8 Sad Truths You Realize When Re-Watching Quantum Leap


That just warms the heart, doesn’t it?







QL Sam Electric Chair

And this:

QL Sam Ghost Ship Pilot


2)     Sometimes Sam & Al Just Weren’t That Bright




3)     Some Innocent People Had Their Lives Ruined By Sam


QL Shock Theater Reverse Shot
QL Shock Theater nurse
Nurse: Well, you make a compelling argument.










QL Shock Theater Rap3



QL Leap Back Sam Donna



7)   Our Definition of Physical Fitness Sure Has Changed




Olliver as he appeared in the show's pilot episode.
Stephen Amell from the CW’s Arrow.


8)     They Were Desperate For Ratings That Last Season


  • Sam Leaping Into Someone Working for Marilyn Monroe
  • Sam leaping into a vampire


Alas, they got themselves canceled.


Most of Your Favorite Episodes Are Still Amazing






  1. I bet that a lot of leapees would have been in the waiting room a 2d time if the evil leapers were not just in the last season.

  2. How come in Raped Al never told Sam what happened to Katie Kevin and everyone else after Sam gave Kevin what for and leaped out causing Katie to leap back in.

    1. He did but they cut it out. Kate went to jail for GBH and was further raped in jail. You seem unhealthily interested in this episode Greg. Anything you want to tell us?

  3. Since Sam never made the leap home it’s likely he’s crossed paths with Ali and Zoey helping Ali make amends for her misdeeds while Zoey ran amok.

  4. When I watched the final episode, I thought the text at the end meant that after Sam told Beth to wait for Al, Al never joined the project, which therefore never got off the ground. Then when Sam leaped out of the talk with Beth, I thought he leaped into non-existence after breaking the space-time continuum or something. But now I read that most people think he just decided to keep leaping and making history better. No wonder people were so underwhelmed with it – I thought it was brilliant. Either way, his wife gets a raw deal, though.

    1. Yeah, Donna got screwed.

      That’s an interesting interpretation. It would kind of sort of solve the time travel conundrum of “Would AL really still have ended up at QL if Beth waited for him?” It’s definitely an interpereation I’ve never actually encountered before. But, yeah, most people read it as a gut punch of Al be happy, Sam be an angel or however else you want to put it.

    1. Ziggy says that in order to take over the world you have to sever ties with this guy’s best friend, a Cockney-accented idot who goes by “Pinky.”

      Or, alternatively:

      Ziggy says that after years of abuse the Brain finally drove his friend Pinky to suicide, but the guilt and moral anguish he felt over having caused such a needless tragedy wrecked him. He didn’t take over the world; he didn’t even take over the ACME Labs testing area. You have to be nicer to Pinky and let him know how much the Brain values him.

      Or something.

  5. Greg maybe you should start your own blog emptying all your thoughts rather than the back of this one which used to be about quantum leap and why it was so good.

      1. Full disclosure: I’ve never blocked anyone on this site. I’ve never really had need to. I’ve thought about it with Greg, particularly when his comments seemed particularly unhinged. Lately though, they’re just completely random and relatively harmless. Plus, in all honesty, the frequency of his comments actually helps the article in the Google rankings. But if he is annoying everyone then perhaps you’re right.

  6. I think you’re right I seem to have a obsession with the Raped episode of season 4.
    There are actually luxury prisons worldwide that Sam never leaped into.

  7. Even in the Quantum Leap comic book Sam always succeeds in putting right what once went wrong but always fails to make the leap home.

      1. The memory of your time in the chamber would fade as quickly as a dream as your believe your memories of everything Sam did as though you had done it yourself.

  8. Quantum Leap has dealt with prison because Sam leaped in 1 in Unchained and Last Dance Before An Execution.2 Prisons I wish he leaped into are the Tomb from Escape Plan and the Kyln from Guardians of the Galaxy.

  9. We seldom saw the leapes in the waiting room what if we always saw the leapes in the waiting room not just their time spent there but also their leaps in and out as well.

