I’ve shared 13 Things I’ve Learned from Watching Star Wars and 13 Things I’ve Learned from Watching Battlestar Galactica. Now, I give you 13 Things I Learned From Watching Quantum Leap:
1. When married, “Swiss Cheese memory” is very convenient.
2. Sam will eventually fix everything.
3. Between the two of them, Sam and Al had the knowledge and skill of, literally, everyone on the planet.
4. If it would have been anyone else, they would have crashed and burned.
5. “Oh, boy” works just as well as any curse word.
6. Not many men are secure enough in their masculinity to wear a dress. More than once.
7. Brooke Shields didn’t have to do any acting for this role.
8. My Hell would be leaping into the disco era over and over again.
9. They were too cheap to hire an actor to play the dad. Bakula had to double up.
10. Electroshock therapy. The worst possible place to leap into.
11. Paramount has seen Bakula like this, and they still let him be a starship captain? Rock on.
12. Losing his shirt meant an influx of female viewers.
13. Scott Bakula is typecast. Even during Necessary Roughness, I kept expecting him to “leap.”
These are great! I love Quantum Leap. I’d have to say number 6 is my favorite one:)
You’ve spurred a future TT for me… Thirteen television programs that SHOULD NOT have been cancelled! This would be in my top five!
I used to love to watch Quantum Leap! Great list!!!
Quantum Leap1 Wow. You threw me back in time with this one. HEHEHE
Scott was a captain? Of what ship?
I, too, have swiss cheese memory.
Gabriella – Yes, of the Enterprise.. the last Star Trek series.
Luckily, electroshock therapy is generally done when the patient is sedated, but that doesn’t make for very exciting drama.
I loved “Quantum Leap”! Hope it starts being shown again somewhere.
Gosh, these pics bring me so many memories! Hehehe!
I loved this show when it was on. I’d really like to get it on DVD…maybe for Christmas.
I liked Enterprise, but they could have done so much more with it.
Cool list. I remember watching this sometimes(even back then I was never what you would call a regular watching tv series). Happy TT.
#5. Absolutely #5. With #6 coming in a close second. 😉
I love Scott Bakula.
Few remember Sam was married while he was chasing all those women. Very handy to lose your memory. A good excuse to his wife.
I miss that show! This list cracked me up.
Do you remember when Scott played Murphy Browns main squeeze for a few shows? i think they were gonna get hitched but maybe she forgot!*L*
Who would have guessed you’d do QL the week I do Time Travel for my TT. Excellent choice 🙂
I love that show. I wonder if my kids would like it.
Quantum Leap was one of the two shows my mother enjoyed (Star Trek the Next Generation was the other) so we always looked forward to watching.
I never watched Quantum Leap, but Bakula, ah Bakula he was a good Captain.
Sam was married? I totally don’t remember him being married. I do remember the sad episodes involving Al’s first wife and him being a POW though.
Ah this was great! I used to love watching that show.
I used to watch this all the time with my mom. She was so in love with him! Me too though so it’s ok. I’ll have to dig the tapes out (my mom used to tape them when they were on) and watch them all. But they are on DVD now so maybe I’ll just break down and buy the first season.
Brooke Shields doesn’t have to act at all in my book. She can just sit there being eye candy!!
And I didn’t get #4… Explainey?
(I was a casual viewer, not a diehard fan, sorry).
Kev – #4 was just an extension of #3 and how Sam and Al somehow knew every sport, skill, and talent known to man.