Reflecting on the Final Season of Boy Meets World Review

The following episode of Podcaster Meets World

was recorded Monday, May 12th, 2025. Please enjoy.

Boy Meets World guitar theme by Gator the Bear

aka Sean Farren used with permission. Hello and

welcome to episode 14 of Podcaster Meets World,

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I am one of your hosts, Steve, Joe, and Mike.

Joining me, as always, is Steve Megatron. Hello,

sir. How are you? Good. How are you? Eh, ask

me in about two months. I don't know. Today,

we are going to talk about the final season of

Boy Meets World. Yes, folks, that's right. We

are throwing part one, part two out the window.

It's going to be all one episode. It's going

to be an ad break in between the two parts of

the season that we usually do and break it up

into two episodes. But season seven of Boy Meets

World was the last season. And as of this recording,

we're about a week removed and 25 years removed

from the time of when it would have ended. Back

on May 5th, 2000. So I kind of planned this really

right, even though I didn't plan this at all.

All right, Season 7. There are 23 episodes within

Season 7. We both have taken notes and we both

have thoughts and opinions on all of it, but

we are going to... go through like we normally

do. But these episodes, folks, they usually don't

take us long, so we're not going to keep you

long here, even though this is the series finale

kind of thing. And the funny thing about Season

7 is, I mentioned this to you in our online chat

thing, I said, Season 7, there's not much more

they can do to... If you have seven seasons of

a show, you usually spend the first six. kind

of growing the characters introducing the characters

growing the characters having the characters

move through the world pun intended but by the

finale or the last season it's like well what

do we do now well let's put them in situations

where it's funny but it's also serious It's heart

-wrenching because there are plenty of heart

-wrenching moments in Season 7, so I'm not trying

to take away from what Season 7 is. But at the

same time, there's nowhere for them to go. And

I just realized after I took all my notes and

everything else, Corey has no consequence at

the end of the series. No, he really doesn't.

Corey doesn't do a goddamn thing. It's not about

Corey. It's about Sean. Sean is the boy that

meets the world. I mean, yes, Corey does have

the amazing advice that he gives his youngest

brother, Joshua, in the finale episode, which

we will get to. But, like, other than that, you

look at these 23 episodes, what is Corey doing

in the seventh season? Getting into trouble?

Yeah. other than getting into trouble other than,

you know, being his obnoxious 11 year old self,

but as a college age person, he's not really

doing, he's not like, I think that cause I spent,

and again, folks, you're probably going to hear

this. I don't know when, hopefully I can get

it edited as soon as I possibly can. As, again,

of the recording, I spent the entire weekend,

we're recording this on a Monday, I spent the

entire weekend watching the entire season. I

watched it 23 episodes, I watched 6 in one day,

7 in another, yadda yadda yadda, whatever. But

I spent the entire weekend with this last season

of this show, and as I'm watching this, I see

everyone else around Corey. living their life,

having to make difficult decisions. And I'm not

saying he doesn't make a couple of difficult

decisions. He does. But in general, I don't know.

I think the biggest, and it's not even a growth

thing. It's more of a, hey, look, kid, you got

to face the world at this point kind of thing.

I think the biggest takeaway I have from season

seven and Corey Matthews is. His fights with

his parents, his fights with his father over

asking them for help or whatever. And his father's

like, no, you're you wanted to be grown up. You

wanted to go out into the world, go out into

the world and figure it out. Not all parents

are going to be like that, obviously, but it's

one of those things. And I and I understand the

point of Mr. Allen. I understand that point of.

you know we will do as much as we can for you

but at the end of the day you eventually have

to go out on your own and there's issues too

where he's going you know you've made your bed

you get to clean it you know yep you get to lie

in it yeah absolutely uh so whereas last season

when we were talking about cory's character of

oh my god he's turned into a jerk or oh my god

he's turned into the least likable character

on the entire show. This season, it isn't even

about that. It's about that. He's stuck in, you

know, we'll, we'll, we'll get to this point later,

but he's, you know, they talk about how Corey

and Topanga as a couple are stuck in a rut and

they need to get the groove back and blah, blah,

blah, blah. And they do that whole thing where

Corey, I think as a character is stuck in a rut.

He doesn't know where to go. He doesn't. Everyone

else in this show, Topanga, she wants to go be

a lawyer. She wants to go do this. She has something

that she's going towards. Well, yeah, they all

start figuring out their aspirations, and Corey's

kind of just like, I don't know. Yeah, and I

guess technically you could say, even though

they don't show it in this show, I guess technically

you could. We didn't know this 25 years ago.

but you could say that let that finale of, okay,

Mr. Feeney, you know, call me Mr. Matthews, come

here by the fence. So your, your best advice

came here by the fence, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I guess you could technically say that he kind

of got inspired by Mr. Feeney, but that, that

doesn't even show here because nobody knew 25

years ago that. X number of years later in 2014

or 2015 or whenever it was that girl meets world

happened. And we will be going on to girl meets

world folks. We will be covering on that on this

show, obviously, but like at the time, 25 years

ago, nobody knew that was going to happen. So

like still, so looking at it in the capsule of

this show only and not looking forward to what

the future holds for the characters beyond the

end of this series. Corey is rudderless. We are

given no inclination as to what Corey... Sean,

we know. Sean wants to write for... The one episode,

the Feeney... Which episode is it? It's one of

the episodes where they end up going into 2006,

and they're having the retirement party for Mr.

Feeney, and you see the future... Corey and Topanga.

You see the future Sean. You see the future Angela.

You see future Rachel. That's the one where we

see Mr. Squirrels for the first time. Him and

his manifesto. I want you to know that I've collected

all of your articles from Rolling Stone. Oh,

thanks. Quite the world traveler, huh? Yeah,

I get around. So, is there anybody special in

your life? No, not yet. Any prospects? Not yet.

Are you happy? Not yet. Well, I really look forward

to your correspondence, Sean. Please don't stop

writing me. I won't. So, do you ever hear from

Corey Matthews? Are he and Topanga doing all

right? Why don't you ask him? He's right behind

you. Hey, Sean. Corey. How you doing? Okay. I'm

okay. How are you? I'm good. Good. Good. How

you doing, Mr. Feeney? I'm fine, Mr. Matthews.

How's the baby? You had a baby? Yeah. A couple

of months ago. A little girl. You're the father.

I am. We're, uh, we're very happy. Do you have

any pictures? I brought the pictures. It's Banga.

Angela. Hi, Sean. Long time. Yeah. So how are

you? What are you doing? I'm a writer. You're

kidding. I do freelance pieces for a bunch of

magazines. She sends them to me. I bet they're

great. Thanks. And I'm not normally one of these

grandfatherly type. grandmotherly, grandfatherly

type people that will say this, but I am so glad

Eric finally cut his fucking hair. I loved how

they did it, though. Yeah, no, no, no, how they

did it was great, but like, like, get a haircut.

This final season is just interesting. And for

me, like, I don't have, like, looking at, see,

again, for me, I relate more towards Sean, even

though Sean has siblings, half siblings, step

siblings, whatever sibling, like, even though,

you know, he has that, they're not, to me, they're

not as deep as Eric, Corey, Morgan, Joshua. The

four Matthews children, those are the core four.

brother -sister type relationships in this show.

They always go back to that kind of thing. I

always have seen Sean as the loner type of, like,

basically an only child type of character, which

I am an only child. So I guess that's another

reason why I relate more to Sean, obviously,

than I do to Corey. But yeah, so where do you

want to start with this? We're going to start

at the beginning, obviously, with. Show me the

love part one and for love and apartments part

two, what were your initial thoughts going into

this season? Well, originally, I was hoping that

they would change things up, which they did.

But I loved that. Eric cut his hair and it was

kind of reminiscent of, of the era that it was

from, you know, the frosted tips, the, the kind

of spikied, you know, hair. So it, it resonated

with me just because I did that at the time.

Not right. Obviously when the show ended, because

I wasn't in high school. Yeah. As far as I remember,

but no, I mean, This is where I liked but didn't

like Eric in a sense. I feel like they wound

all of them up. They got more dumb as the season.

More so the Matthews kids. The other ones had

more of the serious stuff going on, but Corey

and Eric had just... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If we

look at the time. So they are just graduated.

