NOTES Anything in curly brackets '{}'is a comment. If it is preceeded by a 'MA' is it a comment by your illustrious quiz mistress, if it is preceeded by a 'PR' it is a comment by a poll respondant (or person responding if you wish) that the Quiz Mistress thought ought to be included with the responses. Also, in the quotes sections, anything indicated {MAE} means that it is NOT in the quote file. Mary Anne can use her discretion to decide what to add to quotes. FIRST EPISODE YOU EVER SAW (1) 15 Genesis 3 The Americanization of Machiko 3 Honeymoon Express 2 What Price Gloria 1 Blind Faith 1 Catch a Falling Star 1 The Color of Truth 1 How the Tess Was Won 1 MIA 1 Play it Again, Seymour 1 So Help Me God 1 Star-Crossed EPISODE THAT `CONVERTED' YOU TO A FAN (1) 8 Genesis 3 MIA 2 Blind Faith 2 Honeymoon Express 2 How the Tess Was Won 2 Star-Crossed 2 What Price Gloria 1 rec.arts.tv 1 The Americanization of Machiko 1 Another Mother 1 Camikazi Kid 1 Good Morning, Peoria 1 Her Charm 1 Honeymoon Express 1 Leap Home I&II 1 Play it Again, Seymour 1 Pool Hall Blues FAVORITE EPISODES (3) 31 Shock Theater 22 Vietnam 20 The Leap Home 18 The Halloween Episode 17 Catch a Falling Star 11 M.I.A. 10 Genesis 9 Last Dance Before an Execution 7 Another Mother 7 Good Morning, Peoria 5 Honeymoon Express 3 Blind Faith 3 Poll Hall Blues 3 Star-Crossed 2 Double Identity 2 Good Night, Dear Heart 2 Her Charm 2 Jimmy 2 What Price Gloria 1 The Americanization of Machiko 1 Camikazi Kid 1 Disco Inferno 1 Future Boy 1 Nuclear Family 1 Play it Again, Seymour 1 The one seen saw most recently EPISODE YOU WOULD MOST RECOMMEND TO A NON-LEAPER (2) 14 Genesis 9 Honeymoon Express 8 Catch a Falling Star 8 Good Morning Peoria 8 Leap Home 5 Vietnam 5 What Price Gloria 4 Future Boy 4 Shock Theater 3 Another Mother 3 Nuclear Family 2 Black on White on Fire 2 Blind Faith 2 Last Dance Before an Execution 2 MIA 2 One Strobe over the Line 2 Southern Comforts 1 The Halloween Episode 1 The Color of Truth 1 A Little Miracle 1 Private Dancer 1 Star Crossed MOST REALISTIC EPISODE (1) 11 Black on White on Fire 3 Vietman 2 Jimmy 2 Nuclear Family 1 Another Mother 1 Catch A Falling Star 1 Last Dance Before an Execution 1 One Strobe Over the Line 1 Pool Hall Blues 1 Private Dancer 1 Runaway 1 So Help Me God 1 Thou Shalt not 1 Shock Theater {PR I know this sounds like a weird choice. But consider: I'm a } { psych major who just got finished studying about multiple } { personality disorder. Insane asylums really did look like } { that, the patients really were treated like that, and Sam } { makes a *GREAT* MP. } MOST THOUGHT PROVOKING EPISODES (2) 34 Black on White on Fire 8 Jimmy 8 Last Dance Before an Execution 6 The Color of Truth 6 Private Dancer 5 Nuclear Family 3 Vietnam 2 The Americanization of Machicko 2 Leap Home 2 So Help Me God 1 Freedom 1 Good Morning Peoria 1 Good Night, Dear Heart 1 What Price Gloria FAVORITE HOSTS (3) 27 Samantha Stormer "What Price, Gloria" 24 Sam Beckett "The Leap Home" 16 Howlin Chick HOWL "Good Morning Peoria" 10 Jesse Taylor "Color of Truth" 9 Mrs. Brookner "Another Mother" 9 Jimmy "Jimmy" 7 Magic "Pool Hall Blues" 6 Billie Jean Crockett "8 1/2 Months" 5 Andrew Ross "Blind Faith" 4 Gilbert Labonte "Southern Comforts" 4 Darlene "Miss Deep South" 3 Wild Thing "Animal Frat" 3 Carl "One Strobe Over the Line" 3 Pete "Her Charm" 2 Writer in Halloween Episode 2 Nerd "Camikazi Kid" 2 Ray "Catch a Falling Star" 2 Frankie "Double Identity" 2 Rod the Bod "Private Dancer" 1 Terry "Heart of a Champion" 1 Buster "Maybe Baby" 1 Jake Rawlins "MIA" 1 Nick Allen "Play it Again, Seymour" 1 Sam Bederman "Shock Theater" 1 Magic "Vietnam" LEAST FAVORITE HOST (most unlikable?) (1) 6 Jesus Ortega "Last Dance Before an Execution" 5 Pete "Her Charm" 3 Bone "Rebel Without a Clue" 1 Doc ? "How the Tess Was Won" 2 Joey Dinardo "Double Identity" 2 Harry Spontini, Great Spontiti {MA - I don't get it, why didn't people like him?? } 2 Darlene "Miss Deep South" 1 Frankie "Double Identity" 1 Terry "Heart of a Champion" 1 Bounty Hunter "A Hunting We will Go" 1 Carl "One Strobe Over the Line" 1 Professor Gerald Bryant "Star Crossed" BEST PLAYED HOST (1) 25 Sam Biederman "Shock Theater" 2 Jimmy "Jimmy" 2 Sam Beckett "Leap Home" 1 Billie Jean "8 1/2 Months" 1 Corner "Good Night, Dear Heart" 1 Jesus "Last Dance Before an Execution" 1 Darlene "Miss Deep South" 1 Sam Stormer "What Price Gloria" FAVORITE MISSION (1) 11 Vietnam 3 Jimmy 2 Her Charm 2 Honeymoon Express 2 A Little Miracle 2 