Pool Hall Blues clip - Racism in Quantum Leap

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  • Опубликовано: 13 дек 2024

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  • @RingtailCafe
    @RingtailCafe 3 года назад +106

    "Being first means you bear some responsibility to those trying to make it behind you." Those words always stuck with me. I've always tried to help other people who are trying to follow on the same journey as me. They're words I've tried to live by. I loved this show so much.

    • @dipperdandy
      @dipperdandy 3 года назад +9

      for sure. The classic "pull up the ladder behind you" tactic. And I GET IT. You worked your ass off to get there, and it's still shakey. You're going to be very protective of that position. But it's skews close to "I got mine, fuck yours". Not the same but... too close for comfort.

    • @TioMegamanX
      @TioMegamanX 2 года назад +3

      @@dipperdandy This hits home a bit indeed, I do 3D stuff for a living (as much as I can), sometimes I share lots of tips, tutorials and techniques with clients or even right out link them to some "shortcut" tools for when they want to commission, I see no point in witholding the knowledge, it is my skill to apply all those which gets me clients, not the amount of "secrets" I hold to prevent competitors from popping up.

    • @dipperdandy
      @dipperdandy 2 года назад +2

      @@TioMegamanX RIght! That's a top shelf example! Somehow we all got pitted against each other. Like, god forbid we share our knowledge and skills with each other! That'd be socialism! And that's a baaad word. For reasons.
      Sorry, didn't mean to go off on a tangent, I'm in a bit of a mood.
      But yeah basically capitalism is killing us.

    • @TioMegamanX
      @TioMegamanX 2 года назад +1

      @@dipperdandy I think you got it all wrong, gatekeeping the competition and basically making it "illegal" with stuff like lobbying is anti-capitalist, free market is the core value of capitalism, it is your product or service what determines success, you can only go as high as the amount someone is willing to pay for it.
      Yeah, there are patents and copyright, in principle they seemed fair but the way they are abused by big corporations is the result of allowing the state to overstep their boundaries and thus create an opportunity for greedy suits to bribe and as I said, making competition "illegal", the state's role wouldn't be to rescue a private business if they make one too many mistakes, it is to make sure everyone plays under the same rules, that is, to uphold the law on a fundamental level, a giant "too big to fail" doesn't exist unless the state is lending them a hand, look at what happened in 2008.

    • @dipperdandy
      @dipperdandy 2 года назад +1

      @@TioMegamanX Marry me.

  • @tyrannicaltypomichaeltester
    @tyrannicaltypomichaeltester 4 года назад +79

    This show was gold

    • @alexb2351
      @alexb2351 3 года назад +9

      It really was!

  • @IronMan3582
    @IronMan3582 4 года назад +67

    He's right about bearing the responsibility of being first

    • @whodat8902
      @whodat8902 3 года назад +7

      Being the token who can't get fired must be hard.

    • @siennas862
      @siennas862 2 месяца назад

      Not if you emit it like most

    • @IronMan3582
      @IronMan3582 2 месяца назад

      @@siennas862 I think you may have used the wrong word because "emit" in this context doesn't make sense with your sentance

  • @Rojata19
    @Rojata19 2 года назад +30

    This show needs to be put out on prime time once again!

    • @courylanders4142
      @courylanders4142 2 года назад +3

      Robert Jacob They did on September 19,2022. It comes on Monday's. Change a little. It's not doing well.

    • @deathisonlythebeginning5098
      @deathisonlythebeginning5098 2 года назад +1

      @@courylanders4142 Yeah not close to this gem.

    • @HoldenNY22
      @HoldenNY22 Год назад +1

      @@courylanders4142 - The New Quantum Leap is pretty Bad. It needs much better writing. The Indivudal episodes are not good and the Macro-Plot whatever that is going to turn out to be doesn't make up for poorly written individual episodes.

  • @lindzy39
    @lindzy39 2 года назад +15

    Brillant, quantum leap tackled some very intense issues and they did it raw but pure

  • @freddyvidz
    @freddyvidz 5 лет назад +41

    Lisa McDowell?!?

  • @MegaBecks1981
    @MegaBecks1981 3 года назад +55

    They had black writers on this show - this isn’t racist, it’s the experience they faced that they are able to put into this show

    • @fynexjeralt4186
      @fynexjeralt4186 3 года назад +12

      Who tf is calling this racist

    • @WrongNumber76
      @WrongNumber76 3 года назад +5

      No one called it racist

    • @pow3rbutt0n
      @pow3rbutt0n 2 года назад +10

      I think she misinterpreted "racism in quantum leap"

    • @TioMegamanX
      @TioMegamanX 2 года назад

      Wut? as someone pointed out earlier the title may sound misleading.

    • @davidrofulowitz7538
      @davidrofulowitz7538 2 года назад +1

      @@TioMegamanX Agreed...it should have probably said something like "Racism as portrayed in Quantum Leap episode" or something along those lines.

