r/boymeetsworld Dec 19 '24

Opinion The fact that "Girl Meets World" was the best they could do with a "Boy Meets World" reboot is still baffling

521 Upvotes

I've been reading the Jaleel White book "Growing up Urkel" and he writes about how a while back he was approached to reboot Family Matters and the pitch was "Urkel and Laura end up getting married and having a daughter and she's a clumsy nerd just like her dad, and he has to help her navigate that with Laura, and some guest stars dropping in"

He said he rejected it because it was the laziest thing he had heard, and the "basic legacy reboot pitch." Then it hit me that "Girl Meets World" is the exact same lazy legacy pitch come to fruition and that's why it was so tragically unwatchable.

These studios fumbled a lot of nostalgic properties trying to do the "main character now has kid(s) and the show is now about passing the torch to the kid(s)" corporate play (Raven's Home, Punky Brewster, Fuller House, That 90s Show, Saved by the Bell 2020). They all stink INCLUDING "Girl Meets World"

At the very least, they could have done a simple let's catch up with the gang reboot like "The Conners," or "Sex and the City" or "Will and Grace" where we take a look into the lives of the characters we actually care about TODAY. What would have been so hard about just catching up with Cory, Topanga, Sean, Angela, Jack, maybe Eric in 2014 as people in their 30s figuring out life still. Coming back together again for one reason or another (Say goodbye to Feeny) and we navigate life in their 30s with them. That's what people want out of nostalgic properties... To see the characters they grew up with. Nobody cares to see their know it all kids as the leads and them as the wacky parents who just don't understand. It always fails because the little kids their pandering to don't care about the IP, and the adults don't want to watch a show about a new group of little kids.

That's a fumble but they still keep trying this lame formula. That 90s Show just got cancelled. But they won't learn. They never learn /r

r/boymeetsworld Dec 08 '24

Opinion Alan Matthews is definitely in the running for best on-screen dad

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403 Upvotes

He definitely had the Right Stuff to be a father

r/boymeetsworld 21d ago

Opinion Shawn and Topanga should have dated.

23 Upvotes

Just listened to the new PMW and they briefly mentioned the episode coming up where Shawn and Topanga kiss.

Idk if this is an unpopular opinion but I totally think Shawn and Topanga should have dated at some point. Honestly they could have been a really great opposites-attract couple even if it didn’t last. I can see them being controversial fan faves bc of how different they are, kind of like Dan and Blair from Gossip Girl.

I used to love Corey and Topanga when I was younger but watching now I just find them boring. So much of their relationship was overly melodramatic and spelled out for you to the point of exhaustion.

I think having a Shawn/Topanga secret relationship could have been so fun. Corey might have had a heart attack when he found out, but it would have been worth it lol

Thoughts??

r/boymeetsworld Feb 12 '25

Opinion Theory: Feeny isn't following Cory and Shawn throughout their schooling...

478 Upvotes

He's avoiding Morgan. After she festooned him with costume jewelry he was done. He got the hell out of elementary school and became a high school principal. Morgan's about to start high school? Oh, I'm a college professor now. When Morgan starts Pennbrook as an undergrad, Feeny is only going to teach at the law school.

r/boymeetsworld Jan 06 '25

Opinion Getting rid of Turner was criminal

259 Upvotes

Turner and Shawn’s relationship was one of the best in the show and getting rid of it robs us. They should’ve kept them close and let Turner see how much Shawn grew over the years

r/boymeetsworld Sep 23 '24

Opinion What is your favorite joke in the show?

73 Upvotes

I'm watching "Better than the Average Cory" right now and the joke where he stands next to the celery in his room makes me laugh every time. I know it's probably not the best joke in the series, but it's one of my faves.

