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* EarnYourHappyEnding: When Vinnie is trapped in an elevator with an expectant mother-to-be and her husband and she goes into labor, the nurse talks Vinnie through the delivery process. After the baby has been delivered, the head nurse promotes Vinnie, who had been working at the hospital as an orderly and a janitor.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: When In "Barbarino's Baby", when Vinnie is trapped in an elevator with an expectant mother-to-be and her husband and she goes into labor, the nurse talks Vinnie through the delivery process. After the baby has been delivered, the head nurse promotes Vinnie, who had been working at the hospital as an orderly and a janitor.
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* ObviouslyFakeSignature: The excuse notes signed "Epstein's mother" (or in one case "Epstein's mother's doctor") are a running gag.
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Long before Creator/JerrySeinfeld wondered about airline peanuts, before Creator/TimAllen grunted his first "Arrr arrr arrr!", before Creator/RoseanneBarr became a Domestic Goddess, there was Gabriel "Gabe" Kaplan, one of the very first stand-up comedians to successfully [[SitComic turn his stage routine into a hit TV sitcom]]. ''Welcome Back, Kotter'', which ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1975–79, was based upon Kaplan's [[WriteWhatYouKnow own high school experiences]] with remedial education, and his memories of one teacher who cared dearly for her students.
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Long before Creator/JerrySeinfeld wondered about airline peanuts, before Creator/TimAllen grunted his first "Arrr arrr arrr!", before Creator/RoseanneBarr became a Domestic Goddess, there was Gabriel "Gabe" Kaplan, one of the very first stand-up comedians to successfully [[SitComic turn his stage routine into a hit TV sitcom]]. ''Welcome Back, Kotter'', which ran on Creator/{{ABC}} Creator/{{ABC|US}} from 1975–79, was based upon Kaplan's [[WriteWhatYouKnow own high school experiences]] with remedial education, and his memories of one teacher who cared dearly for her students.
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* DrunkOnMilk: In "The Barbarino Blues", after Vinnie gets dumped by his girlfriend, he becomes depressed and refuses to leave his apartment. When the other Sweathogs come to his apartment, Vinnie is in the midst of what looks like a stupor of drunkenness, deliriousness, and depression... and they discover that his binge-drinking was nothing more than root beer.
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* FakeHigh: In "Come Back, Little Arnold", Horshack develops a drinking problem, but the other Sweathogs eventually come to discover he's been drinking root beer.
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* FakeHigh: In "Come Back, Little Arnold", Horshack develops "Barbarino Blues", Vinnie gets depressed and falls into a drinking problem, but slump; the other Sweathogs go to his apartment to snap him out of his depression, and they eventually come to discover he's been drinking root beer.
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* CitizenshipMarriage: In "Bride and Gloom", Epstein calls in on an old promise of Vinnie, making arrangements for Vinnie to marry Juan's cousin Angelina, much to Vinnie's reluctance. Subverted at the end, when Angelina ultimately elopes with the marimba player.
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* DarkHorseVictory: In "Vinnie in Love", the Sweathogs are competing in a talent show as "3 Do's and a Don't". In the midst of rehearsals, Barbarino falls in love with a girl from another school and starts neglecting the others, which leads to their group being dropped from the competition. After talking it over, they get a second chance, only for the other acts to lose to someone who does bird calls.
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* DarkHorseVictory: In "Vinnie in Love", the Sweathogs are competing in a talent show as "3 Do's and a Don't". In the midst of rehearsals, Barbarino falls in love with a girl from another school and starts neglecting the others, which leads to their group being dropped from the competition. After talking it over, they the Sweathogs get a second chance, only for the Sweathogs and the other acts to lose to someone who does bird calls.
** In Season 4, Kotter becomes one in "The Drop-Ins" 2-parter when he makes the transition from teacher to vice-principal, and he reprimands the Sweathogs for their disruptive pranks.
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** The end joke was dropped for Season 4., especially after the original directors and writers were replaced with writers and directors who had worked on 1950s and 1950s sitcoms.
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** The end joke was dropped for Season 4., especially after the original directors and writers were replaced with older writers and directors who had worked on 1950s and 1950s sitcoms.sitcoms, and the sitcom's format switched from jokes to situations involving the Sweathogs and less of Mr. Kotter, who became vice-principal.
