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How many women did Sam actually sleep with?


In the episode "The Leap Back" when Sam and Al change places, Sam asks Donna if she ever felt betrayed by his actions. I assume this is because of the number of women Sam had sex with during his leaps. But now I'm rewatching the series, (again) and I've noticed something. Sam doesn't really sleep with that many women. I'm through episode 15 of Season 3 (Piano Man) and, so far, he's only hooked up with one woman - Maggie the reported, in order to try and save his brother Tom.

I know later he has a mini-relationship with Tamblyn, the psychic, but I can't think of any other women Sam actually has sex with.

Am I missing anyone?

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I've been watching this again and you are right so far. I'm on season 2 though.

<“Every man of courage is a man of his word.” - Pierre Corneille>

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Roughly 3-4. In addition to Maggie, there was Tamlyn in "Temptations Eyes," she actually knew who Sam was. Nicole in "Catch a Falling Star". And Abigail Fuller in "Trilogy Part 2". Nicole and Maggie are both inferred, but not said explicitly what happened; so they could go either way, but he probably had sex with both. He gets real close with a lot of other women though; there's a great deal of other types of physical affection, and on a several occasions they talk about him falling in love with some of the women on his leaps, and nearly has sex a few. So I wouldn't restrict the litmus test of what might feel like a challenge to his relationship to Donna strictly by whether or not he had sex with them; because in any convention situations the types of relationships he's had with women he's encountered through his leaps would be normally be an issue for a married man. The context just happens to be different, at least in part, because in those cases he doesn't remember being married when he becomes romantically infatuated with someone else. It's a little questionable whether or not they should have even had Sam and Donna be married, on account of the fact that even if he doesn't remember that relationship, the audience subsequently knows; and it retroactively changes the nature of the relationships he'd had previously, and the others that follow. It also makes it even more lousy that he doesn't return home, setting it up so he unwittingly abandoning the wife he doesn't know he has.


“He lied to us through song! I hate when people do that."

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There is a bit on the trivia page with the count of how many women he leapt into.

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