#26 "A Big Disease With A Little Name" (Season 2 #13)

#26 "A Big Disease With A Little Name" (Season 2 #13)

Original Air Date: Feb. 7, 1988

Writer: Patrick Hasburgh

Director: Neill Fearnley

Production Code: 16210

Things To Note: First appearance of Dorothy Pezzino, Penhall's girlfriend, played by Peter DeLuise's then-wife, Gina Nemo.

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Friends, Family & Guests: Phillip Tanzai [ Unknown ], Debra Sandlund [ Unknown ], Janet Carroll [ Unknown ], Gary Bayer [ Unknown ]

Episode Summary from The 21 Jump Street Episode Guide:

NOTE: Stop with this one if you don’t want spoilers.

Dorothy an old girlfriend of Penhall's, who walked out on him two years ago, returns and decides to move in with him. Hanson gets assigned to protect a student with AIDS who is being made to feel unwelcome in class.

Detailed Episode Review (contains spoilers!):

(NOTE: I am doing these from the FX repeats. Email me with missing scenes & I’ll add them).

Commentary:

Cyndi Glass: We were wondering why they played #89 instead of this one for the Day of Compassion, and then we realized - the info was out of date. The guy says there are only three ways to get AIDS, from sharing needles, having sex or having a blood transfusion. He goes "I don’t do drugs, and I never had a blood transfusion...so you figure it out." Hanson correctly assumes he was gay. The possibility of getting it from a girl was not even mentioned. I think that’s why they showed the other one. That line about the drugs they’ll have in 5 years really got to me. It turned out to be true. I wish we were seeing the PSA’s.

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