10 Most Spiteful Movie Easter Eggs Ever
2. Patton Oswalt Takes Another Opportunity To Dunk On Star Wars - 22 Jump Street
22 Jump Street is full of hilarious blink-and-you'll-miss-it gags, and the cattiest of all surely appears during Patton Oswalt's cameo as a college history professor.
While he's talking, focus your eyes on the chalkboard behind him and you might notice a heading which reads "Failed american policy," under which it lists "drug war, the War on Terror, wars in general, Cold War, culture wars, and Star Wars."
While at face value the history professor is presumably referring to Star Wars in terms of Ronald Reagan's proposed 1980s missile defense system which was nicknamed the "Star Wars program," looking a little closer reveals something else entirely.
Next to Star Wars, the word "prequels" is faintly scrawled in parentheses, clearly referring to George Lucas' much-maligned trilogy of Star Wars prequels.
It's an especially amusing Easter egg given Patton Oswalt's involvement, considering that the year prior he made a famous cameo appearance in Parks and Recreation which was largely devoted to him outlining a ridiculous fan theory for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Better still, 22 Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were hired a few years later to direct Solo: A Star Wars Story, though they were ultimately fired mid-production due to their improv-heavy filmmaking style and replaced with Ron Howard.