The classic sitcom and feature film 21 Jump Street had a premise that many might consider ludicrous, featuring adult cops posing as high school students in order to investigate crimes. Though it sounds like a purely fictional idea, it has some basis in truth. Phil Lord, co-director of the two movies starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, revealed that one of the funniest lines of dialogue from the first movie was lifted directly from research they had done into actual undercover cops in high schools. The line in question comes from Dave Frango, whose reaction to learning that his friends are copes was “We partied together, man. You bought us Taco Bell.”
This was believe it or not an actual quotation from a kid that was caught up in an undercover high school pot sting in the valley decades ago that we found in our research. “He bought us Taco Bell.” It was the biggest betrayal a 15 year old could imagine. https://t.co/aqxaJEUNmh