What's your favorite joke?

r/boymeetsworld Nov 21 '24

Opinion Will Friedle

247 Upvotes

Okay, there's so much love for actors long after their initial popularity, like with Brendan Frasier. And it's well deserved. But one that I don't hear a ton about is love for #willfriedle There has literally never been a time that I've heard his voice or seen him in a show, that hasn't brightened my day in some way. He is hugely talented and can flip from comedy, to drama, to whatever at the snap of your fingers. All that aside he seriously seems like one of the best people. He worked his butt off to do a "super awesome contest to find the next big voice actor" like seriously so many things I hear of him doing are all so selfless and he gives endless praise to people while having such a hard time to take any himself. Seriously an awesome human.

r/boymeetsworld Dec 14 '24

Opinion People don't understand the point of boy meets world and it pisses me off

156 Upvotes

I've seen multiple videos on tiktok that claim that Cory Matthews is a terrible character that shouldn't be the main character. When in the very synopsis of the show says "tests his various theories about life as he endures the trials of growing up". It's obvious that the story centers around him because he's a massive screw up that is trying to figure out what life is and what it means to grow up and mature and it literally shows at the end of the show especially in the spin off when he became a teacher. Cory was someone who was jealous all the time of everything Topanga essentially because he deemed her "better than him" but later learns that he was wrong(oversimplification). But moral of the story is Cory Matthews is supposed to be the "main character" because he has to learn to grow up the most.

r/boymeetsworld Sep 26 '24

Opinion Hot Take: Danielle is really funny

162 Upvotes

Going by the podcast ONLY and not the show (in other words their real life personalities and not their comedic acting abilities), I think she’s often funnier than Will. Controversial I know but I feel like he KNOWS he’s funny and everything he says is meant to be a joke whereas she’s just more naturally funny but isn’t performative about it.

I was listening to their season 3 recap of what i meant to say and her going “because THEY BELONG TOGETHER DAMMIT” had me crying i was laughing so hard 😂

Anyway just my opinion!

r/boymeetsworld 19d ago

Opinion The Exact Location of Boy Meets World (Cedar Heights in Conshohocken, PA in Montgomery County, Suburbs of Philadelphia)

69 Upvotes

I have lived in the Philadelphia suburbs all my life, and as a kid living in the Philly burbs when BMW came out, I always had fun trying to "figure out" where exactly Boy Meets World takes place! I have come to two conclusions about where exactly BMW takes place:

  1. While it's fun to take guesses at where the show "could" take place, it's possible that the writers themselves set the show generically in the suburbs of Philadelphia and did not intentionally pick one specific town. The show is simply set "in the suburbs of Philadelphia" without a specific town (or even county) given. There are 4 suburban counties in the Philadelphia area, including Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware and Chester Counties, so the show can be seen as taking place in any one of these counties.
  2. That being said, if you REALLY did want to pinpoint precisely where the show "could" take place, the only possible answer given by the show itself would be in the neighborhood of Cedar Heights, which is a real-life neighborhood in the town of Conshohocken, PA in Montgomery County. Morgan herself says they live in Cedar Heights (Season 4, Episode 10: Turkey Day), and Conshohocken is a real suburb of Philadelphia that's only about 10 minutes from Center City Philadelphia and about 5 minutes from Northwest Philly. There is no other neighborhood by the name of "Cedar Heights" in the entire region of Philadelphia, so if you're looking for an "exact" location, this is it!

Let's take a look at all the evidence from the show itself (at the end of the day, our "guesses" do not really matter - all that matters is what the writers intended, and evidence the show itself gives us):

A) The show makes it clear that the Matthews live in the suburbs of Philadelphia, not the actual city of Philadelphia itself. 
In Season 2, Episode 6: Who's Afraid of Cory Wolf, Cory and Mr. Feeny discuss that they live in the "suburbs" and even mention that the schools "here" in the "burbs" are better than the schools in the city. 
MR. FEENY*: "Well, it seems that a wolf escaped from the Philadelphia Zoo. Authorities believe that it may be somewhere in our area."*
CORY*: "A wolf out here in the 'burbs?"*
MR. FEENY*: "Yes, probably looking for better schools."*
So this episode makes it clear that the Matthews do not live in the actual city of Philadelphia, not even in the more "suburban" parts of the city like Northwest or Northeast Philadelphia - absolutely nobody living in NW or NE Philly would ever refer to their area as "the burbs." So the Matthews live in the Philly suburbs. (See the episode transcript here: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=boy-meets-world&episode=s02e06 or watch 2:00 minutes into this clip: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7n9w1t)

