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• Each moment of "The Leap Home, Part 1" that Sam reunites with a member of his family.
• From "Promised Land", after Sam inquires a local couple about what the Beckett family in this time period.

Husband: Everyone in this part of the county knows Tom and Martha Beckett. Fine family. One of their boys just came back from Vietnam. Sam: (smiling) Tom.

• The ending from "The Colour Of Truth", where Sam's racist little old lady asks him to sit and have lunch with her in the cafe.
  • Needs to be expanded on. Sam leaps into her black butler. Part of the episode is based on Sam trying to convince said woman that racism is wrong. The ending shows it's starting to take.
• "Gushie, if I should suddenly pop out of existence, I want to leave everything to my first wife, Beth."
  • DAWWWWW!
• The ending of "Maybe Baby".
• Sam quoting Don Quixote to Al at the end of Catch A Falling Star to prove he's going to get over his crush on his old piano teacher.

Sam: What matter wounds to the body of a knight-errant? For each time he falls, he shall rise again and woe to the wicked! Al? Al: Here, your grace. Sam: My armor, my sword. Al: More misadventures? Sam: Adventures, old friend.

• The parts from "The Leap Home" that aren't tear jerking.
• "Mirror Image" ...That is all.
• In "Trilogy", Sam and Al realize that Sam unintentionally conceived a child with the woman he's been helping the past couple of leaps. At the end of the trilogy, when Al talks the positive changes he's caused, Sam asks how he knows; Al responds, "She told me". He explains that thanks to Sam, his daughter goes from writing tech manuals for a no-name computer company to being a member of the Quantum Leap Project -- and she has an idea on how to bring him home.
  • However, Sammy doesn't know that Sam is her father, and Al warns that once he leaps out, his "swiss-cheesed memory" will cause him to forget it as well. Sam simply responds: "I'll remember."
• Al wanting to save Jimmy in "Jimmy" because he lost his mentally retarded sister to pneumonia while she was at a mental institution. Also just Jimmy's brother and nephew and how much they care for him.
• The ending to "A Little Miracle".
• In "All Americans," Chuey (the best friend of the leapee) agrees to throw the football game to clear his mother's debt with a slumlord, even though there are college scouts present and the game is their best chance to get the sports scholarships that will enable them to go to college. He feigns injury to sit out and Sam tries to figure out how to change things. Al tells him to just quit, too, because Chuey would never try to damage his best friend's life under any circumstances.

Sam: They're that close? Al: Yeah. Just like you and me.

• • For added heartwarming, Sam follows this up by resolving the problem of Chuey's mother's debt by successfully getting her together with his leapee's father, who's been obviously in love with her all episode.