They just graduated high school at the end of

season six. They're going into college. So they're

18, 19. If you look at it at the time that the

show was made and aired and produced anywhere

from for this season specifically, I would say

anywhere from. mid 99 to early 2000. So you were

12 or 13 at the time. So you weren't even in

high school yet. I was on my way out of high

school. I graduated in 99. So you were, yeah,

but yeah, no, you're right. Absolutely. It's

like, and other than. Again, the finale, or it's

wherever the... No, it's not the finale. It's

about time. It's that episode. When they get

married. The wedding episode. Other than the

wedding episode, Morgan really doesn't do anything

this season. She's really not there. As far as

being the youngest sibling, or the... At least,

because... Joshua was just born at the end of

last season. I can't believe how, and I know

this is how this happens in television, how fast

Joshua aged up before the end of the series.

Because he was just a baby last season. And by

the end of this season, when Corey gives him

his advice, he looks like he's, I want to say,

four, five, or six. Maybe three. Maybe three,

four, or five. Because he's... Young Joshua Matthews

says maybe three words? And Topanga is one of

them. Like, that's pretty much it. He's like,

yeah, yeah, yeah, when Corey's talking to him.

And then Topanga comes out and he's like, Topanga!

It's like, that's it. I'm like, okay. So, yeah,

I would say he's between three and five years

old at the time. But, yeah, just aging up. I

like this season for showing us what they're

going through with being young and being in love.

And you still have Corey's. And I'm not saying

there's anything wrong with this. But in Corey's

case, sometimes he's a little bit too much in

love with love. His unyielding doesn't matter.

We're in love. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And he sometimes takes it overboard a little

bit. Oh, for sure. But I do like how that takes

us through. the through line of them getting

the dorm rooms. And then once they eventually

get married, they have to figure out, Oh, we

married couples can't live in the dorms. There

are married door. Like there is this whole other

subculture of a married dormitory and this, that,

and the other thing and everything else. And,

and then, yeah, just every other. character set.

Well, yeah, I would say character set, because

you have Cory and Topanga, you got Sean and Angela,

you got Jack, Eric, and Rachel. Because that's

a whole thing. So between those three character

sets, you know, you have three different perspectives

of living at college. And I didn't have any of

that. Because I didn't do the whole living at

college thing. So that was, that's always been

interesting to me of looking at it through each

of their eyes and doing that. Yeah, I mean, I

never, I didn't have, I mean, I had the college

experience, but I didn't have the living on the

dorms and all of the parties and all that stuff.

I just, I strictly worked. It went home. I didn't

have the same experience. So it didn't resonate

quite the same with me. Right. As it might have

for somebody else. Yep. So in these first two

episodes alone, we have so much. But what I liked

about the first episode was how Corey and Topanga

are having to get over couples arguments and

figure out how to be a couple. And they look

at Alan and Amy and how they can fight. and yet

still be in love. It's just a fight. It's just

a disagreement. It's not the end of the world.

You don't get divorced over the fact that somebody

forgot to do the dishes or something. Or that

somebody got you a trash compactor for your anniversary

instead of a diamond ring or whatever. So I like

that. We also, in the first two episodes, in

the second episode, we bring in Topanga's parents

and... It's nice to see them again, but they

try to get them back together again. And that's

not going to work because her dad's already moved

on to somebody else and her mom already knew

it. But they still wanted to keep everything

safe for Topanga, I guess. I don't know. And

the funny thing about that episode is they kind

of tie the whole wrestling thing into it because

Mick Foley from, at the time, WWF. Has a guest

spot and he does a whole bunch of his mankind

90s wrestling moves on Eric and Jack. Yeah. I

wasn't huge into the wrestling stuff, but at

the same time, at that point in time, I was watching

like WCW and things like that. Yeah. The third

episode is Angela's Men, which is when Mr. Moore,

Sergeant Moore, played by Julius Carey, joins

us. And this is where Angela and Sean are not

together. She is still reluctant to get back

together with Sean. And her father shows up,

and there's that whole thing. And through having

her dad there, it's revealed to us that... Even

her own mother left her just like Sean's mother

left him. And that's the interesting thing as

the Sean storyline comes to fruition throughout

the final season is that Verna isn't even his

real mom. I don't mean to laugh about it because

it is what it is, but like... Sean Hunter has

had like three or four or five different moms

or whatever it is. But like Verna, it was always

the one that Chet was chasing. Verna, that's

my wife. And, you know, we always assumed that

Verna and Chet had Sean. And I don't know if

they ever explicitly stated that they did. But

in this in this final season, they specifically

say that and we'll get to this later. But when.

A moment that happens later in this season, it

is specifically stated that Sean's mother was

just somebody that Chet met on the road. And

I guess Verna just stepped up to be what that

woman wouldn't be at the time. But in this third

episode, I love seeing Julius Carey as Sergeant

Moore. And this is the episode where... Sometimes

I love Eric in this season, and sometimes I'm

like, okay, come on. We're already past the point

of serious storyline for Eric, because once you

do the Tommy storyline, there's not really much

more deep, impactful story. I'm not saying Eric

as a character can't be deep and impactful, because

he will be. As, as we go further in this season,

but what more can you do with that character

in this series? You have, we're at third episode.

Now you've got 20 left to go and you've got all

these other characters to juggle. So I wrote

down a note here, Eric revenges Topanga. And

I'm like, Oh my God, Eric, what are you doing?

I love the fact that he gets put down by Sergeant

Moore. Yep. He's like, you are a disgrace. And

then he goes... Like, just starts laughing at

him. Yep. Matthew, sir, yes, sir! You are a disgrace

to this university, to this country, and humanity

in general! Wow. Drop and give me 20! Fine. And

then, like, you get all the goofy stuff in this

one. Yes. With Eric, which... I felt like it's

kind of a double -edged sword. Like I loved the

fact that he got to play like seriously goofy

on everything. Like you get the little character,

you know, like a Flintstones thought bubble,

you get him dressing or like being appearing

everywhere, even if he wasn't. Yeah. But most

likely was. But I mean, I think the icing on

the cake was just sneak attacking like Sergeant

Moore and then getting told he was a disgrace

and then the reaction to it. Yeah. I don't know.

I enjoyed his character in season seven, even

though it was a lot of stupidity with it. It

just added something fun to it because a lot

of the other stuff was very heavy. Yeah. And

they did kind of roll reverse giving Sean. more

of the center stage in this season, which was

nice too. Well, that's the thing as we get, and

I'm going to constantly, we're going to get to

it at the end of the podcast episode folks, because

obviously it's the finale, but when you get to

the finale of brave new world parts, one and

two brave new world parts, one and two is essentially

a one hour clip show. It's Two half hours of

television that is told in a way where everything

that came before it tells you the story of why

the things that are happening now are happening

now. Even though, as I've already said, Corey

has no consequence. There is no... forward motion

for Corey as a character as to what he's going

to do in New York, as to whatever kind of thing.

They've graduated from Pembroke University in

Pennsylvania. So he's graduated college, but

no idea as to is he going to be a fireman? Is

he going to be a teacher? Is he going to be a...

Is he going to, you know, go get into the Ecto

-1 and start busting ghosts? We don't know. And

I only say that because of New York. But it's

one of those things where, yeah, you're right.

You can take Eric and do more funny with him

because the gut -wrenching, heart -wrenching

stuff is happening with Sean. I knew as soon

as they said, there was a line that somebody

said in one, in, in, I forget, we're going to

go through down this and I'll figure it out.

But the episode where, where Blake comes back,

where Blake Clark comes back as Chet, like I

immediately knew and teared up and I'm like,

Oh no, here we go. This is the start. I mean,

he kind of already, I mean, technically it isn't

the start because it kind of already happened.

But, like, this is the start of the really real

type of stuff coming back with Sean. And it works.

In the fourth episode, we get no such thing as

a sure thing. This is the big football game of

Pembroke between Pembroke and the Amish. This

is an Eric and Jack episode. I think, to some

degree, they were running out of ideas, and then

the show just needed to end. Yeah. So there's

three things in here that I noticed. Obviously,

we all noticed this, but the shot in Angela Kissing

Marathon. How you doing? Like, you know, that

happens throughout this. Cory and Topanga make

up, and they learn some lessons. And then Jack

and Eric and the bookie and the no gambling and

none of that kind of stuff. And that's part of

Jack's character because Jack's coming from having

a rich stepfather. And that's Jack's whole trajectory

is going from being rich to being poor kind of

thing. So him being Sean's half brother, stepbrother,

whatever it is, where Sean already was poor.

his whole life jack's never been put so i kind

of like that but yeah like they're gonna be up

when you have 23 episodes in a season there are

gonna be one or two where they're like We could

probably do without this one. And episode four

really isn't that for me. Not yet. Anyway, we're

going to get to it. There is an episode in this

season that I'm like, I didn't need to watch

that at all. It has nothing to do with whatever.