Play it Again, Seymour (pulp novelist) 1 The Americanization of Machiko 1 The Color of Truth 1 Genesis (Be at ground zero in a nuclear explosion) 1 Leap Home I 1 Private Dancer BEST DESCRIPTION OF A HOST IN THE WAITING ROOM (1) 12 Leonard Dancy "So Help Me God". Al reports he was curled in a fetal position. :-) asking to meet our leader. {MA I seem to remember Al saying something about not wanting a } { lawyer to be the first human that an alien would meet } 3 Billie Jean "8 1/2 Months" having a baby on a spaceship 1 Tom Mintz "Portrait for Troian" thought he was captured by aliens 2 Jesus "Last Dance Before an Execution" 'Well, he thinks he's dead' 2 Sam Bederman, Shock Theater 1 Frankie "Double Identity" Frankie's condition leaving "little to the imagination" FAVORITE COMPANIONS* (ADULTS) (2) 12 Tibby "Shock Theater" 11 Rachel "Good Morning, Peoria" 8 Moe Stein "Future Boy" 8 Tom Beckett "Leap Home I & II" 4 Joseph "Freedom" 4 Diana "Private Dancer" 4 Gloria "What Price Gloria" 3 Machiko "The Americanization of Machiko" 3 Cheryl, "Camikazi Kid" 3 Diane "A Hunting we Will Go" 3 Edie "One Strobe Over the Line" 3 Delila "So Help me God" 2 Jill/Janie "Camikazi Kid" 2 Peg "Genesis" 2 Mrs. Robohead "Heart of a Champion" 2 Dana "Her Charm" 2 Tersa "Last Dance Before an Execution" 2 Dad "The Leap Home" 2 Blake "A Little Miracle" 2 Bunny O'Hare "Maybe Baby" 2 Grady "Pool Hall Blues" 2 Eddie "Rebel Without a Clue" 2 Old Girl Friend "Star Crossed" 1 Woman in the Halloween Episode 1 Jimmy's Brother "Jimmy" 1 Father Mack "Leap of Faith" 1 Seymour "Play it Again, Seymour" 1 Girl Friend "Right Hand of God" 1 Sister Angela "Right Hand of God" FAVORITE COMPANIONS** (CHILDREN) (2) 44 Theresa "Another Mother" 9 Jennifer "Sea Bride" 4 Kevin "Another Mother" 1 Woody Allen "Play it Again, Seymour" 2 Kristy Maybe Baby 3 Sister "Runaway" 1 Rosa "All American" 6 Jamie "The Great Spontini" 1 Joey "Leap of Faith" 3 Corey "Jimmy" 1 Stevie in the Halloween Episode 2 Effy "8 1/2 Months" 3 kid in Church "Last Dance Before an Execution" 2.5 Katie "Leap Home" .5 Sister "Another Mother" BEST (worst?) VILLIANS (2) 42 The B'man in the Halloween episode 11 Butch "Shock Theater" 9 D.A. "Last Dance Before and Execution" 8 Van Scum "Another Mother" 8 Roget "Honeymoon Express" 3 Pete "Blind Faith" 2 The scuzzy guy "All-Americans" 2 Jimmy "A Portrait for Troian" 2 Dylan "Rebel without a Clue" 1 Mother "Blind Faith" 1 future brother-in-law "Camikazi Kid" 1 Groupie/son "Glitter Rock" 1 Photographer "Miss Deep South" FAVORITE SONGS (performed by Sam) (2) 23 Imagine "The Leap Home" 12 Somewhere in the Night "Piano Man" 12 I, Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha) "Catch a Falling Star" 7 Dulcinea "Catch a Falling Star" 7 Great Balls of Fire "Miss Deep South" 5 Mystic Traveller "Glitter Rock" 4 Volare "Double Identity" 3 Chopsticks "Blind Faith" 2 Fate's Wide Wheel "Glitter Rock" 2 Blues Song "Pool Hall Blues" 2 Cuanta la Gusta "Miss Deep South" FAVORITE SONG (performed by Al) (1) 10 ALphabet Rap "Shock Theater" 8 Inchworm "Another Mother 1 Chicks and dogs and pigs better scurry "Catch a Falling Star" 1 Volare "Double Identity" 1 ... and Something happened to the weasel "Maybe Baby" 1 Ladies Night :-) "Private Dancer" 1 Itsy bitsy Spider "Private Dancer" MOST MEMORABLE LEAP-IN (1) 8 Last Dance 5 End of Shock Theater 4 Beginning of Shock Theater 3 Vietnam 2 Disco Inferno 2 Double Identity 2 MIA 1 8.5 Months 1 Future Boy 1 Glitter Rock (esp. after Southern Comforts) 1 Her Charm 1 Thou Shalt Not 1 What Price Gloria MOST MEMORABLE SCENE (1) 5 "Shock Theater" end (in shock room) 5 "Vietnam" end (relizes it was Al, and "Thanks Little Brother" 4 "Shock Theater" END end (beginning of next season) 3 "MIA" end of 2 The Halloween Episode Devil Al & Sam 2 "Runaway" Cliff scene 1 "8 1/2 Months" Sam giving birth 1 "Another Mother" Al & Theresa 1 "Black on White on Fire" leap out 1 "Black on White on Fire" Sam talking to his "brother" who has kidnapped his "girlfriend" 1 "Disco Inferno" Getting 'shot' at the start 1 "Genesis" Beginning (the girl, the car, the 'sheet lightning') 1 "The Leap Home" Imagine to Katie 1 "Leap Home" Tom under Gorilla Mask 1 "The Leap Home" Sam heading 'home' 1 "Play it Again, Seymour" Taxi scene 1 "Shock Theater" Sam's Al? when Al fades out 1 "Star-Crossed" "Police, this is the Watergate, we've got a break-in here." {MA Sorry, I can't possibly narrow down most of Al's outfits by } { episode, so I won't even try } AL'S BEST OUTFIT (2) 21 