Comments on: How Does the Quantum Leap Project Know When Teenagers First Had Sex?

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:49:12 +0000

Yeah, exactly. And honestly, I am not even saying that’s a BAD thing, just interesting to point out. In fact, I think I’ll add that caveat to future How Can I Explain? features, which is that I’m not saying it’s a big deal for a show to have an inexplicable plot point.

By: Brian Perler

Brian Perler — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:53:48 +0000

Bellisario’s motto for the show was always “Don’t examine this too closely”. He knew the show’s logic wouldn’t survive any kind of actual scrutiny (the list of things that get blatantly contradicted between episodes was astounding), but he always figured it was more important that the show be good than consistent. (And, to his credit, the show was usually excellent.) (In other words “it doesn’t make sense and the writers didn’t care because it was a good zinger” is exactly the answer.)

By: John B Trumbull

John B Trumbull — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 03:44:52 +0000

As I recall, Ziggy would check public records to find out what happened to these people in the original history. So obviously, that kid became super famous sometime before 1999 and wrote a tell-all biography that revealed when he lost his virginity.