Speaker 1: I signed in.
Speaker 2: I had to redo a new password, but I was
Speaker 2: able to go back to my old Tumblr account, and
Speaker 2: I signed in for myself to find the Tumblr article
Speaker 2: that I wrote yesterday. About Girl Meets World. Because I
Speaker 2: wanted you guys to understand this was what the intention
Speaker 2: of the show was before we started.
Speaker 3: And have you shot the pilot or you had done
Speaker 3: nothing yet? Or rehearsals or where were you in the process?
Speaker 2: This is before we had even shot the pilot. Let
Speaker 2: me see if I can see.
Speaker 4: Okay, so this is still.
Speaker 1: This was written November 26th, 2012.
Speaker 5: Oh, geez.
Speaker 1: Way before.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. So this is when it was just announced.
Speaker 1: Just announced.
Speaker 4: And people were.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: I had just gotten engaged.
Speaker 5: And you and I found out in 2014 they were
Speaker 5: doing it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Remember? Yeah. Oh, my God.
Speaker 2: I have not read this. So I don't actually I
Speaker 2: haven't read this since I've signed back in. So I
Speaker 2: also don't know what I'm in for, but I do
Speaker 2: have a vague memory of it.
Speaker 1: Girl Meets World.
Speaker 2: First of all, let me say that you, the fans
Speaker 2: of Boy Meets World, have been awesome. That word is
Speaker 2: often used incorrectly by people, including myself, on a daily basis,
Speaker 2: but you have truly been awe-inspiring. You, yes, even you,
Speaker 2: are the reason that Girl Meets World will be made.
Speaker 2: I do not know how many Boy Meets World cast
Speaker 2: members will be returning for Girl Meets World or how often, if.
Speaker 1: And or when they do appear.
Speaker 2: Oh, I said world. Another thing I wouldn't trade for
Speaker 2: anything is the integrity and the heart with which Boy
Speaker 2: Meets World was made. I promise with the entirety of
Speaker 2: my heart that we will make Girl Meets World with
Speaker 2: the same honesty, innocence and intelligence that you learn to
Speaker 2: expect from Boy Meets World. I say this because making
Speaker 2: the decision to do the show involved more conversations than
Speaker 2: you could possibly imagine. These conversations were with the people
Speaker 2: I mentioned above because they were all instrumental in creating
Speaker 2: and maintaining the heart of Boy Meets World. The first
Speaker 2: comment out of every person's mouth was, let's only do
Speaker 2: it if we think we can create something as special
Speaker 2: as we did with Boy Meets World. When the news
Speaker 2: leaked that Girl Meets World was in the making, literally
Speaker 2: days after I first heard about the project myself. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's right. Michael had called me and within 72 hours,
Speaker 2: news about it was announced.
Speaker 4: You didn't go pitch it with him?
Speaker 5: No. No.
Speaker 2: No, he says it was Corey's idea and that Corey
Speaker 2: brought it to him.
Speaker 4: I think that's true.
Speaker 2: And then he basically developed it with them. He didn't
Speaker 2: want to bring me in on it. Then I would
Speaker 2: have had to have been.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Co-creator.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's the reason he didn't bring me or Ben in.
Speaker 2: It was just then he got it approved and then
Speaker 2: he had.
Speaker 1: To sell it to us.
Speaker 2: Literally days after I first heard about the project myself,
Speaker 2: Michael Jacobs and I had a conversation and we talked
Speaker 2: about how we were both so blown away by the
Speaker 2: reactions from all of you.
Speaker 1: We felt honored.
Speaker 2: We felt nostalgic. We felt touched by the excitement in
Speaker 2: your comments, tweets, Tumblr and Facebook posts. But most of all,
Speaker 2: we felt inspired. We felt inspired to bring these characters
Speaker 2: back to life and to tell you more of their stories.
Speaker 2: Michael said to me, Danielle, when I read what people
Speaker 2: say Boy Meets World meant to them, it makes me
Speaker 2: so very proud of all of us. I think it's
Speaker 2: important for us for as long as we are fortunate
Speaker 2: enough to have this opportunity to do Girl Meets World,
Speaker 2: that we all look each other in the eyes every
Speaker 2: so often and make sure we know we have something
Speaker 2: of value to offer the audience. I think we have
Speaker 2: that with Girl Meets World. I say that so I
Speaker 2: can say this. Girl Meets World is a new show.
Speaker 2: It isn't Boy Meets World brought back to life, but
Speaker 2: in current day. It will have familiar faces, familiar themes,
Speaker 2: and familiar messages. It will also have new faces, new themes,
Speaker 2: and new messages. Boy Meets World never spoke down to
Speaker 2: the audience, and we are going to do our best
Speaker 2: to never do that with Girl Meets World. But please
Speaker 2: keep in mind that there will be episode one of
Speaker 2: season one of a brand new show. We started at
Speaker 2: the same place with Boy Meets World, but we evolved
Speaker 2: and we evolved quickly. For those of you who knew
Speaker 2: and loved Boy Meets World, please allow this show to
Speaker 2: evolve as well. Stick with us.
Speaker 1: Give us a chance.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, a sincere thank you to every one
Speaker 2: of you for all of your tweets. I read them
Speaker 2: all every day. It's killing me to not even be
Speaker 2: able to talk about it. Even those of you who
Speaker 2: asked us not to do it. There were only a
Speaker 2: few of you, but I know why you don't want
Speaker 2: Girl Meets World to happen. And I appreciate that Boy
Speaker 2: Meets World meant enough to you that you don't want
Speaker 2: to see its legacy tarnished. I can assure you we
Speaker 2: don't want that either. Your love, dedication, and appreciation means
Speaker 2: more to us than you could ever know. And it
Speaker 2: will be the driving force behind our passion to make
Speaker 2: the best show we possibly can make. Thank you for
Speaker 2: giving us the chance to do it again.
Speaker 5: Danielle.
Speaker 3: What do you think your version of Boy Meets World
Speaker 3: was at that point? Like what was in your head?
Speaker 3: Because had you watched the show enough to like carry it?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: No, I had only seen like random episodes every now
Speaker 2: and then I would turn on the TV and it
Speaker 2: would be, you know, a rerun would be playing and
Speaker 2: I'd be like, Oh, it's the cult episode. I'm going
Speaker 2: to sit and watch this one. You know, like every,
Speaker 2: I had seen passing episodes, um, in my memory. Cause again,
Speaker 2: this is the conversation. This is one of the main
Speaker 2: conversations I had with Michael in my memory, the entire
Speaker 2: show circled around Corey and Topanga's relationship and their highs
Speaker 2: and their lows and they're breaking up and they're getting
Speaker 2: back together.
Speaker 1: And you know, the French girl episode.
Speaker 2: And, and so what was in my mind was when
Speaker 2: Michael called, but now we have this incredible opportunity to
Speaker 2: deliver lessons, but with a girl as the lead, a
Speaker 2: young woman as the lead. And so my number one thing,
Speaker 2: it really is.
Speaker 4: A great fit. Yeah, of course it is. It's fantastic. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So my number one thing was, As long as her
Speaker 2: entire storyline isn't about a boy. And it was, no,
Speaker 2: it's going to be about friendship. And there can be
Speaker 2: boys in the cast, but it's not going to be romantic.
Speaker 2: And I was like, great. And then I read the pilot.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. I just remember when... you know, obviously feeling
Speaker 5: hurt and like, I can't believe nobody told me about
Speaker 5: this and blah, blah, blah. Um, but then Michael taking
Speaker 5: me out to lunch and me saying like with all
Speaker 5: the other writers and I looked around and it was
Speaker 5: the same, all the same guys, which is great from a,
Speaker 5: from a nostalgia friend point of view. It was like,
Speaker 5: I get to see all these people that I love.
Speaker 5: And I looked at Michael and I'll never forget. I said,
Speaker 5: it's called girl meets world. Michael, don't you think there
Speaker 5: should be girls on the writing staff, women on the
Speaker 5: writing staff. And, uh, I said, don't you think they'll
Speaker 5: be able to have the voice of a woman or
Speaker 5: a girl better than you? And he went, well, I
Speaker 5: wasn't a 65-year-old man, but I wrote pretty well for
Speaker 5: Bill Daniels. And I just remember being like, oh, he
Speaker 5: doesn't get it. Like, he just, he doesn't get it.
