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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Sweathogs: Kotter (phlegmatic/sanguine), Washington (sanguine), Barbarino (choleric), Principal Woodman (choleric/melancholic), Julie (melancholic), Epstein (choleric), Horshack (sanguine), (phlegmatic), and Washington (phlegmatic).Epstein (leukine).
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** Epstein was known as the toughest student in the school, and voted "most likely to take a life". As time went on this trait was phased out and he was more of a smartass.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the pilot, Horshack is implied to be a CovertPervert who apparently wasn't allowed to talk unless Barbarino told him too.to. Barbarino also seemed to have a regular sweathog-girlfriend. The Sweathogs were actually a tad more intimidating.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Gabe Kotter (phlegmatic/leukine), Barbarino (sanguine/choleric), Principal Woodman (choleric), Epstein (choleric/melancholic), Julie Kotter (melancholic), Horshack (phlegmatic/sanguine), and Washington (sanguine).
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Gabe Kotter (phlegmatic/leukine), The Sweathogs: Barbarino (sanguine/choleric), Principal Woodman (choleric), Epstein (choleric/melancholic), Julie Kotter (melancholic), Epstein (choleric), Horshack (phlegmatic/sanguine), (sanguine), and Washington (sanguine).(phlegmatic).
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-->'''Barbarino:''' Hey, say whatever you want about my dad or myself, but you don't talk about my mother! That woman's holy.
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-->'''Barbarino:''' Hey, say whatever you want about Hey! NOT my dad or myself, but you don't talk about my mother! mother. That woman's holy.completely holy!
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* StarMakingRole: John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino.
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* TheDanza: Gabriel Kaplan as Gabriel Kotter.
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* ThematicThemeTune: In fact, the producers of what was originally going to be called ''Kotter'' thought John Sebastian's "Welcome Back" captured the tone of the show so well they renamed the show after it.
* ThemeTuneExtended: "Welcome Back" was originally just one verse. [=DJs=] suggested recording a full-length version to Sebastian. He did, and it became a #1 hit.
* ThemeTuneExtended: "Welcome Back" was originally just one verse. [=DJs=] suggested recording a full-length version to Sebastian. He did, and it became a #1 hit.
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* {{Poker}}: Since leaving show business, Kaplan became a world champion professional poker player.
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->''"Hey Julie....did I ever tell you about my [[EndOfEpisodeSilliness Uncle Fremont Kotter]].....
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Gabe Kotter (phlegmatic/leukine), Barbarino (sanguine/choleric), Principal Woodman (choleric), Epstein (choleric/melancholic), Mrs. Kotter (melancholic), Horshack (phlegmatic/sanguine), and Washington (sanguine).
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Gabe Kotter (phlegmatic/leukine), Barbarino (sanguine/choleric), Principal Woodman (choleric), Epstein (choleric/melancholic), Mrs. Julie Kotter (melancholic), Horshack (phlegmatic/sanguine), and Washington (sanguine).
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Vinnie is Choleric, Washington is Phlegmatic, Epstein is Melancholic and Horshack is Sanguine
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Vinnie is Choleric, Gabe Kotter (phlegmatic/leukine), Barbarino (sanguine/choleric), Principal Woodman (choleric), Epstein (choleric/melancholic), Mrs. Kotter (melancholic), Horshack (phlegmatic/sanguine), and Washington is Phlegmatic, Epstein is Melancholic and Horshack is Sanguine(sanguine).
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* CommutingOnABus: Mr. Kotter's appearances in the last season were very sporadic, as Kaplan had become discontent with the direction of the show. Mrs. Kotter becomes the new mentor of the Sweathogs.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: James Woods as a fellow Bucannan High teacher.
* HeyItsThatVoice: [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit's]] voice actor Charles Fleischer as Carvelli.
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* VerySpecialEpisode: "What Goes Up," the Season 3 episode where Boom Boom got addicted to painkillers to heal a basketball injury. Boom Boom is in deep denial, and so is a shaken Horshack – who naively believes Boom Boom's explanation that the pills are "vitamins." The others aren't so fooled and eventually get Boom Boom to realize what he's doing.
