My Official Pitch For An Episode Of Quantum Leap Is Ben Has To Steer A Scientist (Mary Hollis Imboden)

My official pitch for an episode of Quantum Leap is Ben has to steer a scientist (Mary Hollis Imboden) into developing a life-saving medication, and for some reason this involves getting her to realize the busker she passes by on the way to work every day (Annie Murphy) is super into her.

okay like I'll eventually watch GLOW but I'm watching Roar first

Alison Brie as a wrestler is cool and all but Merritt Wever dating a duck should fill theaters

The thing with Jennnnn is that she was clearly (from the perspective of how the show depicts her Amherstness and parents) slumming it with Sam and everybody knew.

Sam's a Worcestor boy, and we don't know what his own house was like but one his his uncles owned a pawn shop, so I assume we're talking like, Chuck and D finances. He mentions he never would have gotten financial help from his dad, but I assume that's more of a relationship hurdle than a financial one. Though, did Sam burn that bridge when he wasn't sober, or was his dad *why* he drank?

So Rich Jenn who definitely went to all the popular parties and had all the queen bee types be nice to her (the plot of Heathers was happening in Amherst, I assume, and also, side note, the "most popular girl in school but nice about it" description Allison got in the original pilot works better for Jenn and im glad the actual show didnt stick to that) was dating Sam from Worcester who worked at a skeezy Mexican restaurant (I assume it was the Group Hang restaurant CEG).... why?

And that's a whole story there, how the hell they met and who pursued who, but putting that aside dating Sam from Worcester was not The Script Jenn's parents had for her.

And I don't think it was the script Jenn's Amherst friends expected her to follow, either!

Wouldnt it be crazy if when teenage Allison had her definitely-for-appearances church friends and her swim team that didn't really like her (and yeah, I buy the "too competitive" stuff as a result of Allison's homelife, but also she was a disaster baby bi who would have wanted to make a connection but made a terrible first impression + rumors), and at the same time Jenn was in Amherst, and she *seemed* to have genuine female friendships in a way Allison never did, but then she started seeing Sam and her friend group distanced themselves from her (or Jenn realized how shitty they were being and distanced herself)

Wouldnt it be crazy if in Worcester everyone in Allison's life seemed to love Kevin and praise him for every single thing he said and did even when it made no fucking sense to her, and at around the same time everyone in Jenn's life would snidely criticize Sam and her decision to be with him, whether he was being shitty or not?

Hey, some headcanons have Sam be the one to do the final breakup, but I'm still convinced after the scene cut with Jenn saying "do we have to?" she just completely shut down and didn't even consider trying to work it out. Jenn put the majority of her life into a loser from Worcester that everyone in her life would have judged her for. It's worse than having her trust shattered. It would have been *embarrassing*.

Assembled into a Spotify Playlist, hopefully there weren't any weird unlabeled alternate versions, half of these songs appeared on multiple albums : P

A limited, incomplete, cannibal-coded Pattison playlist that gets more unhinged as you listen to it (in the most complicated format possible, specifically for your inconvenience).

TW: murder, blood, dismemberment, cannibalism, self-harm, eating your gf in a not-sexy way (listeners be warned).

You Always Hurt The One You Love - The Mills Brothers

Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray - Patsy Cline

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters

It Will Come Back - Hozier

Hunger - Florence + The Machine

She Calls Me Back - Noah Kahan

I Can’t Handle Change - Roar

Die For You - Joji

Cigarette Duet - Princess Chelsea

Still - Daughter

&burn (with Vince Staples) - Billie Eilish

Don’t Look Back - Ben Phipps, Ashe

Me and the Devil - Soap&Skin

A Hole In The Earth - Daughter

Visitation Of The Ghost - The Brobecks

Ghost Girl - Lil Peep

I’m a Sucker for a Liar in a Red Dress - Adam Jensen

Jenny (I Wanna Ruin Our Friendship) - Studio Killers

Nicotine - Panic! At The Disco

I Don’t Care - Grumpy Plum

Maniac - Conan Gray

An Unhealthy Obsession - The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

Blood Bank - Bon Iver

Animal - Sir Chloe

Eat You Alive - The Oh Hellos

Consume - Chase Atlantic, Goon Des Garcons

Blood In The Cut - K. Flay

Kiss Me You Animal - Burn The Ballroom

The Red Means I Love You - Madds Buckley

Flesh - Simon Curtis

Spit In My Face! - ThxSoMch

Kill[h]er - Stand Atlantic

If I Killed Someone For You - Alec Benjamin

Teeth (You) - Re6ce

Body - Mother Mother

Choke - I Don’t Know How But They Found Me

In My Mouth - Black Dresses

Sweet Tooth - Scott Helman

Destroy Me - Mr.Kitty

A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd

Cannibal - Tally Hall

This Is Love - Air Traffic Controller

I Want To Hurt You - Mr.Kitty

Love Me Dead - Ludo

Grind Me Down (Jawster Remix) - Lilianna Wilde, Jawster

Rip Our Ur Gutz - Korpsebunny

Bleed for Me - Johnny Goth

Kitchen Fork - Jack Conte

Romantic Homicide - D4dvd

Tongues & Teeth - The Crane Wives

*reads fan analysis of the ending* jeez I never thought about it that way that's actually really touching

*actually watches the ending* wait no it's just dumb

beating a dead horse but I still get so baffled and confused that at the ending. I thought "So Patty at some point had an epiphany that all she wants from Allison is friendship? That's dumb, and rushed, and completely without the proper foundation".

And then MHI and Valerie were both like "no Patty still has secret unrequited feelings but that's fine for some reason : )"

No that's WORSE how do you not see how that's WORSE at least my interpretation blamed clumsy writing that could be attributed to an early cancelation don't act like this was the plan all along because it's so much WORSE

I'm gonna need to stop seeing Xena gifs until it's actually on a streaming service