  • @JamesCorbettMusic5000
    @JamesCorbettMusic5000 3 года назад +23

    The colour of truth was such a good episode, really showed the racism they went through back then. It was sad to watch

    • @TioMegamanX
      @TioMegamanX 2 года назад +9

      That was the real deal, not just feeling offended by an insensitive joke.

  • @MrBlazinerday
    @MrBlazinerday Год назад +3

    People criticizing the new remake should watch the old episodes. It was always about social issues.

  • @patrickgrady7505
    @patrickgrady7505 3 года назад +16

    Isn't that Princess Lisa from Coming To America?

  • @iloveejbgssnoopy
    @iloveejbgssnoopy 3 месяца назад

    This is a great show QL love it and so special. I agree Rojanta it needs to come back.

  • @tomservo75
    @tomservo75 2 года назад +12

    They're running this series on SyFy again now, and now they're censoring out words like "negro", "colored", even "retarded" and "Redskins" (spoken by an Indian character). It's really really sad. I'm glad we have these original clips so we don't have to try to hide history, good bad or ugly.

    • @sandal_thong8631
      @sandal_thong8631 2 года назад

      They don't know where to draw the line, and maybe parents don't know how to discuss slurs with their children. School is a place to teach, but they want to ban books rather than talk about what's wrong. Such as "You can't say these things to other people, or even talk like this in private. But you can quote a speech or book to discuss it." The irony is that those most anti-"PC" want to bring back the N-word so they can say it in public.
      A week ago I went looking for a list of words they are muting; thanks for sharing. I didn't think Sam said the "N" word (not nuclear) but one of those you mentioned. It sounded like Jimmy Kimmel's "unnecessary censorship" bit where by bleeping a word or part of a word, it makes it sound worse than it was.
      In the road trip episode the sister says "moron" and "twerp" but those weren't muted on SyFy marathon. Pretty much everything was muted on the episode "Jimmy" even though mental retardation used to be the medical diagnosis (before they changed it to autistic, spiking the numbers and freaking out parents), while the six-letter version was always a slur. I caught Sam saying the 8-letter version by lip-reading.
      I misremember whether they also muted the word "whore" which the wife said in the episode where he's a southern lawyer.

    • @tomservo75
      @tomservo75 2 года назад

      @@sandal_thong8631 For the record, Sam did utter THE n-word in "Color of Truth." And it aired then and in repeats without any controversy. We're becoming so hyper-sensitive.
      I have to strongly push back on where you said, "most anti-"PC" want to bring back the N-word so they can say it in public." The only belief going on here is that we have something resembling a thick skin and realize that these words exist, they should be avoided in polite company, but saying n***er is no where even close to any physical harm. Papa John got run out of his buisness just for QUOTING Col. Sanders. It's gone from "be polite and don't use certain words in certain company if you can avoid it" to "Even quoting someone else is worthy o ruining that person's life."
      It's WAY out of proportion. It's not so much that I want to hear n***er, but I see the slippery slope that we're going down and it's quite scary.

    • @sandal_thong8631
      @sandal_thong8631 2 года назад

      @@tomservo75 John Schnatter of Papa Johns didn't just quote Colonel Sanders, he made it up, showing his prejudice (May 2018). Before that he embarrassed the company by saying he opposed Obamacare because it would supposedly cost 11-14 cents per pizza (2012). He had already got on the Trump-bandwagon parroting his attacks on NFL players protesting racial inequality and police brutality (Oct 2017). He removed their sponsorship symbols of the NFL, saying protests were hurting their sales. He had to go; sales went down do to _his_ actions.
      He's now promoting a conspiracy theory saying Biden is responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to distract Americans. Rich people including celebrity actors and politicians are not like a barber repeating stuff heard on the radio; they have personal assistants to fact-check for them and manage social media accounts, even if they're not going to read the paper to get to the truth. So that means their false and offensive statements are not accidents but deliberate lies.
      I couldn't tell from your OP, but your second post shows you are on the wrong side that believe Black lives DON'T matter. We've gone down the real slippery slope, so that the far-right are now against free and fair elections because Glorious Leader didn't win and it's fraud just because he said so.

    • @geddoe316
      @geddoe316 Год назад

      crooooooowwwwwwwww!

  • @electricmastro
    @electricmastro 15 лет назад +38

    If you think that's alot of racism in Quantum Leap, then you should see The Color of Truth, and it has a lot of it in it.

    • @animefan25
      @animefan25 3 года назад +4

      So Help Me God and Justice addressed racism too.

    • @JamesCorbettMusic5000
      @JamesCorbettMusic5000 3 года назад +5

      Brilliant episode, was really sad

    • @tequilashots875
      @tequilashots875 3 года назад +4

      The color of truth hardly compares to what we really dealt with. People haven’t changed much. Only the laws.

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda 3 года назад +2

      @@tequilashots875 well the laws matter he was not allowed to sit at the lunch counter or drink from the fountain and the hospital would not treat his grandaughter all those segregation laws have been changed people act like it's all the same still and it's not. Civil rights have not all been in vain.

    • @davidrofulowitz7538
      @davidrofulowitz7538 2 года назад +2

      I'd also include Black On White On Fire as well in that category.

