HOLOGRAMMATICAL ERRORS:
Hologrammatical Error #1: When Al is chuckling over Sam’s dumpster dive, Al’s reflection appears in the shiny rim of the dumpster. (MPB)
Hologrammatical Error #2: Why can’t the
young Michael Jackson and the younger kids at the wedding see Al? (IMZ)
(Besides the obvious reason that the scriptwriters hadn’t yet established
that little kids could see Al and Sam.)
PCR: Maybe they were too obnoxious to
be innocent enough to see Al or Sam. (NM)
Hologrammatical Error #3: Why did the blue light from the bar affect Al at the wedding rehearsal? (IMZ)
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE PROJECT:
Project Trivia #1: Notice that the handlink gets a fair amount of use in this episode (Al even shows Sam his "score" for his dumpster-dive on it), but we don’t see the Imaging Chamber door. (MPB)
MIRROR NITS:
Mirror Nit #1: In the mirror, Cam
is wearing braces. But we don’t see any braces on Sam’s teeth. Why not?
(LW)
PCR: Dental fixtures, because directly
attached to the body, would probably Leap with the host. (SA)
GENERAL NIT-PICKING:
General Nit #1: How can Sam see when he’s
wearing Cam’s glasses? If it’s Sam’s body that Leaps, he wouldn’t need
the glasses (LMC)
PCR: Maybe Sam’s vision got swiss-cheesed
with Cam’s. (MPB)
General Nit #2: How come it’s dark when
Sam gets home? Where was he off all that time? (LMC)
PCR #1: Sam wanted to sneak in so Cam’s
parents wouldn’t see his torn shirt and dirty clothes. (MPB)
PCR #2: Cam didn’t have a map in his car,
and Sam got lost trying to find his way home. (MPB)
General Nit #3: When Sam talks to Cheryl in her bedroom, she’s polishing her fingernails, probably to make them look nice for the shower the next day. We see them all red and shiny in a close-up shot when she spills the polish. But in the medium shots, they’re not colored. The next day, there’s no red polish on her nails. (MPB)
General Nit #4: When Sam and Al are in The Big Race, Al appears in one long shot, then disappears from the next, then reappears in a third long shot. Look carefully--you can clearly see two people in the Mommobile, then one, then two again. (MPB) Also, Al moves with the car’s movement. (LMC)
General Nit #5: While Sam’s farewell to
Cheryl is very touching, why isn’t the rest of her family seeing her off?
She’s going to the Peace Corps and she may be gone for years. (MPB)
PCR: Maybe the family said good-bye
at the house. (PMG)
DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS:
Detail #1: When Sam first enters Cam’s house, "Leave It to Beaver" is playing on the tube. Eddie Haskell is talking about going steady. Bob, of course, turns out to be the perfect Eddie Haskell-type--sweet and charming on the outside, cruel and slimy on the inside. (MH & MPB)
Detail #2: Cheryl reminisces about Cam "*leaping* around in his silly Zorro outfit." Ironic, since Sam, like Zorro, Leaps around in disguise (although Sam doesn’t need a mask), righting wrongs and helping the oppressed. (MPB)
Detail #3: It's exhilarating to see the
pure joy that Sam and Al experience
when they meet in the last scene.
Maybe it's because they won that race
together, but it seems they are extraordinarily
relieved and happy, quite a
contrast from their interaction in Seymour,
the next episode. (MH)
TRIVIAL PURSUIT:
Trivial Item #1: Al comments that he has Russian blood on his mother’s side--or would that be Ukrainian? (Looking forward to the dreaded "Mirror Image," Al’s Uncle Stawpah is Ukrainian.)
Trivial Item #2: This is the second mention of "Bonanza" on QL so far. And, of course, Al will get star-struck when Lorne Greene shows up next season during Sam’s "Disco Inferno" Leap. (LW) Was this an inside joke? Dean appeared on "Bonanza" in an episode entitled "The Medal." (NM)
AL’S WOMEN:
The stripper in Vegas who started out wearing a TV carton and ended up with a little kleenex box.
The bikini-clad nymphet artfully draped over the hood of the classic car in the snapshot that Al shows Sam. ("She offered to wax my hood.")
NAME THAT TUNE:
This episode has absolutely terrific pop tunes juxtaposed with the action. As Sam pulls into the burger drive-in, we hear "The Wanderer" by Dion and the Belmonts--the only question here is, is Sam "the kind of guy who likes to run around, never in one place, I roam from town to town," or is it Al? (MH & MPB)
Then, when Sam is getting "pantsed" by the Impalas, we hear Buddy Holly’s "Oh, Boy" (guess Buddy’s career turned out okay after meeting Sam in "Tess")--perfect, both for Sam’s situation, and in light of Jill’s crush on Cam (MH & MPB). Later, when Cheryl tells Sam about Jill’s crush, we hear "Baby, It’s You" by the Shirelles playing on her radio or record player. (MH)
Of course, who can forget the Michael Jackson moonwalk scene, to the tune of "Rockin’ Robin" by Bobby Day. (MH)
When Sam and the lovelorn Jill are doctoring Cam’s car, we hear that eternal question (surely on both Sam’s and Jill’s minds, but for different reasons) "Why Must I Be a Teenager in Love?" by Dion and the Belmonts. (MH & MPB)
Finally, when Jill waits for Sam at the end, the Everly Brothers sing what’s on Jill’s mind: "Let It Be Me." (MH & MPB)
FAVORITE QUOTATIONS:
Sam: "Oh, my God, I’m a dork! A dork with teeth that can pick up radio transmissions!"
Waitress: "When you’re finished, I’ll be
back with your desserts."
Al: "Just put a cherry on top of
your head."
Sam: [1961] "...the tail end of the
most immature period in history. All the guys still drink malts, drive
hot-rods, and wear butch wax in their hair. And all the girls have
pillow fights, chat on the phone, blind dates, and get their panties raided."
Al: "Those were the good old days."
Sam: "Al, you gonna let a car like
that rule your life?"
Al: "Yes."
Mrs. Wilson: "Miss May looks pretty fresh to me."
Al: "If you're gonna publish, you
gotta have data."
Sam: "What are you gonna publish, a lingerie
catalog?"
Al (after Sam asks if he has a reason for spying on Cheryl’s shower): "I thought lingerie was enough."
Al (looking at the lingerie): "Tina would look great without that one."
Al: "I’m confirming that Ziggy’s data retrieval circuits are fully functional....He predicted that Cheryl’s lingerie party would start precisely at 2:07 Pacific Daylight Time. He was eight seconds off."
Sam: "Leaping about in time, I’ve
suffered some humiliations and abuse, but I can’t recall anything as horrible
as being forced to sit at the children’s table."
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