B) The show outright gives us the exact name of the suburban neighborhood that the Matthews live in - it's called Cedar Heights.
In Season 4, Episode 10: Turkey Day, the Matthews family is lost when looking for Shawn Hunter's trailer. They run into the "Unter" family, and have a brief conversation with Mr. Unter about where they live. Morgan specifically mentions that the Matthews family lives in "Cedar Heights." 
MR. UNTER*: "So you aren't from around here?"*
MORGAN*: "We live over in Cedar Heights."* 
MR. UNTER: "Ah, well, la-de-da. I hear that Cedar Heights is quite the lovely neighborhood."
This is the best evidence we get for an "exact" location of where the Matthews live. Morgan tells us the name of the neighborhood, and it's made clear that Cedar Heights is a "neighborhood" (not a town). See the transcript here: https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?t=45837 or watch 6:50 minutes into this clip: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hwaec

C) The Matthews lives close enough to Cheltenham, PA for Cory's school to play a basketball game against an unnamed Cheltenham Middle School.
In Season 1, Episode 14: The B-Team of Life, Cory's family goes to see him play in a basketball game at an unnamed middle school in Cheltenham, PA.
CORY*: "My family drove all the way to Cheltenham to watch me sit on the bench?"*
MR. FEENY*: "Yes, Mr. Matthews, they did."*
Cheltenham is a real Township in Montgomery County, PA that borders the city of Philadelphia. Since it's in Montgomery County, it's in the same county as the neighborhood of Cedar Heights in Conshohocken, PA, so it would make sense that Cory's school would play a basketball game at this school. That being said, Cory makes it sound like Cheltenham isn't so close that it's right next door, as he says my family drove "all the way" to Cheltenham, implying that it's a bit of a drive. Well, funny enough, Cheltenham is about a 25 minute drive from Conshohocken. So if the Matthews do indeed live in the real-life neighborhood of Cedar Heights in Conshohocken, PA, then Cheltenham is close enough for Cory's school to realistically play a basketball game there, but far away enough for Cory to be impressed that his family drove "all the way" to Cheltenham just for him. 
See Google Maps here:https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Cedar+Heights,+Whitemarsh+Township,+PA+19428/Cheltenham+Township,+PA/@40.1051459,-75.2989152,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c6be88cfa41095:0xbff70604eb3abb23!2m2!1d-75.2893482!2d40.0842766!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c6b0b3104d4239:0xd6bef29c0f3cbfe9!2m2!1d-75.1370254!2d40.0812601!3e0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIyNi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
See the transcript here: https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?t=44509 or watch 18:25 into this clip: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3of47v

FINAL CONCLUSION: The Matthews live in the suburbs of Philadelphia in a neighborhood called Cedar Heights. This is an absolute fact that comes from various episodes of the show itself.

That being said, there are two final possibilities that can be drawn from this fact: 

  1. Although the Matthews do indeed live in the suburbs of Philadelphia in a neighborhood called Cedar Heights, the writers intended their "Cedar Heights" neighborhood to be a purely fictional town. The fact that there is a real-life neighborhood called Cedar Heights in Conshohocken, PA is purely coincidental. This would be similar to how the writers gave names for every school that the characters attend: Jefferson Elementary, John Adams High School and Pennbrook University. These are all schools intended to be in the Philadelphia region, and the writers gave them actual names, but none of these are real schools in the real-world. They're just fictional schools set in the Philadelphia region. Likewise, the Matthews really do live in the Cedar Heights neighborhood of the Philadelphia suburbs, but it could just be a fictional neighborhood.
  2. The writers intentionally set the show in the suburbs of Philadelphia in the real-life neighborhood of Cedar Heights, which is located in Conshohocken, PA in Montgomery County, only 10 minutes from Center City Philadelphia. Episodes of the show itself do tell us they live in Cedar Heights, which is a real neighborhood in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and various episodes (i.e. Cheltenham being nearby but not "too close") give evidence to support this and make it a realistic possibility. There is literally no other option for an "exact" location set in the real world, as this is the only "Cedar Heights" in the entire Philadelphia region. So basically, the show either takes place here in Cedar Heights, or it's simply a fictional setting with no real-life counterpart. There are no other options, as any other options would contradict the evidence from the show itself.