Speaker 5: It was weird. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I had the same conversation with him, but about
Speaker 2: you being a writer, because what he's in the conversation
Speaker 2: where he first told me about the show and it
Speaker 2: was like, so is everybody in? And he was like, well,
Speaker 2: you know, everybody wants to do different things. And he
Speaker 2: was like, like, Will wants to write. And I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my God, that's awesome. And then I said, and
Speaker 2: of course you're, cause he had already told me that,
Speaker 2: you know, Manel and Nelson. And I was like, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, that's amazing. I said, well, you know, of
Speaker 2: course you're, you have to be able to bring in
Speaker 2: some women writers too. And he goes, oh, I'm not
Speaker 2: doing that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I was like, Okay.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I did think that was interesting.
Speaker 5: I'm amazed that was written two years before the show.
Speaker 4: Aired, which is crazy. It was a long time. So wait,
Speaker 4: it didn't air until 2014?
Speaker 2: We shot the pilot in November, no, October of 2013.
Speaker 1: Because it was.
Speaker 4: Right before your wedding then?
Speaker 2: Right before, right before or right after? Right before my wedding.
Speaker 5: Your weddings.
Speaker 2: Or right before, after my wedding.
Speaker 4: October 17th was our wedding.
Speaker 3: Ours.
Speaker 4: Yours and mine. Separate. Your wedding. It was the 19th?
Speaker 1: No, maybe it.
Speaker 4: Was the 19th or 20th of... You don't remember when
Speaker 4: your wedding was?
Speaker 3: No, and Alex and I, because it was right after
Speaker 3: her birthday. Her birthday is October 16th, so I think
Speaker 3: it's the 18th is the official, because we did the
Speaker 3: weekend of her birthday was also our wedding weekend, so
Speaker 3: the actual wedding day was that Sunday.
Speaker 1: So for you, it might have been the 19th.
Speaker 4: 18th or 19th is the actual.
Speaker 2: Maybe yours was the 19th, because mine's not ringing true.
Speaker 2: My first wedding's not ringing true as October 17th, but
Speaker 2: I don't remember the actual date. It's either the 18th
Speaker 2: or the 19th, and yeah. And I think it was just,
Speaker 2: I think we shot the pilot right before then.
Speaker 1: So anyway, welcome to Pod Meets World.
Speaker 2: This is season one, episode two of Girl Meets World.
Speaker 2: It originally aired July 11th, 2014. 11th, one month before
Speaker 2: my birthday.
Speaker 5: Come on, Ryder, give it up.
Speaker 4: An 11th brother.
Speaker 5: Woo. Woo.
Speaker 4: We didn't say our intros. We didn't say hi.
Speaker 2: Oh, sorry.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Danielle Fishel.
Speaker 4: I'm Ryder Strong. And I'm Will Friedle.
Speaker 1: Doing a different show is totally throwing you.
Speaker 4: I know, it's throwing you off. You don't know what
Speaker 4: to say.
Speaker 5: It's not as good as the original Pod Meets World,
Speaker 5: but hopefully we'll figure out what's going on. It's probably
Speaker 5: overwritten and overproduced.
Speaker 3: And I know some of you have said we shouldn't
Speaker 3: have continued.
Speaker 4: I guess you... But I promise, I read your comments.
Speaker 4: I read your comments. But I read your comments, and
Speaker 4: I promise you, we will keep the spirit.
Speaker 2: You can talk to us directly, and that we will
Speaker 2: incorporate your notes.
Speaker 3: Next episode, I'll read what I posted about Girl Meets World.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't wait.
Speaker 4: Do you remember when I posted?
Speaker 1: Kind of. I don't know anything about this.
Speaker 5: No, I don't either.
Speaker 4: No, I said I'm not going to do it. I'm
Speaker 4: not going to have anything to do with it, and
Speaker 4: here's why.
Speaker 2: And Michael was mad.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, everyone was mad.
Speaker 5: Was he mad?
Speaker 4: Was he mad? It must have been right after the pilot.
Speaker 4: It was right around the time that I got married.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'll check. I'll try and know what
Speaker 4: the date was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so around the time that we shot the pilot.
Speaker 4: I thought, but maybe I did it way earlier. I
Speaker 4: don't remember. Did you ever.
Speaker 2: Go back and say, like, sorry, I wrote that blog post.
Speaker 2: I'm now directing more episodes than any other director, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to guest star on it?
Speaker 4: No. You mean to the public? Yeah.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: No. I'm sorry, but I still go back to, and
Speaker 5: I know it's a total ego thing and I own that,
Speaker 5: but how you pitch a Girl Meets World and you
Speaker 5: don't have Uncle Eric living with them, helping to take
Speaker 5: care of the kids is the biggest comedy miss ever.
Speaker 5: It's like you saw Eric with all the little kids
Speaker 5: on Boy Meets World. He was so good with little kids.
Speaker 5: Why you wouldn't have him like, no, I'm going to
Speaker 5: stay here for a week. And the joke is that
Speaker 5: he's been there four years. And he's helping to raise
Speaker 5: the kids. You missed out on so much comedy that way. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Why didn't they? I mean, I guess they were
Speaker 4: like a happy kids.
Speaker 5: Just money.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe Topanga could have been like overseas working. And it
Speaker 2: could have been the two brothers raising the kids.
Speaker 4: Just get rid of all the women. Yeah. Get rid
Speaker 4: of all the women entirely.
Speaker 2: Just eliminate the.
Speaker 4: And then make Riley a boy.
Speaker 1: Raised by all men.
Speaker 5: Yeah. A boy.
Speaker 1: And then just call.
Speaker 4: It Boy Meets World. It's Boys Meets World.
Speaker 2: The synopsis, Corey's homework assignment inadvertently brings Riley and Lucas
Speaker 2: closer together. It was directed by Joel Zwick, a legendary
Speaker 2: TV director with one massive movie under his belt as well.
Speaker 2: One of the most profitable films of all time, My
Speaker 2: Big Fat Greek Wedding. He directed over 30 Laverne and
Speaker 2: Shirley episodes, Mork and Mindy, Bosom Buddies, 100 episodes of
Speaker 2: Perfect Strangers, almost 100 episodes of Full House, Step by Step,
Speaker 2: Family Matters, and most important to us, two dozen episodes
Speaker 2: of Girl Meets World. Legend.
Speaker 5: Television legend. Uh-huh.
Speaker 2: It was written by Michael Jacobs back on the title page,
Speaker 2: something we did not see.
Speaker 1: Back in the original series.
Speaker 4: Two in a row, really. Why do you think that is?
Speaker 2: Money is that what it is yeah the disney channel
Speaker 2: cable contracts are nothing right like prime time television contracts
Speaker 2: and so michael's whatever his quote was from back in
Speaker 2: the day was not being met right our you know
Speaker 2: money quote from boy meets world was not being met
Speaker 2: no of course um And so this was literally just
Speaker 2: a matter of what other ways can Michael make— Just.
Speaker 5: Another stream of income? Yes. Because, yeah, we did 158
Speaker 5: episodes of Boy, and he never once put his— not a
Speaker 5: single time, does it say, written by Michael Jacobs.
Speaker 2: Because he was getting so much money elsewhere, he didn't
Speaker 2: need it.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: And so he gave those opportunities to everyone else. But
Speaker 2: in this situation, he looked at it like, I want it.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 2: Guest starring Danielle Kennedy as the librarian. She's appeared on
Speaker 2: TV shows like Parks and Rec, Two Broke Girls, nine
Speaker 2: episodes of Narcos as Ambassador Noonan. And she most recently
Speaker 2: played Agnes Festersen on the TV version.
Speaker 1: Of The Verbs.
Speaker 5: And weirdly, apparently her daughter and Susan grew up together.
Speaker 5: So apparently this woman and she popped up on screen.
Speaker 5: She's like, oh, that's that's Mrs. Kennedy.
Speaker 4: Like she's like, I know. Yeah, I know her daughter.
Speaker 5: We grew up like, oh, God.
Speaker 4: So I like Susan, like knew her kid. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 4: Isn't that weird?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: What a weird world.
Speaker 2: And then Taylor Ashley Holliman is Maisel, most recognizable from
Speaker 2: a three episode arc on The Office as Jada. She
Speaker 2: also appeared on Baskets, New Girl and Don't Trust the
Speaker 2: Bee in Apartment 23. So jumping into our recap, we
Speaker 2: are in the middle school hallway. Riley and Maya are
Speaker 2: near the lockers when Lucas walks by. He sits down
Speaker 2: on a nearby bench and Riley starts feverishly typing on
Speaker 2: her phone. Sternly, Maya demands, talk to him. Riley sends
Speaker 2: the text.
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 2: We have a great text relationship. Maya asks, you know
Speaker 2: what's better than a text relationship? Riley doesn't know. So
Speaker 2: Maya angrily responds, talk to him. Then Riley gets a
Speaker 2: notification and shows his response to Maya with a smile.
Speaker 1: The text reads, From Riley, where you going?
Speaker 2: Lucas, history.
