He meant Caddy's Hack, the gut-busting story of a cab driver named Caddy.

I was howling at lat night's episode, because I'm from Boston, and in a way this little episode felt like a truer representation of Bostonians than anything I've ever seen. The long-winded storytelling; the drunkenness; the fireworks; the ever-present threat of a tussle in the background… I meant all of that fondly,…

Lat night's episode, the fourth, titled "Boston", was easily the best so far. Very glad to see that the slightly longer-form format has begun clicking so soon.

@avclub-e1124c85b8750ec73766ed905c3ff2b2:disqus , you just blew my mind. But then, couldn't they devote their efforts to cleaning up the present? Aiding Darfur and whatnot? I suppose having relatively detailed records of all these events (and that raises another big question: how the hell did Al and co. know so much…

I can live with that.

I should say that I get the fact that that there wouldn't be a show at all unless they ignored the consequenses I mentioned above, and that's reason enough to ignore them. But they're nevertheless always there, lingering in every scene. I was always thinking about how every "good" outcome they achieve must surely have…

When I think about Quantum Leap as an adult the first thing that strikes me about it is how much it goes directly against the grain of every other time travel story. In so many shows or movies or books we're told again and again that any change to the past could have countless unknowable consequenses in the future.

Indeed!

Frakes doesn't need to read about it. He lived it.

Why "failed" though? It lasted for a whole season.

As for "nouveau-riche", that's just what it's supposed to be, but Zabka throws a weird pronunciation in there. And "Plebe"? That would make more sense in that it's a real word and it kind of applies to Jason Mellon (although, can you be both "riche," nouveau or otherwise, and a "plebe"? Idunno.), but I nevertheless…

YOU are!

Oh, that's what he was talking about? Jackass.

Tubby?!

That's what I meant. This ship has sailed. Still… Atherton!

Our finest Frakespearean actor.

This news is crushing to me.

I almost plotzed when I saw Frakes on the front page.

This is a fine movie, but it's the weakest of Billy Zabka's inimitable Bully Trilogy (Karate Kid, Back to School and Just One of the Guys). Zabka doesn't get a last-second redemption, nor does he get to call someone a "crude, obnoxious nouveau-'reese' [sic] little fleeb". Here he's just a generic bully, whereas we…

Come on, @avclub-840edcd4676e0e1b3cf7c7f21adb448a:disqus . Spill.