  10. Sam was actually home in the Leap Back and he gave it up for Al
    Brain in the Pinky and the Brain Halloween episode actually ruled the world and he gave it up in order to save Pinky.

    1. The Trilogy Part II is the only episode where Sam Leaped into two people at the exact same moment.

      Think about it.

  11. The final season sure made a effort to boost it’s ratings however it failed and Mirror Image ended up becoming the last ever episode.

      1. It actually kinda is true. They were ready to run with a Sixth Season amd got cancelled a couple of weeks before the last episode. That’s why Bartender Al tells Sam his Leaps are going to get more difficult. The epilogue was only added like a week or two before it aired.

  12. Al the bartender told Sam that his leaps will get more difficult maybe they will be more evil leapers running amok through history causing Sam to fix they make go wrong.Why not have a spinoff in which Ali makes amends for her misdeeds.

  13. Why not have a spinoff entitled Doing What Is Right in which Sam and Ali leap together like they did in the Evil Leaper Trilogy
    they could do good while Zoey and other evil leapers run amok wreaking havoc.

  14. Sam was 6 when the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 40 years before he started Project Quantum Leap and made his 1st leap facing a mirror image that was not his own in order to
    put right what once went wrong.

      1. I do feel like his period of sometimes amusing randomness is veering into unhinged territory again. Greg, what really is the point of your continuing comments? It doesn’t feel like you’re throwing out fan fiction ideas anymore, if that was your goal to begin with.

  15. 40 years before Sam created Project Quantum Leap and made his 1st leap the Dalai Lama fled Tibet and took up residence in India where Buddhism began.

  16. Truddi Chase was never in the waiting room she was the model for Crazy Jane of the Doom Patrol.
    thanks to the Gene Bomb her 64 personalites had superpowers.

  17. Sam has done the 4 following things 2 times on Quantum Leap Leaped into himself. Leaped into his hometown of Elkridge Indiana Leaped out of his own lifetime Leaped before his birth.

  18. The writers never had Sam leap into a tribal society.That might have made a interesting leap.If there was a season 6 the Evil Leapers might have caused Angel Jensen Elizabeth Tate Max Greenman and many others to return to the waiting room.

      1. I got all of them.

        It still irks me that Innovation collapsed before they could publish their Annual. Some event (I believe it may have been an atomic blast) Leaped Sam into Ziggy, Ziggy into the person in the past, and the Visitor comatose in the Waiting Room.

        I just wanted to read it to see how they were going to spin that web.

  19. So many leaps Sam never made and
    so many wrongs he never put right.
    So many people that were
    never in the waiting room.

  20. Elvis was the last person to be in the waiting room.
    His music was played on the radio during Sam’s very 1st leap.

  21. I find it ironic that in Memphis Melody Elvis was in the waiting room because in Genesis during Sam’s very 1st leap his song Hound Dog was playing on the car radio.

  22. Because in Mirror Image Sam managed to get Beth to wait for Al
    the last 4 wives of Al and the divorces that resulted never happened.

  23. Sam leaped outside of the United States 3 times he leaped into Japan in Lee Harvey Oswald Vietnam in the Leap Home part 2 and the United Kingdom in Blood Moon.

  24. In Raped 2 things happened for the 2nd time Sam gives someone what for then immediately leaps out this first happened in What Price Gloria and Al mentions his 3rd wife Ruthie who was Jewish this first happened in Thou Shalt Not.

    1. Almost ALL your comments would be considered “shitposts”.They clutter the entire page with worthlessness and bury posts that are interesting.

      Your posts disengage readers with their banality and lack of thoughtful insight. People come to this website for the articles that almost always have been enriched by relevant statistics and quotes from first-party participants.

      People enjoyed QL for a variety of reasons. Most appreciated the stories and characters. Few waste their time with the minutia that you ramble on about.

      Please shut the duck up already. Nobody likes you or your posts.

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