Freddie Washington quotes from Welcome Back, Kotter

Freddie

[to Horshack] You know, I never really thought I would miss you, but you sort of grow on a guy... like mold.

Freddie

[after sniffing smelling salts] I see they found a way of bottling Epstein's locker.

Freddie

This coat was worn at the famous Lincoln-Douglas debate.

Kotter

This coat was worn at the famous Lincoln-Douglas debate?

Freddie

I wore this coat when my father, Lincoln, beat the daylights out of my brother, Douglas!

Vinnie

You're late.

Freddie

That's your fourth tardy this semester.

Epstein

Did you bring a note from your mommy? [Horshack laughs]

Boy, what an honor, in my class, all four Marx brothers: Wacko, Stupo, Jerko, and Dummo.

Woodman

Now today, we will discuss the Revolutionary War. Now, who can tell me where that war started? Mr. Washington?

Freddie

Right. [whispers to Kotter] What's the answer?

Kotter

[whispering] Lexington and--

Freddie

Right. [stands up, clears throat] Lexington Avenue. Probably near 129th Street, by that barbecue, man. It's a tough neighborhood. A lot of wars went on over there.

Kotter

I have a bad case of Lyle Flannigan.

Freddie

When did you first notice that something was wrong with your Flannigan?

Freddie

My momma's got it, you dig? Yeah!

Kotter

I dig it! Didn't she sign it?

Freddie

Heh, no. She just took it in her left hand, and then she hit me upside my head with her right. See, man, and then, and then, she threw a chair at me. And then she tried to cave my back in with a TV set!

Kotter

All right, all right, have your father sign it.

Freddie

You crazy? He's the one with the bad temper!

Kotter

What's your first name?

It's Bambi. [giggling] But, uh, my friends call me Sunshine.

Freddie

Well, uh, let the sunshine in, darlin'!

Vinnie

I got my own idea of what God is like: I know he's a sharp dresser, and he's good-looking, and of course he's Italian.

Freddie

Yeah? Well, if you ask me, all that stuff about harps is a lot of jive. God is backed up by a jazz rhythm section. He got a piano, a bass guitar, and a drummer with a good right foot.

Freddie

You're the leader of the Sweathogs, right?

Vinnie

Am I the leader of the Sweathogs? Is a bear Catholic? Does the Pope live in the woods?

Kotter

What would have happened if George Washington quit, huh? If Abraham Lincoln quit? What would have happened if Murray Cornfeld quit?

Freddie

I ain't never heard of no Murray Cornfeld!

Kotter

You know why you never heard of him? 'Cause he quit!

Epstein

Hey, I got an idea, listen to this. ISB.

Kotter

ISB?

Epstein

In-School Betting. Yeah. It's about time we get bettin' off the streets, into the school here, where it belongs! [Sweathogs cheer]

Kotter

Are you kiddin'? I'll lay you 5-2 that'll never happen.

Freddie

I'll take that bet.

Kotter

You guys can't do things like this. It's against the law. It's robbery! It's five to ten!

Epstein

[holding an alarm clock] Nah, its ten to ten.

Freddie

Hey, besides, we tend to think of it as... creative borrowing.

Freddie

[to Vinnie] You got as much chance being a priest as I do gettin' the lead in the school production of Snow White.

Epstein

Yeah, and Freddie was the best one who read for the part. But, me and Horshack, see, we're still up for dwarfs.

Horshack

Yeah. Guess who's gonna play Dopey?

Kotter

If I was casting, I'd have a rough time choosing.

Freddie

We're gonna take all this money, we're gonna put it in the bank. We're gonna all be typhoons.

Kotter

That's, uh, tycoons.

Freddie

No, typhoons. 'Cause at the end of the year, we gonna all blow it!