TGI – Episode 701 “Show Me The Love”

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Speaker 1: Well, guys, it's here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the time has come, a moment we've at one time felt like would never arrive, yet we knew it would at some point, no matter how much we dreaded it. It is time to recap the seventh and final season of Boy Meets World.

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Speaker 1: Shun done, Dune not donny, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: We just started this journey seriously, a grouping of episodes that at least two thirds of performed in.

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Speaker 1: While out of body.

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Speaker 2: So what would you say are your feelings going into this seventh and then final season.

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Speaker 3: I'm nervous mm hmmm.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sad that the podcast, this this aspect of the podcast is ending.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean again, we're like, we're starting the final chapter. I also, and we'll get into it. Obviously, watching the first episode of season seven was very difficult for me really, so this is oh yeah, this is this is the peak the low part of my life. And this was a really I didn't think I was going to be there, So this was a very this was this was a tough watch for me all the way through. So starting season seven and I know it'll get better, but starting watching this was was rough for me. So yeah, this was a this was, this was this is a tough year and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what do you can you explain it for our listeners a little more?

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean when I started the podcast, I had I mean I was maybe six weeks or started podcast, started the show, I was season seven. I was maybe six or eight weeks into anxiety, which I've never experienced before in my life. So I still wasn't talking about it. I had just I'd been on medication for maybe a month, which is why I'd put on so much weight. But I my life was spiraling at this point, I mean badly. So it was I mean that wig that we were I was going to get into it, but I remember being called in to have the wig fitting and going to Laurie's house and Karen McCain was there and they were just talking, having a conversation, and I had a massive panic attack in the chair, which I was just was happening every ten minutes in my life at this point. It was just it was awful, and so I just still not talking about to put a smile on my face, excuse myself, and went to the bathroom and essentially had it broke down in Laurie's bathroom and I was like, was literally considering climbing out the window, where I was like, I can't do this. I can't go back to the show. If I can't be in front of these two people that I know and love, I can't be.

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Speaker 3: In front of an audience. I can't do this.

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Speaker 5: So it was this was a horrific time.

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Speaker 3: What's crazy.

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Speaker 4: What's crazy about that for me is like I had no idea. Yeah, well, because when I talk back at this time, like you were always mister positive super.

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Speaker 5: Like I still it is the best acting I've ever done in my life. Is is not letting people know that I was literally dying.

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Speaker 4: Because you and I spent a lot of time together season seven, Like that's most of my memories of backstage are you and me? Because I don't remember any of the show. Like when I saw this episode, I was like, I have no I know we've said that about previous episodes and previous seasons. I have no idea what's coming in season seven because I can't remember, Oh, the Civil War, the Civil War episodes ever, I remember those, but other than that, I can't remember what happens to our characters. I don't know what happens to Sean to Corey to like all this stuff with Tapanga's.

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Speaker 3: Parents and we're never the wedding, right, oh right, right?

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Speaker 4: But yeah, like but I like break up the wedding or I like freak out at the wedding. I don't remember why why is Sean freaking out about the wedd like.

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Speaker 5: Because I think it's we do this? Did we do in our live show? I have to look it up because.

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Speaker 4: I know that I have, like the speech at the wedding, but I don't remember why.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 5: This was a heavily medicated both by a doctor and self medicated with alcohol year for me, and it was just that's why I was putting on weight and just trying to get through my God.

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Speaker 4: At this point, I was having so much fun with you.

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Speaker 3: I never running around film in are behind the scenes. We were laughing.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like you and I and were we also going to because you had a place up an Arrowhead and I think it was on this year we went several times.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we went up there, but I remember, oh man, there was there were drives to Airhead where I had to pull over every fifteen minutes because I was freaking out like, I shouldn't be in the car. I shouldn't be driving. No, this is a very this is arguably the worst year of my life, just mental health wive. So a fun way to start the episode and the season. Yeah, which is which is always great, but yeah it was. It was so this was just watching the episode and frankly, we'll get into it.

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Speaker 3: I liked the episode.

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Speaker 1: I was pleasantly surprised by the episode.

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Speaker 3: The episode.

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Speaker 5: It was just personal, so interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, writer, yeah, you're fantastic, so good in this episode.

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Speaker 6: What good?

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Speaker 1: Really fantastic? You are the star of this episode, and yeah, really.

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Speaker 5: Really it was great. I felt like we were all so by by this point, I think, and I hope I'm not ruining everything but that we were supposed to talk about later. But this was the first season since the first season that we had only been picked.

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Speaker 3: Up for thirteen episodes.

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Speaker 5: Oh so we were not picked up for our full twenty two. We did not think we were going to be doing a full twenty two, And to.

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Speaker 3: Me, we were just wedding was coming right, we knew the wedding was playing.

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Speaker 5: I think we knew the wedding was coming out. I think there was a chance that was going to be the end, right, was like, we're going to end with the wedding. And then because remember you and I were shooting our behind the scenes thing, and then when we got picked up for our.

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Speaker 3: Back nine, we put it down more like, oh, we got more time to finish it.

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Speaker 5: But we so we were actively making each other try to laugh and enjoy ourselves while we were shooting this. I could tell, well, Ben's putting on funny voices and doing different accents.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's trying not to laugh.

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Speaker 5: We're just being with each other, and it was almost tongue in cheek for ourselves, and that I loved. So, I mean, the episode itself was great. It was just going back down that.

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Speaker 3: That's interesting. I really did not like the episode.

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Speaker 4: Oh you didn't, But hearing you say that, I was like, yeah, I guess we were having like when I could feel that watching like you know, the like yeah, but but no story wise and character wise.

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Speaker 3: I was really not into this.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, it didn't bother me. I didn't. I guess I just didn't care. It was too I was too watching again just how big I was and how like dead and behind the eyes I was, and and then trying to hide it by being bigger with my comedy. Right, So I was thinking, that's one of the reasons people, I've I had a weird realization last night where people were like, why did Eric get so dumb and so big? And part of me is wondering if one of the reasons is because I was so dying inside that I was pushing it every week like I'm fine, I'm fine, of course I'm fine. Look how big the comedy is.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, oh my god, I wonder if that's why I was doing it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, death is true that the I mean my story to Pega's storyline is so insufferable it.

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Speaker 3: Kind of is, yeah played out. Yeah, I just didn't care.

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Speaker 6: Why would we care.

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Speaker 2: We don't barely know you and we definitely don't know your parents.

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Speaker 4: And you guys were okay with the b story of Alan suddenly cracking down on Morgan, Like what what?

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Speaker 5: I was okay with his Rusty's performance because he was hysterical.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was funny.

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Speaker 3: The kind of her calling.

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Speaker 5: Him a pig and all that stuff that was not great, but he was so funny.

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Speaker 3: I just felt like all the.

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Speaker 4: Characters got thrown out of the window in that storyline. I was like, who are these people? Morgan is supposed to be like sassy, independent, always sort of sarcastic. She's not any of that. Alan is like suddenly this like controlling obsession father. I was like what, and like, I don't know, it just I felt like all the characters got thrown out the window on that storyline. And then yeah, I thought Corey being the Cory.

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Speaker 5: That wet you talked a lot about this obsessive Corey is just red flag obsessive Corey. It was literally to Panga that threw me this episode because it was just kind of like the will they won't they of it after a while, and then there's just kind of Trina, like Angela's just two steps behind her, just kind of there the whole time, just agreeing with whatever Tapanga says it was. It was strange, but I guess I just didn't care.

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Speaker 1: Also, like the make it make sense. I can't.

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Speaker 2: I can't have us possibly end up like my parents. So I'm gonna make us our parents.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've already been.

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Speaker 2: Together for supposedly seventeen years or whatever it is, and so now I'm going to break up with you, which makes us like my parents, with the exception of the fact that it's not technically a marriage yet, so it's just the divorce part of it versus the breakup part.

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Speaker 1: Of it, because it it how is this helping anything?

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Speaker 4: It doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: It makes it.

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Speaker 4: It's we've entered the complete self conscious zone where we're just commenting on our own storyline and our own.

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Speaker 3: Characters, and that's the entirety.

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Speaker 4: And that's what I'm nervous about Season seven is that it's just characters spinning their wheels about themselves as characters and their habits. And I'm like, I find this so uninteresting story wise. It's just like, Okay, we're just riffing. Sean's gonna talk about being Sean, Corey's gonna talk about being Corey and what we always.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm like, what this isn't I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It's not storytelling, Like I want real conflict, I want real things to be happening. Instead, it's characters talking about what they do as characters. It's so weird.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we before we jump into we've kind of started with our thoughts about the episode. But before we jump in, do either of you remember the summer? Will You probably do because it sounds like maybe it was brutal.

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Speaker 5: Very well, what did you do.

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Speaker 1: Between the summer between seasons six and seven?

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Speaker 4: Hm, I traveled a lot. I went it's your road trip, No, the road trip the year before.

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Speaker 3: So this was.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I didn't send you a postcard saying hey, they're sex.

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Speaker 5: I didn't get run from Europe now, No, I got my sexy postcard.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think the summer started or they England. They flew me over to England to do promos for Boy Meets World because I get I don't know what was happening.

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Speaker 5: Boy got a European trip.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a trip to London and I recorded I did.

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Speaker 3: I spent like a week. Disney brought me over to London.

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Speaker 4: I did like talk shows and I think favorite was it was a nightmare. Something something was happening. I think I feel like they were releasing a new season or whatever. Anyway, they picked me to like represent all the Boy Meets World. So I went and did a bunch of talk shows and and then recorded a series of promos. I spent like two days running around London. With a film crew with me, Like now they would seem like influencer videos because it was like me talking to camera like hey, it's rather or strong for boy meets yeah, okay yeah. And it was so funny because years later I went and visited my buddy Sean in London and he had a friend meet us at a bar and he was and the friend showed he was like, you know, when Sean told me that his friend Ryder was visiting, the only.

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Speaker 3: Thing that I could think of was writer's drawn for blowing and he.

