Speaker 1: Hey there, Fana Ritos, Welcome back to a brand new
Speaker 1: episode of How Rude Tana Ritos. For today's minisode, we
Speaker 1: will be adding a fun little TGIF twist. Since we've
Speaker 1: spent the last couple of years recapping our own show,
Speaker 1: we wanted to see what the other TGIF shows at
Speaker 1: the time had to offer, and it only felt right
Speaker 1: to watch the Boy Meets World pilot, as Jody and
Speaker 1: I have never seen it and we love the host
Speaker 1: of Podmeets World. Of course, so join us as we
Speaker 1: break down this iconic TGIF pilot that a lot of
Speaker 1: you are also fans of. So let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Let's do this.
Speaker 1: This was so fun, Like, this was a fun exercise
Speaker 1: to watch.
Speaker 2: Compose the show. I have never watched any of Boy
Speaker 2: Needs World.
Speaker 1: I hadn't either hadn't, which we all discovered here and there,
Speaker 1: but not.
Speaker 2: We did the live show and.
Speaker 3: We all of us hadn't seen each other's shows, which
Speaker 3: was hilarious, and then we had to like try and
Speaker 3: invent who is this person? And we had were like, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I just want a random stories are I love it.
Speaker 3: I'd never watched it, and I also forgot it was
Speaker 3: a TGIF show.
Speaker 1: Well, because I think it was after Okay, so this
Speaker 1: pilot aired in nineteen ninety three. It was kind of
Speaker 1: wrapping up. We might have gone to Nicete Nights. We wrapped, No,
Speaker 1: we wrapped in ninety five, but we were off TGIF
Speaker 1: in ninety three, yes, because yes, it was ninety ninety
Speaker 1: five is when we last shooting.
Speaker 2: There in ninety four, our last shot shooting.
Speaker 1: Ok I got it, yes, but I think we were
Speaker 1: on Tuesday Nights by nineteen ninety three, we were no
Speaker 1: longer part of the TGIF.
Speaker 2: Right, that's right, we got yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, so I know this was not boy
Speaker 1: Meld was not on my radar. Yah, we weren't shooting
Speaker 1: on the same lot like there was not. They were
Speaker 1: own Disney, right, I think they're on Disney, And yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that's what it was.
Speaker 3: I thought because they were on the Disney lot, I
Speaker 3: just thought, I mean, Disney and ABC are the same
Speaker 3: thing or whatever.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I guess I just didn't. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a Disney show, not necessarily an
Speaker 3: ABC Disney show.
Speaker 1: Well, because it airs now on Disney Plus. And I
Speaker 1: think Girl Meets World was a Disney it was a
Speaker 1: Disney plus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was because ABC and Disney. I don't know
Speaker 2: who owns who.
Speaker 3: Disney probably owns ABC because I think Disney owns everything
Speaker 3: at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all of the things. Yeah, so we were such.
Speaker 2: A cute pilot though.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I told did you have expectations going
Speaker 1: into it?
Speaker 2: Did you?
Speaker 1: Did you have high expectations, low expectations.
Speaker 2: I mean I didn't really. I tried not to go
Speaker 2: and do it with any expectations. You know. I knew
Speaker 2: it was going to be a little bit different because
Speaker 2: the kids.
Speaker 3: Were older, they were on our show, So I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be like, there's gonna be a little more
Speaker 3: like funny dialogue. It's it'll be a little more I
Speaker 3: don't know, quick witted, I guess was kind of the thing.
Speaker 2: And I and and that totally lived up to expectation.
Speaker 3: It was much more like team you know, middle school queen,
Speaker 3: team friendly.
Speaker 1: They're no no babies, no babies, no, no, right, And
Speaker 1: again it wasn't you know, this was about the kids,
Speaker 1: not really the parents. So yeah, much more kid focused,
Speaker 1: school focus. Yeah, and the family is just sort of
Speaker 1: in the background. Yeah. I went into it was like
Speaker 1: I sort of had mid expectations. I was like, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be another sitcom, it's gonna be a ninety sitcom.
Speaker 1: But I think the succeeded those expectations. I mean too,
Speaker 1: it was a great pilot.
Speaker 2: It was a great pilot.
Speaker 3: Ben was hilarious all I mean, the Yeah rider was great,
Speaker 3: like the will Oh my god, he was just such.
Speaker 1: You know, so funny.
Speaker 3: It's uh, it's and it's so fun to see everybody like,
Speaker 3: you know, god, back when we were all babies.
Speaker 1: It was so fun seeing our friends as less child actors.
Speaker 1: It's just hysterical. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Did any actor really stand out for you in this pilot?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I mean Ben, Ben really stood out for me. He
Speaker 2: I mean, he has to.