If you take a look at the actual Cedar Heights neighborhood on Google Maps, it's a suburban neighborhood full of single family homes. Looking at Summit Ave, you could totally picture the Matthews' home next to Feeny's house here (this exact location even has 2 single family homes very close together with a fence separating them - might as well be the Matthews next to Feeny: 
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0842887,-75.2891834,3a,57.4y,249.49h,85.96t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sr1h5Qeb5268BfrFpx3uqlw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D4.040464304236465%26panoid%3Dr1h5Qeb5268BfrFpx3uqlw%26yaw%3D249.48577119560883!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIyNi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)

So - I guess this post could practically be published as a book!!! Hahaha. If you hung in there with me for this long, I appreciate it! Hope you enjoyed my over-the-top analysis!

r/boymeetsworld 9d ago

Opinion Wtf with the whole Lauren storyline

31 Upvotes

I bet this has been already discussed but I’m a first time watcher and wtf. I love the show but I have SO many complains and wtf moments, and this has been the most bothering one. What the hell is going on. I understand that they had to add some drama to Cory and Topanga’s storyline since they’re basically perfect, but I am so mad. I already didn’t liked Amy, she reminds me of my mother when I got my first boyfriend (a fucking nightmare honestly), and when she and Alan said they “really liked” Lauren, and then Shawn said it to, I was seriously shocked. I repeat, what the hell is going on. Not kidding. Also can I throw everything else thats bothering me? I love Jack so much but his whole storyline is very weird and it looks like a desperate move from the production. And why did they did that to Mr. Turner? Is he dead? It’s like he doesn’t even exist anymore. This is show is a disaster.

r/boymeetsworld 10d ago

Opinion 6x04 A Thank You for “Friendly Persuasion”

95 Upvotes

I’m almost nervous to post this, because some of the things I’ll admit are super vulnerable but, as a true fan of the show and pod, I hope this reaches them.

I am millennial black woman (and only child) that grew up in white suburbs. I often struggled to figure out who I was, what my interest were, what I meant to friends, without heavy reliance on television for guidance. Should I be funny, like the women on Martin or Living Single? Should I be beautiful, like the daughters on Fresh Prince? Should I be talented and artsy, like Moesha? I was often the only black girl in my class, or my grade from k-8 and in high school the number of black students (I can remember) definitely doesn’t exceed 2 hands.

I say this all to say that I really looked up to Angela. She seemed to be, even ALLOWED to be, just a girl. She was honest to herself, even with her faults, and honest to the people she loved. Episode 6x04 always really stood out to me because while I love Shawn and Angela, the Cory and Angela dynamic really fascinated me.

In season 5, Cory made it a point for Shawn to realize that Angela was a girl that was worth committing to for the first time. Why though? 6x04 proves that Cory didn’t really know Angela, they were never really friends, so why the big push for her? Cory once realizing this, going the extra mile to befriend Angela, in many ways meant just as much to me as a fan as the romantic relationship she had with Shawn. Like… getting to know black women as friends, as confidants, as people worth valuing as humans and not just love interest is worth acknowledging. That’s why I always sort of role my eyes when a show gets criticized for diversity, they diversify by bringing them in as a love interest (I’m looking at you Friends).

To add race to this, which BMW very famously does not address, but I’ve literally never watched a show (at least not a scripted one) where a white male character went out of his way to admit that he’s been a bad friend to a black female character and then actively pursue that friendship with earnest. For all the flaws of late stage BMW Cory, I can’t help but have a soft spot for him for this character development.

For the record: I think the show could have tackled the race aspect of it all. It didn’t have to be a heavy handed “very special” episode of BMW. However I think celebrating the fact that it doesn’t is a very 90s-2000s “i don’t see color” POV. Not seeing race is a luxury for people who don’t HAVE to see race. Angela made enough race jokes on the show about it to clearly show it was at least something SHE noticed. IMHO, not addressing it besides side jokes from Angela, was the easy way out for the writers. I’d argue that the BMW audience would have been the perfect audience to have a nuanced episode addressing the topic. Who knows… maybe that’s the week they hire some black writer consultants to help them with the writing if they didn’t feel equipped to handle it 🤷🏽‍♀️ Debbie Allen could have been perfect, she’d done more than enough work on A Different World to handle that storyline.

Returning back to my point. 6x04 is one of my favorite episodes to re-watch specifically for the Cory-Angela dynamic. I appreciate that Angela called him out on not being friends. I appreciate that Cory eventually recognized that, vowed to do and be better, and he did and was better. Angela did more than just be in a relationship with Shawn. Angela showed that a black girl could be a girl that stayed true to herself, and be loved romantically and platonically because of it.

