WEBVTT - Girl Meets - Episode 102 0:00:18.820 --> 0:00:20.070 I signed in. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:22.800 I had to redo a new password, but I was 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.130 able to go back to my old Tumblr account, and 0:00:25.190 --> 0:00:30.889 I signed in for myself to find the Tumblr article 0:00:31.290 --> 0:00:34.140 that I wrote yesterday. About Girl Meets World. Because I 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.790 wanted you guys to understand this was what the intention 0:00:39.390 --> 0:00:40.990 of the show was before we started. 0:00:41.010 --> 0:00:42.670 And have you shot the pilot or you had done 0:00:42.729 --> 0:00:46.510 nothing yet? Or rehearsals or where were you in the process? 0:00:46.650 --> 0:00:51.070 This is before we had even shot the pilot. Let 0:00:51.110 --> 0:00:51.950 me see if I can see. 0:00:51.970 --> 0:00:53.260 Okay, so this is still. 0:00:53.550 --> 0:00:55.040 This was written November 26th, 2012. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:55.280 Oh, geez. 0:00:55.300 --> 0:00:56.020 Way before. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:56.100 No. 0:01:00.770 --> 0:01:00.930 Yes. 0:01:00.990 --> 0:01:03.050 Oh, yeah. So this is when it was just announced. 0:01:03.090 --> 0:01:03.850 Just announced. 0:01:04.069 --> 0:01:04.880 And people were. 0:01:04.890 --> 0:01:04.959 Yes. 0:01:04.970 --> 0:01:06.360 I had just gotten engaged. 0:01:07.220 --> 0:01:09.280 And you and I found out in 2014 they were 0:01:09.300 --> 0:01:09.610 doing it. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:09.840 Yeah. 0:01:09.900 --> 0:01:12.520 Remember? Yeah. Oh, my God. 0:01:13.420 --> 0:01:15.060 I have not read this. So I don't actually I 0:01:15.100 --> 0:01:17.060 haven't read this since I've signed back in. So I 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:18.860 also don't know what I'm in for, but I do 0:01:18.940 --> 0:01:20.720 have a vague memory of it. 0:01:21.569 --> 0:01:22.209 Girl Meets World. 0:01:22.330 --> 0:01:24.340 First of all, let me say that you, the fans 0:01:24.380 --> 0:01:26.760 of Boy Meets World, have been awesome. That word is 0:01:26.900 --> 0:01:30.120 often used incorrectly by people, including myself, on a daily basis, 0:01:30.180 --> 0:01:33.520 but you have truly been awe-inspiring. You, yes, even you, 0:01:33.819 --> 0:01:35.440 are the reason that Girl Meets World will be made. 0:01:35.940 --> 0:01:37.560 I do not know how many Boy Meets World cast 0:01:37.580 --> 0:01:40.290 members will be returning for Girl Meets World or how often, if. 0:01:40.430 --> 0:01:41.770 And or when they do appear. 0:01:42.209 --> 0:02:03.640 Oh, I said world. Another thing I wouldn't trade for 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.040 anything is the integrity and the heart with which Boy 0:02:06.060 --> 0:02:08.419 Meets World was made. I promise with the entirety of 0:02:08.460 --> 0:02:10.100 my heart that we will make Girl Meets World with 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.700 the same honesty, innocence and intelligence that you learn to 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.320 expect from Boy Meets World. I say this because making 0:02:15.340 --> 0:02:17.840 the decision to do the show involved more conversations than 0:02:17.860 --> 0:02:20.630 you could possibly imagine. These conversations were with the people 0:02:20.690 --> 0:02:23.270 I mentioned above because they were all instrumental in creating 0:02:23.290 --> 0:02:25.740 and maintaining the heart of Boy Meets World. The first 0:02:25.780 --> 0:02:28.160 comment out of every person's mouth was, let's only do 0:02:28.220 --> 0:02:30.140 it if we think we can create something as special 0:02:30.180 --> 0:02:32.140 as we did with Boy Meets World. When the news 0:02:32.180 --> 0:02:34.060 leaked that Girl Meets World was in the making, literally 0:02:34.100 --> 0:02:36.540 days after I first heard about the project myself. Oh, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.549 that's right. Michael had called me and within 72 hours, 0:02:42.050 --> 0:02:44.410 news about it was announced. 