I just went on a wild wild journey through wiki. I could honestly do posts on each of these topics, but in the interest of time, I will share a fact or two on each as I go. Our story begins when I was researching the double fish-o-filet at McDonalds. So I looked up the wiki for Filet-o-fish.

The normal Filet-o-fish at McDs has only one HALF of a slice of cheese on it. The filet was increased by 50% during the Deluxe line of sandwiches.

That lead to the wiki on the Arch Deluxe. Turns out the Deluxe line of McDs sandwiches (including the Arch Deluxe) is considered one of the most expensive flops of all time. There was a comparison made between its advertising style and that of OK Soda.

Which lead me to the OK Soda wiki. Not my first time here, but what I did notice was that apparently the same time as OK Soda, there was something called Obey Giant (didn’t look this one up) which was using the same color and font as OK. The creator made several custom AG stickers (short for Andre the Giant) and plastered them over OK Soda ads.

This leads me to Andre the Giant. I could say a lot about the guy including the fact that he was French, his last name was Roussimoff, he weighed over 540 pounds, and growing up, he was a neighbor of Samuel Beckett.

Samuel Beckett was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet. I only stayed on here long enough to see if there was any reference to the Quantum Leap character (like Sam from the show was named after this real life icon). Not finding one, I moved on to Quantum Leap’s Samuel Beckett.

Samuel “Sam” Beckett was a really cool character. I knew that, but it turns out I don’t remember a lot of QL episodes. He was much more of a child-prodigy then I remembered and it turns out Sam fixes his future wife so she doesn’t stand him up at their wedding. He also changed the funding for Project Quantum Leap from public to military, then later installed a new head of the project (by getting a girl to pass her legal exams), saves his brother’s life (at the expense of freeing Al from POW camp), and has a child…

Also, it is stated that in the last episode, Sam was subconsciously picking where he lept, and never did make it home.

I had to end there… I’m sure I could have kept going. God bless the Hitchhiker’s Guide… I mean Wiki.