Like, just no. So we get that. And then we get

to, we light up my, you light up my union, which.

Aired on October 22nd, 1999, which this was right

around the time when Will, probably when Batman

Beyond first started airing for show on Kids

WB. So he's playing Batman, he's playing Eric

at the same time. And this one, this is the Eric

and Jack one where they Mr. Feeney gets Jack

a promotion of the Pembroke Student Union and

they have to deal with money and the store and

the buying and the selling and the whatever and

he gives the money to Eric to deposit into the

bank and Eric doesn't do that and he helps the

less fortunate and then Jack does the same thing

so it's a whole It's a whole thing there. And

what I'm liking so far, five episodes into the

23 that we have here, is that so far they've

been able to juggle these storylines and have...

You got Eric, Jack, Sean, Angela, Corey, Topanga.

That's at least six, seven characters right there.

Not including Rachel, which she'll eventually...

do more with them. You've got, let's say, seven

or eight characters that you have to juggle.

I'm liking how they're putting certain ones center

stage per episode where they're not having to

fight for the spotlight of which character gets

which storyline, so you're not having to use...

You don't have to use Corey and Topanga every

episode. You can have their story be part of

the background. kind of thing, which is cool.

So, you know, there's that. What I, what I did

like about this episode was the fact that Feeney

more or less chose Eric and Jack to work together.

Yep. To rub off on each other. Yes. Because one

is like very much a people person and the other

one is very much a businessman. And so between

the two, like, He's hoping to make them more

well -rounded. And, um, yeah, it, it was just,

it was kind of interesting to see how, how it

all went down. I mean, despite the monkey situation,

get that monkey off his back. I would love that.

He'd be like, I want it. I want the monkey. It's

a compulsion. Oh, see, you went to Ace? My first

thought was Bruce Almighty. They did that on

purpose, though. I know. I mean... Yeah. It's

a capuchin. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Yep. Bruce Almighty.

Gotta love that movie. And then one of the best

episodes of the season, if not the series, They're

Killing Us. We've come to you because we have

a very big problem. And who better to come to

than you? We had no idea planning a wedding was

going to be so difficult. It's like riding a

pogo stick in a minefield. This was... directed

by i think directed by yes directed by william

ross uh written by david brownfield aired october

29th 1999 it's a documentary styled episode cory

and topanga are struggling to plan the perfect

wedding i hate this episode on so many levels

really i love this more more just because i don't

like that shot style okay I did find it humorous

in all of the shenanigans that all of the friends

and family were putting them through in planning

for the wedding. Yeah, but? But I don't like

the stuff where they talk to the camera type

thing. Yeah, it's very Big Brother. It's very

Survivor. I liked it because it's a show I had

never done before, to my knowledge. So that's

why I liked it. Especially once we got closer

to the end of this episode with how crazy Topanga

kept getting because of Eric. And at the end

of it, Corey's like, whatever, honey, just get

him. And she just goes after Eric. Oh, God. Or

like he burns the bedroom down or the dorm room.

Dorm down. Yeah. The curtains are on fire. They're

chopping up the door. My brother is a moron!

Which nobody can deny. In this episode, we have

the guest star, Megan Fay, as Judy Haberfeld.

I want to know that story. Anyone that can send

Feeny running out of a room, we need to know

that story. A little late for that one. No, I

know, obviously, but, like... I mean, obviously,

it's kind of self -explanatory, but... Well,

it's because she was romantically involved with

Phoenix. Mm -hmm. I like the fact that he lied

about doing the government stuff. Oh, that whole

scene. Oh, yeah. Do you have any idea how hard

it is... To keep a smile on your face? Under

these circumstances? Isn't it wonderful, Corey?

George and his jazz group have agreed to be the

band at your reception. For free! Consider it

my present to the bride and groom. A blender

would have been just lovely. Now, if I can just

figure out how to water down the drinks, I could

get out of this whole thing for about 70 bucks.

Georgie. Georgie Feeney, is that you? Oh, please,

no. Georgie, it's me, Judy Helperfeld. Judy Helperfeld.

Judy. Helperfeld. You know who I was going to

call? I was, but I moved out of state. Mission

for the government, espionage, all very hush

-hush. What do you got for me, chief? North Korea.

I'll be right there. But what's even funnier

is the, oh, well. Everybody I've dated has been

a part of the government. Well, that whole scene

when he does all that, when, you know, what do

you got for me, chief? When he's talking to his,

that's essentially him imitating asshole. That's

essentially him talking to his watch. That's

kit talking to like that. The voice of Kit talking

to a talking watch. Like, I mean, that's Knight

Rider right there. As Michael would say, thanks,

pal. I mean, yes, it is more government than

anything else. But when I looked at that again

this time around, I was like, hey, wait a minute.

And I think is it at the end of this one that

they ask? Is it? Yeah, it's at the end of this.

We're at the very end. We want to get married

next week. No wedding hall, no fancy planner,

just our friends and family. All the people who

care about us, right here, next Friday night,

8 o 'clock, 7 central. One question. Mr. Feeney?

You're going to go through with it this time,

aren't you? Oh, that killed me. Oh, that was

so good. So, so good. Absolutely love that. And,

uh, yeah. And then they made the whole, like,

wedding invitation on the screen. Yep. For the

next TGIF. Yep. Join us next Friday night, 8,

7 Central. That's right. That's absolutely right.

Because November 5th, 1999, it's about time.

It was kind of bad, too, though, because, like,

you were essentially teaching. the kind of bad

-ish behaviors. Mm -hmm. Which I'm sure the actors

have touched on in, you know, their pod meets

world. They haven't gotten to this point yet.

They haven't gotten to season seven. They haven't

gotten to this point in season seven yet, but

they will. But... But, I mean, like... Even some

of the innuendo in this season. Oh yeah, I'm

sure they're going to touch on all that. You

know what's sick? We've been in a relationship

for 17 years and you know what I've gotten in

all that time? Nothing. Let me touch something.

Yeah, right now their most recent episode that

they did was 6 -11, Santa's Little Helper. Well,

they did remove that line from the Disney Channel

version. Oh. And then the Bite Me was removed

as well. Well, it's not removed now. I can tell

you that. No, I mean, it's all digital. They

don't, I mean, everything goes now. Yep, I think

she deserves that dress. Bite Me! I don't know.

I just lashed out. And, you know, and again,

I will say that season six and seven of Boy Meets

World is not for kids. It's not for little people.

It's not for it's not for young people. It's

for it's for people of that age who think they

can handle Mary. Like, again, going back to Alan

talking to Corey about how to. They even go into

how Alan and Amy were 19 when they got married

and they weren't ready for it. And so they make

a comparison between Corey's parents and what

Corey and Topanga are going through. So it isn't

like Alan is just lecturing him as a parent saying,

this is what you're supposed to do. This isn't

what you're supposed to do kind of thing. So

it's teaching a lesson. It's just probably not

a lesson that. You should show your kids anytime

soon unless they're ready to actually see it.

Yeah. Which is why, thankfully, Boy Meets World

goes, the seasons of Boy Meets World go in school

age. Like, 11 to whatever, and elementary school,

middle school, high school kind of thing. You

don't have to show them all the seasons all at

once. Sean quits as the best man in this episode.

You two deserve each other. I think the best

Eric line so far. Nice legs, Feeny. That was

hilarious. We get the exchange of the vows. We

get the fact that Eric essentially stole the

wedding. I mean, you act surprised. Well, no,

it's not that I'm acting surprised. I'm stating

a fact that is like, of course he did. And I

love how they're like, what more would believe

you? Oh, that guy over there. And it's a facsimile

of himself because it's him playing a different

role as the hotel manager person. But yeah, the

J .P. Peterman wedding or whatever it is. And

I'm like, Peterman? What is this, a Seinfeld

episode? Because it reminds me of the Peterman

character from Seinfeld. So yeah, so Eric is

able to give them the wedding of their dreams,

sort of, kind of. All right, Eric, you spill

it right now. Yeah, how could you possibly arrange

all this? Oh, it was child's play. I'm picking

up the tuxes, right? Right. And I see next door

that they're setting up for this hoity -toity

Peterman wedding. Wait a minute, the disposable

diaper Petermans? Yeah, them Petermans. Their

wedding is the social event of the year. Yeah,

well, now it's not. What did you do? Well, nothing.