0:02:44.850 --> 0:02:46.169 You didn't go pitch it with him? 0:02:47.070 --> 0:02:47.350 No. No. 0:02:48.980 --> 0:02:54.109 No, he says it was Corey's idea and that Corey 0:02:54.190 --> 0:02:55.190 brought it to him. 0:02:55.210 --> 0:02:55.990 I think that's true. 0:02:56.510 --> 0:03:00.930 And then he basically developed it with them. He didn't 0:03:00.970 --> 0:03:02.670 want to bring me in on it. Then I would 0:03:02.690 --> 0:03:03.429 have had to have been. 0:03:03.450 --> 0:03:05.160 Yeah. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:05.810 Co-creator. 0:03:06.090 --> 0:03:06.460 Yeah. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.520 It's the reason he didn't bring me or Ben in. 0:03:08.820 --> 0:03:11.280 It was just then he got it approved and then 0:03:11.300 --> 0:03:11.619 he had. 0:03:11.540 --> 0:03:12.090 To sell it to us. 0:03:14.410 --> 0:03:16.690 Literally days after I first heard about the project myself, 0:03:16.770 --> 0:03:19.060 Michael Jacobs and I had a conversation and we talked 0:03:19.090 --> 0:03:20.900 about how we were both so blown away by the 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:21.860 reactions from all of you. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:22.560 We felt honored. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.780 We felt nostalgic. We felt touched by the excitement in 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.140 your comments, tweets, Tumblr and Facebook posts. But most of all, 0:03:28.180 --> 0:03:30.579 we felt inspired. We felt inspired to bring these characters 0:03:30.620 --> 0:03:32.480 back to life and to tell you more of their stories. 0:03:32.940 --> 0:03:35.080 Michael said to me, Danielle, when I read what people 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:36.800 say Boy Meets World meant to them, it makes me 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:38.830 so very proud of all of us. I think it's 0:03:38.870 --> 0:03:40.850 important for us for as long as we are fortunate 0:03:40.900 --> 0:03:43.040 enough to have this opportunity to do Girl Meets World, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.000 that we all look each other in the eyes every 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:46.900 so often and make sure we know we have something 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.560 of value to offer the audience. I think we have 0:03:49.580 --> 0:03:51.640 that with Girl Meets World. I say that so I 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.930 can say this. Girl Meets World is a new show. 0:03:55.530 --> 0:03:57.970 It isn't Boy Meets World brought back to life, but 0:03:58.010 --> 0:04:01.350 in current day. It will have familiar faces, familiar themes, 0:04:01.410 --> 0:04:04.770 and familiar messages. It will also have new faces, new themes, 0:04:04.910 --> 0:04:07.480 and new messages. Boy Meets World never spoke down to 0:04:07.500 --> 0:04:09.100 the audience, and we are going to do our best 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.100 to never do that with Girl Meets World. But please 0:04:11.140 --> 0:04:13.820 keep in mind that there will be episode one of 0:04:13.860 --> 0:04:16.240 season one of a brand new show. We started at 0:04:16.260 --> 0:04:18.190 the same place with Boy Meets World, but we evolved 0:04:18.230 --> 0:04:20.130 and we evolved quickly. For those of you who knew 0:04:20.170 --> 0:04:22.210 and loved Boy Meets World, please allow this show to 0:04:22.290 --> 0:04:23.650 evolve as well. Stick with us. 0:04:23.730 --> 0:04:24.430 Give us a chance. 