually had a crush on the Asian cop...Dustin Nguyen as Officer Harry Truman Ioki.
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