Speaker 4: I hate when texts don't look like real texts. I know.
Speaker 4: They got pictures next to it. Do they still do that, though?
Speaker 4: Or is this a very early teens thing?
Speaker 1: Very early teens.
Speaker 2: Very early.
Speaker 4: Now they just put it on the screen.
Speaker 1: And it looks like bubbles.
Speaker 3: They just make it look like the iPhone message or whatever.
Speaker 3: But this is just like, it's so funny because it
Speaker 3: dates it so poorly. You're like, just show the real screen.
Speaker 4: What are we doing?
Speaker 5: At this point, though, I was like, oh, great storyline
Speaker 5: for something like this. Put your phone down and get
Speaker 5: into an actual conversation.
Speaker 4: The thematics are wonderful.
Speaker 3: What a great issue for a.
Speaker 4: Boy Meets World style thing.
Speaker 5: Totally. 100%.
Speaker 3: You could pitch this as a Boy Meets World. Ruffini
Speaker 3: makes them go to the library with their phones down.
Speaker 4: It's like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is clearly one of the out of the gate.
Speaker 3: Great ideas that probably helped sell the show.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? It was like, Corey will
Speaker 4: make them turn off their phones.
Speaker 5: Put your phone down and actually go talk to the guy.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, great. This is perfect. Yes.
Speaker 5: It's yes.
Speaker 2: Lucas writes back history. I sit next to you, Riley.
Speaker 2: So do I. Maya isn't impressed. She points to Lucas.
Speaker 2: He's right over there. Riley shakes her head. No, too
Speaker 2: complicated over there. Lots can go wrong over there. The
Speaker 2: only thing that can go wrong over here is if
Speaker 2: I go over there. Maya just points at Lucas again,
Speaker 2: and so Riley hands over her school books and makes
Speaker 2: the trek to her crush. But instead of approaching Lucas directly,
Speaker 2: we see her head creep up behind him, looking at
Speaker 2: him texting and smiling ear to ear undetected. Riley desperately
Speaker 2: mouths the words.
Speaker 4: This is very creepy.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 1: My kids loved this part.
Speaker 4: It's very cute.
Speaker 5: Logistical question. Did you take a break between shooting the
Speaker 5: pilot and series pickup?
Speaker 2: The original pilot was shot in 2013. And then when
Speaker 2: we reshot, that was in 2014. So yes, like all
Speaker 2: through the holidays. Basically, they shot the pilot and then
Speaker 2: we had months to wait to find out if we
Speaker 2: were actually going to get picked up.
Speaker 4: Gotcha.
Speaker 2: Then we found out we were getting picked up, but
Speaker 2: we had to do recasting. And then we shot the pilot,
Speaker 2: I think in March.
Speaker 4: Okay. See, I think that's when we came to the set.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Right.
Speaker 4: Not the first.
Speaker 5: Time was the second time.
Speaker 3: I already agreed to direct and be on the show
Speaker 3: and you would probably agree to be on the show.
Speaker 4: So we were willing to go to really, even when
Speaker 4: we went to the set.
Speaker 5: No, I had said no all the way up through
Speaker 5: season two, like halfway through season two when I finally
Speaker 5: agreed to come on the show. No, this was, yeah,
Speaker 5: I still wasn't doing anything. Okay.
Speaker 2: Back at the lockers, Maya simply mouths to her, talk
Speaker 2: to him. Riley tries again, but no words come out. Instead,
Speaker 2: she leans in and gleefully sniffs him. Maya calls her
Speaker 2: back and Riley proudly asks, how'd I do? Maya explains,
Speaker 2: you smelled him is what you did. Riley admits, I
Speaker 2: walk through life the way I walk through life. Maya
Speaker 2: shakes her head. Can we please talk about this? Riley
Speaker 2: returns to her phone and walks into the classroom. Maya
Speaker 2: pulls out her phone, it's a flip phone, to see
Speaker 2: that Riley has just sent her a text.
Speaker 4: It says, Nope.
Speaker 2: Now in the classroom, Corey is at the chalkboard holding
Speaker 2: up a cell phone. You guys don't connect with each other.
Speaker 2: It's like you can't exist without these. You use emoticons.
Speaker 4: What is that? They're emojis, right?
Speaker 5: They were emoticons back in the day.
Speaker 4: No, no.
Speaker 2: Also, emojis is owned. It's like Kleenex. Oh, gotcha. You
Speaker 2: cannot say emojis.
Speaker 4: So what are they on your phone? Emojis. I'm just saying,
Speaker 4: I mean, they don't, There's not a different.
Speaker 5: Is there a different word for them?
Speaker 4: You could say, it's not like you're going to have
Speaker 4: to pay a license. I think it was.
Speaker 2: They weren't allowed.
Speaker 4: But for a character on a TV show to say
Speaker 4: the word emojis, like it's not going to.
Speaker 5: Were they still emojis? Were they already being called emojis
Speaker 5: in 2011? Yeah, it has.
Speaker 4: No one's ever called it emojis.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody's ever, I mean, I'm sure the
Speaker 3: technical word is, the neutral technical word is probably emojis. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right. But this just goes to show how out
Speaker 3: of touch our writers were.
Speaker 2: I just wrote, I just searched it and it said, no,
Speaker 2: it's not owned by Apple. But I do remember there
Speaker 2: being a whole conversation. But maybe, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Now what would, now what would the, what would the, yeah.
Speaker 5: The word emoji was coined in 1999 in Japan by
Speaker 5: Shigetaka Kurita alongside his creation of the first set of
Speaker 5: 176 pixelated pictographs for the mobile carrier NTT.como.
Speaker 1: This is from Tara.
Speaker 2: No single person or company owns standard digital emojis. Instead,
Speaker 2: the standard text codes and concepts are managed by the
Speaker 2: Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit group, while individual companies design their
Speaker 2: own visual art and a separate private business owns the
Speaker 2: literal word emoji as a brand.
Speaker 4: Oh my God.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1: So someone does own emoji.
Speaker 2: And they were not willing to pay to use the
Speaker 2: term emoji.
Speaker 4: You think they had to pay to use the term
Speaker 4: in a TV show?
Speaker 2: That's why I was like, huh, weird. I do remember
Speaker 2: the conversation. We can't use emoji. We can't use emoji.
Speaker 2: We can't use emoji.
Speaker 4: I think that's Disney being paranoid. Maybe.
Speaker 5: Yeah. The term apparently entered the English language around 2012. 2008,
Speaker 5: growing rapidly in global use after tech companies integrated native
Speaker 5: support into mobile operating systems.
Speaker 2: You use emoticons rather than emotions. You're an unfeeling generation
Speaker 2: of zombies. Maya and Riley jokingly mimic actual zombies. Corey
Speaker 2: isn't amused. Stop eating her. Then another student walks into
Speaker 2: the classroom. Corey lets her know. You're late, Miss Mizell.
Speaker 2: Mizell explains, deadpan. My goldfish died. You see, this is
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. Miss Mizell has clearly suffered a
Speaker 2: tragic loss, yet she does not seem in touch with
Speaker 2: her actual emotions. Mizell is offended.
Speaker 1: Excuse me?
Speaker 2: I've been crying my eyes out. I'm going to have
Speaker 2: to leave class early. With that, she turns around and
Speaker 2: walks out. Corey is perplexed. Oh, she actually made it
Speaker 2: out the door this time. He reopens the door and
Speaker 2: Mizell is ecstatic. I actually made it out the door
Speaker 2: this time. I don't know. I think it's a little like, again,
Speaker 2: going back to the playing on Mr. Feeney, how like
Speaker 2: Corey or Sean would have tried to make up an
Speaker 2: excuse to walk out of class and then- the adult
Speaker 2: would be like, oh, that's funny. They think they pulled
Speaker 2: one over on me. And sure enough, the kid's like, wow,
Speaker 2: I got pretty far this time.
Speaker 4: Right, Mr.
Speaker 5: Feeny?
Speaker 1: Like, I think that's- But it's.
Speaker 4: A non-established character.
Speaker 3: I know. So it felt like, oh, it is clearly
Speaker 3: like they're trying to add a new character to like
Speaker 3: have a bit. And it's, but it feels weird. I
Speaker 3: was just like, we just started the show. Like- You
Speaker 3: have Farkle, you have Lucas, you have Maya, you have Riley,
Speaker 3: like you have characters that we haven't established their regular
Speaker 3: stuff enough and you're introducing a new character and then
Speaker 3: referencing it as if it's a thing that we've already
Speaker 3: seen before.
Speaker 4: Very strange.
Speaker 5: I just didn't get it. I didn't understand the joke.
