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Maybe Baby
Original air date: April 4, 1990
Written by: Michael Zinberg
Directed by: Julie Brown & Paul Brown
Leap Date: March 11, 1963
This time: Sam leaps into a man getting out of a window with a basket. He carries it down a ladder to an awaiting woman and truck. They get in and drive off, but not before she grabs the basket. And pulls a baby out of it. He is Buster, she is Bunny and her baby is Kristy. They are headed out to New Mexico from Texas to see Kristy’s Aunt Margaret.
Meanwhile, the father, Reed, is telling the Sherriff and Deputy about the kidnapping. Apparently, Bunny is not Kristy’s mother! The three head on off in pursuit.
Stopping at a hotel, Bonnie runs off to get some milk, leaving Sam with Kristy. Al arrives and tells Sam that the odds are that Sam is there to return Kristy to Reed. Bunny is not the mother, making them kidnappers. Originally, they got caught though they might be able to get a reduced sentence if Sam turns them in. Sam does not see that as viable and ends up going with Bunny’s plan.
Sam confronts Bunny who admits to not being Kristy’s mother, but the plan is to take Kristy to hear real mother in New Mexico. Reed has beaten Bunny and she cannot let that happen to Kristy.
On the trail, Reed tells the Sheriff that they are going to New Mexico based off Bunny saying that her parents were from there.
Stopping to pick up a car seat, Sam tells Al about the plan. Al says that Kristy’s mother died in childbirth. There is also more, he cannot find a Margaret in Clayton, New Mexico. Before Sam can confront Bunny, the Sheriff shows up. With Al’s help, they slip out the back, get a new set of wheels and head on out.
On the road, they find themselves low on funds, so Bunny partakes in a local talent contest. They win thanks to Bunny’s talent of … popping balloons on her outfit but the posse shows up. Reed takes Kristy and tells Sam that Bunny never met Kristy before and Kristy’s real mother died in childbirth. Al comes to tell Sam that Kristy’s mother is still alive and Sam must reunite them! They escape but not before Reed follows. At the house, Reed steps out of the car ready to reclaim Kristy. Thankfully, the cavalry arrives and Reed is arrested on warrants from bad real estate deals. Mother and daughter are reunited. Sam leaps …
… into a ship’s cabin where a woman bursts in, kisses him, then slaps him.
Fact check: Some years (decades?) ago, a life-sized Barbie was produced. Bunny has the several of the same criticisms of the doll in comparison to the real thing.
Stop talking to yourself: Sam finds the leap a mix of Three Men and a Baby and Bonnie & Clyde.
Only Sam can see and hear: Al is quite adept at being Mister Mom. He knows how to change a diaper and keep a baby entertained with lights from his handlink and a sock puppet.
Mirror images that were not his own: After changing Kristy, Sam feasts his eyes on the solid pack of muscles that is Buster.
For a show that generally gets the effects right with the mirror, they did not even try when Sam speaks a line but the image in the mirror shows off his gold tooth.
It’s a science project: In a fix, coffee can be a not horrible treatment for as asthmatic baby. NOTE: This blog and episode were not written by a medical doctor!
Let’s up the rating: With Kristy being all stuffed up, Bonnie ‘steams’ to clear up the congestion, an activity she does topless.
One more time: “You can’t have kids?” “I don’t know. I sure would have had one by now.”
Sam and Bunny talking about something serious in only the way Bunny can respond (while upping the rating!)
Put right what once went wrong: “Oh Boy!” “No I told ya, it’s a girl.” One of the producers of the series 24 praised the casting of the show with their ‘day players’ in addition to the more prominent cast members. As important as it is to cast a great person as the Big Bad of the season, it is also important to have strong actors such as the cop who takes one of the girls back from the station. After a while, they casting department saw that they should pay attention to Yellow Tie Man and the like.
The casting is simply amazing in this episode. The day players are really into their craft. The store clerk who has eyes for Bunny, the guys who sell their truck to Sam, the big deputy with the small bladder, they are all magnificent. It takes a certain person to act, but you can tell these guys are having a fun time with their roles.
A lot of credit goes to Bunny who plays the stripper with a heart of gold. Several of her lines can come off as ‘dumb blond,’ though she is a redhead. Nonetheless, her dialogue can be downright ditzy at times. She pulls it off and while Sam never knows if she is telling the truth or not, she has a charisma about her. Julie Brown and Scott Bakula have a great chemistry together whether it be in the hotel room or on the road.
Of course, the best acting in the world cannot save a horrible script and there is great writing with Paul Brown and Julie Brown. Yes, that Julie Brown. It is not high praise when someone can write great dialogue for themselves, but so much of this script works. The plotting, the dialogue, the comedy beats, the dramatic moments. This series will never be a rolling on the floor comedy, but this takes its cues from a lot of comedies in the eighties.
Just a fun hour of television.
