Boy Meets World: Why This Show Raised a Generation

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Let's paint the picture. There's a scent of cheap

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floor wax and frozen pizza. And suddenly, we're

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back in 1994 sitting cross -legged in front of

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a heavy tube TV waiting for that yellow and blue

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logo to pop up. It's TGIF. Boy Meets World was

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the staple of TGIF with a Brillo pad hair and

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a neighbor. who treated doing good like a sacred

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commandment. Whisper Wednesday's Boy Meets World

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today. This is Parallel Frequencies. I am Just

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Blaine. That is Coco. And you are the freaks.

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What's up, Coco? You ready for Boy Meets World?

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I'm so ready. I've been doing the rewatch for

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several weeks now. So I got a lot to talk about.

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Can't wait for this. I love this. I loved it.

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I love sitcoms. And this is one from TGIF. And

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that right there touches a huge, it tickles my

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nostalgic point, you know? Like, it really does.

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And there were so many shows that were part of

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TGIF that were so good. It was so great to know

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that you were going to sit down, like, at the

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end of the week, finally got done with, you know,

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your school week or whatever. You've been, like,

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waiting for something to look forward to. And

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there was going to be this lineup of shows that,

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like, not one of them was bad, right? Not one

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of them you would skip. You just get to sit down

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and watch it all night. It was the fastest two

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hours on TV. And it was. It was like, because

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it was four. You got to see four shows every

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Friday night. And they alternated during the

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seasons. And every one of them, like you said,

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you could not skip them. I'm always, I've always

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been a fan of sitcoms. And I love, I just love

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the 23 minute. It's 30 minutes, but 23 with the

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commercials. I love 23 minute episodes. There's

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something about it. There really is. Speaking

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of, another one of my favorite shows, Big Bang

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Theory. We talked about this show before, right?

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We've never really broken it down. But I think

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I even mentioned, I said something about the

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Big Bang Theory has got more spinoffs than any

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other show I can think of. And guess what has

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hit the wire? Look at this. Can you see this?

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If you're watching this on our video, there's

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a picture of four Big Bang Theory characters.

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This is not an old picture. There's a new spinoff

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coming this summer, and there's Stuart right

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there. And the whole show revolves around Stuart,

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and it's Stuart fails to save the universe. Well,

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it's about time Stuart got his time, right? I'm

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going to tell you what. I think Stuart is my

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favorite character from Big Bang. Well, you know,

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the actor was supposed to play Howie. Yes. And,

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you know, scheduling conflicts, he got sick.

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I can't remember the exact story, but... But

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then the actor that ended up playing Howie was

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in that role instead. Did a fantastic job. We

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all love Howie, right? But this guy who plays

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Stuart, he ended up playing alongside him on

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the series, you know, as Stuart, knowing that

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that was the role he was supposed to have. And

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still, like, no animosity. Just like, yep, he

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killed it. I'm just happy to be Stuart. We're

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all friends. It's all great. What a guy to not

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have jealousy or anything. Yeah, I think so,

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too. The plot for this sounds wild. And Stuart

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was, like I said, my favorite character from

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Big Bang. I think he's hilarious. I think some

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of the stuff he says, I think he was underrated

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almost. Kevin Sussman is who plays Stuart. Kevin

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Sussman is the guy. And the plot for Stuart Fails

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to Save the Universe is basically Stuart messes

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up a machine that Leonard... and Sheldon have

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made and ruins the world. And I'm like, this

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is, I thought it was a joke when I heard, when

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I was reading about it, but it's not. This is

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1 million percent. So that's what happened. Did

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this happen around like 2016? Are they going

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to do a flashback to that time? Is that what

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happened? Are we all supposed to, we're in the

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middle of an apocalypse here and that's because

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of Stuart? That'd be great. I don't know. I don't

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know how that's going to work. That's all I have

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to say. I don't know who we're going to see from

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the original show coming in. Probably not. You

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probably won't see Johnny Galecki, you know,

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Leonard and Sheldon. They might make cameos.

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That would be great. I love a good cameo. Yeah,

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right? But I was pumped when I saw that info,

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that news hit, because I was such a fan of Stewart.

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And in the later seasons is when he really starts

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to bloom. Yeah. He really becomes more of a main

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character in the series. So, yeah, I had to throw

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that out there. Had to throw that out there.

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We're going to have to do Big Bang Theory at

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some point. Oh, for sure. Yeah, and not in the

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comedy sitcom era, but I was just watching an

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interview with Jon Hamm this morning, and I realized,

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you know, we got to do a rewatch of Mad Men,

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too, in the drama category. But, like, man, it's

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been a while since I saw it originally, and I

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bet a rewatch is just about time for that. That's

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a good one. I like that. We should put that on

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there. We keep thinking we're going to run out

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of shows or movies to talk about. And we always

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think about every time we do that, we think about

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like eight other movies or shows. Put that on

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the list. Put that on the list. Put it on the

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list. But today is Wistful Wednesday slash TGIF

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because it might as well be. But Boy Meets World

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to me was, it was a game changer. It was the

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coming of age. We grew up with this. I feel like

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I grew up with Corey and Sean and Topanga. What

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about you? You the same way? Yeah, this was like,

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I'm sure you feel the same way. Our generation

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had crushes. on characters of shows like Boy

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Meets World. And it wasn't until maybe I saw

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Danielle Fishel on Dancing with the Stars this

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last season, maybe then I realized that I didn't

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just have a crush on Ryder Strong or Sean Hunter,

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as most people did in my generation. And also

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Eric Matthews, Will Fredl that played... I'm

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not sure how you say his last name, but yeah.

