TGI – Episode 314 “A Kiss is More Than a Kiss” - Pod Meets World

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Speaker 1 (00:18):
So I'm in a new location today. I feel like
I'm in an underground bunker. You're not supposed to know
where I am. Adler is home sick from school today
because you know, he's been in school all of four days,
so naturally he would have to catch some viruses and
have to be home. This little Petrie dish of school.

(00:40):
Oh man, I can't wait for them to grow out
of that. So I texted dear friend Wilfred Ell and said, hey,
Will do you mind if I come record at your house?
And he goes, yeah, I'll throw you in the theater room.
So I'm in the theater room. You can see I'm
a little robbilly over here. I have one lamp over here.
That's that's shining up somehow. I still have decent lighting,

(01:03):
even though it's pretty dark in here. My laptop is
resting on approximately twenty maybe twenty five DVDs, and my
microphone stand is on a little box. And Will told
me that in order for his room where he records
to be even a remotely reasonable temperature, the air has
to be blasting, and that means this room is going

(01:25):
to get freezing.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
He's gonna be I can't wait to watch as we
continue to go on, just the holderholder and Will it's
gonna be sweating.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
So I'm going to be round for long and will
going to be roasting.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Still, what actually happened was this last night Jensen said,
you know, producer Jensen husband's podcast said, Danielle may need
to record at your place tomorrow. She'll text you tomorrow.
So I get out of the shower to Jensen calling
going Danielle's outside. It wasn't my most organized moment.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Oh okay, clothes over wet like nastiness to run out
and let her in.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
And just be like marking on the gate or anything.
I was sitting in my perfectly comfortable car. I wasn't like,
you know, I didn't wing for Genzen to make it
sound like I had slept there overnight.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
No, it was the bathroom that is attached to the
theater room. Yeah, you used to have movie quotes that
everyone you still.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Do, right, So one half of it is a respectable,
nice bathroom. You had it done. But I kept the
one half of the wall where it's all just movie quotes.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
And I got that idea from you, right, because I
got from quotes all over.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I didn't actually have quotes. I had like unanswerable questions
all over poetry. You had some quotes from poetry, and
I had some poetry.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah. In my first apartment in downtown, I put I
put let's see, I put a Van Morrison quote on
the wall. Yeah, I had some quotes on the walls.
But then I had Sharpie and people I invited people
to just write unanswerable questions like how come when it rains,
sheep don't shrink? Ye?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Why do you drive on a parkway and park in
a driveway? Why do yeah? Exactly? Or what happens if
you step on.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Some good ones? And then yeah, and then you started.
You just offered Sharpie's of all colors and said anybody
had movie quotes? So I part of or any of
mine left?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Probably Yeah, I mean there's a bunch you're.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
A deep investigation.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Before you should there's half is still covered in movie quotes.
It's great. And then and that's just the the man
cave brag room. It's like that's you know, do.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
You want me to go?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Should this?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Should I go?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
See? What recognize my handwriting?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I definitely recognize your handwriting.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Horror horror pretty sloppy and I know you're okay, we'd
check it out.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I bet you it's a stamp by quote. That's probably
by the way. Now that she's off Mike, she's going
to freeze in there. It's gonna be so cold. I'm
already warm and it's gonna be like sixty degrees there.
She goes, Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Think you got a stamp Oh you know what what
was up? It was the Pez quote, but that was
on the wall that got erased.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was it was Pez cherry flavored Pez, no, no doubt,
no question about it, and that was on the one.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Question about it that was on the wall.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, so she's not gonna real to find any of mine.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
I'm back with an update.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, we figured it out right as you left.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh you did?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Really?

Speaker 4 (04:16):
What'd you figure out?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
That had written his quote and it was on the
wall that was erased?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh? Really?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Did you find one that?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
What I was going to say is that I don't
actually know you're writing as well as I thought I would.
Everybody's writing in there looks like it could.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Have been.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Oh yeah, Sammy.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Sammy and I are best friends right now. So I
did take some pictures. I feel like there's one that
could be from you that says you don't write in
all caps ever?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Do you no capes? Occasionally?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
No, there's one where's the one that's all?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I took some pictures.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
I see one that says Dad would have gotten us
Oozy's Night of the comment that kind of looks like
you're writing.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
But great movie, great movie Night of the Comet. Oh,
great movie, Dad would have gotten his boozies. Awesome.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
There was there's one that's written kind of in all
caps that I was like, that looks like it could
be although we didn't need about Mystic the movie and
would that have no?

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Not you? Okay?

Speaker 4 (05:19):
It says M S T three.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
MST three K Mystery Science Theater, three thousand Street Science Theater.
Was that breech hole All die Even had it underline?

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yes exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
It actually says, look at that reach hole. All die
Even had it under yep, yep, that's it. You're so funny,
how how much you know every single thing that's on the.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Shope even had an underline? Great movie?

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I mean, I feel like writer would have had to
have had more than one, right.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I think the one, yeah, the one he put up
was pez Cherry. If I can only eat one food
for the rest of my life. Yeah, but I thought,
what about.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
When times are at their darkest, it's as a man
who can kick back and party.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, no, that is that was Greg. That was my
brother Greg. That's Innerspace, great movie. We're kind of we
speaking quotes my brothers and I. So those are all
just that's the first thing I did, was right. The
first one up there was we didn't need a pencil.
I put that up my right.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
I did see that. I did know that was for
sure you because it's from your favorite.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Movie exactly, that's Ishtar. So yeah, there we got some
great ones up there. But writing, there's something about writing
on the walls that just made it feel like it
was my place right, just like I'm just gonna write.
I'm gonna let people write on the wall. And at
one point people were writing on the ceilings and the
whole it got a little cluttered. So when when Susan
moved in and we were talking about redoing the bathroom,

(06:36):
it was like, why don't we keep half, which we did,
and there's still pens there and then the other half
is like nicely painted. Oh so I could I could
go put my quote?

Speaker 3 (06:43):
You can quote still quotable up there, absolutely plenty of space,
and the pens are still there.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
What are you gonna add? Writer, I guess I'll.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Stand by me quote.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
I don't know if it'll be the same one, though,
maybe I'll find something something else.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
You know, because I like the small ones. What would
be great is something just like what I heard was
sick Balls, just great.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
I would probably have to add something from like hot Rod.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I do like, I have to see that movie.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
I keep hearing it's so good, it's so the pop
star was historical.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
You know what I would do, I do a defending
your life quote, since well and I both love it
so much.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
There's just one up there.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, I think there's one up actually doing like a
doing a waiting for Guffman quote would be good too.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
There's one day they have everybody dances up there. Everybody
dance that's already up there. But the the nine nine day?
How many days you're looking at? Nine days? I still
his response when they say, you know I brought you
nine pies. You asked for it. He goes, no, sir,
I did not. You're embarrassing me.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh god, writer, you've seen that movie? Right? Oh yeah,
but yeah, gotta watch it again. Well, welcome to Pod
Meets World. I'm Daniel fishl I'm Writer Strong.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
And I'm Wilfordell.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Today we are recapping season three, episode fourteen, A Kiss
Is More Than a Kiss. It originally aired January twenty sixth,
nineteen ninety six. The synopsis is Corey can't seem to
move on after his breakup with Tapanga, and his emotions
are sent to the breaking point when he sees her
kissing another guy. Dum.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
It was directed ever, geez, I'll get into that.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
We will get into that. It was directed by John Tracy.
It was written by Michael Swordlick. New name alert. I
have not heard this name is writing one of our
episodes before, and I am not familiar with him, So
this must have been one of those outside scripts.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, what is it too? Was it two or four season?

Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think to at least two a season had to
be written from outside the room. Okay, And so guest starring,
introducing Lindsey Ridgeway as Morgan.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
So happy to see her, So happy to see her?

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yes, And then we have Andy McAfee as Melissa, who
has gone on to have an impressive voiceover career in
video games like Mortal Kombat ten, Mass Effect, and Saints Row,
but she is best known as the voice of iconic
nineties cartoon characters Phoebe from Hey Arnold and Ashley A
on Recess. Do you know her well?