Speaker 2: She rushes back to her desk. Riley brings it back
Speaker 2: to the original diatribe. Dad, adjust and deal. Cell phones
Speaker 2: have been around for like forever. Corey replies, it'll amaze
Speaker 2: you to know that there was a whole world before
Speaker 2: you and cell phones.
Speaker 5: World?
Speaker 4: A world.
Speaker 1: Riley picks up her phone.
Speaker 2: And it will amaze you to know that I have
Speaker 2: 394 friends in here, Corey quips. And I'm amazed that
Speaker 2: you believe that. Then he draws a horizontal line on
Speaker 2: the chalkboard. This is a timeline of all human existence.
Speaker 2: He marks the beginning. Starting here is everyone who ever lived, laughed, loved,
Speaker 2: and understood the value of life. The cell phone era,
Speaker 2: which begins right around here, he says as he marks
Speaker 2: the end of the line, pretty much destroys all of that.
Speaker 2: Way to go, you. Lucas raises his hand. Sir, if
Speaker 2: I may take a different position? Corey responds, yeah, save me, Mr.
Speaker 4: Fryer.
Speaker 1: Did I go too far?
Speaker 2: Lucas says, always, sir. I understand your point, but I
Speaker 2: use my phone to video chat with my old friends
Speaker 2: and to find out what's going on in Texas. Maya
Speaker 2: joins in, yeah, how else can he keep tabs on
Speaker 2: all the, and she does a country accent, hoedowns and
Speaker 2: cattle pageants. Riley pleads with her friend, Maya. Lucas interjects,
Speaker 2: It's okay, Riley. I'm unaffected by Maya's views of country life.
Speaker 2: As my uncle Buster always says, be like an eagle
Speaker 2: and soar above the mockingbird. Riley rubs it in Maya's face.
Speaker 2: You're the mockingbird. Maya admits she knows and angrily turns
Speaker 2: around to Lucas. It kills me that I can't get
Speaker 2: to you. Lucas tips an imaginary cowboy hat at her. Sorry, ma'am.
Speaker 2: She turns back around and frustratedly vents. And then Farkle
Speaker 2: raises his hand.
Speaker 1: Farkle time, sir?
Speaker 2: Corey beams. Oh, I love Farkle time. The two switch
Speaker 2: spots as Farkle stands at the teacher's desk to address
Speaker 2: the class. With all due respect to history, Mr. Matthews,
Speaker 2: what's important to our generation will be on this side
Speaker 2: of the timeline when Farkle and technology rule. He approaches
Speaker 2: the girls as he continues. And I will easily be
Speaker 2: able to make another one of you. He proudly taps
Speaker 2: Riley's head. He actually pulls out a piece of her hair.
Speaker 4: He's pulling her hair because he's going to clone her.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: He proudly yanks a piece of Riley's hair out of
Speaker 2: her head. and another one of you, and now ripping
Speaker 2: a piece of Maya's hair out of her head with
Speaker 2: the same excitement.
Speaker 5: Farkle question, was he even by this point, while the
Speaker 5: audience didn't know, did Michael and everybody already know that
Speaker 5: this was supposed to be a minkus?
Speaker 2: They had already played videos for all the kids about
Speaker 2: who they were supposed to be and asked them to watch.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, but I mean, was his character supposed
Speaker 5: to be a minkus by this point? Like, did we
Speaker 5: already know that he was?
Speaker 1: Oh, no, I think he always had that as a hope.
Speaker 4: But the last name was Farkle, and then it kind
Speaker 4: of had a, Exactly.
Speaker 1: Then it became Farkle Minkus. So yeah, his last name
Speaker 1: was Farkle.
Speaker 5: So he was supposed to be like Minkus, but at
Speaker 5: this point he wasn't actually supposed to be Minkus' offspring.
Speaker 2: Exactly. But I think Michael always thought if we bring
Speaker 2: him back, he would be related to Minkus somehow. Riley
Speaker 2: is confused. Wait, so now there's four of us and
Speaker 2: one of you? Creepily, Farkle takes it in. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: He breaks the haze and states, the future. You can't
Speaker 2: escape it.
Speaker 4: I am Farkle.
Speaker 2: And with that, he raises his hands to the sky
Speaker 2: and returns to his desk. Corey returns to the front
Speaker 2: of the classroom. The assignment.
Speaker 1: You can't escape it. I am a teacher.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: With that, he raises his.
Speaker 5: Hands.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
Speaker 4: And with that out of the.
Speaker 1: Way, he continues.
Speaker 2: Okay, so here's what we're going to do, guys. We're
Speaker 2: going to split into teams and discover whether or not
Speaker 2: new technology has made us better people. You'll do presentations
Speaker 2: on your findings. And here's a twist. No computers. Farkel
Speaker 2: is flabbergasted. He hits his hands on the desk.
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Corey proudly states, we're going old school. You're going to
Speaker 2: do your research at the New York Public Library.
Speaker 4: We weren't allowed.
Speaker 5: To use typewriters or computers when I was in school. Oh, yeah. Literally,
Speaker 5: they thought that that meant you could cheat.
Speaker 4: Spell check. Spell check and everything.
Speaker 5: So we literally weren't even allowed to turn in typed papers.
Speaker 5: You had to write them.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Maya turns to Riley.
Speaker 4: Where?
Speaker 1: Corey's unfazed.
Speaker 2: And here's another twist, because I trust you not at all.
Speaker 2: Give me your cell phones. Riley screams, no, as Corey
Speaker 2: proceeds to collect all their phones. Can you imagine that
Speaker 2: your kid has a phone and then the teacher just
Speaker 2: takes them all?
Speaker 4: I was going to say, it felt very invasive. I
Speaker 4: was like, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: There's going to be a school policy about this. You
Speaker 3: don't get to grab kids' phones and keep them from them.
Speaker 1: What if something happened?
Speaker 4: You can say.
Speaker 5: No phones in a classroom. That's fine. But my teacher,
Speaker 5: is he keeping them overnight?
Speaker 4: Can my kid not have their phone?
Speaker 5: That's not okay. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, it was weird.
Speaker 3: Again, I don't think the writers were... We're very savvy
Speaker 3: to technology issues.
Speaker 5: Of course they were, sir. They were using that new
Speaker 5: telephonic device.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Then it's time to assign teams for the assignment. He
Speaker 2: starts with Maya. Farkle jumps up and sits on her lap.
Speaker 4: What up?
Speaker 2: Maya pushes him off and Corey continues with the teams.
Speaker 2: And Riley, you will be with Lucas and Riley share
Speaker 2: a smile and wave. Corey is disgusted.
Speaker 4: No, no.
Speaker 1: Saved by the bell.
Speaker 2: Everyone gets up to leave and Corey is not amused
Speaker 2: with Lucas. Why did you have to come here? Lucas apologizes.
Speaker 2: Sorry I make you uneasy, sir. Riley shakes her head. Dad,
Speaker 2: we don't even have our phones. I mean, what could
Speaker 2: possibly happen? As she leaves, Corey looks more concerned than ever.
Speaker 5: Is there a lot of, because it's now two episodes
Speaker 5: in a row, is there a lot of lap sitting?
Speaker 5: There seems to be an awful lot of lap sitting.
Speaker 2: So much lap sitting.
Speaker 4: So much lap sitting. Bay windows, lap sitting.
Speaker 5: It seems like there's an awful lot of somebody ending
Speaker 5: up on somebody else's lap in the show.
Speaker 4: Okay. That's a weird observation, but it's totally accurate. Okay.
Speaker 2: Maya and Riley are back in the hallway when Lucas
Speaker 2: passes by again, but this time Maya speaks up.
Speaker 1: Hey, soaring Eagle, you walking with us to the library tonight?
Speaker 1: Lucas smiles.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 1: If that's good with you guys.
Speaker 2: Maya says, well, seeing as how you're Riley's partner on
Speaker 2: this assignment, I guess we should find out if it's
Speaker 2: okay with her.
Speaker 1: She turns to her best friend.
Speaker 4: Riley?
Speaker 2: Riley doesn't respond. She just stares at Lucas. Maya pushes
Speaker 2: her to speak. Riley, any thoughts on this that might
Speaker 2: come out of your mouth in word form? Riley is
Speaker 2: still catatonic. A frustrated Maya continues. No, because you don't
Speaker 2: have your phone anymore, so what are you going to
Speaker 2: do to communicate?
Speaker 1: I wonder. Zombie-like, Riley puts two thumbs up and smiles.
Speaker 2: Maya notes.
Speaker 1: Oh, look at that. Two thumbs up from Riley. And
Speaker 1: a smiley face.
