All The Ridiculous 22 JUMP STREET Fake Sequels Will Be Canon

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I thought 22 Jump Street was pretty funny all the way through, but it definitely ended on a high note. For those who don't recall, the film ends with Ice Cube telling Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill that they're going to medical school, which sets off a long montage that lasts for the entire duration of the end credits that shows Schmidt and Jenko in a bunch of fake sequels like 23 Jump Street: Medical School, 27 Jump Street: Culinary School, 31 Jump Street: Ninja Academy, and a whole lot more.

Like any normal person, I assumed that since 22 Jump Street was all about the idea of making a sequel, the end credits sequence was Phil Lord and Chris Miller's way of saying that they're done with this franchise by poking fun at the insanity of keeping this concept alive for future entries; they basically ran it into the ground themselves so they didn't have to see anyone else do it for real. But then something strange happened: 22 Jump Street made a boatload of cash, and Sony greenlit 23 Jump Street for real. So...what now?

Well, Topless Robot was at a panel for Lord and Miller's Fox TV show The Last Man on Earth at WonderCon, and the topic of the sequel came up:

"We've found a way that we love that makes those imagined sequels canonical and yet does something that we haven't told you about yet," Lord said. "The sequels are canon."

How the heck are they going to pull that off? We're not sure, but this aligns with a previous interview from last month:

“Rodney Rothman is off writing a script,” Lord said. “He had a really outrageous idea for what to do, and how we could take our scorched-earth sequel policy from the end of ’22 Jump Street’ and do something that hadn’t been explored in those 22 sequels and simultaneously tell the next chapter in the story.”

So does that mean that we'll actually see a crossover with the Men in Black franchise? That might not fulfill the criteria of being "something that [they] haven't told [us] about yet," because they've commented on that idea before. What do you think the future of the Jump Street franchise holds?