Speaker 2 (09:30):
I do not well, but yes, we've definitely worked together before.
So funny.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
And then we have a Dina Panela as Katie. This
is her only credit on IMDb, so this is like
the first and only time she worked that she at
least got credited for.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
And then we have sad the Industry. I'm good, thank you.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
And then we have Sadie Stratton as Felicia, who has
just seen in Oppenheimer as Mary Washburn. You've also seen
her Uncharmed, All My Children, Parenthood and Westworld Wow. And
then Shane West as Nick, one of our more famous
guest stars. He would go on to star in A
Walk to Remember with Mandy Moore and play Tom Sawyer

(10:13):
in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And on TV he'd
star in over seventy episodes of R and another seventy
on Nikita. So to jump into our recap, we start
in the school hallway. Do we actually should we talk
about overall feelings.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Okay, So here's my overall feeling. Honestly, if we're just
going to forget, like just be okay with Corey being creepy,
like we're just not going to talk about it, and
it's just it's how it is. It's actually not a
bad episode. Yeah, writer, you were great in this episode, and.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Will I felt like I had nothing to do in
this I.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Thought you were great in this episode.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
And I liked my story last episode and I love
being Yeah, so a lot of good in this episode.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
It just it just, you know what, it was weird.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
This episode was really a series of very short scenes,
like it went by like it kept being like what
where are we It was like every scene was only
like a page long. It was just a little disorienting.
It wasn't like the pace felt off to me.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
But otherwise it was a it was a fine episode.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
And Danielle, I feel like you arrived, doesn't I agree?
I agree, such an amazing presence in this episode, and
like for the first time, the drama between you and Ben.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Felt like it felt right. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Agree, It just felt like, oh cool, this is like
complicated and interesting, and these actors are really listening to
each other. I don't know, like it didn't feel like
the actual breakup episode felt melodramatic to me, whereas this
just felt good, Like I agree.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
It also to me this episode could not highlight anymore
that they have no idea how to use Alex. Oh yeah,
it's just like what are you doing to this incredible actor?
Like what how is this? What you ended up with
two lines in the whole episode? Like how is that
where you landed? So that was the other thing that

(12:07):
was in my head was like, wow, this is the
quintessential example of how they just did not know how
to use this guy.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, that's true. He was really wasted in this episode,
but so was Tony. I mean, you know again funny. Yeah,
he says that whole scene where he's introducing the fashion show,
which is hilarious. I can't wait to get to that scene.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
I think overall it's just weird.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Has heard of that?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
And then if you see something the parents like for
your children, go ahead and order it.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
What is this that's adults sitting there looking at like
teenagers addressing and the.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Like, who I like that one. I'm going to order
that for my daughter.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Whose idea?

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Where day has anybody dear listeners, send us an email.
Have you ever heard of this happening at your school?
Are their prom fashion shows.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
For parents to purchase the clothing for their teenage children.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Please let me know. I've never heard of such a thing.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
I thought it was so weird, and I I to
Rea to just put a little punch on what writer said.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
All the short little scenes made it feel out of
character for a Boy Meets World episode, and it's a
It's one of the ways you can tell. Oh, of course, well,
this was written by somebody from outside the room. So
of course, when somebody from outside the room writes a
script and they're not, you know, in the same flow
of all the other writers, they have their own style.
So it does have it's a cool spin and a different.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Feel to it. I actually kind of liked it.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
I thought it I thought it added some some good
opportunities for laughs. I thought writer was great in this episode.
I thought Will was spectacular in this episode. I loved
his storyline. I was actually, for the first time ever
comfortable with my performance. I was like, hey, I'm I'm
comfortable with what I'm doing here. But yeah, I just
you know, same thing we've already said I have so

(13:51):
many issues with the way Corey is portrayed. I just
don't understand. I just don't get it. And we'll talk
about that as we get into the scenes. But overall,
I love the episode. I love the idea of when
you see that you're a person you had been in
a relationship with has moved on all the feelings that
stirs up in you, and that you don't know how
to handle it. I thought that's really great. I love
love the BT storyline. Yeah, and man, I uh, I cried,

(14:16):
Oh wow, We'll get to that. We'll get to that.
Into our recap. We start in the school hallway. We
catch the end of Topanga and Corey talking and as
she leaves, Sean runs up to ask if he was
talking to Tapanga. Corey says they're still friends even though
they broke up, and Sean says, she's your ex. Let
me spell that for you x X. I thought your
hair is so long, don't you.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Did talk about long hair in this episode and you.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
You're rocking the Jennifer Aniston the Rachel.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
But you know what I've noticed is that I like,
basically since season one, I haven't been touching it all
the time. Remember how I was like in that first season,
was constantly running my hand. I've just completely stopped, like
I never given up.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
I know. It's like I've finally gotten comfortable. Yeah, you
were finding in this episode. I'm sorry you were fair.
You make a.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Face later in this You make a face later in
the episode that I had me rolling. I was like,
I can't wait to get there too. So Corey says
to Panga and him aren't like other couples. Sean says
they aren't a couple, and Sean tells Gels that that's
his point exactly. So Corey says they agree. Sean tells him, no,
I think we're saying the same thing. And again we're
back to a little bit of dumb Sean that I

(15:25):
think is perfect and plays really well and is very
cute between the two of you. And then to Pega
walks back up to the boys to let Corey know
he has to be there at three for the promwere
fashion fest. Sean looks confused as to Panga explain explains
that her and Corey are.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Most an event, like what is I guess they're just
fashion fest? Fashion fest, okay?

Speaker 1 (15:46):
And why is that something to Panga would have been into.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Do you know? Now? At our school, we did a
thing where a couple of the guys would wear tuxedos
with the average heisman of the place that could rent it.
Weeks before the prom. They'd wear it John Tucks dot
com right.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
And then you and then they'd get a free Tucks
that night they'd get they get a free TuS on
prom if they wore it to school. They didn't do
a fashion show, but they literally go to school in
like a tuxedo and the back said, you know John
whatever John talks, and then that would be a walking
advertisement and to do that, they'd get a free.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Tux that night.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
I feel like that's close enough, kind of justifies the
existence of whole fair enough.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
So that was a real thing, at least in Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, yeahs.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
The only way we had to advertise anything was just
word of mouth and one.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
Person walking around the school of six.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Gets prom night this night. Yes, it was my gosh.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
So to make things worse, as she leaves, she kisses
Corey on the cheek. Corey tails are not to do that,
but she says she's always done that. Corey looks at
Sean and he's tearing up.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
He says, I.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Think I lost you, man, and Corey tells him I
said I'd do this fashion fest thing while we were
still going out. I can't bail on her. Sean tells
Corey he has to move on. Corey says to quick crying,
He's just a guy in a tucks walking down an
aisle with his ex girlfriend and a gown in front
of the entire school.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
And you think I haven't moved on.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Sean says, of Corey's really over her, then he'll go
on a double date, and Corey says.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, but what will you do?

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Sean?

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Woo right, kids, got game?