I just went out to the pay phone, and I called

the operator, and she said, what hotel? And I

told her, and while she was getting the number,

I looked down at the end of the receiver, and

there's some kind of schmutz on it. I'm not sure

if it was dried vomit or gum. It tasted more

like gum. Get on with it. I told them that I

was E .J. Peterman and I had to get my daughter

married sooner because she was pregnant. So drink

up, guys, because it's going to hit the fan in

about like two seconds. What kind of unbelievable

hotel moron would fall for something that stupid?

Him. All right, everybody, let's go. Shit's hit

the fan. Sean does come back and he does save

the day with bringing in the rings. They say

their vows and they do their thing and all that.

And Sean's biggest fear is that he and Corey's

friendship will change after the fact that Corey

will be married. So that's what Bug has crawled

up Sean's ass throughout the last episode and

a half. So there's that. And we kind of end this

one with the newlyweds going to the honeymoon

suite and we then go on to the vacation. The

vacation and the return from the vacation. When

you and Mary went on your honeymoon, did you

guys want to stay or were you ready to come home

after like three days? We were ready to come

home at about five. Yeah. Honeymoons never last.

They aren't supposed to. And this is the episode,

season seven, episode eight. The Honeymooners.

The Honeymooners. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Eric is completely

off the chain. He's off his rocker completely.

He is stalking them. He is... Eric, you fool.

You nut. What I do like is that at least as we

get through the rest of this half of the season

is that Corey is a little less unhinged now that

he finally got what he wanted after all this

time. unfortunately or fortunately however you

want to look at that but yeah it was nice seeing

them outside of the philadelphia area it was

nice seeing them outside of the college area

kind of thing nice seeing them in paradise in

in hawaii and let's see we get the return home

they have to they have to this is where i was

talking about alan basically telling Corey, no,

look, you made your bed and you lie in it because

Alan convinces Amy to not let them move in. They

have to figure this out because, as I said earlier,

they can't stay in the regular dorms. They have

to go to the married dorms, which is not, like,

they make it, like, I understand when you're

a newlywed couple that things might be rough,

but even in Philadelphia, could things be that

rough? Because they make it seem like they've

become Sean Hunter. It seems like they've moved

to the complete opposite side. I feel like the

story narrative is that all the single people

or the dating people like Sean and Angela or

Jack and Rachel who are just dating each other

and living in dorms on campus. versus the actual

married people. It seems like, I don't know,

that living situation seems so very light and

dark side kind of thing to me. Like, I understand

people struggle, and I understand people have

to make things, you know, we've all struggled,

we've all had to live in places we didn't want

to live in the best of it, and we've all had

to, you know, grow up kind of thing, but I don't

know, it seems like that commentary is a little

too... On the nose, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I

can see that. I don't know. So yeah, that's that

episode. And then we get episode 10, which is

Picket Fences. They are still looking for a better

living situation than the married dorm. And this

is where Corey meets a realtor. And this is where

they go house hunting for stuff that they can't

afford. And this is where, again, Corey goes

to his parents asking for help. The parents aren't

going to help them. And Topanga even says, why

would you even show us this if we can't afford

it? If we can't do this, we can't do it. And

the whole thing of having your parents co -sign,

I mean, I know people have done that in the past

and whatever else, and that sometimes works.

But the way that contract was worded was that

if they don't pay the mortgage on their house,

where they were going to be living that they

would then the realty people would then take

the Matthews house. I can understand why Amy

and Alan, we're not going to sign that contract

as co -signers. Oh, for sure. Like I, that's

not, I love my kids, but I would not do that.

It's like, you need to make sure you can afford

to live where you're going to live. Yep. Absolutely.

Any thoughts so far as we get to almost the end

of the first half of the seventh season here?

I mean, I could relate to being dirt poor and

eating minuscule amount of stuff and trying to

get people to go to your house. All of which

were difficult. I do feel like this show, though,

even in this part, yeah, we learned a lot of

the schooling. and different phases of their

life. But we're also seeing, you know, like them

touch on married life and that it's not as glamorous

as they make it, you know, seem in the movies,

which is good. I mean, it is good. It's just

the, the fact that they're not sugarcoating the

difficult parts that come along with it. Yeah,

absolutely. And then we get the episode that

I could do without. You could take this season

and take episode 11 and just throw it out the

window and not like this could go from picket

fences to family trees and it would be fine because

episode 11 is just like, really? Seriously? Like

every other episode on my script here, I have

at least four to seven. Notes written down in

this episode. One note. Boring. Like, I didn't

write anything down about this. What a drag.

After Eric and Jack rat out a campus goon before

he commits a crime, the cops are forced to let

him go because the crime was not committed. After

this, he vows to get revenge on Jack and Eric

for ratting him out. Fearful, Eric disguises

himself as an ugly woman. and eventually convinces

Jack to do the same in order to protect themselves.

Eric is ugly, but Jack is found attractive by

many men, including the campus goon that they've

ratted out. The goon, Luther, hits on Jack, but

is completely oblivious to Eric. This is just,

oh god, just painful. Honestly, take out that

whole part of this episode. The best part of

this episode, meanwhile, Topanga is struggling

to accept Corey's redecorating for their dorm

room after he paints the whole room yellow after

buying every ounce of yellow paint from the closing

store, Cork World. God, Corey. They get where

his brain's going. Like, ooh, cheap. But it's

like, right now you have to consult. Yeah, huh?

Yep. You have to do that together. And this is

where they promise to never keep secrets from

each other and promise to tell each other everything,

although it may hurt. Yeah, that whole part of

this episode is great. The rest of this, the

Eric and Jack stuff, get rid of it. I could do

without that. Because the funny thing is, is

that... It reminded me of an episode earlier

in the series, which was a much better episode

because it was actually showing you a perspective

of life versus making a joke out of what a drag

is basically chick like me, except what a drag

is Eric and Jack trying to get out of being.

caught by the bully that they ratted out. Whereas

Chick Like Me was actually trying to make a statement

from all those seasons ago. I don't know. And

we get to the halfway point here, folks. Episode

12 of Season 7, Family Trees. Directed by Fred

Savage. Written by Matthew Nelson. With Corey,

Amy, and Morgan stressed out over the annual

stress of planning Alan's birthday party, Eric

takes over and decides to plan Alan's party.

Sean later arrives at the Matthews residence

together with a letter that he has received from

his mother, Verna, who ran away three years prior.

Wait, she ran away three years prior? I thought

she ran away a lot longer than that. This is

where Corey is reluctant to let Sean open the

letter, etc., etc., etc. So this sends Sean and

Jack on a search for Sean's mother, and this

brings them across a woman named Elaine, whom,

like Verna, doesn't want to be found. Heard about

this, Sean pushes his friends away. Meanwhile,

Alan is sulking due to no one remembering or

celebrating his birthday, and then the entire

family, including Angela, Rachel, and Jack, surprise

him along with Eric, whom Amy planned to use

as baits to lure Alan. After the surprise, Sean

arrives drunk, unfortunately, and Alan attempts

to talk to him and promises to be his father.

And at the end of this, we get Chet coming back,

and this is where we get the story of how Sean's

biological mother... I do think it's funny, though,

that Chet continues to show up as a ghost. Mm

-hmm. And he's like, no, I didn't say that, you

bum. You know? Yeah. Yeah, this was a good one.

This was... I really liked this. What possible

reason could a father have not to tell his boy

who his mom is? Maybe the father was trying to

protect the boy. Hey, thanks for planting those

flowers there. You keep the place real nice and

pretty for all my many visitors. Why didn't you

tell me who my mom was? Your mother's burner?

No, the woman who gave birth to me. Oh, her.

Ah, she took off. When you were born, I said,

Honey, it's a... Honey? Hey, but don't blame

her, son. She wasn't really the mother type.

She was more, how can I put this delicately,

a stripper. My mom was a stripper? The best.

Did you love her? I did. I did love her. Wasn't

enough to hold her, though. Well, neither was

I, I guess. Wasn't enough to hold her. Wasn't

enough to hold Verna? No. You were adorable.

You had that little butt that Verna loved to

powder. Women did not find my butt adorable,

however. They kicked it around pretty good during

my life. Truth is, you had a lousy mother. And

a lousy father. You come from a long line of

lousy boys. Yeah, I know. You got dealt a bad

hand, son. I'm sorry about it. They offer to

adopt him, but he can't accept that. But he is

still always going to be a member of the family.