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So, you know, they were cute for all of us girls

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in that age range. But then I'm thinking to myself,

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man, I definitely had a girl crush on Danielle.

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She is adorable. Oh, all of us wanted hair like

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hers. Try our best, but it doesn't quite look

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like that. She's a great Instagram follow. Yeah,

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I love the messages that she's putting out there.

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I love the stances that she takes. She's just

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like Topanga and that she's like not going to

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take crap, right? She's like, I'm saying what's

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what's. what yeah and and we gotta shout out

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too because pod meets world is their podcast

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where they break down episodes of boy meets world

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they just did i don't know the wedding i saw

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was one that was done all the episodes they do

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and it's will friedel writer strong and danielle

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doing that show together and i think that show

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is incredible that's probably my favorite podcast

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i have to admit that's my favorite show out there

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oh yeah Yeah, they do a great job. And I love,

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you know, the details that they they bring out,

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like what it was like being on set, what it was

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like. And they don't hold anything back. They're

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not over here acting like it was all just so

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great. They are critical of some of the writing

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and some of the things that, you know, I saw

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one of those episodes. They were talking about

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Sean's leather jacket trauma. Like every time

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Sean's wearing a leather jacket, it's because

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it's going to be a Sean's trauma episode. Yeah.

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And I'm like, yes. They just broke down. They

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were just talking about the episode where the

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bear was in the classroom and they were in the

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seats and they were talking about how they got

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held, handed a bunch of pamphlets. Like don't

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move fast. Don't do this, but they're sitting

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there covered in honey. What did it matter? Rewatch.

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You just, I think I realized. What a goofy show

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this was. I mean, it had its really real, very

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down -to -earth, let's -talk -about -the -hard

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-things episodes, but they weren't afraid to

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get really goofy, too. Like, really goofy with

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it. Yeah, and that's a credit to Michael Jacobs.

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Michael Jacobs is the creator of this entire

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show, and April Kelly, but Michael Jacobs directly.

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And it's like he made sure to give you a good

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mix of goofiness and life lessons all in one.

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During my rewatch, this is what I noticed. I

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started looking at this, and there's seven seasons

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of existential dread. One legendary Feeny call.

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Three different actresses playing the same little

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sister, give or take a disappearance into the

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ether. But there's countless life lessons delivered

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by a man who looked like he was born. wearing

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a cardigan already, George Feeney, who I feel

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like he taught all of us, not just the kids in

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that classroom, but he was teaching us at home

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at the same time, was he not? Yeah. Have Mr.

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Feeney's patience when it comes to young, youthful

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idiots. I will handle Mr. Feeney when my boys

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get to that. 12, 13, 15 year old age. And William

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Daniels incredible because I don't think he acted

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at all. I think this was, I think this is who

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he is. I think he's a Mr. Feeny in real life.

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He's like 99 years old now, by the way, still

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teaching stuff, still, still teaching life lessons.

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And he, he, he helped raise us. He doesn't realize

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that he raised a whole generation of kids. Yep.

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And I always thought it was awesome. The fact

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that he. grew with them. It was like, they couldn't

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escape Mr. Feeny. He was their teacher every

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year and then became their principal. I'm like,

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when does this happen? He goes to high school

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with them. Yeah. And then on the graduation episode,

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which I was just watching the other day, they

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were graduating high school. And he's announced

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his retirement. And lo and behold. Oh, wait,

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wait. Just wait. Hold on. Not yet. He got a job

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as a professor at the college they all got into.

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And just so happens it's the same classes that

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they're taking. Now, I've been to college. I

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went to four different colleges. This don't happen.

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There ain't no way. First of all, you don't get

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classes with all your friends. Oh, no, right?

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That's one thing that's like, no. And you're

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not going to get the same teacher that you had

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in high school, junior high, and middle school.

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Not going to happen. But it worked in the show.

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And we really watched this, and it wasn't necessarily

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for just entertainment. To me, it was a weekly

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survival guide. We were growing up. We were in

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school at the same time this was all happening.

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You got to see real -life chaos of what... middle

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school or junior high high school or goes through

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while we were going through it at the same time

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all the crushes all the embarrassments all the

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all the everything that they showed in this show

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was happening in real life to us to the kids

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in school and that's yeah that's why real questions

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were you know arose out of uh relationships getting

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really serious really young uh i think that was

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probably the thing that stood out to me the most

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having been a person who married very young and

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my first boyfriend and my first kiss. So Corey

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and Topanga's story is very familiar to me, but

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there is something romanticized about that of

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like, it's your first love and you just never

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let go. It's never, you know, I almost at this

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age now appreciate, appreciate the story of,

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well. Fred Savage's show, The Wonder Years. I

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remember it was the same kind of deal with Winnie

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Cooper. And, you know, it was like, you thought

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they were just going to be together forever.

