Saturday, June 18, 2016

Welcome Back, Kotter: Sweatwork

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Welcome Back, Kotter: Sweatwork
ABC
December 22, 1977
Sitcom
DVD
C+

This Eric Cohen story starts out in a promising way, with Woodman (speaking slang) recruiting Freddie to run a campus radio program, because of his experience with Wally the Wow.  Even it becoming about Arnold getting low ratings and Freddie having to "fire" him is fine, since the emphasis is on their friendship.  (They spent 2 1/2 years of fifth grade together.)  I was OK with Arnold doing the Network thing.  (There's a moment when you just know he's going to get people to yell out their windows.)  But then it turns into another "swelled head" episode, and I just can't believe Arnold would advocate for lower teachers' salaries, when he's seen Mr. Kotter struggle for "about three years."  The twins by the way are six months old, putting this presumably in the following March, since they were born at the beginning of the school year.  Barbarino is absent, not for the last time.

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