AdmirAL (dress whites) 8 Ghost of Christmas Future 4 Silver jacket 4 Red silk Jacket 4 White Disco, Disco Inferno 2 Stop sign Jacket 2 Beginning scene in Genesis 1 Red Suit w/ suspenders 1 furry coat and hat 1 Clear plastic tie 1 Purple Jacket SAM'S BEST OUTFIT (FEMALE) (2) 19 "Miss Deep South" Carmen Miranda 9 "Another Mother" White Blouse & Blue Skirt { MA - this is the outfit I would most like to wear } 8 "What Price Gloria" Flowered dress 5 "MIA" Hooker 5 "What Price Gloria" Pink dress 4 "Miss Deep South" gown 2 "Miss Deep South" bathing suit & heels 2 "What Price Gloria" furry jacket 1 "8 1/2 Months" maternity outfits 1 "Miss Deep South" Poodle Skirt SAM'S BEST OUTFIT (MALE) (1) 6 "Future Boy" Baked Potato 4 "Sea Bride" Tux 2 "Blind Faith" Tux 1 Any tux except Frankie's 1 2 "Glitter Rock" 1 "Catch a Falling Star" Don Quixote 1 "Heart of a Champion" THE red tights {PR = DEB} { MA - Deb, I don't call THAT dressed :) :) plus - } you SAID you weren't going to MENTION them } 1 "Leaping in Without a Net" Tights 1 1 "One Strobe Over the Line" White outfit 1 "Piano Man" Lounge Lizard 1 "Play it Again, Seymour" Bogie look SAM'S BEST ummm outfit or LACK THEREOF (1) 7 "Private Dancer" Zorro 2 "Her Charm" 3 "Leaping in without a net" Tights 2 "One Strobe Over the Line" shirtless 1 "Heart of a Champion" The infamous red tights 1 "A Hunting We Will Go" motel room 1 "Sea Bride" swimtrunks 1 "Vietnam" Preparing to wear his uniform "without underwear" as Al orders (offscreen, alas) {MA Well, we have similar taste in clothes. We like Sam and Al } either dressed up (tux or dress whites), or dressed really } strange (ghost of Christmas Future, aluminum foil, or fruit) } AL'S BEST LINES (3) 13 This is great, I'm tuned in to little kids, I'm tuned in to animals, and now the mentally absent. Why not blondes? -- Al, "Shock Theater" 8 But HE loved *pure* and *chaste* from *afar*.... Well, that part was never big with me, either. -- Al, "Catch a Falling Star" 8 If you hurt him you scumbag, I'll kill you. I don't know how but I'll kill you -- Al, "Another Mother" 7 That pass was like a $10 hooker, it wasn't pretty, but it got the job done. -- Al, "All Americans" 6 Keep your hands outta me! -- Al "Shock Theater" 6 She stripped and I MISSED IT! ... I'm supposed to be the observer on this project I should have been here to observe -- Al, Maybe Baby 5 It's not like you're lost in a mall, you're lost in time! -- Al, "Last Dance Before an Execution" 5 Don't do anything that I wouldn't do, but if you do - take pictures. -- Al, "Southern Comforts" 5 Hey, look Sam, I'm gonna leap! -- Al, "Good Morning, Peoria" 3 You see that, even as a hologram I'VE GOT IT. -- Al, "Miss Deep South" 3 No wonder they're in the basement, they have all the enthusiasm of a $10 hooker. -- Al, "Genesis" 3 3 Ain't that a kick in the butt! -- Genesis {MAE} 3 I was free. Up here (pointing to his head) I was always free. -- Al, "Vietnam" 3 {MAE} 3 Awwwww Sam ... not the head again, every time we leap in we gotta go talk in the men's room ... it's disgusting! -- Al and Sam, "Pool Hall Blues" 3 The fifties were conformist, materialistic, repressive, boring and stupid. -- Al, "Rebel Without a Clue" 3 Oh great Sam, now they think you're Sybil! -- Al, "Shock Theater" 2 Time has packaged my best friend into a goddess of love. -- Al, "What Price Gloria" 2 [Magic's got a sixth sense.] Yeah, you could call me that. -- [Tom and] Al, "Vietnam" 2 These are the kind of guys that keep those fishing shows on the air. -- Al, "Heart of a Champion" 2 Sam - what are you doing? You're throwing away a perfectly good fan sandwich. -- Al, "Glitter Rock" 2 Sam, it's Ben Cartwright! Ben Cartwright is trying to save you! -- Al, "Disco Inferno" 2 A cute...A cute...oh I hope it's a blonde... -- Al, "Shock Theater" {MAE} 2 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. -- Al, "Honeymoon Express" 2 I *AM* the ghost of Christmas Future! ooooooo -- Al, "A Little Miracle" 2 Sam, I am the one who thinks with his glands, not you! -- Al, "Vietnam" 2 If I had had an attorney like that when I was in court, I'd still be in court. -- Al, about Tersa, "Last Dance Before an Execution" 2 You can't just dump a bucket of water on his head and say 'Hey kid, you're not dead, you're just 25 years in the future.' -- Al, "Last Dance Before an Execution" 2 2 Well, I think it's damn fair. What?! 