  • @animagigirl
    @animagigirl 14 лет назад +53

    HOW IS THIS RACIST!?
    theyre leaping into racist times! theyre showing how racist it was

    • @crazy808ish
      @crazy808ish 4 года назад +44

      Took 9 years for that to be clarified lol

    • @alwest4472
      @alwest4472 3 года назад +4

      Who the fucks saying it’s racist? Seriously I’m so fucking tired of people defending shit that’s not racist from nobody who don’t call it racist goddamn

  • @19HuskyWolf70
    @19HuskyWolf70 2 года назад +1

    My favorite show

  • @UndercoverRat
    @UndercoverRat 4 года назад +12

    he should have ironed his clothes

  • @TL....
    @TL.... 2 года назад +1

    is that lisa macdowell

  • @JordiumZ
    @JordiumZ 3 месяца назад

    Nice Kos Mos PFP do you like the xeno games?

  • @revvtube
    @revvtube 9 месяцев назад

    Great

  • @mikesilva3868
    @mikesilva3868 2 года назад

    😊great episode

    • @theseeker7711
      @theseeker7711 2 года назад

      Which you can say about a lot of these.Was in my mid teens when this was on.So good

  • @rigardmaccubbon8940
    @rigardmaccubbon8940 Год назад

    The woman is from coming to america

  • @gamer1thecool
    @gamer1thecool 13 лет назад +16

    So in some episodes they say the n word sam even says it once

    • @janebedoe2071
      @janebedoe2071 4 года назад +6

      it is surprising to know that the n word cleared censorship considering present day norms

    • @matt_canon
      @matt_canon 4 года назад +27

      @@janebedoe2071 Its because the intent was to highlight issues of racism in the past.

    • @JamesCorbettMusic5000
      @JamesCorbettMusic5000 3 года назад +3

      @@matt_canon it done a great job in that respect. The colour of truth was a brilliant episode. Was really upsetting to watch

    • @BennyNegroFromQueens
      @BennyNegroFromQueens 3 года назад +3

      @@janebedoe2071 for a show like this (a quality show that's historically accurate) the n word would still be ok to use.

    • @dipperdandy
      @dipperdandy 3 года назад +2

      @@matt_canon exactly. Which sadly seems to be a distinction we've recently lost. And hey I am as left wing progressive as they come. ACAB. BLM. But shit like... example the Always Sunny and 30 Rock episodes that were pulled due to things like black face... but CONTEXT is key there... they were showing how black face is BAD. If anything they were overtly progessive. But I guess the streaming sites didn't wanna risk shit.
      I don't like the N word (and would NEVER use it) and often I cringe when it's used in media entertainment (even if from POC) but sometimes it's needed. To highlight certain things. There's a time and place but unfort a lot of major corps wanna cover their asses and just put a blanket ban on things.

  • @acpropulsion6191
    @acpropulsion6191 2 года назад +1

    He a uncle tum

  • @illuddivinus3309
    @illuddivinus3309 2 года назад

    The fair lending act did away with this type of discrimination and or bias.

  • @jaymo3205
    @jaymo3205 2 года назад

    I can't believe he used the N-word. Nothing gives you that right, even being black yourself. And then he didn't even share any of the jokes.

    • @HoldenNY22
      @HoldenNY22 Год назад +2

      I disagree with you. I think use of a Word depends on context. In the context of the time and setting of the story- it is appropriate. I also do think it is Wrong that Black People can use the N Word all the time, but if a White Person uses the Word- no matter what the Context- they are in real, real trouble.

  • @SadChina
    @SadChina 2 года назад

    confused why they didn't cast a Black actor to play the grandfather???

    • @Jimanzium
      @Jimanzium 2 года назад +19

      The white guy travels through time into different peoples bodies. We see the white guy, the characters see whoever's body he is in.

    • @TioMegamanX
      @TioMegamanX 2 года назад +9

      Are you asking seriously or trying to point out the premise of the show?

    • @SadChina
      @SadChina 2 года назад

      @@TioMegamanX why wuld i be asking not-srsly & wasting everyone's time...

    • @TioMegamanX
      @TioMegamanX 2 года назад +8

      @@SadChina Because you could be trying to trick people who doesn't know the show into wondering why and then finding out.
      In any case as someone said it, the premise of the show is time travel, Sam does what is referred as a quantum leap, he doesn't pop into another time as himself, he basically enters someone else's body, to the audience we see Sam, to the characters in the setting he looks exactly like the person he leapt into, there were times he even leapt into women and children, once he even was a chimp from NASA.
      The show is highly recommended.

    • @SadChina
      @SadChina 2 года назад

      @@TioMegamanX ok u lost me at "& then finding out"... how wuld i trick ppl into finding out. im literally just trying to find out myself. stop wasting my time, troll

  • @AlexTechie
    @AlexTechie 3 года назад +3

    Good ol days

    • @dipperdandy
      @dipperdandy 3 года назад +3

      sadly, aint changed all that much.

  • @RhinoAg
    @RhinoAg 3 года назад +1

    lmao what a joke