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  • I remember this episode!

  • "help, im bein blaxploited!"

  • The only black people i saw at a Doobie Brothers concert was the Bass Player and the black guys scalping tickets and selling tee shirts in the parking lot

  • @cessna65423 Damn! It should've been different. I dig the DB's!

  • Greatest show of all time! It had everything, soul,style, social consciousness . Hollywood took more risk in the 70,80 and 90 . Now everything is just the latest vanilla generic fall lineup.

  • This is definitely one of the most famous sitcom episodes amongst 70's TV fans. Classic 70's bootlegging, giant cassette recorder LOL.

    Which Doobie You-bie?

  • This was the show that turned me on to The Doobie Brothers when I was like 12!!!!!! Just saw them last weekend.....Patrick Simmons did the lead in Taking it...and their base player....Not Tyrone....did the high end....AWESOME!!!

  • RERUN WAS SLIPPIN!!!! He shoulda sat his ass down!!

  • @uptash Word!

  • Jeff "Skunk" Baxter...guitar legend...and now one of the foremost authorities on military expertise..- genius....

  • Too bad they didn't record Dwayne screaming "HELP!" and everyone covering their ears in shock. Then they hear Big Al talking to them afterwards on the tape. Guess they didn't need the latter part there.

  • lol ppl bootleg movies now

  • doggie biscuit for fido here! 

  • Rerun: We were forced, they gave us money, great seats.

    Dee: They really twisted your arm

    hahaha classic Dee with the one liners

  • Wow- Skunk stepping all over the vocals in the second pre chorus...

  • Wonder why the studio instrumental track of 'Take me in your arms' was used? IDK! RIP, Bobby LaKind, and Keith Knudsen.

  • I heard that when the cameras stopped rolling that 2 of the Doobie Bros. jumpd on Roger and beat the living hell out of him. Finally the show producer broke it up and explain to the band that Rerun taping the show was part of the script.

  • I love Shirley. :D

  • Michael McDeezy!

  • sooo you get caught bootleging a concert....and then meet the band afterwards ...KIckAss

  • This has got to be the most mentioned What's Happening episode.

  • Would have been a lousy worthless bootleg. Portable mechanical reel to reel recorder being

    pounced around under an overcoat. YOu would have the motor noise due to no external

    mike, muffled sound from being in the coat, coupled with the sound of it moving

    around in the coat.

  • The sad part is. All that effort by the Dobbie Brothers to stop it. And the concert still ended up on Youtube.

  • Flashback of ReRun on some music piracy!!! LMAO: FAST FORWARD 2 about 3:30... Bwahaha

  • Dwayne is so cute

  • micheal mcdonald AND re-reun ? i will give you 100 bucks if you can pair a more unlikely pair. ever. johnny carson/andrew dice ? phillys diller/arnold schwarzeneger ?  charlie chaplin/rosie o'donnel ?

  • TAKING IT TO THE STREETS!!!

  • Ernest Thomas mentioned that this was his favorite episode.

  • I also saw this when it originally aired it was 2 parts to it great show love the doobie brothers

  • Check out the size of that old recorder...

  • I loved when they ref'd this in family guy!

  • @DanielletheDriver I just saw if ref'd on ''The Boondocks'' ; )

  • 3:34 #FAIL!!!!

  • Only Shirley would dare stand up to Al Dunbar aka Sweet Daddy from good times

  • Let the music be free.

  • I remember watching this when it originally aired. I was in first grade, and my cousin had come by, and we watched it together, with my Mom. I also remember my grandfather criticizing the long hair on some of the Doobies :) That alone still cracks me up.

  • This is the perfect episode to show anyone when try to pretend like piracy is not a crime.

  • A black guy bootlegging a Doobie Brother's concert.....only in Hollywood.

  • @jojopuppyfish The Doobies had a major Black fan base.

  • @jojopuppyfish weren't around in the 70s eh? thought so.