0:04:24.970 --> 0:04:26.890 In the meantime, a sincere thank you to every one 0:04:26.930 --> 0:04:28.470 of you for all of your tweets. I read them 0:04:28.550 --> 0:04:30.650 all every day. It's killing me to not even be 0:04:30.670 --> 0:04:32.540 able to talk about it. Even those of you who 0:04:32.620 --> 0:04:34.420 asked us not to do it. There were only a 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.820 few of you, but I know why you don't want 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.700 Girl Meets World to happen. And I appreciate that Boy 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.440 Meets World meant enough to you that you don't want 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.800 to see its legacy tarnished. I can assure you we 0:04:41.820 --> 0:04:44.640 don't want that either. Your love, dedication, and appreciation means 0:04:44.700 --> 0:04:46.060 more to us than you could ever know. And it 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:47.820 will be the driving force behind our passion to make 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.740 the best show we possibly can make. Thank you for 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:50.940 giving us the chance to do it again. 0:04:51.220 --> 0:04:51.520 Danielle. 0:04:52.220 --> 0:04:54.140 What do you think your version of Boy Meets World 0:04:54.190 --> 0:04:56.289 was at that point? Like what was in your head? 0:04:56.850 --> 0:04:59.750 Because had you watched the show enough to like carry it? 0:04:59.910 --> 0:04:59.990 No. 0:05:00.390 --> 0:05:02.690 No, I had only seen like random episodes every now 0:05:02.730 --> 0:05:04.110 and then I would turn on the TV and it 0:05:04.130 --> 0:05:05.950 would be, you know, a rerun would be playing and 0:05:05.990 --> 0:05:07.990 I'd be like, Oh, it's the cult episode. I'm going 0:05:08.010 --> 0:05:10.330 to sit and watch this one. You know, like every, 0:05:10.410 --> 0:05:16.010 I had seen passing episodes, um, in my memory. Cause again, 0:05:16.070 --> 0:05:17.920 this is the conversation. This is one of the main 0:05:17.980 --> 0:05:21.800 conversations I had with Michael in my memory, the entire 0:05:22.060 --> 0:05:27.180 show circled around Corey and Topanga's relationship and their highs 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.500 and their lows and they're breaking up and they're getting 0:05:29.540 --> 0:05:30.160 back together. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.170 And you know, the French girl episode. 0:05:33.290 --> 0:05:36.430 And, and so what was in my mind was when 0:05:36.470 --> 0:05:40.390 Michael called, but now we have this incredible opportunity to 0:05:40.450 --> 0:05:43.930 deliver lessons, but with a girl as the lead, a 0:05:44.070 --> 0:05:47.830 young woman as the lead. And so my number one thing, 0:05:47.850 --> 0:05:48.510 it really is. 0:05:48.510 --> 0:05:51.690 A great fit. Yeah, of course it is. It's fantastic. Yeah. 0:05:52.450 --> 0:05:56.270 So my number one thing was, As long as her 0:05:56.330 --> 0:06:01.290 entire storyline isn't about a boy. And it was, no, 0:06:01.410 --> 0:06:04.190 it's going to be about friendship. And there can be 0:06:04.250 --> 0:06:09.220 boys in the cast, but it's not going to be romantic. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.640 And I was like, great. And then I read the pilot. 