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. -- Al and Sam, "The Leap Home" 1 Looks like Ziggy had a sloppy floppy on this one. -- Al, "Future Boy" 1 Robohead is letting himself in ... -- Al, about Carl ripping the door off, "Heart of a Champion" 1 Oh Boy -- Al, "Shock Theater" {MAE} 1 If all the men of the world could make love with all the women of the world, there would be no more war. -- Al, "Thou Shalt Not" 1 She took my second favorite organ and stomped it to death with her 4 inch spiked heels. -- Al (about Tina), "How the Tess was Won" 1 That's great Sam! He hit you, that means he still loves her. Let him hit you again! -- Al, "Thou Shalt Not" 1 Did I miss a party? Damn. -- Al, "Southern Comforts 1 [Al...don't leave me...] I won't, Sam. -- [Sam and] Al, "Shock Theater" 1 1 Personally ... uh ... I think you would look kind of foxy in this little purple number with the white fuzz. Just my opinion. -- Al, MIA 1 SAM'S BEST LINES (3) 14 This here is the sub-atomic structure of a quark -- What the hell is a quark?!? -- "Jesse", "Shock Theater" 12 Oh, boy. --Dr. Sam Beckett, M.D., Ph.D. 8 Oy vey, I'm the Rabbi. -- Sam, "Thou Shalt Not" 8 The fact that you were a practicing pervert at the age of 5 has nothing to do with the rest of the world! -- Sam to Al, "Another Mother" 7 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. -- Sam, "So Help Me God" 7 Oh no, no no no no! Not a woman! Not high heels! Not again! -- Sam, "M.I.A. 5 Sometimes I feel like I'm a scientist in the middle of an experiment that no one else believes in. -- Sam, "Blind Faith" 5 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 -- Sam, "What Price Gloria" 4 Once you've seen the light you can not go back into the darkness. -- Sam, "Color of Truth" 3 [You brought me all the way up here to get killed without any lights!?] See. Light- to shoot you by. -- [Dana and] Sam, "Her Charm" 3 I'm in a real identity crisis here, Al! -- Sam, "Genesis" 3 Quantum Leap in ASL -- Sam, "Private Dancer" 3 Girl Scouts -- Sam, "Another Mother" 3 Oh boy, I'm Popeye - Sam, "Americanization of Machiko" 3 If you look into my eyes, you'll see another soul. -- Sam to Donna, "Star-Crossed" 3 I'm having this baby! -- Sam, "8 1/2 months" 3 Sometimes wierd things just happen ... -- Sam, "Good Morning, Peoria" 2 Two hours as Samantha and I knew that the lyrics to "I Enjoy Being a Girl" were not written by a woman. -- Sam, "What Price Gloria" 2 2 At last, something sexual he's not into! -- Sam, "A Portrait for Troian" 2 Moe...Moe...Moe...Larry?...Curly? nyuk nyuk nyuk -- Sam, "Future Boy" 2 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" 2 This is the leap from Hell! When is it going to end? -- Sam, "A Hunting We Will Go" 2 I just made a complete idiot out of myself. -- Sam, "Good Morning, Peoria" 1 Not this time, Al. -- Sam, ready to leap, "Southern Comforts" 1 1 Is there anything you haven't done, Al? [Well there's one thing that's impossible to do on a bike.] -- Sam [and Al], "Rebel Without a Clue" 1 I'm 10, in the fourth grade. Marsha Greene sits in front of me. And you used to dip her pigtails into the inkwells. We didn't have inkwells. Oh, we did. I used to dip Hanna Gretz's pigtails... until I discovered that it was a lot more fun to take Hanna into the cloakroom. In the fourth grade? I was socially advanced. --Sam and Al, "Her Charm" {MAE} 1 Break a leg ... -- Sam to the star, "Catch a Falling Star" 1 I gotta sit down and slip into a coma. -- Sam, "Rebel Without a Clue" 1 Al, don't leave me -- Shock Theater 1 U2? The rock Group -- "Honeymoon Express" 1 I wouldn't mind having a place I could call home for a while. -- Sam, "Piano Man" 1 If you're going to sneak up on me, at least have the decency to reflect in the mirror! -- Sam, "Her Charm" 1 I'm not into bondage -- Sam, What Price Gloria 1 More misadventures? ADVENTURES, old friend. -- Sam and Al, "Catch a Falling Star" 1 I couldn't shoot a game of pool with a shotgun. -- Sam, "Pool Hall Blues" COMPANION'S BEST LINES (3) 18 Doorknobs are usually placed a little lower, aren't they? -- Rachel, "Good Morning, Peoria" 9 That's not my mommy, that's a man! ... and so's the guy in the yucky shirt. This is my favorite shirt It's YUCKY -- Theresa and Al, "Another Mother" 8 Let's say it's Friday at 8 o'clock, and you want to go back to Wednesday at 10, because you missed your favorite television program... -- Moe, describing the timonometer, "Future Boy" 7 I gotta check my medication. -- Tibby, Shock Theater 6 You would [(believe in reincarnation] if you could see all the souls in your eyes. -- Sybil , "Leaping in Without a Net" 3 I'm