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Huh. Sean then shouts over to Katie and Melissa, two
girls who are passing by, asking if they want to
go out with him and Corey tonight. They say that'd
be great. Sean puts his arm around Corey and says,
we just got ourselves a double date. What do you say?
And Corey nervously tells Sean you go, and then we're
back to the Corey we all know and love.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Little great suit.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, cute, yeah, pop bablish everything, Get it right?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
You need to not too long, funny, really great, Yeah,
have no complaints.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
No, And then we're in the Matthew's backyard, Eric rocking
that Jennifer Aniston's the Rachel hair do is in the backyard.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Watch this episode with Alex in the second we'll walked
on Screezers.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
That's some hair.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
That was so this was this episode, and I think
the next one where the catalysts to the network calling
and making me get my haircut.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Mab, We've told the.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Story of of Jeff McCracken cutting his hair because they
made me cut my hair.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
This is why. And this is pre Lori Heaps, right,
who still cuts our hair even when my hair got
that long later could style it in such a way
that it looked good. This was it did It looked
like a wig craziness. So yeah, even when it was
that was tough. And the big sweaters, it was a
whole weird combination.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, there was a lot going on for you. Are
you seeing Lori Heaps today?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I am seeing Lori Heaps.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
How exciting Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's getting back there. Jeff maccracken's gonna have to cut
his own.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Hair so exactly because you're rocking the Rachel again.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's getting bad.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, so then he's opening a letter from Penn State
while Feoenie is next door conveniently walking by. Eric sadly
reads he wasn't accepted, and Poenie tells him he's sorry.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Eric says that I don't feel sorry for me. He's
not disappointed.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
He tells Feenie he came outside to read the letter
because his parents take the college rejections hard. Eric explains,
when you get thirty to forty of these rejection letters,
it just rolls right off your back. Phoene says, perhaps
your parents could use a little.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
P pep talk.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
No one likes rejection, but if you keep applying and
keep trying, you and the right college will find each other.
Eric then thanks Phoenie and catches himself, and then thanks
Feoenie for his parents. And I thought again, cute fast
got to the point.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Amazing connection between the two of you and this and
this whole episode, that you guys are just so great together,
and this is like peak Phoenie. As far as his outfit,
he's got the little.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Hat, the vast the layers and the.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Gardening costume.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Just hel giving him college advice, no big deal, But.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
I remember it, so I remember back to first season
watching especially, it was the scene where Phoenie's in his
in his robe and he's sipping the kognak and Ben
comes over it, or he thinks it's kanyak it and
he's like sitting there, going what's going on? He tips
it and it's and it's iced tea.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
And I remember watching that during run through and the
jealousy of the actor took over. It was like, man,
I just want to do scenes like that with Bill.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
It'd be so amazing. And then I remember shooting stuff
like this and going, oh, this is it, Like.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, good, getting it to that moment where you were
like the thing I prayed for is now coming true
in front of my eyes, instead of being like it's
just not good enough.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, No, I loved it.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
And I could tell this is what they were doing.
They were They was like, yeah, it's going to be
Eric and Feenie. This is really going to be Eric
and Phoenie.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
So this is the third or fourth episode in a
row where they kind of paired us together and we
knew it was coming. So it was yeah stuff shooting
with him was As I watched it again last night,
it was just like, man, I'm miss shooting these scenes
with him so good and he made you better. He
just made you better by being there.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
I also just really like this one because it's not
you guys going to the opera. It's not like a
big set up. It's very simple. You guys are just
acting well together. You're just talking to each other. You're
just talking and you're funny and like, it's just you
can see the connection. You guys have such chemistry as actors.
It's really really special.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
It's so good.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
So then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Corey is walking
around eating a lemon. He's also wearing a like lemon suit.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
A yellow is Cory's color.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
I feel like this is the like ultimate Corey weird
outfit of just because like remember when when Betsy bought
me yes yellow.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
That is so Corey, you know, And now it's like
mustard yellow. It's like spicy dijon, And I'm like, what is.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
That Rain Wilson from the office. That's what he always wears,
is the mustards yellow shirts. It's the same kind of thing.
He's white, He's becoming dwhite.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, that is pretty much what it is. So he's
sucking on a lemon, because they're out of mints. Eric
questions second citrus, Eh, little Corey's got a Amy then
walks downstairs and joins the chorus. Corey dad says you're
going on a date, and Corey emphasizes it's not a date.
Corey asks why they can't learn from Morgan. She's a
great sister. She stays in her room. You don't hear
from her, you don't see her, and best of all,
she stays out of my personal life. So I love

(22:16):
that they reminded the audience.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
And you haven't seen.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Her in a while, and I Corey love that about her.
I think that's I think the way they set it
up is great. And then an older looking Morgan walks
into the kitchen and says, so roomor upstairs is you've
got a date? Corey, surprised, says Morgan, longtime no see
and this new dupe. Morgan responds saying, yeah, that was
the longest time out I've ever had.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
She it was so funny. This Lindsay is like tiny,
She's so cute. She's like a little girl. I know
is an adult is weird for us because she was
so little.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I actually when I have when I think of my
memories of lindsay, I think of her in her slightly
older yeah year seventies yea.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Because she also was a very mature kid, do you
know what I mean? Like especially, I guess she is
older than Lily was.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Right, Like, yes, yeah, Lily was, and she was she
was twelve? Was she twelve?

Speaker 1 (23:15):
There? I think she was twelve because remember I said,
there's no way I was only like fifteen or something
when she started. So I was only like a few
years older than her. Wow, so maybe she was eleven.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
That's yes, Ben's age when Ben started the show. Yes,
that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
So Eric asks who the unlucky girl is and Corey
says her name is Melissa and they're just seeing a movie.
Morgan asks what that thing on your nose? As Corey
worries about a possible is it? Morgan high five's Eric
and she says it's too easy, and man, the weasel
is back.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
She's and I love this good too. She's good.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
She's good and seeing her partner with you again, another
great partner for Eric.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, I wonder what was the motivation to like bring
Morgan back? Like, I wonder what you know if there
was a network note because we have a huge cast,
you know, like we definitely are not using Alex that much,
We're not using Tony all that much. Like it's it's
interesting that they felt the pressure to you know, I
wonder if it was like, oh, we're losing our little
kid factor, like our you know.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Our children do think that's what it is. I think
that it may have been a network thing that was
like we've lost the youngest demographic in a family, and
if they're not going to watch, how are we going
to We're not necessarily going to keep the adults around.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
So it's like they felt like they can rely on teenagers.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Okay, next thin Kendall, I want to find out what
the motivation was to bring Morgan back, because it seems
like that is exactly a network note. It's got to
be because I mean, again, even with Indie, we met
with one of our writers yesterday who brought her her
son who's twelve, who said they loved.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Morgan, they loved he's fourteen.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
He's fourteen, right, sorry, so I mean but he loved
Morgan and he loved Morgan. I mean, she connected with
the younger audience. So I guessing you're right, it's got
to be that kind of network note.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Amy asks Morgan to come watch TV with her in
the other room, but Morgan says, I just got here.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
I have to leave again.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
And Amy asks Morgan if she's here now, and Morgan
says yeah. Amy asks where she was before, and Morgan
tells her I was in my room for a real
long time.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
I thought it was a.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Little weird to do the same joke over again, over
again twice in the same scene, Like I I dit,
it was great.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, they want you to know.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Okay, is this the first meta boy meets world moment?

Speaker 4 (25:31):
I mean other than his head? Oh, you mean of
us acknowledging.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
TV show we're commenting on like the things that we've
done as a show, Like, I mean the kind almost
the closest was like when when Corey was like, no
one's ever told me I look like my parents are,
you know, like commented to the fact that, like the
casting is just clearly all right.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
But that wasn't quite the same.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Like this is actually a joke that you own get
if you've been following along with the show and you
know that Morgan was basically written off and replaced. It
be our first meta joke we do a lot of
meta jokes as the show goes on, but this might
be one of the first.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
What's the first one that pops into your head when
you think of the biggest meta jokes.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
On Boy when we when Ben is babysitting, then we
moved the time slid.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
They're trying to kill it and it's got to be
coming up soon.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
It's like probably fourth season.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
But yeah, I remember that was just we just thought
that was hysterical. We was meta jokes, it was, But
that must be so confusing and streaming for people when
that joke comes on because time slot Friday night, Like,
it just makes no Yeah, it makes sense.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
There was There was one other feeny meta joke about writers, right,
wasn't there a TV writer joke?

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
I know.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
They said something like I had the greatest writers in
Hollywood and he said I wouldn't I wouldn't know.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, that was the first one.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Good called Daniel. That's the first one.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well, I wouldn't have it, but one of our producers
sent it into us, so thank you Reducer who reminded me.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
It's also you're in a really cold room, which stimulates Yeah,
I can't.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
See anything either. I'm trying to read my notes.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Cold and darts.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, so uh lamp no, I'm good things. I have
my cell phone.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Every time she looks at us, she blinds us.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Amy pats Morgan on the head with the newspaper and says,
be happy. So welcome to boy meets World, Lindsey Ridgeway
a great, fantastic entrance. Eric says a first date after
a serious relationship can be tough, and he offers advice, saying,
it's a whole new world. Whatever you do, don't mention
your ex girlfriend because your date is not interested. Good advice,

(27:46):
and then the phone starts ringing. Right as Eric is
emphasizing the most important thing that could save him from
getting in trouble, and right as he's about to reveal
it to Corey, Amy yells that Jody is on the
phone for Eric, and just like that, he jumps up
and ditches Corey, saying to the advice, wasn't that important anyways?