He also says, thank you to Alan for being the

father figure. And Sean asks Alan to yell at

him and treat him like the way he treats Eric

and Corey. And Alan later does this. to make

Sean feel that he really is a part of the Matthews

family. Again, I mention this sometimes in our

shows, folks, whether it's this show or other

shows. If Boy Meets World was being made today,

this would be, well, they would probably try

to do it earlier than this, but I feel like this

would be an amazing mid -season finale. Oh, for

sure. Going out with this episode. for the summer

break or the fall break or the Christmas break,

leaving it on this note, this would be amazing.

12 episodes in out of 23, and outside of episode

4, that one I can kind of give a pass to, but

outside of that and episode 11... These episodes

have all been really great. They've been really

solid. They're almost all episodes I would go

back and rewatch at different times in the future.

Any final thoughts on the first half of Season

7 before I send it to an ad break, sir? Uh, nope.

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right after this. You know, the Matthews offered

to adopt me. Whoa. I know. That sounds like a

sweet deal. What are you talking about? It doesn't

get any better than the Matthews. You'd be trading

way up on that one. Come on, you're my father.

I'm dead. Look, take it from your dead dad. Become

a Matthews. Put it to bed. You know, I always

thought you were the black sheep of the family.

I was. No, you weren't. You stayed. You raised

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friends. I even have someone who loves me. Hold

on to her. I will. Just like I'm holding on to

you. Why would you want to do that? Because I'm

proud of you. You're the one who started to turn

this family around. You're proud of me? I couldn't

be prouder. I tried to tell you at the hospital.

Well, I couldn't really hear you. You know, I

was going, oh, oh, oh. for being my father. You

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Podcaster Meets World. This is the series finale

for Boy Meets World. This is season seven of

that show 25 years ago. Boy Meets World ended

in May of 2000. And we are going to continue

on with season seven this time around, episode

13. And this is the episode. where eric gets

a lucky penny this is the provider uh cory is

enthusiastic about his new job what the hell

was his okay yeah i know i watched this whole

episode this whole season in a week what the

hell was his new job what did he do i don't know

prior to this i know In this one, he's selling

magazine subscriptions and he's buying the crap

out of them. Yeah, that's what it is. He's even

buying them. Yeah, that's what it is. I feel

like it did get a lot more wacky though, especially

when Eric's concerned. I mean, we've already

seen multiple him pulling off the wig and him

going off the deep end with the monkey and then

him going and having the drag and then the...

The episode where he's kind of appearing all

over the place. And this one, he gets hit by

lightning. Yeah, this is the one that I remember

the most. Because I didn't remember why he...

The whole Lucky Penny thing completely slipped

my mind. But that scene of him being hit by...

Eric Matthews being hit by the lightning. I remember

that all the time. Well, and it's funny because

he's like, Ooh, my Lucky Penny! And then you

see him get scorched by the end of the episode.

Yep. Eric and the Lucky Penny. And this episode,

I mean, the title says it all, The Provider,

directed by Lynn McCracken, written by Jeff Manal.

You know, Corey has this new job with the magazine.

Topanga goes out and gets a better job. So it's

this whole thing of the married couple. Who's

the provider? Who's the better provider? That's

not the point of being a married couple, of being

in love, of being a team. Yeah. And that's, and

that's the thing that I love that you brought

up is because I know people that separate their

finances as a married couple. And it's like,

no, I mean, what happens to one happens to both.

I mean, you should be pulling your money and

working together. Like there are times where,

you know, I make more than my wife and there

are times where she makes more than me and I

don't care because the bills are paid. we're

able to live. It doesn't honestly matter to me.

I would prefer to just have what I need, have

my bills paid, have my food, have the luxuries.

I would rather have that than be going, well,

you can't spend anything because you didn't make

more money this month. It's like, can we afford

it? as a couple yes okay then we'd go for it

if not then yeah but yeah I I find these these

types of conversations humorous because really

it kind of boils down to the fact that they weren't

really ready to get married no they weren't at

all they didn't understand what what it takes

and so that's that's why it's kind of funny um

but but i mean they do learn how to get over

it by the end of the episode yeah they learn

how to get through it together that's the point

is that and not accusing yeah exactly you know

you as an individual mary as an individual can

you both could get through life fine on your

own i'm sure but because you all have been together

for as long as 18 19 20 years almost yep hey

i was right yep uh -huh uh you know 19 years

now i gotta now i gotta calculate this okay well

while you're calculating yeah so the point is

though like 22 years i've been 22 there you go

married for 16 there you go That's the point

of finding someone, falling in love with someone

and living life with doing life with someone

else is that you live life together and you experience

things together as a team and you learn lessons

as you go through. As you said, you're not arguing

over, you know, dishes or you're not getting

divorced over laundry or. whatever you're figuring

it out you're going through this and yeah you're

kind of right where this was obviously way too

young to like nobody should get married at at

20 19 20 20 whatever yada yada yada yada at least

not in this day and age you know it is what it

is It sometimes happens, and as long as the people

are willing to learn and grow and grow as individuals

and grow as a couple, then, hey, you know, this

was such a good episode. And that's what I like

about television shows like this, who, even though

some of the lessons are, they might seem a little

bit too dramatic, but deep down at the heart

of them, they're really trying to show you. hey,

look, it doesn't matter at the end of the day.

It doesn't matter what kind of job you have or

what kind of job your wife has or whatever. It's

like as long as you're each providing for the

other, as long as you're living the life that

you're living together, as long as you're getting

through it together, that's all that really matters.

Totally. Yep. Now we get Eric, Dad, and the Wilderness

Store. Now, the title of this episode, episode,

season 7, episode 14, I'm Gonna Be Like You,

Dad. I swear to God, it reminds me of the cat

in the cradle. I'm gonna be like you, son. Uh

-huh, uh -huh, uh -huh, uh -huh, yeah. I'm like,

okay, I'm sure they made this title up somewhere,

somehow, but there are plenty of times where

I've come up with podcast titles or other titles

where it's... A lyric from a song or this from

a song or something from something to homage

something. And I swear, every time I've read

that title in the last three weeks, I'm like,

freaking song. So Eric wants to work for Alan.

Amy eventually convinces him otherwise. Oh, no.

No, no, no, that's not what it is. Alan refuses

to let Eric work for him, but Amy eventually

convinces him. Alan's point of view of Eric changes

after his amazing performance at work. Alan then

is relieved that Eric has done so well and will

not have to go into the real world and get disappointed.

Thoughts? No, I kind of like the idea that he

does work for him. However, it has its pitfalls

because it's Eric. Mm hmm. Yep. It does. Funny

that you mentioned the cats in the cradle. Mm

hmm. Yeah. Title episode does actually borrow

from it. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. I kind

of like the idea that he works for him. Yeah.

My it's funny because even like my son, he's

like, I want to create a zoo. I want to own it.

Blah, blah, blah. And he's like, and you're going

to work for me and do marketing. And I'm like,

oh, I am, am I? You know, but I mean, I think

that that would be a cool experience. Like I've

gotten the opportunities to work with Mary over

the years. And so like working with, you know,

my kid would be kind of a cool way to kind of

just retire, wind down type thing. Yeah. And

you could provide all the animals. Yeah, I can

do all the animal sounds. For the marketing.

That's right. Episode 14 was, again, such a great...

That's the coolest thing about Season 7 is that

Eric goes in so many different directions. You

don't know where he's going to end up. You just

know he's going to end up somewhere. And you

know that he's going to end up better off than

where he came from. They even mention... I don't

know if it's in this one or if it's in a later

episode about how back in high school, he wanted

to be a weatherman or wanted to do this or wanted

to do that, whatever. You know, Eric is not rudderless.

Eric is not directionless. Eric has a multitude

of directions that he could go. Eric just doesn't

know what direction he wants to go in. And right

now, at this point of episode 14 of season 7,

he wants to work with his dad. And I think that's

really cool. And then I'm just going to combine

episodes 15 and 16, because they're essentially

part 1 and part 2, but... The War and Seven the

Hard Way. Big ol' prank war. Directed by William

Russ. Part 1 is written by Alan M. Gibson. Part

2 is written by David Brownfield. This is the

episodes that everyone remembers from Season

7. I loved this episode. I always love these

two episodes. These are some of the best, yeah.

Well, I love the prank war, and I love the fact

that they smuggled an entire Volkswagen into

her room. Yep. Without her noticing. Yep. Get

out! Can she do that? I just did. Goodbye. Well,

I am shocked and dismayed. Well, now you can't

be both. You be shocked, I'll be dismayed. Wifey,

we're leaving. Walk behind me. I'm staying. You

hear that, shocked? She's staying. You are going

to be sorry, homewrecker. Oh, yeah. Uh -oh, what?

