Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Dr. Ruth - April 25, 1985 (1993)

Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Dr. Ruth Westheimer

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• [Sam has leapt into Dr. Ruth, right in the middle of her Frank Talk About Sex radio show] 

  Caller : I have a problem most people would envy.

  Sam : Uh, yes, w-what is your problem?

  Caller : Well, I get orgasms that are so incredible and overwhelming that I end up pushing my husband out of bed. The last time, he got all bruised and scraped. Is there any answer for me?

  Sam : [pause]  Knee pads?

• Al : Sam. Sex is not dirty. It's a very natural thing. Being frank about it, and educating your children to be morally responsible and safe, er, is better than sweeping it under the rug.

  Sam : That's a pretty mature attitude, coming from somebody like you.

  Al : No, it's not coming from me. That's coming from the real Dr. Ruth in the Waiting Room.

• Al : Ziggy says there's a 72% chance that you're here to play with matches.

  Al , Sam : What?

  [Al strikes the handlink hard] 

  Al : Stinking thing... Play with... Oh, mat-ma... oh, matchmaker. Play matchmaker.

• [Sam is recording promos for Dr. Ruth's radio show] 

  Sam : [very uncomfortably]  This is Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Tomorrow on Frank Talk About Sex, we're going to discuss some common male sexual dysfunctions like premat-ture... premature... Well, we're gonna discuss a lot of things that I'm sure will be very stimulating. U-uplifting. Interesting! And that'll be tomorrow, right here, on my show.

• Debbie Schaefer : ...Three days later you said you had the jitters. You stopped performing, remember?

  Al : Oh, this sounds juicy.

  Doug Bridges : What exactly do you mean by "performing"?

  Debbie Schaefer : Do I have to spell it out for you? The cork on the champagne bottle wouldn't pop.

  Doug Bridges : Uh-huh.

  Debbie Schaefer : The thrusters weren't thrusting.

  Doug Bridges : Oh, really?

  Debbie Schaefer : There was no lift-off!

  Sam : Could we change the subject, please?

  Doug Bridges : No, please, let her go ahead. I think there's a couple in the next room who didn't hear about my thrusters!

  Al : Not so good, Sam.

  Sam : What am I supposed to do?

  Doug Bridges : Get her a bullhorn. She can announce it from the Chrysler Building: "Doug's rocket didn't launch!"

• Annie Wilkins : Why would someone as famous as you care about someone like me?

  Sam : How do you think I got to be so famous? Besides, helping people's what I do for a living.

• Sam : [whenever Sam's mind merges with Dr Ruth's]  Now, we are getting somewhere.

• Al : There are five stages of love. The first is denial, then the second is sex, then there's acceptance, then there's divorce... and then there's more sex, if you're lucky.

  Sam : Who wrote this textbook, you or Zsa Zsa?