Speaker 3: Carry this whole show, and he absolutely did it. And
Speaker 3: he was funny and his timing was great and no,
Speaker 3: he was. I mean I can absolutely see why they
Speaker 3: cast him as a lead in that show because he
Speaker 3: really he was great.
Speaker 2: Really funny.
Speaker 1: So that's a lot for an eleven year old to carry, Yes,
Speaker 1: and he did. I think he was in every scene too,
Speaker 1: Like I don't call any scenes that he wasn't in
Speaker 1: so that's a huge load for anyone much less than
Speaker 1: eleven year old.
Speaker 2: So absolutely, but he really I really enjoyed the pilot.
Speaker 1: It was fun well, and I believe correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but I think that Boy Meets World was
Speaker 1: written for Ben Savage because Fred had had such success
Speaker 1: with Wonder Years, so they were like, we're gonna write
Speaker 1: We're going to write this show for Ben Savage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that right? Oh yeah, Matt Mattie says, that's it's correct,
Speaker 1: And it was deserved. He deserved it, like he absolutely
Speaker 1: could carry his own Absolutely, Yeah, that was I was thinking,
Speaker 1: that's kind of risky to put in a you know,
Speaker 1: put all of that on the Red, but they did
Speaker 1: it with Wonder Years, with fresh Yeah, that's true. Those
Speaker 1: savages many Yeah, really knew. They knew how to act,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. So what would you rate this episode
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten?
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, I'd say as far as pilot goes,
Speaker 3: it was like a seven.
Speaker 2: It was a good It was a really good pilot. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I definitely think that they'll find their their even better groove.
Speaker 3: But I thought for a pilot it was funny. The
Speaker 3: characters were really good. It was well written.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would agree with that. If if
Speaker 1: we're using the Full House Pilot as our barometer, and
Speaker 1: I give that a ten. Right, so we're judging all
Speaker 1: other pilots based on Full House up against the Full
Speaker 1: House Pilot, I would give this an eight. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Actually I don't, Sally, we're judging it up against Full House?
Speaker 1: It in eight? Yeah, yeah suh, because it was right.
Speaker 1: It was right up there, right up there. Wasn't perfect
Speaker 1: by any means, but I really enjoyed it. I did
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. Okay, So do we get into some
Speaker 1: do we want to talk about these fun facts? Do
Speaker 1: we want to just get into.
Speaker 2: This show we kind of covered.
Speaker 3: The show premiered on ABC September twenty fourth, nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 3: at eight thirty pm, and it was following Family Matters
Speaker 3: and before Step by Step, so it was kind of
Speaker 3: sandwiched in there with them, okay, And it debuted is
Speaker 3: sixteen and a half million viewers. Wow is in which
Speaker 3: is probably for them like great ratings. But now you're
Speaker 3: like sixteen million people to watch one show.
Speaker 2: You get it's you. You don't get that kind of
Speaker 2: those kind of eyeballs all in one.
Speaker 1: Spot really as well, you don't know, especially with Streamy
Speaker 1: and everybody watches things on their own schedule. So sixteen million, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's hugely impressive, very impressive.
Speaker 2: And that's funny.
Speaker 3: Although and it says, although Sean is in every episode
Speaker 3: and Corey's always talking to him, no one's speaks his
Speaker 3: name until season one, episode.
Speaker 2: Four, Corey's Alternative.
Speaker 3: Friends, when mister Feenie calls him mister Hunter.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 3: Later in the episode, Corey calls him Sean, thus revealing
Speaker 3: his name, which had somehow gone unspoken to this point.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they hadn't named like, did he have
Speaker 1: a name? And in the script the script, so was
Speaker 1: it Seand it was they just did he was?
Speaker 2: They just didn't.
Speaker 3: He just didn't like they didn't call it out in
Speaker 3: the Yeah, he wasn't like, hey Sean, what's up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't.
Speaker 1: Interesting the things you don't think of. That would have
Speaker 1: been an easy way just to write in have you
Speaker 1: been savage, say hey Sean or whatever. So, okay, that
Speaker 1: is pretty funny. So the synopsis of this pilot, just
Speaker 1: very briefly, Corey is caught listening to the Phillies game
Speaker 1: in class while Feenie is trying to teach the class
Speaker 1: about love. Eric decides to take his girlfriend on their
Speaker 1: first date to the Phillies game instead of Corey. So
Speaker 1: Corey decides to live in his treehouse. All right, good,
Speaker 1: get much better than the bathroom. And they're just we're
Speaker 1: not going to go through the scene by scene. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna We're not gonna put you guys through this,
Speaker 1: but we will talk about some of the best moments,
Speaker 1: some key moments of this pilot. We'd begin in the
Speaker 1: cafeteria of Corey's school where he has a little run
Speaker 1: in with his teacher, mister Feenie.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, also, mister Feenie really stands out.