Speaker 2: We're back at the Matthews' house. The family is sitting
Speaker 2: at the dinner table when Augie announces it was a
Speaker 2: good day. And then my friends treated me nicely. And
Speaker 2: then my teacher measured us. And then I'm growing. And
Speaker 2: then Jenny Lewis loves me. I think it's because I'm growing.
Speaker 2: And then, do we think this was named Jenny Lewis
Speaker 2: after Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kylie? No, just, okay. Riley
Speaker 2: shakes her head. It wasn't a good day. Then my
Speaker 2: friend pulled my hair out. And then my teacher took
Speaker 2: my phone away. Then my teacher was also my father.
Speaker 2: Augie offers the note. At least you're growing. Topanga is
Speaker 2: more sympathetic. Honey, please don't come apart. Look at this
Speaker 2: as a beautiful opportunity to spend some time with your family.
Speaker 2: Everyone exchanges smiles at one another until Augie breaks the silence. Hello, Riley.
Speaker 2: Riley responds, how you doing? Augie asks, want to hear
Speaker 2: about my day? It was a good day. Riley cuts
Speaker 2: him off.
Speaker 5: Mom!
Speaker 2: Topanga turns to Augie. Forgive her. She misses her telephone.
Speaker 2: Augie hands her a toy. Well then, she can have mine.
Speaker 2: Riley examines it and presses a button, causing it to
Speaker 2: beep and say, the cow goes... Augie finishes the phrase.
Speaker 5: Moo. Isn't he like six?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is way too old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought he's way too old to be having
Speaker 5: this toy.
Speaker 4: Kids like 14 years old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: And of course, the real Augie was probably only a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks away from graduating from college.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 5: He's getting a second doctorate by this point.
Speaker 4: So, yeah.
Speaker 2: Riley's at her wit's end. I'm not going to make it.
Speaker 2: Topanga explains, that's what your father thinks. Corey gloats, she can't.
Speaker 2: And Topanga warns her daughter, please don't make your father right.
Speaker 2: It's no good for any of us when your father
Speaker 2: is right. He nods, she's right. Riley asks her dad
Speaker 2: why he's doing this and Corey shrugs, because I want
Speaker 2: you and your friends to become real human beings. And
Speaker 2: I believe that by doing this, you guys can learn
Speaker 2: to become real human beings. The front door intercom buzzes,
Speaker 2: hey losers, it's Maya. Corey adds an exception, except her.
Speaker 2: Riley stands up to let Maya in.
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 1: I'm going to do this.
Speaker 2: I can get through this whole thing without making a
Speaker 2: text or a call. Topanga offers some encouragement. Of course
Speaker 2: you can, sweetheart.
Speaker 1: And you know what?
Speaker 2: You're already a wonderful human being. But every so often,
Speaker 2: little tests like this are going to come up. Riley asks, why?
Speaker 2: Topanga replies, because it's your father's job to give you
Speaker 2: little tests. And maybe along the way, you guys are
Speaker 2: going to learn a little bit more about yourselves.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: What in this world is it?
Speaker 4: Like, what are they arguing about?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Like, nothing has changed.
Speaker 5: Nope.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go do my assignment. See you later.
Speaker 4: That's all that's happened.
Speaker 3: Like, I'm going to the library to do the thing
Speaker 3: that Dad told me to do.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: With my friend Maya. And yet we have to talk
Speaker 4: about it. Why test be human being, fully realized identity, self, person, you?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Test my lesson to get the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's so weird.
Speaker 2: With that, Maya opens the door. Yeah, like I've learned
Speaker 2: that I'm actually really okay with all of this. Topanga's surprised.
Speaker 1: You don't miss your phone?
Speaker 2: Maya shrugs. I was the only one in class without
Speaker 2: a smartphone anyway, and now I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: everybody's even.
Speaker 1: The intercom buzzes again.
Speaker 2: It's Farkle.
Speaker 1: And Lucas.
Speaker 2: Riley screams and runs out the door with Maya. Corey
Speaker 2: turns to Topanga. Did you see that? Do you know
Speaker 2: what that was?
Speaker 4: That was boys.
Speaker 2: Too soon for boys. Not ready for boys.
Speaker 4: I don't want boys.
Speaker 1: We just going to accept boys? Topanga is ready to
Speaker 1: shift her focus. It happened. She's gone. She was nice.
Speaker 1: We had fun, but we still have him. Topanga turns
Speaker 1: to Augie.
Speaker 2: You want a color? Augie is thrilled.
Speaker 5: Color! The whole point of Boy Meets World was he
Speaker 5: knew love from two years old and fought for it
Speaker 5: no matter what happened. That was the whole point of
Speaker 5: the character. And so I don't get this, not, boy,
Speaker 5: he's too young for, it's like, I get you're the
Speaker 5: dad and it's your daughter and I understand, but it
Speaker 5: was literally your entire character.
Speaker 2: And wouldn't it have been amazing to see Topanga not
Speaker 2: feel that way and to see Topanga say, I gave
Speaker 2: up Yale for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't want that for her. And for him to
Speaker 2: say like, what are you saying? And say, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying anything. I wouldn't change anything about my life. But
Speaker 2: I don't want that for her.
Speaker 5: That would be amazing.
Speaker 4: Amazing. Powerful.
Speaker 5: And they'll never do it.
Speaker 4: So good. Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 5: By the way, the color of your crayon in your
Speaker 5: hand just kept changing. You had a green one, then
Speaker 5: a yellow one, and then it was red, then it
Speaker 5: was green.
Speaker 2: If you are saying I'm bad with continuity, I'm— Listen,
Speaker 2: I had to actually color with Gawky. I had to
Speaker 2: really color with him. So we were really coloring over there,
Speaker 2: and then, you know.
Speaker 5: I'm saying it's not the best crafting I've ever seen,
Speaker 5: which is crayon acting, and I think everybody knows that.
Speaker 2: Of course we know what cracting is.
Speaker 4: Cray-acting?
Speaker 2: Crayola? Cray-acting? Cray-acting.
Speaker 1: Augie is thrilled. Color! Topanga responds. Of course you do.
Speaker 2: Let's color for the rest of our lives. But Augie wonders,
Speaker 2: will I be getting a real cell phone someday? She nods.
Speaker 5: Someday.
Speaker 2: Augie's upset. Dominic Falcone has a real cell phone. Topanga
Speaker 2: leans in. Would you rather have a real cell phone
Speaker 2: or would you rather color with us? He smiles. Color
Speaker 2: with you. Corey celebrates the innocence. But then Augie asks,
Speaker 2: does that get me a cell phone? And Corey's smile fades.
Speaker 2: Topanga notes, not too much longer with this one either.
Speaker 2: Corey offers, well, you'll always have me. Topanga inhales sharply.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: By the way, if you pronounce his name slightly differently,
Speaker 5: it sounds like a perfect Batman bad guy. Dominic Falcone.
Speaker 4: Dominic Falcone. Dominic Falcone.
Speaker 2: I don't remember how Augie said it. Did he say Falcone?
Speaker 5: I can't remember, but it's a perfect bad guy name.
Speaker 2: Then we're at the library. Riley, Maya, Farkle, and Lucas
Speaker 2: slowly enter and cautiously look around. Riley asks, what is
Speaker 2: this place? Farkle takes in the mystery. This is where
Speaker 2: the ancients stored all their wisdom. Maya marvels at a bookshelf.
Speaker 2: Look at all of those. Farkle offers, books. Maya and
Speaker 2: Riley are in a trance. Books. Lucas grabs one from
Speaker 2: the shelf and blows the dust off to read the title.
Speaker 2: Tales of Human Interaction.
Speaker 1: That's a funny joke.
Speaker 4: No sense to me.
Speaker 1: It's a funny joke, though. The Tales of Human Interaction
Speaker 1: covered in dust.
Speaker 5: But then it's about computers and cell phones, so it's
Speaker 5: a new book.
Speaker 4: And what is the book.
Speaker 5: They walk into the library they find the one book
Speaker 5: about exactly what they're looking for and how you don't
Speaker 5: use that as a joke how you don't walk in
Speaker 5: and have one of the characters go how are we
Speaker 5: ever going to find anything in here we'll never be
Speaker 5: able to pull off one book oh look got.
Speaker 4: It this place is easy how do you not.
Speaker 5: Do that and then they blow dust off the book
Speaker 5: and he opens it up and it's like the cell
Speaker 5: phone in 2030 what the hell.
Speaker 2: It didn't make any sense you're right that is that
Speaker 2: is funny It's so.
Speaker 4: Weird that a show could be so smart and so
Speaker 4: dumb at the same time. Yes. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Because it's really sophisticated. It's trying to be very
Speaker 3: sophisticated in so many ways.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 5: And by the way, a comedy of young kids walking
Speaker 5: around the library going, what is this place? And the
Speaker 5: ancients kept their wisdom.