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And I remember the disappointment I felt in the

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very last episode when he's like, Winnie went

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on to marry so -and -so and I married so -and

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-so. And, you know, we met up again years later,

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me with my newborn son and my wife. And I remember

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being a kid going, wait. What? They delivered

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with Corey and Topanga in that like romanticized,

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like we've been together for 17 years. We were

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toddlers in the sandbox together and then the

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wedding and their life as newlyweds. But I, I

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mean, I'm, I appreciate that they also show kind

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of some real sticky points to that romanticized

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version of young love, which is Topanga had to

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give up a lot. She had to leave her parents and

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come, you know, so she could be back with Corey

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and finish high school with him. That episode,

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those episodes right there are the peak to me

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of Boy Meets World. It's called A Long Walk to

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Pittsburgh Part 1 and 2. And that's where the

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viewers, we were broken. And that's when Topanga

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had to move away. yeah they had to break up and

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we thought it was going to be the end and then

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she shows up in part two pouring rain she's wet

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and i'm talking about that's one of the most

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iconic moments yeah we all remember that oh my

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god and i remember watching that at home live

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and everybody let out that sigh of relief like

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oh they're they're back together thank god they're

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back together the world is whole again Because

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Corey and Topanga aren't going to be split up.

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And I love that episode. There's so many episodes

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that have these moments. But they have a lot

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of trials to it, too. I mean, being each other's

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only and forever so young. I mean, there's a

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lot of codependency patterns that those of us

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who have married young, we've had to sort through

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those things as well. We're familiar with this

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idea that we raised each other. And we aren't

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always going to be the same people forever. And

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there are moments where, I mean, you know, later

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on in college and after Corey and Topanga get

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married, she's like, I gave up Yale. I gave up

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Yale to be what? Someone's wife? And that's not

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wrong. It doesn't mean she doesn't love Corey

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or that she regrets anything. I mean, I think

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there are plenty of us who, you know, here I

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am married 21 years and I'm not regretting anything,

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but I'm also saying, wow, it is, there is a lot

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of, nuances to it that you heal and grow as you

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go through life together like that. We do see

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some of this later on in Girl Meets World, and

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everything does end up being perfectly perfect

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for Topanga and Corey. A little too perfect,

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and there's no regret or anything like that.

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I could see that, but then again, if I'm Corey

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Matthews, ain't no way in hell I'm letting a

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girl like Topanga get away from me. Right. He

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was the smart one. Yeah. Yeah. She, he, he should

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have known that the entire time that he was moving

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on up with, he was, what do they, what do they

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call that? Uh, out of, out of your range or we're

00:14:35.539 --> 00:14:37.860
kicking out of your, out of your league. Yeah.

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Let's talk a little bit out of his league, but

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also not just because she's gorgeous. I like,

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okay. We could talk about looks all day, but

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Topanga has this old world wisdom from the very

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beginning. And remember they kind of pegged her

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as this sort of weird woo woo. Yeah. Like girl

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who is believes in energies and chakras. And

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she's talking about these things at what, what

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were they? 11, 11, 12. Yeah. So she's, she's

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kind of pegged as this weird, weird girl and

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she's got all this wisdom and all this like kind

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of Buddhist. monk air about her and you know

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these two idiot boys yeah which i don't know

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it's kind of familiar to me that's that's a little

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bit how middle school felt to me where i was

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like what what are they doing boys like what

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are they thinking but yeah they they made fun

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of her that they weren't in love okay in the

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beginning this was not love at first sight they

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were like girls ew yeah and all the things until

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you see that evolve over the seasons and she

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takes that wisdom and becomes kind of like this

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emotional glue for everybody You see how she's,

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I mean, you know, you talk Mr. Feeny is like

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the guy they all go to for advice, but she also

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kind of holds the space. Yeah, she does. Emotions

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and yeah. I think season three, the beginning

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of season three, they make a reference to her

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growing up in a nice way because she's got boobs

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and everything. This was over a - Subtle references

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to her maturity. Yeah, but that's when they start

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noticing. And that's when she changes from this

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weird girl with this weird hair to, uh -oh. what

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is this you know like it's new it's new for for

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these young boys and I love all the characters

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but let's let's go into him a little bit like

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Corey Matthews is the everyman or neurotic or

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a mix of both he's not an athlete not really

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a rebel not really the genius he was just he's

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just kind of there nervous curly haired and obsessed

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with Topanga who wouldn't be uh and Sean his

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best friend yeah but it was that crazy that he

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has like an average joe and then you got sean

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which shifts the gears to this wrong side of

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the tracks type of trope you know he's he didn't

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just have problems it's it's 90s trauma that

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only a trailer park and a missing mom could provide

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you know that's what he's going through and i

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you see these stark differences in cory and sean

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but they but they're like this and i think that

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says a lot too um it says a lot for each other

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really well and i think what what people maybe

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miss about why sean hunter was so attractive

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um not just that he's cute like you know he's

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got that little hair thing going where it kind

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of falls over one eye oh yeah but aside from

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that i just want to i'm kind of speaking for

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all the girls who my age you know like had that

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crush on sean it wasn't that he was a bad boy

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kind of a rebel he was gonna break your heart

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and you knew it it wasn't that it was that deep

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down you could see that he really did have a

00:17:46.940 --> 00:17:49.910
heart of gold yeah you really knew that There's

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a reason why this good kid, Corey Matthews, who's

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just like the good kid, is friends with him.