Speaker 3: I mean, oh, Daniels is so great and just is
Speaker 3: the perfect mister Feenie. I absolutely see why he was
Speaker 3: like so popular and white people still absolutely love see
Speaker 3: him because, yeah, he had there was a heart to
Speaker 3: him that it was really great.
Speaker 1: He was a legend. He's a legend. You know, he
Speaker 1: won Emmys, he was on Saint Elsewhere, he was the
Speaker 1: night writer. Yeah, ye, so yeah, he was great. But
Speaker 1: my unpopular opinion is that I thought he was terrifying
Speaker 1: and unlikable in this episode, right, I just thought I
Speaker 1: was scared so sorry, timidating ismoy very.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very, very harsh, but I think there's the
Speaker 3: payoff is worth it.
Speaker 1: They he's definitely invested in these kids, because otherwise he
Speaker 1: wouldn't take the time to teach Corey that lesson at
Speaker 1: the end about love. But he's just he seems like
Speaker 1: he shouldn't be working with children like. He just seems
Speaker 1: very I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I've met a lot of teachers. They don't like kids.
Speaker 1: Well kidding this.
Speaker 2: Forever.
Speaker 1: That's justified, honestly, middle school.
Speaker 3: Is he's been dealing with like eleven and twelve year
Speaker 3: old idiots for decades, So thatsgruntled.
Speaker 1: So disgruntled. No, he's just a very distinguished character. He
Speaker 1: seemed a little up like up uppity up. Yeah he is.
Speaker 2: That's I think that's all that the character is written.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3: I just think he's supposed to be mister like super likable.
Speaker 3: I think he's kind of he's Corey's uh not well
Speaker 3: nemesis a little bit. Yeah, it's his front of me,
Speaker 3: it's his it's his kid, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Some nuts, but also has like there's moments of connection.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think just because I know I haven't seen
Speaker 1: the series, but I know how beloved mister Feenie is
Speaker 1: even to this day, Like people are just like they
Speaker 1: cry and they they just quote his lessons and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I was expecting like this teddy bear type no
Speaker 1: person that everyone loves so much, and I'm like, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I did know that. I mean, I haven't watched a
Speaker 2: whole episode.
Speaker 3: But I did know mister Feenie is particular uptight, sort
Speaker 3: of disdainful of you know, these kids that don't understand
Speaker 3: and don't pay attention, and so that's kind.
Speaker 1: Of the the that's the character and for yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's how it was written. And yeah Bill Daniels, wooh,
Speaker 1: he was great. He knocked that out of the park.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And they're working on Romeo and Juliet in this okay
Speaker 2: stabbing the other one with a fake knife, which I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure these days you wouldn't be allowed at school.
Speaker 1: No the night like someone is pretending to kill another
Speaker 1: with the with the knife. It's yeah you don't, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't.
Speaker 2: They don't do that.
Speaker 1: They don't do that in schools anymore. Right, that was
Speaker 1: really not what the real knives.
Speaker 3: No, that God, that ended poorly, so they were like,
Speaker 3: we need to start using the fake ones.
Speaker 1: Yes, so yeah, Corey is secretly listening to the Phillies
Speaker 1: game and Phoene catches him, and he tries to emphasize
Speaker 1: the importance of Romeo Juliet, calling it Shakespeare's Ultimate Testament
Speaker 1: of Love, which.
Speaker 2: I don't think, like, I think it's Oh.
Speaker 1: I think it's unhealthy. Yes, it's unhealthy, codependent, Well, it's excited.
Speaker 2: Romeo and Juliet are twelve than thirteen years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, they're they're that's true children, their children.
Speaker 1: They don't have their wits about them, right, so of
Speaker 1: course they it's a act. Actually yeah, yeah, it is
Speaker 1: a tragedy. Yeah, so the ultimate testament of love. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I agree with that, but it's a
Speaker 1: good setup.
Speaker 2: For of course, what is Corey. Corey says, he's like,
Speaker 2: he sees the play as a kid who kills himself
Speaker 2: over some dumb girl.
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of like, I mean, it's true, he's
Speaker 1: not wrong.
Speaker 2: He's wrong, wrong, Yeah, but I get it. Phoene is like,
Speaker 2: now it's more than that.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a feme of the episode, so
Speaker 1: we will run with it. So Phoene fires back, he
Speaker 1: gives him detention on Friday, and that's it sets up nicely,
Speaker 1: this little this this rift between yeah Feenie and.
Speaker 3: Mister Mister Feenie is like the tough.
Speaker 2: Six screen teacher. I had a tough six screen teacher.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, missus Porter.