  • r.i.p. shirley and r.i.p. rerun!

    thank you for all the laughs and wonderful memories!

  • Saw this when it originally aired too. Man, I miss those days before

    the Corporate Fascists took over and ruined everything that was once

    good in this country.

  • @tommybass40 They could be fascist-anarchists. It still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car.

  • Right on!

  • can you imagine how bad that tape would sound being recorded in Reruns coat? , and people were gonna make money off it. funny!

  • @ajmizur LOL! LOL! exactly!!!

  • I remember watching this episode when it originally aired also. It is the episode that immediately comes to mind when I think of the show. I also saw a reunion show with the cast where most of them agreed that this was also their favorite episode.

  • True D'at!!!!

  • Haha rerun got caught tapin the doobie brothers concert haha

  • Love these shows..lol

  • Rog?

  • bless the bootleggers

  • I don't recall urban black kids being into the Doobie Brothers in the late 1970s.

    Their record label must have been pretty insecure about the potential of their next album to book them on a cheesey (though funny) TV show.

  • @wheelinthesky300 Says the person who's username comes from an even cheesier and horrible 80's song by a suckass band! LOL!

  • @wheelinthesky300 You also have to keep in mind at that time their song Takin' It To The Streets had some airplay on R&B radio as well as Pop, and when Michael McDonald joined the Doobies they went to a slighty R&B/Pop direction from Pop/Rock.

  • @wheelinthesky300

    Yeah, well, I was a suburban black girl who liked just about anything by the Doobie Brothers in the early '80's----obviously they must have had enough of a strong black fan base at the time to convince their label to get them on this show,due to classics like "Minute By Minute", "Takin' It' to To The Streets", and "Real Love". I know "Minute By Minute" in particular has always gotten strong airplay on R&B/Jazz stations hear in the D, plus all of McDonald's solo work as well

  • Funny thing is, there's really only a few bootlegs of the Doobie Brothers around, they were just not a big band that the bootleggers targeted

  • So, uh...no one else thinks it's ironic that we're all watching a bootlegged copy of this episode?

  • @oliverisawesome not bootlegged as we're not paying for it

  • 4:47  #40 with 3 bullets ....raj says this but what does it mean. @supernuaghtg u sound like a scooby doo episode..lol

  • I remember this episode was huge! My dad yelled and called the Doobie Brothers long haired freaks! lol

  • This was the BEST episode!!

  • Does anyone remember the 7-Up commercial from the late 70's/early 80's featuring a guy who looked kinda like Raj sitting watching a pick-up basketball game? He is asked to join in and ends up dominating the game. The commercial ends with him making a shot over his shoulder with his back to the basket.

  • I saw on a post about Jeff "Skunk" Baxter walking with a cane and a limp. I didn't notice it until now. He must have had some kind of condition. I have seen other posts of him with the Doobs and he is sitting down. Ex: the Vices LP. But he is talented and was an asset to the group.

  • Not only are they takin' it to the streets;

    they're stickin' it to the Man !

  • The Doobie Brothers solved crimes! Who knew! And Dunbar would have gotten away with it too if it was not for those meddling kids! When I was young it made sense they solved crimes this way! LOL! Rockstars making arrests.

  • @OP it's Rodge, short for Rodger

    LMAO 7:01

  • I know it just TV but why sit in the front roll and try to record. But the point got across and the What's Happening gang saved the day. Dee was a bad mama jamma and always could handle her own. So was my girl Shirley. The ironic thing about when I watch What's Happening, I could always find somebody around my neighborhood who reminds me of the charaters or act like them even down to Rod, the dude that owner of the shop.

  • 3:24-3:45 LMAO

  • Hey: Do any of you hardcore Doobie Brothers fans know what was up with Jeff Skunk Baxter's leg in this episode? I thought it was weird that we was playing while sitting down. But then in the soda shop scene he's walking with a cane and a noticeable limp. Anyone? Thx.

