Quantum Leap (TV Series)

How the Tess Was Won - August 5, 1956 (1989)

Scott Bakula: Dr. Sam Beckett, Dr. Daniel Young

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• Al : Oh, well, almost all animals can see me. But you know, there must be something weird lookin' about me, because I seem to intimidate them.

  Sam : Maybe it's your clothes.

• Dr. Sam Beckett : [Declining Tess' hand in marriage, after successfully riding Widowmaker and thus winning the bet]  Thanks, but no thanks. I just, uh... I wanted to see if I could ride him, not her.

• Tess McGill : Where you goin', Doc?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Oh, I just, I thought I might go home and have a hot bath, eat a little supper... have a hot bath...

  Tess McGill : Well, we got business in town. There's a buyer interested in one of our prize bulls, and if you intend to run Riata with me, I think maybe you better come along.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Without a bath?

  Tess McGill : You got it, cowboy.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : [under his breath]  Bonanza was never like this.

• Dr. Sam Beckett : Wayne danced about as well as I did - with Miss Morgan at my kindergarten graduation. She married the principal that summer, and I didn't get over it until I met Miss Sedlack. She was my first-grade teacher.

• [from reading in his diary, Sam has found out that his character is in love with Tess] 

  Al : Uh-oh.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Uh-oh what?

  Al : Well, uh, there's a 97% probability that someone who's been sending her love letters will marry Tess.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, uh, then I'm okay, because this is a diary. It's not love letters.

  Al : Don't fight it, Sam. You're here to marry this cowboy. Uh, boy-girl. Cowgirl. Girl.