0:06:11.980 --> 0:06:18.230 Yeah. Yeah. I just remember when... you know, obviously feeling 0:06:18.330 --> 0:06:20.730 hurt and like, I can't believe nobody told me about 0:06:20.770 --> 0:06:23.469 this and blah, blah, blah. Um, but then Michael taking 0:06:23.529 --> 0:06:25.470 me out to lunch and me saying like with all 0:06:25.490 --> 0:06:27.250 the other writers and I looked around and it was 0:06:27.330 --> 0:06:30.480 the same, all the same guys, which is great from a, 0:06:30.610 --> 0:06:32.349 from a nostalgia friend point of view. It was like, 0:06:32.510 --> 0:06:33.710 I get to see all these people that I love. 0:06:33.830 --> 0:06:35.789 And I looked at Michael and I'll never forget. I said, 0:06:36.330 --> 0:06:38.620 it's called girl meets world. Michael, don't you think there 0:06:38.630 --> 0:06:41.180 should be girls on the writing staff, women on the 0:06:41.190 --> 0:06:45.000 writing staff. And, uh, I said, don't you think they'll 0:06:45.020 --> 0:06:47.170 be able to have the voice of a woman or 0:06:47.190 --> 0:06:49.470 a girl better than you? And he went, well, I 0:06:49.510 --> 0:06:51.650 wasn't a 65-year-old man, but I wrote pretty well for 0:06:51.670 --> 0:06:54.250 Bill Daniels. And I just remember being like, oh, he 0:06:54.270 --> 0:06:57.150 doesn't get it. Like, he just, he doesn't get it. 0:06:57.540 --> 0:06:59.220 It was weird. Yeah. 0:06:59.860 --> 0:07:02.440 No, I had the same conversation with him, but about 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.060 you being a writer, because what he's in the conversation 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:06.540 where he first told me about the show and it 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.780 was like, so is everybody in? And he was like, well, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.600 you know, everybody wants to do different things. And he 0:07:10.620 --> 0:07:12.120 was like, like, Will wants to write. And I was like, 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.550 oh my God, that's awesome. And then I said, and 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.150 of course you're, cause he had already told me that, 0:07:16.230 --> 0:07:18.630 you know, Manel and Nelson. And I was like, oh 0:07:18.650 --> 0:07:20.650 my gosh, that's amazing. I said, well, you know, of 0:07:20.710 --> 0:07:22.550 course you're, you have to be able to bring in 0:07:22.890 --> 0:07:24.730 some women writers too. And he goes, oh, I'm not 0:07:24.770 --> 0:07:25.150 doing that. 0:07:26.070 --> 0:07:28.190 Yeah. Yeah. 0:07:28.830 --> 0:07:31.130 And I was like, Okay. 0:07:31.250 --> 0:07:31.590 All right. 0:07:33.750 --> 0:07:36.000 Anyway, I did think that was interesting. 0:07:36.020 --> 0:07:39.420 I'm amazed that was written two years before the show. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.880 Aired, which is crazy. It was a long time. So wait, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.420 it didn't air until 2014? 0:07:43.420 --> 0:07:50.440 We shot the pilot in November, no, October of 2013. 0:07:50.580 --> 0:07:51.570 Because it was. 0:07:52.670 --> 0:07:53.610 Right before your wedding then? 0:07:53.950 --> 0:07:58.630 Right before, right before or right after? Right before my wedding. 0:07:59.150 --> 0:07:59.780 Your weddings. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.060 Or right before, after my wedding. 0:08:03.580 --> 0:08:07.090 October 17th was our wedding. 0:08:08.290 --> 0:08:08.530 Ours. 0:08:09.090 --> 0:08:11.930 Yours and mine. Separate. Your wedding. It was the 19th? 0:08:11.970 --> 0:08:13.130 No, maybe it. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.390 Was the 19th or 20th of... You don't remember when 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:17.180 your wedding was? 0:08:17.510 --> 0:08:20.120 No, and Alex and I, because it was right after 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.400 her birthday. Her birthday is October 16th, so I think 0:08:22.420 --> 0:08:24.560 it's the 18th is the official, because we did the 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.660 weekend of her birthday was also our wedding weekend, so 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.680 the actual wedding day was that Sunday. 0:08:29.700 --> 0:08:32.210 So for you, it might have been the 19th. 0:08:32.300 --> 0:08:33.569 18th or 19th is the actual. 0:08:33.610 --> 0:08:35.790 Maybe yours was the 19th, because mine's not ringing true. 0:08:35.830 --> 0:08:38.490 My first wedding's not ringing true as October 17th, but 0:08:38.530 --> 0:08:40.849 I don't remember the actual date. It's either the 18th 0:08:40.870 --> 0:08:45.910 or the 19th, and yeah. And I think it was just, 0:08:46.010 --> 0:08:49.250 I think we shot the pilot right before then. 0:08:50.890 --> 0:08:56.630 So anyway, welcome to Pod Meets World. 0:08:56.650 --> 0:09:00.520 This is season one, episode two of Girl Meets World. 0:09:00.580 --> 0:09:04.079 It originally aired July 11th, 2014. 11th, one month before 0:09:04.100 --> 0:09:05.480 my birthday. 0:09:05.500 --> 0:09:07.020 Come on, Ryder, give it up. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:08.240 An 11th brother. 0:09:08.660 --> 0:09:09.220 Woo. Woo. 0:09:09.500 --> 0:09:10.959 We didn't say our intros. We didn't say hi. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:12.100 Oh, sorry. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:13.900 Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Danielle Fishel. 0:09:14.179 --> 0:09:16.189 I'm Ryder Strong. And I'm Will Friedle. 0:09:16.470 --> 0:09:18.270 Doing a different show is totally throwing you. 0:09:18.330 --> 0:09:19.969 I know, it's throwing you off. You don't know what 0:09:20.010 --> 0:09:20.230 to say. 0:09:20.370 --> 0:09:22.850 It's not as good as the original Pod Meets World, 0:09:22.890 --> 0:09:25.250 but hopefully we'll figure out what's going on. It's probably 0:09:25.309 --> 0:09:26.510 overwritten and overproduced. 0:09:26.870 --> 0:09:28.929 And I know some of you have said we shouldn't 0:09:28.970 --> 0:09:29.710 have continued. 0:09:29.950 --> 0:09:33.410 I guess you... But I promise, I read your comments. 0:09:33.429 --> 0:09:35.650 I read your comments. But I read your comments, and 0:09:35.690 --> 0:09:38.730 I promise you, we will keep the spirit. 0:09:38.850 --> 0:09:41.990 You can talk to us directly, and that we will 0:09:42.150 --> 0:09:43.809 incorporate your notes. 0:09:43.970 --> 0:09:47.070 Next episode, I'll read what I posted about Girl Meets World. 0:09:47.730 --> 0:09:48.390 Oh, I can't wait. 0:09:48.410 --> 0:09:49.770 Do you remember when I posted? 0:09:50.090 --> 0:09:52.270 Kind of. I don't know anything about this. 0:09:52.630 --> 0:09:53.209 No, I don't either. 0:09:53.350 --> 0:09:54.590 No, I said I'm not going to do it. I'm 0:09:54.710 --> 0:09:56.189 not going to have anything to do with it, and 0:09:56.210 --> 0:09:56.670 here's why. 0:09:57.290 --> 0:09:58.090 And Michael was mad. 0:09:58.630 --> 0:09:59.610 Oh, yeah, everyone was mad. 0:09:59.630 --> 0:09:59.970 Was he mad? 0:10:00.550 --> 0:10:03.010 Was he mad? It must have been right after the pilot. 0:10:03.030 --> 0:10:04.530 It was right around the time that I got married. 0:10:04.570 --> 0:10:05.770 I don't know. I'll check. I'll try and know what 0:10:05.790 --> 0:10:06.170 the date was. 0:10:06.220 --> 0:10:07.670 Yeah, so around the time that we shot the pilot. 