ANSWERS to the SECOND Semi-annual rec.arts.tv Quantum Leap Poll (s-a_r.a.t_ql.poll) as posted February 1, 1991 FAVORITE EPISODES {3} (18) Catch a Falling Star (CaFS) (10) Vietnam (LH-II) (10) What Price Gloria (WPG) (9) Another Mother (AM) (9) Leap Home I (LH-I) (9) MIA (MIA) (6) Good Morning, Peoria (GM,P) (5) Black on White on Fire (BoWoF) (4) The Boogieman (Boo) (3) Genesis (Ge) (2) Double Identity (2I) (2) Honeymoon Express (HE) (1) Pool Hall Blues (PHB) (1) A Little Miracle (aLM) EPISODE YOU WOULD MOST RECOMMEND TO A NON-LEAPER {1} (3) Genesis (3) Good Morning Peoria ``(It may not be much on QL history, theory but its gets them dancing in the streets)'' (3) Honeymoon Express (2) Catch a Falling Star (2) What Price Gloria (1) Double Identity (1) Black on White on Fire MOST REALISTIC EPISODE {1} (9) Black on White on Fire (1) The Americanization of Machiko (tAoM) (1) Catch a Falling Star (1) The Leap Home I (1) So Help Me God (SHMG) (1) Thou Shalt Not (TSN) (1) Vietnam MOST THOUGHT PROVOKING EPISODES {2} (15) Black on White on Fire (6) Jimmy (Jy) (6) Vietnam (4) The Colour of Truth (tCoT) (3) Freedom (Fr) (2.5) What Price Gloria (2) The Americanization of Machiko (2) Another Mother (2) Thou Shalt Not ... (1) So Help Me God (.5) Her Charm (HC) FAVORITE HOSTS {3} (17) Howlin Chick HOWOWOWOWOWOWLLL (GM,P) (13) Young Sam (LH-I) (13) Samantha (WPG) (10) Mrs. Brookner -- Mom (AM) (8) Jesse (tCoT) (7) Andrew Ross (Blind Faith) (BF) (4) Ray (CaFS) (3) Peter (HC) (3) Magic (LH-II) (2) Frankie (2I) (2) Harry Santini (The Great Spontini) (tGS) (2) Magic (PHB) (2) Leonard Dancy -- Lawyer (SHMG) (1) Wild Thing (Animal Frat) (AF) (1) Phillip (Sea Bride) (SB) BEST PLAYED HOST {1} (5) Young sam (LH-I) (of course, how hard can it be to play yourself :) :) ) (4) Jimmy (Jy) (3) Ray (BoWoF) (1) Magic (PHB) (.5) John Beckett (LH-I) (.5) Magic (LH-II) (1) David Letterman :) :) (LNWDL) (HEY -- I don't think that should count -- ma) FAVORITE COMPANIONS* (ADULTS) {2} (12) Rachel (GMP) (5) Tom Beckett (LH-I&II) (4) Wife (Ge) (4) Dana (HC) (4) Bunnie O'Hare (Maybe Baby) (MB) (3) Joseph (Fr) (2) Cheryl (Camikazi Kid) (CK) (2) Miss Melanie (tCoT) (1) Machiko (tAoM) (1) Diane McBride (HE) (1) Charles Rocket (aLM) (1) Edie (One Strobe over the Line) (OSOtL) (1) Miss Violet (PHB) (1) Grady (PHB) (1) Delilah (defendant) (SHMG) (1) Gloria (WPG) FAVORITE COMPANIONS** (CHILDREN) {2} (20) Theresa (AM) (8) Kevin (AM) (5) Katie Beckett (LH-I) (4) Jennifer (SB) (2) Rosa (All-American) (A-A) (1) Jamie (tGS) (1) Corey (Jy) (1) Chrisie (baby in MB) BEST (worst?) VILLIANS {2} (26) The Boogieman (Boo) (7) Roget (HE) (6) Slimebag and Scum (AM) (1) The prospective brother-in-law (CK) (1) "Guard Shark" lawyer - (tGS) (I STILL say he reminds me of Bobby Brady -- ma) (1) Photographer (OSOtL) FAVORITE SONGS (performed by Sam) {2} (18) Imagine (LH-I) (11) I, Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha (CaFS) (5) He'll Be There (PHB) (3) Great Balls of Fire (Miss Deep South) (MDS) (2) Volare (2I) (2) Joy to the World (aLM) (1) Grieg Piano Concerto (BF) *** Honorable mention: FAVORITE SONG (by Al) Inch Worm (AM) MOST MEMORABLE LEAP-IN {1} (3) Disco Inferno (DI) (3) Pearson (aLM) (3) Oh no, no no no no! Not a woman! Not high heels! Not again! (MIA) (2) gotta be the "post-climactic moment" from (2I)... :-) (1) Piano at Carnegie (BF) (1) Boogieman (1) What Price Gloria *** honorable mention: Private Dancer :-) (actually, from what I understand, there's nothing HONORABLE about the outfit he'll be wearing -- ma) MOST MEMORABLE SCENE {1} (3) The confrontation with the Boogieman in "The Boogieman" -- he grabs the sheriff, the red leap-like flash, and then it's Al -- and he's _SOLID_. (Boo) (3) Leap-in for The Leap Home (2) Picture of POW (AL) (LH-II) (2) Al "dancing" with Beth in MIA (1) The expression on Al's face as Senator Blowhard (or whatever his name was) becomes Senator Diane McBride in "HE" (1) When Sam realizes that he may never see Al again. (HE) (1) Sam seeing Tom for the first time in (LH-I) (1) Sam and Al's "Quanta le gusta" routiune (MDS) (1) Taxi scene with Al, Sam and Seymour, in (Play it Again, Seymour) (PIA,S) (1) Sam's revenge at end of (WPG?) *** Honorable mention: "Goodness Gracious GREAT BALLS OF FIRE" (MDS) (well, I know how I react every time **I** hear that song -- ma) AL'S BEST OUTFIT {1} (5) AdmirAL (HE and LH-II) (2) The Ghost of Christmas future costume. (ALM) "I *AM* the ghost of Christmas Future! ooooooo" (1) Disco Inferno outfit (1) the red hat and suspenders worn in several episodes like "A Portrait for Troian", "The Right Hand of God" SAM'S BEST OUTFIT (FEMALE) {1} (4) Carmen Miranda (MDS) (2) Mom's outfit (boots, long skirt, etc.) in which she stomped the van skum (AM) (this gets an honorable mention as the outfit I'd most like to OWN - ma) (1) Hooker outfit (MIA) (1) Formal (MDS) (1) The tight dress, fuzzy hat, and heels (without stockings) (WPG?) (1) Flower print dress (WPG) SAM'S BEST OUTFITS (MALE) {2} (7) Any time he was naked from the waist up. (best wording for the general idea anyway - ma) (5) Tights (Leaping In Without a Net) (LiWaN) (truth will out -- in a statement made by NBC executive, Warren Littlefield, today it was 'exposed' that Quantum Leap has been put on hiatus "until all the Scott Bakula fans in this country get their hormone levels down to a manageable level") (5) Tango Tux (SB) (3) Cervantes/Don Quixote (CaFS) (3) Bogia outfit (PIA,S) (3) Chippendale's Zorro costume (Private Dancer) (as Mary Ann pointed out, since this is a show about time travel we should be able to vote for future outfits. And *I'M the bean counter -- SO THERE) (1) Chick Howlllllllll (GMP) (1) The Great Spontini's stage costume (1) White outfit - (OSOtL) (1) Blue Blazer (SB) TOTALS 15 points for various forms of undress or -- well, I can't exactly call the tights in Leaping in Without a Net DRESSED 15 points for various forms of dress SO WE DON'T like him better undressed. We like him the SAME undressed :) :) (and these people keep complaining about our hormones -- Geeze Louise I tell you). AL'S BEST LINES {3} (6) "She stripped and I MISSED IT! ... I'm supposed to be the observer on this project! I should have been here to observe" (MB) (6) "Awww, Sam, not the head again! Everytime we leap we have to go to the men's room. It's disgusting." (PHB) (5) "You lay one hand on this kid, you slimebag, and I'll kill you. I don't know how, but I'll kill you." (AM) (4) "She probably knows what I like too. That doesn't make her my mother." (MB) (3) "He's (Ziggy) spitting everything in Japanese. That's what you get for feeding him all these foreign microchips." (DI) (3) "Sam, it's Ben Cartwright! Ben Cartwright is trying to save you!" (DI) (3) "Hey, look Sam, I'm gonnna leap!" (GMP) (3) "Oh Sam, you're going to have to bite the bullet, while I go back to put research on line, you're going to have to face a beautiful woman, who wants to spend the entire night making mad, passionate love to you. It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it." (HE) (3) "Some women have kinky taste in men, thank God." (PIA,S) (3) (Sam: "I don't remember") "Boy, the Republicans would *love* you." (Star Crossed) (SC) (2) "That pass was like a ten dollar hooker. It wasn't pretty but it got the job done." (A-A) (2) "Sixteen? You think I waited until I was sixteen?" (A-A) (2) "Angel Sam is the Doll Elf" (AM) (2) "Inch worm..." (AM) (2) "He loved 'pure and chaste from afar'. Well, that never went over too big with me, either". (CaFS) (2) "I knew how it was going to end when I took Brenda into the file room ... but I still took her." (Ge) (2) "Not the mens room again, Sam, I'm starting to feel like a pervert." (HE) (2) I'd give anything to see my father and my sister for a few days. To be able to talk with them again. Laugh with them. Tell them how