  • I can't believe everyone in the whole arena actually saw the tape recorder fall out of Rerun's coat. C'mon now!

  • Thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought that. And why take the big fat tape recorder? They had smaller ones in the 1970s so they could have taken another one. And wouldn't the thieves want a more professional sound and not a wobbly tape.

  • Right. And If I am at a concert, one person recording it isn't going to make me stop getting down and having fun.

  • Can you believe Boot-legging was so Taboo back then...if we only could've predicted Napster back then...

  • Na Na Na Na Na Na! What a burn on that dimwit! He dropped that tape recorder,and he got caught!

  • Bootleg recording the Doobie Brothers??? Oh, ReRun, how could you......

  • Sweet Daddy Williams running thangs!!

  • taking it to church, amen

  • lol at 5:25 to 6:27 LOL!

  • I saw this episode when it originally aired. I loved the shows of the 70's, Whats Happening, Chico and The Man, Barney Miller, etc...classic stuff. It's strange to me how people think that TV has just now begun to become controversial and socially conscience. The 70's shows were much more socially conscience than most of the shows today. The shows of the 80's were primarily fluff. Btw, this was the best time for music as a broad media. All stations played all music, as long as it was good.

  • The tv shows of the 70's were very concious, they talked about racism, women's rights, etc. they even said the words nigger, kite, jew, spik. but it was allin good fun. Nowdays, everyone isso uptight and paranoid about everything, you can't say anything anymore.

  • @tom11zz884 Back in the 70s, words were allowed into scripts because of the progressive nature of social change and awareness that was prevalent during that time period. They were allowed in order to point out the numerous inequalities that existed between rich, poor, black and white etc....I don't agree that it was used in good fun. They were used as a means of pointing out the unjust nature that many people had to endure in society as a whole.

  • @Flashbacks01 I agree. I look forward now to seeing films, and tv from the 70s. At least you could watch TV and listen to music back then and get no surprises. Now every other word on TV is bleeped out, and the music sounds like somone keeps running over the same cat 100 times over! Have you noticed the deluge of "reality tv" here of late? No imagination in production or writing for Tv anymore. Most of the actors today can't seem to act their way out of a paperbag.

  • @Flashbacks01 You are 100% correct.  Well stated!

  • @Flashbacks01 Don't 4get Mr. Kotter and all the Sweat Hogs. LOL! These shows remind me of rhe innocense of my youth. Luv it!

  • @whatimlooking4 ..i wished that there was a 1970's cartoon where the doobie bros. would meet scooby doo!...lol..lol...

  • @Flashbacks01 You are so right about the TV shows & the music industry. SMDH If you weren't alive during the 70s you missed music at its best and has yet to peak like that again. lol

  • @Flashbacks01 im groovin the 70;s had the best shows ,barney miller,whats happening ,police story,

  • @Flashbacks01 King of Kensington?

  • @Flashbacks01 I was not born in the 70s but i love this show, I'm one of those people who love to learn about pop culture before mine, so I know all about these shows and stuff like that. Nice to know that people still care about the old stuff

  • If they only could've known about Napster when they did this show about the "evil" bootlegging of live music.. :-))

  • thx for posting these vids on youtube this was when shows had more of a real feeling .not like this crap that's on tv now!don't get me wrong there is some quality show on but not many.

  • I always liked the the doobie brothers music when Micheal Mcdonald was in the group the music was way more funky plus this was the 70's my favorite era of music everybody was jamming then.

  • Doen't the words "Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws" send ANY kind of signal to Rerun???

  • Rerun straight gangsta, G. He gon get his.

  • I like John Hartman's hat, lol!

  • Takin it to the streets. I love this episode and the Shirley makes Cookies episode.

  • simmons

  • ohhhhh johnny

  • Simmons.

  • complex litigations

  • Bill "Sports Guy" Simmons

  • Simmons!