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And that they are so good together is because,

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you know, you can see that Sean's just really

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deep down. He's a really caring, good guy. This

00:18:04.769 --> 00:18:07.230
was the bromance. This was the bromance before

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the word bromance was even around, I believe.

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Oh, yeah. You're bringing up a good question

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there. It's almost like, why did we at home all

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want to be the kid with the tragic backstory?

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Instead of the kid with the stable house and

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the nice parents and everything going good for

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him. I related more to Sean. Like, I was like,

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oh, he's the cool one. If you wanted to put yourself

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in somebody's shoes, it was Sean. It wasn't Corey.

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Experience. Real world street smart experience.

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I mean, when your life is a little too cushy

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and you haven't been tested, you know, maybe

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that puts you in a naive position when you're

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going out into the world, which is what this

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is about boy meeting the world. I mean, Corey

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kind of plays that role of like his life has

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been pretty great. It's been pretty sweet. He's

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got these like idealistic two parents who love

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him and have a great marriage and, you know,

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little sister, big brother, all the, you know,

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the only thing missing was a dog. I don't think

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they had a dog, but, you know, he had all of

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that going for him. And he had a teacher who

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is willing not only to be his neighbor. But to

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be there for every step of his life, creating

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the stability and consistency that would be,

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I mean, anybody would be appreciative of that

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kind of guidance. Like, yeah, he's always going

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to be there. And William Daniels played the role

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of Feeney like he was delivering Shakespeare

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to a bunch of kids in baggy jeans. Do good, not

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do well, but do good. And think about the authority

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figures we have now. Where's the Feeney? Where's

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the person who calls you out on your crap because

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they actually want you to be a better human?

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And that's what he was doing the entire series

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was calling them out and letting them know, hey,

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that's not right. Yeah. Or, you know, and I think

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we were all giving them really nuanced lessons.

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very strategic facilitated lessons that would

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allow them to come to that conclusion on their

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own and that was you know kind of what he became

00:20:02.130 --> 00:20:04.710
known for was he wouldn't give that he didn't

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spoon feed them the answers he allowed them an

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opportunity to be tested to learn those things

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who I've got a question for you and the freaks

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who's the Feeny did you have a Feeny a Mr. Feeny

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yes the closest that I would have had is just

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a mentor teacher when I was first out in the

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in my new career as a teacher, you know, I was

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23 first graduated from college and my first

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kindergarten class that I was teaching, um, kind

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of didn't know what I was doing, but I had, um,

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teachers and the principal at the school that

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I taught at, I was lucky enough to be at a really,

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really small charter school, but I had these

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incredible people around me that were like, willing

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to take me under their wing. They were like,

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you're doing great. Let me know if you need any

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help. I probably drove them all crazy because

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I overthought everything. And I would just walk

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into their offices and be like, I'm stuck. I

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don't know what to do. Can I talk at you for

00:21:03.089 --> 00:21:05.309
a little bit and then see if we can come up with

00:21:05.309 --> 00:21:06.970
a solution to this problem I'm having? And so

00:21:06.970 --> 00:21:08.849
they had to kind of, I don't know, deal with

00:21:08.849 --> 00:21:10.710
me. They had to be like, all right, go ahead

00:21:10.710 --> 00:21:13.190
and talk at me for an hour if you need to. That's

00:21:13.190 --> 00:21:15.910
awesome. Yeah, I've got one. I've got a couple,

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but I've got one. who he saw something in me

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that nobody else did. Mr. Wardlow, high school

00:21:23.390 --> 00:21:25.329
teacher. This guy let me get away with anything.

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And I wasn't doing anything bad, but he let me

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get away with anything. And then we had this

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awards show, this awards banquet thing. And I

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got invited. I'm thinking, what the hell am I?

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Why am I in here with all these 4 .0 straight

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A students? All these awards get given out. And

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I'm just there. And there's one award left for

00:21:42.490 --> 00:21:44.509
the night. And Mr. Wardlow gets up there to present

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it. And I remember him talking about it. talking

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about the student that was going to get this

00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.680
award. And he's going on and he's saying, I've

00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:54.160
never seen anybody be able to use the right brain,

00:21:54.259 --> 00:21:57.460
left brain altogether. There's big things coming

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from this guy and all this. And this is the only

00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:04.599
award that had a cash monetary value. And he

00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:08.660
calls my name and I got $500 from him. And it

00:22:08.660 --> 00:22:10.740
was for creativity. I don't know what it was

00:22:10.740 --> 00:22:14.200
even really for. And you're supposed to take

00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:17.299
that money. and buy your books in college. I

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went and I bought my first pair of turntables.