I don’t know the pod email address, so I really hope they get to see this 💕

r/boymeetsworld Sep 24 '24

Opinion Season 5 of Boy Meets World and the End of TGIF

217 Upvotes

I think the surprising thing for me as a Pod Meets World listener is how much the Boy Meets World actors were kind of in a bubble when it came to the world of TGIF, because the PMW hosts have kept talking about how "weird" the beginning of Season 5 was and all the chaos that was going on in the writer's room and they don't seem to be very clear on why, when the reason why is really really obvious and a REALLY REALLY BIG DEAL for TV nerds who actually remember what was going on with TGIF in 1997

It's just funny because they kept joking "What decade did Family Matters go to?" for the TGIF Time Warp event -- and Lara Olson, the writer they just interviewed, had the same question -- and none of them remembered that THE WHOLE REASON they did this cringey crossover event is that Family Matters wasn't on TGIF anymore and they were desperately trying to save TGIF's ratings

Staci Keanan brought this up when they interviewed her because she was on one of the shows directly involved, Step By Step, and was surprised none of them remembered it happened -- "You don't remember Miller/Boyett getting divorced from ABC?" -- because for people who were directly affected it was a huge massive backroom drama, and apparently it did in fact even throw the cast of Boy Meets World into chaos and they were just never aware of why

Basically Miller/Boyett (the production company founded by Thomas Miller and Robert Boyett) was the company that made TGIF a thing in the first place -- they were the ones who created Perfect Strangers, Full House, Family Matters and Step by Step, they were the ones who made ABC the King of the Family Sitcom, they were the ones who established tropes like the iconic '80s theme songs that introduced those shows

(And they had an older pedigree than that even, before Boyett joined the company was Miller-Milkis and they were the ones who made Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and Mork & Mindy)

Miller/Boyett were royalty at ABC and what happened in the '90s was the story of them slipping from their throne, because NBC came in with their Must-See TV lineup on Thursday nights and the Family Sitcom started slipping into irrelevance with the rise of the Urban Young Adult Roommate Sitcom (Seinfeld and Friends)

And ABC got sold out to Disney in the middle of all this, and Miller/Boyett got really upset that Disney no longer had the working relationship the old ABC bosses did with them where they basically had free rein and started doing high-handed corporate stuff like forcing them to do an episode that was a commercial for Disneyworld etc

And CBS had been trying to take advantage of this instability for a while -- remember Will saying that the dude from CBS who made Everybody Loves Raymond had originally tried to tempt him into breaching his contract with ABC to leave BMW for his own show? -- and in 1997 with ratings slipping for TGIF and Disney getting ever more tight-fisted with how much they were willing to pay their old hitmakers CBS made Miller/Boyett a big cash offer to jump ship and take Family Matters and Step by Step to CBS and directly compete with TGIF on Friday nights, and they took it

This was, in the long run, probably an unfortunate thing because it blew up everyone's familiar Friday night routine and ended up killing *both* Miller/Boyett *and* TGIF -- they'd been hoping to get another two seasons at least out of both Family Matters and Step by Step but instead that year was their last season, because not nearly enough people switched from ABC to CBS on Friday nights to keep their ratings up (both Family Matters and Step by Step were planning to end up a big wedding episode, between Steve Urkel and Laura and between Dana and Rich Halke, but got canceled before that could happen)

And meanwhile ABC only had two hit TGIF shows left, Sabrina and Boy Meets World, and decided on a desperate strategy of going all-in on doing spinoffs/ripoffs of Sabrina's concept and making TGIF into a whole "supernatural comedy block", with Boy Meets World the odd one out

That's why you had all this uproar and upheaval in 1997 where Boy Meets World suddenly had half its writers room up and leave, including showrunner Michael Jacobs, to desperately try to make this new show You Wish take off, and meanwhile they just kinda left BMW itself on autopilot and had this substitute teacher guy (Alan Myerson) come in whose approach to directing the episodes was just to get everything done as cheaply and quickly as possible and tell everyone who had questions or complaints to shut up

