Unfortunately, they accidentally sent out the DVD of the special four weeks early.

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus Nah, it will be like the Truman Show, and they'll raise the royal baby to think that he is the Doctor, and that he just lost his memory during the last regeneration.

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus Old people used to act older than they do now.  Now, everyone wants to be young, so they try to avoid turning into the "GET OFF MY LAWN!" guy or the old woman with white hair who can't remember where she put her dentures (hint: it was in your glass of wine).

Stop what you are doing now.  Go watch The IT Crowd.  Thank us later.

Fortunately, there are only ever like 40 students at the University of Gallifrey, so it works out.

So, the majority of the show's existence.

No, the two princes are his companions, who kneel before him.

It was the style at the time.

"Will and Grace" is the show that sticks out in my mind on this front.  The opening credits were basically just five seconds of footage of the characters against a black screen, with the title and maybe a "created by" credit.  I'm sure another show did the super short credits thing before them, but it sticks out in my…

@avclub-c01431c2e06ee8eaf5de2e9c9e05b9b8:disqus Oh, I know.  But it wasn't really the same conscious decision to keep doing it forever—it was clearly a "Al got into this mess because of me, so I'm gonna save him!" sort of thing.  Through the final episode, you got this sense that Sam liked helping people, but he…

So, at what point in Quantum Leap's run would it leap in?

It's pretty much all about shorter run times.  If you had 50 minutes, you could spend one or two on a long opening.  If you have 42, that luxury is a lot more difficult.  If you have 22, it's damn near impossible.

Strangely, last I checked they were available on Netflix Canada, but not US Netflix.  So, one of the few times when using a VPN to spoof a Canadian IP address is a benefit.

@avclub-3f045a0e66373bfbdf36eeedd4ab3509:disqus Go check out the latest issue of X-Factor, which reveals the whole thing in a pretty hilarious fashion, and is also fairly stand-alone—all you need to know going in are that (1) Shatterstar and Rictor are dating and (2) the two of them just escaped from hell and end up…

@avclub-945ba977c27d196cdeaf6cbe4ff682f4:disqus Thanks.  That's definitely how I interpreted the episode at the time, but when I looked at a episode summary a while back, it didn't seem to directly support my memory, so I wasn't sure if it was something my 14 year old mind made up or just didn't make the summary.

@avclub-e19801f9caf39bff8afc5e4548f2942d:disqus Yeah, he was in his own body, but had the "aura" of the original person.  But I want to say it took a little while for them to settle on that, so there are some early episodes where it isn't clear.  And then they played with it a bit, like where Sam was in his own body,…

Well, you could have had an evil leaper who wasn't Stupid Evil.  Like, a corporation trying to subtly shift history to make them more money by screwing over people in the past (stealing patents, knocking off rivals, etc.), or some morally dubious politician using leaping technology for the same sort of purpose.  The…

In all fairness, those evil leaper episodes were the shit if you were a teenage boy in the 90s.  Sure, terrible in hindsight (since they just did it for the evulz), but awesome at the time.

And Ziggy can't find them because they're in Al's lifetime, not Sam's.  Awesome sauce.

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, sex architect Ted Mosby stepped into McSorley's Pub and vanished. He woke to find himself trapped in terrible relationships, facing girlfriends that were not your mother and driven by an unknown force to get married and have kids. His only guide on this…