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Girls girls, girls, college in between college girls and stupid
for Eric at this point, a little from all the columns.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, just a little bit, which I like, By the way,
I love it. It's a nice mix. You've got your interests,
which makes sense. I'm trying to get into college.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
Of course, I like girls and it's balanced.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, it's balanced.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
So then we're in Chubbys.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Sean and his date are making out as Corey and
his date are talking about how great the movie he
saw was. Melissa says their movie was nice too, but
they missed him. Corey laughs and says it's not like
they'd be talking during the movie anyways. We cut to
Sean and his dates still making out as Melissa says
there are other things they could have done. I love
Corey saying like, that's the beauty of multiplexes. Why I

(28:41):
love food courts so much. You can eat what you want,
and I can eat Panda.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Express, and we should go to the food court.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Is it always Panda Express for you? Is that you're
good in a.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Food court most of the time.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah, it's just not good Chinese food.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
You're wrong, but that's okay.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
I still love you even though you're wrong. Sean, now
orally removed from kissing our featured actress, asks if they're
going to keep talking because he can't hear himself kiss. Meanwhile,

(29:22):
Sean's date, finally up for air, excuses her and Katie
from the table.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
That was funny that she says that when she's like,
you barely heard it, so it was under the laugh.
She didn't hold for a laugh, but when she just goes, oh,
fresh air, fresh air, that was funny.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Now alone, Sean looks at Corey and says, Hi, I
want a date. What are you on? And Corey answers
a date, which I thought was interesting because he just
really stressed in the scene before it was not a date.
So is he just is he saying to Sean it's
a date because he knows that's what Sean wants to hear.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah, because it's a double date that Sean planned, but
he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, it doesn't make okay, but Sean corrects him, he's
on a lecture circuit. A date is not a date
until you kiss. Corey says that's just Sean's opinion, and
Shawan emphasizes it's the reason we got out of the trees.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Man, you were so good in this episode. Rid you
were so totally felt like but.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
No, you were great. He doesn't want to pressure Corey,
but he says he has to kiss her by the
end of the night, and he has until the doorstep
and then we're at Melissa's doorstep, which is a little
bit we talked about it. It's not really an optical flip.
It's just like a a passage. Well, an optical flip
usually feels like I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be
on Melissa's doorstep, and then boom, you're Melissa's doorstep. But

(30:36):
this is a little bit of like the pressure is
on man. And then within the idea of the joke
being half a second later, here you are.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Here's the moment of truth. So I don't know, I
didn't know what to call.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
It, but it was an optical flip adjacent Okay, Corey
and Melissa are standing awkwardly as Corey says, so here
we are at the doorstep. Melissa tells him he said
that three times already. Melissa tells Corey to kiss her.
He's nervous and says, really just like that, and she says, yeah,
don't you want to? As Corey stands there looking conflicted.
We go back to the school cafeteria. Eric runs toward

(31:07):
mister Turner, who is wearing a very cool tie. He's
with mister Williams and mister Feenie and they were eating lunch.
Eric holds up a letter and exclaims, they said it
couldn't be done. They said it was impossible. Turner responds,
they said, we here, so it's so straight out of
Rocky A great read.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
My copy of X Men. I'm sitting here, give me
a break. So good? It is so good? Oh remember, yeah, yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Eric tells them wrong on all three counts. Phoene asks
if he's going to tell them or just torment them,
and Eric says both. I hold here a letter of
acceptance to college. The teachers all cheer for him, and
Phoene says his parents must be relieved and very happy.
And he says, I sure, am, which I thought was
a very cute little button to that whole moment. But
like he knew, and you knew, and you were fine

(32:13):
acknowledging it. Mister Williams asks which college, and Eric tells
him Boris.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
They're all confused.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
College, by the.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Way, like just perfect bris it's so good, College, s Boris.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Phoene says he's not familiar with any Boris and asks
to see the letter. Eric han's pheenie the letter, but
asks if he can wipe his hands first, because this
letter is going up on the fridge right under the
magnetic sushi. Phoene reads the letter and congratulates him again,
saying Boris is lucky to have him. Eric thanks Phoene
for always believing in him. When Boris plays Notre Dame,
you're going to be sitting right next to me on

(32:54):
the fifty yard line. Eric yells to a girl, Hey, Kristin,
guess who got into college, and he takes off off.
Once Eric's gone, Turner questions Boris. Mister William says he'll
take Notre Dame by sixty points. Nearby. Corey sits down
with Sean home.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Partner the ship and it was great great.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yep, I know uh, and Sean, just by looking at him,
asks all you did was shake her hand. Corey asks
how he knows, and Sean says, it's written all over
your own kissed face. Corey said he wanted to kiss her,
his lips were primed, but his hand just got there first.
Sean says he will never be over to Panga until
he can kiss another girl. Corey assures him he will.

(33:32):
Sean says, well, after last night, Melissa will never want
to see you again. And then on cue, Melissa walks
up to Corey in a blossom hat and.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
She thing, she looks just like Blossom.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
At that point, it's like that must have been that
the hat, you know, like you think of all the
things we've talked about that must have been network notes,
and you you look at all the different departments who
were probably also looking at all the other shows out there,
and regardless of getting a studio note or not, we're
going this look is in. I have to start incorporating
this into some of our wardrobe.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Speaking of studio notes, I've just heard back from David Kendall,
our producer, who said that I said, what was the
motivation to bring Morgan back? And he wrote general embarrassment
that she was let go in the first place, which
studio insisted on. It's like the studio insisted that she
be let go, and then there was an embarrassment she
was let go, so they brought the character back.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Interesting being on the show was the studio note.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Right and then and then everyone wanted her back.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Okay, so that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
But the writer's room was annoyed that Morgan had to
be let go to begin with, and then was like, well, then.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
We're going to find a way to bring her back.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
I guess so yeah, interesting, Yes, okay, thank you David Kendall.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Thank you, David Kendall. Melissa walks up to Corey in
a blossom hat and tells him she'd like to see
him again, and they make plans for later that night.
She says, you know, any other guy would have kissed me,
but you didn't. I like that, and Sean is shocked.
Everything I've ever believed is wrong. I must try this
what you call handshake again?

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Great read.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Katie walks by and says hid to Sean and he
jumps up to greet her and shakes her hand. He
shakes it and then immediately pulls her in and they
start passionately kissing again.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Take it out again.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
He tells him he's a genius.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
I know.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
And this is where I was like, Yeah, a lot
of guests I just make it out in school. I
don't know that I ever felt super comfortable making out
in school.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
But did you ever make out in school? Probably Rider?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
He Yeah, Well did I I don't know about Like
I mean, I went to a tiny, tiny school so
we could have My school had a smoking section. Isn't
that crazy?

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (35:42):
Your high school.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
And the rule was if you were in the smoking section,
your parents would find out about it, Like the teachers
would tell your parents.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Right because your parents that at your small, little Hippi
school might be like, yeah, man, we all.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Made his choices, you know me, Well it's time to
find your own life.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah, yeah, oh god, so ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
But yeah, no, I never dated anybody from my high school,
so it was.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Always a problem.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
So then the odds of you making out there would
be weird. So then we're back at Melissa's doorstep. Corey
and Melissa, standing awkwardly again, talk about the movie they saw.
Melissa says it was nice being in the same theater
as him, but maybe next time they could sit in
the same row, and Corey says he had to move.
He couldn't ask a guy to take his turbine off.

(36:32):
Is a valid point, Yeah, so, Melissa.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Says, he's not even sitting next no matter what he's
getting closer.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Yeah, there is.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Is the same theater, right, that's but that's it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah, Melissa says it seems only natural that they take
the next step since it is their second date, and
Corey quickly responds meet your parents and he rushes into
the door. He yells out everyone decent and just barges in.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
This is my favorite Corey nine too, like awkward, stress.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Wacky, try with Sean and not able to.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Exactly trying to do what he thinks he's supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Dorky, neurotic Cory.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yes, right, a great Corey, self righteous, emotionally manipulative Corey.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
You don't like him, you love him this way? I
mean running in, going time to meet your parents? Who
is decis so funny? Great Corey, Great Corey.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
And by the way, as the topanga to the Cory,
a guy who can't help but be his his dorky
self and despise but tries so hard. I want to
be more than I want to be like a cool guy.
If he were vulnerable about it, every girl would love him.

