The Best of TGIF: How Boy Meets World Defined 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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it. TGIF that were so good. It was so great to

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know that you were going to sit down at the end

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of the week, finally got done with your school

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week or whatever. You've been waiting for something

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to look forward to. And there was going to be

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this lineup of shows that not one of them was

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bad, right? Not one of them you would skip. You

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just get to sit down and watch it all night.

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It was the fastest two hours. On TV. And it was.

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It was like, because it was four. You got to

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see four shows every Friday night. And they alternated

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during the seasons. And every one of them, like

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

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I've always been a fan of sitcoms. And I love,

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I just love the 23 minute, it's 30 minutes, but

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23 with the commercials. I love 23 minute episodes.

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There's something about it. There really is.

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Yeah. Speaking of, another one of my favorite

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shows, Big Bang Theory. We talked about this

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show before, right? We'd never really broken

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it down. But I think I mentioned I said something

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about the Big Bang Theory has got more spinoffs

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than any other show I can think of. And guess

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what has hit the wire? Look at this. Can you

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can you see this? If you're watching this on

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our video, there's a picture of four Big Bang

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Theory characters. This is not an old picture.

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There's a new spinoff coming this summer. And

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there's Stuart right there. And the whole. show

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revolves around stewart and it's stewart fails

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to save the universe well it's about time stewart

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got his time right i'm gonna tell you what i

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i think stewart is my favorite character from

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big bang he you know the actor was supposed to

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play howie yes and you know scheduling conflicts

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where he got sick i can't remember the exact

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story but um But then the actor that ended up

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playing Howie was in that role instead. Did a

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fantastic job. We all love Howie, right? Yeah.

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But this guy who plays Stuart, he ended up playing

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alongside him on the series, you know, as Stuart,

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knowing that that was the role he was supposed

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to have. And still, like, no animosity. Just

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like, yep, he killed it. I'm just happy to be

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Stuart. We're all friends. It's all great. What

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a guy to not have jealousy or anything. Yeah,

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I think so, too. the plot for this sounds wild.

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And Stuart was my, like I said, my favorite character

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from big bang. I think he's hilarious. I think

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some of the stuff he says, I think he was underrated

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almost like it's, it's Kevin, Kevin Sussman is,

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is who plays Stuart. Kevin Sussman is the guy.

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And the plot for Stuart fails to save the universe

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is basically Stuart messes up a machine that

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Leonard. and Sheldon have made in ruins the world.

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And I'm like, this is, I thought it was a joke

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when I heard, when I was reading about it, but

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it's not, this is 1 million. That's what happened.

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Did 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, but I know that.

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That's all I have to say. I don't know who we're

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going to see from the original show coming in.

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Probably not. You probably won't see Johnny Galecki,

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you know, Leonard and Sheldon. They might make

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cameos. That would be great. I love a good cameo.

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

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info, that news hit, because I was such a fan

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of Stewart. And in the later seasons is when

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he really starts to bloom. He really becomes

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more of a main character in the series. So, yeah,

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I had to throw that out there. Had to throw that

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out there. We're going to have to do Big Bang

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Theory at some point. Oh, for sure. Yeah, and

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not in the comedy sitcom era, but I was just

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watching an interview with Jon Hamm this morning,

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and I realized, you know, we got to do a rewatch

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of Mad Men, too, in the drama category. But,

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like, man, it's been a while since I saw it originally,

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and I bet a rewatch is just about time for that.

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That's a good one. I like that. We should put

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that on there. We keep thinking we're going to

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run out of shows or movies to talk about. We

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always think about, every time we do that, we

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think about like eight other movies or shows.

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Yeah. Put that on the list. Put that on the list.

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Put it on the list. But today is Wistful Wednesday

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slash TGIF because it might as well be. But Boy

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Meets World to me was, it was a game changer.

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It was the coming of age. We grew up with this.

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I feel like I grew up with Corey and Sean and

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Topanga. What about you? You the same way? Yeah,

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this was like, I'm sure you feel the same way.