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Speaker 4: Was able to quote my promos and he's like, I saw that on the on TV all the time.

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Speaker 5: So it actually got out there to Disney Channel where he was Disney Channel UK.

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Speaker 3: And then I did like the Morning what was the big breakfast?

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Speaker 5: Is that?

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Speaker 3: The Morning Talk?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: I hate it.

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Speaker 4: I went with my buddy Sean who now lives in England. He ended up going to school and it was I think his first time going to London, so we were nineteen.

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Speaker 3: We had a great time.

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Speaker 4: We went to Dublin for a weekend and that was my first experience in Dublin. Had the greatest time. Then I went to Italy. My parents happened to be in Italy with Judy Savage, my agent her and Judy Savage and Diane Harden, who's the great acting team.

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Speaker 3: They were.

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Speaker 4: They are the three couples, my parents, Diane Harden and Judy and their husbands. They all got a like a villa in Italy for the summer. So Sean and I met up with them, went to Rome, and then when I got home from that, I my two best friends were in Thailand for the summer and we started emailing because back then they would only get every like three days.

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Speaker 3: They would get to a you know, internet.

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Speaker 1: Cafe, internet cafe and they were like they.

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Speaker 4: Told me where they were in Thailand or where they were going to be. It was it's a famous it's a it's a beach called Hadrin Beach where they do a full moon party every month.

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Speaker 5: Is that RelA Bay or is that a different place.

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's not Kosa.

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Speaker 4: Movies, the island, the main island. It's a smaller island. Anyway, they were like, we're going to head to this full moon party. You should come, and I was like, okay, I'm getting on a plane and I just flew out there, not knowing where they were exactly and where I was going to meet them.

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Speaker 3: It took me, you know, eighteen.

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Speaker 4: Hours of traveling because I had like fly to Bangkok and then grab a pedal jumper flight that I didn't have an advance, and then get on a ferry all night, and then I landed on this thing and ended up just finding a guy to take me on the back of his motorcycle, which I think of now and I told this story because then he was offering me drugs while driving without a helmet on.

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Speaker 3: The back of this motorcycle.

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Speaker 4: So you found guy driving through the streets and suddenly heard my name calling out and my friends happened to be walking by on the street.

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know where I was going to stay that night.

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Speaker 4: I was just like yeah, and Nathan and Matt were like rider and I'm like stop the bike and we like, you know, skid to a stop. And my two best friends I had, you know, after traveling like for twenty hours, I ran into them on the street and then yeah, then I spent like three weeks in Thailand. It was a great summer. Yeah, I just traveled a bunch. I didn't I don't think I worked at all. I think I was just like, yeah, and we knew that this was going to be the final season of Boybys World. Yeah, and I was still I was in college. So I went back to school at OXY and started the season seven, like yeah, this was but yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was very similar.

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Speaker 2: I had very similar That's why I said, I did exactly the same thing I did that.

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Speaker 3: You went to Hawaii? Did you go to Hawaiian?

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Speaker 2: So this is this the summer ninety nine before too, right, Okay, So I graduated from high school and I was so excited that I was not going to have to be in school for one season of the show. I was going to feel like an adult finally. And I actually I took my family to Malta. My grandfather, my grandparents are from Malta. They came over here in like nineteen fifty four or fifty two, whatever year was the last trip the Queen Mary took. My grandparents were on and I had never been to Malta. And it was like my grandfather's big dream. He played the lottery all the time because his big goal was that he was going to win the lotto and then lie all of us to Malta. He's one of twelve. A lot of them still lived in Malta. He's got a sister who's a nun, and quite a few family members that still lived over there. And so when I graduated, I took my family to Malta and it was so much fun and had a great time. We stayed there for a little while, and so we skipped to YI this year in.

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Speaker 1: Favor of Malta.

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Speaker 5: Too nice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I did. But will what about you?

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Speaker 5: H double hockey sticks panic attack in the middle of a scene, a scene that they used bedridden for three weeks. Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: So that was you and Matt Lawrence and we're shooting in Canada.

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Speaker 5: We're shooting in Canada. I was in the middle of a scene with Gabrielle Union. The world flipped and my life had never been the same since. So just middle of a take, its whole life changed to is the only time I ever had a Sopranos style panic attack where I made it to my trailer, the whole trailer spun. I passed out.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 5: I called the doctor to the set. The doctors like, I think you're having a panic attack.

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Speaker 3: I went, no, it's not that. That's obviously something horrible.

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Speaker 5: He gave me four one milligram out of vans for the next three weeks of shooting, and I was just struggling with my life. I remember, oh God, it's so strange to talk about this. I'm we finished the movie and I'm curled up in the seat on the plane to go home. And I was so in the middle of a panic attack that I almost jumped up and started screaming to open the door of the plane to let me. And so I just kept my eyes shut, curled into a ball on the on the seat because I wanted to just get home.

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Speaker 3: Didn't you you?

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Speaker 5: Uh, you fell in love?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: You met a girl? I did I met because you came back with Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd just broken up with love, our love and I had broken up a little while before, and that kind of she was my first love, so that like threw my life into a tailspin. And then she was a skater, right yeah. Then I then I met Keila, who was the Canadian figure skater, and she and I fell in love. But she met me like at my I think she met I met her I think a day or two before my first panic attack. Wow, And then we were together for a.

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Speaker 3: Couple of years, I think, yeah, yeah, the whole season. So it was yeah, it was just it was a very bad time.

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Speaker 5: Then bedridden and then then medicated, and then you know, just putting on all the weight and all that kind of stuff and then like, oh my god, I have to go back to work. So yeah, the summer of ninety nine I will always remember.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm sure it'll get better as the season goes on.

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Speaker 5: Just I mean, it doesn't for me as as twenty three year old will, but for me now watching it will get better. But this first episode was rough. Yeah, this brought back a lot of stuff. So it was this is a tough this is arguably the worst time in my life right right here. And I get to that's the thing about being on a television shows. You're it's all filmed, so it's like I get to look at this and go like, oh god, dying inside.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So it was.

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Speaker 5: I hope.

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Speaker 2: I hope that watching it there and maybe it won't. Maybe it'll be really hard the first time and maybe we need to watch it again, but like, I hope there's a little bit of like I don't know how to say what I'm thinking, but like you it. You still have anxiety, but it's so much more manageable now. Your life is your life is everything you could have possibly wanted it to be. You're married, and you're healthy, and you I mean truly, you have such a great life, everything, everything you could have wanted. So I hope that watching it, there's a sense of like seeing that young struggling will and there's like, I don't know, I hope there's some.

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Speaker 3: I hope so too.

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Speaker 5: I think it will be because again, everything you said is one hundred percent right, and I'm so blessed.

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Speaker 3: And you're good in the show, still amazing.

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Speaker 4: It's like you're still so funny, and there's so many legendary Eric moments to come.

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Speaker 3: You know, this is a great season for great girls squirrels.

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Speaker 5: Yeah so no, I I yeah, I'm sure you're going to be right.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure this is.

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Speaker 5: But this is what I was dreading was not the not the what the show is in season seven, but what my life was in season seven, because you know, luckily and I know what as they say this, I know a lot of people who deal with depression or anxiety do get to that point of like I'm not sure I can do this in my life anymore, meaning like, if there's an out, I was never there. So in that sense, I'm I'm very grateful.

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Speaker 3: But at the same time, it was, Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 5: It was one foot in front of the other just for a good couple of years there.

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Speaker 3: And this is the start.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is like literally six weeks after my first panic attacks.

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Speaker 2: I hope you can be really proud of young Will and I and have a lot of empathy for him and and have it feel very much like, Wow, look what I was able to get through, and that instead.

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Speaker 5: Of great people around me to help you two are tops of that list, my wife and friends that I was finally able to open up to, because that's the first thing I've told people who deal with this is the best thing you can do is talk about it. Because the more I was holding it in, the worst it was getting. So you just had to. And I think I did this whole season without anybody really knowing, and it wasn't until years later that I started talking about it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember talking to you about I think anxiety for the first time. I was in New York, so it would have been in the three or four years after Boy Meets World.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because people were asking like, why where are you? Yeah, you di severed, I know, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So that's when that's when it got started that you had agoraphobia.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like made papers and stuff that I was agoraphobic, which I didn't read because I wouldn't go outside to get the paper, but you didn't have it, but I would not leave I didn't get it, but I wouldn't leave out. Yeah, so yeah, a little rough.

00:20:54
Speaker 2: Well, let's jump into our season seven episode one recap.

00:20:59
Speaker 1: For Show Me the Love.

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Speaker 2: It originally aired September twenty fourth, nineteen ninety nine. The Synopsish Sean and Corey Sish.

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Speaker 1: Shannon Curry Indish hapshs did travel to Pitchbook to persuade to Pringish parents to get back together after tapinga cass off her and Cory's writing.

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Speaker 2: It was directed by David Kendall Ove. It was written by Bob Tishler and guest starring Jacob Chase as Dominic. Jacob had appeared on Seventh Heaven and Babylovum five the beginning, but he stopped acting around two thousand and one and is now a writer slash director specializing in horror. He wrote and directed the twenty twenty movie Come Play, and directed the TV show The Girl in the Woods in twenty twenty one for Peacock. But get ready for his next project, sure to be Jacob's breakout, he wrote and directed the next chapter of Insidious for Sony and Blumhouse.

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Speaker 3: You know what's so funny.

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Speaker 4: I've known Jacob oh really as an adult and never knew he was on Boy Meets World.

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Speaker 5: Oh that's so funny.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he must have mentioned it maybe when we hung out, like because I met him, I want to say, like eight nine years ago, like before he when he was just making short films and stuff. But I don't think I ever knew that he was on the show, or he and he must have maybe mentioned it.

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Speaker 3: I just went, oh cool, But I had no idea. So that's so cool. He's a good guy.

