History YMMV / QuantumLeap

** The premise behind the proposed "Bold Leap Forward" spinoff, which would have seen Sammie Jo Fuller becoming a leaper to find Sam.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Sam grew up watching the space program, which was clearly a major historical event during his lifetime. And yet, none of his leaps took him to outer space. The closest he got to NASA was when he leaped into a chimpanzee. It was not until 29 years after the first series ended that the franchise visited outer space.

** Even with how good the show usually was with gender issues, there were some incredibly cringeworthy things. When Al rather than Sam did a leap, he and a woman who believed he was an old flame were implied to have sex; however, this would have been [[BedTrick rape by deception on his part]]. In another instance, Sam leapt right in as the leapee was having sex with his fiancee. This was in no way Sam's fault, but with [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal the implication God was controlling the leaps]], there's three victims, including Sam himself, right there. Making all this either better or worse, in a later episode, Sam nearly had sex with Alia due to the fact they were both in a leap and seeing each other as their real selves, and her response was to make it seem as if his leapee, a man with Down Syndrome, had sexually assaulted her leapee, the man's sister-in-law.

** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS4E10Unchained Unchained]]": [[WardensAreEvil Boss Cooley]] runs [[HellholePrison Talawaga prison]] in the cruelest ways. Keeping the prisoners in subhuman conditions, with beatings and forced labor on the chain gang, Cooley punishes any who resist in the sweltering Punishment Pit, with the option of murdering any who still trouble him. When Sam, in the body of a prisoner named Cole, and his friend, wrongfully accused prisoner Jazz, draw Cooley's ire, it is revealed Cooley is involved in a string of robberies that Jazz is accused for. Cooley murders the robber to cover his tracks and then reveals he regularly hosts "[[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath cockfights]]", where prisoners are forced to fight for the death. When Sam and Jazz survive this, Cooley intends to hunt them down and kill them himself.

* HoYay: "What Price, Gloria?" brings this up in universe between Sam and Al. Al finds himself attracted to Sam, as at this point, he sees Sam as the leapee; Samantha Stormer in this case. For much of the episode, he's conflicted by what he sees as his ideal woman: A knockout blonde with the personality of his best friend. Dr Beeks even tells him he might have some repressed homosexuality in this case. He eventually reconciles this when Beeks assures him that love is part of friendship.

** Despite being mentioned a bunch, Dr. Verbena Beeks never had an actual onscreen appearance again after "The Leap Back." This is especially glaring in Season 5's Waiting Room scenes, where her presence as the Project's resident psychologist would've made logical sense, such as in "Lee Harvey Oswald," "Killin' Time," "Return of the Evil Leaper,"[[note]]Which even ''mentions'' Dr. Beeks, but features ''Al'' acting as the leapee's ersatz therapist instead[[/note]] and "Revenge of the Evil Leaper."