Speaker 3: She was scary, but if you got on her good side,
Speaker 3: she was awesome. But she was the teacher like you'd
Speaker 3: hear her out in the hallway because the sixth graders
Speaker 3: were acting up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like she was messing around.
Speaker 3: She did not mess around, but everybody respected her hardcore,
Speaker 3: but she was not there to play.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how you have to be in middle school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sixth graders, let's take advantage of you if you're nice.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Still I remember her as a like great teacher that
Speaker 3: I really loved, kind of like you know, mister Venie.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right.
Speaker 2: Play.
Speaker 1: So next with the Matthews house and we're in the
Speaker 1: boys bedroom and Eric. We meet Eric the big brother.
Speaker 2: Ye Will is so like he's just so cute.
Speaker 1: He's you can tell he's like nervous or a little
Speaker 1: I don't know, he was a little awkward, but he's
Speaker 1: just so so great.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: She's a little stilted, but he's just so charming and
Speaker 1: he's super cute, and I'm like, there was like literally
Speaker 1: I saw him and I was like, oh, you are
Speaker 1: so going to be on the Tiger Beat magazine like
Speaker 1: six months. Yeah, yeah, one hundred. He was made for
Speaker 1: Tiger Beat cover Sea just eighteen beat, adorable, so charming, big,
Speaker 1: big brother energy, Yes, for sure, good casting there. So
Speaker 1: the boys are supposed to go to the Phillies game together,
Speaker 1: but Eric announces that, oh no, he's taken this girl,
Speaker 1: Heather to the Phillies game instead of Ben Savage, and
Speaker 1: Ben is devastated, which is kind of this kind of
Speaker 1: dick move, you know, to take the girl over your
Speaker 1: little brother, Like I didn't think, very highly, very very typical.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, how old is Eric in this? Do we
Speaker 1: think he's If Ben is eleven.
Speaker 2: I'd say he's probably sixty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe he can drive to the date, so sixteen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty common for six Yeah, he's gonna choose.
Speaker 2: The girl anyway, bro.
Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah right, I feel bad. I feel bad for
Speaker 1: Ben's simons.
Speaker 2: I didn't say you could come. I just talked about it.
Speaker 1: There would be a loophole, there's some sort of technicality
Speaker 1: that you're going to get off one. Uh okay. So
Speaker 1: next in the living room we meet the rest of
Speaker 1: the family. Amy the mom, Alan the dad, and Morgan
Speaker 1: is the little sister.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very cute.
Speaker 1: I love I loved these parents, these these sitcom parents,
Speaker 1: they just seemed very calm, had calm energy.
Speaker 3: Yeas is great, Betsy Randall really great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, ton of stuff.
Speaker 1: I was just like, I want you guys as parents.
Speaker 1: They're just you can tell they love their kids, but
Speaker 1: they're not afraid to punish them, and they are just
Speaker 1: like the sweetest, very calm energy. Compared to the Tanner
Speaker 1: House where you got like three nutcases. Was this is
Speaker 1: a nice, calm home where you want to go and
Speaker 1: decompress and relax. I like that. Uh so. Amy immediately
Speaker 1: mentions that Peene told her about the Ben Savage's upcoming
Speaker 1: to tension, and Corey winds about the fact that they
Speaker 1: live next to Foenie.
Speaker 3: He's their next door neighbor. Thing Yeah, it's just built
Speaker 3: in conflict.
Speaker 1: What are the odds that the teachers living right next door, Like,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've heard that happened to like cousins and
Speaker 3: stuff that live in like Iowa somewhere that's not you know,
Speaker 3: l a necessarily And they're like, oh, yeah, they live
Speaker 3: down the street from their teacher.
Speaker 1: Is this common in Philadelphia? I would think it's in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Seems like a pretty big city, right, But they're probably
Speaker 3: in the suburbs. Yeah, you know, you local neighborhood school.
Speaker 3: They I don't know, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 3: what's going on with these people.
Speaker 1: It just seems a little too convenient. But again, this
Speaker 1: is six so of course they're going to set it
Speaker 1: up like this for convenience, right, so they can have conflict.
Speaker 2: At least their backyard doesn't change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 1: Their backyard is very different.
Speaker 2: Yet I'm gonna wait, hold that judgment.
Speaker 1: So Amy tells her husband that Corey got detention because
Speaker 1: he didn't want to learn about the emotional content of
Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliet.
Speaker 3: But I mean to argue he got detention because he
Speaker 3: was listening to the Phillies game in class.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, if you say what, you got detention
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 3: It's not the emotional content, but that's the story broke.
Speaker 1: He broke the broke a rule.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you can't listen to the Phillies game. But
Speaker 2: it's the thing.