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Speaker 2: So his chapter of Insidious will come out in August of twenty twenty six. We already kind of talked about it a little bit, so maybe very concisely, let's share our early thoughts. Writer, you said you did not like it. What was the feeling?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just I just you know, this is kind of what I remember feeling about Boy Meets World when the show ended, which I'm realizing was that I just.

00:22:47
Speaker 3: I felt like.

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Speaker 4: I felt like all the everything became exposition. So all the dialogue I'm saying, all the conversations with the court is like exposition about what's happening, right, not motivated by like really playable impulses. Like you know, as an actor, you want to have like very direct things that your character wants an objective in every scene, and these scenes are so objectiveless. It's like literally just Corey freaking out or Topanga freaking out, and then having to play in these scenes, I've just watching myself not know what to do, just having to say the lines, and then I feel like all the characters have to sort of double down and create emotion around their expositional impulses. So like you think Russy's performance was good, I'm like, yeah, because he's but he has no motivation. He just has to like go big and like you know, and Corey has to like have this crazy mind and then everybody reacts to them being crazy or I don't know, it's just a weird storytelling thing that I feel like Boy Meets World, I'm afraid stays in for season seven, you know. I mean when I think about like the one episode I can remember, the Civil War, it's about us going to war with the new characters on our own TV show, Like do you know what I mean? Like it's like this self consciousness and I feel like our writers, I mean, Michael in particular, was just now at this point of like reflecting on the show itself and the characters, and it's just it's a bizarre mentality. I just it doesn't really work for me. Story storytelling wise, I liked it.

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Speaker 5: I felt like, frankly, for one of the reasons I did is because I didn't read into any of that. I saw us as a company for the first time, realizing we didn't have to try to get picked up for another season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, feels were related to it where we were just like you can see that and when you say each other last h yeah, when you said that earlier.

00:24:43
Speaker 2: I was like, oh right, Like that must have been nice for those of you who got to play relaxed.

00:24:47
Speaker 4: I know you're just never smiling this entire because oh.

00:24:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that Topanga was what they did with Tipanga was was a little insufferable and it was one of those things where they didn't give you anything to play but insufferable. I don't think you had a joke or even the semblance of a joke.

00:25:04
Speaker 1: The entire so just say the same thing in every scene over and over.

00:25:10
Speaker 5: Yeap, yes, it's it's kind of a shape, and it's just like that was the thing where they also if My major criticism about this was they weakened the Angela character so badly that it was just like, well, my friend isn't in love anymore, so that means I can't be either, And it's like, really, you can't come up with it with an idea of your own.

00:25:29
Speaker 4: The only story point that makes sense is or that is like, if if this episode began with Tapega breaking up with Corey and Corey deciding to go get hurt, that's like a cool, interesting motivation. But at the end of this episode, we're just spinning wheels for the entire a storyline. It's like, but why did we make this a two parter that first, the first moment should be oh god, Corey's got a crazy scheme and Sean's gonna go along. That is a story, But we spend the entire episode just getting there.

00:25:57
Speaker 3: It's weird.

00:25:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it was.

00:26:00
Speaker 1: It was. It was difficult in that way. However, I will say.

00:26:05
Speaker 2: Outside of me finding my character insufferable and that whole storyline insufferable, uh, I thought this episode pleasure. It pleasantly surprised me, maybe because my expectations overall for season seven are so low. I do think that similar to Writer, where you're thinking, like, I have a feeling the entire season is going to be us talking about our characters and not having motivation. I have the fear. I don't think Tapega changes much from this. I think there's at least half a season where every single episode I'm playing this version of Tapanga that's now no longer Like apparently my my parents' marriage was the entire foundation of my personality and of my soul, and like.

00:26:50
Speaker 3: I've lived fourteen makes sense exactly.

00:26:54
Speaker 4: The morphine in different people different people.

00:26:57
Speaker 2: That's been really hard on me apparently, so I'm worried about I'm like a little worried about that. But I overall, I thought I definitely picked up on the relaxed nature of I mean, Writer, you are doing so you're doing all the storytelling in the a storyline, and I was like, wow, here we are season seven, and Writer and Will are still the two stars of the show. Just just be a storyline, be storyline, and sometimes they'll reverse. Sometimes Will will be the A storyline and Writer will be the B storyline. But for the most part, even though really the synopsis of the episode is that Corey and Tabanka are no longer going to get married, they are not They are not the stars of this episode. I loved that Corey does come up kind of with a scheme and we get to see Sean say, I'm not doing that. Okay, yeah I am that's cute writer. I love that idea. I wish the episode started there. I wish the episode started with I can't believe Tapanga broke up with me because her parents are getting a divorce.

00:28:05
Speaker 3: Let's go get them back. You know what I would have done.

00:28:08
Speaker 5: This is a terrible thing to say for you, Danielle, because you wouldn't have been there but Topanga.

00:28:12
Speaker 3: So it would have started in an airport.

00:28:15
Speaker 5: Topanga's parents were breaking up, and they have they broken up already, and Topanga needed to some time by herself, and Sean and and Coory are there to pick her up at the airport and she doesn't doesn't get off the plane.

00:28:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so it's all about what the hell's going on?

00:28:26
Speaker 5: And the second episode is the scheme to go and get Topanga back, and so it would have just been like she just didn't show. Yeah, you know there's something there about it. But the kind of just walking in and saying, you know, where I don't think we should be together, with Trina following behind two steps behind going and me either like popping out behind like I'm not not going.

00:28:45
Speaker 3: To be with you either.

00:28:45
Speaker 5: It was like, what what what is going on now?

00:28:48
Speaker 2: I do very much remember though during this season, and maybe it was just this episode, but I feel like the Topanga and Angela doing the same thing based on how one of them is feel relationship wise. Is a is a recurring trope, a recurring trope, And I very much remember.

00:29:08
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't Michael, but I feel like it was Michael.

00:29:10
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna I'm also going to say my memory may be bad and it was someone else, but I do remember it just being flat out said, well, you know, because that is what happens whenever one woman breaks up with her boyfriend, all the other guys panic because most likely her best friend is going to do it too.

00:29:27
Speaker 5: But they weird logic.

00:29:29
Speaker 4: I can like now now that I'm middle aged, I can kind of see there. I have had conversations where it seems like divorce is catching.

00:29:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because people have a mid.

00:29:40
Speaker 4: Life crisis, you know, when you're forty to forty five, and they reevaluate their life and they say, you know what, I'm not happy with my partner. So I've had that conversation, which seems like maybe our writers were going through Yeah, and that's and so they decided to put that into But that's that's a different logic, you know, because like I said, that's not about the women getting the idea from other women.

00:30:01
Speaker 3: That's just what.

00:30:03
Speaker 1: Could be.

00:30:04
Speaker 2: Well, once one woman starts saying, oh, you know what, and then he does this and he does that, and I don't need that.

00:30:10
Speaker 1: And really like I'm feeling really.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: Good about being on my own and I want to Yeah, and that someone else could be like, yeah, my husband does that too.

00:30:18
Speaker 1: That is annoying.

00:30:19
Speaker 2: Like we're and and yeah, you know, like hey, we we would have each other so we wouldn't be like totally alone, you know, Like I could see how that could be a real fear. I'm not sure how realistic it is, but I but I do remember, let's write.

00:30:33
Speaker 3: It into a kid's TV show. But I also why does Jack?

00:30:37
Speaker 4: Does Jack and Rachel break up? We never get an understanding that.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: It just says we broke up.

00:30:42
Speaker 1: I mean literally, like, I'm sure there's more. I'm sure we get more.

00:30:46
Speaker 5: Right, It'll have to come, They'll have to explain it in some ways.

00:30:50
Speaker 4: It's not connected to the rest of the story. It's just like, oh, yeah, we broke up, and then they both seem okay with it. It's a the show was weird, guys.

00:31:11
Speaker 2: Well, we start with our season seven intro, which should look familiar because it is the exact same as our season six intro, which was a fictitious recreation of real moments seen in the season five intro. So I hope that clears that up. Okay, Yeah, And then we are in the college dorms. Corey and Sewn are carrying backpacks in a boombox walking through the hall when they realized they both got Feenie as a professor this year.

00:31:36
Speaker 3: Funny way to start, Funny way to start.

00:31:38
Speaker 5: Body's so funny?

00:31:40
Speaker 3: Great way to start.

00:31:41
Speaker 2: And actually he's teaching every class they're in, which is a fun self referential moment, considering he has inexplicably been our teacher for the entire series. Corey notices a couple making out near their room, and he sighs. He can't believe he made it the entire summer without tapanga. Sean admits he feels bad about her parents splitting up and hating each other, but I mean, get over it. His mom walked out on his family when he was nine, and he's fine.

00:32:06
Speaker 3: Then twitch.

00:32:07
Speaker 2: He flinches with a nervous tick and repeats himself fine.

00:32:13
Speaker 1: Cory slings an arm around his friend.

00:32:15
Speaker 3: And in the script, I know what what? How did that happen?

00:32:20
Speaker 5: Like? Was? Yes?

00:32:20
Speaker 4: He flinches, He winces, repeats I don't know, Yeah, what did you?

00:32:24
Speaker 5: What did you read?

00:32:24
Speaker 3: And then I don't know.

00:32:27
Speaker 1: It's funny, though, so funny.

00:32:29
Speaker 2: Before Will gave away all of his scripts, we should have made him make photo copies of him so that we could check if we.

00:32:36
Speaker 1: Have any of these. Damn it, gosh, go back in time, make photo copies.

00:32:41
Speaker 5: Note to self, Note to self, one thing to do, one thing to do.

00:32:47
Speaker 1: Corey slings an arm around his friend and asks what's wrong.

00:32:50
Speaker 2: Sean admits he had a bad year, and Corey responds with a shocking callback in a much too chipper tone, buck up Bucker. Cory goes on to reveal Angela's on her way here and everything's going to be.

00:33:02
Speaker 3: Wait, yeah, what was the buckup bucker?

