welcome back kotter - gabe's very first day

[tranurse]

dear st. peter, please let juan into heaven early. signed,

epstein's mother

[averagebear1]

Love Epstein's wise ass smile. RIP Epstein

[mkl62]

Sorry to hear of Robert Hegyes' passing.

[thatdamkat]

@scjdm5 Thank You for having this! Came hunting because our Beloved Juan 'Epstein Hgyes had passed. @tommyrock69 <3 I have great admiration for all in your profession!

[dondavey69]

R I P Epstien and Epstien's Mother!!!

[alan1963]

To the late Robert Hegyes as Juan Epstein, thanks for doing all of the "Welcome Back Kotter" episodes. He made us laughing a lot and he will be deeply missed!! We all love our Sweathogs!!

[jsanchez1126]

RIP Juan Epstein... :(

Grew up watching this show... 

[tommyrock69]

Robert/Juan, you helped make me the veteran teacher I am today. God bless you.

[AnimalLover1977]

RIP Robert

[bhbest]

RIP Robert Hegyes , aka Juan Epstein!! You made a lot of us laugh including myself and you will be missed!!

[Wilcox3]

Rest In Peace Epstein. The Sweathogs Will Miss you!!

[DamitaJo79]

R.I.P. Robert hegyes.

[JERRYREAPER008]

how cute but most of all robert hedges rest in peace today 01..26 of january 2012 yo took with yo a legacy of the 70s adios amigo and thanks 4 helping me 2 get entertain back then ...

[lrobtu]

RIP Robert Hegyes who played Juan Epstein on the show.. You'll be missed.

[scitsalcoryp]

Gabe Kaplan looks like David Byron

[echtspace]

Ich glaube John Travolta startete seine Schauspielkarriere mit einer Rolle in "Welcome back Kotter".

War 11 oder 12 Jahre alt, als die Serie zum ersten mal im deutschen Fernsehen ausgestrahlt wurde. Leider habe ich seit dem nichts mehr davon gesehen oder gehört :0(

Echt schade, denn die Serie war total lustig und voll cool !!!

Falls jemand weiß wo man zumindest ein paar Teile her bekommt, wäre echt super!!

[ogloccness]

"The woman's holey, holey!"

[MrCarl220]

Gabe Kaplan was amazing!!

[tobinbryan]

then whyd we tie em up vinnie lol

[thatsthesameoldshit]

Why do wives always worry about bills? Some things never change.

[BlueTeamPlayer]

Best group of students ever.

[Justus331]

Kotter's wife: Marcia Strassman

[chandlerherbert2]

This show ranks up in the top 20 of all times!

[pumkinpatch]

So why we tie him up Vinny......LOLOLOL

[forego49]

julie strassman is hot

[novanine9]

i saw a raw video of Jimmy Connors arguing with a line judge one time....SOUNDED JUST LIKE GABE....

[JASONWCACURA]

Principal Woodman watched this 6 times

[asnaes]

Horshack's dumbass nerd laugh gets me every time.

[gothatway09]

None of those guys looked like teenagers. They all look like 25 or 30 year old men.

[RockmanVX]

@gothatway09 Isn't that how every show involving teenagers works?

[gothatway09]

Mr. Khaa-taay!!!

[suenelson1024]

How is she hot, she is shaped like a man. lolol

[1skullduggery]

please excuse gabey from any more sit coms while he starts his poker cxareer; signed, 'epstein's mother'.

[waynegreer72]

Watched this show in the 70;s. And the only thing I remembered about was what a terrible actor was Gabe Kaplin. John Travolta as a standout with star quality compared to the others and how flat chested his wife was.

[D3maine]

@waynegreer72 Off their case, toilet face.

[Pippie]

I guess 4 people had their cabs stolen and didn't get them back.

[ElConquistadorNo1]

Up ya nose wit a rubba hose

[RRNYC1998]

Who, when, were

[stitchesful]

Exactly what were the "sweathogs"? Were they just the group of the academically slower kids or were the the "tough guys"?

[fbebeats]

@stitchesful both.

[stitchesful]

@fbebeats I guess so.

[rakesfunnyfarm]

I was a young kid and I never missed a show.Thanks for bringing them back.Love you guys!

[thebailey67]

I was called a sweat hog by an old guy.....in the 70s,,,Im serious!

[Rollman1]

Swet Hogs come out to playyyy SWET HOGS COME OUT TO PLAYYY O sorry was i thinking about an other Brooklyn gang

[musicallycreative24]

llz this is hillarious



[Bladerunner93]

I heard about this show at a sci-fi convention a few months back. I was talking to this woman, telling her how I originally thought of going (in costume) as Rorschach. She thought I said Horshack, there was a bit of a misunderstanding, and she ended up explaining the show to me.

[tommyrock69]

This is the show that made me decide to teach.

[capnspl0tch]

@tommyrock69 Me too! Unfortunately, I'm a victim of the pink slip situation!