0:10:07.980 --> 0:10:09.979 I thought, but maybe I did it way earlier. I 0:10:10.010 --> 0:10:11.880 don't remember. Did you ever. 0:10:11.620 --> 0:10:13.700 Go back and say, like, sorry, I wrote that blog post. 0:10:13.780 --> 0:10:16.559 I'm now directing more episodes than any other director, and 0:10:16.700 --> 0:10:17.570 I'm going to guest star on it? 0:10:19.030 --> 0:10:20.770 No. You mean to the public? Yeah. 0:10:21.170 --> 0:10:21.319 No. 0:10:21.630 --> 0:10:24.140 No. I'm sorry, but I still go back to, and 0:10:24.179 --> 0:10:26.900 I know it's a total ego thing and I own that, 0:10:26.980 --> 0:10:29.200 but how you pitch a Girl Meets World and you 0:10:29.220 --> 0:10:31.400 don't have Uncle Eric living with them, helping to take 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.260 care of the kids is the biggest comedy miss ever. 0:10:36.210 --> 0:10:38.170 It's like you saw Eric with all the little kids 0:10:38.210 --> 0:10:40.490 on Boy Meets World. He was so good with little kids. 0:10:41.010 --> 0:10:43.090 Why you wouldn't have him like, no, I'm going to 0:10:43.110 --> 0:10:44.990 stay here for a week. And the joke is that 0:10:45.030 --> 0:10:47.809 he's been there four years. And he's helping to raise 0:10:47.850 --> 0:10:51.030 the kids. You missed out on so much comedy that way. Yeah. Yeah. 0:10:51.090 --> 0:10:55.150 Yeah. Why didn't they? I mean, I guess they were 0:10:55.190 --> 0:10:56.010 like a happy kids. 0:10:56.290 --> 0:10:56.810 Just money. 0:10:57.090 --> 0:10:57.430 Yeah. 0:10:57.809 --> 0:11:03.939 Maybe Topanga could have been like overseas working. And it 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.880 could have been the two brothers raising the kids. 0:11:05.900 --> 0:11:07.679 Just get rid of all the women. Yeah. Get rid 0:11:07.730 --> 0:11:09.130 of all the women entirely. 0:11:09.170 --> 0:11:10.510 Just eliminate the. 0:11:10.590 --> 0:11:12.120 And then make Riley a boy. 0:11:12.210 --> 0:11:12.790 Raised by all men. 0:11:12.809 --> 0:11:13.190 Yeah. A boy. 0:11:13.330 --> 0:11:14.750 And then just call. 0:11:14.650 --> 0:11:17.050 It Boy Meets World. It's Boys Meets World. 0:11:31.150 --> 0:11:34.970 The synopsis, Corey's homework assignment inadvertently brings Riley and Lucas 0:11:35.030 --> 0:11:39.080 closer together. It was directed by Joel Zwick, a legendary 0:11:39.150 --> 0:11:42.939 TV director with one massive movie under his belt as well. 0:11:43.460 --> 0:11:46.220 One of the most profitable films of all time, My 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:50.020 Big Fat Greek Wedding. He directed over 30 Laverne and 0:11:50.059 --> 0:11:53.890 Shirley episodes, Mork and Mindy, Bosom Buddies, 100 episodes of 0:11:53.950 --> 0:11:57.689 Perfect Strangers, almost 100 episodes of Full House, Step by Step, 0:11:57.710 --> 0:12:01.689 Family Matters, and most important to us, two dozen episodes 0:12:02.130 --> 0:12:03.430 of Girl Meets World. Legend. 0:12:04.030 --> 0:12:05.470 Television legend. Uh-huh. 0:12:06.090 --> 0:12:09.449 It was written by Michael Jacobs back on the title page, 0:12:09.530 --> 0:12:11.090 something we did not see. 0:12:10.950 --> 0:12:13.920 Back in the original series. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.350 Two in a row, really. Why do you think that is? 0:12:17.820 --> 0:12:21.940 Money is that what it is yeah the disney channel 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:30.190 cable contracts are nothing right like prime time television contracts 0:12:30.750 --> 0:12:35.330 and so michael's whatever his quote was from back in 0:12:35.350 --> 0:12:39.610 the day was not being met right our you know 0:12:39.690 --> 0:12:43.510 money quote from boy meets world was not being met 0:12:43.530 --> 0:12:47.760 no of course um And so this was literally just 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.600 a matter of what other ways can Michael make— Just. 0:12:52.420 --> 0:12:55.459 Another stream of income? Yes. Because, yeah, we did 158 0:12:55.460 --> 0:12:57.439 episodes of Boy, and he never once put his— not a 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.110 single time, does it say, written by Michael Jacobs. 