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* VerySpecialEpisode: "What Goes Up," the Season 3 episode where Boom Boom got addicted to painkillers to heal a basketball injury. Boom Boom is in deep denial, and so is a shaken Horshack – who naively believes Boom Boom's explanation that the pills are "vitamins." The others aren't so fooled and eventually get Boom Boom to realize what he's doing. In the final season, "Come Back, Little Arnold" has Horshack using booze to boost his courage when asking out a new love interest. He snaps out of it after he accidentally punches her out while aiming for one of the guys.
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Before Jerry {{Seinfeld}} wondered about airline peanuts, before Tim Allen said his first [[HomeImprovement "Arrr arrr arrr!"]], before {{Roseanne}} became a Domestic Goddess, there was Gabriel Kaplan, the first stand-up comedian to successfully turn his comedy routines into a hit sitcom. ''Welcome Back, Kotter'' ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1975 to 1979.
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Before Jerry {{Seinfeld}} Series/{{Seinfeld}} wondered about airline peanuts, before Tim Allen said his first [[HomeImprovement "Arrr arrr arrr!"]], before {{Roseanne}} became a Domestic Goddess, there was Gabriel Kaplan, the first stand-up comedian to successfully turn his comedy routines into a hit sitcom. ''Welcome Back, Kotter'' ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1975 to 1979.
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Before Jerry {{Seinfeld}} wondered about airline peanuts, before Tim Allen said his first [[HomeImprovement "Arrr arrr arrr!"]], before {{Roseanne}} became a Domestic Goddess, there was Gabriel Kaplan, the first stand-up comedian to successfully turn his comedy routines into a hit sitcom. ''Welcome Back, Kotter'' ran on {{ABC}} Creator/{{ABC}} from 1975 to 1979.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]]'s voice actor Charles Fleischer as Carvelli.
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* EnterStageWindow: The Sweathogs routinely drop in on their favorite teacher via his living room window. Doesn't bother him any, but his wife doesn't like it.
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* MadMagazine: Magazine/{{MAD}}: ''Welcome Back, Klodder''.
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--> Hey Julie....did I ever tell you about my [[EndOfEpisodeSilliness Uncle Fremont Kotter]].....?
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Before Jerry {{Seinfeld}} wondered about airline peanuts, before Tim Allen said his first [[HomeImprovement "Arrr arrr arrr!"]], before {{Roseanne}} became a Domestic Goddess, there was Gabriel Kaplan, the first stand-up comedian to successfully turn his comedy routines into a hit sitcom. ''Welcome Back, Kotter'' ran on {{ABC}} from 1975 to 1979.
Gabe Kotter, formerly a Sweathog, returns to James Buchanan High School as a teacher and is assigned the remedial class to which he once belonged. Mr. Kotter is an involved and caring teacher, which one would have to be in dealing with a certain four students in his class, who end up in trouble on a regular basis: ladies' man Vinnie Barbarino, the always cool Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington, the tough Juan (Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos) Epstein, and the sheepish Arnold Dingfelder Horshack. ''Welcome Back, Kotter'' was based on Gabe Kaplan's own high school experiences with remedial education and a teacher who cared dearly for her students.
Changes on the show: Gabe Kaplan left the series in the third season, due to creative differences with executive producer James Komack. Kaplan openly felt that Komack was not serving the show's best interests. Kotter was made vice principal, and thus was seen considerably less. JohnTravolta, of course, found his own place as a celebrity, leaving the show around the same time Gabe Kaplan did (returning every so often as a "special guest star"). The replacement for Barbarino was Beau, who didn't help things much. By now the show had essentially lost its two biggest stars.
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!!''Welcome Back, Kotter'' contains examples of:
* AndStarring: John Travota's billing during his last season on the show.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Julie gives birth to twin girls.
* BerserkButton: Don't say anything bad about Barbarino's mother.
-->'''Barbarino:''' Hey, say whatever you want about my dad or myself, but you don't talk about my mother! That woman's holy.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Juan Epstein.
-->'''Epstein''': I don't have to stay here and be ignored! I have nine brothers and sisters. If I want to be ignored, I'll just go home.
* CatchPhrase: "Up your nose with a rubber hose" (everyone), "Hi, there" (Washington), "Heyyyy Misssster Kotttaire!" (Washington),"What?" "Where?" (Barbarino), "I'm so confused!" (Barbarino), "Ohhh ohh ohh ohh!" (Horshack), "Very impressive, Mr Kotter!" (Horshack)
* CloudCuckoolander: Everyone had their moments, but Horshack is ''the'' definitive example.