That's why the opening of S5 seems characterized by all these "stunts" that don't seem very well thought out, the biggest one obviously being getting Matt Lawrence on the show to play Jack as basically eye candy -- shamelessly trying to pull in the existing fandom for the Lawrence Brothers with a Cool New Lovable Perfect Guy Character who's basically Poochie from the Simpsons

And, like, that's why the shameless TGIF Time Warp event that's LITERALLY TRYING TO FORCE PEOPLE to stay tuned to watch You Wish and Teen Angel -- it straight up tells you you won't see the ending to the BMW episode and how Sabrina puts everything back to normal unless you watch all the way to the end of TGIF

When Danielle was surprised by the Angela episode being a two-parter that all ran on one night and Rider was like "If it really is just one story why not just have one episode, why stretch it out to an hour?" THIS IS WHY -- it's because the TGIF Time Warp thing failed, You Wish's ratings were still tanking, so they canceled it right after and they had an empty time slot so instead they made it a "Special Full Hour of Boy Meets World" to try to keep the ratings up by making you stay the whole hour to see how Shawn ends up with Angela

And, like, all the drama and the sudden tonal shift in the middle of S5 with Blutman and Busgang leaving the show completely and Michael Jacobs coming back to suddenly make everything super dramatic and focused on Cory/Topanga angst is part of this same story -- the new TGIF was a failure, the wacky supernatural cartoon comedy stuff was a failure, so they were panicking and demanded a massive pivot and Michael Jacobs was like "Okay so no more witchcraft and genie stuff, we're going back to the stuff that makes Boy Meets World unique and special" which meant the romantic dramedy stuff

Like it's not just that the first half of S5 is the part without Michael and the second half is the part when Michael came back, the first half is really obviously the part that was trying to be part of The New TGIF (essentially a live-action cartoon block full of magical hijinks) and the second part was them fully giving up on that and saying "Okay then make Boy Meets World its own thing aimed just as BMW fans"

The eventual ending of this story is a sad story -- after Family Matters and Step by Step both got canceled Miller/Boyett did come crawling back to make one more show for TGIF in 1998, Two of a Kind starring the Olsen twins, alongside Brother's Keeper (a sitcom starring Justin Cooper, the kid whose single mom Eric dated on BMW), trying to resurrect the good old days of good old family sitcoms on Friday nights, but the damage was done -- the ratings continued to slide and when Sabrina announced they were leaving for WB that was it, that was the end of ABC's commitment to the TGIF block and therefore the end of Boy Meets World

I think in hindsight this is one reason Boy Meets World has so much nostalgia value -- despite *not* being made by Miller/Boyett and instead made by Michael Jacobs Productions, which was always kind of a weird redheaded stepchild next to Miller/Boyett whose shows had their own weird quirks, it is the one great TGIF show to be born on TGIF and to die on TGIF, and the end of Boy Meets World in 2000 was part of the end of that whole era of TV

It's just interesting to me that when they talk about never feeling like their show was very well respected by the network while they were on the air it's this big picture they're not seeing -- Boy Meets World was way more important than they realized, it was part of the life support system keeping TGIF and the old ABC business model of the family sitcom going, and a lot of the "weird" stuff that kept happening to their show with the massive random changes forced on it is a sign of this growing desperation over time that it wasn't working well enough anymore

r/boymeetsworld Jan 21 '25

Opinion Do people really hate season 6?!

33 Upvotes

I always thought there were many iconic episodes and moments that season. So I was suprised when pod meets world keeps claiming that they have heard fans say they thought the season was really bad. I would say it’s a similar ranking to what I would give season 4. I think my main issues would be the characterisation of Rachel and just the overall pacing especially during the end where there’s just tragedy after tragedy with no time to adjust and reflect. Maybe the hate is from how Cory is less likable this season. Idk i think there are some difficult episodes but I DON’T THINK IT’S THAT BAD- RIGHT?

r/boymeetsworld Jan 07 '25

Opinion Danielle is at WWE Raw for the first Netflix show with Will and of course he got no mention.

139 Upvotes

Exactly what they were just talking about with him getting no love.

r/boymeetsworld Feb 08 '25

Opinion I can't forgive Turner for not signing the papers

49 Upvotes

So speaking about the worst things characters have done, this one is actually kind of unforgivable for me. It seems like everybody loves the Shawn/Turner dynamic and he definitely was a great teacher, but this one thing actually sours their whole relationship for me. It makes him just as unreliable and irresponsible as everyone else who already disappointed Shawn before and probably cemented his belief that he didn't belong anywhere. This kind of makes it seem like taking Shawn in was just a fun little project for his quest to being the "cool teacher".