(37:46):
He'd have girls falling at his feet. I love how
authentic you are. I love how real you are. You're
so sweet, you're so funny, You're so this or so that.
But when he's both the goofy dorky fumbling over himself
and then furious and self right about the things you
were doing that you're allowed to do, But that when
I do it, I don't like it.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
It's like, oh my gosh, it's just.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I don't understand it. I don't I don't get it.
So then we are in Chubbys. Sean is playing pool
and Corey walks up. Sean takes a good look at
him and asks, you met her parents?

Speaker 4 (38:20):
How does he know?

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Corey says he was going to kiss her, but every
time he tried, all he could think about was Tapanga.
Corey realizes he's not over her, but she is also
not over him. He says, I know it, Tapanga knows it,
and he's interrupted when he sees Tapanga on a date
nearby kissing another boy sh Hessd Shane West.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
And like making out like mackin on it for each other.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Long long time, because we did not stop making out
just because the camera wasn't on us. So we made
out for the rest of that scene. Like once we
started kissing and he notices us kissing in the booth
and then he tries to run after him and then you.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Grab him gang Shane West.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
In real life, I did your mom to a photo.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
An actor choice.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Nobody want to know you want. So okay, here's.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
You remember he was on our show?

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Hid it with him years later, Like we had a
mutual friend and we like hung out a few times,
but like I had no recollection that he was ever
on our show.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Didn't either.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
Yeah, so you guys have all met Jen Fischer.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
You know what. My mom was just as excited as
I was when we read this episode, and.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
She was like, who do you think the guy? Who's
Who's the guy?

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Who do you think that I'm gonna be?

Speaker 1 (39:38):
And I was like, I don't know, but it's so
exciting because on this show, Ben and I were used
to kissing each other. Sure, so the idea that Tapega
gets to make out with some new guy was like,
who's it gonna be? And he wasn't at table read
and I don't think he was there even on day one.
I think he was there for three days. So I
think he came on Tuesday and was there for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

(40:03):
and so I had to wait all week and all week,
you know, until like Tuesday rolls around and and then
it's Shane West and I was like, boy, oh boy,
is he ever cure.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Or Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:16):
So excited, and then I think we had to kiss
for that first run through, like for the network run through,
but it's also possible we didn't kiss until tape day,
because what I will say is there are just some
people who don't share kissing styles and you don't necessarily
have kissing chemistry.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
And Shane and I.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Were two of those people.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
No kissing really, no kissing chemistry, no, and make out
for a long time.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
And I remember that too. Man.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
I remember I don't know when it's going to be,
but there was one guest star.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
It was awful, like it was. I just remember kissing
her and being like, nope, this is wrong.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
Yeah, I don't wants and I had to do it
all week and it wasn't this episode, I don't think,
but like I'm hoping i'll remember it, but I definitely
remember having that moment of like, oh yeah, sometimes you
just don't have chemistry and like.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Even when you think the person's really hot, it's just
doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Not there. Okay, wait, quick, quick, quick, I always say,
quick question. I've read this on online. Apparently, I say
very quickly, and then I go off for an hour,
so very quickly. Do you find that, especially when you
were younger, you would try to adapt your kissing style
to whoever you were kissing.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, you, well you kind of sometimes you have to
like people if people have like tongue kissing has a
bit of an art and like some people are very
like tongue pointy, like tongue in and out right, and
like other people like tongues tongue all around.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
In us too much tongue, not.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Enough tongue, Like, oops, my tongue went under your tongue.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Oh yeah, teething into each other.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Lip locking. So I'm just wondering.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
It's like, I just remember always allowing the guest star
or the extra that if I was making out with
an extra, I just remember allowing them to determine whether
we actually tongue or not. Me too, It was never
I would always just wait and you know, and let
them decide. And if they did, then I was like, great,
we're really kissing on to do this, And if they didn't,
I would just back off and we'd fake it.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
And the funny thing is watching the scene with me
and Shane, between the two of us and all of
our hair, we could have just you could have put
a lemon between us.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
You could have been looking at each other and between you. Yeah,
that's what I mean.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
We could have put an apple there at a very.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
By pillow between the two of yours.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
So then we come back from a commercial, Corey and
Seawn are still staring at to Panga kissing at another guy,
and we were just still making out. It felt like
the scene that never ended. Corey asks, why doesn't Tapanga
just rip my heart out and stomp on it? And
Sean says she can't, she's busy making out. It's a
great line and a great read. Oh and at the
end of that scene where you guys see me kissing Nick,

(43:08):
that is when you make the greatest face writer. You're
making a fit the saddest but also disgusted and Poudy
you're like this.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Yeah, it's too much. I was lost control of your face.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
Guy facting, facting, It's so funny.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
I hated it.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Yeah, Corey wonders if he's dreaming and asks Sean to
pinch him. Sean is him, and Corey says, not on
the butt, And I love that. It's just so.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
Never changes the thing. I love his expression never changes
and he's just.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Like, not on the Sorry, it was right right there,
so good. I love it, Corey says, he's going in.
Sean pulls him back and says he won't let him
make a fool of himself. Corey respond but that guy's
helping himself to my woman. Sean says, one, she's not
your woman, and two just then he looks over at
Topanga's date and admits, Wow, he's fast.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Corey says, that's it. He's putting a stop to this.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Sean stops Corey again by picking him up and putting
him over his shoulder. He runs past Topanga and all
of Chubby's yelling watch your feet, ha soup. So then
we're in Turner's apartment. Sean, still carrying Corey, ends up
back at his place. Corey says, as soon as Sean
puts him down, he's going right back to Tepanga. Corey
wants to tell Tapanga that if she keeps kissing guys
like that, then it's over, and Sean yells Corey it

(44:32):
is over. Topanga is doing exactly what she's supposed to do.
She's met someone new, she's dating somebody you knew, and
she's kissing somebody new, just like Corey realid exactly right.
Sean has nailed it. Corey should really be listening to
his buddy. Here, Corey emphasizes he didn't kiss his date
and he doesn't want this. He pushes past Sean, and

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Sean asks what he's going to do, and Corey says
he's going to do something he should have done in
the first place. And I I thought, great, he is
going to go to Tapanga and he's just gonna say
to Panga, I've made a mistake. I don't know how
you feel, but I saw you on a date and gone,

(45:13):
I've tried to move on. I'm not comfortable. You're the
only person I think about. I want to be back
together with you and see how she feels. And I thought, yes,
I'm going to be back on board with this relationship,
but instead he runs to Melissa's doorstep course, Corey persistently
knocks on Melissa's door and she answers it. Corey tells

(45:34):
her he wasn't himself tonight. Right now, he knows there
are sparks between them, and Melissa agrees. Corey thinks they
should see what they've got here, and right then Corey
leans in and makes out with Melissa. He pulls away
and they both stare at each other. Corey shrugs and
says nothing. Melissa agrees and nods and says, oh, well,
see it's cool, and she walks back inside just as
Corey says my best to your folks.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
And he runs away wildly.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
Now I was like, just totally unnecessary, already one hundred
percent sure how he feels. He's gone on two dates
with this person. He hasn't even he hasn't even sat
next to her. He has told Sean he's been thinking
about Tapanga the whole time. This is like he's he
already knows he doesn't need to do this. But after

(46:16):
talking about it with Jensen, Jensen was like, but maybe
his in the back of his mind somewhere is Sean
saying the only way to really know is to until
you kiss someone new, and so to get it out
of his system.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Yeah, he's got feels like he's got to.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Make a move.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Sure, So I was like, Okay, even though I think the.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Guy, I do think the comedy of them being like nothing, and.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
That's exactly what Jensen said.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Jensen said, the comedy moment of them looking at each
other going not a thing.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Yeah, just think exactly what you said, Like you're expecting
him to run to Panga to clear his love. So
the fact that he shows up at this doorstep is funny.
It's kind of like, oh, that's another way to go Corey.
And you were supposed to think he's flailing, you know,
But yeah, I think he's got to prove that he's
over a Panga and like get back at.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Her by making out with another girl. Right, it's the
masculine thing if I'm going to go and conquer another woman.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
And I think it's supposed to be flailing. It's supposed
to be the audience is supposed to be judging Corey,
and I think that's totally fine.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
It's the next thing that bothers me, you know, right,
it's when the guilt.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
It's the emotional manipulation and guilt to Topanga that always
is like, gosh, this just feels like it.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
I just wish Corey would be more like the neurotic,
dorky guy in those scenes, you know, and be like
I love you and I can't help it and I'm
sad as opposed to like you shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Be you know.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Yeah, Now do you think that made me feel?