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Our generation had crushes on characters of shows

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like Boy Meets World. And it wasn't until maybe

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I saw Danielle Official on Dancing with the Stars

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last season, maybe that 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 not

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sure how you say his last name, but yeah. So,

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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. He's like, I'm saying what's

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what's. what yeah and we got a shout out too

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because pod meets world is their podcast where

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they break down episodes of boy meets world they

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just did i don't know the wedding i saw was one

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that was done all the episodes they do and it's

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will friedel writer strong and danielle doing

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that show together and i think that show is incredible

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that's probably my favorite podcast i have to

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admit that's my favorite show out there oh yeah

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Yeah, they do a great job. And I love, you know,

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the details that they they bring out, like what

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

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they don't hold anything back. They're not over

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here acting like it was all just so great. They

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are critical of some of the writing and some

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of the things that, you know, I saw one of those

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episodes. They were talking about Sean's leather

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jacket trauma. Like every time Sean's wearing

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a leather jacket, it's because it's going to

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be a Sean's trauma episode. Yeah. And I'm like,

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yes. They just broke down. They were just talking

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about the episode where the bear was in the classroom

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and they were in the seats and they were talking

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about how they got held, handed a bunch of pamphlets,

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like don't move fast. Don't do this. But they're

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sitting there covered in honey. What did it matter?

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Rewatch. You just, I think I realized. What a

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goofy show this was. I mean, it had its really

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real, very down -to -earth, let's -talk -about

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-the -hard -things episodes, but they weren't

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afraid to get really goofy, too. Like, really

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

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Jacobs. Michael Jacobs is the creator of this

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entire show, and April Kelly, but Michael Jacobs

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directly. And it's like he made sure to give

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you a good mix of goofiness and life lessons

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all in one. During my rewatch, this is what I

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noticed. I started looking at this, and there's

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seven seasons of existential dread. One legendary

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Feeny call. Three different actresses playing

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the same little sister, give or take a disappearance

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into the ether. But there's countless life lessons

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delivered by a man who looked like he was born.

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wearing a cardigan already, George Feeney, who

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I feel like he taught all of us, not just the

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kids in that classroom, but he was teaching us

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

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Mr. Feeney's patience when it comes to young,

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youthful idiots. I will handle Mr. Feeney when

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my boys get to that. 12, 13, 15 -year -old age.

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And William Daniels, incredible. Because I don't

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think he acted at all. I think this is who he

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

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what, 99 years old now, by the way. Still teaching

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stuff. Still teaching life lessons. And he helped

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raise us. He doesn't realize that. He raised

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a whole generation of kids. Yep, almost millennials.

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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

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couldn't escape Mr. Feeney. He was their teacher

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every year and then became their principal. I'm

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like, when does this happen? He goes to high

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school with them. Yeah. And then on the graduation

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episode, which I was just watching the other

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day, they were graduating high school. And he's

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announced his retirement. And lo and behold.

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Oh, wait, wait. Just wait. Hold on. Not yet.

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He got a job as a professor at the college they

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all got into. And just so happens it's the same

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classes that they're taking. Now, I've been to

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college. I went to four different colleges. This

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

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you don't get classes with all your friends.

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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. Yeah. And then

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the wedding and their life as newlyweds. But

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I mean, 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. He was the

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smart one. Yeah, he should have known it the

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entire time that he was moving on up. He was,

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what do they call that? Out of your range or

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kicking out of your... Out of your league. Out

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of your league. Yeah, just a little bit out of

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his league. But also, not just because she's

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gorgeous. Like, okay, we could talk about looks

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all day. But Topanga has this old world wisdom

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from the very beginning. And remember, they kind

00:14:50.940 --> 00:14:53.980
of pegged her as this sort of weird woo -woo.

