Quantum Leap : The Camakazi Kid: Michael Jackson

Here's one thing that I never understood about Michael's character in that episode: Al explained that children, animals and "the mentally absent" (His words not mine!) can see and hear him along with Sam's braiwaves even though he is a hologram. Since he was little at the time, (although Michael's age in real life was a chronological error within the show's time frame), he should have been able to see, hear, and communicate with "Hologram Al", too. Right?

They didn't do that plot device until the second season with the episode Another Mother, Camakazi Kid was in the first season. The show was starting out, so they had no idea they would make it past six episodes. There were lots of things in the first season that were gone by later seasons like the Project having superiors and would reprimand Al for divulging personal info to Sam, Ziggy being referred to as "he" but has a female persona (voiced by Deborah Pratt) when Sam leaps back to his present, and so on.

MM

Another Mother was season 2.

Too bad that they didn't establish that in season 1 it could have probably explained a lot about Michael's character in real life.

You're right. It was just the first season, so nothing was totally established yet. And yes while watching it on Netflix recently, I got really confused with Al calling Ziggy a "he" when by the end, the computer was a "she" with Debbie Pratt's voice.

"The camakazi leap" actually does occur within the second season. However, the actual episode was shown in the first. A lot of leaps occurred out of sync within the first a d second seasons.

P.S. His location is wrong as well. This takes place in Van Nuys, CA. However, in 1961, Michael and his family were still living in Gary, Indiana at the time. On June 6, 1961, Michael was just 2 & 1/2 months shy of his 3rd birthday. He also did not start singing with his older brothers (and one cousin who sat in as a drummer) until 2 years later when he sang "Climb Every Mountain" at his grade school's talent show, while he was in Kindergarten. And the rest is history!

Perhaps Sam molested micheal in the bathroom??? Establishing pedo behavior in micheal for the rest of his life???