Trust me. Rachel, I've known Corey and Sean longer

than you have. You do not want to make them upset.

Oh, I'm not scared of them. Well, maybe you should

be. They're maniacs. But it's funny because Feeney

even is laughing. When she complains to Feeney,

you know, he just congratulates Corey and Sean.

Yep. Because he knows them and he's known them

forever. And he's like, how did you do that?

But it's funny because Feeney's more or less

on Corey and Sean's side. Yeah. But the only

thing is, is that they do end up pushing the

envelope too far. Yes, they do. They find a scantily

clad photo of Rachel that she had taken for Jack

when they were dating and they blow it up. And

yeah, that goes a little too far. And this is

after... So it's split into two teams. It's the...

How did Jack put it? The lifelongers and the

newbies or whatever Jack said. Basically, it's

Corey, Sean, and Topanga. And then there's Angela,

Jack, and Rachel. And then Eric is the spy. Well,

and he's... Well, he... decided to be the spy

because neither team wanted him wanted him yeah

exactly which is is hurt feelings all around

from from everybody and that's the that's the

great thing again you know you go from a bunch

of married couple episodes or a coupling episodes

of various couples and then you go into this

whole friendship thing of are we friends or this

friends are we this kind of friend are we that

kind of friend And you just have these, you know,

amazing, amazing things. And it's just so cool.

It's just so fun. And, yeah, so when we get to

Seven the Hard Way, Mr. Feeney and Eric lock

the gang in the classroom until they reconcile.

Then I love the fact that in the next episode

that, you know, if they don't work it out, what

happens? Yeah, this is where the future of 2006

and Mr. Feeney's retirement happens. This is

where Mr. Squirrels, Mr. Playswith, comes in

with his manifesto. What is this power you have

over me? I don't know. Here, read this. What

is this? It's me manifesto. All of us hermits

have one. The Secret of Life by Plays of Squirrels.

Okay, everybody, I've got the secret of life

here, if you want to know. Fine! Fine! Oh, I

can't do it anymore. Mr. Matthews? Mr. Squirrels.

Eric? It's funny because they portray Eric as

this bumbling idiot. And he really is highly

intelligent. Yeah. He just puts a facade over

it to make it easier to cope when things don't

go his way. Absolutely. And at the end of the

day, the manifesto just has, you know, it's this

giant... looking like 3 ,000 -year -old Bible

book. It has one thing written on the first page.

Lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself.

So when it cuts back to the present, Feeney keeps

everyone locked in the classroom while Eric chases

after Rachel. Eric then reads his quote, the

gang is moved, and then decides to resolve their

differences. And they do, for the most part.

And yeah, I've always loved The Prank War and

Seven the Hard Way. They've always been two of

the best episodes of the series. I also love

the fact that they foreshadowed Eric later. Yep.

Even though it didn't mean that it would show

up that way. Yeah, absolutely. And even Sean

looked pretty much the same in Girl Meets World.

Yeah. I love the intentionality of it and how

they, they kept the continuity through girl meets

world with these characters. Even Eric mixing

up the words between niece and Nietzsche. Yes.

Nietzsche. I loved the plays with squirrels thing

though. Yeah. That, that, and then when the callback

happened in girl meets world, that was just icing

on the cake. Like I, but I, I've always liked

Wilfred L. Oh yeah. Between Batman Beyond and

this, like this was, I mean, yes, he started

out pretty normal and then got goofier as time

went on. I mean, that's also age and stretching,

you know, your legs to, you know, what, what

you want to do kind of thing. But yeah, I, I

loved that the most profound statement comes

out of his mouth compared to any of the rest.

making him very much a main character, you know,

that had the right to play among the rest of

them, even though he kind of was a main character,

but he was kind of like a secondary main character

to, you know, Corey Topanga and Sean. Yeah. Well,

that's the thing. What they did was, I haven't

really talked about this, but they kind of, I

forget if it was at the end of season five or

the beginning of season six over on pod meets

world where Danielle Fisher, Ryder strong and

Wilfred L are actually going through their own

television show and discussing it themselves.

They've discussed the fact that during the show,

they aligned Eric more, even though he's older,

he's older brother at season one. He season one,

two, and three, he and Corey are so far apart,

but by the time season four and five roll around,

they rolled their ages closer ish together because

Eric and Corey are like, literally they're graduating

the same damn year. I don't know if that's because

they're aging Corey up or if that's because they're

holding Eric back because Eric didn't, but they

couldn't have been holding Eric back. I think

Eric didn't really go to college, though, completely.

I think he took classes here or there, and he

was a night cop. He had all kinds of different

jobs. So I think that until Corey decided to

go to college, I mean, one, he didn't get in

initially. Right. But two, he decided he wanted

to do something with his life about the same

time Corey did. I can buy that. Because by the

time they say that they're graduating, all of

them, including Eric, are graduating college.

So, yeah. Look, folks, at the end of the day,

it's television. We'll never know. But it is

what it is. And then we get, she's having my

baby back ribs. Baby back, baby back, baby back

ribs. Chili's baby back ribs. Sorry. These episode

titles. It is what it is. Hey, at least they're

having original titles instead of girl meets

X, Y, and Z. I mean, if you could not get more

unoriginal. We're going to get into that down

the line. These at least are playing on commercials

or songs or something related to it, but they're

not like boy meets. Mr. Squirrel's boy meets

the prankster. The whole way around it, it's

just, yeah. 2014 was a lot different than the

1990s. The 90s, we had originality. Oh, boy.

In some degree. And I know people are going to

be like, Oh, not everything is, you know, it's

not original. It's, it's still remake of something.

And it's like, yeah, I realize that, but they

at least thought outside the box for like titling.

Yeah. But yeah, this episode, we end up with

all kinds of, you know, stuff with, you know,

rumor mills playing telephone and yeah, all kinds

of stuff. So the basis of this is both. both

Topanga and Eric, a Topanga and Eric episode

where they're not trying to one up each other

or trying to joke with each other. But basically

Topanga feels ashamed of herself after Jack brags

about his 6 % body fat. But Eric also has the

same issue of, right. Has the same issues about,

you know, this and anything. And I love him shoving

that whole piece of pizza in his mouth. Yes.

And then just making it disappear. That was like,

when I was younger, I was like, that is a goal.

No, that is not a goal. Like shoving a whole

piece of pizza in my mouth. No, no, no. Makes

me hungry for pizza. Nope. Nope, nope, nope.

But again, they see this in each other and they,

you know. They then want to swear secretly to

diet, and that's the secret, is that they're

dieting. That secret then gets translated through

rumors and innuendo and everything else that

Topanga is pregnant. And this is episode 17.

This is 16 episodes into their marriage kind

of thing. It's like, oh. Okay. I do like the

fact that the only reason Eric called her fat

was to get the pizza. Mm -hmm. Yeah. He just

wanted the food. He was just like, give me your

food. Yep. And then she's like, no. And he's

like, you're fat. Give me your food. Which is

horrible. Yeah, it's very bad. It's very bad.

But again, it's played up. Yeah, they played

it up. But I mean, everybody's kind of. Envying

each other. Yeah. Instead of just being comfortable

on their own skin. Yep. And the constant thing

at this episode forward, because we actually

see this person in this episode, but from this

episode forward, the constant quote unquote joke

of the ghost of Nanabubu. Is Nanabubu dead? No,

she's not. Like, come on, people. But Peggy Miley

plays Lana Boo Boo, who is Amy's mother. So we've

now seen My Grandma Was a Rolling Stone, played

by Rue McClanahan, which is Alan's mother, years

and years ago in the later seasons. And we now

get to see Amy's mother here in this episode.

So they finally reveal that they're just dieting

and... everything else and and the gang then

goes on and tells each other problems parents

or you know this that and the other thing and

the whole point at the end of the day for that

and this is something i've i've long said for

years is that we are all uniquely ourselves we

all have unique and different ways of approaching

things We all have, like, look, folks, you can

see an image of Steve and I when we met in person

back in 2017. I'm old and fat, and he's old and

skinny. Like, huge difference between Steve and

I. You know, it's funny. You're taller, too.

By what? Like, two inches? What is your height?

6 '1". Yeah, I'm 5 '9". Yeah, so, but what's

so funny is I've been meaning to... I've been

meaning to put this on YouTube because I'm trying

to clear out old videos. There's the video of

you helping me at my wedding at the time. And

Karen's cousin Ross filmed us coming out of the

whatever room we were in. And I looked back at

you. You said something to me. And I said, look,

I can hit you with my left arm. Don't make me

hit you with my right arm, which is my sir Paul's

arm. I said, that one's going to hurt you more

than. The left one is just a funny clip that

I played. It's just one of those. Yeah, I remember

you saying that to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And

then I know that I tried to dodge. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Dodge, parry, thrust. With my trusty quarterstaff.