much I love them. I'd give anything to have what you have, Sam. Anything. (LH-I) (2) "Deniese! Deniese, get in the closet! Get! Uh... no there's no one here Tina. Tina...Tina?" (Sam: "You know people with monogamous relationships don't wake up with guilty consciences.") "They don't have any fun either." (tRHoG) (1) "I couldn't play Chopsticks in Chinatown." (BF) (1) "Well, if you're going to go down in flames, I might as well help pick out the records." (GMP) (1) Excuse me, Mr. Chairman, but if you kill this project you will end one of the greatest adventures mankind has ever taken. And more important, you'll leave a brave man back there alone. (HE) (1) "I AM the ghost of Christmas Future!" (aLM) (1) "Lemme guess, Scarlett O'Hara on steroids." (MDS) (1) "Uh, personally I think you'd look kinda foxy in the little purple number with the white fuzz. Just my opinion." (MIA) (1) "You want to have safe sex with her, you'd better wear a bullet proof vest." (PIA,S) (1) "If all the men in the world could make love to all the women in the world, then there would be no more war." (TSN) *** Honorable mention (from CaFS) A: "The roar of the grease paint, the smell of the crows" S: "I think that's the other way around" A: "You never did summer stock SAM'S BEST LINES {3} (8) "Two hours as Samantha and I knew that the lyrics to 'I Enjoy Being a Girl' were not written by a woman." (WPG) (6) "Oy Vey, I'm the Rabbi?" (TSN) (6) "Oh Boy" (V) (5) It's like someone designed a modern day torture rack you can wear, from the bra, to the stockings, the tight skirts and the shoes from hell. -- Sam, "What Price Gloria" (5) "Sometimes I feel like a I'm a scientist in the middle of an experiment that no one else believes in." (BF) (3) "Disco! I wish I was dead." [BANG!] (DI) (3) "God forbid you should have two weeks down time." (tGS) (3) That's being the case your honor, since the law requires a trial by a jury of one's peers, we have no choice but to reluctantly accept these white jurors as Lyla's equals. (SHMG) (3) "See, light -- to shoot you by" (HC) (3) Basically, I can never remember exact lines but from I think Miss Deep South when he's entering the elevator muttering about all this background noise that is interfering (he is refering to Al talking). (MDS) (3) "At last! Something sexual he's not into!" (A Portrait for Troian) (aPfT) (3) "Maybe that's all winning is...having the right person believe in you." (The Right Hand of God) (tRHoG) (3) "In case you haven't noticed, Al, all my stops lately have been unscheduled." (tRHoG) (3) "I want a beer -- a lite beer. I want to make some microwave popcorn. I want to sit down in front of the TV, start the VCR ... I just ... I just want to go home." (WPG) (2) "I'm stuck in '56 with a brain like swiss cheese and YOU'RE having technical difficulties?" (Ge?) (2) "You can't die yet .. you haven't seen Star Wars" (Jy) (2) "You hear that, whoever you are, where ever you are - I QUIT. (LH-I) (2) "To stop my sister from noogy-ing me to death?" (Runaway) (Ra) (2) "I'm not into bondage" (WPG) (1) "No, honestly. If I'm...uh...lyin', I'm dyin'!" (2I) (1) "Sometimes weird things just happen." (GMP) (1) "We are never going to war with Russia. In fact we're going to be allies... it...could uh, happen...don't you think?" (aLM) (1) "Oh no, no no no no! Not a woman! Not high heels! Not again!" (MIA) (1) "I need to sit down and slip into a coma." (Rebel Without a Clue) (RWaC) (1) "If you look into my eyes, you'll see another soul.." (Star Crossed) (SC) (1) "I have a kind of unusual lifestyle." (TSN) COMPANION'S BEST LINES {3} (15) "Doorknobs are usually placed a little lower, aren't they?" --- Rachel (GMP) (5) "You don't talk to yourself, you talk to an imaginary playmate!" --- Dana (HC) (5) "I've never noticed how many times you've been reincarnated." (Sam: "I don't believe in reincarnation.") "You would if you could see all the souls I see in your