Speaker 4: Brilliant. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's hysterical.
Speaker 5: And then they do a couple of things where you're like,
Speaker 5: that doesn't make any. Why?
Speaker 4: What is that about? That doesn't make any sense. And so, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's so strange.
Speaker 5: It seems like a lot of the abstract notions sometimes
Speaker 5: they hit out of the park, and the little ones,
Speaker 5: they're whiffing. It's like, how is that possible?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're not wrong. Maya grabs it from him.
Speaker 1: We'll take it.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Quickdraw. She throws the book down on the table
Speaker 2: and slides it to Farkle. Do whatever you do with that,
Speaker 2: he asks.
Speaker 1: You mean read? Then he opens the book to the
Speaker 1: first page.
Speaker 2: Chapter one. Maya rolls her eyes and cuts them off.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm bored out of my mind.
Speaker 5: Let's go to a movie.
Speaker 2: An annoyed librarian angrily shushes them and they all turn
Speaker 2: to her scared. I thought that moment was really like
Speaker 2: very Scooby Doo and funny. It was cute. Farkle explains
Speaker 2: as the group approaches her. There's one of the ancients now. Oh,
Speaker 2: wondrous gatekeeper of the knowledge. We are travelers from another
Speaker 2: time and place.
Speaker 5: So funny.
Speaker 2: Riley jumps in. Seventh grade middle school. Farkle continues. We
Speaker 2: wish to partake of this information from your great hall
Speaker 2: of wisdom. Riley earnestly asks, do you rent phones? And
Speaker 2: the librarian shushes them again. They're confused. Lucas points out,
Speaker 2: there's no one here but us. Maya doesn't get it.
Speaker 4: Why do we have to shush?
Speaker 2: Farkle takes control. Let me handle this. She obviously likes
Speaker 2: it quiet.
Speaker 4: And then they make him creepy again. Why does he
Speaker 4: have to be always creepy with girls?
Speaker 5: I find it a little creepy creepy. I'm sorry. And
Speaker 5: he's so funny, but it's like, why didn't he stick
Speaker 5: with the ancient wisdom?
Speaker 2: Let us know.
Speaker 4: Now he's going to be like, hey, book lady. And
Speaker 4: I was like, ugh.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's nothing compared to the end of this episode for
Speaker 3: creep factor, in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: We'll get there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Flirtatiously, Farkle turns to her.
Speaker 2: Hello, book lady. The librarian finally responds. Well, hello. And
Speaker 2: who might you be? He slyly replies, I might be Farkle.
Speaker 2: The librarian asks, would you do me a favor, Farkle?
Speaker 2: He playfully winks. Oh, you know I will. She points
Speaker 2: to the table. Why don't you go over there and shh.
Speaker 4: Farkle frowns.
Speaker 2: Well, that's disappointing. Maya grabs him and they return to
Speaker 2: the table. But Riley and Lucas are now alone with
Speaker 2: the librarian. So Riley offers and Lucas carefully responds. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They are at a standstill. Back at the table, Maya
Speaker 2: and Farkle are looking at the book. Farkle points out,
Speaker 2: this chapter is called Disconnect to Connect. Maya takes over reading.
Speaker 2: Not until we put down our phones, switch off our computers,
Speaker 2: and look at each other's eyes will we be.
Speaker 4: Able to touch each other's hearts.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what's happening.
Speaker 3: What is this scene about now? Like, what are they
Speaker 3: planning to do? I don't know what's happening. Their assignment
Speaker 3: is to do what?
Speaker 1: To use the library to write a paper. Wait, was
Speaker 1: it about writing a paper?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they had to do a presentation about connecting with
Speaker 5: people without technology, right? And so you couldn't use computers
Speaker 5: and you had to go to the library to research it.
Speaker 4: And so they found a book that's literally about the thing.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 4: And so now what are they trying to do?
Speaker 5: Which is covered in dust.
Speaker 3: And now what are they, I don't understand the rest
Speaker 3: of the scene because it's like jumping back.
Speaker 4: Like Maya's doing artwork. He's reading the book.
Speaker 1: They don't have to write a paper.
Speaker 2: So what he said was we're going to split into
Speaker 2: teams and discover whether or not new technology has made
Speaker 2: us better people. You'll do presentations on your findings. Here's
Speaker 2: a twist. No computers.
Speaker 5: Okay. Okay.
Speaker 4: I still don't know what that means. Like I, So
Speaker 4: they're just supposed to hang out together and then.
Speaker 2: And talk about whether or not new technology has made
Speaker 2: them better people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and do research without using a computer.
Speaker 4: To do research on what? What are you supposed to research?
Speaker 5: Well, they found the book right away because it's called
Speaker 5: Disconnect to Connect or whatever it is.
Speaker 4: Oh my God, it's so weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. Not until we put down our phones,
Speaker 2: switch off our computers, and look at each other's eyes
Speaker 2: will we be able to touch each other's hearts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like that's going to work on anybody. We cut back
Speaker 2: to Lucas and Riley, who are now simply staring at
Speaker 2: each other. We go to a commercial break and we
Speaker 2: return to see Maya and Farkle are now sitting at
Speaker 2: a bay window. Farkle scans the library. People used to
Speaker 2: need places like this. Now we can hold everything that's
Speaker 2: here in a little device we can put in our pockets.
Speaker 2: I don't even need to look out this window to
Speaker 2: know what phase the moon is in or where the
Speaker 2: stars are. Maya is writing on a notepad. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: I don't have a phone like that. I just had
Speaker 2: the actual sky. Farkle apologizes. I'm so sorry for you.
Speaker 2: You're at a real disadvantage. That can be the basis
Speaker 2: of our presentation, okay?
Speaker 1: You want to read back the notes?
Speaker 2: She's confused. What notes? Farkle is shocked. You weren't taking notes?
Speaker 2: Maya was not, so Farkle gives up. You know what?
Speaker 4: Why bother?
Speaker 2: Without a computer, all we have is a pencil and
Speaker 2: a pad. What could we possibly do with that? He
Speaker 2: takes the pad from Maya and notices she's drawn a
Speaker 2: beautiful city landscape.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Maya, I had no idea. She shakes her head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: neither did I.
Speaker 4: So this is the first thing she's ever drawn?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 1: Because she's busy on her flip phone?
Speaker 4: She doesn't have a phone. That's what she's saying.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: So why doesn't she know that?
Speaker 2: Why doesn't she say, all that time you've been on
Speaker 2: your phone, I've been.
Speaker 4: Learning to draw?
Speaker 5: Yeah, or it's no big deal, or I've just been
Speaker 5: doing it since I was young. I mean, whatever, but
Speaker 5: the idea is like, wow.
Speaker 2: I know, but again, even if she didn't say all
Speaker 2: that time, the idea being, look what she has learned
Speaker 2: because she wasn't wasting her time on a phone.
Speaker 3: She's been saying since the first scene, get off your
Speaker 3: phone and talk to each other. She literally was the
Speaker 3: voice of get off your phone and talk to Lucas.
Speaker 3: So there's nothing she needs to learn. Maya already knows
Speaker 3: this and doesn't have a problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I don't know why I didn't either. Meanwhile, Riley
Speaker 2: and Lucas are sitting together reading. Riley tells her crush,
Speaker 2: my dad thinks that we have no idea how to
Speaker 2: talk to each other. Lucas nods. What if he's right?
Speaker 1: The librarian returns to interrupt.
Speaker 5: Shh.
Speaker 2: They're both confused. Lucas clarifies. But we're not saying anything.
Speaker 2: But they were.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then the librarian nods.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: So again now. This deeper meaning is that even though
Speaker 2: they're talking, they weren't talking deeply enough about subjects that matter.
Speaker 2: And now the librarian knows that. And so she's been
Speaker 2: shushing them to try to get them to talk deeper.
Speaker 4: To really talk. That is some like....
Speaker 2: Ben Reilly doesn't get it. Then why are you shushing us?
Speaker 2: The librarian scoffs. Because I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 4: Layer on layer.
Speaker 2: You guys are hopeless. She calls Riley over to her desk.
Speaker 2: Couple of sweet kids like you and you sit there
Speaker 2: like a couple of lumps. You're a disgrace to every
Speaker 2: single story on these shelves. Riley asks, okay, so what
Speaker 2: do I say to him? The librarian has a suggestion.
Speaker 4: Look around.
Speaker 2: Nothing here but books about boys and girls and men
Speaker 2: and women and what they say to each other. Open
Speaker 2: any one of them and you, Riley grabs a book
Speaker 2: on the librarian's desk, but she stops her. Not that one.
