# Last episode of Quantum Leap. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109 "2001-08-31T13:53:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/41 "2014-01-11T18:02:34Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Obviously, I’m in the camp that reads “Sam never went home” as a joyous thing … he never went home because he found his calling, what Al the bartender called his next “difficult assignment.” Exactly, I always looked on the ending not as Sam never getting to come home, but that he got to keep on leaping. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/42 "2014-01-11T18:41:52Z")
I was too distracted by the episode’s what-the-fuck factor to form an emotional response. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/43 "2014-01-11T18:46:54Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > This is a 12 year old thread. > > I don’t think too many people are debating the ending of Quantum Leap anymore. “Oh, Boy!” ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/44 "2014-01-11T19:24:24Z")
Having already leaped into the body of an ancestor, he leaped into the body of a descendant, the captain of the Enterprise NX-01. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/45 "2014-01-12T00:53:36Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Having already leaped into the body of an ancestor, he leaped into the body of a descendant, the captain of the Enterprise NX-01. Does that mean the shadowy temporal cold war guy we never got any answers about was an evil leaper? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/46 "2014-01-12T21:47:57Z")
> [@meecepeece](#): > > The way I understand it to be was God the bartender,told Sam Again, the bartender says “I’m not God, Sam” Bit of an odd thing for him to say if he was God, dontcha think? ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/47 "2014-01-13T05:55:29Z")
All this talk about quantum leap, I noticed the dates and how it kept getting closer to…I felt like leaping back before 9/11/01 and…yea, Oh Boy! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![weirdal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/71c47a/32.png) [@weirdal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/weirdal)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/48 "2016-03-17T21:55:22Z")
Do you really think casting Bill McGill in the very first episode and then the last episode as the bartender of pure coincidence? 🙂 -ogotsraeyeerht ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/49 "2016-03-17T22:53:25Z")
> [@weirdal](#): > > Do you really think casting Bill McGill in the very first episode and then the last episode as the bartender of pure coincidence? 🙂 > > -ogotsraeyeerht No, not a coincidence at all since other actors from previous episodes also appeared in the finale as different characters. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109/50 "2016-03-18T00:13:26Z")
I would have liked to have seen an additional season. The “harder leaps”, Al as a happily married man, perhaps Tina married to Gooshi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-episode-of-quantum-leap/79109.md?page=2)