eyes." --- Elvira, (LiWaN) (4) "I love it when they beat the Cowboys." --- Joseph (Fr) (4) Bunnie going on about how Barbie's figure is impossible. "But it's somthing to aspire to" --- Bunnie (MB) (3) "Sam, me and Wookie made a painting." --- Theresa (AM) (3) "Knowledge by gender, jerk." --- Susan (AM) (3) "I turned him into a raven and he flew out the window." (Sheriff: "Why didn't you go with him.") "I can only turn into a wolf. I'd be to big to fit through the bars." --- Joseph (Fr) (3) "Sayin' ain't doin'" --- Grady (PHB) (3) ("It's bad luck to kill anyone on your wedding night.") "Not in Brooklyn" --- (Sam) and Vinnie (SB) (2) "That's not my mommy, that's a man! ... So's the guy in the funny shirt!" --- Theresa (AM) (2) "Have you ever leaped and not at least survived?" --- Joseph, (Fr) (2) "Could be worse, you could be a white man." --- Joseph (Fr) (2) "Redskins, best damn team in America" --- Joseph (Fr) (2) "He's not alone, Admiral. He has God." --- Senator (HE) (2) "I hope when the right man comes along, he realizes what a wonderful woman you are" --- Gloria (to Sam) (WPG) (1) ", he's gonna be singin' soprano." [Cut to Sam squealing out one last chorus of "Volare," way way up there.] --- (2I) (1) "Hey! You shoot like a white man!" --- Joseph (FR) (1) "Peter, you're not that cute. Didn't anyone ever tell you that men aren't supposed to be that vain?!" ("Didn't anyone ever tell you it's not nice to be rude and pushy!") --- Dana (and Sam) (HC) (1) "I know you haven't proven that Dr. Beckett has traveled back in time or that if having done so he can make an impact of global importance, but it is the opinion of this committee that such heroic undertakings advance the human cause and whether or not they succeed is not so important as the fact that we tried." --- Senator Diane McBride (HE) (1) "Piggy Suey, Piggy Suey ..." --- Buddy (How the Tess was Won) (HtTwW) (1) "Thanks, little brother." - --- Tom Beckett (LH-II) (1) "No stockings, you're such a bohemian." --- Gloria (WPG) BEST RESPONSE TO (host, How? ...) {1} (5) "Girl Scouts", "Awesome" (AM) (2) "Old Chinese Movies" (Leap of Faith) (LoF) (1) "How did you ever get to be a prize fighter?" "I just kinda fell into it." (Sister Angela and Sam) (tRHoG) (1) "I told you to wear a girdle." "I'm not into bondage." (WPG) (1) "Where did you learn that, Togo?" "Uh...T.V." "Oh, Marcus Welby." ---Joseph and Sam, about the jerry-rigged resperator oxygen tank (Fr) (1) "Dr. Heimlich, are you all right?" (TSN) BEST REMARKS RE TALKING TO AL {2} (4) "Who's Al" "Al's, my dog, on the farm." "Your dog?!!!!" "Best friend I ever had." (Edie, Sam, and Al - OSOtL) (2) "Talking to the stiffs again, Melvin?" (Aggie - GN,DH) (2) "If you keep that up, people who don't know you will think your looney-tunes." (Dana - HC) (2) "You don't talk to yourself, you talk to an imaginary playmate!" (Dana - HC) (2) The scene with the sister in Leaping Without a Net (2) The stuff Blake said in the hall "Get that jerk out of here" (aLM) (1) "You've been hit in the head too many times with a sap, Nick." (officer ? - PIA,S) (1) The scene with Seymour in "Play it Again, Seymour" (mentions Dog) LEAST FAVORITE EPISODES {3} (8) The Americanization of Machiko (-- Well *I* liked it -- ma) (8) Portrait for Troian (7) All-Americans (7) Good Night, Dear Heart (7) Miss Deep South (4) Animal Frat (4) The Great Spontini (3) Freedom (3) Runaway (3) The Right Hand of God (2) Jimmy (2) One Strobe over the Line (1) Rebel Without a Clue (1) Leap of Faith (1) Leaping in Without a Net NOW -- wouldn't you rather see ANY of these than have to live another MONTH without QL?? LEAST REALISTIC EPISODE {1} (4) Portrait for Troian (2) Miss Deep South (1) All-Americans (1) Blind Faith (1) The Boogieman (1) The Great Spontini (1) Her Charm (1) Play it Again, Seymour BEST KISS WITH HISTORY Dr. Heimlich (Thou Shalt Not...) 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