From: nml@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Newton Loui)
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:10:47 GMT

In article <01GPEF637ZIW000EC0@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU>
ISTN100@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU ("ELLEN G. COHN") writes:

 >Date: 30 Sep 92 20:29:02 GMT

     [stuff about LHO deleted]

 >Now, I have something that has NOTHING to do with the season premiere!!!
 >Okay, I am a recent convert to QL, mainly because I was living abroad for
 >most of the time it was on and didn't own a TV.  Anyway, as you all know,
 >USA has been rerunning QL (and guess what my VCR is doing at 6pm - grin, grin).
 >I've been getting a real kick out of the mini-encounters that are tossed
 >into some of the episodes.  For example, the other night, they ran a
 >show where Sam leaped into a rabbi.  During the show, this man starts
 >choking.  Sam rushes over, performs the correct procedure, and voila,
 >the man is okay.  The choking victim's companion cries out something like,
 >"Oh thank you!  Are you all right?  Are you all right, Dr. Heimlich?"
 >I practically rolled around on the floor laughing at that point! ;-)
 >I LOVED the look on Sam's face right then :-)  So, I was wondering, does
 >anyone have a list of these little chance encounters.  I remember one
 >where he met Michael Jackson as a child, and another that I think involved
 >a young Stephen King.  What else? 
 >
 >Ellen - the crime doctor
 >

*** SPOILER PROTECTION *** (for those who think it necessary)


If my memory serves me correctly (for some episodes):

"The Camikazi Kid"
Sam and Al run into Michael Jackson when he was still with the Jackson
Five in the men's room of a hotel.  Michael and company were there to
rehearse.  Sam did some moves which Michael emulated and elaborated
on; one of which was moonwalking.

"How the Tess Was Won"
At the end (and in order - it seemed - for Sam to leap), Sam suggests
to Buddy Holly that he change his lyrics from "Piggy Soo-ee" to "Peggy
Sue" and - as they say - the rest is history.

[the Halloween episode (I think)]
At the end, Sam and Al discover that the kid neighbor's name is
Stephen; his mother came to pick him up and Sam's character's love
interest called her Mrs. King.  Said love interest is named Carrie.
Sam's character said something about he thought Carrie was out to get
him, thus inspiring Stephen to write about Carrie the demon car.  When
Stephen got into his mother's car, he called out to his dog Cujo in
the car.

"It's a Wonderful Leap"
Sam's in a cabbie and he's driving a father and dour-faced boy.  He
tells the boy that one day there will be skyscrapers all over
Manhattan, and that there'll be a tall, glass tower where he was
letting them off.  The doorman opens the door and says something like
"Good evening, Mr. Trump" to the father, who says "Come along, Donald"
to the boy.

[Phew!  I've finally caught up on reading rasftv articles - I expect
more tomorrow, but I wanted to read how other people felt about the QL
premiere episode before chiming in with my opinion(s).]  8-)

nml

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