* TheDanza: Gabriel Kaplan as Gabriel Kotter.
* DeanBitterman: Mr. Woodman
* EndOfEpisodeSilliness: Formerly the TropeNamer when it was called "Uncle Herbie".
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Vinnie, later relegated to The Sixth Ranger when John Travolta's movie career started taking off
** TheLancer: Freddie. Beau in the final season when Freddie was seemingly promoted to leader
** TheBigGuy: Epstein
** TheSmartGuy: Horshack
** [[TheChick RevolvingDoorChicks]]: Rosalie Totsie, Vernajean Williams, Angie Grabowski, Mary Johnson
** The Mentor: Gabe Kotter
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Vinnie is Choleric, Washington is Phlegmatic, Epstein is Melancholic and Horshack is Sanguine
* FurryFandom: In one episode Kotter wears a chicken suit in a restaurant to raise extra money for emergency dental work
* GRatedDrug: In the episode "What Goes Up ... ", Freddie becomes addicted to painkillers (to heal a basketball injury); a naive Horshack takes Freddie at his word that said pills are "vitamins," while the others are well-aware that Freddie is becoming dependent on them.
* GeorgeCarlin: Guest starring as radio DJ Wally the Wow, and as Wally the Weasel, a former Kotter-era Sweathog.
* HeyItsThatGuy: James Woods as a fellow Bucannan High teacher.
* HeyItsThatVoice: [[WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]]'s voice actor Charles Fleischer as Carvelli.
* LotteryTicket: In one episode Kotter chips in a quarter for the Sweathogs weekly lottery ticket when one of them comes up short. When the ticket then wins, the Sweathogs try to just give Kotter back his 25 cents instead of a share of the winnings.
* MadMagazine: ''Welcome Back, Klodder''.
* MarxBrothers: Often imitated, with Epstein as Chico, Horshack as Harpo, and Kotter as Groucho.
** Notably, Gabe Kaplan did a one-man show as Groucho Marx during the height of the show's popularity.
* TheMerch: Several novel sized paperback with original stories, a comic book, a lunchbox, a "Welcome Back, Kotter" [[BoardGames board game]], and Sweathog action figures with a classroom play area.
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: Barbarino is like this.
* OnceAnEpisode: Kotter tells a joke about one of his relatives.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Gabriel.
* ThePeteBest: Rosalie "Hotsie" Totsie, the female Sweathog.
* {{Poker}}: Since leaving show business, Kaplan became a world champion professional poker player.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: One two part episode had Kotter trying to start a stand up career.
* RealSongThemeTune
* RunningGag: Epstein's never ending supply of excuse notes, almost always signed "Epstein's Mother".
** Julie's infamous tuna cassarole.
* SignatureLaugh: Horshack's athsmatic laugh.
* StarMakingRole: John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Beau De Lebarre as Vinnie's replacement
* TranslationMatchmaking: In Italy it's known as ''I Ragazzi del Sabato Sera'' (''Saturday Night Guys''), after ''SaturdayNightFever''.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Puerto-Rican Jew Juan Epstein.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Gabe and Julie.
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Before Jerry {{Seinfeld}} wondered about airline peanuts, before Tim Allen said his first [[HomeImprovement "Arrr arrr arrr!"]], before {{Roseanne}} became a Domestic Goddess, there was Gabriel Kaplan, the first stand-up comedian to successfully turn his comedy routines into a hit sitcom. ''Welcome Back, Kotter'' ran on {{ABC}} from 1975 to 1979.
Gabe Kotter, formerly a Sweathog, returns to James Buchanan High School as a teacher and is assigned the remedial class to which he once belonged. Mr. Kotter is an involved and caring teacher, which one would have to be in dealing with a certain four students in his class, who end up in trouble on a regular basis: ladies' man Vinnie Barbarino, the always cool Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington, the tough Juan (Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos) Epstein, and the sheepish Arnold Dingfelder Horshack. ''Welcome Back, Kotter'' was based on Gabe Kaplan's own high school experiences with remedial education and a teacher who cared dearly for her students.