Speaker 2: Riley tries to grab another one and the librarian stops
Speaker 2: her again. Oh boy, definitely not that one.
Speaker 4: I liked the idea behind this.
Speaker 5: You're trying to have a love story surrounded by some
Speaker 5: of the greatest love stories in the history of the world.
Speaker 4: Like read around. That idea is great.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 3: And all it would take is that while the librarian
Speaker 3: is walking past them, she overhears something stupid that one
Speaker 3: of them says or something superficial.
Speaker 4: But instead it's like this, shh, I know. It's so like, like.
Speaker 5: And I love that they're setting it up that she's
Speaker 5: obviously reading something pretty smutty. Something pretty spicy.
Speaker 4: I love that. No, not that one. No, definitely not
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 2: Look, all these books have one thing in common. You
Speaker 2: start on page one, and each page you turn brings
Speaker 2: you deeper into the story. What's your name? Riley, she responds.
Speaker 2: The librarian then asks, what's his name? Riley answers, Lucas.
Speaker 2: The librarian leans in closer to Riley. You like a
Speaker 2: good story?
Speaker 1: Riley nods.
Speaker 2: Then start at the beginning. With that, Riley walks back
Speaker 2: to Lucas. Hi. He looks up and says hi back.
Speaker 2: She sits back down and returns to her book. Over
Speaker 2: at the windowsill, Maya is now reading their book out loud.
Speaker 2: Because it's not until you really looked at each other
Speaker 2: and made a human connection that you can even begin
Speaker 2: to know each other. Farkle instructs her to look in
Speaker 2: my eyes. Maya quickly responds, no. Farkle isn't deterred and
Speaker 2: keeps demanding she looks in his eyes, but Maya keeps
Speaker 2: saying no. We cut back to Lucas and Riley, and
Speaker 2: now they're actually having a conversation. Lucas says he misses
Speaker 2: his pets in Texas, and Riley reveals that she had
Speaker 2: a hamster. Lucas reveals he had 24 horses, which, by
Speaker 2: all accounts, is too many horses.
Speaker 5: It's like 22 too many horses.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So he's got to be from a big horsing ranch
Speaker 5: family kind of thing.
Speaker 4: 20, that's a lot of horses. But also, what is
Speaker 4: the librarian's advice about starting on page one? Start at
Speaker 4: the beginning.
Speaker 5: I think it means the more in-depth the conversation you have,
Speaker 5: the deeper you get into your story with the person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't have to jump into the deep end.
Speaker 2: You start in the shallow end and you work your
Speaker 2: way to the deep end. So you can start with
Speaker 2: hi and then hi and then where are you from
Speaker 2: and from Texas?
Speaker 1: What do you do in Texas?
Speaker 5: Which actually mirrors what Maya says at the beginning where
Speaker 5: it's like just go over there and say hi and
Speaker 5: she keeps going down. Hey, hey there, like from the
Speaker 5: last episode too. It's like just start the conversation.
Speaker 2: Riley nods. You win. Tell me about them. Lucas continues.
Speaker 2: One day after school, Sophia was foaling. Riley asks, that
Speaker 2: means she was giving birth, right?
Speaker 1: Lucas smiles. He's impressed. Not too bad, city girl. He
Speaker 1: goes on.
Speaker 2: So I called Dr. Galando and he talked me through it. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that was all. She encourages him. More. Immediately, he continues.
Speaker 2: Did you know that a baby horse stands in the
Speaker 2: first hour after it's born? Riley's intrigued. Really? I'd like
Speaker 2: to have been there for that. He says it was
Speaker 2: the coolest thing.
Speaker 4: He's ever seen. It's a pretty intense story, I gotta say.
Speaker 4: Cool story, though. You give birth to a horse? Yeah.
Speaker 5: They did it on M.A.S.H., too. You gotta reach in
Speaker 5: and flip it around.
Speaker 4: A little more animation would, I think, come, you know,
Speaker 4: like this, this is like a big deal.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like, you're not gonna believe this. Like, I was stuck
Speaker 3: giving birth to a horse at the age of 11.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, that's what this kid is saying. Yes.
Speaker 4: I feel like, Let's make a bigger thing out of this.
Speaker 4: You know, like describe it. Like, oh my God, I
Speaker 4: was scared. I was nervous. The doctor talked to me.
Speaker 4: I don't know. It's like a monologue moment.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: It's so weird the way it's played on written as
Speaker 3: just like, meh, I did this crazy thing.
Speaker 2: It's like, you gave birth to a horse, dude.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that was all.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Like, your elbows are bloody. That's what you should say.
Speaker 5: Like, I was in up to my elbows and she's like.
Speaker 4: Oh God. I mean, it must have been... Like, you know,
Speaker 4: that's like a real thing. That's like an intense experience.
Speaker 5: So weird.
Speaker 2: I mean, especially because it impacted him so much.
Speaker 1: He figured out what he wants.
Speaker 4: To do with his life. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: He wants to be a horse birther.
Speaker 2: He says it was the coolest thing he's ever seen.
Speaker 2: He adds, and I was a part of it. He
Speaker 2: turns to her and asks, Riley? She responds, Lucas? He says,
Speaker 2: I've never told this to anybody before. Riley is very excited.
Speaker 2: Is he going to say he likes her? And then
Speaker 2: Lucas reveals, I think someday I might like to be
Speaker 2: a veterinarian. Disappointed, she says, that's cool too. He goes on,
Speaker 2: I delivered this beautiful Palomino. I'd show you her picture,
Speaker 2: but I don't have my phone. She sighs, that's okay.
Speaker 2: Just keep talking. And he gives her a big smile. Nearby,
Speaker 2: Maya is still reading the book to Farkle. There's no
Speaker 2: connection you can make with any screen that compares to
Speaker 2: the moment you understand only human beings have souls.
Speaker 5: And did you notice this? There was a really weird
Speaker 5: beat here. So she's talking to Farkle and doesn't look
Speaker 5: over and then they just cut to, it's not even
Speaker 5: at the right time, but there's a weird cut where
Speaker 5: all of a sudden they just cut to Riley and
Speaker 5: Lucas mid conversation, but you can't hear what they're saying
Speaker 5: for a split second. And then they cut back to, to,
Speaker 5: it was the weirdest jump cut where it was like,
Speaker 5: what the, what? I rewound it three times. I was like, why,
Speaker 5: why did they just cut there to that? It was so,
Speaker 5: it almost just looks like they forgot to take a
Speaker 5: shot out. It was so weird. It was really, really strange. Yeah. Hmm.
Speaker 2: Farkle yells, I have a soul. They trade jabs again.
Speaker 2: Maya says no. And Farkle swears he does eventually looking away.
Speaker 2: Maybe he doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Well, that's one of the jokes is he's a robot, right? Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Corey, Topanga, and Augie are now back at the bay
Speaker 2: window of their living room. Augie announces, I colored a
Speaker 2: new picture. Topanga asks him, can you stay like this forever?
Speaker 2: Corey puts him on his lap.
Speaker 1: Would you please?
Speaker 2: That'd be great. Augie points to the other side of
Speaker 2: the room. The picture's over there. He drew stick figures.
Speaker 1: Right on the wall.
Speaker 2: Mommy, Daddy, Augie, and no Riley.
Speaker 1: Corey is startled. Uh, Augie, I don't know if you should.
Speaker 2: Topanga cuts him off. It's beautiful, she whispers to Corey.
Speaker 2: I think that's what you're supposed to do. I have
Speaker 2: no idea.
Speaker 4: Okay, what is, why does she have no idea? They
Speaker 4: have two kids.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: Why does she have no idea what to do?
Speaker 5: None of this makes sense.
Speaker 4: And why is that a part of the story?
Speaker 3: Like, were you, like, was Topanga, I don't, I don't,
Speaker 3: I don't understand what this scene is about.
Speaker 5: I didn't, I didn't get it either. This is your
Speaker 5: second child.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Is the point that Corey was right about something that Topanga–
Speaker 3: because in the previous scene you were saying just stay–
Speaker 3: as long as it stays coloring, stay young forever, it's
Speaker 3: going to be okay.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know what the point of
Speaker 4: this scene is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't get it either.
Speaker 4: Or Topanga's reaction to this scene.
Speaker 5: Why wouldn't Topanga know what to do?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I also– the librarian being the person
Speaker 2: who helps Riley figure out how to talk to Lucas. Again,
Speaker 2: another situation where if they were going to keep with
Speaker 2: this idea that Topanga was going to be totally accepting,
Speaker 2: which wouldn't have been my choice. My choice would have
Speaker 2: been that Topanga could have been, like I said, against it.
Speaker 1: I don't want that for her.