Original air date: April 4, 1990
Written by: Michael Zinberg
Directed by: Julie Brown & Paul Brown
Leap Date: March 11, 1963
This time: Sam leaps into a man getting out of a window with a basket. He carries it down a ladder to an awaiting woman and truck. They get in and drive off, but not before she grabs the basket. And pulls a baby out of it. He is Buster, she is Bunny and her baby is Kristy. They are headed out to New Mexico from Texas to see Kristy’s Aunt Margaret.
Meanwhile, the father, Reed, is telling the Sherriff and Deputy about the kidnapping. Apparently, Bunny is not Kristy’s mother! The three head on off in pursuit.
Stopping at a hotel, Bonnie runs off to get some milk, leaving Sam with Kristy. Al arrives and tells Sam that the odds are that Sam is there to return Kristy to Reed. Bunny is not the mother, making them kidnappers. Originally, they got caught though they might be able to get a reduced sentence if Sam turns them in. Sam does not see that as viable and ends up going with Bunny’s plan.
Sam confronts Bunny who admits to not being Kristy’s mother, but the plan is to take Kristy to hear real mother in New Mexico. Reed has beaten Bunny and she cannot let that happen to Kristy.
On the trail, Reed tells the Sheriff that they are going to New Mexico based off Bunny saying that her parents were from there.
Stopping to pick up a car seat, Sam tells Al about the plan. Al says that Kristy’s mother died in childbirth. There is also more, he cannot find a Margaret in Clayton, New Mexico. Before Sam can confront Bunny, the Sheriff shows up. With Al’s help, they slip out the back, get a new set of wheels and head on out.
On the road, they find themselves low on funds, so Bunny partakes in a local talent contest. They win thanks to Bunny’s talent of … popping balloons on her outfit but the posse shows up. Reed takes Kristy and tells Sam that Bunny never met Kristy before and Kristy’s real mother died in childbirth. Al comes to tell Sam that Kristy’s mother is still alive and Sam must reunite them! They escape but not before Reed follows. At the house, Reed steps out of the car ready to reclaim Kristy. Thankfully, the cavalry arrives and Reed is arrested on warrants from bad real estate deals. Mother and daughter are reunited. Sam leaps …
… into a ship’s cabin where a woman bursts in, kisses him, then slaps him.
Fact check: Some years (decades?) ago, a life-sized Barbie was produced. Bunny has the several of the same criticisms of the doll in comparison to the real thing.
Stop talking to yourself: Sam finds the leap a mix of Three Men and a Baby and Bonnie & Clyde.
Only Sam can see and hear: Al is quite adept at being Mister Mom. He knows how to change a diaper and keep a baby entertained with lights from his handlink and a sock puppet.
Mirror images that were not his own: After changing Kristy, Sam feasts his eyes on the solid pack of muscles that is Buster.
For a show that generally gets the effects right with the mirror, they did not even try when Sam speaks a line but the image in the mirror shows off his gold tooth.
It’s a science project: In a fix, coffee can be a not horrible treatment for as asthmatic baby. NOTE: This blog and episode were not written by a medical doctor!
Let’s up the rating: With Kristy being all stuffed up, Bonnie ‘steams’ to clear up the congestion, an activity she does topless.
One more time: “You can’t have kids?” “I don’t know. I sure would have had one by now.”
Sam and Bunny talking about something serious in only the way Bunny can respond (while upping the rating!)
Put right what once went wrong: “Oh Boy!” “No I told ya, it’s a girl.” One of the producers of the series 24 praised the casting of the show with their ‘day players’ in addition to the more prominent cast members. As important as it is to cast a great person as the Big Bad of the season, it is also important to have strong actors such as the cop who takes one of the girls back from the station. After a while, they casting department saw that they should pay attention to Yellow Tie Man and the like.
The casting is simply amazing in this episode. The day players are really into their craft. The store clerk who has eyes for Bunny, the guys who sell their truck to Sam, the big deputy with the small bladder, they are all magnificent. It takes a certain person to act, but you can tell these guys are having a fun time with their roles.
A lot of credit goes to Bunny who plays the stripper with a heart of gold. Several of her lines can come off as ‘dumb blond,’ though she is a redhead. Nonetheless, her dialogue can be downright ditzy at times. She pulls it off and while Sam never knows if she is telling the truth or not, she has a charisma about her. Julie Brown and Scott Bakula have a great chemistry together whether it be in the hotel room or on the road.
Of course, the best acting in the world cannot save a horrible script and there is great writing with Paul Brown and Julie Brown. Yes, that Julie Brown. It is not high praise when someone can write great dialogue for themselves, but so much of this script works. The plotting, the dialogue, the comedy beats, the dramatic moments. This series will never be a rolling on the floor comedy, but this takes its cues from a lot of comedies in the eighties.
Just a fun hour of television.
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