00:33:04
Speaker 2: That's Tapenga saying that in the New Year's Eve episode buck up buckers.

00:33:08
Speaker 3: That's right, so at least it's cute.

00:33:12
Speaker 2: He takes something that is something she had said, you know, like, at least that's some sort of cute little he does listen occasionally. Sean confesses he asked Angela to be his girlfriend before summer vacation and her response was just a kiss on the cheek. He took that as a sign that she's madly in love with him, but now worries he's reading too much into this. Corey encourages his bestie. These girls think they have them wrapped around their fingers, so his suggestion they play it cool, set up on cute Topenga walks in like a burst of sunshine and says hi. Cory jumps up and screams at the top of his lungs. I can't believe that Topenga, Honey, I missed you so much.

00:33:58
Speaker 3: Did you hear the accent?

00:34:00
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:34:01
Speaker 3: He's doing he does this?

00:34:04
Speaker 6: Is it?

00:34:05
Speaker 5: Was it? Yes, this housekeeper, it's a lat Oh my god, just doing this. He would always do it offset and then it just started to bleed.

00:34:18
Speaker 2: Yes, which when you're the person having to play depressed, is well.

00:34:23
Speaker 3: We still have one of our famous bloopers. Is his still saying to Panga.

00:34:27
Speaker 5: Is stop stop it?

00:34:28
Speaker 3: To stop it is stop it?

00:34:31
Speaker 6: Stop it?

00:34:32
Speaker 2: Oh man. He runs to her with a bear hug. When she doesn't hug back, he pulls away and looks concerned. She solemnly reveals her parents officially filed for divorce.

00:34:44
Speaker 5: And did you see what you did and then didn't do and then did again and then didn't do to where you were like what?

00:34:48
Speaker 3: I had to rewind it three times ago? What the back.

00:34:55
Speaker 1: Not here?

00:34:55
Speaker 2: It's when I I think when I cross, I am about ready to cross the room, and the backpack I thought it. I put it on the bed and then the next thing you know, it's back.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: On my shoulders.

00:35:05
Speaker 1: That terrible backpack connuity.

00:35:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, can't act with the backpack.

00:35:10
Speaker 1: Can't act with the backpack of jacket. Maybe I just can't act.

00:35:13
Speaker 2: It's not it's not not a raw mood, you're Corey stammers, that's not good, that's bad. I don't know what to say. She gives him a reassuring smile and tells him that's okay. Sean says he's sorry, and Topega shrugs, I'm sorry too. I've just accepted that my parents aren't going to spend the rest of their lives together. Corey praises her. It's good to face reality, and he's glad she's okay. He tries to lighten the mood. Now we can get back to planning our wedding. Sean looks to Tapanga for a response, but she only gives Corey a nervous look. Corey says it again, how a little louder. Now we can get back to planning our wedding. Sean looks at Topanga again and she's obviously at a loss for words. Corey lets out a huge sigh and says, here we go.

00:36:00
Speaker 3: Not be together. I mean it's no, it's like, come on, at this point, you've.

00:36:03
Speaker 5: Got to go, guys, this is really really unhealthy.

00:36:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is really and.

00:36:10
Speaker 4: It's just because her parents kind I know, of course we knew that they were official.

00:36:16
Speaker 3: What love I.

00:36:17
Speaker 2: Mean, Oh god, I can totally totally envision as somebody whose parents were married for thirty years and then got a divorce when I was an adult, and it's still at first made me feel like I was five.

00:36:33
Speaker 1: I felt like I felt like I was.

00:36:35
Speaker 2: Going to a got ready to have a tantrum, and I was like this, my whole family is a lie.

00:36:40
Speaker 1: I did feel that way.

00:36:41
Speaker 4: There's an emotional reaction that is totally understandable.

00:36:44
Speaker 2: Totally understandable, and it makes perfectly good sense that someone might say, I want I want to marry you. I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with you. But I can't plan the wedding while my parents are going through this. I'm going to need to be there to help them separate their houses. I'm going to I'm having my own emotional response, and I'm having a hard time fight living in both places of an extreme high like getting married and the extreme low of my family breaking apart that I'm going to want to just post like hold off on the wedding, which, if anybody remembers the start of season six, the whole point was we weren't going to rush into our date, so why would that be a problem to just say, this has nothing to do with us.

00:37:27
Speaker 1: Our love is still our love. But I don't want to plan the wedding right now.

00:37:31
Speaker 5: And you can even start a super healthy Corey going, hey, I'm here exactly.

00:37:35
Speaker 3: We don't have to do this right now.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: I'm We're super young, we don't have to do this right now. We're still in college.

00:37:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, when you have a banker father who's also a luthier, I would say the.

00:37:47
Speaker 4: Better story was that Corey overreacts to that. Right that Corey that you could have to Pegas say something reasonable and then him overreacting. But instead to Panga says something pretty intense and doesn't really make a lot of sense. So then Corey's overreaction to it. It's like everybody doesn't make sense. If the point is that Corey overthinks things and takes things too seriously, that could be a story, you know, to Pegas just like I can't even talk about the wedding right now, dude, Like my parents are like, this is just rocking my world, and then Corey goes crazy. That would be but in fact, she's saying like, no, I'm calling off.

00:38:22
Speaker 5: I'm breaking out.

00:38:22
Speaker 4: I don't believe in love.

00:38:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, we go to commercial, we'll back at Corey and Sean's dorm. To Panga confidently explains to Corey, I've had nothing but time to think about this. I just don't want to get married anymore. All right, I mean end to show, end of conversation. I have thought about it. I've actually done nothing but think about it. I don't wanna yep.

00:38:54
Speaker 5: Right, didn't talk about it with their partner either, just made the decision on my own. Came in, took off her back pack, put it back on, took it off, put it back back on, and then said, I don't.

00:39:03
Speaker 3: Want to be married in front of Sean, in front.

00:39:05
Speaker 1: Of in front of in front of everyone.

00:39:06
Speaker 3: She's up.

00:39:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Romeo her wedding while still in a backpack.

00:39:13
Speaker 5: But it's Romeo and Juliet breaking up. If your Cutio was sitting on the bed next then watching the entire time.

00:39:21
Speaker 2: Cory is dumbfounded, even though we love each other, She sighs, so did my parents. Then Angela loudly enters andto Pega gives her a big hug.

00:39:29
Speaker 1: Corey's jaw drops. He points out to Sean bigger hello than me. Did you see that?

00:39:33
Speaker 2: Which I loved that, by the way. Sean says Hi to Angela too, but no hugs. Corey pulls to Panga aside they need to talk. Angela asks what's going on and Sean fills her in not much. She's calling off the wedding. Angela is surprised again and Corey adds, even though we love each other. Topanga insists, I don't want to hear about the word love anymore, and Corey gets defensive. She put the word love in finger quotes. Topanga admits she did that because she does and think love exists anymore, and Corey says that's the craziest thing he's ever heard, putting heard an.

00:40:08
Speaker 5: Maybe that's what I liked about this episode now even thinking about it. Maybe the overall story isn't great, but some of the individual jokes are sharp. You're right, So maybe that's what I'm liking, is that the actual jokes were were funny.

00:40:20
Speaker 2: There were an actual a couple of laugh out loud moments.

00:40:24
Speaker 1: Yes, so you're right there.

00:40:27
Speaker 4: The witty dialogue is that's what I like, And so Ben is having so much fun, so.

00:40:35
Speaker 1: Are you?

00:40:36
Speaker 3: I guess you know.

00:40:37
Speaker 4: Also, this would have been the one the first season that Ben was out of school.

00:40:42
Speaker 3: Yes, me too, Oh yeah, you too. So maybe that's why he was having so much fun.

00:40:46
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, because I was in college, but he wasn't doing He took a year off, so he had this entire year to just be Work changes.

00:40:52
Speaker 5: The entire way you work when you don't have to spend three hours in school every time. Really, just your whole life is different.

00:40:58
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

00:40:59
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Sean turns his attention to Angela. Has she thought about what he asked her before the summer? She hesitates and directs her attention to Topanga. You don't think love exists? Sean tells her to ignore Topanga. She's stressed out. He quickly compliments Angela's hair to change the subject, but Topanga is ready to answer Angela, if love exists, why do people hurt each other? Angela asks Sean to answer, and he shouts, they don't. Sean turns back to Angela. She's only saying that because your hair looks better than hers, which is also a very funny, very funny line. Corey assures to Panga he would never hurt her, and Topanga asks, how do you know I wouldn't hurt you. Corey is sure because I know you love me, and that's all Topanga needed to hear. She states, that's why I can't marry you and walks away.

00:41:44
Speaker 4: They twisted logic again, Brain perfect sense.

00:41:49
Speaker 2: Sean nervously assures Angela she's nuts. Don't let her influence you. Trust your heart, don't listen to your brain, because your heart and your brain are enemies, and your brain well. Angela shuts him down to Panga, makes sense and walks out too. Sean sighs, kill me dead, and then we're in the student union to Panga, Angela, Corey and Seawan enter and Sean still has questions for Angela. What about their moment a Poenie's wedding when he put his hand on Angela's hand and she pulled away.

00:42:16
Speaker 3: Then is where Susan pointed out to me.

00:42:18
Speaker 5: She's like, that's that's you just waiting for your queue outside understanding, and you just see this half of my shirt and part of my fake hair, like just waiting to come in for the scene.

00:42:30
Speaker 3: And then I disappear a little bit.

00:42:31
Speaker 5: And then I come back and then I disappear a little bit, and she's like, that's you're just waiting there for you. Oh God, you're like a lobster subject just there. It's because I was so big by this point they couldn't hide behind the set.

00:42:48
Speaker 3: So h Actually I forgot about the lobster. I didn't see it in this episode and looked.

00:42:53
Speaker 5: But I guess is somebody maybe even was like okay, I was, I.

00:42:56
Speaker 1: Can't do it anymore.

00:42:57
Speaker 3: I didn't flying too close to the sun, so I think she stopped.