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Yeah. Like girl who is believes in energies and

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chakras. And she's talking about these things

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at what, what were they? 11, 11, 12. Yeah. So

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she's, she's kind of pegged as this weird, weird

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girl and she's got all this wisdom and all this

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like kind of Buddhist. monk air about her and

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you know these two idiot boys yeah which i don't

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know it's kind of familiar to me that's that's

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a little bit how middle school felt to me where

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i was like what what are they doing boys like

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what are they thinking but yeah they they made

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

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the beginning this was not love at first sight

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they were like girls ew yeah and all the things

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until you see that evolve over the seasons and

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she takes that wisdom and becomes kind of like

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this emotional glue for everybody You see how

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she's, I mean, you know, you talk Mr. Feeney

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is like the guy they all go to for advice, but

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

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Emotions and yeah. I think season three, the

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beginning of season three, they make a reference

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to her growing up in a nice way because she's

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got boobs and everything. This was over a - Subtle

00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.940
references to her maturity. Yeah, but that's

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when they start noticing. And that's when she

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changes from this weird girl with this weird

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hair to, uh -oh. what is this you know like it's

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new it's new for for these young boys and i i

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love all the characters but let's let's go into

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him a little bit like cory matthews is the everyman

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or neurotic or a mix of both he's he's not an

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athlete not really a rebel not really the genius

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he was just he's just kind of there nervous curly

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haired and obsessed with topanga who wouldn't

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be uh and sean His best friend. Yeah, but it

00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.899
was that crazy consistency that he had. Corey's

00:16:45.899 --> 00:16:49.759
like an average Joe. And then you got Sean, which

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shifts the gears to this wrong side of the tracks

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type of trope. You know, he didn't just have

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problems. It's 90s trauma that only a trailer

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park and a missing mom could provide. You know,

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that's what he's going through. And you see these

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stark. differences in cory and sean but they

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

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lot too um it says a lot for each other really

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well and i think what what people maybe miss

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about why sean hunter was so attractive um not

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just that he's cute like you know he's got that

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little hair thing going where it kind of falls

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over one eye oh yeah but aside from that i just

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want to i'm kind of speaking for all the girls

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who my age you know like had that crush on sean

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it wasn't that he was a bad boy kind of a rebel

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he was gonna break your heart and you knew it

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it wasn't that it was that deep down you could

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see that he really did have a heart of gold yeah

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you really knew that There's a reason why this

00:17:50.890 --> 00:17:54.069
good kid, Corey Matthews, who is just like the

00:17:54.069 --> 00:17:56.809
good kid, is friends with him. And that they

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are so good together is because, you know, you

00:18:00.410 --> 00:18:02.509
can see that Sean's just really deep down. He's

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a really caring, good guy. This was the bromance.

00:18:05.950 --> 00:18:08.269
This was the bromance before the word bromance

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was even around, I believe. Oh, yeah. You're

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bringing up a good question there. It's almost

00:18:12.769 --> 00:18:17.089
like, why did we at home all want to be the kid

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with the tragic backstory? Instead of the kid

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with the stable house and the nice parents and

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everything going good for him. I related more

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to Sean. Like, I was like, oh, he's the cool

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one. If you wanted to put yourself in somebody's

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shoes, it was Sean. It wasn't Corey. Experience.

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Real world street smart experience. I mean, when

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your life is a little too cushy and you haven't

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been tested, you know, maybe that puts you in

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a naive position when you're going out into the

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world, which is what this is about. Boy, meaning

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the world. I mean, Corey kind of plays that role

00:18:50.390 --> 00:18:52.589
of like his life has been pretty great. It's

00:18:52.589 --> 00:18:55.289
been pretty sweet. He's got these like idealistic

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two parents who love him and have a great marriage

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

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the, you know, the only thing missing was a dog.

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I don't think they had a dog, but, you know,

00:19:07.309 --> 00:19:09.410
he had all of that going for him. And he had

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a teacher who is willing not only to be his neighbor.

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But to 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

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became known for was he wouldn't give that. He

00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:07.059
didn't spoon feed them the answers. He allowed

00:20:07.059 --> 00:20:10.220
them an opportunity to be tested, to learn those

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things. Who? I've got a question for you and

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the freaks. Who's the Feeney? Did you have a

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Feeney? A Mr. Feeney? I guess the closest that

00:20:16.819 --> 00:20:19.259
I would have had is just a mentor teacher when

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I was first out in the. in my new career as a

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teacher, you know, I was 23 first graduated from

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college and my first kindergarten class that

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I was teaching, um, kind of didn't know what

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I was doing, but I had, um, teachers and the

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principal at the school that I taught at, I was

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lucky enough to be at a really, really small

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charter school, but I had these incredible people

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around me that were like, willing to take me

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under their wing. They were like, you're doing

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great. Let me know if you need any help. I probably

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drove them all crazy because I overthought everything.

