Who is this “Gooshie” that Al keeps talking to?
Gooshie is Ziggy’s programmer, a short guy with bad breath. We used to see him very briefly in profile wearing a headset in the opening title sequence as Sam is leaping out and in the pilot and the episodes “The Leap Back,” “Killin’ Time,” and “Mirror Image.” He was played by the late Dennis Wolfberg. 23. If Al is a hologram, why does he cast shadows? The shadows are holograms, too, and are generated and projected by Ziggy as part of the process, of course. [Sally Smith] Seriously, while Al may not cast shadows, Dean certainly does (especially since– as QL’s director of photography Michael Watkins, ASC once put it– “Dean likes to talk with his hands so much that he’s a pretty active shadow anyway.”). It’s simply physically impossible to eliminate them all. Also, there are times when having Al not cast a shadow would actually make him look fake–like a pasted-on cut out effect instead of a real person. [Sally Smith] Any instances of Al’s reflection appearing on objects, or things refl