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Yeah? I just want to Panga to smack him and
be like CEA, Yeah, I'm living my life, dude, What
are you gonna make me feel?

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Newt Chubbies. This is my hang out now.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
So pissed? I hate it?

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Yeah, Corey, We're back at the cool Hallway. Corey reveals
to Sean that as soon as he kissed Melissa, he
felt worse. Sean thinks it's good that he kissed another girl,
even if there were no sparks. Now he won't go
bonkers when he sees Topanga kissing another guy. They look
over and see Topanga at our locker talking to the
same guy she was making out with the Chubbies. Corey says,
bonkers and runs up and jumps on the guy's back.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Even this, I'm fine with.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
I like weirdo reaction.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Weirdo reaction over.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
What the hell is going on?

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Not sure what I'm doing? Fine, I think this is
really great.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
They look over.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Okay, so Nick shrugs Corey off and asks you must
be the old boyfriend, right. Corey starts laughing and says, oh,
so she's talked about me, huh, and Nick says no,
those are the only ones who ever jump on my back.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
The only guy in all of John Adams, that's never
heard of Corey Matthews, everybody else knows transfer here who's
never heard of or so.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Nick pats to Panga on the arm and walks away.
To Panga tells Corey she knows it's weird for him,
but he can't be acting like this. They're not together anymore.
And she's reasonable and calm and yes, saying the speaking facts.
Corey asks if that means she can date anyone she wants,
and to Pega says she's not going to have this
conversation and Corey and again, yes, you can tell this

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person's off the rails. I'm not going to do this,
turns and leaves, and Cory says, fine, he will, he will.
Topanga is embarrassed, telling Corey people are staring at them
because again he is angry and yelling at her in
the school hallway for no reason. Corey tells her, let
them stare at us. That didn't bother you last night
at Chubby's.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Yeah, and that's where the audience owed.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
I was like and I was like, why why is that?
Like the audience was like on Corey side in the
way that I was just.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Like, stopping, dude, because your kids. I mean, that's you're
a kidga for making out a chubbies.

Speaker 4 (49:57):
Like wait, I'm even still kind of with him.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
If now, after he says that and she goes, you
were there, if he were to say yeah, and I
know you didn't, you weren't doing anything.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Wrong, right, it just made me feel better.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
It just I got it destroyed me right.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
And if Tapanga had said, yeah, I obviously wasn't doing
anything wrong. I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to do.
But I am sorry that it hurt you. I wasn't.
I didn't. I wasn't trying to hurt you. I wasn't
kissing him to rub it in your face. Those are
all fine.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Things to think and say, but none of those things
are thought or said.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
No.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
I also love how she's like, you were at the
one place, the only place we.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Go where everybody goes to eat you or cafeteria or chubby,
there's nowhere else to get She was amazed.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
She's like, you were in your own bedroom, like what
it was just so, I was like, were there?

Speaker 1 (51:01):
She apologizes that Corey had to see that, but they
both knew they were going to see other people. Yeah,
you're right to Panga, you're absolutely right, and Corey says
he knows, but she's not supposed to kiss anyone else,
even though he did just one minute ago on Melissa's doorstep.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Topanga says she wishes she knew what to say. The
bell rings and she says she needs to go to class,
and Corey says he's not done talking to her, but
she insists that she needs to go, and Corey says,
when you were my girlfriend, you would have been five
minutes late, and Tapega tells him she's not his girlfriend anymore.
And damn girl, I love.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
You, Yeah, finally, finally love everything about you. Finally, one
side at least of the relationship is coming off as
measured and reasonable.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
And healthy and health boundaries. And I'm going to put
a stop to you because you're yelling at me. I'm
going to put a stop to you because I have
to go to class. I'm going to like, I love it,
says fine, I got a better idea. Let's not be
friends anymore either, and Tapega says he doesn't mean that,
and Corey walks away. Corey f minus just terrible scene

(52:13):
for Corey, Terrible scene for Corey.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Yeah, and I.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Mean, you know, I think we're supposed to be judging Corey, right,
I mean that is the like the arc of the
episode is that Corey is sure acting jealously and irrationally
and not being a great dude. But it's weird. I
do feel like the sympathies. I understand where Corey's coming from,
but it goes full circle to where this kind of
emotional manipulation works like it like it draws to Panga

(52:41):
in and makes Topanga feel bad, and to Panga feeling
bad pays off and that sucks, like, but I also
think I also think it would have been it would
have been more impactful had there not been a history
of this already, right, Like, had had this been out
of character for Corey where he's like, I'm angry now

(53:01):
I don't know why I'm angry. I mean, I know why,
but her taking it out on her, and it's because
I'm hurt, and I'm instead of feeling the hurt, I'm
just spewing it everywhere, and this is so out of
character for him.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Then you kind of go, Okay, dude, you're flailing. We
get why you're flailing. You're watching it hap But when
this is like the third fight they've had where he's
like this of the five conversations they've really had. Yeah,
it is a massive red flag. Again, it's it's horrible.
So that's the thing where it was for me, It's like, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Just wish the I just wish the resolution was like
that Corey just has to deal with it, you know,
like I wish that there wasn't it wasn't Topanga didn't
have to do anything.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Like, I just wish that he just got over it.
And it's not him.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
It's not a conversation with Sean or whatever, had a
conversation with mister Feeney somebody else and was like, right,
I'm acting like a jealous jerky and I need to
like get over this.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Well it is That is kind of where it ends,
you know, it's to anybody.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
No, it's him and Tapanga and Topanga. Basically, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
We'll get to it. Let's go okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
So then we're in the school cafeteria.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Eric sits down with a girl who immediately says she
heard the good news. She's thinking maybe she should apply
to Boris College too, so that her and Eric can
hang out and party. Eric says it's not really a
party school, but they could always study together, and then
we see a lingering mister Turner listening in nearby. Mister
Turner takes his concerns over to mister Williams and mister
Feeney's table. He says he called the National Registry of
Colleges because that is what you had to do before Google.

(54:26):
You had to call a national register.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
National Registry of College I think there was, yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
I mean yeah, Otherwise you could just make up anything
and say it's anywhere in the world. How would you know,
like Boris College, So.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
I want a Boris College T shirt. We got to
figure out what the what the mascot is.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Oh, I would've been saying. I've been saying I want
a John Adams high sweatshirt or something, but maybe what
I really want is a college.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
You got to come up with a good with a
good mascot, yeah good slogan.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
So so phoene was right. They had never heard of
Boris College. Mister william says he's heard of these scams before.
They take fifty dollars from unsuspecting kids and mail them
a diploma in any field. Someone's got to tell Eric,
but who Turner and Williams both slowly look at mister Feenie,
and Phoene exclaims, oh, well, I know, why doesn't George
do it?

Speaker 2 (55:16):
So good? So good.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Phoene bites the bullet and joins Eric to break the
bad news. Eric isn't going to Boris College because it
doesn't exist. Eric says he kind of already knew that.
A few days after he got his acceptance letter, they
mailed him a diploma. He says, he's no brain surgeon,
but actually, according to Boris, he is.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Just so cute. I am so funny. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
See, this is a great example of like a setup
where a character realization actually undermines the scene in the
best way. Like Eric doesn't need Phoene in this moment.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
You know, Eric.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Already is a step ahead, and it's so nice because
then you guys, you just get to see you know,
and again like that dynamic. If Corey just realized like
I've been a jerk and I'm you know, it could have.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
But anyway, this is a great scene.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
It's like the setup is like, oh no, Eric's gonna
have this big fall, and instead you just love Eric
in this moment because he's like, yeah, I ardy kind
of knew, and he says.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Phoene asks him why you went on pretending and he says,
when I got that acceptance letter, I felt like I
was a part of something.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
He says, that's what it's all about. Letters.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
He got the wrong letters on his report cards, so
he's getting the wrong letters now. And your heart just
aches for this guy. And Phoene says he's very pleased
that going to college means so much to Eric. He
tells him it's that very spirit that just may get
him there. He asks, but seriously, Eric boris college. Eric
motions to another girl and says he thinks that's bad.

(56:38):
That girl thinks she's going to some school called Duke.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Really funny, Joe, it's so funny show.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
He starts laughing and asks, you're gonna tell her?

