![]() ![]() Keep in mind that the show established that it’s actually Sam’s entire body that leaps, and that he takes on the appearance of the person he’s pretending to be to everyone around him. The bizarre part was that Sam continued to endure all the pregnancy symptoms and ultimately labor pains as if he were actually pregnant with the baby. His mission was fairly routine, in that he had to convince the girl’s father to support her so she wouldn’t have to give the baby up for adoption. But the strangest situation he had to deal with as a woman, hands down, was when he leapt into a pregnant teenager. Sam leaped into women on several occasions and there were usually several awkward situations for him to deal with, like competing in a beauty pageant and fending off sexual advances from guys who thought he was a woman. ![]() It wouldn’t be the first episode of Quantum Leap connected to supposed strange phenomenon in the real world. On a related note, two airings of this episode in 1992 supposedly coincided with large earthquakes in California, supporting the idea of a curse that even extended outside the program. It was an odd fit for a show that was usually more realistic that fanciful (well, aside from the premise), but reveals of this type were often done in a tastefully short and shocking way. Quantum Leap tended to show that supernatural beings and other oddities were real, and offered tantalizing glimpses of Bigfoot, Bermuda Triangle strangeness, UFOs, angels and other weird things throughout the course of the series. Although Sam is extremely skeptical about the whole idea of a curse, the viewer is treated to a quick glimpse of an emaciated mummy hand as it grabs one of the members of the dig party just before the episode ends. Disasters befall the dig, even affecting Ziggy, the computer at Project Quantum Leap, which starts to malfunction due to new software that was created in Egypt. ![]() Sam leaps into an archaeologist who has unearthed a supposedly cursed Egyptian tomb. ![]()
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