sorry, but I don't have an orgasm waxing the damn kitchen floor! -- Emma, "Runaway" 3 What have you got, an angel on retainer? -- Tersa, "Last Dance Before an Execution" 3 Smooth move, ex-lax -- Jamie, "The Great Spontini" 3 Says who? Says me and this shotgun. Now lady, you better be careful with that thing because it might accidently go off. If it goes off it won't be no accident! -- The sailor and the housekeeper, "Southern Comforts" {MA - the accent MAKES this quote } 3 No stockings, you're such a bohemian. -- Gloria, "What Price Gloria" 3 3 You're that jerk from the lobby, I recognize the tacky clothes and the pale complection. -- Blake to Al, "A Little Miracle" 3 This isn't on the program! What the heck is she doing up there? Oh, lighten up, Harlan, It's rock and roll, and I like it! -- pageant judges describing Sam's performance, "Miss Deep South" {MAE} 3 I'll let you play Rhett Butler ... -- Sugar (to Sam), "So Help Me God" 2 Hell no, we won't go.... I gotta admit, it's a catchy slogan. -- Lt. Tom Beckett, "Vietnam" 2 Did you grow up around a nuclear reactor? -- Sam and Diane, "A Hunting We Will Go" 2 Knowledge by gender, jerk. -- Susan, "Another Mother" 2 I hope when the right guy comes along he realizes what a good woman you are. -- Gloria to Sam, "What Price Gloria" 2 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, "Honeymoon Express" 2 Hi Al -- Tibby, Shock Theater 2 It's bad luck to kill someone before your wedding. Not in Brooklyn. -- Sam and Vinnie, "Sea Bride" 2 Before we sign off, we have time for one last letter ... Today's letter is from little Sam Beckett of Elkridge, Indiana, Sam writes: "Dear Captain Galaxy, could you please explain your theory of time travel to us ... -- Captain Galaxy, "Future Boy" 2 A & P has a fraternity! That's Alpha Rho, you idiot! Primo, it's Greek! No kiddin'! I didn't know A & P Supermarkets were Greek! -- Primo and Segundo, "Double Identity" {MAE} 2 You don't talk to yourself, you talk to an imaginary playmate! -- Dana, "Her Charm" 1 Next time check your raincoat. -- Flash to Tonic, "Glitter Rock" 1 Look, time is like a piece of string. One end of the string is birth, the other is death. You put them together, and life is a loop. -- Moe, "Future Boy" 1 Could be worse, you could be a white man. -- Sam and Joseph, "Freedom" 1 observations on Barbie -- Bunny O'Hare "Maybe Baby" 1 What have you got, an angel on retainer? -- Teresa, "Last Dance Before an Execution" 1 The chances of you having stage fright are about as likely as ... as ... a B-movie actor becoming President. Stranger things have happened. -- Michelle and Sam, "Blind Faith" 1 Flying was his first love, the Navy was his second and I guess I was his third, but I knew that when I married him. -- Beth, "M.I.A." 1 Sam, me and Wookie made a painting. -- Theresa, "Another Mother" 1 1 Looks like you're out of a job, butthead. My sentiments exactly, butthead. -- Jamie and Al to Steve the sleazy lawyer, "The Great Spontini" 1 Thanks, little brother. -- Tom Beckett, "Vietnam" 1 1 If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'. -- Theresa, "Double Identity" 1 I have something to tell you, my name isn't Tom McBride. Oh, what is it? Beckett, it's Sam Beckett. The playwright? ... I don't think so. Then who? Primarily I'm a quantum physicist ... Oh, I like it ... and I'm Laura, the KGB's sexiest agent. I boarded the Orient Express with orders to seduce Sam Beckett, America's most famous astrophysicist ...Quantum physicist... and have him fall madly in love with me and drive him crazy by refusing to sleep with him until he tells me how to make a hydrogen bomb. -- Sam and Diane, "Honeymoon Express" 1 Why are you doing this? To put an end to your meddling. Who gave you the right to go bungling around in time, putting right what I made wrong? I'm just trying to get home. Well you're not going to make it! -- Sam and the B'man, The Halloween Episode FAVORITE NON DIRECT QUOTE (1) 3 * I just have a thing for singing, dancing, time travelling quantum physicists with puppy eyes. -- Debbie Brown, usenet 3 * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? -- Sally LB Smith, usenet 2 * I won't even mention the red tights. :-) -- Debbie Brown, usenet, about "Heart of a Champion" 1 * Quantum Leap, when it positively, absolutely has to be there yesterday, or ten years ago. Or . . . well, He (finger pointing up) knows when it's supposed to get there. --??????????? {MAE} {MA anyone know who said this?? } 1 * Help me! I've