Actually, it's a buck and a quarter quarterstaff,

but I'm not telling him that. Ho, ha, ha, guard,

turn, parry, dodge, slip, ha, thrust. Oh, boy.

But the point is, folks, is that everyone has

their unique parts of themselves. Not everyone

is going to have 6 % body fat. Not everyone can

live up to it. Look at Jack. Let's explore Jack

for just half of a second. I don't want to say

neuroses, but I'll use that. The mentality you

have to use to... To want to keep that up consistently?

That would drive me nuts. I mean, there's a difference

in eating healthy and staying healthy and being

healthy and being obsessed with having 6 % body

fat. There's a huge difference in those two things.

And my biggest point is, as it said in the description

there, about how the friends all compare their...

their own differences and strengths and weaknesses

to each other is that we're all different. Every

single human on this planet is different. No

one is the same. No one should ever be the same

because if we were all the same, we'd all be

boring. No one wants a bunch of robots, folks.

So we get to episode 18, how Corey and Topanga

got their groove back. Now, do you know where

that title comes from? How Stella got her groove

back? Yeah, that's right. I don't even think

I saw. I don't even remember if I even seen that

movie. I just remember seeing that. I've never

even seen it. I just I'm aware of it. Yeah. But

basically, this is the introduction to even though

we've kind of already seen it of it's the old

joke. And we will see this in future flashbacks

of they want you to take the roles. Huh? Like.

Old Man Cory and Old Man Sean, this is the beginning

of Old Man Cory. Really. In this episode. While

Cory and Topanga are excited for their favorite

investigative show, 60 Minutes and 2020, all

their other friends are going out partying. Sean

then unintentionally insults Topanga after he

says that partying is not their thing. Topanga

takes that insult to heart and vows to Cory that

Just because they are married does not mean that

they are boring. And then he doesn't wholeheartedly

support the idea to prove that they're not boring,

but goes along with her plan just to please her.

Corey then plans to throw a fun party. Corey

can't plan parties. Don't ever. Corey Matthews

is the worst party planner in the world. Never

hire that guy. No, no. And just, just. They finally

get into it, even though he takes back all the

invitations and tells people not to come, which,

of course, if you tell people not to come, what

are they going to do? They're not going to come

to your damn party. But Topanga cooks quiche

and makes other things and everything else, and

they all, including Dervin, which Dervin, oh,

God, that, where's the nearest elevator shaft

for that character? Seriously. Oh, boy. Mister

talks to himself in the third person. So they

fight, they make up. Sean and Angela and everybody

see that they, well, not everyone sees, just

Sean sees, I think, that they're making out and

making up and whatever else. They're like, oh,

let's just go back to Dervin's party. Meanwhile,

Eric gets a bump on the head and he now has telepathetic

powers telepathetic that's right telepathetic

because Eric is telepathetic and for half a second

I should have remembered this but for half a

second they almost got me at the end of this

with that New York lottery I was like oh that's

right they did the New York lottery first you

bastards forgot they did the Pennsylvania one

later after Eric already ate the numbers they

could have been millionaires Oh, boy. But there's

not. No, there's not. Yeah, I really dug this.

I thought this was great. I thought this was

so fun. Any thoughts on Episode 18 for you, sir?

No. I did like the telepathetic thing, but...

Episode 19 of Season 7 is all you, because I'm

an only child. Episode 19 is Brotherly Shove,

and it's all about the Matthews boys cleaning

out the garage and Corey not telling Eric. Oh,

boy. So, episode 19. While on vacation, Amy and

Alan order... clean out the garage together.

However, Corey decides to clean out the garage

with Sean and Topanga instead. Eric arrives and

is heartbroken because Alan had asked them to

do it together, and he feels that Sean and Topanga

are more important to Corey than he is. Corey

then attempts to apologize and brotherly blah

blah blah. So, take it away. Have you had to

clean out any garages lately? No, actually, I

haven't other than my own. I mean, we never really

my family. I mean, my brothers are mostly going

to have to deal with cleaning out my parents

stuff because I mean, I'm here in Colorado over

a thousand miles away. Yeah. But I mean. I don't

necessarily like there are some things I would

keep for like keepsakes purposes from, you know,

my grandparents or my both my. you know, my parents,

but I mean, for the most part, I don't need a

whole lot of stuff. And a lot of the stuff they

do have, I mean, a lot of it wouldn't, it wouldn't

care about keeping like, I mean, some of the,

you know, my family, my grandparents make like

paintings or, you know, a model railroad system

or something. So like those things are of interest

to me from them. And then, you know, stuff from

my mom, like she's done. some different like

different things that that i could probably keep

but for the most part i mean i don't yeah there

are memories of stuff but i don't necessarily

need to have the original items to remember the

the good times of it like i mean i have modern

day replicas of a lot of my beast wars figures

and star trek and and various other characters

and I don't need the originals to remember the

fun I had with them. I just, I mean, I have photos

of some stuff and that's, you know, that's some

stuff I would keep or, you know, from my family

or, you know, the genealogy stuff. But I mean,

for the most part, like there's not a lot I would

worry about keeping and it wouldn't bother me

if my family went through it. If I kind of was

like, Hey, I'm looking for these key items, but

I don't necessarily need to be there to deal

with it. Whereas, like, in this episode, they're

both combating it because, you know, Corey is

just getting a head start and Eric wanted to

be part of it and they didn't ask each other.

And then they, you know, they had a lot of duking

it out back and forth and fighting like younger

kids would under the same roof. But they ultimately,

like, their bond is, you know, the fact that,

yeah, they're going to disagree. They're not

the same as when they were younger. However,

they will have each other's back. Yeah, during

that explosive garage sale, because yikes. I

did not remember that part of this episode. Of

course, I haven't seen this episode a lot in

the last 25 years, almost 30 years. But I did

not remember about Corey getting uppity with

the lady, getting antsy with the lady, because

she was trying to ask him a question. It wasn't

anything against her. It was more his own fault

because he was more so caught up in the emotions

with Eric. But the fact that her husband comes

over, oh boy, I was not expecting that at all.

Didn't even remember that that happened. And

then we get episode 20. Episode 20 is very similar

to other episodes that the show has done. Where

it's a... It starts off as a normal episode where

Topanga gets a fight due to Topanga's constant

studying. And Corey attempts to get Topanga to

let loose a little bit. And then it turns into

this whole back in time thing. Because there's

this mystical temporal door in their closet kind

of episode type of thing. The episode's called

As Time Goes By. And I gotta say, out of all

the episodes that they've done like this, I think

this is the one I liked the most. But at the

end of the day, this doesn't really add anything

to the end of the series, especially since we

are, you know, this is the fourth of the final

three episodes, kind of the fourth to the last

episode. I think they just kind of pigeonholed

themselves into a place where they didn't really

have any way to go do anything strange. And so

they were like, yeah, let's just put a time continuum

in there and, you know, have them go back in

time. But, I mean, it was an interesting episode.

I don't need it. Yeah. Like I said, out of all

the ones they've done, this one I liked the most

because it's basically opposite the traditional

characters. It's Rory instead of Corey, and Rory

is the villain, and blah, blah, blah, or it's

this, or it's that, or it's whatever, and Feeny

with a fez, and yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda.

We get the penultimate episode, or the... I've

never heard of this word. I've heard of the ultimate

episode, the penultimate episode, second to last,

and last episode, but the anti -penultimate episode?

I've never heard of... At all, whatsoever, but

Angela's Man, Angela's Ashes, directed by Fred

Savage, written by Carlos Aragon, aired April

28, 2000. Sean is excited when Angela's military,

Alvin Moore, comes to visit. Sean's happiness

is then destroyed and crumbled once Sergeant

Moore confides in him about his reassignment

to Europe and his plan to take Angela with him.

And then this takes them down a whole thing.