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Or should I?

Speaker 1 (56:48):
It's just so perfect, just the right amount of dumb
Eric at exactly the right time in that kind of
heartwarming scene. And it's another one of our favorite things
about Boy Meets World is when you have a very
sentimental moment and you break it with a really great laugh,
or or you don't play it heavy handed. This is

(57:09):
this is one of those perfect moments. Yeah. So then
we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Corey is throwing a bunch
of things away and he pulls out a card with
a heart that says love Always to Panga. He says
always is pretty short these days, and he throws it away.
He pulls out another card for the John Adams prom
fashion show and scoffs like that's going to happen. He
throws that card away too. He then picks up a
stuff Teddy bear that says I love you very much,

(57:29):
and he says, yeah, and I got a crush on you.
Then he throws the bear away and starts the trash compactor.
The bear screams in agony. I had a trash compactor.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Actor to the greatest. Yes, yeah, when I was a kid.
My parents still have it. It's but it's so confusing
when people come to visit because they're always where's the
cardage And you're like, oh, it's this drawer.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
They have to use a pedal and sometimes to step
on that. Yeah, because it's working. Yeah, between stones to compactor.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
That sounds like that sounds very Connecticut of you.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Amy and Alan rushed downstairs to ask what is going on.
Amy pulls the smushed bear out of the trash and
asks if Topanga got him this. Alan thought they agreed
to stay friends. Cory says he thought they would stay
friends too.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
But Tapega question, question, is this the first time we've
seen Rusty in a while now and he's got his
robe right?

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Yeah, it's like Rusty he walked down. It's like, oh,
Rusty's here, basically at the end of the episode, like
that is strange.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
Yeah, because he wasn't in the previous kitchen scene with.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
No he just Rusty was back.

Speaker 6 (58:33):
Like oh okay, that's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
So Cory says he thought they would stay friends too,
but Tapega didn't mean it. Two weeks after we break up,
she ends up kissing another guy and not just any guy, dad,
another guy.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Good line I thought was a funny line. Good line.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Amy understands being upset, but he's got to expect that
Tapanga is going to go out with other guys, and
you'll go out with other girls again. Parents, they understand
how life works. Good advice. Everybody gets it. Alan tells Cory,
you two were in high school. You're supposed to date
around that's how you find the right person. Corey asks,
but what if Tapanga is his right person? And Amy
says she might be and going out with other girls
will help you know that for sure.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Advice.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Everyone in this show understands how it works.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
No, Toga is the one.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Your mom and we broke up like three or four
and Amy interrupts and says once, and Alan says, right,
once before we got married.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Is this supposed to make us think Alan cheated on Amy?

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Mm hmm?

Speaker 2 (59:41):
You think. I don't think get us to be cheated.
I think they just that you're being trick with Reginald's fan,
Reginald Fairfield. Just break up and there's no infidelity. So
and I broke up once before we before we.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Got married, right, But if you then said we broke
up three or four times, wouldn't that make you think
that there were times where you were eating other people?
So you must have been broken up. I think that's
what it was alluding to, is that he thinks it's
three or four times because there were times where he
went out with other people.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
That I don't know. I don't know. I I guess
I thought the idea was just that he just doesn't remember. Yeah,
that's what I don't know. It was always a messy Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Well that's why I'm gonna believe it was the seventies.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
It's like, yeah, I don't want to believe he was
like right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Right, although when he was in the Tongues he had
women in every port, according to the to the Torusk
T shirt.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
According to the T shirt merch uh So, Corey asks
if they stayed friends, and Alan said there were some
rocky points, but they were always there for each other,
and Amy says that's what brought them back together. She
tells Corey, if you really care for each other, you
don't just throw away the most important bond you have,
your friendship. And here's where I disagree with the advice

(01:00:52):
a little bit. I don't think you have to stay
friends with your exes. No, but in this case, Corey
into Pay had apparently history that goes back to a
sandbox or something where they were friends, and then when
they did break up, they did say, I don't want
to lose our friendship, and so they agreed that they
were going to maintain their friendship. In this case, I

(01:01:14):
could see saying, if you guys care about each other
as friends, then you should try to make a friendship work.
But I don't necessarily think like I don't want I
didn't want this advice to be taken for me. I
was thinking, like, I don't actually love the advice of like,
be friends with all your exes six you know, you
never know when things are going to work out.

Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
Trust me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
They're all that, yeah, you let them go, but they
gave a guilt tripping like once. But they were set
it up though. They set it up that. And this
is where the timeline is weird to me, because they've
set it up that Cory and Topang have been friends
for fifteen years, however old they are now, since they
were tiny, and now they've been dating quote unquote for

(01:01:53):
fourteen episodes worth, so not like half a You were
not even a prom in one year. So right, they've
been together what six months? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
I think when they broke break up, didn't they say
it had been three months?

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Three months?

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Yeas that I get where it's like, all right, we
were friends for fifteen years, we dated for three months,
let's go back to just being.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Friends, and the reason we're breaking up is not because
you did something terrible to me or you. You know,
it's just because we've decided maybe we're in a rut,
and so we're taking time away.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Everybody in your hands three month run. Everyone knows it,
everyone's been there. They all go to other towns and
pretend to be friends. You don't you know that old story?
What is so weird? It is so bizarre Cory t
Beanga acting like the old married couple. It doesn't make sense.

(01:02:44):
I know U at least he's fair and measured. Become
Wendy like that. I know that Wendy episode is just
I think even Wendy would be like, WHOA tone it down.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
So then we're at the John Adams prom fashion show.
Another thing you all know about them. Turner roalks into
the green room and tells the students they have a
line of parents out there. He needs them to all
line up as couples. He looks at the peg and
says he doesn't see Matchos. To Penga says she doesn't
think he'll show up. Turner assures her Matchoos wouldn't let
her down. Turner rocks up onto the fashion show stage

(01:03:19):
and just generally.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
One clap, one they put one clap.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
We just interviewed to Mary Johnson. The laugher guy was like,
you know what, we need one clap.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
And then there's this all these grown ups sitting like
along the cotwalk. It's so, this is Tony being vintage
awesome Tony when I'm on stage. Oh god, it's so
funny to me, I was.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
I just saw Tony.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
I feel like I was just sitting in the audience
by myself and he was just trying to make me laugh.
I just thought, why are there grown ups in the audience,
Like I understand.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
The parents of these people in the fashion show, they
were going to buy the things for their kids, basically correct,
do you want to know that exactly a bit? Kids
should be watching the fashion show and then they go
tell their parents, I want to buy this one from
the catalog.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
I think we're not looking at the darkness that it
could be where this is. Actually the children are for sale.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
That's the thing that they're not. It is a taken situation.
So this is bad all the way around.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Is what's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
Yeah, it doesn't make it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Make any sense. You also don't buy tuxedos for your prom.
What fifteen year old buys their TUXI I'm I'm all
in on this. No, you rent it for the night.
It's stays.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
He doesn't go out there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
And maybe when he says if there's anything you want
to buy for your kids, it does mean rent instead
of buy, Like maybe it is a if you see
the outfit you want your kid to wear to prom,
go fill it out and rent it for the evening.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
I just tell you they're wearing I saw it the
prom fashion fest. You're wearing the nice thing that that
boy Corey was wearing the prom fashion fest that you
were not invited.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
You get to wear.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
We get to one of the outfits. Later, one of
the guys is wearing a tuxedo with a ruffled shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
To ruff the vampire.

Speaker 6 (01:05:03):
It does.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
It's great, It's the best. Oh I love it so much.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Oh my gosh, I love it so much. Okay, so
we get the one clap entrance and Turner says, welcome
to the annual second or third or whatever annual fashion thing.
He clarifies that he's filling in for missus Buckley, who's
home hacking up all kinds of good stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
Lucky her.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
He was great, so funny.

Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
He tells everyone. There's order forms on the table.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
If anyone likes the outfits they see, if they have questions,
don't ask him, because this outfit is the nicest thing
he owns.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
He laughs, but no one laughs along with him.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Tapanga is standing in the classroom all alone as all
the other couples go out and do the fashion show.
She throws her corsage in the trash, and then right
then Corey walks in, apologizing for being late. He tells
her they should go, and Topanga stops him. And here's
where this is the scene writer, you wanted to get to. Yeah,
and I see your point is that it happens with Tapanga.