00:43:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember when he put his hand on her hand, and then he put his hand on her hand again, and she pulled it away, and then he did it again, and she pulled it away again.

00:43:08
Speaker 3: Angela lobster was figured prominently in that shot.

00:43:10
Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, Angela asks, so what, and Sean responds, you know you liked it even though it's about hands. I'm not sure that's a joke someone would write today, No problem, Angela insists their friends, but Sean can't accept that he can either hate her or love her for the rest of his life. And that's it. Sean shouts at Corey, she got this from Tapanga. If you knew how to keep your girlfriend. Corey stops it.

00:43:35
Speaker 4: This is where I was like, is this Sean? I know Sean is suddenly wanting a relationship yep, and Red flagging it and read and like what I just I was like, the lot, this doesn't fit the character, Like it just doesn't make any sense.

00:43:51
Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense to me.

00:43:53
Speaker 1: No, it was definitely out of character.

00:43:56
Speaker 5: And maybe that's what That's what I think Season seven is going to be us, not as our characters.

00:44:05
Speaker 3: Doing funny things.

00:44:06
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, I think that's what it's going to be, because Eric's way more Eric. Sean is now this Sean Tapanga's depressed to Panga, which we've never seen before. I think we're all going to be doing random stuff more as ourselves than we are as our characters. That makes sense.

00:44:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and everyone knows I was depressed, you were constantly. Corey stops him. Happy, pleasant, quiet. I don't know how to do any of those things. Then we see Jack and Rachel getting coffee nearby. They all exchange pleasantry, seeing each other for the first time in season seven, and the boys are most excited to see the happy couple. Corey exclaims, you're just the people to tell these women how to keep themselves in line. Sean asks, will you please tell these two that being in love is the greatest thing. Corey commands girls, listen, listen. After a few seconds of silence, Rachel reveals Jack and I broke up. Corey and Shawn's moods quick change. Cory is furious, you morons.

00:45:04
Speaker 5: I have to say, Matt Lawrence is gorgeous, stunning it.

00:45:09
Speaker 3: This is peak Matt Lawrence. If we talked about peak the rest of us, this is peak.

00:45:14
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, for the love of God, like he's an insanely good looking dude, just gorgeous.

00:45:20
Speaker 3: Season yeah, crazy crazy.

00:45:23
Speaker 2: Sean jumps in you killed us to pang. The storms off, and Corey hurries after her. Angela turns to Sean and doesn't buckle friends Okay, Sean loudly reiterates hate you or love you? Then he turns on a French accent and know.

00:45:37
Speaker 5: This I hate as.

00:45:46
Speaker 4: Spanish Spanish, but whatever, I'm wondering if I was in the script.

00:45:52
Speaker 3: I have no recollection of this, but like, it's funny.

00:45:55
Speaker 1: But you're having so much fun.

00:45:58
Speaker 4: I wonder if it wasn't in the script, it was just but know this, or he says in an intense voice, or if it said accident or what, I don't know.

00:46:04
Speaker 2: It's beautiful, It's really beautiful. Without much emotion, Angela says goodbye, and Sean pretends he's unaffected. Fine, goodbye, you're gone, Fine, goodbye, But after a few seconds he manically runs after her. Back at the coffee shop, Rachel and Jack are having their own big conversation. She reminds him that it's going to get uncomfortable living together now. Jack wanted to talk about that as well, But then an overjoyed and long haired Eric Matthews comes barging in, yelling at the top of his lungs. Everybody look at my head. Jack tells Rachel. No, I promised myself. I'm not going to look at his head all year. Eric, who's now standing on the pool table, announces, I think it was clear that my life needed examination and change.

00:46:46
Speaker 1: A change was needed.

00:46:47
Speaker 2: So that Eric Matthews could reach the next plateau in his life, in my life, in all of our lives.

00:46:53
Speaker 4: And this is a return to hair obsession on boy mats work completely.

00:46:57
Speaker 3: Who cares?

00:46:58
Speaker 4: Who cares that Eric cut his hair? We had to make so you. Do you know why this happened? I mean, like in real life, you cut your hair over the summer.

00:47:07
Speaker 3: I cut my hair before the summer.

00:47:09
Speaker 5: I remember I had my hair cut, like at the end of the last season. I cut off and they did it. Laurie did it like in the Boy Meets World Room, Like, we cut off on my hair. So I don't know why they insisted on. Michael wanted to make it a think a big scene.

00:47:24
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess I feel like it's a weird echo of like the Topanga hair cutting being such a big episode and such a good episode, and I feel like they were like, well, we have to make an episode about it. It's like, you don't make it everybody cutting their hair.

00:47:38
Speaker 5: I mean, do you remember what happened? No is I stand up at the thing and I pull.

00:47:42
Speaker 1: Off the wig, expecting a big response.

00:47:44
Speaker 3: Dead silence because no one cared. No one cared. Well, I think there's two reasons.

00:47:49
Speaker 5: One I don't think anybody cared, and two, this is the first time people are seeing me since the last time they saw Eric. So the people in the audience and I had put on like thirty pounds.

00:47:58
Speaker 3: I mean, I looked way down that shirt was huge on me.

00:48:01
Speaker 5: It was not not good wardrobe for somebody who's put on weight, and so I looked enormous and I think they were kind of shocked at what they were seeing. So couple that with now my long hair is gone as well, and it's short hair, and so all the cheers you're hearing are the all that stuff.

00:48:19
Speaker 3: Michael's like, yeah, don't worry, we'll put it in later, because there was.

00:48:21
Speaker 5: And they even cut to Matt Lawrence who has kind of a smile on his face because there was no reaction, dead silence and.

00:48:28
Speaker 3: Cares. Yeah, it was.

00:48:30
Speaker 5: It was one of those michaels, like it's gonna be big way to end just nothing, no, nothing.

00:48:33
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:48:34
Speaker 4: I mean I remember this season I cut my hair halfway through the season or part way, and I remember it was a series of meetings, Yeah, having to ask if I could cut my hair because I just wanted to cut my hair. Maybe I was following your footsteps, I don't know, but it was a.

00:48:46
Speaker 3: Big deal, such a big deal.

00:48:49
Speaker 1: I'm weird.

00:48:50
Speaker 3: It's so weird. Who cares?

00:48:51
Speaker 5: I know?

00:49:05
Speaker 2: Well, he asks the gathered group of students, would you like to know what he did? What I did what he all did. Everyone shouts back no. In unison, Rachel decides to help out.

00:49:15
Speaker 1: Okay, Eric, tell us what you did?

00:49:17
Speaker 2: He proudly responds, I did a little something called this. Then he takes the shoulder length wig off of his head to reveal he has short hair. We hear triumphant, almost superman esque music as he swivels around so everyone can take a good look, but no one really cares going but Rachel doesn't understand. He loved his long hair and he swore he'd never cut it. Eric argues that he didn't just cut it. He had a life changing religious experience. He casually adds, I also got a bikini wax. Check this out, and he goes to unzip his pants as they beg him not to. He stops himself and dives deeper into the haircut. He was sitting on the pony and watching his beautiful locks fall to the floor.

00:49:56
Speaker 1: Sitting on the pony.

00:50:00
Speaker 2: Very funny, and that's when he realized this new haircut would symbolize the new and smarter Eric. Rachel wonders what he'll do when his hair grows back, and he scoffs at her it's not gonna grow back. I've got my receipt. He proudly pulls it out of his shirt pocket and has never felt smarter. Now outside the student union, Corey and Tapanga in the middle of a deep conversation when Feenie arrives. Ah, my favorite couple back together.

00:50:26
Speaker 1: Mmmm.

00:50:27
Speaker 2: Corey's relieved to see him. He's just the man who can talk some sense into Tapanga. Phoeni asks if she's all right, and Corey answers for her. She's so terrific she's calling off the wedding Tapega says high and Feeney acknowledges that this is none of his business, but Corey won't accept that. He reminds Pheenie, you've been butting into my business, my entire life. That is nineteen years of butting.

00:50:47
Speaker 1: Baby.

00:50:48
Speaker 2: Now when I actually need butting, why don't you butt? Corey has a point here, peoene commands him to back off. He looks to Topanga and asks if she'd like to talk about this. She admits she just doesn't want to end up divorced like her parents. Feenie admits that divorce is devastating for everyone involved. Corey assures her they aren't going to get divorced. They love each other too much, but Tapanga points out Corey thinks anything can be magically resolved with love. Once again doing the air quotes, Corey asks, how about I bite off those fingers right now. Tapanga tells them that over half of all marriages fail, and it's even worse with people their age. Apparently she just now read that stack that that was true before her parents as well.

00:51:30
Speaker 5: Oneids in college getting married, and now all of a sudden, you're you're you're doing the research. Yeah, well the internet is starting to pick up.

00:51:35
Speaker 1: Yeah. True.

00:51:36
Speaker 2: So Corey says those statistics are about other people, and the only people he cares about are the two of them.

00:51:42
Speaker 4: But also everyone's been saying to Panga and Cory and you're too young from and so she could just be like, they're all right, that's what I'm ing.

00:51:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we also.

00:51:51
Speaker 5: Agreed to wait. Yes, That's one of the things was one of the major points of the show is that they agreed to wait.

00:51:58
Speaker 3: Yes, so yes, rama for drama's sake.

00:52:01
Speaker 2: He persists, if every marriage failed except one, I guarantee you that one would be ours. Tapanga has no argument left. Cory asks for Feenie's two cents, and he adds that to Panga has always been a practical thinker, and she's going through a terrible time and it's affecting her, but this decision should only be about herself and Corey, no one else. Tapanga thanks Pheenie for his advice and walks away. Corey seems satisfied. He thinks they're going to be okay, but Pheenie seems a little surprised by the assumption. Corey walks away, leaving Phoenie alone to think about it, until he's interrupted by Eric in a very loud Fhenie call. Phoene shouts right back at him with his own call.

00:52:36
Speaker 3: Eric, Eric, I didn't remember that.

