Episode
Welcome Back, Kotter: There's No Business Like Show Business (1)
Overview
Gabe finds success as a stand-up comic, using material regarding the Sweathogs. But when the oppportunity for a full-time comedy gig arises, it could mean the end of his teaching career.
Details
- Series
- Welcome Back, Kotter
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1978-02-09
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
There's No Business Like Show Business (1) is Episode 20 in Season 3 of Welcome Back, Kotter. It aired on 1978-02-09. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 18: Angie
A new girl joins the Sweathogs.
Episode 22: What Goes Up
Freddie becomes addicted to drugs after taking prescribed pain killers. Despite the other Sweathogs' best efforts, the only thing that can bring Freddie around is Arnold's faith in him...and in his ""vitamin pills.""
Episode 17: Meet Your New Teacher: Batteries Not Included
The Sweathogs' new tutor is a computer. Despite initial raises in grades, Gabe becomes displeased with the machine, as it is turning him obsolete to the class.
Episode 23: Good-Bye, Mr. Kripps
Mr. Kripps, the shop teacher, has a heart attack and dies while yelling at Vinnie, who blames himself for the man's death.
Episode 16: Sweatwork
Arnold voices angst and pioneers for change on the school radio station, gathering fans in the process.
Episode 24: Horshack and the Madame X
Arnold, saddened by the rejection he keeps recieving from the opposite sex, gets advice and comfort from Julie before quickly falling in love with her.
Episode 15: Sweathog Christmas Special
At Christmas time, the gang reminisces over past episodes.
Episode 25: The Kiss
After performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a female student who has passed out in the classroom, Gabe is accused of molestation, and is in danger of losing his job.
Episode 14: Epstein's Madonna
Juan paints a great masterpiece on the walls of the school.
Episode 26: The Return of Hotsy Totsy
Rosalie ""Hotsy"" Totsy has grown up ... a little too fast. The Sweathogs go to a local strip club on a dare, and learn that Hotsy has gotten a job performing there (yup, she bares all, unknowingly in front of her former classmates).
Vinnie, Freddie and Epstein all ride Hotsy's case, but Arnold is sensitive to her plight. Seems that, during a coversation with her former teacher Gabe, Rosalie really lived up to her nickname one night and got pregnant. And getting a job at a strip joint is the only way for this single mother (the baby's father had left Hotsy) to support her child.
Gabe and Arnold convince the others to give Hotsy Totsy moral support, and they also refer her to a social agency which can help her finish school and find a more meaningful job.