Speaker 1: Yet it's an excellent setup for this next joke, exactly
Speaker 1: where Ben Savage says, I'm a kid, I don't understand
Speaker 1: the emotional content of full House. I screamed yes, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we made it. Yes, we made it
Speaker 1: into the pilot. Yes, boy meets the World fantastic. And
Speaker 1: then Corey tries to turn things back to Eric, back
Speaker 1: on to Eric, but his parents don't take his side.
Speaker 1: Eric bought the tickets with his own money, Okay, so
Speaker 1: he can bring whoever he'd like. All right, okay, I'll
Speaker 1: give it to Eric this time. But I do think
Speaker 1: it's felt bad for Ben Savage. You know, you just
Speaker 1: want to go to this game with his brother, so
Speaker 1: it will. At school the next day, Corey tells his
Speaker 1: friends that he's now an orphan, and he decides that
Speaker 1: he and his friends can just go to the baseball
Speaker 1: game together. But there's this little matter of his detention,
Speaker 1: Corey walks over to Feenie to try and sweet talk him,
Speaker 1: but Feoenie has no interest in seeing him. During his
Speaker 1: lunch break, however, we do see that Feenie has saved
Speaker 1: a seat at his lunch table for a mystery woman. Now,
Speaker 1: why don't they have like a teacher's lounge. Why is
Speaker 1: Phoenie eating in the cafeteria where the kids are just
Speaker 1: like adjacent to.
Speaker 3: Him, Because it would be really hard to have a
Speaker 3: scene where you see through a wall to what the.
Speaker 2: Teachers are doing. That's really why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. It's it's just again again.
Speaker 2: It's a small school.
Speaker 3: Okay, again, suburbia. They don't have money for teachers lounges.
Speaker 1: There's no money for the teacher's lounge. Right, He's got
Speaker 1: to just eat with all the other kids.
Speaker 2: All the kids got to live next door to one
Speaker 2: of them. This is why he.
Speaker 1: Hates children, because he has to eat his lunch with.
Speaker 2: Them and lived at them around middle and lunch.
Speaker 1: God, no, wonder, yeah, wonder he hates good.
Speaker 2: Blame mister Feenie. He's lived through a.
Speaker 1: Lot, he really has. So that night, we see that
Speaker 1: Corey has locked himself away in his treehouse, which I
Speaker 1: think is a very cool little set for him. That's great. Like,
Speaker 1: you don't see treehouses very often, so I was like, oh, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Had a tree house in my neighborhood growing up. Not mine,
Speaker 3: but it was directly across the street. We had like
Speaker 3: a little club and everything.
Speaker 1: I love treehouses. I don't know if they're really around anymore.
Speaker 3: Like there's a couple of my neighborhood. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't ever see children in them. But the kids are
Speaker 3: like teenagers now that I see.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I do love treehouses. Amy is very sweet.
Speaker 1: She checks on him and brings him a dinner, Like
Speaker 1: I love I love this mom. How she's not like
Speaker 1: get out of the treehouse. Get you know, you got detention,
Speaker 1: you're in trouble.
Speaker 2: For great, stay in the treehouse attitude.
Speaker 1: There's some dinner, you're having some feelings, Go ahead and
Speaker 1: have your feelings in your treehouse. Yeah, Like she's she's
Speaker 1: an excellent mom. He lover. Uh. Corey realizes that he
Speaker 1: can see inside Phoenie's house from this new vantage point.
Speaker 2: How was he never realized this before?
Speaker 1: But it's weird, like this is just this feels voyeuristic
Speaker 1: and just weird that he's spying on his teacher. Now, Like,
Speaker 1: there's so many boundaries being violated right now that I'm like, well.
Speaker 3: Again, very hard to write the scene through a fence
Speaker 3: where he doesn't see him, So you've got to somehow
Speaker 3: get over.
Speaker 1: That, I guess. So it looks like Phoenie is setting
Speaker 1: up a romantic dinner for two. But then Phoenie gets
Speaker 1: a phone call and sad music starts to play, and
Speaker 1: he hangs up the phone and takes that extra place,
Speaker 1: setting away. Assume that he's been stood up on a date,
Speaker 1: which is very Once the violins start playing, you know,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to feel sad, but I felt mostly confused
Speaker 1: why he like, had he only made a salad? Like
Speaker 1: that was the whole day? He made a sad that
Speaker 1: just a big salad. Yes, okay, you couldn't.
Speaker 2: Throw it, that's it, you know what.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe he was making some sort of roast and
Speaker 3: that was still in the ovens, so you know, you
Speaker 3: eat the salad first.
Speaker 1: You eat the salad first.
Speaker 2: Well is roasting, right, Well, it's resting.