00:52:38
Speaker 1: That's a funny, so cute.

00:52:40
Speaker 5: I love it.

00:52:41
Speaker 1: Is this the only time he does that? Or does he? Does he ever get like a big Eric always.

00:52:45
Speaker 4: Calls him mister Matthews, right, yeah, so cool.

00:52:48
Speaker 2: But Eric grins, No, it's me. It's Eric, which is also very funny. I don't blame you for not recognizing me. Phoene tells him he does recognize him, but Eric isn't hearing it. It's because I got my haircut. See this new hair symbolizes the new smarter Eric. Then he earnestly asks, is your head cold? Because mine's cold. Feoene attempts to leave, but Eric remembers some good news. He gladly exclaims, I don't have to sleep in your car anymore. What this is news to feeni How long have you been sleeping in my car? Eric reveals since he got kicked out of the apartment, he'd just wait for Feenie and Dean what's her head to go to bed, and then he'd curl up in the backseat. Well unless, of course, he had company over. Phoene shocked, you had company in my car? Eric nods, Thursday spaghetti night. Eric goes on to explain, well, now that Jack and Rachel are splitsky, they asked me to move back into the apartment, so looks like everything's good for all Eric Again. Phoene's still processing things as Eric walks away. Eventually, Phoene shouts after him, I like spaghetti too, you know.

00:53:47
Speaker 5: And then I walk I walk out and just stop. It's like I'm not on camera anymore. I don't think so seed's over and you just see me stop. It's so funny.

00:54:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Alan insists to Amy that Morgan is still a baby, but she reminds him that their little girl is now thirteen years old. Alan wants to know about this boy. Amy explains that someone she knows from school, and Alan is still concerned. Amy points out that he doesn't trust his daughter, but Alan tries to play it off cool. Then he just admits, you're right. He runs to the staircase and shouts up to Morgan. Who is this boy? How old is he? Amy begs him to not spoil her first date. Morgan comes down the stairs and explains to her interrogating dad his name is Dominic. He's in the eighth grade. If you embarrass me, I'll die. Lindsey looks so much older.

00:54:41
Speaker 5: Oh my, he's sent me.

00:54:42
Speaker 3: She does, And I'm so happy they're giving her something.

00:54:45
Speaker 1: I know, like a real story.

00:54:47
Speaker 5: And we got this only daughter as opposed to the sons. Like I was like, oh, there's some stuff here they could mind, yes.

00:54:53
Speaker 4: Right, But then I also like, halfway through the storyline, I was like, wait, where's the baby?

00:54:58
Speaker 3: She meant me?

00:55:00
Speaker 2: He says, He says, we have another one after this, No idea where that baby is.

00:55:04
Speaker 3: They just neglect.

00:55:05
Speaker 4: It's like we have now Morgan's finally get attention that we can neglect the other character we interview.

00:55:09
Speaker 5: Once the kids are a year old, they have to fend for themselves. Everyone knows that, but no, I was happy for Lindsay. I was like, Okay, they're gonna there's and again your only daughter as opposed to sons, and she's thirteen.

00:55:20
Speaker 3: It's an interesting time, Like, oh, there, it.

00:55:21
Speaker 4: Would have been such a great storyline to have her meeting the world. She's going through her Corey moment right.

00:55:28
Speaker 2: For something about this episode with the tankini right there was like a whole backstory for her.

00:55:32
Speaker 3: We didn't know what it was.

00:55:33
Speaker 2: Remember, she was like, you don't remember there was like a it was a big deal. And I don't know if it was for her or if it was if there was an argument with Disney.

00:55:42
Speaker 5: I don't know.

00:55:43
Speaker 1: I don't know what was going on. But we should have Lindsay.

00:55:45
Speaker 5: Back, Yeah we should.

00:55:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:55:47
Speaker 2: Alan is disturbed the eighth grade. What's wrong with the boys in fifth grade? Morgan reminds him she's in the seventh grade, but Alan tells her not to lie to him. Morgan tries to involve Amy, but Alan explains how hard this is for him. She's his only little girl and he doesn't like this. Morgan jokingly apologizes she grew up. She won't do it again. Alan tells Morgan to go get dressed, and Morgan looks to Amy again. Mom Amy breaks it to her husband she is dressed. He looks at her denim shorts and laughs, the hell she is.

00:56:18
Speaker 5: That was one of my favorite reads of the whole episode was the hell she is?

00:56:22
Speaker 1: The hell she is?

00:56:23
Speaker 5: Just his and again it's big eighties, ridiculous sitcom dad. But the reading was so good. It was just Rusty. He to me, this entire rewatch is me wishing I knew how good.

00:56:41
Speaker 3: Rusty was when I was there.

00:56:44
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, because I just episode after episode after I don't think I've seen a single episode with that man where I've gone, Wow, Rusty was really bad this episode like not one. And it's even as the character changes. Now he's the dad of a little girl, which you've never seen before because basically instead of walking down, you know, she'd walk down and say one line and leave, and now it's a hole his daughter's growing up. It was I just love watching him work. So man, his that hell she is? Oh god, that made me laugh. I watched it twice. Yeah, oh I thought it was great.

00:57:17
Speaker 2: He says she's wearing hot pants, and Amy says they're just shorts, the same shorts she wears all the time. He explains that when she's on a date with a boy, they're hot pants.

00:57:26
Speaker 3: What are hot pants?

00:57:27
Speaker 5: Because aren't those a specific thing?

00:57:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're pants, first of all. And these are shorts.

00:57:31
Speaker 5: And aren't they like normally like think and sparkly? Aren't they like seventies kind of thing?

00:57:35
Speaker 3: Is pant hot.

00:57:37
Speaker 1: Cancer or booty shorts? I'll show you shorts.

00:57:41
Speaker 2: Yes, these are all hot pants where the bottom of the shorts are cut off and you can pants were.

00:57:48
Speaker 4: Like with you will for somebody's that have this image of like nineteen seventies like yes, go go dancers.

00:57:55
Speaker 1: Like this picture here.

00:57:56
Speaker 2: So it is like that, but it's not about a color or a color or a you know.

00:58:00
Speaker 3: But they're not pants.

00:58:01
Speaker 4: So why would you call those pants.

00:58:03
Speaker 3: Because they're short, they're.

00:58:06
Speaker 1: They used to be pants.

00:58:08
Speaker 5: Did that?

00:58:08
Speaker 3: Didn't that because you cut your pants, cut your pants off to what's from the hazards?

00:58:16
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, Yeah, those are hot pants.

00:58:21
Speaker 3: Hot Pants and Daisy Dukes are the same thing.

00:58:23
Speaker 5: Something.

00:58:25
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, glad you thought the same thing I did.

00:58:29
Speaker 2: Alan forces Morgan to go change and Amy can't believe her husband. Alan insists she's just too young to be dating. Amy reminds him Corey dated to Panga when he was four. Alan quickly explains that's because he's a boy, and so Amy quickly fires back, You're a pig. They continue to argue and we move on to but the scene.

00:58:47
Speaker 5: Like cuts there. She's like, you're a pig and he's like, excuse me, s over and one.

00:58:53
Speaker 1: It's also not like hard.

00:58:56
Speaker 5: It was.

00:58:56
Speaker 3: I think there was Do you think there was?

00:59:00
Speaker 4: Do you think there was more to the scene and they just decided to cut it for.

00:59:03
Speaker 5: Maybe because it was a weird place to have from a writing standpoint, to just be like we're done with the scene now.

00:59:09
Speaker 3: It was really jarring.

00:59:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought the same thing, So what the hell?

00:59:14
Speaker 4: You know?

00:59:14
Speaker 2: What's funny is that I feel like this episode could have made There's lots of conversation in the for people who have small kids like I do. I don't have daughters, so I'm not like an active participant in the conversation.

00:59:29
Speaker 1: But I see it all the.

00:59:30
Speaker 2: Time that if you go to anywhere, if you go to any department store and they have a boy's section in a girls section, the exact same clothes, like shorts are different lengths, Like boys' shorts are three inches longer than the girls' shorts, and the girls are more expensive for the exact same pair of shorts. And there's a lot of conversation around why, right, is there such a difference between the way clothes are cut and made.

01:00:05
Speaker 1: Why does a six year old girl need to have on shorter shorts than a six year old boy?

01:00:12
Speaker 5: And why there's more material to make them? Why are they more expensive?

01:00:15
Speaker 1: Correct?

01:00:16
Speaker 2: Why would they be more expensive to have these shorts that have less material? And it is actually an interesting conversation to say, well, when Corey would go out on a date, Corey wore the same baggy shirt or whatever. Corey wore the same kind of stuff. Why why is my daughter wearing something that isn't you know what I mean, Like there isn't There is a conversation to be had around the way clothes are marketed to girls versus boys.

01:00:49
Speaker 3: It reminds me of the stat like that. I've heard before about how.

01:00:54
Speaker 4: Adults when they meet kids.

01:00:56
Speaker 3: If they if it's a little girl, they talk about.

01:00:59
Speaker 1: Her apprenticies, you're so cute, you're so cute, you're so pretty.

01:01:02
Speaker 4: And I've seen it happen in parent groups like where you know, like no one will comment on my son, like they'll talk about it, maybe how tall he's getting, right, they'll do like that, but like you're so strong a little girl. It's always like, oh, you're so pretty.

01:01:15
Speaker 3: I love that dress or whatever, and.

01:01:17
Speaker 4: It's like that's yeah, that's kind of a weird tendency.

01:01:19
Speaker 6: Yeah.

01:01:32
Speaker 2: Corey and Sean's dorm room, Sean's contemplating things and they're still unfurnished dorm room where Corey comes barging in. Sean shoots him a depressed clare. Nothing's ever going to be good again, is it? Corey grins, wrong, Me and Feenie got it fixed up. He explained that Topanga's off realizing how much she loves him. Then she's going to tell Angela, and then Angela will say, you know what, I love Sean too. Then they'll come over to the dorm Huggy Huggy Kissy kissy, get your hand off that, and they're back to normal. On Cue, someone knocks on the door and Corey's overjoyed. Who could that be? A knock knock knocking?

