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* StealthPun: This is the pilot for the series. So naturally, Sam's first leap is into a pilot.
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* AdultFear: In the original history, Tom Stratton died flying the X-2, the stress of which induced Peg’s premature labor, leading to stillbirth. Sam averted both of these tragedies.
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* CursedWithAwesome: The conclusion Sam reaches about leaping after managing to talk with his dad in 1968: While he is stuck jumping around time, not knowing when he'll go home, he still has the opportunity to do some good.
-->'''Sam''': (narrating) You know, maybe this quantum leaping... isn't such a bad deal after all. Getting a second chance to put things right, to make the world a better place. Who knows what I can accomplish before I'm done.
-->'''Sam''': (narrating) You know, maybe this quantum leaping... isn't such a bad deal after all. Getting a second chance to put things right, to make the world a better place. Who knows what I can accomplish before I'm done.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Despite the majority of the episode concerning Tom Stratton's X-2 flight, the last 18 minutes of the second episode[[note]]the pilot, originally a two-hour episode, was split into two 45-minute episodes after the initial airing[[/note]] sees Sam leap into baseball player Tim Fox, and is meant to help his team win their final game of the season. In fact, Sam leaps in right before he's meant to go up to bat. One gets the feeling that this was done because the pilot was too short.
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* CuttingTheKnot: After saying he was able to help Sam ''fly'' the X-2, Al admits there is no way Sam could ''land'' it, even with his help. So, they opt to have Sam eject once they break Mach 3.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: During one of attempted flights of the X-2, Tony admits that he could have ''sworn'' he smelled coffee brewing. In addition, you can clearly hear some kind of bubbling sound as they X-2 was approaching Mach 3.
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* CoolCar: The first scene has Al driving futuristic-looking car.[[note]]It is actually a 1987 Ferrari Testarossa shot from angles that make it hard to identify.[[/note]]
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Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM LEAP. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Beckett, prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator and vanished.
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Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM LEAP. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Beckett, Beckett prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator and vanished.
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* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: Due to Sam being terrified of the prospect of flying, he demands to know what other options he has for leaping out of Tom Stratton. One of the scenarios Al gives? [[TooDumbToLive Freezing his brain]] [[HeroicRROD "until all electrical activity has ceased".]]
-->'''Sam''': That's called '''death'''.
-->'''Al''': [[DeadpanSnarker I never said it would be easy.]]
-->'''Sam''': That's called '''death'''.
-->'''Al''': [[DeadpanSnarker I never said it would be easy.]]
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* RuleOfThree: Across both the Tom Stratton and Tim Fox leaps, Sam tries calling his family home three times, and it's only through Al telling him his last name that Sam succeeds the third time.
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* MirrorReveal: After Sam leaps for the first time his brain is "swiss-cheesed" so he doesn't know who he is or what he's doing there. When he first sees himself in the mirror he jumps back, apparently having a mental image of his face which isn't the face he's looking back at.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: It's seeing how distressed Sam is during the Tim Fox leap that pushes Al to go against Ziggy's orders and give Sam some information about himself. Namely, his last name.
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* PostWakeUpRealization: Sam's swiss-cheesed brain doesn't know that he has leaped into the life of someone else until he goes to the bathroom and looks at himself in the mirror to shave.
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* AdultFear: In the original history, Tom Stratton died flying the X-2, the stress of which induced Peg’s premature labor, leading to stillbirth. Sam averted both of these tragedies.
* CasualKink: One of Peg's friends mentions that her test pilot husband sometimes wears his goggles when they make love. Despite the sideways glances from her friends, she simply states "I think it's sexy".
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'''''Series/QuantumLeap'''''\\
'''Season 1, Episode 1-2:'''
!Genesis
->'''Al:''' You're part of a time-travel experiment that went a little... [[UnusualEuphemism ka-ka]].
->'''Sam:''' A little ka-ka? How little ka-ka?
->'''Al:''' Well, you're here! That's great! It’s Nobel Prize time, you should be proud.
->'''Sam:''' And…?
->'''Al:''' And... we're experiencing technical difficulties in retrieving you.
Written by Creator/DonaldPBellisario
Directed by David Hemmings.
Airdate: March 26, 1989.
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Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM LEAP. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Beckett, prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator and vanished.
Sam awakens to find himself in 1956, in the body of an Air Force test pilot working to break Mach 3. Sam is assigned to fly the experimental aircraft, but even with partial amnesia he is suffering as a side-effect of time travel, he knows that he has no idea how to fly a plane.
!Tropes:
* FiveFiveFive: One of the only things Sam remembers after leaping is his office’s phone number. In 1956, the era of telephone exchange names, it doesn’t work.
-->'''Sam''': What’s wrong with the phone?
-->'''Peg''': Honey, you’re dialing too many numbers.
-->'''Sam''': Too many? Maybe not enough. What’s the area code?
-->'''Peg''': Area code?
* BedmateReveal: Sam not only wakes up in an unfamiliar room, but alongside a woman he’s never see before.
-->'''Sam''': (thinking) I don’t even remember going to bed with this woman whoever she is. And whoever she is she’s certainly… pregnant. VERY pregnant!
* CoolCar: The first scene has Al driving futuristic-looking car. (it is actually a 1987 Ferarri Testarossa shot from angles that make it hard to identify)
* AdultFear: In the original history, Tom Stratton died flying the X-2, the stress of which induced Peg’s premature labor, leading to stillbirth. Sam averted both of these tragedies.
* DownToTheLastPlay: Sam is the last batter for the Waco Bombers. Partially subverted in that he strikes out, but gets to base when the third strike becomes a wild pitch and a series of errors allow him to round the bags.
* EvilDetectingDog: While Sam is not evil, Tim Fox’s (Sam’s second leap) dog sees Sam for who he is and keeps barking. Sam tries to stare him down, which appears to work, until Sam realizes that Al’s sudden appearance led to ScareTheDog.
* IMeantToDoThat: Sam’s line gets snagged while trying to show Mikey how to fly fish. Sam quickly invokes this trope, saying that he was showing him what ''not'' to do.
* MaleGaze: One of the first things the viewer is treated to are the long, shapely legs of a sexy woman standing beside her broken-down car.
* ReallyGetsAround: Air Force pilot Bill “Bird Dog” Birdell is always on the prowl. The fact that he never sleeps at the B.O.Q. is widely known.
* ThePrankster: Tom Stratton, the man Sam has leapt into, is notorious for this. When Sam says he has forgotten how to fly, all of this friends think it’s his latest gag. They quickly join in.
* WhamLine: When Al realizes where the bubbling sound in the X-2 cockpit is coming from.
-->'''Al''': It’s the fuel, Sam. The heat is '''boiling''' the fuel!
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->'''Sam''': Maybe this [[TitleDrop quantum leaping]] isn’t such a bad deal after all. Who know what I can accomplish before I’m done.