Speaker 3: You know, he's taking it out for a little bit,
Speaker 3: so it's the resting.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the roast is resting, and Phoenie is sad
Speaker 1: that he's stood up. I still think it's weird that
Speaker 1: he lives next door. I don't know. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to get past that.
Speaker 2: Well, I have a feeling that's going to stick for
Speaker 2: the whole show. So yeah, if you're gonna watch anymore,
Speaker 2: you might want to move on.
Speaker 1: I'm also curious about how they're gonna write Phoenie into. Like,
Speaker 1: so this show went for seven seasons. How do they
Speaker 1: write the teacher. He's obviously a major character of the show.
Speaker 1: He gets like second billing, So how do they keep
Speaker 1: writing him for seven seasons? Don't you switch teacher every year?
Speaker 2: I don't know, so I haven't seen the rest of
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: Wait, Maddie's given they made him their teacher every year?
Speaker 1: What that's weird. I mean, that's one way to write
Speaker 1: him into every season. But right, that never happen even
Speaker 1: in high school. That doesn't That.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean I have the same math teacher for three years.
Speaker 1: But that was well okay, but not the same one
Speaker 1: you had when you were eleven in sixth grade, you know,
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, he even had.
Speaker 2: Him go to college with them. Now it's becoming this
Speaker 2: is sorry.
Speaker 3: We're getting notes from Maddie as we're discussing, like wait
Speaker 3: a minute, this is weird, and she's.
Speaker 2: Like, oh wait, just wait to get weird. It's weirder.
Speaker 2: He goes to college. Okay, well, but you know what,
Speaker 2: here's the thing. What I'm glad to know that other
Speaker 2: shows also do stupid it like Full House did. It's
Speaker 2: very true, doesn't really matter. You just got to make
Speaker 2: it work and.
Speaker 3: Reality be damned, you know so at least I like
Speaker 3: I feel like, huh, yeah, you guys did it too.
Speaker 1: See, yeah, this doesn't make me feel little bit better about.
Speaker 2: Like asteroid sized plot holes all in the place.
Speaker 1: So funny. Okay, So Corey goes back in the house
Speaker 1: and Amy catches him. He says he's not state. Amy
Speaker 1: relates Corey's feelings of abandonment to his dad. His dad
Speaker 1: felt abandoned when Corey no longer wanted to play football
Speaker 1: with him after school, and so the mom explains how
Speaker 1: people grow up and priorities change and that's all natural.
Speaker 1: Good lesson. Yeah, another good lesson from mom. And next
Speaker 1: a great scene where Corey is stuck in detention with
Speaker 1: Foenie and this is masterful like this.
Speaker 2: The two of them are so good in the scene.
Speaker 1: They're so good together. I like they I want to
Speaker 1: see what their chemistry test was like like before they
Speaker 1: started taping this, Like it's just fantastic. Yeah. So, despite
Speaker 1: Cory's best efforts, Foenie will not talk to him, and
Speaker 1: he's like getting up, he's dancing, he's doing all of
Speaker 1: these distracting things. And Phoenie is just stonefaced grading his
Speaker 1: papers and will not give him the time of day.
Speaker 1: So Corey states that love leads to no good and
Speaker 1: he's certain that Feoene agrees with him. When Foene questions this,
Speaker 1: Corey admits to seeing him eat alone last night. Get curtains, buddy, right,
Speaker 1: it's very jarring. So Phoenie is very adamant that he
Speaker 1: believes in the power of love, and he uses the
Speaker 1: Matthews family as the perfect example. The family was created
Speaker 1: because two people fell in love. He tells Corey that
Speaker 1: people who don't recognize the value of love will be
Speaker 1: stuck in detention for the rest of their lives. All right,
Speaker 1: He's made this a teachable moment. All of this is
Speaker 1: whether from Shakespeare to Eric leaving Ben Savage for the girlfriends,
Speaker 1: to take the girlfriend to the game, to familiar, to change.
Speaker 3: People move on, not mister Feenie, He'll be with you forever, right,
Speaker 3: he'll be, But other people's priorities change and they move on.
Speaker 1: Now I know that Ben Savage and Topanga get married.
Speaker 1: Was he is he at the wedding? Does he officiate
Speaker 1: the wedding? Like?
