Quantum Leap
Season 2, Episode 12:
Animal Frat
Written by Chris Ruppenthal
Directed by Gilbert M. Shilton
Airdate: January 3, 1990
October 19, 1967
Sam Leaps into Knut "Wild Thing" Wileton, the ruler of the wildest fraternity on the campus of Meeks College, California - Tau Kappa Beta (TKB). He must stop a protester from setting off a bomb that will kill someone, forcing her to go underground for the rest of her life.
Tropes
- Actor Allusion: When Sam leaps into a college frat boy in "Animal Frat", the Dean whose office he and his friends regularly break into is called "Dean Stockwell".
- Gender Bender: At the end of the episode, Sam leaps into suburban mother Linda Bruckner. This is a tease for the next episode, "Another Mother"
- Leap of Faith: Sam still makes the leap that paralyzed Knut in history.
- Waving Signs Around: There are Vietnam War protests at the college.
- Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: This episode is full of them, including beer-chugging contests, water balloon slingshots, abuse of the pledge, Scooter, etc.
