#good morning peoria

[invisibleicewands]

“Maybe you should put on a long-playing record.”- Quantum Leap, ‘Good Morning Peoria’ S02E06 #4

[todaysleap]

Today is September 9 and today's leap is:

Good Morning, Peoria (S2, E6) September 9, 1959

[artistictea]

Al watching how Sam makes out in a few of these episodes is. A choice. That was made.

[writeyourletters-inthesand]

watching old ql promos and how excited scott and dean were to have chubby checker on the show is so sweet!! and how excited chubby checker was to be playing his younger self and singing and dancing to his own song on the show is so sweet!!!

there is something about a time-travel tv show

[brigittespuck]

laying in bed feeling so tummy sick watching quantum leap mourning the fact that i'll be 21 in the morning

[dykebeckett]

quantum leap is a show that makes you want to listen to fifties rock n roll

[robertdeanstockwellgal]

One if my favorite pictures/screenshots of Dean/Al.

[lukeskywahlker]

dessert for brunch?! i got some crazy friends!

eggcellent cafe // peoria il // august 2023

[dailyalcalavicci]

206 | Good Morning, Peoria, 9 September 1959

[loopnoid]

hey! I'm trying to indoctrinate my girlfriend into enjoying Queap... which episode should I show her first?

oh dear i'm just now seeing this so sorry!!! it depends on your girlfriend's tastes imo. because queap does genre eps so often and covers so many topics i feel like it's easy to be like "hey you like boxing movies? court dramas? noir detectives? vampires? mummies? glam rock? milfs??? let's watch This Episode

other than that though:

my personal favorites to use are private dancer (3x14) and miss deep south (3x06) because i feel like they capture the social justice themes of the show without being too intense as other Issue Episodes can be, plus private dancer is a great sam romance and miss deep south is thee girlsam episode, another two big aspects of the show<3

i've never introduced anyone through honeymoon express (2x01) but i feel like it'd go over wonderfully as well, as the first "okay now we actually know what we're doing with this show" episode it's a very good introduction to the show

good morning peoria (2x06), another mother (2x13) and sea bride (2x21) are some great lighthearted ones to get to know the characters

i wouldn't necessarily recommend starting out with the more dramatic episodes but if you think that'd get them hooked over anything else, unchained (4x10) and good night, dear heart (2x17) are great standouts

and finally "play ball" (4x01) is a good episode with a pretty standard leap but also featuring thee sam thesis statement (i know you! you're terminally good. if it was up to you, you'd save everyone) and the absolutely devastating reveal of sam and al's first meeting and the basis of their whole relationship so i feel like it'd probably work quite well too.

i definitely would not recommend starting with any lore heavy episodes like m.i.a. or shock theater or the leap home because those gain their strength 100% from already knowing the characters through their more goofy masks which is why the tragedy hits you like a freight train. other than that though yeah that's my 2 cents! this ask is like a month old so you've probably already shown your girlfriend some episodes so this reply might be useless BUT i'm still sharing in case it helps anyone else :-)

good luck and happy queaping <3

[invisibleicewands]

“Quantum Leap, ‘Good Morning Peoria’ S02E06 #1

[jamietxrtt]

.

“Ted.” Beard’s voice could never be described as particularly forceful— nothing about him really could— but right now he wills it to be clear and strong. “You remember that night I called you, right after I got outta jail?”

Ted forces his way through another shaky breath. “...Yeah.”

It wasn’t right after he got out, really. The first thing he did when he got out was try to make his way home. It wasn’t until after he got the door slammed in his face there, after he tried and failed to find a couch to crash on nearby, after he couldn’t find a job, after he’d spent several miserable weeks sleeping on the streets in the dead of winter— only then did he call up Ted.

“You drove twelve hours round trip that night,” Beard recalls. “All the way up to Peoria then back down again. Just off one phone call.”

Ted’s still hunched over, his hands balled into fists and shaking, but he gives a weak laugh. “Uh-huh. Was a younger man then. Not sure I could pull that kind of all-nighter now.”

Beard pushes on. He has a point to make. “There’s one part about that night that’s always stuck with me. More than the rest, anyway.”

Ted hasn’t stopped shaking, but he manages to lift his head now, looking Beard in the eye. “Yeah?”

“You remember we had the oldies station on to keep you awake. Both of us belting our lungs out to the songs we heard on our parents’ records as kids.”

Ted smiles at that, a real smile, and Beard lets the satisfaction of that bolster him— Ted has always been a sucker for nostalgia. At the time, those old 70s songs they charmed themselves listening to felt like a world away from the present. Now, they’re old enough to start having nostalgia about their own 20-year-old nostalgia. Christ.

He’s never quite been able to put it into words, to Ted or to anyone else, but that night had seemed nothing short of magical to Beard. It had felt like decades since the last time he laughed that hard, watching Ted croon along in his best impression of [some lame 70s artist idk]. He was warm, and with a friend, and even the greasy fast food hamburgers they’d picked up tasted like ambrosia with how hungry he was, and it felt like he was leaving every single ounce of hardship and hurt behind in Peoria as they drove away.

That feeling wouldn’t last in the coming weeks, when Beard struggled and crumbled and the whole thing culminated in that godforsaken stolen car incident. But for that one night, he truly believed it.

Before that night, Beard had always been rather lukewarm on those old 70s songs that accompanied him along in his childhood— most of them were tied to childhood memories, and not all of them were particularly pleasant memories— but even despite that, he and Ted both knew every single word to most of the songs that came on the radio. And the sight of Ted shouting at the top of his lungs along to them, loopy and giggling as they approached five in the morning, just about wiped any bitter taste left out of Beard’s mouth.