Changes on the show: Gabe Kaplan left the series in the third season, due to creative differences with executive producer James Komack. Kaplan openly felt that Komack was not serving the show's best interests. Kotter was made vice principal, and thus was seen considerably less. JohnTravolta, of course, found his own place as a celebrity, leaving the show around the same time Gabe Kaplan did (returning every so often as a "special guest star"). The replacement for Barbarino was Beau, who didn't help things much. By now the show had essentially lost its two biggest stars.
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!!''Welcome Back, Kotter'' contains examples of:
* AndStarring: John Travota's billing during his last season on the show.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Julie gives birth to twin girls.
* BerserkButton: Don't say anything bad about Barbarino's mother.
-->'''Barbarino:''' Hey, say whatever you want about my dad or myself, but you don't talk about my mother! That woman's holy.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Juan Epstein.
-->'''Epstein''': I don't have to stay here and be ignored! I have nine brothers and sisters. If I want to be ignored, I'll just go home.
* CatchPhrase: "Up your nose with a rubber hose" (everyone), "Hi, there" (Washington), "Heyyyy Misssster Kotttaire!" (Washington),"What?" "Where?" (Barbarino), "I'm so confused!" (Barbarino), "Ohhh ohh ohh ohh!" (Horshack), "Very impressive, Mr Kotter!" (Horshack)
* CloudCuckoolander: Everyone had their moments, but Horshack is ''the'' definitive example.
* TheDanza: Gabriel Kaplan as Gabriel Kotter.
* DeanBitterman: Mr. Woodman
* EndOfEpisodeSilliness: Formerly the TropeNamer when it was called "Uncle Herbie".
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Vinnie, later relegated to The Sixth Ranger when John Travolta's movie career started taking off
** TheLancer: Freddie. Beau in the final season when Freddie was seemingly promoted to leader
** TheBigGuy: Epstein
** TheSmartGuy: Horshack
** [[TheChick RevolvingDoorChicks]]: Rosalie Totsie, Vernajean Williams, Angie Grabowski, Mary Johnson
** The Mentor: Gabe Kotter
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Vinnie is Choleric, Washington is Phlegmatic, Epstein is Melancholic and Horshack is Sanguine
* FurryFandom: In one episode Kotter wears a chicken suit in a restaurant to raise extra money for emergency dental work
* GRatedDrug: In the episode "What Goes Up ... ", Freddie becomes addicted to painkillers (to heal a basketball injury); a naive Horshack takes Freddie at his word that said pills are "vitamins," while the others are well-aware that Freddie is becoming dependent on them.
* GeorgeCarlin: Guest starring as radio DJ Wally the Wow, and as Wally the Weasel, a former Kotter-era Sweathog.
* HeyItsThatGuy: James Woods as a fellow Bucannan High teacher.
* HeyItsThatVoice: [[WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]]'s voice actor Charles Fleischer as Carvelli.
* LotteryTicket: In one episode Kotter chips in a quarter for the Sweathogs weekly lottery ticket when one of them comes up short. When the ticket then wins, the Sweathogs try to just give Kotter back his 25 cents instead of a share of the winnings.
* MadMagazine: ''Welcome Back, Klodder''.
* MarxBrothers: Often imitated, with Epstein as Chico, Horshack as Harpo, and Kotter as Groucho.
** Notably, Gabe Kaplan did a one-man show as Groucho Marx during the height of the show's popularity.
* TheMerch: Several novel sized paperback with original stories, a comic book, a lunchbox, a "Welcome Back, Kotter" [[BoardGames board game]], and Sweathog action figures with a classroom play area.
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: Barbarino is like this.
* OnceAnEpisode: Kotter tells a joke about one of his relatives.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Gabriel.
* ThePeteBest: Rosalie "Hotsie" Totsie, the female Sweathog.
* {{Poker}}: Since leaving show business, Kaplan became a world champion professional poker player.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: One two part episode had Kotter trying to start a stand up career.
* RealSongThemeTune
* RunningGag: Epstein's never ending supply of excuse notes, almost always signed "Epstein's Mother".
** Julie's infamous tuna cassarole.
* SignatureLaugh: Horshack's athsmatic laugh.
* StarMakingRole: John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Beau De Lebarre as Vinnie's replacement
* TranslationMatchmaking: In Italy it's known as ''I Ragazzi del Sabato Sera'' (''Saturday Night Guys''), after ''SaturdayNightFever''.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Puerto-Rican Jew Juan Epstein.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Gabe and Julie.
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