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And I would just walk into their offices and

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be like, I'm stuck. I don't know what to do.

00:21:00.369 --> 00:21:04.309
Can I talk at you for a little bit and then see

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if we can come up with a solution to this problem

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I'm having? And so they had to kind of, I don't

00:21:08.230 --> 00:21:10.210
know, deal with me. They had to be like, all

00:21:10.210 --> 00:21:11.970
right, go ahead and talk at me for an hour if

00:21:11.970 --> 00:21:14.869
you need to. That's awesome. Yeah, I've got one.

00:21:14.930 --> 00:21:18.670
I've got a couple, but I've got one. who he saw

00:21:18.670 --> 00:21:22.750
something in me that nobody else did. Mr. Wardlow,

00:21:22.910 --> 00:21:24.910
high school teacher. This guy let me get away

00:21:24.910 --> 00:21:26.490
with anything. And I wasn't doing anything bad,

00:21:26.569 --> 00:21:28.630
but he let me get away with anything. And then

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we had this awards show, this awards banquet

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thing. And I got invited. I'm thinking, what

00:21:33.210 --> 00:21:35.009
the hell am I? Why am I in here with all these

00:21:35.009 --> 00:21:38.029
4 .0 straight A students? All these awards get

00:21:38.029 --> 00:21:41.549
given out. And I'm just there. And there's one

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award left for the night. And Mr. Wardlow gets

00:21:43.890 --> 00:21:45.589
up there to present it. And I remember him talking

00:21:45.589 --> 00:21:48.339
about it. talking about the student that was

00:21:48.339 --> 00:21:51.099
going to get this award. And he's going on and

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he's saying, I've never seen anybody be able

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to use the right brain, left brain altogether.

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There's big things coming from this guy and all

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this. And this is the only award that had a cash

00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:05.819
monetary value. And he calls my name and I got

00:22:05.819 --> 00:22:10.359
$500 from him. And it was for creativity. I don't

00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:13.480
know what it was even really for. And you're

00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:16.099
supposed to take that money. And buy your books

00:22:16.099 --> 00:22:19.579
in college. I went and I bought my first pair

00:22:19.579 --> 00:22:21.980
of turntables. And I think that turned out okay

00:22:21.980 --> 00:22:25.200
for me. Because if it wasn't for all of that,

00:22:25.339 --> 00:22:29.579
I don't know. I may have never went to LA. I

00:22:29.579 --> 00:22:31.160
may have never gotten into music. I may have

00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:33.400
never gotten into radio. But he believed in me

00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:35.960
enough and did it. I actually paid it back to

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him and he doesn't know it. I produced the Rush

00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:42.700
special on Apple. And we interviewed Geddy Lee

00:22:42.700 --> 00:22:46.920
and the members of Rush. And Mr. Wardlow's favorite

00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:49.660
band was Rush. So the entire time I put that

00:22:49.660 --> 00:22:51.720
together, I had him in mind putting this thing

00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:54.319
together. So, yeah, man, that's my Mr. Feeney.

00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:57.140
That's a great story. And I love that there's

00:22:57.140 --> 00:22:59.420
a teacher who says it's not always just about.

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Getting that 4 .0 grades. I was not a 4 .0 student.

00:23:02.940 --> 00:23:05.160
I know I'm going to seem like it today, but I

00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:08.019
wasn't. Okay. I was like an A's and B's and my

00:23:08.019 --> 00:23:11.059
occasional C's student. I was a that's good enough

00:23:11.059 --> 00:23:14.519
student. Not I'm looking for perfection. But

00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:20.319
to be recognized for like. I see you. I see what

00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:23.019
you've got to offer that doesn't translate to

00:23:23.019 --> 00:23:25.380
grades. Or maybe sometimes it does. I don't know

00:23:25.380 --> 00:23:26.819
what your grades were. But for the most part,

00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:28.700
like, it didn't matter, right? Like, it just