  • omg! it is important to learn things in school!

  • What is happening here?

  • Simmons!

  • Courtesy of Bill Simmons.

    It's funny how the Doobie's kind of remind me of the Muppets.

  • "I learned how to wrestle a girl into the back seat of my car."

    Whatever happened to date rape humor anyway?

  • lol... first thing I thought when he said that was "wow, you'd never be able to make THAT joke today..."

  • SIMMONS

  • There was nothing ODD about 3 black kids liking the Doobies. We just identify with SOUL. Kenny Loggins "This Is It", Bobby Caldwell "What You Won't Do For Love"...all that was played on Black radio when it released. You must be young or live in a cave or hang around people that are just like you.

  • rog is the four eyes rev run the fat one dewayne is the cool one

  • Totally remember watching this episode as a kid! Ahh, nice memory!!

  • Micheal McDonald thought he was in church!!!!

  • At 7:00 - hillarious! LOL!!!

  • "Which Doobie you be?"

    Classic.

  • This was music piracy waayyyy before the internet. RIP Re Run! I always thought that it was odd though that 3 black kids were sooo into the Doobie Brothers.

  • but the Doobie's were SOOOO popular back then...some of their stuff was played on black radio.

  • what a great show.... whats happening

    so many memories i have of watching this show

    and listening to the doobie brothers

    i miss the 70's

  • the drummer on 0.34 passed away on Heroin overdose. Great group

  • Actually that's not true. The Percussionist Bobby Lakind (0.34) died in the mid 90s due to cancer. The other drummer Keith Knudsen died In 2006 or 7 due to chronic pneumonia. There is no record of any Doobie that died due to a drug overdose.

  • This is one of my favorite episodes. I love the doobie brothers!

  • Dee is too cool, and RIP Rerun!

  • 70's TV was so campy.

  • The episode is a classic.

  • I remember that I couldn't hardly wait for Thursday night to get here. To watch this episode.

  • Shirley is sooo funny!

  • gotta love the kids from compton gettin down to the doobie brothers,pretty realistic...maybe smokin a doobie,not listenin to em

  • As a child of the 70's, the radio stations playes ALL types of music in the black inner cities. Soul,jazz,rock,country,heavy,f­olk,disco, afro-cuban/rican/brazilian,etc­...The Doobie BROTHERS was the sh_t in the inner cities. You would be surprised of the musical tastes of black folk born btwn '55'-'75'.

  • @Trezuru why are you seriously explaining the position of black inner city radio stations to this 'person'. It was obviously meant as an insult. Stupidity at it's best.

  • I don't mind giving someone something healthy to drink (smile). Besides, the right Knowledge can help cure stupidity at its best.

  • :) Duly noted!

  • I grew up listening to this music and will take it any day over today's music. I keep this in heavy rotation in my cd player! The Doobie Brothers Forever baby!

  • Mike Mcdonald is pretty great isnt he?

  • 4:36 DEAD and Bobby Lakind DEAD. We still have John Hartman.

  • Keith Knudsen, Bobby LaKind, and Corneilius Bumpus are no longer with us. Neither are ReRun (Fred Berry), Shirley (Hemphill) and Mrs. Thomas (Mabel King). Mabel died from diabeties complications. However, being the trooper that she was, she still wanted to work. Though her legs were amputated, she still went to several casting calls.

  • what did rerun drop? looked like an i pod 400 gb ...... i think that thing can hold 10 billion songs. and still have room to store your records.....lol. I am looking to sell a dash mount detachable faceplate record player, i have the attatchment that will also allow for 45's it has wood trim and looks great in a lexus with the leather trim. I bought it off a guy who goes by "old skool datty" doesnt do very well with bumps but neither do 8 tracks and cd and dvd's.

  • when do they sing "bubblin brown suga"?

  • who's the fat black guy?

  • ReRun

  • Totally Cool 5*****

    Yours Truly:

    Mark:)

  • R.I.P. Fred "Rerun" Berry...

