Welcome Back, Kotter: The Election

Welcome Back, Kotter: The Election
ABC
October 7, 1975
Sitcom
DVD
C+

Eric Cohen's first of sixteen WBK stories (and Tiffany York's only) starts with an ethnic joke (Chinese) and tries to get humor out of the Sweathogs, particularly Epstein, threatening violence against Vinnie's opponents in the class election.  So it hasn't aged well.  Still, I liked finding out the student population (under 400) and that Juan is one of nine kids, with at least four brothers.  (Half of his Puerto-Rican-Jewish brothers were out stealing pants, and the other half were pressing them, which is a relatively clever ethnic joke.)

John Otrin, who's an uncredited Sweathog here, would much later be an Ambulance Driver on M*A*S*H.