Very special episode about bootleg tapes

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Individual-Trick3310@reddit

Me, I'd download a car if I could.

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CornTreeRoad@reddit

I used to love this show, too. I still do, but I used to, too.

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Icy-Sheepherder-6221@reddit (OP)

Thanks, Mitch

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Individual-Trick3310@reddit

I periodically will hunt down an episode it doesn't speak to me like it used to. Like Buck Rogers or Silver Spoons.

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TheRealFinatic13@reddit

very influential program to me considering i became a very world renowned bootlegger.

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Hifi-Cat@reddit

I don't take these after school specials seriously unless the main actor is stalker Channing.

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Hifi-Cat@reddit

And some schmuck is crying and will "never do IT again".

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Which_Strength4445@reddit

Did you learn not to eat while recording? Lol.

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Hifi-Cat@reddit

Don't steal, you're not a professional like billionaires.

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Happy_Cat_3600@reddit

I watched this recently and it was crazy to see the Doobies so young, especially Michael McDonald.

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marshallkrich@reddit

Ironically enough, Metallica developed an under ground following because of the demo that got passed around on Cassette tape, No Life to Leather.

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TerpBE@reddit

Rerun, Raj, and Dwayne definitely would have been huge fans of... The Doobie Brothers?

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sylvar@reddit

If this image had any fewer pixels it would be AM radio.

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Guttersnipe77@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/y5zkbcl04gbg1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce3869f940983f3ca4ceb5e88619901c8e378106

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Not_On_Socials@reddit

My favorite episode! “And which Doobee do you be?”

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Flight_Not_Fancy@reddit

I was just thinking about this episode recently and wondering if it was a fever dream...

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M0BBER@reddit

I watched it a couple of weeks ago on YouTube...

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Just think, all that bootlegging and now nobody has heard of the Doobie Brothers as a result. They could have had such a legacy and launched such promising solo careers if it weren't for folks taping their concerts.

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Red-tailhawk@reddit

Which Doobie, do you be?

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FusterCluck11@reddit

Which doobie might you be?

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wmnoe@reddit

I mean while other shows were having "special episodes" like Dudley getting touched, or drugs, or Edith getting SAed, the kids on What's Happening were protecting the music industry's copyright rights! Yeah, you go RERUN!. Also, WHY were the Doobie Brothers, who are as white as can be, on this show? I SERIOUSLY doubt that the characters would have been listening to them at all in 1978. As high schoolers in the East Coast they would have been all over Disco and Rap.

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Maryland_Bear@reddit

Minor point: it wouldn’t have been called “rap” then. I can’t pinpoint when that term entered common usage, but [*Billboard* didn’t call their chart Rap until 1989](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs). From July 1973 - June 1982, which covers the time *What’s Happening* was in first run, they called it the “Hot Soul Singles”.

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Own_Tonight2145@reddit

I watch a documentary recently on what they now call “yacht rock” very interesting if a tad long ANYWAY many people said they never realized the Doobie Brothers were white until this episode because of the airplay on R and B radio stations.

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Haunt_Fox@reddit

Same thing with the Righteous Brothers. I thought they were black until they showed up on _Cheers_.

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wmnoe@reddit

That's funny because they were on their album covers!

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Haunt_Fox@reddit

I never had any of their albums, just heard 'em on the radio.

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RedOfTheNeck@reddit

Maybe they were Tiran Porter fans

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captainbeautylover63@reddit

Classic

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FrozenLogger@reddit

I need another episode of Yacht Rock. The time the Doobie Brothers joined forces with Re-Run and fought crime, or whatever. I miss that show.

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throwaway_boulder@reddit

Not long after that I learned the Doobie Bothers took their name from a marijuana joint and wondered why that hadn't been arrested.

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Hopfrogg@reddit

My middle class suburb wasp family loved What's Happenin' I was just thinking about this show the other day when a work colleague and I were talking about the old Tampa Bay Buc uniforms with the creamsicle colors. I remember Rerun was thought to be a football betting genius, but it turned out he was just betting on which team had the cooler looking uniforms.

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rimmo@reddit

I think it was Dwayne with the system, but Rerun did the betting.

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elephantengineer@reddit

You wouldn’t download a doobie.

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marshallkrich@reddit

![gif](giphy|9TCpzMrQC7y4o)

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whippy_grep@reddit

Aww. We watched it because Shirley was from Asheville NC, about an hour’s drive away from us.

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marshallkrich@reddit

This little video I'm sure is from What's Happening Now? The mid 80s reboot that I think lasted 3 seasons?

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poprevolver@reddit

Crunch crunch… crunch crunch.

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SilverAgeSurfer@reddit

Front row with that horrible tape recorder😂 You wouldn't be able to give that bootleg away. This episode is probably the reason that Lars Ulrich and Don Henley got their panties in a bind from☝️

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grateful_john@reddit

As someone who recorded tons of concerts yeah, that’s not how to do it.

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DeadMeat_1240@reddit

"Which Doobie, you be?"

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Own_Tonight2145@reddit

Still lives rent free in my head anytime I hear them mentioned

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20characterusername0@reddit

No Roger, No Rerun, No Rent.

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xtrobot@reddit

The thread would have been incomplete without someone quoting this, thanks for your efforts

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threesunrises@reddit

Which Doobie you be?

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ReallyKirk@reddit

This one and the one where Rerun joins a cult are my favorite

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Lucky-11@reddit

I remember this episode. What a great show.

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Flat_6_Theory@reddit

Still the only episode I remember well.

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David_R_Martin_II@reddit

You don't understand, asking Rerun not to dance is like asking a fish not to swim. He just got caught up in the magic that is the Doobie Brothers, yo.

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Valuable_Ad8923@reddit

We just watched these two episodes on Tubi. Absolute favorite of mine. When Al Dunbar tries to eat at Rob’s place and Shirl clowns him is hilarious

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withanamelikejesk@reddit

I remember thinking with the size of that recorder, how was expecting to get away with it.

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50sDadSays@reddit

And with the quality of that recorder, why would you even bother, especially through your jacket? I can't imagine the bootleggers could sell what sounds like a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of the album.

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Reddiculusness@reddit

https://youtu.be/mYCwSyMLRsg?si=sqMRRH7y__3riCrg

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Reddiculusness@reddit

Do be you be the Doobie Brothers?

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BoobAbides@reddit

“Which Doobie may you be?"

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CoverCommercial3576@reddit

Best of the episodes

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buddymoobs@reddit

I saw this, First Run, not a Rerun. True story.

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MichiganGeezer@reddit

I remember watching that one as a kid. 😎🤘🤣

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karma_the_sequel@reddit

Would you download a Rerun?

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editorgrrl@reddit

Part 1 of “Doobie or Not Doobie” aired January 28, 1978. The Doobie Brothers’ publicist was David Gest, who married Liza Minnelli in 2002. (Gest’s best man was Michael Jackson, and Elizabeth Taylor was maid of honor.) Here’s the ad for part 2, electric boogaloo: https://preview.redd.it/d7t03b85qdbg1.jpeg?width=171&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f90dc27cff4466444ed3f018532db1bcf12fc84b

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