[tommyrock69]

@capnspl0tch Very sorry to hear that. I find it puzzling that the people of this country scream for higher student achievement and the way they remedy it is to cut education from the budget. For many of us, we teach kids like the sweathogs. You'll notice you never or rarely see their parents in the show. That's the way it really is in many cases.

[msk7046]

liked the show but Gabe seemed to SCREAM his lines.

[Juliaflo]

In your womb from a mummy's tomb.

[mrbomjam]

Can someone please upload all the "Welcome Back Kotter" episodes here on youtube? I'd really like to watch all of them.

[califgirl11]

"That's not me..it's my friend Morty the Slump" God I remember these shows and what a good time we had watching it. "UP your nose with a rubber hose!"

[bassace1358]

They don't make em like this anymore

[JoJoBets]

love Vinny

[hy6100]

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and John Travolta were so hot

[Fastball2000]

Wow, i grew up watching this show. Julie was pretty hot!

[s3p3l3a3s3hhh343434]

aaawwwwwwwwwwwww isnt that a cute floweer?. <3 hes best aay.

[718mack]

Off my case.....Toilet face....LOL...Love this show.

[TheShannon76]

dayum....Kotter's wife is bangin'...

[guti449]

I thought Kotter's wife was fine when I first watched the show (as a mere lad) and I still think she looks damn good.

[TravoltaNewtonJohn]

Lol!

[isaiahblack]

4 people prefer Charles in Charge

[mH8675309]

I love the way Epstein calls him Kotter

[kavalere]

julie is flat

[FasterThanYou321]

@kavalere - That's very sexy, actually. Major turn on. Have you seen a 30 year old woman with large breasts? Major turn off, man. Sagging to her waist is not cool. But a woman with flat breasts will be hot when she's 50. True it. Now, if you were planning a getting a brand new woman every single year, then yeah, go for the big tits. But if you're thinking long term, go with small. Besides, they're more insecure and treat you better that way.

[bigpopparamma]

Is that a scar on Epstein's brow?

[Nemesis000000]

Wow Gabe is a bad actor lol

[Gbert1972]

Is it just me or did Gabe have a faint resemblance to Gino Vannelli?...lol

[MordecaiTemplar]

@Gbert1972

hahah I see it!

[grindecore1]

bell bottoms? had em!

[guyguy398]

no bra

[ramadarose41]

"off my case, toilet face!"  LMAO i still use that sometimes!! haha

[BoIivarDan]

GOD I grew up on these episodes...

[ronaldvanbell]

anyone knows what sweat hog? i thought it to be a very ugly chick

[mia2kl]

@ronaldvanbell LOL... Sweathog was a unique slang word they made up for this TV show. In the 60's and 70's, ghetto kids were not respected and were usually called "hoods" or "hoodlums." But this show wanted the general public to empathize with them, not look down on them, so they used a new terminology, which became a term of endearment. We all learned to appreciate and understand these kids because of this show. (I was a 1969 high school graduate.)

[iLovehBkAloT]

i love the words they would used to tell people off or stuff like that! LOL PIZZAFACE! thats classic

[nellgwen48]

My favorite character was Washington.

[adamdicy]

@nellgwen48 Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington...as for me my favorite was Arnold Horshack hands down that laugh was contagious.

[joeszabo1]

My buddies and I back in JHS 141 in NYC used there names.....I was a bit slow so I was Horshack.....

[TheFearlessBee]

We'll go to Nebraska. HAHAHA. That's funny. That's exactly what my father did with us. It was like green acres

[ringwormz]

the sweathog chick is fine. Mrs. Kotter is to flat chested!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[williest1]

OMFG this is awesome!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!

They dont make raw shows like this anymore!

[jnoaha1994]

off my case toilet face

[angellguardiandl0111]

a off my case toilet face! ha ha!

[Jenwu21]

Im 16, this was before my time.... but i really like these old shows, tv does suck now adays...

[madlionshead]

when this show came out all the schools in our neighborhood had kids calling themselves :sweat hoggs:

[kazachkoff]

Happy Birthday, mr. Kaplan.

[bugder]

The past was nasty in many ways but still it was naive and very human compared to this millennium garbage we are feed now.

As times go by the beauty of innocence becomes vague and lost to hearts that want so much something true to relate to.

The old serials had so much of human essence in them and now we have lost it to commercialized superficial waste.

[stitchesful]

@bugder

I hear you! This society definitely has become to materialistic and commercialized and peopple no longer do seem to care about what really matters and what's really important. Maybe there's some way of turning that around, but I don't know how.

[bugder]

@stitchesful Yoo friend, Your right we should find a way back to innocence and the purity of human milk. Take care ..

[timdizzle13]

we need more teachers like carter !!!

[Mysterwright]

Kotter.

[bostongary]

She had awesome tits.

[Mysterwright]

Haha! How would you know? :P

[RavennaC6]

I would love to see this show come back and stay clean!

[donr1954]

Bring back 70's tv shows today's suck. Dancing with the stars that is shit.

[pyrofella]

Fun days of TV - easy to watch - not like now - now its all kill em - dig em up - work out what killed them and it all must be done in less than 60 minutes... hardly family entertainment... Come back Mr Kotter!