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And I think that turned out okay for me. Because

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if it wasn't for all of that, I don't know. I

00:22:26.140 --> 00:22:30.259
may have never went to LA. I may have never gotten

00:22:30.259 --> 00:22:32.079
into music. I may have never gotten into radio.

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But he believed in me enough and did it. I actually

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paid it back to him and he doesn't know it. I

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produced the Rush special on Apple. And we interviewed

00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:46.640
Geddy Lee. the members of Rush and Mr. Wardlow's

00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:49.380
favorite band was Rush. So the entire time I

00:22:49.380 --> 00:22:51.380
put that together, I had him in mind putting

00:22:51.380 --> 00:22:53.460
this thing together. So yeah, man, that's, that's

00:22:53.460 --> 00:22:56.619
my Mr. Feeny. That's a great story. And I love

00:22:56.619 --> 00:22:58.839
that there's a teacher who says it's not always

00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.960
just about. getting that 4 .0 grades. I was not

00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:04.140
a 4 .0 student. I know I'm going to seem like

00:23:04.140 --> 00:23:07.240
it today, but I wasn't. Okay. I was like a A's

00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:09.960
and B's and my occasional C's student. I was

00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:12.720
a, that's good enough student. Not I'm looking

00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:17.920
for perfection, but to be recognized for like.

00:23:18.299 --> 00:23:21.880
i see you i see what you've got to offer that

00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:24.500
doesn't translate to grades or maybe sometimes

00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:26.059
it does i don't know what your grades were but

00:23:26.059 --> 00:23:28.160
for the most part like it didn't matter right

00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:30.160
like it just doesn't matter what that letter

00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:32.720
is on a piece of paper yeah i love that i think

00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:34.990
that's what was Nissan Sean. I mean, Sean didn't,

00:23:34.990 --> 00:23:37.089
you know, didn't always show up academically

00:23:37.089 --> 00:23:40.930
ready for the whatever was the lesson was that

00:23:40.930 --> 00:23:43.990
day. But he saw something in these kids in that

00:23:43.990 --> 00:23:46.869
watching them grow up through the seasons in

00:23:46.869 --> 00:23:51.049
the in the series, helping them believe in themselves

00:23:51.049 --> 00:23:53.190
and what they had to offer that they were really

00:23:53.190 --> 00:23:55.779
going to. They were going to make it. They were

00:23:55.779 --> 00:23:58.059
going to be okay. And I have that to say too

00:23:58.059 --> 00:24:00.359
about the Boy Meets World as we look at like

00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:03.339
the entire series. I watched it from first episode

00:24:03.339 --> 00:24:05.799
and all the way through. And I realized when

00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:07.460
you watch it all the way through that quickly,

00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:11.559
it does grow with you or grew with the audience

00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:15.599
that was watching it. So like. The humor and

00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:19.440
the topics and the conversations and even the

00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:22.660
kind of cheesy goofiness about it was more so

00:24:22.660 --> 00:24:24.880
appropriate for like 11 and 12 year olds when

00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:27.720
it started. But as Corey and Topanga and Sean

00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:30.359
grow through the seasons, you see more and more

00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:33.119
adult humor, more and more. There was an episode

00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.460
I was watching, a Halloween episode, where it

00:24:35.460 --> 00:24:37.339
turned out the whole episode was a dream. You

00:24:37.339 --> 00:24:40.339
know, one of those. But they had a murderer chasing

00:24:40.339 --> 00:24:45.720
them and trying to kill them all. Eric quotes

00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:48.859
South Park several times in the episode. And

00:24:48.859 --> 00:24:51.980
I was like, that feels really out of place. Yes.

00:24:52.420 --> 00:24:55.920
South Park being like very adult. And then, you

00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:58.220
know, he was like, oh, my gosh, they killed Kenny.

00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:02.450
And I was like, yeah, what? But it did. It kind

00:25:02.450 --> 00:25:07.109
of grew the topics about sex and marriage and

00:25:07.109 --> 00:25:12.609
drug use and alcoholism and abusive fathers.

00:25:12.890 --> 00:25:16.069
I mean, these topics, they they became more in

00:25:16.069 --> 00:25:18.630
depth and more mature as they matured, which

00:25:18.630 --> 00:25:20.690
I don't know if you really see that a whole lot

00:25:20.690 --> 00:25:23.549
in sitcoms. No. And I think that episode you're

00:25:23.549 --> 00:25:27.640
talking about is. And then there was Sean. It

00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:30.759
had a guest appearance from Jennifer Love Hewitt.

00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:32.480
And I remember that episode. Right. Love that

00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:35.220
episode. But you're right. Like, there's a total

00:25:35.220 --> 00:25:39.200
dark side to this show in a good way. And it's

00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:42.680
balancing. It grounds the goofiness. You know,

00:25:42.700 --> 00:25:46.220
the tonal shifts. You've got this goofy stuff.

00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:48.640
You've got middle school kids going from middle

00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.180
school to episodes about being in cults. Drinking,

00:25:52.299 --> 00:25:54.900
showing the realities of poverty. You know, that's

00:25:54.900 --> 00:25:58.700
not fun and games anymore. And it's real life.