LEAPed into the REAL WORLD, and I can't get out!!! -- Quantum Buc, usenet 1 * This week, Sam Beckett 'leaps' where no one really wants to..." -- Radio Announcer for "Last Dance Before an Executiion" {MAE} 1 * Now I'm starting to miss the hand props! -- Sally Smith, usenet {MAE} 1 * REMEMBER: Every day is LEAP Day when you own a VCR :-) -- Quantum Buc, usenet 1 * MOVE THE LEAP -- Sally LB Smith, usenet {MAE} 1 * I run this network and I have just one thing to say to the fans of Quantum Leap -- YOU WIN. -- Mr. Little, in the infamous NBC commercial 1 * Now you know what happens when you try to fry swiss cheese -- the holes sorta get filled in, but the rest has to turn to mush to do it. :-) -- Christine Gregory, usenet, about "Shock Theater" 1 * May Your Days Be Showered With Blue Electricity - Maria Nunoz 1 * Network Programming - Even quantum physicists can't figure it out! -- Carl, usenet 1 * A good quantum physicist is hard to find. -- Vicky Sailer, usenet BEST RESPONSE TO (host, How? ...) (1) 7 Girl Scouts "Another Mother" 5 Uh, Chinese movies? "Leap of Faith" 1 Marcus Welby "Freedom" 1 Pre-med? "Genesis" (with a rather stunned look on his face) 1 4H club "Miss Deep South" 1 Circus Movies (sorry I asked) "One Strobe Over the Line" BEST REMARKS RE TALKING TO AL (2) 13 Al? My dog, Al ... on the farm. YOUR DOG! ... Best friend a guy could ever have. -- Edie, Sam and Al, "One Strobe Over the Line" 6 I was talking to myself, it's kind of a bad habit I can't get rid of. -- Sam, glaring at Al, "Sea Bride" 4 Talking to the stiffs again, Melvin? -- Aggie, catching Sam talking to Al, "Good Night, Dear Heart" 4 You don't talk to yourself, you talk to an imaginary playmate! -- Dana, "Her Charm" 3 The doctors' assessments of Sam's imaginary friend in -- Shock Theater 2 Magic's got a sixth sense. Yeah, you could call me that. -- Tom and Al, "Vietnam" 2 Albert...is my guardian angel."(in Italian) ??patron saint?? -- Double Identity 2 If you keep that up, people who don't know you will think you're looney-tunes. -- Dana, "Her Charm" 2 The invisible man has dropped by to say a few words... -- Sam, "Good Morning, Peoria" 1 The guy in the red jacket! You can see me? Sure! Nice jacket! Tibby and Al, "Shock Theatre" {MAE} 1 I sure hope Al's your guardian angel. -- guard, Last Dance Before an Execution {MAE} 1 From Shock Theater, Al telling Tibby that people will think he's loony tunes if he says he can see Al, then the doctors ask if he sees Al, and he looks at Al and says no. 1 Goodbye Angel Al. -- Troian, "Another Mother" {MAE} 1 Who's Al? A friend, a *real good* friend. Well, let's not get all mushy about it. -- Seymour, Sam, and Al - Play it Again, Seymour 1 ...the other person he hurt that night -- -- Play It Again Seymour ****************************** (points on following categories tallied separately from other categories) LEAST FAVORITE EPISODES (3) {MA I didn't not weight these votes. Instead of having a first } { place vote count for 3, a second place vote count for 2, } { and a third place vote count for 1, each vote counted for 1 } (you don't HAVE to vote for three) 8 Rebel Without a Clue 7 A Hunting we Will Go 6 Leap of Faith 5 The Americanization of Machiko 4 Great Spontini 3 Miss Deep South 3 One Strobe Over the Line 3 Southern Comforts 2 Animal Frat 2 Freedom 2 Heart of a Champion 2 How the Tess Was Won 2 Jimmy 2 A Portrait for Troian 2 Runaway 2 Thou Shalt Not 1 8 1/2 Months 1 All Americans 1 Another Mother 1 Blind Faith 1 The Color of Truth 1 Her Charm 1 Leaping in Without a Net 1 A Little Miracle 1 Nuclear Family 1 Right hand of God 1 German dubbed versions {PR - Sorry, folks, I *liked* Portrait for Troian.} LEAST REALISTIC EPISODE (1) 3 A Hunting We Will Go 2 The Halloween Episode 2 Miss Deep South 2 A Portrait for Troian 1 Blind Faith 1 Disco Inferno 1 Good Night, Dear Heart 1 The Great Spontini 1 Heart of a Champion 1 Her Charm 1 Leap of Faith 1 A Little Miracle 1 Play it Again, Seymour 1 Shock Theater 1 Southern Comforts QUIZ MISTRESS' NOTES In the past, I've researched the polls a little more but it's getting almost too big to handle. So, don't sue me because I didn't put down the name of the host for Camikazi Kid or I didn't get a quote exactly. I do NOT have every episode on tape (though if I lived in the Bay Area I could probably borrow them from Sally :) ). I think next time I'll do two polls, one that's more simple and strictly numbers and one that's more abstract with quotes and ideas for leaps. Mary