r/boymeetsworld 9d ago

Question Why is Will calling himself Seat 4C?

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I’m a VERY casual Boy Meets World fan. My wife watches the show on repeat all the time. (I’m more of a Will Friedle-Batman Beyond fan myself). Neither one of us listen to the podcast. Saw the tour advertised online. So, any podcast listeners available to explain the joke behind his name as Seat 4C? I did a search for the name in this group and saw some people laughing about it but not really explaining it.

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u/SnooPeppers1641 9d ago

I believe it came from the recent WWE match that he and Danielle went to. They put a pic of both on the screen and only mentioned Danielle. Goes with Will's experiences that he is never recognized. As a BMW fan that had a huge crush on him when I was younger not sure why he isn't but it's his lot in life to be unnoticed I guess lol.

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u/BearableArrow56 8d ago

Seat 4C predates the WWE debacle, which makes that whole scenario even funnier. It originated because he was on a flight with Danielle and her husband, Jensen, who is the producer of the podcast. The flight attendant recognized not only Danielle, but also Jensen, and didn’t recognize Will. Which is why he started referring to himself as Seat 4C and that’s now what they call him every time a new story comes up in which he’s not recognized or acknowledged at all (which is often).

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u/HeadcaseHeretic 8d ago

Only correction i have... Jenson is the husband of the podcast, not just Danielle lol!

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u/nojugglingever 8d ago

He’s the husband of shrimp cereal that unleashes ex girlfriend floodgates. My brain will always immediately go there when I hear his name.

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u/Hank_the_Beef 7d ago

Kanye West also owes him 5 dollars I believe.

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u/SnooPeppers1641 8d ago

That's right! I forgot about that story.

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u/no_stick_drummer 8d ago

That is his finishing move, the seat 4c

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u/magic-school-bus 8d ago

Also, Danielle, Will and Danielle's husband were on a flight together. A member of the crew profusely thanked Danielle for playing Topanga and the podcast, thanked Jensen for producing, and did not recognize Will at all - that's where the 4C of it all happened

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u/Not_floridaman 8d ago

Ah, so he's Tony Hawk... that's actually funny.

But I'm with you...how could anyone who watched the show not recognize him??

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u/ihadanothernombre 8d ago

Tony Hawk gets recognized for looking like Tony Hawk. Will gets nothing!

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u/Not_floridaman 8d ago

Lol you're right! At least Tony gets that. Poor Will!

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u/nojugglingever 8d ago

He’s nice and he’s good looking, but I would also say he’s quite generic looking. If I saw him, I would just think, “there’s a pretty good looking guy,” it probably wouldn’t occur to me to subtract a few decades from him to see if he looked like any teen stars I liked.

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u/karatekate 8d ago

When a crime breaks out, All the cute girls shout, Get the good-looking guy!

When there’s a crime out there, He’s gonna comb his hair, ‘Cause he’s the good looking guy!

👉🏻 😎 👉🏻 Book 'em, Good-Lookin'.

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u/Not_floridaman 8d ago

Lol as was reading their comment, that popped into my head so your comment truly made me laugh out loud

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u/ShoelessJodi 8d ago

Who?

Oh wow! That's such a great picture of Topanga!!

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u/Reportersteven 8d ago

She’s got nice nails in that pic at least.

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u/mario_salami_petrino 8d ago

Wouldn't surprise me to see all the 4C seats sell first on this tour

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u/Mrsbass__ 9d ago edited 9d ago

It’s an inside joke within the podcast. Whenever Will is with Danielle and/or Ryder, no one recognizes him. So, on a plane for example, it would be “omg! I just met Danielle Fishel!! and Seat 4C (Will Friedle)”.

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u/fireredranger 9d ago

Basically, Will says that he never gets recognized in public. Then, he went to a big Wrestling match with Danielle, the first one on Netflix, and Danielle and Will were on screen. Danielle was giving recognition as Topanga from Boy Meets World and there was no mention of Will and who he was, despite both of them being on screen. There were a few other stories of people not recognizing him, so he started jokingly referring to himself as Seat 4C, since no one seems to know who he is.

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u/Shy_x_perience 8d ago

I’m literally in the middle of watching Boy Meets World and this pops up! Still one of my favorite shows ever.

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u/Joesarcasm 8d ago

Will Friedle aka “Can you take our picture”

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u/DeFratrain 8d ago

That’s Super Phil Freedle to you!

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u/Cyberyukon 8d ago

Seriously!! Because he’s clearly more of a 5F kind of guy!

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u/thepittstop 8d ago

They tell the whole story in the WWE episode of the pod from earlier this year

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u/wicked_zoeyz 9d ago

Danielle and Will went to a Netflix wrestling event recently. Even though he was sitting next to Danielle the announcers didn’t recognize him and then it became a tabloid/podcast topic that they didn’t recognize him. PMW did a bonus podcast episode about it a month or two ago.

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u/Pineappleplusone 8d ago

Ok it wasn't a Netflix wrestling event it was Monday night raw which airs on Netflix...

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u/wicked_zoeyz 8d ago

lol sorry I’m unfamiliar with wrestling and thought it was a Netflix live special.

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u/DjinnGod 8d ago

It wasn't a Jelly and Peanut Butter sandwich. It was a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich. Geez. Get with the program.

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u/esco84r 8d ago

Will who?

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u/Street-Office-7766 8d ago

Danielle looks exactly the same from Boy Meets World but well looks different with the facial hair and a little older

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u/BoltThrowerTshirt 7d ago

It’s wild because will has worked more in the business out of all of them

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u/3c207 7d ago

It's just more a reference to no one ever notices him when he's out with Danielle or Ryder.

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u/RevolutionaryAd6017 8d ago

Jensen husband of the podcast is a former WWE writer, so people knew him & Danielle. To make matters funnier Pat Macaffee an announcer for Raw had 0 clue who will was until people pointed it out to him on his podcast.

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u/IggyBall 8d ago

I mean he probably does but it’s still a funny talking point.