Speaker 2: I got so much questions. I don't know the first
Speaker 2: time I've watched the show.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, Like, I'm just wondering out loud, like
Speaker 1: married Ben Savage and Daniel Fishel, their characters get married
Speaker 1: by the end of the series. Oh so yeah, But
Speaker 1: I don't know anything.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I've heard it in passing. I'm probably that's weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were like they were a couple of goals
Speaker 1: back in the nineties. They were it was like every
Speaker 1: guy wanted Topanga and I don't know if they wanted
Speaker 1: to be Ben Savage, but they Yeah, so they got married,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I kind of want to watch
Speaker 1: the rest of the series how to find out that
Speaker 1: these questions what happened? Yeah, I might, I might. I
Speaker 1: might be a new fan of Boy Meets the World. Uh,
Speaker 1: so Cory sneaks back into the house, and this time
Speaker 1: the little sister catches him. He begs her not to
Speaker 1: tell anyone, but she ignores him and shouts Corey's home
Speaker 1: for the entire house to hear. The dad meets him
Speaker 1: in the living room and Corey uses this opportunity to
Speaker 1: tell him that he'd like to move back, and then
Speaker 1: he apologizes for ditching him for his friends, but Alan
Speaker 1: is glad that Corey has friends. I don't think Alan
Speaker 1: was really upset about this, like the not playing football
Speaker 1: with him, Like Alic's just like, hey, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: got friends.
Speaker 3: But I think that was the point, right, was that, Like, Okay,
Speaker 3: he was bummed at first, like that you have, but
Speaker 3: actually I'm really glad you have friends, and I'm glad
Speaker 3: you have. You're supposed to do that, like mom said,
Speaker 3: that's totally natural, Like, you know, it feels bad at first,
Speaker 3: but honestly, the other person is doing exactly what they're
Speaker 3: supposed to be doing, so it's not you know.
Speaker 2: I think that that was kind of what I took
Speaker 2: from it. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, this dad seems way more involved or evil
Speaker 1: not involved evolved. Then the full house dads because they
Speaker 1: always put themselves first and they're always like, you've hurt
Speaker 1: my feelings.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, there's a mom in the house, so you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the emotional needs are getting met because there's a
Speaker 1: mom in that. That's right. I'm not used to seeing
Speaker 1: a mom in on a sitcom. This is revolutionary and
Speaker 1: she's fantastic. She's like the ideal bomb. So next Corey's
Speaker 1: playing video games up in his room and Eric walks in.
Speaker 1: He had a terrible date. He was clumsy, he was embarrassing,
Speaker 1: he had nothing to say, and he says, I'll never
Speaker 1: go on another date with Heather ever. Again, Corey knows
Speaker 1: that's not true. Even though she's Corey's nemesis. He urges
Speaker 1: his brother to call her. Okay, so that's good they
Speaker 1: you know, I think Ben Savage is evolving here.
Speaker 2: Jane Lessons paying off.
Speaker 3: He's like, oh you know, and the dad Lesson like, okay, actually,
Speaker 3: this is what you're supposed to be doing, Like this
Speaker 3: isn't let me be a good little brother.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: I will give the writer his flowers for this, because
Speaker 1: this was a great way to involve almost every cat yep,
Speaker 1: basically every cast member because even with the little sister.
Speaker 1: He decides to play tea party with the little sister too,
Speaker 1: So it's like, yes, the writer has somehow involved every
Speaker 1: character into this lesson on life different kinds of love.
Speaker 1: So that's actually very well done. So yeah, last scenes,
Speaker 1: or one of the last scenes, Corey is sitting with
Speaker 1: Morgan and joining her for tea. He tells her that
Speaker 1: he'll always be there for her no matter how old
Speaker 1: he gets, and he asks her that she'll never stop
Speaker 1: inviting him to tea parties. Very sweet, very cute.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: When Amy tells Morgan to head upstairs and get ready
Speaker 1: for bed, Corey asks if they can finish their tea party,
Speaker 1: and he even offers to put Morgan to bed. When
Speaker 1: Amy notices the change of heart, Corey just admits, I
Speaker 1: don't understand anything about my life. Same Corey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, wow, doesn't really change.
Speaker 1: He's very self aware for an eleven year old.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Morgan gives him a hugging and kiss on the cheek
Speaker 1: and all he has to say is, uh, yeah, thanks
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This was a very again, very sweet scene. You can
Speaker 1: see how Corey's evolved over the last twenty two minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like, okay, okay, get's paying attention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very cute, and I love how the little
Speaker 1: girl just chucked her doll. Oh she chucked him and
Speaker 1: was like, forget it. Look, then my big brother is here.
Speaker 1: I don't want, don't need a doll anymore. And then last, last,
Speaker 1: but certainly not least, the boys are spying on Phoenie
Speaker 1: having lunch with the same woman yet again. Phoanie finally
Speaker 1: asks this woman to dinner and she says yes. He
Speaker 1: boasts about being a good cook, admitting he made dinner
Speaker 1: for his sister the other night but she had to cancel.
Speaker 1: Corey is obviously confused, and Phoene says that that's the
Speaker 1: way it should be. Plot twist. I wasn't expecting that
Speaker 1: to be the sister. I really thought he on a date. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if they needed this little tag,
Speaker 1: this little I don't know if they even needed this scene.
