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Submitted by Lisa A
Boy Meets World’s seven-season run was classic from beginning to end. Cory Matthews represented the awkward adolescent in all of us, and Mr. Feeney represented the weird teacher that stalked us from middle school through college.
But seriously, is Topanga even a real name?
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corey and sean the worlds first and greatest “bromance”
I love this show. It’s too bad they’ve stopped doing reruns…
One of those shows I never “got” but I could see why so many people liked it.
I liked the 1st season, when Minkus was there, and Topanga was still cool and out there. I liked the Cherry Bomb Mailbox Killer episode the best though…that one and the one where they found out that their Mom was sneaking around on their Dad, with their Dad!
This was my favorite show as a kid! It’s been so long since I’ve seen it that I can barely remember it, but I do remember the awesomeness. I’d watch it every day after school.
“They call me dances with squirrels” Topanga may have mellowed out and went kinda normal over the seasons, but Corey’s brother got weirder and weirder. He was totally my favorite! I miss this show!
-Mr. Mathews?
-Mr. Squirrels.
-Eric?
-Plays With.
The show had one of the biggest shark jumps in history. It started as a hilarious and lovable sitcom, but suddenly turned into a soap opera. When did it happen? It’s been too long for me to remember if Shawn first joined the Cult or met his long-lost brother and got abandoned by his dad. All of a sudden the whole show became all whiney, dull and dramatic.
But on a different note: Who could have known that Will Friedle would become a very talented voice actor?
I know exactly when it happened. It was at high school graduation when the show became retarded and the 2 18-year-olds got married. Pretty much every season before that (not that many I might add) was actually funny. Then it got all preachy and unbelievable.
They didn’t get married at 18. They got engaged at 18, because Topanga asked Corey to marry her. It may not happen all the time… but it does happen. They didn’t get married until after the first year or two in college.
Haha. Loved him in Batman beyond. I was seriously surprised to see river strong on an episode of Bones though. That guy hasnt done anything good in years.
I was too old to watch this, but I remember hearing the name “Topanga”. The only other time I heard the name of Topanga Canyon. I thought it seemed inappropriate to name a girl that! Wouldn’t that be dooming her to a future in porn?
Topanga’s parents were hippies.
There actually IS a porn star named Topanga!
And let me add, “Rider Strong” always sounded like the name of a male porn star.
Has anyone checked out the creators of the show? Kinda wonder what their career paths look like. (And I’m not exactly up on porn star names. But Topanga (Canyon) just had to be a porn actress!)
I just recently watched the series finale of this, and ohmygod I bawled my eyes out. I usually don’t get all that emotional over shows like that, but that episode was so sad. It was like having flashbacks of my own childhood and knowing that it’s all over. Of course it IS over, but there wasn’t some big moment to end it like in sitcoms.
Anyway, this was seriously one to the best shows from my childhood. I was and still am completely in love with it. Maybe that’s why the last episode made me cry.
This show is so awesome it makes me weep!
Oddly enough, my roommate and I decided to watch all of Boy Meets World this summer.
We’re on Season 4 and it’s just as awesome as I remember it being when I was 10 years old.
Have met Danielle Fishel in person – she came in to my work one evening with her boyfriend. Got her autograph.
A really sweet and still very pretty young lady.
this was on disney channel first time we got it on basic cable, (a couple of years ago) but i think it was some of the latest seasons, cause i cant remember this intro. anyway. hahah always hated topanga. lmao. and i always felt it was kinda weird that he the teacher was so much “around” hmm.. i bet there’s tons of fanfiction on that. haha.
Must…erase…thought…must…kill…brain…
Thanks to this show, I hate people who spell it Sean, cuz Shawn is pure awesomness with a pretty wrapping. That sounds cheezy… Anyway, loved the show, still love it, so many cool guys there I’d love to meet in real life.
Sean is the correct way.
Actually, the are both correct.
Shawn is the spelling for the Shawn Hunter character of Boy Meets World.
Yes, Topanga is a real name. A secretary that I know has that name.
To be fair, Mr. Feeney was always around because he lived next door!
William Daniels (Mr. Feeney) is the person who voiced KITT in the Knight Rider series.
Eric: “My name… is Plays-With-Squirrels.”
Feeney: “Mr. Matthews?”
Eric: “Mr. Squirrels.”
Corey: “Eric?!”
Eric: “Plays With!”
Me and my sis would rush home from school to watch this. ^^ We totaly grew up with Cory, Shawn, Eric and Topanga.
Ok, so it got kinda weird later on… but we were to hooked to care.
MR. FEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNYYYY! Yep, I just remember the other brother yelling that and finding it so funny.
Danielle Fishel at 28 – gorgeous and HEALTHY. As in, this is NOT a bony woman.
The rest of that show was crap. You couldn’t have paid me to watch it.
Ahh this made me wants to cry.
Such a great show, I must’ve seen every episode at least 30 times (seriously)
This is the first thing on this site that made me miss the “Good Ole’ Days” so much that it almost brought a tear to my eye.
*sigh* good times… Good times…
Danielle Fishel is way hot. once again showing a pattern that male tv characters (especially funny ones) and rich guys always get way hotter women then they should.
I have the first 3 seasons on DVD, then they stopped selling them. I think I was the only person at Best Buy the day each one came out, waiting to buy them ASAP!
They actually make jokes about Topanga “blossoming” so quickly in their commentary on one of the seasons. And, the season where she does come back, the writers wrote it in the season that all the boys flipped out over her.
~Ash
Saw some show in my friend’s dorm room once (can’t remmebr which one, but it was a dime-a-dozen drama targeted at teenaged females) and my reaction was “HOLY **** IS THAT MINKUS!”
One Tree Hill. It was a couple episodes before I noticed Lee Norris’s name in the credits and it clicked that Stuart Minkus still hadn’t grown up.
Love this show. It never jumped the shark for me. Can’t think of a show where the main characters who are in their adolescence grow up to go to college during the course of the show and the quality went down.
My favorites were Shawn and Angela.
You know what else other than this blast-from-the-past show is ftw? The guy who plays Shawn Hunter and his real name. “Rider Strong”? “Ride ‘er strong”, hah-hah.
Sadly, the show did jump the shark when Eric became progressively more stupid. The more contrived the situations got, the more ridiculous his behavior got, the more I thought he was on a one-way trip to serial killerhood. The series finale was a wonderfully inspired bit of work, but they really should’ve just ended it after high school. The college years were so contrived.
I shouldn’t ignore the moments of two-level humor. Every so often, one of the adults characters would drop a reference that would fly right over the heads of a young audience. I remember Feeney looking out the high school classroom window wistfully pining for St. Eligius…
I’m amazed to discover there actually was a full opening title sequence. The last few first-run seasons had a very abbreviated one (there was a convertible involved, right?) and the whatever-they-were-calling-ABC-Family-that-week reruns had none at all. Credits were title cards overlaid on the first act.
Note to self: Skim someone’s episode guide before praising the schmaltzy clip show they actually finished with, rather than the graduation show you mistook for the end…
Rider Strong is one of the sexiest guys ever <3
Rider Strong- great porn star name.
Never got the hype for this show. It was just basically watchable, nothing special at all.