00:23:28.700 --> 00:23:30.740
doesn't matter what that letter is on a piece

00:23:30.740 --> 00:23:32.980
of paper. Yeah. Love that. I think that's what

00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:35.440
we saw in Sean. I mean, Sean didn't, you know,

00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:38.359
didn't always show up academically ready for

00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:41.920
the whatever the lesson was that day. But he

00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:44.480
saw something in these kids in that watching

00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:47.839
them grow up through the seasons in this. series

00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:51.460
um helping them believe in themselves and what

00:23:51.460 --> 00:23:53.400
they had to offer that they were really going

00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:55.880
to they were going to make it they were going

00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:57.900
to be okay and i have that i have that to say

00:23:57.900 --> 00:24:00.380
too about the boy meets world as we look at like

00:24:00.380 --> 00:24:02.900
the entire series as i watched it from first

00:24:02.900 --> 00:24:05.339
episode and all the way through and i realized

00:24:05.339 --> 00:24:07.440
when you watch it all the way through that quickly

00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.579
it does grow with you or grew with the audience

00:24:11.579 --> 00:24:15.940
that was watching it so like The humor and the

00:24:15.940 --> 00:24:19.700
topics and the conversations and even the kind

00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:23.059
of cheesy goofiness about it was more so appropriate

00:24:23.059 --> 00:24:25.359
for like 11 and 12 year olds when it started.

00:24:25.539 --> 00:24:28.799
But as Corey and Topanga and Sean grow through

00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:31.559
the seasons, you see more and more adult humor,

00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:33.680
more and more. There was an episode I was watching,

00:24:33.819 --> 00:24:36.140
a Halloween episode, where it turned out the

00:24:36.140 --> 00:24:37.839
whole episode was a dream. You know, one of those.

00:24:37.980 --> 00:24:41.079
But they had a murderer chasing them and trying

00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:47.240
to kill them all. Eric quotes South Park several

00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:50.000
times in the episode. And I was like, that feels

00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:53.880
really out of place. Yes. South Park being like

00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:56.559
very adult. And then, you know, he was like,

00:24:56.640 --> 00:24:59.059
oh, my gosh, they killed Kenny. And I was like,

00:24:59.099 --> 00:25:04.130
yeah. What? But it did. It kind of grew the topics

00:25:04.130 --> 00:25:09.710
about sex and marriage and drug use and alcoholism

00:25:09.710 --> 00:25:14.470
and abusive fathers. I mean, these topics, they

00:25:14.470 --> 00:25:17.529
they became more in depth and more mature as

00:25:17.529 --> 00:25:19.470
they matured, which I don't know if you really

00:25:19.470 --> 00:25:22.809
see that a whole lot in sitcoms. No. And I think

00:25:22.809 --> 00:25:26.559
that episode you're talking about is. And then

00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:29.680
there was Sean. It had a guest appearance from

00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:31.460
Jennifer Love Hewitt. And I remember that episode.

00:25:31.619 --> 00:25:34.559
Right. Love that episode. But you're right. Like,

00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:37.759
there's a total dark side to this show in a good

00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:41.640
way. And it's balancing. It grounds the goofiness.

00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.980
You know, the tonal shifts. You've got this goofy

00:25:45.980 --> 00:25:48.400
stuff. You've got middle school kids going from

00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:50.920
middle school to episodes about being in cults.

00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:54.440
Drinking, showing the realities of poverty. You

00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:57.819
know, that's not fun and games anymore. And it's

00:25:57.819 --> 00:26:00.380
real life. And Boy Meets World was showing us

00:26:00.380 --> 00:26:02.359
a lot of that, too. The episode with the cult.

00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:04.460
That's one of my favorite episodes. Oh, yeah.

00:26:04.460 --> 00:26:07.779
And that's a powerful. Very powerful episode.

00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:10.660
First of all, Jonathan Turner, he disappears.

00:26:10.660 --> 00:26:12.519
We never see him again after this motorcycle

00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:14.920
accident in this episode. So I don't know if

00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:17.880
it's RIP, Mr. Turner. There is a mention of him

00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:20.859
on the graduation episode. I love how Boy Meets

00:26:20.859 --> 00:26:23.200
World does not shy away from making fun of itself.