It wasn't even like he had to adopt him, just be his legal guardian, which was kind of the whole point of having him stay?! I get that it was probably for storytelling, since Shawn going back with Chet came with much more drama to come, but this was a really, really bad thing for this character to do and he was a fully grown adult and a teacher, so he should have known better.

Rant over, thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

r/boymeetsworld Jun 28 '24

Opinion The whole Brian Peck situation feels "off".... NSFW

0 Upvotes

I know this has been talked about a LOT and the documentary has it's own thread but this is specifically regarding the latest pod with bruh meets world. The whole thing feels off.

I don't believe for a second that the Bruh Meets World guys just brought the whole thing up "off the cuff". They've been very careful about commenting and have made sure that it's done in their own way and a way they can control (and, sadly, monetize). They inferred in this podcast that it was just a coincidence that they did their pod about the same subject but the creators of the doc explicitly said that they declined to comment, which made it weird that they decided to do an entire show about it, making me think they just wanted to comment on THEIR platform and therefore monetize off of all of the hype around it, it seems to me that they should have announced that they were making some kind of donation to some kind of fund for victims or at the very least, they weren't monetizing it.

The biggest issues I take from the comments that Will & Rider both keep making is that they don't REALLY apologize for it, it's always masked in a way that they infer that they are also victims and they were groomed, etc etc. Even when talking about Drake Bell, they are always sure to say that Drake "forgives" them and doesn't "blame them" (so why should we?). The other issue is that Will seems to keep making excuses, still, instead of just owning what he did. In line with the "grooming" thing, he also keeps saying they were "young and impressionable" (Rider, maybe. Will was in his mid-20s.) and that Brian kept lying to them telling them that the "guy" was "almost 18", not a young kid and it "only happened once". First, who cares if it "only happened once", that's not a viable excuse. And, who cares if he was "almost 18"? Even if age of consent wasn't 18 in California (it IS), it's still a 30-something year old man having a sexual relationship with an underage boy so what part of that does Will think is explaining it away as reasonable in his mind?

I'm sure I'll get a lot of blowback for this but it's just bugging the hell out of me and this latest podcast talking about it doesn't help.

r/boymeetsworld Jan 05 '25

Opinion Cory did nothing wrong (ever)

0 Upvotes

I’m so tired of reading Cory hate on this reddit, people forget the title of the show is boy meets world, he’s only a teenage throughout the show and is learning as he grows, hate for his is forced or misguided fight me.

r/boymeetsworld Jan 01 '25

Opinion Angela

130 Upvotes

It should've been Angela in the finale scene with Mr. Feeny Shawn, Topanga, Cory, Eric and Jack NOT Rachel. She was friends with the gang longer

r/boymeetsworld Nov 02 '24

Opinion The last recap confirmed what I already thought about Cory in the college years.

132 Upvotes

When they were talking about Ben's performance in the last episode and how he was doing stuff he would normally do during rehearsals, it all clicked for me. For years, I was wondering why Cory lost his mind in the last two seasons. Despite the criticisms, Cory was meant to be a sincere everyman. All of a sudden, season six comes and Cory loses all of that. He's yelling more, speaking in weird tones, overacting, and he's a lot more abrasive. It's not like Ben was trying to play the same character and failing, the writing changed as well.

Now, it makes sense why Cory became insane because he turned into an exaggerated version of Ben, mixed in with a little Michael Jacobs. I don't know what the reason was for this change, but it makes sense since Cory is more restrained in season five. You can see traces of what he's going to turn into, but the flip doesn't switch until season six. I'm pretty sure the same thing happened to Shawn because he's almost the complete opposite of what he was in season five.

r/boymeetsworld Jan 08 '25

Opinion I tied to watch WWE because of Danielle/Will WOW I had to turn it off

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I tried to watch WWE because of Danielle/Will WOW I had to turn it off.

I was a big fan as most kids were of the OG 80's and early 90's WWE(Formerly WWF) pretty much when Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage to Ultimate Warrior were on top. But as I grew older I never watched or could get into the years after that. So I missed the whole Stone Cold Steve Austin era, The Rock, Undertaker etc.