[mzmikki5150]

HAHAHA My nephew is half Puerto Rican/ part Jew, I used to call him Juan Epstein... he had no clue what I was talking about! lol

[hivelocity100]

Shit, Kotter's wife is hot

[senseigomez]

funny, looking back at these old show reminds me of my crush on her! she was hot!!!!!!!!

[Mysterwright]

Still is.

[lukatme2]

@hivelocity100 and shes completely holy

[adamdicy]

@hivelocity100 Yeah Marcia Strassman is still hot she was in a couple movies that I own on like Another Stakeout and And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird....I also catched her in that short lived series "Tremors" based on the movies about 7 years ago.

[vlunney]

@hivelocity100

i thought bailey was hotter than jennifer on WKRP.

[undisputed4life]

@hivelocity100 She could be your grandmother by now.

[VincentVegas76]

@hivelocity100 she is built for Doggie ;-)

[ABVNRML2U]

If this show was on today it would be overloaded with "new" veiwers of today and put the other t.v. shows out the window.

[bigfig1900]

god, this show was stupid.

[bra2il23]

2.22 min = NANI from manchester united lol

[beasst94]

you took a cab?

we're gonna give it back

LOL

[adamdicy]

that's classic Epstein, I loved all of his sick notes written poem like that Mr. Woodman found in his locker in one episode.

[tutorturtle]

I Look back on these days and I realize TV totally sucks today.

[Sudschick610]

tutorturtle, You get a standing O. for that comment. I think so too.

Sudsy

[furb393]

@tutorturtle not all tv sucks, but it was these shows that gave the template/foundation to shows today - in 20-30yrs time you'll see which of todays shows were successful by how they were remembered...

[Juliaflo]

@tutorturtle I second that.

[MrMbell2]

@tutorturtle I'm 26 and I was fortunate to grow up in the 90s looking at re-runs of Gimme A Break, I Dream Of Jeannie, The Facts Of Life, Sanford and Son, The Cosby Show, Bewitched, Family Matters and all the other sitcom greats from the 1960s-1990s. But when the year 2000 came that perfect mix of old school charm blended in with each decade that the shows I just listed had when they were on TV went right out the door once the 21st century arrived. The best they could come up with for a Family

[MrMbell2]

@tutorturtle show now is the series called "Modern Family". And even that is considered a little risque for kids to watch because of the gay couple and their kid on the show. Not that portraying gay couples on televison is bad but that is the new age of Family TV now. I dont think TV sucks today when its meant to entertain only adults but when I have kids my collection of old school family sitcoms will be waiting for them. And I will definitely monitor what they watch on TV.

[jonny11022]

horshack is the best!He is hilarious

[brave999]

one of the best shows ever..when it was on all ..wish i could see it in reruns now.. the writers were the best.. and the opening/closing jokes were phenomenal.. Gabe the comedian. and marcia the "straightwoman".. love it

[ejgiv]

The acting may have been a bit shaky at times, but the show was well-cast and the script was excellent, much better than any of the sitcoms today.

[daycan1]

freddy boom boom washington. mister KOTER. i met gabe last week at the grocery store. so many childhood memories.

[oasisthunder]

U can't get more classic than the swethoggs! Some of John Travolta's BEST work too!

[CarlyPacifici]

Horshack's laugh is ....SO FUNNY XD

[fiveandahalfgirlsfan]

the barbarino...ya ya.

[rastaspliff]

0:48 gabe looks at the camera

[clubtv12]

i love this pilot episode.good classic..

[LSNY85]

I remember enjoying all these shows as a kid. LOL.

[southplnk]

yeah this & family fued

awesome dawson

[greenmerchant1]

robert hegyanes is from metuchens and I'm toooo

yeaaaa

[jsr121689]

"My sister's not a dog, Barbarino!"

[blacktopaz8]

horshak is hilarious

[beastking55]

they should put this on and take off the other crap like american idol that sucks

[70sman4ever]

Right on man!  This is gold, not just goold platinum TV!! the 70s RULE!!! You dig? And all modern TV SUCKS!

[xoxo721xoxo1]

im only 15 and i agree with u

tv these days suck i love this show

[nukecat]

damn straight! these were classic shows.

[jonny11022]

Thank you! I love this show!

[nyy4288]

you can watch this show on hulu

[revenuesharing]

I use to love this show. I just happened to look up the theme song to put on a friends page who was returning and found a host of episodes. Thanks. it brought back memories for me as well.

[ssweeps1]

Is the girl student Debra Lee Scott?

[ilovetogofast88]

Yep

[bjornsiborgsi]

gabe can't act at all. he's got no emotion in his voice

[PsychicKnife]

It ain't Shakespeare, shithead.

[luno44]

I want to paint my house just like kotter's

[torkerbmx]

up yur nose with a rubber hose :)

[commando2224]

cool

[swaimb]

This brings back so many good memories when shows were actually good on free TV.

[ilovetogofast88]

Thank you for the high quality button.