“That was a good night,” Ted says now, quietly, his voice shaking with unshed tears. But he’s smiling.

“Yeah,” Beard agrees. “It really was.” He takes a breath. “You know, the part that’s— that’s really stuck with me?”

Ted nods, his smile broadening, already clearly seeing where this was going. “Dolly,” he says simply.

“Bingo, Ringo.” Beard finds it in him to mirror Ted’s growing smile back to him. “God, that was perfect timing.”

Ted laughs. “It really was. I’d have half a mind to think the DJ pulled that one on purpose.”

“I hope he did.”

They’d been on the road, somewhere in the middle of Missouri, when the sun started to rise. Even though they’d been shouting and laughing their way through the night, something about the clouds of pink and orange starting to creep their way over the horizon brought both of the young men to silence. And then, just as the blue of the daytime was starting to take over the purple of night, the most perfect song in the universe began to play on the radio.

It’s been a long, dark night, and I’ve been waiting for the morning…

Ted had broken out into a huge grin. “Aw, man,” he’d said. “I love Dolly.”

Beard hummed along an agreement, but couldn’t bring himself to say much, charmed by the appropriateness of the song. I can see the light of a clear blue morning, Dolly belted out, right as the blue morning did indeed open up in front of the two of them, urging them to leave everything painful behind them. Everything was gonna be alright, and everything was gonna be okay.

“You know,” Beard says, back in the present in the hotel room with Ted. “Now, every time I listen to that song, I always feel twenty-five again. Convinced that all the bad times are over and the world is nothing but my oyster.”

Ted laughs. “Me, too. Somethin’ about music, man. It’s got magic in it.”

“Sure does.” Beard looks down at Ted’s hands. They’re no longer shaking, so Beard takes them in his own.

“Ted,” he starts, his voice more serious-- he’s getting to the crux of it now, and he has to make sure Ted understands. “You know I owe you more than God himself.”

“Oh, come on, now.” Ted tries to slip his hands out of Beard’s grip, but Beard holds fast. “None of that.”

“It’s true.” Beard shakes his head. “But even if it weren’t, you know I’d still be here, yeah? You didn’t owe me anything when you drove straight through the night to pick me up and take me home. Me and Rebecca, and Roy, and everyone else— we’re not doing this out of any kind of obligation, okay? Or pity, or fear, or— or any of that. We’re doing this ‘cause when someone you care about is struggling, you hop in a car— or a plane— and you go to them. Surely you understand that. You have to. You’re the one who taught it to me.”

Beard’s worried he’s misstepped, because Ted’s hands are shaking again, but when he tries to let them go, Ted clings on tighter.

“I’m not used to this being the other way around,” Ted blurts out, and it’s clearly an admission, his eyes blown wide with fear. “I’m supposed to be the one who helps people. Not…”

“Not the one who needs help,” Beard finishes for him. “Yeah, I know, Teddy. I can feel it. But love never flows just one way, does it?”

Ted chuckles lightly. That’s a line he’s used on Beard, multiple times, throughout the past fifteen years. There’s been several times, now, where Beard has twisted himself up in sudden worry that Ted doesn’t understand how much Beard cares about him— not when Ted shows it and says it so easily, and Beard is so quiet about it. But every time he’s come to Ted about it, stumbling his way through half a sentence before his throat chokes up and keeps him from saying the rest, Ted’s been quick to assure him that he knows— after all, he always says, love never flows just one way.

Ted’s head flops down onto Beard’s shoulder, seeming to accept his own words being used against him, and Beard wraps his arms around his friend’s shoulders.

“Teddy,” Ted echoes, muttering it into Beard’s shirt. “Been a long time since you called me that.”

Beard hums into Ted’s hair. “Hm. Sure has.”

The melody to Clear Blue Morning is still bouncing around in Beard’s head. Everything’s gonna be alright.

Ted takes a breath.

It’s gonna be okay.

[wellsbering]

sam saving the day by building an antenna out of rain gutters in "good morning, peoria"

[ziggysgender]

you know I need to ask, top 5 eps of Quantum Leap

TOP 5 ?? hard to choose

again. in no particular order:

• miss deep south

- unbeatable girlsam moments

- sam perceived as a beautiful woman and cries over it? al is so happy for him?

- poodle skirt :)

- sam being so nervous about being pretty but taking no shit from anyone who did anything out of line

• the boogieman

- stupid cheesy horror cliches

- halloween halloween halloween

- EVIL AL ???? HELLO. ur the devil. but hi still

- this episode and miss deep south aired in a row and i choose to believe they were thinking of me specifically x

• jimmy

- blatant autistic sam beckett evidence i could write an essay on

- al lore i get emotional,,

• good morning, peoria!

- music based episode!!!!!!

- aw man look out they’re doin the twist

- holographic jacket al. i literally love you

- incredible sam outfits genuinely. especially the pinks and yellows in them

• blood moon

- VAMPIRE SAM!!!!!!!

- the bickering ??? amazing

- one of the only season 5 episodes i can tolerate.

- sam flustered the entire time. sam they just asked you for a threesome. sam….

- scared al. something something ptsd rep every time he encounters dead ppl. also his obsession with vampires and deep diving on straight FACTS to knock sam’s socks off

- related to scared al: sam would literally do anything for al to make him feel safe. even while rolling his eyes

[brigittespuck]

good morning peoria is the episode of television ever. actually

[dykebeckett]

watching good morning peoria again. this is certainly my most watched queap ep. queapisode? anyway. literally a guy named chick. this guy is fluiding his gender over here and nobody even cares