(01:05:57):
But at the end of the last scene with his
pant parents them saying you don't throw away your friendship
lands on Corey. The scene ends on his face of
him digesting this, which is like, so, you're right, I
made the mistake. I made an immature, emotional mistake by
yelling at her that I didn't want to be her
friend anymore, and I want to correct it. I would

(01:06:22):
have loved for him to actually, he does say. He
does say, I don't mean that, but I would have
loved There's still like some stuff that hasn't been resolved.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
An apology.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Maybe I'm saying sorry would be nice. Also, maybe saying listen,
I thought about it. You didn't do anything wrong, but
I really it made me realize that I still have
feelings for you. But I guess they wanted to drag
it out a little longer. Let's keep them apart, let's
see if we can keep the tension going. So they
don't do that yet. So she says the other day,

(01:06:53):
when Corey told her he didn't want to be her friend,
it really hurt her. So yet again to Penga, Corey
comes in and is just be like, come on, let's go.
He's ready to just pretend to my friends. And she goes, no,
hold on, what you said really hurt me. Just mature
and phenomenal. And he says scoffs and goes, yeah, and

(01:07:14):
I felt great when I saw you kissing that guy.
Oh oh god.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Still guilty in her like trying to make her feel guilty.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
She's not even saying I'm sorry, I've thought about it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
It was wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
No, and then Topanga says Nick has nothing to do
with him again valid point. Corey responds, must you use
his name? Now? I'm back to thinking that's funny see
another funny thing where like jumping on the back. It's
okay to have things like call him something else. I
don't want to hear you say his name funny. To
Pega says, h tells Corey he's being crazy because he is,

(01:07:51):
and Corey says she's being crazy. You and I have
known each other our entire lives, and it took us
fourteen years to kiss each other the way you kissed him.
And Topeka says she didn't kiss him like she kissed Corey.
And now's where we get into the weird science about and.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
What is the special kisses that pengasses?

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Yet it wasn't that Apparently I guess, I mean, I guess.
To Penga says she didn' kiss him the way she
kisses Corey. He responds, Oh great, I'm dancing now, And
to Panga explains Nick is just a guy I'm going
out with. I don't care about him the way I
cared about you. We're only seeing other people because what
else are we supposed to do? Great opportunity to say

(01:08:35):
I still a feelings for you. Maybe we should get
back together. That's what I've been feeling. And Corey says,
I'm supposed to see other people. You're supposed to wait
until I die, which, again, at least is a funny line,
over the top funny I can get behind ridiculous exactly.
He knows it's ridiculous. She knows it's ridiculous. They both
smile and to Penga says, Corey, if it makes you

(01:08:56):
feel any better, the first time I see you kissing
someone else, I'll jump on her back.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
I think it's very cute that she matches his over
the top joky energy with listen to put a to put.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
A button on this.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
I'll also be crazy when I when I see it,
And he says, are you serious, and she says no,
she won't. She probably won't do that, but she'll definitely
feel like it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Great.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Tapanga fixes Corey's bow tie and he admits that he
wants to be friends with her. She smiles and kisses
him on the cheek, and he says, yeah, all right, you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Are so good in this scene. Yeah. Is you like
having arrived as an actor? It's so great? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Yeah, But it's a bummer of a scene to me.
It just feels it feels like a non resolution, you know,
it feels like Corey is still being rewarded for exactly
being a pisshant, like he's just like stomping his foot,
and Topanga has has the adjustment to Panga fixes the
bow tie and says, it's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
I'll do it. I'll also react as poorly as you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
Therefore, the fact that you've been this is you instead
of like him ever just saying like it's so bad
and I'm so stupid and I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
I don't want to make you feel bad for making out.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
It's like she's like, well, the making out doesn't really matter,
so right, you overreact, You overreacting to the making out
was appropriate because it wasn't special, and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Right because you thought it was special. But guess what,
it actually wasn't special. And he's like, oh, if it's
not special, then it's I guess it's fine what you
were doing, I know, And then Turner runs in, Guys,
come on, I've got some lady out there who wants
to buy my clothes. Cory sticks out his arm for
Topanga and they walk to the stage together. As they're

(01:10:36):
on the catwalk with a student dressed as a fancy
vampire behind them. Interview with a vampire back there. It
is behind them on stage. They are selling to the adults.
Apparently Topanga. Thanks Corey for coming. He tells her, I'd
never not be there for you, and we get a
freeze frame. Okay, then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Eric

(01:11:11):
is at the table with new Morgan as he's filling
out college applications. He asks what she's doing and Morgan
tells him she's filling out college applications too. He laughs
and says, are you kidding, You're only in third grade.
Morgan reveals Corey said, if you can go to college,
anybody can go to college if your family sucks.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
It's again, no one likes Eric. He's not part of
the family. But because he's not, why starting to think.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
Maybe that's a that is honestly that might have some legs.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
Alan, So that's what we think. Alan is not actually
Eric's dad.

Speaker 5 (01:11:48):
Kid gosh.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
It's like Corey's like, oh, Eric can go to college.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Anybody can.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
And then the little sister's like, yeah, that's a valid point.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
I'm going to start applying to colleges and no one's
helping you with all your applications, Like it's just I
feel so bad. So then she looks at her Eric
wonders if it's time for her to go bother somebody else,
and she looks at her watch and says, he's right.
Shees Corey, I'm in your room. As she runs upstairs,
Phoenie knocks on the back door and walks in. Eric
tells him. He tells him he took his advice. He

(01:12:17):
won't let the Boris fiasco face him. I thought again,
I love this guy. He's he's just taken this loss
and he's in a good mood and he's turning it around.
For every rejection he was sent, he's sending out five
new applications. He laughs that somebody's got a cave or
make a clerical error. Phoene says that's very good. He
holds up a letter and says this might be some help.

(01:12:38):
It's a letter of recommendation that explains Eric has exceptional character,
enormous potential, and is someone.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
He'd bet on.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
And I'm welling up reading it again and I cried
when it happened.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Yeah, it's a great it was really sweet way. This
is probably the sweetest Eric Feenie episode.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
It's like all the all the like hygiens and joky
situations aside, This is like Feenie really helping Eric out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
It's lovely. Yeah, you know what.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
You know what else really struck me about it is
I don't think I had registered on like a real,
like conscious level, how many times Eric had mentioned a
letter of recommendation from Feenie. And if I had registered that,
I think I also would have then thought, well, that's
so mean. Why wouldn't Phoenie write him something? So in

(01:13:26):
this moment where he does get one, I was so
like emotionally hit by the idea that feene hasn't been
writing one because he wasn't exactly sure what to say
about Eric that would be honest as a recommendation for college,
because what do I say? He's been girl obsessed, He's
not you know students, he's not a great student. He

(01:13:48):
really focuses his energy in all the wrong places. But
when he witnesses this thing that could have really knocked
Eric down, and he's really proven how important college is
to him. He has some very touching, sentimental, true things
to say about him, and I just it made me
feel like, oh god, I literally I just cried. It
was it was really beautiful. So Eric looks at Phoenie

(01:14:09):
and he tells him he can't speak. Phoene assures him
he meant every word. Eric clarifies, no, I really can't talk.
I just sealed five hundred envelopes and he pulls out
a giant stack of college applications and.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Then we both laugh, and I think it was I
think we did it. I think it was as an
acting laugh. I was hoping that we actually broke. But
I watched it again, I was like, no, there was
an acting laugh.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
I wish it's like, I want to see one where
Bill is like, I think Bill broke, but no, you're
never going to get it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
You're never going to get it. But no, those scenes
were always my favorite because it's still I mean, it's
just he's so so beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
And again another moment where you know, here I was
sitting there crying and then Eric ends on a goofy
you know laugh of the five hundred envelopes and you
guys both laugh. So I, you know, it's just very
sweet and so yeah. So I actually I love the episode.
I'm just bummed by that element of Corey. Yeah, that
that we're all bummed by. It's like eugh, because it's

(01:15:06):
so the rest of it's so good.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Yep, I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
Yeah, Well, join us for our next episode, Season three,
episode fifteen, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. It originally
aired February second, nineteen ninety six. As always, you can
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us your emails Podmeets World Show at gmail dot com,
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What's that one? I don't know. I didn't for for god,
I was gonna do it to be totally honest with you,
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