Speaker 1: I kind of thought it was the end with the
Speaker 1: tea party and the sister.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but but I liked it because it also
Speaker 3: it would like reminded the kids, like, you don't always
Speaker 3: know what you're talking about, so don't take things out
Speaker 3: of context and think.
Speaker 2: That you're right when you.
Speaker 1: Don't make snap judgments when it could be one of anything.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, but I love this pilot.
Speaker 2: I thought it was really cute. I was glad that
Speaker 2: I watched it.
Speaker 3: I can't joke with them and laugh with them and
Speaker 3: at them at the ridiculousness of the pilot.
Speaker 1: Too, so ridiculous. And we didn't I didn't mention writer,
Speaker 1: but right strong. He is so strong from the jump,
Speaker 1: like he's cool and moody and I'm just like he
Speaker 1: had like four lines, but he was so strong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was so shorn. Yeah, exactly, Sean.
Speaker 1: And it's hysterical just knowing how they grew up to
Speaker 1: be and how they are now. It's it's hysterical.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed this. I can see why fans loved it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't too. So uh it was great. Guy
Speaker 3: Boy Meets World cast well done.
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World. Yes, it's you know, it was funny
Speaker 1: as it is the full House pilot, but very close,
Speaker 1: very very.
Speaker 2: But but it's cute, you know what I mean. It
Speaker 2: was cute. It's it's up there, up.
Speaker 1: There, yeah, and it's I feel like full House was
Speaker 1: definitely more of a family like younger children, family focused shit,
Speaker 1: and this is it.
Speaker 2: Has a family, middle school teenage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the school is the main setting in
Speaker 1: the family background.
Speaker 2: The kids and a younger audience, not.
Speaker 3: Necessarily the whole family, the whole family as much.
Speaker 1: Yes, I totally agree. I don't.
Speaker 2: I kind of like it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I like I like that it's just
Speaker 1: kid focused, But I don't know. Full House was kind
Speaker 1: of a bigger cultural phenomenon than Boy Meets World. I
Speaker 1: think I'm okay saying that true. Well, yeah, as far
Speaker 1: as like people quoting catchphrases, memes that are out there,
Speaker 1: you know, the just the buzz surrounding our show, and
Speaker 1: the loyalty. I mean, I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World fans are pretty damn Yes, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say they're more loyal than than Full House.
Speaker 3: I have experience with the Full House fans, so I
Speaker 3: can't speak for the Boy Meets World ones, but I
Speaker 3: do I think, you know, uh yeah, this was full
Speaker 3: House was for a totally not a totally different audience,
Speaker 3: but for I think more of a co viewing experience.
Speaker 2: This was like, yes, this was.
Speaker 3: This was a you know again, an ABC sitcom. It
Speaker 3: was the whole family would enjoy it, but it centered
Speaker 3: around the kids in a way that made them more
Speaker 3: friendly to like tweens and teenagers as they grew up.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I wonder if it was easier to write
Speaker 1: for because you didn't have so many fractured You got,
Speaker 1: you know, a five year old and then the grandparents.
Speaker 3: You've got three families existing in the same space.
Speaker 1: Basically, so you just have to focus on the kids
Speaker 1: and their friendships and their romances.
Speaker 3: And you can write a little bit more clever and
Speaker 3: bantery for older kids, you know, than you can so
Speaker 3: but no.
Speaker 2: I loved it. I'm so glad we watched that. This
Speaker 2: was great.
Speaker 1: This was very super cute. Yep, loved it.
Speaker 2: Loved it.
Speaker 1: I might have to watch a few more episodes.
Speaker 2: Watch and keep me posted.
Speaker 1: I will.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know go watch The Boy Meets World Pilot.
Speaker 2: It's cute, great, it's very funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell tell us what you thought. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you are a fan of both shows, just give us
Speaker 1: your opinions.
Speaker 3: Not Maybe there's people out there that also have never
Speaker 3: watched The Boy Meets World Pilot and give their thoughts. Yeah, yeah, anyway,
Speaker 3: let us know you guys. We love to hear from you.
Speaker 3: And remember the world is small.
Speaker 2: The house is full of love, full of love. There's
Speaker 2: love everywhere. The whole show was about love.
Speaker 1: Love is love.
Speaker 3: Yep, it's true game up for mister Feeney because I
Speaker 3: was his sister.
Speaker 2: So it sounds like he's in love with her, but
Speaker 2: he loves her, you know, still.
Speaker 1: A different type of love. Yeah, and he's ready to
Speaker 1: get it on with that the teacher from the cafeteria.
Speaker 1: So go Feenie, right, bye and bye