01:02:03
Speaker 3: Can knock knock knocking, can knock.

01:02:05
Speaker 2: Knock knocking and impressed. Sean opens it to reveal to Panga and Angela just.

01:02:10
Speaker 3: Wearing backpacks.

01:02:14
Speaker 5: A new backpack like backpack, just adding one every time.

01:02:20
Speaker 2: Topega admits that Corey was right to make her think about everything, and Angela reveals she's been thinking about things too. To Panga thinks they probably shouldn't be talking about this in front of Sean and Angela now, but he strongly disagrees, considering they are their best friends and they have no secrets with best friends. He continues with a huge smile, because whatever you're going to say is very very good, So say what you're going to say. Say it, And so Topanga says it, I don't think I can be with you anymore. Before she even finishes the sentence, Corey shushes her. Sean and Angela can hear her, and now panic, Sean quickly turns to Angela for damage control.

01:02:59
Speaker 1: One thing i.

01:03:00
Speaker 2: I've always respected is that you're an independent finger and you won't be influenced by the crazy lady. Angela starts to say sorry, but he interrupts her shush. Corey follows suit to Tapanga. Shush. Angela tells Sean that it would be better if they didn't see each other anymore. Then she walks out, and Tapanga tells Corey that it's just too painful to think about them ending up like her parents, so their relationship has to be over. She apologizes and then also leaves the room. We get some sad music as Corey and Sean are left to sit very close to each other in sadness piano music.

01:03:33
Speaker 3: Oh oh wow, they're sad. They are bracketing the sad.

01:03:36
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sad and caase you didn't know, you didn't know? This is sad.

01:03:41
Speaker 2: Corey says we don't need them, but even he doesn't believe that, and then there's another commercial break and we returned to Corey and Shawn's dorm room. Continuing, Corey is pacing the room and assuring Sean that the girls love them despite what they say. Sean's laying on his bed, shaking his head and repeating the words another bad year, another bad year. He tells him to lighten up. It's not like he's losing his crops.

01:04:03
Speaker 3: Which is gius.

01:04:06
Speaker 5: Brilliant.

01:04:11
Speaker 1: I know, it cracks me up.

01:04:14
Speaker 2: Such a funny line, he continues, I believe in love like I believe in God. You can't see it, you can't touch it, but you know it's there because you can feel it's rap another very funny line, Sean adds, and goodness, you can feel love's goodness. Corey admits, I wouldn't know, but I do know.

01:04:37
Speaker 3: The clever virgin joke.

01:04:40
Speaker 5: That's funny, so funny.

01:04:44
Speaker 2: And because they love us, proximity is going to be our weapon. They're gonna see the boys every day. Then realize Corey and Sean are the most important people in their lives. Sean starts to buy into it, and then reality sinks in. They're probably moving out of the dorm right now. Why why would we move out of our dorm room because we're not dating you anymore?

01:05:05
Speaker 3: Because you're not dating them anymore.

01:05:07
Speaker 1: But we have our own.

01:05:09
Speaker 4: And like we make this leap of logic and it it's like what.

01:05:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, why why why are we moving because we don't want to see you?

01:05:20
Speaker 5: Well yeah, yeah, yeah, because yeah, yeah, yeah, but yes, they don't want to see you don't want to be close to the guys because yeah, so.

01:05:27
Speaker 1: We want to pay probably a significant amount of money.

01:05:30
Speaker 5: More right, Well, we're not even going to get into the fact that, you know, Rachel gives away the apartment.

01:05:34
Speaker 1: That was never hers.

01:05:36
Speaker 5: She was up the hall, yeah, and we took her in like a straight puppy. But then all of a sudden she's like, oh, I'm sorry, I gave away all the rooms.

01:05:44
Speaker 2: What Yeah, wow, oh okay. Corey agrees, yes, that's probably true. And then we're at Eric, Jack and Rachel's apartment. Eric is moving back in. He's carrying a box of his things and beams while holding his old keys to the aartment. Wait, Jack thought he gave back the key when he moved out. Eric admits he made a copy just in case he wanted to seek revenge. Eric lets out a tiny psychopathic laugh as they walk inside. Eric asks if Rachel will be okay with him moving back in. Jack says yes, joking he's the one who has a problem with it. Then Jack notices a box of books on the table, and Eric starts reading off the titles Native Son, I Know why the Caged Bird sings the autobiography of Malcolm ten She must be taking arithmetic.

01:06:29
Speaker 4: That's a funny jokes.

01:06:32
Speaker 5: Again, they're good jokes. I know there's a lot of really good jokes in this episode, and I think that's what I'm seeing.

01:06:40
Speaker 1: That's why, Yeah, I liked it.

01:06:41
Speaker 2: The punchlines, there's a lot other than the ending of that scene being you pig.

01:06:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, you pig wasn't a huge laugh.

01:06:49
Speaker 2: No, then we hear those are mine. It's Angela. She's with Rachel and Topanga. Jack and Topanga tell Rachel in perfect unison, he didn't tell me we were having guests for dinner of the Topang has already ye I know.

01:07:03
Speaker 4: And it took me a second, Like were two people saying the same line. Why this is not a thing that happens and no, it's.

01:07:10
Speaker 3: Not in real life.

01:07:11
Speaker 5: Oh, I was trying to say this, this is.

01:07:14
Speaker 6: Not a.

01:07:16
Speaker 3: Real life. We did it.

01:07:22
Speaker 2: Eric jumps in, Wait a second, I know what's going on. No I don't, and then we move from their confusion to the Matthew's kitchen. Amy and Alan are still arguing for what we can only assume has been hours. Alan doesn't appreciate the word pig. He'd prefer loving father who's concerned about his only daughter. Amy counters, how about pig? Then Corey comes walking in.

01:07:43
Speaker 5: Am I the other one who thought that this is very harsh of Amy? Pig is like, is very very harsh to me?

01:07:49
Speaker 1: They yeah, I hate you.

01:07:50
Speaker 5: Later, Yeah, I mean it's just I mean, it's no. They're supposed to Amy supposed to be showing that even the worst fight in the world, you get, I get what they're doing doing, but they weren't doing this in front of the kids.

01:08:02
Speaker 3: This is supposed her likely looking at you saying you're a pig.

01:08:06
Speaker 4: Also, she could have a good argument, legitimate, absolutely, like you're being sexist dude because of X y Z. And we've seen it and it's like a real fight instead of just name calling in like the most reductive way.

01:08:19
Speaker 3: It's weird.

01:08:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's so again, totally out of character. This is not This is not how.

01:08:25
Speaker 5: The occasional funny bits wrapped up with people that aren't the characters.

01:08:30
Speaker 2: We know they did this storyline even with them one other time. Remember there was a storyline where they got into a huge fight about something and it was really off putting, and then it was like, wait, even at the end of a fight, you guys can say I.

01:08:43
Speaker 3: Love you, right, that's right.

01:08:45
Speaker 1: And we were and it was like we were like, this is just this all feels so weird.

01:08:51
Speaker 2: So apparently someone liked it and decided.

01:08:54
Speaker 5: To do it again.

01:08:54
Speaker 2: Well.

01:08:55
Speaker 5: Corey also says I grew up my entire life watching you guys fight. So it's like, how often did they fight in front of their kids? Where it's like, you know, I grew up watching you guys fight all the time, Like really, was this a volatile house that we didn't get to see because yikes.

01:09:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess there's a difference between this kind of fighting where people they're name calling and like versus be in conflict.

01:09:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, I disagree.

01:09:22
Speaker 2: Because that is really helpful and sure and healthy for children to see, like, oh, look at those two they totally disagree and then oh they work it out and they're still a family and everyone still loves each other.

01:09:34
Speaker 5: And it's yeah.

01:09:37
Speaker 2: Then Corey comes walking in. She's packed her things and moved out on me. Amy wonders who and Corey scoffs who. Martina Nevratllova Alan is confused to Penga moved out. I know a funny name, though.

01:09:50
Speaker 3: It is it's a funny name. Odd pol but funny name.

01:09:52
Speaker 2: Tapega moved out on you. I didn't even know she was living with you, smooth baby. Amy shoots him a look. The doorbell rings and Amy calls out to Morgan her date is here. Corey asks, since when do you guys allow her to date? Alan blames his mom and she gets the door. Morgan comes running down the stairs and Alan starts to freak out on her. What are you wearing? She tells him it's a tankini, and her dad corrects her, that's a bra. That's a bra. He asks Corey if that's a bra, and Corey admits sadly, I wouldn't know. Morgan assures them it's a tankini and Alan just doesn't want her wearing anything that ends in eenie. Go upstairs and put on some more of that unsexy crap your mother wears, and Amy returns, now introducing Morgan's date Dominic. She adds, and I heard that you pig. By the way, we've seen Amy Matthews wear some real sexy stuff for sexy. I don't know, maybe he just means her day to day bras or not sexy. But I mean, no one would think of missus Matthews and think that unsexy.

01:10:56
Speaker 1: Hag No, So this isn't working. This wasn't working for me.

01:10:59
Speaker 2: M and it takes a look at Morgan and grins wow a bra Alan takes a deep breath and clarifies it's a tank of Ray. I thought that was very his turn into tanker Ray is very funny to me.

01:11:15
Speaker 5: Now, I was trying to look at her face. I can't remember what she said. Was was lindsay super uncomfortable wearing that?

01:11:22
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm guessing that's what it is too, but I don't remember. I just know she she mentioned like, well, and then there was the whole Tankini episode and.

01:11:31
Speaker 5: We were like, that's pretty revealing for a thirteen year old, would say, I was.

01:11:35
Speaker 2: I was, Yes, it's way more revealing than the shorts.

01:11:39
Speaker 3: Agreed.