  • Livin' on the Fault Line didn't do to well in its sales. This episode to me saved The Doobie Brothers' career. They would later release Minute by Minute which sold a lot of copies. I saw them in November 1980 on the One Step Closer tour at the Carolina Coliseum in Columbia, SC. Louisiana's LeRoux opened. Did anyone else see the One Step Closer tour? Please reply if you did.

  • I'm 26 and love classic rock. Got Takin' It To the Streets yesterday. It's awesome!! Very funky and jazzy. Also Have the Captain & ME. Different flavor and, yet, still awesome! Only recently have I discovered the magic of the Doobies

  • Doesn't Skunk Baxter build bombs for the government or something?

  • Don't know that

  • SOURCE: outside the beltway.

    The guitarist-turned-defense-consu­ltant does regular work for the Department of Defense and the nations intelligence community, chairs a congressional advisory board on missile defense, and has lucrative consulting contracts with companies like Science Applications International Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp. and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. He says he is in increasing demand for his unconventional views of counterterrorism.

  • Well, the Doobies had more than one guitarist

  • Yep, that's true. I personally think he's a hero for taking the time to protect us. He doesn't have to and he obviously doesn't care if any of his liberal cotemporaries deride him for it. A great musician and a true patriot. Learn from him!

  • Skunk Baxter ~ parlayed his interest in electronics into practical military solutions

  • Ohhhh

  • Shirley was always my favorite

  • The digital watches back then looked hella cool because most of them were LED red display

  • I loved Dee. She was so young to be so sarcastic. Also what I liked about those days is that kids were dressed like kids.

  • They dresser her that way because she was developing early, and they covered her up.

  • This episode was my favorite!

  • That's my fav doobie lineup.

  • "Taking It To The Streets" is my alltime favorite Doobie Brothers song!! :)

  • i loved this show and this episode especially! R.I.P Mabel King and Shirley Hempell

  • RIP Freddy Stubbs... AKA RERUN

  • freddy berry

  • My bad I think Freddy Stubbs was his TV name...... Good lookin out

  • thanks.

  • It's cool to see guys I know as musicians "acting." It seems they get lines according to how well (or badly) they act. John Hartman, who you can't even see while they're playing, gets a lot of lines, while Michael MacDonald gets only ONE short one! The other guys are Keith Knudsen (now deceased), Jeff Baxter, Tiran Porter, Pat Simmons and Bobby LaKind (also now deceased) who wasn't even officially part of the band for several years after this!

  • Re run! is awesome!

  • mahaha! "Al Dunbar" was also "Sweet Daddy" on Good Times....lol

  • thankyou for sticking up for the artist hard work, the artist labor deserves it pay!

  • Doobie... or not Doobie, that is the...oh, nevermind.

  • I heard Rerun also recorded "One Night in Paris".

  • Granted, Rerun may have acted illegally but the Doobie Brothers are the real "lowlifes" preaching to Rob and Rerun in that manner. The band act as victims but they scared Rob so much that he wet his pants.

    Al Dunbar is just a shrewd businessman who likes his filet mignon serving a need the arrogant Doobie Brothers have neglected.

    Lucky for them it was just a tape recorder and not the loaded Glock that Rob was packing.

  • Preaching? Arrogant? Looks to me like they were simply telling Rerun and them like it is. Wrong. Illegal. PERIOD.

  • Um, are you on crack or just another stupid liberal dumbass??

  • That'll teach them thug ass punks to fuck with the Doobie Brothers!

  • I remember watching this along time ago.

  • bubblin' brown shuga ....a Harlem treat oh and ya doobie bruvas got sooooooooul ........p e a c e

  • BEAUTIFUL SONG

  • Love this espiodse. As a grade school kid, i automatically became a dobbie brothers fan just by watching this. Dobbie was the first rock band i became a huge fan of.