00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:00.859
And Boy Meets World was showing us a lot of that,

00:26:00.900 --> 00:26:03.000
too. The episode with the cult. That's one of

00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:05.819
my favorite episodes. Oh, yeah. And that's a

00:26:05.819 --> 00:26:08.900
powerful. Very powerful episode. First of all,

00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:11.279
Jonathan Turner, he disappears. We never see

00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:13.299
him again after this motorcycle accident in this

00:26:13.299 --> 00:26:16.319
episode. So I don't know if it's RIP, Mr. Turner.

00:26:16.339 --> 00:26:18.980
There is a mention of him on the graduation episode.

00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:22.319
I love how Boy Meets World does not shy away

00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:25.359
from making fun of itself. Oh, yeah. So we had

00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:28.960
graduation episode, Lee Norris, who played Minkus.

00:26:29.059 --> 00:26:31.480
And Minkus was in the earlier episodes, right?

00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:33.700
And then just kind of disappeared. You know,

00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:36.380
he was like the nerdy little kid in the first

00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:38.099
few seasons. And then he kind of disappears.

00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:40.759
And then graduation episode happens and he shows

00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:42.559
up out of nowhere. And they're like, where have

00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:44.940
you been? And he goes, I'm usually on the other

00:26:44.940 --> 00:26:48.039
side of the school. And of course, past the camera,

00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:49.720
there's a whole other side of the school. And

00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:52.349
they look at that like. There's another side

00:26:52.349 --> 00:26:56.170
to the school. I love it. Yeah. He goes, I've

00:26:56.170 --> 00:26:58.269
been here this whole time. And then he's like,

00:26:58.309 --> 00:27:00.569
oh, wait, there's Mr. Turner. Hey, Mr. Turner.

00:27:00.630 --> 00:27:04.869
And he walks off camera. I laughed so hard. That

00:27:04.869 --> 00:27:07.230
was so fun. That's not the end of Mr. Turner,

00:27:07.289 --> 00:27:09.750
though, because girl meets world. He shows up

00:27:09.750 --> 00:27:12.190
and he's a teacher. Wow. He's still alive. He's

00:27:12.190 --> 00:27:14.309
still around. He's still in the universe. But

00:27:14.309 --> 00:27:17.670
I did love that. And I guess it was last season

00:27:17.670 --> 00:27:19.589
when they said, yeah, oh, we're on the other.

00:27:19.930 --> 00:27:23.890
Side of the school. It's over there. Now, I wonder

00:27:23.890 --> 00:27:26.430
if we're going to see a Boy Meets World spinoff

00:27:26.430 --> 00:27:27.849
with the other side of the school. That'd be

00:27:27.849 --> 00:27:29.910
fun. Yeah, what was going on with Minkus this

00:27:29.910 --> 00:27:33.009
whole time? Minkus shows back up in Girl Meets

00:27:33.009 --> 00:27:35.529
World, too. He's got a kid or something. Oh,

00:27:35.630 --> 00:27:37.950
that's right. Yeah. That's right. I did see that

00:27:37.950 --> 00:27:39.490
episode. I haven't watched a lot of Girl Meets

00:27:39.490 --> 00:27:41.490
World, but I did see that they have, like, this

00:27:41.490 --> 00:27:44.589
kid that's following them around. I'm going to

00:27:44.589 --> 00:27:48.339
tell you, Girl Meets World was great. I knew

00:27:48.339 --> 00:27:50.960
pretty quick that it wasn't going to last. And

00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:53.839
that's because Sabrina Carpenter. And I was like,

00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:55.720
she's going to be a star. She's going to be way

00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:58.119
too big for this. And that's kind of what happened.

00:27:58.460 --> 00:28:00.500
I got a funny story about Girl Meets World. I

00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:03.380
was a huge fan and I was working right down the

00:28:03.380 --> 00:28:05.559
street from where they filmed it. Got me a ticket,

00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:08.200
went down there because I heard, you know, I

00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:10.779
loved going to live tapings and stuff when I

00:28:10.779 --> 00:28:12.700
was in L .A. if I could. And I went down there

00:28:12.700 --> 00:28:14.500
and I heard, you know, you get to meet. Corey,

00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:16.839
Topanga. You get to talk to them. And I'm like,

00:28:16.859 --> 00:28:18.880
cool, that'd be awesome. And I get there and

00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.319
this place is packed. And it's all these little

00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:24.559
kids, little girls. And they're talking about

00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:26.839
how everybody's not going to get in. And as soon

00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:28.859
as I heard that, I'm like, man, I'm a grown ass

00:28:28.859 --> 00:28:31.240
man here by myself. You guys can have my one

00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:33.700
ticket. I'll catch it next time. And then they

00:28:33.700 --> 00:28:35.299
canceled the damn show. So I never got to see

00:28:35.299 --> 00:28:37.700
a taping. But I did give up my seat for some

00:28:37.700 --> 00:28:40.799
child that day to be able to see. I am sure that

00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.109
meant the world to them. I hope so. I hope so.