01:11:40
Speaker 5: Agreed. Did She came down that I'd much rather have her in the shorts, And you know, if I was her dad like, okay, God, if I have to pick one, I'd rather pick that, because yeah, the Tankini seems a little I know.

01:11:51
Speaker 2: So we should have her back and talk to her about it, and can we have a little sensitivity here? Amy declares this is more first date. Morgan is embarrassed and disappointed. I didn't want him to know that, mom. Corey breaks the silence. Well, now he does know, and it's good he knows, because this is where it all begins.

01:12:11
Speaker 1: Guys, the pain, the torture.

01:12:14
Speaker 5: Be careful, Dominic.

01:12:16
Speaker 2: Dominic asks Morgan, is this really your first date? Morgan lets out a smile and Dominic admits it's my first date too.

01:12:23
Speaker 3: This is very sweet.

01:12:24
Speaker 5: Oh cute.

01:12:27
Speaker 2: They take each other's hand and walk out of the house together. Corey yels after them.

01:12:31
Speaker 1: Fools. Now we're back at the apartment.

01:12:34
Speaker 2: Rachel asks Eric what he's doing there, and Eric responds by just giving her a big hug. Jack reveals Eric is moving back in with them. Rachel starts to panic. When you said you'd be uncomfortable living together, I assumed you were asking if it would be okay to move out. Jack insists that wasn't the case, and Rachel wins it, of.

01:12:49
Speaker 5: Course it's not the case. This is my apartment. Why would I be moving out of my apartment?

01:12:54
Speaker 1: Absolutely?

01:12:55
Speaker 5: What?

01:12:56
Speaker 1: Well?

01:12:57
Speaker 2: I asked Tapanga and Angela to move into the apartment. Eric lights up, Oh wow for us, you know what, I'm gonna have to take a rain check because she's my brother's boute.

01:13:06
Speaker 1: He gives Angela a little wink and a nod.

01:13:08
Speaker 2: Instead, weirds like, you haven't even known.

01:13:12
Speaker 5: That the moment was.

01:13:14
Speaker 2: Angela, Yeah, and you think that she invited us there to give to you.

01:13:25
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, it's more. It's more reasonable than the idea that Rachel would just give away an apartment that isn't hers.

01:13:32
Speaker 3: So it can't be that.

01:13:33
Speaker 2: I definitely can't be that so crazy. Tapanga points out the obvious misunderstanding, and Angela says they'll leave. Rachel apologizes, says it's all her fault. She feels terrible. Eric shakes his head. I feel horrible, just horrible, horrible. Now get out of my house before I throw you on the street. Rachel follows them out and profusely apologizes more she was so looking forward to the three of them living together. All three girls let out a dramatic sigh and attempt to make the boys feel bad. Eric couldn't care less, but Jack tells the girls to wait. Jack can't just throw them out on the street, and Eric insists they can still.

01:14:07
Speaker 1: Jack tells the.

01:14:08
Speaker 2: Girls that they will move out instead. The girls jump up and down in excitement, thanking Jack and calling him the greatest. Eric is shocked. No, no, no, don't fold. I don't want to sleep in Phoene's car anymore. The beaded sea cushions hurts my tushy, Rachel adds, and it's such a cute tushy too. Eric melts, he really thinks, so he tries to look at his butt, spinning around in circles and laughing, trying to get a better view at it, and sorceled because of some size and wanting to live together.

01:14:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jack, that's been sorceled by the sensitivity the girl's being sad.

01:14:39
Speaker 3: And then Eric isn't sourcelled by Rachel.

01:14:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, which frankly makes more sense for the character. Yeah yeah.

01:14:50
Speaker 2: He spins and spins until he's now in the apartment hallway. Eric notices that they're no longer in the apartment and asks Jack what happened. Jack breaks it to him they don't live there anymore. Eric needs to know, oh where do we live? And we're at the Matthew's house. Amy and Alan are waving to bite to Morgan and her date Dominic, telling them to have a great time. Alan adds bring her back at ten minutes. Ha Amy walks back into the house and makes a bee line for the stairs. When Alan asks where she's going, she barks back away from you. Corey uses this opportunity to get advice from his dad. He needs to prove to Tapanga that love never dies.

01:15:23
Speaker 1: On cue.

01:15:24
Speaker 2: Amy shouts down to her husband, I hate you, and Alan yells back, I hate you more. Corey wonders what they're fighting about, and Alan responds, I don't know. Very rarely do I know. Amy chimes in, we are fighting because your father and I had all these children and he doesn't get to keep them because they grow up. Alan pouts about being called a pig, and Amy says it was because he was acting like one. Alan doesn't get why Morgan has to grow up, and Amy argues somebody has to. Alan calmly asks, we have another one after her, don't we? Amy smiles, brand new one. Alan makes sure he's still the boss of him, and Amy nods. She takes a seat in his lap and kisses his head. Corey doesn't get it.

01:16:03
Speaker 5: That's it.

01:16:04
Speaker 2: The fighting's over, Alan wonders, you disappointed. Corey admits he's happy. He's seen them fight all his life. But no matter what, they always work it out. And they always work it out. Because we cut to Corey and Shawn's dorm and Corey finishes his sentence to Sean because they love each other. They just forgot that they do. Now somebody has to go to Pittsburgh and remind them. Sean says, oh no, and Corey grins.

01:16:29
Speaker 5: Oh yes.

01:16:30
Speaker 2: Do you know what the difference is between my parents and Tapanga's parents. Sean answers, yeah, your parents birthed an idiot.

01:16:36
Speaker 6: Just funny.

01:16:38
Speaker 2: Corey shakes his head. No, my parents never forget that underneath all the horrible things they do to each other, they're still in love.

01:16:45
Speaker 1: That's just said straight. I'm not even sure that was supposed to be a joke.

01:16:48
Speaker 3: No, don't.

01:16:49
Speaker 5: I don't think it was supposed to be a joke either. All the horrible things they say to each other, Oh no, that's merri they do to each other. Yeah, it's like it. I know. It's it's such an insight into the people. Let's put it this way, to the people writing the show, that it's like, no matter how much we hate each other or how badly they treats to each other, We'll still find our way back to each other. We're still having a healthy relationship.

01:17:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's crazy to Pega's parents forgot there in love, and we have to go and remind them. The whole thing should take fifteen minutes stops. Corey asks if Shawn is in and Shawn isn't sold, we can't treat this like one of our little scams. We're talking about people's lives. We could ruin too, Pega's parents' lives and ours. Corey pauses for a second inmates, yes, I know, he is unfazed. He again asks, are you with me? Shawn is defeated. Yeah, and then we see two be continued at the bottom of the screen. We're in the tag. Phoenie gets into his car and situates himself in the driver's seat, when suddenly Eric and Jack pop up in the backseat. Eric has a bowl of spaghetti and Jack's eating a sandwich. Eric urges him to taste it, and a disappointed Phoenie asks if it's Thursday. Phoene eventually takes a bite of Eric's pasta and admits it is tasty. Eric looks at Jack and proudly states, see, I told you there was nothing wrong with eating a three week old meatball. Phoene starts gagging and he leans out of his car window as Eric examines the meatball. That's my hair, isn't it?

01:18:16
Speaker 3: I loved that? Did you remember that specifically?

01:18:20
Speaker 5: That was one of the probably the five different ones that I gave that just a button. The scene so funny, it was cute.

01:18:26
Speaker 1: Well that's our episode.

01:18:28
Speaker 2: Welcome in season seven, Season.

01:18:32
Speaker 1: Seven as well. Oh gosh, oh gosh, how much dropshock though for you guys?

01:18:41
Speaker 5: No, no, it was for me, but for for personal reasons, not for the show.

01:18:47
Speaker 3: I just yet.

01:18:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, we haven't changed our cast. Maybe the first season ever where we just have the same cast as the last season. Yep, right, because almost every season we introduced a whole set of new care just to start.

01:19:00
Speaker 5: That's right.

01:19:00
Speaker 3: Well, let's see, right, last season began with a wedding. Yeah, I guess we did. Mayland got introduced.

01:19:08
Speaker 5: And before that it was Matt was the season before that with four was Eli?

01:19:15
Speaker 3: No, that was three? Maybe season four. We didn't add, add or subtract anybody. Our best season m mmm was it four or five? We liked the best?

01:19:23
Speaker 5: Was it four? Four?

01:19:24
Speaker 1: Yeah?

01:19:24
Speaker 2: Four?

01:19:24
Speaker 5: This game?

01:19:25
Speaker 1: When did Tony leave season five? Okay, all right, four?

01:19:31
Speaker 5: No, no, where Tony and Tony and Matt never never crossed pad, so.

01:19:35
Speaker 3: He must have.

01:19:36
Speaker 5: Matt came in season five, right, so Tony must have left in season four?

01:19:39
Speaker 1: H Was that the end of season four?

01:19:41
Speaker 5: Then?

01:19:42
Speaker 3: Yeah?

01:19:44
Speaker 1: Right?

01:19:44
Speaker 3: Oh no, wait, Matt. Did Matt and Tony cross?

01:19:50
Speaker 5: No? I'm thinking, oh my god, I'm thinking of two different times you were in the hospital room talking to people and they're right, one of them yet so one and one's Tony. Okay, yeah, so no he did, they did. There was no cross contamination.

01:20:01
Speaker 3: There you go, Dykes.

01:20:03
Speaker 2: Well, thank you all for joining us for this episode of Pod Meets World. As always, you can follow us on Instagram pod Meets World Show. You can send us your emails pod meets World Show at gmail dot com.

01:20:12
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Speaker 5: Oh silence, Danielle A second there. I was like, all right, I'm going to tell you something. I came very close. I just couldn't pull it off in time to cutting off all of my hair and then pulling it off to have the thing. I just I couldn't get it done, but I think there's going pretty soon.

01:20:39
Speaker 1: So really you're going to cut the long hair?

01:20:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's time rise, I don't know, just switch it, done with it, Well, we'll see.

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01:20:59
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