# You may quantum leap into a fictional character's life for one week. Who do you choose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990 "2010-01-14T21:28:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/1 "2010-01-14T21:28:22Z")
The thread title is pretty clear, I think. Only a madman would bother with the long boring justification. But since more than a few of us are madmen (or madwomen), I’ve put the rules in a spoiler box. You can answer with bothering with that crap, though. [spoiler]During my latest interdimensional raiding trip, I managed to obtain Sam Beckett’s quantum leap accelerator. Though the QLA works basically the same as seen during the NBC chronicles–that is, the leaper travels through time and speace by exchanging places with a person at the destination, who remains in the accelerator and unconsicous during leap–Sam made a couple of improvements after he finally managed to leap home.\* Primarily, he eliminated the swiss-cheese-memory effect; the leaper will now remember everything about his real life. Moreover, the leaper will be able to access to the memories and abilities of whatever person he (or she) is substituting for. The mysterious aura that changes the leaper’s appearance remains. Jump into Gertrude Stein’s body+, and not even Alice B. Toklas will be able to tell the difference. I couldn’t think of any evil applications for the QLA\*\*, so I haven’t any use for it my ownself. Therefore I am offering free leaps to any Dopers who wants one. As I don’t trust you guys not to screw up the timeline, I’ve set the QLA to send you only to fictional realities. You can’t go back in time to stop our Kennedy from being assassinated, but you can jump into Oliver Stone’s JFK, or that issue of _Superboy_ when the Teen of Steel met the president. Each leap will last no more than 168 hours. If you get killed while you’re gone, the leap will end and your corpse will be brought back.++ \*I am perfectly aware of what the series finale claimed. That was a vicious lie put about by that hot evil leaper chick whose name I just forgot. +Like anybody would want to. \*\*Well, none that I couldn’t accomplish quicker and easier with my Burroughs-Libby contiua device, anyway. ++Admittedly I could easily turn on the resurrection option, but I am a bastard. Besides, that would be like playing tennis with the net down [/spoiler] Any takers? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/2 "2010-01-14T21:31:56Z")
Brian Kinney from _Queer As Folk_. I figure in a week I could put a hundred or so guys on my “did-do” list… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/3 "2010-01-14T21:54:09Z")
There are so many to choose from. The current leader is Leonard from **Big Bang Theory** , if for no other reason than he is regularly schtupping Penny. Or Lazarus Long during a routine flight aboard Gay Deceiver, so long as Laz, Lor, Athena and Tammy were aboard and feeling frisky. I’m seeing a theme here… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/4 "2010-01-14T21:57:01Z")
Rob Petry. I get to be a tv writer, and sleep (in a separate bed :rolleyes: ) next to young hot Mary Tyler Moore. Maybe I don’t get to travel the galaxy, but I’m pretty sure I don’t get killed, either. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/5 "2010-01-14T21:59:11Z")
I’d like to leap into Power Girl. And not leave my room for a week. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/6 "2010-01-14T22:01:25Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > There are so many to choose from. The current leader is Leonard from **Big Bang Theory** , if for no other reason than he is regularly schtupping Penny. > > Or Lazarus Long during a routine flight aboard Gay Deceiver, so long as Laz, Lor, Athena and Tammy were aboard and feeling frisky. > > I’m seeing a theme here… I don’t think you thought that second one all the way through. Gay is alive. Gay can, at best, just barely stand Lazarus, and from time to time actively hates him. Unless Zeb, Deety, or Hilda is there, Gay’s gonna figure out a way to murder Lazarus and make it look like an accident. As you will seem exactly like Lazarus, you are going to find yourself mysteriously unbuckled during manuevers over Barsoom and dumped out the starboard door. Also, Athena, unlike Minerva, is not to be trusted. Also there’s no room to have sex in Gay. No, not even in the refreshers; those are actually in Oz, and there’s no sex in Oz. Shall I change your reservation for a routine _Dora_ flight, or do you want to risk it? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/7 "2010-01-14T22:02:55Z")
I could stand being Superman for a week, just to see how it goes. Otherwise…_I have a cunning plan. shut up Baldrick!_ ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/8 "2010-01-14T22:06:30Z")
It’s gotta be [Druss The Legend](http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n2762.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/9 "2010-01-14T22:08:48Z")
I’d go with Charlie Harper from Two and a Half Men. I think I could handle a week of anonymous sex in a Malibu beach house. I’d like to go back to the beginning of the series though so my image wouldn’t look quite so haggard and I could use looks as well as money to land all the crazy sex I could dream up. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/10 "2010-01-14T22:14:04Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I’d go with Charlie Harper from Two and a Half Men. I think I could handle a week of anonymous sex in a Malibu beach house. I’d like to go back to the beginning of the series though so my image wouldn’t look quite so haggard and I could use looks as well as money to land all the crazy sex I could dream up. Venerial diseases won’t follow when we leap away, will they? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/11 "2010-01-14T22:16:06Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Venerial diseases won’t follow when we leap away, will they? Of course they will. You’re not exchanging minds with the person you leap into; your body is put in the place of his or her body. There’s a magic field that makes your body seem like his body. That’s how it worked for Sam, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/12 "2010-01-14T22:21:10Z")
Alice in Wonderland, Willy Wonka, Superman, the Captain from I dream of Jeanie, and either Chuck/Capt Awesome. double leap: leaping into becoming a connecticut yankee who leapt into king arthur’s court. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/13 "2010-01-14T22:21:14Z")
I think I’d leap into Sam Beckett, just for the hell of it. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/14 "2010-01-14T22:26:13Z")
On a very non-serious note, Colin Frissell in _Love Actually_ ---
**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 14, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/15 "2010-01-14T22:39:19Z")
Leap into Scott Bakula in 1988, refuse the offer for _Quantum Leap_, destroy the universe. Oh, wait… Bakula’s sort-of real. Uh… Superman. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/16 "2010-01-14T22:42:10Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I don’t think you thought that second one all the way through. See? This is what I get for trying to post while pretending to listen to presentations by sophomores. :smack: I meant Dora, of course. But I do think Teena would be more fun in the sack than Minerva. Just a hunch, really. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/17 "2010-01-14T22:43:47Z")
The Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Lethal\_Babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Lethal\_Babydoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Babydoll)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/18 "2010-01-14T22:51:40Z")
I would love to head up the **Ministry of Silly Walks** ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/19 "2010-01-14T23:01:08Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Rob Petry. I get to be a tv writer, and sleep (in a separate bed :rolleyes: ) next to young hot Mary Tyler Moore. > > Maybe I don’t get to travel the galaxy, but I’m pretty sure I don’t get killed, either. Laura Petry, to sleep next to young hot Dick Van Dyke. But \*\*\*not \*\*\*the same week that you’re Rob Petry (believe me, I’ll know). ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/20 "2010-01-14T23:03:58Z")
Kinsey Millhone from Sue Grafton’s ABC books. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990.md?page=2)