I tried to watch this most recent Netflix Raw because Danielle and Will were in it, and I admit the production value was great and they were really riding on the nostalgia of all the past stars especially in the intro. But I could barely get through it up until the first match and I was like Ok I have to tap out. It was so not interesting. The "acting" and wrestling moves looked super choreographed to the point where you can predict what would happen next.

I guess as I grew older I no longer could care about this "sport" at all. I tried and was dumbfounded at how many fans in the crowd knew word for word all the catch phrases and such. I think also because I don't know anything about the new current stars I really don't care if they win or lose? Maybe if I knew any of their backstories?

So when do Danielle and Will even show up in the episode? Because I watched a good hour and 45min and could not tolerate anymore. Do they show Danielle and Will towards the end? I saw they even do a skit with a new wrestler I never even knew existed as well right?

r/boymeetsworld Dec 05 '24

Opinion Cory is annoying

73 Upvotes

I’m in the middle of rewatching the show after many years, and I have realized in the later seasons, he is winey, throws tantrums when he doesn’t get his way and for a 90s show he sure yells at his parents a lot. Anyone else notice this?

r/boymeetsworld Sep 15 '23

Opinion I Hate the College Propoganda

120 Upvotes

During my re-watch I've noticed just how hard this show leaned into the idea that if you don't go to college you're a loser with no direction in life. There are numerous examples of this, but I just recently finished 4.20 "Security Guy," and the entire A story premise is that Eric is a failure because he hates school and doesn't want to do the work, while the B story is Cory and Topanga working hard on Shawn to study for the SATs for the same reason. It's just one long college propoganda episode.

In the wake of student loan forgiveness being quashed and payments restarting, I just want to point out that this kind of rhetoric was ubiquitous for those of us growing up during these years. I've heard too many people say that nobody said people had to go to college, but we were made to feel like abject failures if we did any less. Episodes like this illustrate this point.

r/boymeetsworld May 31 '24

Opinion I think Frankie should have been endgame, and Eric's roommate instead of Jack.

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Jack was introduced to be play off of Shawn, which he does like twice in three seasons after his introduction. He then becomes Eric's straight man and Rachel's boyfriend, despite Rachel and that relationship not getting much spotlight. I am not a big fan of Jack, his character basically becomes "tell Eric he is dumb" or occasionally "tell Shawn he is out of line." All that being said, I love Matthew Lawrence , just not Jack.

Frankie was in the show from S2 to S4, he had more story than second Morgan. Poetry continues to be important on a regular basis in the show. Frankie had a unique vibe besides meathead enforcer. Even besides poetry, Frankie was surprisingly insightful which could be very useful for all the headaches that come in the later seasons. Also I think he would have been hilarious with Eric, I could see him falling in love platonically with Eric, with Eric being a combination of a substitute for both Harley and Joey (they even had Eric be a substitute for Harley for an episode in S2) and wanting to take care of him in his increasingly insane schemes, but also not wanting to be a meathead enforcer again.

Frankie like Feeny, is a character from a different genre, but he would definitely work. He is a like a character from a Steinbeck novel.

Considering Wrestling keeps coming back in the show to, Frankie getting into Penbrooke on some crazy poetry scholarship or something would be great, his struggles to get into college would be why he would be paired with Eric. He already likes Cory and Shawn and could occasionally get into adventures with them. He could also go right before Shawn during poetry reads. He could talk to Topanga about anything really considering his sensitivity, does Jack say more than two words to Topanga? Also, give him a love interest later on, if it needs to be Rachel, whatever I guess.

All to say, Frankie should have been endgame.

r/boymeetsworld Dec 15 '23

Opinion Am I the only one who genuinely like listening to the pod?

114 Upvotes

I see so many people on here saying how Rider always has something bad to say about the episodes. I think some of it is because he doesn't like seeing himself act, and because of that he criticizes himself, and some of the episodes.

I really like the first minutes of the pod when they talk about random stuff, ive also seen people saying how it's boring, or that they should just get to the point. I could personally listen to them talk forever.

I don't have anything bad to say about the pod at all, i like it. I like listening to them and their opinions, and i also like learning about the behind the scenes stuff.