And then Corey's like, oh, have faith. And Angela

will choose to stay with Sean rather than go

with her father. That's not exactly what happens

and everything else and all that. So, yeah, I

really, again, the final three episodes of the

series were much, like I said, the final episode

of the series that is not a clip show is about

Sean more than Corey. Which is great. And then,

you know, Sean has to has to let her go, which

I thought was was a good growth thing on on his

on his on his part. And the interesting thing

is this is in in this episode is where Topanga

goes for the Brown Elliott internship in New

York City. So this is where we see that Topanga

is going forward. Corey's standing still, which

I could see any thought. Well, I like the Eric

doll. It seems like in this episode that Corey,

he kind of has calmed down. And then by the end

of the episode, because he like, again, he's

not doing anything. I don't know what Corey Matthews

is doing in the end of this show. He's not doing

a damn thing. He's okay. Yeah. They were selling

magazines together over the. Okay, sure, fine,

great. That's great. They were telemarketers

together. Fine, whatever. That's a job. It is

what it is. But as far as his education, as far

as, like, I don't even think we find out what

major Corey was in college for. I don't think

that's ever said. And if I need to go back and

do a bunch of research and a bunch of different

Wikipedia pages and put in an edit point and

correct myself, I will. Like, there's no major

for Corey whatsoever. Literally, Topanga tries

out for a Brown -Elliott internship in New York

City. She's going to be a lawyer. He didn't even

notice this. And by the end of this episode,

he's spinning out of control because of the change.

And look, folks, y 'all know, if you've been

listening to any of our podcasts over the last

16 years, I don't do well with change, but I

eventually roll with the changes and just keep

on going and I figure it out. But I do better

with change than Corey does because he just freaks

out and doesn't know what to do. Yeah, I don't

know if they ever mentioned what he majored in.

I don't think they ever. I think they spent more

time like just trying to, I don't know, move

the overall plot. Yeah. The timeline along. Yeah,

I don't think they ever mentioned. anything with

Corey as far as what he wanted to do in Boy Meets

World. Obviously, you know, we kind of have,

when we get to Girl Meets World, we kind of have

the, oh, Mr. Feeney was such a big inspiration

on me. I want to educate people. I want to be

like Mr. Feeney. And that's the way for Girl

Meets World to be a show and blah, blah, blah.

And that's fine. But this is the end of this

show as we move into episodes 22 and 23, which

I'm just going to talk about as one long thing.

Give me your hand. Why? I want to see if our

energies converge. You're not going to, like,

kiss me now, are you? Would it be your first

kiss? You shouldn't kiss somebody you're not

married to. Hmm. Yeah. I would have to feel I

really knew the person. And that I liked him.

Good. Good. Both directed by Jeff McCracken and

written by Matthew Nelson. 22 has guest stars

including Anthony Tyler Quinn as Mr. Turner,

Alex Dessert, as Eli Williams, guest stars Blake

Clark as Chet, Julius Carey as Sergeant Moore,

and more, and other people. Angela is not in

this episode, in part one here. But basically,

it's, you know, Corey is constantly pondering

whether he and Tamanga should move to New York

or not. He has several flashbacks from their

youth, including the time when she pushed him

against the lockers. And again, we have Jack

struggling with his stepfather not giving money,

decides to join the Peace Corps. So even Jack

makes a decision. So his stepfather cut him off.

He's got to do some sort of life choice. He makes

it. And I love Sean's line where Topanga returns

and she says something about not going to New

York City. And Corey turns over and says, Sean,

nothing's going to change. Like, you know, she

didn't mean a word. She said, I know, but will

you at least follow me along and, you know, trick

me into fooling myself? And they do the whole

dance thing that. That they've done since season

one. Yeah. But they really haven't done. Yeah,

no, they haven't done it. But like, again, the

whole thing of, you know, they. So he goes to

Mr. Feeney and he feels that I could turn the

internet down. Because of him, which it's not

about you, Corey, Mr. Feeney then tells Corey

that maybe Topanga didn't turn down the internship

because of him. Unbeknownst to Corey, Topanga

and Mr. Feeney had already had a talk about this

prior to their current conversation. And Feeney

tells him not to stop Topanga from thriving,

because if he does this, she might stop growing

as a person. Corey listens to Feeney's advice

and decides to go to New York with Topanga. And,

yeah, so... They're off gambling in New York.

Amy is not supportive of their idea to... Panicking

about their plan, however... Her worries soon

fade after Alan tells her that Eric plans to

move with them. She's going, I love that. Amy's

like, my baby, my Corey, my this, my that. Oh,

yeah, Eric's going with them, too. Oh, Eric's

going? Okay, cool. Just, again, showing the fact

that they're more worried about the middle child

than the oldest child. I mean, that does happen.

You would know more than I would. So Rachel and

Jack plan to join the Peace Corps. Eric decides

to get a fresh start in New York. Topanga then

tells him not to change and that she loves him

for who he is. Eric then bids goodbye to Jack

and Rachel. And minutes before their departure,

Topanga decides to tell Corey and Sean that Sean

is coming with them as well. And then we do a

To Be Continued. And in the second half of this,

in Brave New World Part 2, is where we get Corey

and giving his advice to youngest brother Josh.

You know what's out there? The world. You're

going to be part of it someday. Yeah. You're

going to learn something from it every day. Yeah.

You're going to make mistakes. You're going to

make good friends. Mr. Feeney will probably teach

you every grade you're ever in. And maybe you'll

meet a woman as wonderful as Topanga. How'd you

like that? Good. Yeah? Yeah. And maybe you'll

make a friend like Sean. Yeah. But when you're

not a little boy anymore, when the world taught

you how to be this man, You know, you're still

going to make mistakes. But your family and your

friends that you've made along the way are going

to help you, okay? Even though it'll seem like

the world's going out of its way to teach you

these hard lessons, you're going to realize that,

you know, it's the same world that's giving you

your family and your friends, you know? And you're

going to come to believe that the world's going

to protect you, too. Boy Meets World. Now I get

it. Give me five. Give me a hug. You ready to

go inside? Ready? Topanga! Topanga! That's me.

This is where they meet up with Mr. Feeny in

the old classroom and all of that, and they get

all that advice. It's just so good. Yeah, it

was a heart -wrenching finale. Absolutely is.

Every single time. I like how at the end he gets

it and he's like, boy meets world. Go figure.

Now I get it. I always love that line. I always

love that line. And then Eric demands Feeney

tell them that he loves them. Not have me say

that. And then I do love how we have moments

with everybody in Feeney. We have moments with

Topanga. We have moments with Eric. We have moments

with Sean. We have moments with Corey. And the

moment with Corey is, finally, Mr. Feeney then

jokes with Corey, revealing that he knows him

so well that he knows his real name, Cornelius.

Corey then tells Mr. Feeney, despite him not

going to New York with them, he will always be

with them. Yada, yada, yada. And the funny thing

is, what he says after Mr. Feeney says Cornelius,

he goes, Mr. Feeney, not even Topanga knows that.

I love that. And then we get the line of the

series. I love you all. Class dismissed. What

a show. Yep. What a show. Absolutely love it.

I've watched Boy Meets World now, as of 2025,

I've watched it four times since it ended 25

years ago in its entirety. The first time I had

seen it again is when it hit AP Family, and then

the second time is when it hit Disney Channel.

The... Third time was right before we did the

Top 100 TV shows in 2015. And then the fourth

time was for this podcast. And folks, it may

have taken us almost 10 years to get this podcast

done. But we're at the homestretch, kind of,

sort of. At least we got the first seven seasons

done. of boy meets world we are going to go into

girl meets world and all that good stuff but

boy meets world it i will always say it is one

of if not the best family television comedies

and it's a family television comedy that isn't

like it isn't like family ties or it isn't like

that you know the thing it isn't like It's uniquely

its own, and it's uniquely approachable for anybody.

Like I've said earlier in this episode, each

of these seasons is a section of life of a certain

age kind of thing, whether you're 11, whether

you're 15, whether you're whatever. It is approachable

for almost anybody. If it wasn't for the fact

that this came in at number 50 on our top 100

TV shows countdown, I don't know when we would

have gotten to this podcast. This started out

of spite, folks. Spite and disbelief. But we

wouldn't have done this unless we absolutely

loved it. And we wouldn't be doing this. We don't

do podcasts. Steve and I don't do stuff here.

Unless we absolutely want to do it. And I remember

watching and we'll get into this when we get

into the seasons of Girl Meets World. I remember

when Girl Meets World was announced and when

it came back and I was watching that live as

it aired and we'll get into all that. But any

final thoughts from you, sir, before I run through

the closing and all that good stuff? No, I just.

I think that it's a very strong. series a lot

of fun a lot of life lessons so it's it's definitely

worth watching absolutely it is all right folks

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we can do top 10 episodes for both series. So

the next episode, episode 15, will be Girl Meets

World season one. So there's that. Follow us

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