00:28:44.130 --> 00:28:46.349
I think they would appreciate it. I think they

00:28:46.349 --> 00:28:50.529
did. I was probably going to propose to Topanga

00:28:50.529 --> 00:28:55.130
if I got in there. No, I'm kidding. Me too. Me

00:28:55.130 --> 00:28:59.170
too. Super, super lover. I just want to say that

00:28:59.170 --> 00:29:02.430
we've been talking for a while about Boy Meets

00:29:02.430 --> 00:29:03.890
World, and I don't even think I've scratched

00:29:03.890 --> 00:29:06.089
the surface of what I would love to get into.

00:29:06.549 --> 00:29:09.519
We've got to bring this back again. Yeah. Maybe

00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:12.500
write down specific seasons or maybe we'll get

00:29:12.500 --> 00:29:14.880
one of the members of the show to come on. I'm

00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:16.579
going to work on that. I would love that. Hey,

00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:20.920
Danielle. Please, Danielle. Anybody, anybody.

00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.579
You know, it doesn't have to be the top three,

00:29:23.619 --> 00:29:26.599
but anybody I'd be welcome to talk to you about

00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.950
it. And before we end, that's one of the. other

00:29:30.950 --> 00:29:33.029
great things about this show is all the cameo

00:29:33.029 --> 00:29:35.650
appearances oh um every member of the monkeys

00:29:35.650 --> 00:29:37.829
makes it into one episode and they actually play

00:29:37.829 --> 00:29:40.390
a song but they aren't a band in the show they're

00:29:40.390 --> 00:29:42.289
different characters that end up together and

00:29:42.289 --> 00:29:45.289
play a song and i loved i was a huge monkeys

00:29:45.289 --> 00:29:48.809
fan i love the monkeys i love their tv show nick

00:29:48.809 --> 00:29:51.509
at night anyway so that was super fun for me

00:29:51.509 --> 00:29:53.950
to see again in the rewatch and then is there

00:29:53.950 --> 00:29:58.410
anything more 90s anything more 90s than any

00:29:58.410 --> 00:30:01.470
one of the lawrence brothers no not at all joey

00:30:01.470 --> 00:30:04.950
lawrence matthew lawrence andy lawrence but matthew

00:30:04.950 --> 00:30:07.589
lawrence playing a character in the later episodes

00:30:07.589 --> 00:30:11.509
of jack hunter half brother that shows up for

00:30:11.509 --> 00:30:15.349
college and hangs out man he's cute he's another

00:30:15.349 --> 00:30:18.009
real cutie that i would not mind meeting in real

00:30:18.009 --> 00:30:20.430
life he's you know what everybody they put into

00:30:20.430 --> 00:30:26.650
this show was a cutie danielle um Even Corey,

00:30:26.809 --> 00:30:29.630
you know, Ben Savage in his own way, he's adorable

00:30:29.630 --> 00:30:32.970
too. And then you had later on, when they started

00:30:32.970 --> 00:30:34.829
growing up, you got some more hotties in there

00:30:34.829 --> 00:30:38.589
with Trina McGee. You had her come in. You had

00:30:38.589 --> 00:30:43.450
Rachel Maitland come in as, what was her name

00:30:43.450 --> 00:30:45.549
on the show? She ended up in porn. She ended

00:30:45.549 --> 00:30:48.049
up doing some porn later on. She was out. Yeah.

00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:50.900
You had a lot of these people that were all hotties

00:30:50.900 --> 00:30:52.740
on the show. Even Eric was a good looking dude,

00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:54.880
you know, like they all were. I mean, he kind

00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:57.299
of, he played probably the goofiest character

00:30:57.299 --> 00:30:59.200
of all of them. I think, you know, he was the

00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:02.759
comic relief in any heavy moment and kind of

00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:04.420
an idiot, right? Like he was playing kind of

00:31:04.420 --> 00:31:06.319
somebody who never got the answer right. Always

00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:08.839
said something stupid, but early on, he was one

00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:11.160
of my favorites. I was really like, he's so cute.

00:31:12.220 --> 00:31:15.640
My favorite cameo in all of it was probably besides

00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.640
seeing big, big Vader. And they're in a wrestling

00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:21.339
episode. And they said he was a sweetheart behind

00:31:21.339 --> 00:31:23.299
the scenes. This guy's scary as hell in real

00:31:23.299 --> 00:31:24.779
life. And they said he was a sweetheart. He's

00:31:24.779 --> 00:31:26.940
no longer with us. He's passed away now. But

00:31:26.940 --> 00:31:29.700
my other favorite was Adam Scott. Do you remember

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:33.619
Adam Scott being a bully on here? I totally did.

00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:36.119
I totally forgot to make a note of it. Because

00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:38.640
when I saw him, I was like, look who's on here.

00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:41.400
That's incredible. And it was just like real

00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:44.299
quick. Like he's like in and out. There's a lot

00:31:44.299 --> 00:31:47.980
of people that were in this show. Amazing. Jennifer

00:31:47.980 --> 00:31:50.900
loves you. And of course, you brought up in the...