Allison, Doreen Matsuzaki, and R. Bharat Rao do hereby found the official The Americanization of Machiko Chapter of the Quantum Leaper Fan Club. We do solemnly swear to defend the show Quantum Leap -- with special attention to the episode "The Americanization of Machiko". We will defend the show against all non leapers, and we will defend the episode "The Americanization of Machiko" against all non fans, ESPECIALLY leapers. (So that means next time one of you guys picks on Machiko -- you got THREE of us on your case) I was told "Please do not mention the Halloween Episode by name, it brings bad luck :-)" So - I didn't. This poll is enough of a pain to do without getting any MORE bad luck. I also did not mention the name of the character in the Halloween Episode by name. The episode is referred to as "The Halloween Episode" and the character is referred to as "The B'man". Mary Anne -- I can't PROMISE I put an MAE behind all the quotes that are not in the quote file - but I tried. Of course, if someone has a favorite quote that is not in the quote file, PLEASE send it to Mary Anne (mae@jhuapl.edu) for inclusion in future files. LEAP YOU'D MOST LIKE TO SEE (1) * Sam as Al (TWO VOTES) * Sam leaping into a kindergarden teacher (TWO VOTES) {MA GREAT - ALphabet Rap will be a #1 hit } * Sam leaps to somewhere where it doesn't seem like he has to do anything. Al was going to go somewhere, but doesn't, because he's trying to help Sam and Ziggy figure out what Sam needs to do. Something happens where Al would have been, [The train plane he was going to fly is discovered to have a serious malfunction, or something like that.] and it turns out Sam was just there to distract Al. The reason Al is distracted enough to change his plans: They are "visiting" Teresa again. Sam has leaped into Kevin, maybe, or Raphaella, or maybe Teresa's preschool teacher.... *snicker*. * Used Car/Lemon Dealer in the early to mid seventies {MA - I bet Sam would LOVE that. The white shoes and belt and } { all the polyester - ya know how many polyesters you gotta } { kill to make an outfit like that?? } * I'd like to see him leap into a hippie (flower child) in a commune in the 60's and save someone from a bad LSD trip. And of course, sing some neat ballad like "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" (which I know hadn't been written yet in the 60's, but what the heck, we're just dreaming here, right :-) * Something set in the 1992-1997 period (or later, depending on whether "one's own lifetime" can extend into the future) * Sam into Al (post MIA) * A KKK member in the 50's * Sam leaps into someone close to Al at some point in Al's past so that we have a chance to see what he was like then * Sam leaping into one of Al's ex-wives, while Al was married to her. {MA - this girl is NUTS -- I love her } * Sam leaps in as a homeless person * Into an animal...heh :-). * Sam leaps into a network programming director about to cancel QL.... Could be used as last episode ever if he fails.... :-) * Someone in a position to save JFK, but it doesn't work. * into someone working back at Project Quantum Leap * howabout Gooshie * I would like to see a 'followup leap.' Not like in double identity, but where he gets to actually see the results of a previous leap. For example, meeting Jimmy later in life, and seeing how he turned out. Or not even a host, but someone he affected (pro or con). Or a leap where Sam goes back and meets Al. For example when Al was a POW, Sam could go back as another POW. It does bring up some questions, like could Al see his holographic self? Just a thought. * Sam, as a college pizza delivery person in Boston in March 1983, visits a friend's home along with two other people, who are discussing their Renaissance art history class and their failed attempts of having a comic book published. They discuss another venture where greatly mutated worms with a basic knowledge of martial arts, but balk because "the public would not be interested in fighting worms". They then take suggestions. Sam wanders over and sees a pet turtle. Al talks about the pet turtle he had as a kid (amongst many others). Sam is surprised by this fact, and the others hear his reaction. The rest is history. (Of course, this must be cleared with Kevin Eastman and Steve Laird) -although I was originally going to suggest one where Sam and Al change places, as what happened in "Shock Theater". {MA but this wouldn't work because we know the only pet Al ever } { had was a cockroach. GREAT -- Teenage Mutant Ninja ROACHES? } * Into a Japanese American in an internment camp during WWII. Lot's of good plotlines for this dealing with racial issues. * I'd like to see, in the final episode of the show (which will of course be YEARS from now), Sam leap into Al. His mission then should be to stop himself (Sam) from trying the experiment which caused him to leap in the first place. He'll be succesful, Sam will return to his own body, and we'll have a happy ending. * Al leaping instead of Sam (which may be the case for the first episode next season) * Sam leaps into a hermit type person, out in the middle of nowhere, in the earliest possible time Sam can leap to. Project funding is in jeopardy, Al is to busy to help. Sam has no idea what to do (and neither do Al or Ziggy). Sam begins to wander around. Project cancelled, no funding, no Al. Sam somehow gets some money (doesn't have to be alot), either finds it or is given it for a good deed. Puts it in a bank or invests it in something. Sends Al a note about the money, to use for the project. Right after he does something with the note (I haven't figured out what yet) to get it to Al at proper time, Al pops in right after that "I got your note!". * Put Sam in a leap where he is there to do something but as a side effect, he has the opportunity to really change a bad event in history that effects many people, not just one. * into a rape victim the day before a trial when she's trying to decide whether or not to go through with the trial. Sam has to go through the trial, and he has to decide whether or not telling the truth (from the hosts' point of view) is perjury (from his point of view) * This would be at the end of a leap. Sam is in a college or high school. He does everything Ziggy THINKS Sam needs to do. Sam is sort of wondering why he hasn't leapt yet. During the course of the leap, he's had a companion by the name of Paul. Paul is (as most young people do) trying to decide a course for his life. Sam, has read some things Paul has written, and suggests to Paul that he become a writer. Meanwhile, as the blue glow comes, we discover that Paul's last name is ... (the same as Deb's) * Something wildly improbable with lots of room for laughs, like Sam leaps into the patriarch of a polygamist household - Al would have a ball. * Sam leaps into a battered wife whose husband will kill her in the near future unless Sam can make some changes. (I know, they kind of did this in "Southern Comforts", only Sam didn't leap into the wife.) * Sam Leaps back into Vietnam at the time of the War, as a Vietnamese soldier guarding American POW's--including Al! Though it's not his mission, should he try to save Al, at the risk of messing up Al's personal history? Unlike Tom, Al's situation is rather more visible. Causes all sorts of problems for our present-day Al, too... * The Leap HOME. YEARS (and years and years) from now, the final episode of the show we get to see Sam go home and get an update on all the people he's helped and see Tom, and have some lite beer and some microwave popcorn. ANSWERERS dara@gene.com Dara Golden albert@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu Rick Jones prw@tab00.larc.nasa.gov Paul R. Woodard deb@jloda.cci.com Debbie Brown doreen@duck.svl.cdc.com Doreen Matsuzaki ccwwcc@mixcom.COM Lynn-Anne Friese mbarnett@lccsd.sd.locus.com Mike Barnett mae@aplpy.jhuapl.edu Mary Anne Espenshade sasaki@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu Erin Sasaki ajs@hrmso.att.com Tony Salerno lingling@wam.umd.edu Lisa Wolfisch aidoann@aal.itd.umich.edu Caren B. Levine sally@romana.tymnet.com Sally LB Smith conrad@brahms.udel.edu Jon Conrad mary@uicslsah.csl.uiuc.edu Mary E. Allison nlaflamm@vma.cc.nd.edu Nick Laflamme drwho@buhub.bradley.edu Maria Nunoz lgil@marlin.nosc.mil Laura L. Gilbreath rck1@midway.uchicago.edu Roberta Chi-Woon Kwong c/o rck1@midway.uchicago.edu Lawrence Kwong mrmarx!admin@uunet.UU.NET Vicky Sailer rb06@bunny.gte.com Ruth Bolton carlo@electro.com Carlo Sgro scanders@us.oracle.com Scott Anderson andrew@uxm.sm.ucl.ac.uk Andrew Dawson qip!joan@sunburn.West.Sun.COM Joan Dodson bharat@cs.uiuc.edu R. Bharat Rao pjs29326@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Phillip Jude Salomon krotenko@unixg.ubc.ca Lana Krotenko charyd@ucs.indiana.edu David Charles Chary cgregory@ziggy.cs.uiuc.edu Christine Gregory ppplee@eleazar.dartmouth.edu Pete Lee HF.ZMF@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU Miriam Ferziger