Speaker 2: But if they were going to keep with the idea
Speaker 2: that Topanga is is open to her, open to this,
Speaker 2: another great point of conflict would be that Topanga helps
Speaker 2: Corey with his assignment by teaching Riley how to open
Speaker 2: up to Lucas. And Corey's like, that's not what I meant.
Speaker 2: But that is, that was what the assignment was.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what Topanga did for Corey.
Speaker 4: And it would have braided the A and B storylines perfectly.
Speaker 5: You've also been coloring with him the whole time. So
Speaker 5: did you not notice him coloring on the wall and
Speaker 5: somehow getting a ladder out to cover the top of
Speaker 5: the refrigerator as well?
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Just then, Riley walks into the living
Speaker 2: room and looks up at the ceiling.
Speaker 1: She's in love.
Speaker 2: Topanga, busy cleaning the fridge, smiles at her, but Corey
Speaker 2: is confused.
Speaker 1: How was your night, Riley? She replies, thank you for
Speaker 1: sending us to the library. He's shocked.
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 2: Yes, she says. Lucas and I did really well on
Speaker 2: the assignment. I think that we're connected. Corey crosses his arms.
Speaker 2: What are you being connected? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: How did you connect? Riley explains. We talked about stuff
Speaker 2: that was important to us. Too important to text. Did
Speaker 2: you know that when you listen to someone, they'll tell
Speaker 2: you stuff? Corey puts his hands on his hips.
Speaker 4: Oh boy.
Speaker 2: Riley continues. Friends talk to each other, but real friends listen.
Speaker 2: Maya knows how to draw and I know how to
Speaker 2: be a real friend. You're a good teacher, dad. You
Speaker 2: can keep my phone as long as you want. She
Speaker 2: hugs Corey and his jaw is almost on the floor.
Speaker 2: Riley practically skips to her room and Topanga walks over
Speaker 2: to congratulate her husband. He's even more confused than before.
Speaker 2: What did I do? Topanga reveals, you just taught our
Speaker 2: daughter how to feel. Whoa, Corey can't believe it.
Speaker 4: I did that?
Speaker 1: Topanga nods.
Speaker 5: You did?
Speaker 2: Corey shakes his head. I didn't mean to do that.
Speaker 2: She has feelings now? Topanga nods again. Corey wants to
Speaker 2: know how many? His wife smiles. All of them. He
Speaker 2: demands we'll put them back, but Topanga breaks it to him.
Speaker 2: We can't do that. Corey says he has a way,
Speaker 2: but Topanga insists there's no way. Then we jump to
Speaker 2: the classroom. Excitedly, Corey passes the phones back to the students.
Speaker 1: Here you go. Take your phone. Take it now.
Speaker 5: Good. Great.
Speaker 1: Nobody talks to nobody. No more feelings.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Then announces, okay, guys, the great technology debate.
Speaker 5: Let's boot it up.
Speaker 2: Riley and Lucas walk to the left side of the chalkboard,
Speaker 2: Maya and Farkle to the right. Farkle begins his presentation.
Speaker 2: I have always believed technology would help us fulfill our
Speaker 2: potential as a species. And when Farkel does rule the world,
Speaker 2: no matter what device we come up with, we should
Speaker 2: also never forget what we can do with a pencil,
Speaker 2: a piece of paper, and our own imaginations. He shows
Speaker 2: Maya's drawing to the class. I've been keeping this in
Speaker 2: my pocket where my phone used to be. I keep
Speaker 2: looking at it. I'm fine. Maya smiles. Thanks, Farkel. He
Speaker 2: instructs her again.
Speaker 1: Look in my eyes. But Maya insists, no. Riley's up next.
Speaker 2: I thought my whole life was in my phone, but
Speaker 2: it turns out that I don't really have any friends
Speaker 2: in there. And you don't need your phone to connect
Speaker 2: with your real friends. Lucas joins in. Allow us to demonstrate.
Speaker 2: They turn to each other and exchange hellos. Ta-da.
Speaker 5: When this boy meets where?
Speaker 4: So the, yeah.
Speaker 5: I know, yeah. Again, good message. Uh-huh.
Speaker 4: Good message.
Speaker 5: Yes. Yes. Get off your phone.
Speaker 4: Live your life. Great issue to tackle for kids. Correct.
Speaker 2: Now in the library, Corey walks to a bookshelf and
Speaker 2: moves a book, trying to find something. We hear a
Speaker 2: voice say, I'm not that tall. He then goes for
Speaker 2: the bottom shelf. The voice asks, really? When he finally
Speaker 2: moves some books from the middle shelf, it reveals Maya.
Speaker 1: She smirks.
Speaker 2: How you doing? Corey demands, you will keep an eye
Speaker 2: on Riley at all times. You will send me a
Speaker 2: message alert. You will send me pictures.
Speaker 4: This is so inappropriate. I just think it's so creepy.
Speaker 5: As both teacher and parent.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
Speaker 4: You know, like the, there's like this very simple rule.
Speaker 3: Like if an adult asks you to keep a secret,
Speaker 3: you know, like that, I told my son that it's
Speaker 3: like very basic parenting thing. Like if any adult asks
Speaker 3: you to keep a secret, Don't trust that person or
Speaker 3: come tell me.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: And here is the teacher.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: Asking her to keep a secret. And that secret is
Speaker 4: to keep an eye on his daughter.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Send pictures and messages.
Speaker 3: And he's giving her a phone, which is anti everything
Speaker 3: that he's been this entire time.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: And not in a funny way, like in a really
Speaker 4: horrible way.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, I get the joke of like, oh,
Speaker 3: he learned the lesson.
Speaker 4: He learned the wrong lesson. But like, it's not cool. Like,
Speaker 4: I was like genuinely disturbed by this. And I can't
Speaker 4: believe if Disney.
Speaker 3: Is like seriously over like, you know, being very sensitive
Speaker 3: and like making sure that the messages that they're giving, like,
Speaker 3: I can't believe this got through because it's truly a
Speaker 3: weird message.
Speaker 2: Especially because it hasn't been set up at all that
Speaker 2: one of the benefits to technology is safety.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Or tracking somebody.
Speaker 2: If it had been set up at all that Maya
Speaker 2: finds herself in unsafe situations.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's such an easy solution. You're right. That would
Speaker 4: have been such an easy solution.
Speaker 1: Then he could be giving her a phone to say.
Speaker 4: For that purpose.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: I have your tracking. I know where you are. If
Speaker 2: you ever need me, you please. My phone number is
Speaker 2: the only phone number in there. You know, like that
Speaker 2: kind of a thing. If that had been anywhere in
Speaker 2: the storyline, that the only way Maya feels like she's
Speaker 2: missed out is that she needs it for some sort
Speaker 2: of safety thing.
Speaker 1: Then that all makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the way it's been set up to this point
Speaker 2: is that Maya feels a little left out because she
Speaker 2: doesn't have a cool phone.
Speaker 1: And that's it.
Speaker 5: But she... So I was trying to remember, are there
Speaker 5: other than when at when Chet left and left Sean
Speaker 5: with the Matthews? Was there a time where Alan and
Speaker 5: Amy were buying things specifically for Sean? I don't think
Speaker 5: there was. Corey might give him something. Here's my basketball
Speaker 5: or whatever for Christmas. But I don't recall ever Alan
Speaker 5: and Amy like taking that roll on of now I'm
Speaker 5: going to. Here's this, here's that, here's this.
Speaker 4: Just housing him, right? Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then she's buying him clothes because he had nothing.
Speaker 1: And he was living with them.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Weird.
Speaker 2: Maya nods. You're really scared, aren't you? Corey explains.
Speaker 4: I'm a father.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Maya says. They're just friends. Corey isn't convinced.
Speaker 4: Believe me.
Speaker 2: I know the story. Maya reminds him. You're forgetting that
Speaker 2: I don't have the technology. Corey places a phone on
Speaker 2: the bookshelf. Now you do. She can't believe it. You
Speaker 2: got me a phone? He admits, my motives are completely selfish.
Speaker 2: She looks at him.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure they are, Mr.
Speaker 2: Matthews. He reaches into his pocket and takes out a
Speaker 2: pack of colored pencils. Well, I also got you these.
Speaker 2: You let me know everything that's going on with Riley,
Speaker 2: and if something beautiful ever happens, paint me a picture.
Speaker 2: With that, he pats her on the back and walks away.
Speaker 4: Thank you all for.
Speaker 2: Joining us for this episode of Pod Meets World. As always,
Speaker 2: you can follow us on Instagram, podmeetsworldshow. You can send
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Speaker 4: I'm foaling a horse.
Speaker 5: March.
Speaker 1: Will, send us out.
Speaker 4: We love you all.
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