00:31:50.900 --> 00:31:53.920
Melissa Joan Hart. Another three -namer. Candace

00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:55.980
Cameron Burr. Another three -namer. They were

00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:58.299
both in there. That's DJ from Full House. And

00:31:58.299 --> 00:32:02.140
yeah, Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Right? Some

00:32:02.140 --> 00:32:04.819
of those were those crossover episodes where

00:32:04.819 --> 00:32:07.259
they're doing the TGIF crossover. Yeah. I love

00:32:07.259 --> 00:32:09.500
that too. I mean, who didn't? I'm a sucker for

00:32:09.500 --> 00:32:13.480
that stuff. I'm like, look who it is. You know

00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:15.799
what? On that note, we should start doing crossover

00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.240
podcast episode. We're going to do some crossovers

00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:19.960
with some people, some other podcasts. And you

00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:22.019
know, I actually don't need to talk or anything.

00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:24.400
I would just love it if I could, if somebody

00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:25.859
was doing a podcast like we're doing right now

00:32:25.859 --> 00:32:28.539
and I just walk past in the background. That's

00:32:28.539 --> 00:32:31.539
a cool idea. I'd be so happy. That's a cool cameo.

00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:33.220
We'll start doing it. Well, look, we're going

00:32:33.220 --> 00:32:35.440
to have to come back to TGIF. We may do more

00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:37.680
shows from TGIF. The Dinosaur Show. We got to

00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.099
do that show. I love that show. Yeah. We got

00:32:40.099 --> 00:32:42.839
to add that to the list. So many. What? You know

00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:44.519
what? This is for the freaks before we get out

00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:49.079
of here. What's your favorite TGIF show? Yep.

00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:51.440
Send it in. I want to know. When you turned on

00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:55.490
TGIF on Friday night ABC, what was the... The

00:32:55.490 --> 00:32:57.710
show. I know you watched all four every night,

00:32:57.789 --> 00:33:00.269
but what was the one that you could not live

00:33:00.269 --> 00:33:03.269
without? Mine was Boy Meets World. This was the

00:33:03.269 --> 00:33:06.349
one for me. Wow. For sure. What about you? You

00:33:06.349 --> 00:33:08.289
know. There's so many, right? It's probably Boy

00:33:08.289 --> 00:33:10.670
Meets World. Now that I think about it, I'm like,

00:33:10.710 --> 00:33:12.230
is there anything that I look forward to more?

00:33:12.509 --> 00:33:15.369
I don't know. I mean, I think earlier on, before

00:33:15.369 --> 00:33:19.009
Boy Meets World, it was kind of in the full house

00:33:19.009 --> 00:33:23.269
era. Full House, Family Matters, probably. Family

00:33:23.269 --> 00:33:26.730
Matters. Yeah. But I kind of grew out of those

00:33:26.730 --> 00:33:29.670
into a Boy Meets World era, I think. Yeah. If

00:33:29.670 --> 00:33:31.869
I'm remembering the timeline right. You had Hanging

00:33:31.869 --> 00:33:33.529
with Mr. Cooper. Remember that one? That was

00:33:33.529 --> 00:33:37.750
a banger, too. I love that show. There was a

00:33:37.750 --> 00:33:39.490
bunch of perfect strangers. You remember the

00:33:39.490 --> 00:33:41.690
one with Balky? You remember that show? Bronson

00:33:41.690 --> 00:33:44.970
Pinchot? That was a throwback. I mean, this is

00:33:44.970 --> 00:33:47.490
why we need the freaks to give us their favorites

00:33:47.490 --> 00:33:50.069
so that I can be like, oh, yeah, I totally forgot

00:33:50.069 --> 00:33:52.710
about that show. Yeah, freaks, come out. Come

00:33:52.710 --> 00:33:54.769
out and let us know what's your favorite TGIF

00:33:54.769 --> 00:33:57.690
show. Yeah, because around that time, I got really

00:33:57.690 --> 00:34:03.420
into Must See TV on Thursdays on... NBC. NBC,

00:34:03.500 --> 00:34:05.539
right? So those were a little bit more adult,

00:34:05.619 --> 00:34:09.219
but also I was super into Nick at Night. So I

00:34:09.219 --> 00:34:11.880
was watching like Silicon's Island, Bewitched,

00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:14.599
The Monkees, The Andy Griffith Show. I mean,

00:34:14.619 --> 00:34:17.219
these are like my parents' generation shows,

00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:19.340
but I got really into them. That's back when

00:34:19.340 --> 00:34:22.179
Nick at Night was all black and white. Yep. Now

00:34:22.179 --> 00:34:24.159
it's like - The Dick Van Dyke Show. Yeah. Now

00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:26.139
you turn it on and it's France. I'm like, wait

00:34:26.139 --> 00:34:31.260
a minute. That kills me. Yeah. I love me some

00:34:31.260 --> 00:34:33.420
friends, but I don't think that's a Nick at night.

00:34:34.699 --> 00:34:37.039
Old enough. Yeah, we're going to keep going,

00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:39.440
but we better not. Love boy meets world. We don't

00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:41.559
need any final thoughts on this. I am just playing.

00:34:41.739 --> 00:34:44.239
She is Coco. This is parallel frequencies. You

00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:46.340
are the freaks and we will see you on the other

00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:47.119
side. Holy crap.