00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.819
Oh, yeah. So we had graduation episode, Lee Norris,

00:26:27.819 --> 00:26:30.619
who played Minkus. And Minkus was in the earlier

00:26:30.619 --> 00:26:33.099
episodes, right? And then just kind of disappeared.

00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:35.819
You know, he was like the nerdy little kid in

00:26:35.819 --> 00:26:38.099
the first few seasons. And then he kind of disappears.

00:26:38.119 --> 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 --> 00:26:58.250
been here this whole time. And then he's like,

00:26:58.329 --> 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 --> 00:27:12.170
and he's a teacher. Wow. He's still alive. He's

00:27:12.170 --> 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 in the, I guess it was last season

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

00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:23.880
Side of the school. It's over there. Now, I wonder

00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:26.440
if we're going to see a Boy Meets World spinoff

00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:27.859
with the other side of the school. That'd be

00:27:27.859 --> 00:27:29.920
fun. Yeah, what was going on with Minkus this

00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:33.000
whole time? Minkus shows back up in Girl Meets

00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:35.539
World, too. He's got a kid or something. Oh,

00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:37.960
that's right. Yeah. That's right. I did see that

00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:39.500
episode. I haven't watched a lot of Girl Meets

00:27:39.500 --> 00:27:41.480
World, but I did see that they have, like, this

00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:44.599
kid that's following them around. I'm going to

00:27:44.599 --> 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 --> 00:27:58.160
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 --> 00:28:12.720
was in L .A. if I could. And I went down there

00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:14.519
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 --> 00:28:18.900
cool, that'd be awesome. And I get there and

00:28:18.900 --> 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.

00:28:44.109 --> 00:28:46.329
I think they would appreciate it. I think they

00:28:46.329 --> 00:28:50.549
did. I was probably going to propose to Topanga

00:28:50.549 --> 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 --> 00:29:02.410
we've been talking for a while about Boy Meets

00:29:02.410 --> 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.

00:29:06.529 --> 00:29:09.539
We've got to bring this back again. Yeah. Maybe

00:29:09.539 --> 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 --> 00:29:16.559
going to work on that. I would love that. Hey,

00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:20.859
Danielle. Please, Danielle. Anybody, anybody.

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

00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:26.599
but anybody, I'd be welcome to talk to you about

00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.970
it. And before we end, that's one of the. other

00:29:30.970 --> 00:29:33.029
great things about this show is all the cameo

00:29:33.029 --> 00:29:36.089
appearances um every member of the monkeys makes

00:29:36.089 --> 00:29:37.930
it into one episode and they actually play a

00:29:37.930 --> 00:29:40.390
song but they aren't a band in the show they're

00:29:40.390 --> 00:29:42.269
different characters that end up together and

00:29:42.269 --> 00:29:45.269
play a song and i loved i was a huge monkeys

00:29:45.269 --> 00:29:48.809
fan i love the monkeys i love their tv show nick

00:29:48.809 --> 00:29:51.490
at night anyway so that was super fun for me

00:29:51.490 --> 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 --> 00:30:29.769
you know, Ben Savage in his own way, he's adorable

00:30:29.769 --> 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 --> 00:30:48.029
up doing some porn later on. She's 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 --> 00:30:57.279
of, he played probably the goofiest character

00:30:57.279 --> 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.

00:31:12.299 --> 00:31:15.619
My favorite cameo in all of it was probably besides

00:31:15.619 --> 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 --> 00:31:23.319
the scenes. This guy's scary as hell in real

00:31:23.319 --> 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 --> 00:31:33.180
Adam Scott being a bully on here? I do. I totally

00:31:33.180 --> 00:31:36.119
did. I totally forgot to make a note of it. Because

00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:38.619
when I saw him, I was like, look who's on here.

00:31:38.660 --> 00:31:41.079
I know. That's incredible. And it was just like

00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:44.039
real quick. Like he's like in and out. There's

00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:47.759
a lot of people that were in this show. Jennifer

00:31:47.759 --> 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 --> 00:31:55.960
Cameron Burr, another three -namer. They were

00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:58.220
both in there. That's DJ from Full House, and

00:31:58.220 --> 00:32:01.799
yeah, Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Right? Brittany

00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:04.079
Murphy. I think some of those were those crossover

00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:06.299
episodes where they're doing the TGIF crossover.

00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:08.859
Yeah. I love that, too. I mean, who didn't? I'm

00:32:08.859 --> 00:32:11.480
a sucker for that stuff. I'm like, ah, look who

00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:14.960
it is! You know what? On that note, we should

00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:17.099
start doing crossover podcast episode. We're

00:32:17.099 --> 00:32:18.680
going to do some crossovers with some people,

00:32:18.700 --> 00:32:20.700
some other podcasts. And you know, I actually

00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:22.720
don't need to talk or anything. I would just

00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.079
love it if I could, if somebody was doing a podcast

00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:27.019
like we're doing right now and I just walk past

00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:30.259
in the background. That's a cool. I'd be so happy.

00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:32.559
That's a cool cameo. We'll start doing it. Well,

00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:34.640
look, we're going to have to come back to TGIF.

00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:36.960
We may do more shows from TGIF. The dinosaur

00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:38.740
show. We got to do that show. I love that show.

00:32:38.740 --> 00:32:41.759
Yeah. You got to add that to the list. So many.

00:32:41.859 --> 00:32:44.079
What? You know what? This is for the freaks before

00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:46.500
we get out of here. What's your favorite TGIF

00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:50.819
show? Yep, send it in. I want to know. When you

00:32:50.819 --> 00:32:54.799
turned on TGIF on Friday night ABC, what was

00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:57.720
the show? I know you watched all four every night,

00:32:57.779 --> 00:33:00.259
but what was the one that you could not live

00:33:00.259 --> 00:33:03.279
without? Mine was Boy Meets World. This was the

00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:06.359
one for me. Wow. For sure. What about you? You

00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:08.319
know. There's so many, right? It's probably Boy

00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:10.680
Meets World. Now that I think about it, I'm like,

00:33:10.700 --> 00:33:12.259
is there anything that I look forward to more?

00:33:12.500 --> 00:33:15.380
I don't know. I mean, I think earlier on, before

00:33:15.380 --> 00:33:19.019
Boy Meets World, it was kind of in the full house

00:33:19.019 --> 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 --> 00:33:44.730
Pinchot? And yeah, that was a great one. I mean,

00:33:44.750 --> 00:33:46.910
this is why we need the freaks to give us their

00:33:46.910 --> 00:33:49.789
favorites so that I can be like, oh yeah, I totally

00:33:49.789 --> 00:33:52.390
forgot about that show. Yeah, freaks, come out.

00:33:52.410 --> 00:33:54.230
Come out and let us know what's your favorite

00:33:54.230 --> 00:33:57.130
TGIF show. Yeah, because around that same time,

00:33:57.190 --> 00:34:01.529
I got really into Must See TV on Thursdays on...

00:34:02.780 --> 00:34:05.160
NBC. NBC, right? So those were a little bit more

00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:08.820
adult. But also, I was super into Nick at Night.

00:34:08.980 --> 00:34:11.880
So I was watching, like, Silicon's Island, Bewitched,

00:34:12.059 --> 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 --> 00:34:22.199
Nick at Night was all black and white. Yep. Now

00:34:22.199 --> 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 --> 00:34:31.110
a minute. Oh, that kills me. Yeah. I love me

00:34:31.110 --> 00:34:33.050
some friends, but I don't think that's a Nick

00:34:33.050 --> 00:34:36.690
at night. Old enough. Yeah, we're going to keep

00:34:36.690 --> 00:34:38.909
going, but we better not. Love boy meets world.

00:34:39.010 --> 00:34:41.130
We don't need any final thoughts on this. I am

00:34:41.130 --> 00:34:43.670
just playing. She is Coco. This is parallel frequencies.

00:34:43.949 --> 00:34:46.150
You are the freaks and we will see you on the

00:34:46.150 --> 00:34:47.110
other side. Holy crap.