0:12:59.140 --> 0:13:01.770 Because he was getting so much money elsewhere, he didn't 0:13:02.110 --> 0:13:02.870 need it. 0:13:02.970 --> 0:13:03.210 Right. 0:13:03.570 --> 0:13:05.670 And so he gave those opportunities to everyone else. But 0:13:05.690 --> 0:13:08.469 in this situation, he looked at it like, I want it. 0:13:09.450 --> 0:13:09.710 Interesting. 0:13:10.850 --> 0:13:13.689 Guest starring Danielle Kennedy as the librarian. She's appeared on 0:13:13.730 --> 0:13:16.329 TV shows like Parks and Rec, Two Broke Girls, nine 0:13:16.429 --> 0:13:20.250 episodes of Narcos as Ambassador Noonan. And she most recently 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.480 played Agnes Festersen on the TV version. 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:23.920 Of The Verbs. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:29.220 And weirdly, apparently her daughter and Susan grew up together. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.970 So apparently this woman and she popped up on screen. 0:13:32.990 --> 0:13:35.510 She's like, oh, that's that's Mrs. Kennedy. 0:13:35.570 --> 0:13:38.569 Like she's like, I know. Yeah, I know her daughter. 0:13:38.610 --> 0:13:39.689 We grew up like, oh, God. 0:13:39.730 --> 0:13:43.570 So I like Susan, like knew her kid. Yeah, that's funny. 0:13:43.670 --> 0:13:44.150 Isn't that weird? 0:13:44.190 --> 0:13:44.350 Yeah. 0:13:44.450 --> 0:13:46.250 What a weird world. 0:13:47.050 --> 0:13:50.870 And then Taylor Ashley Holliman is Maisel, most recognizable from 0:13:50.910 --> 0:13:53.640 a three episode arc on The Office as Jada. She 0:13:53.700 --> 0:13:56.360 also appeared on Baskets, New Girl and Don't Trust the 0:13:56.380 --> 0:14:11.680 Bee in Apartment 23. So jumping into our recap, we 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.020 are in the middle school hallway. Riley and Maya are 0:14:14.059 --> 0:14:16.620 near the lockers when Lucas walks by. He sits down 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.200 on a nearby bench and Riley starts feverishly typing on 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:23.500 her phone. Sternly, Maya demands, talk to him. Riley sends 0:14:23.540 --> 0:14:23.960 the text. 0:14:24.180 --> 0:14:24.400 Why? 0:14:24.620 --> 0:14:27.260 We have a great text relationship. Maya asks, you know 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.220 what's better than a text relationship? Riley doesn't know. So 0:14:30.260 --> 0:14:33.720 Maya angrily responds, talk to him. Then Riley gets a 0:14:33.750 --> 0:14:36.210 notification and shows his response to Maya with a smile. 0:14:36.530 --> 0:14:38.720 The text reads, From Riley, where you going? 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:39.540 Lucas, history. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.070 I hate when texts don't look like real texts. I know. 0:14:43.490 --> 0:14:47.370 They got pictures next to it. Do they still do that, though? 0:14:47.410 --> 0:14:50.550 Or is this a very early teens thing? 0:14:50.890 --> 0:14:52.190 Very early teens. 0:14:52.230 --> 0:14:52.830 Very early. 0:14:53.090 --> 0:14:54.390 Now they just put it on the screen. 0:14:54.790 --> 0:14:56.070 And it looks like bubbles. 0:14:56.250 --> 0:14:58.790 They just make it look like the iPhone message or whatever. 0:14:59.150 --> 0:15:01.150 But this is just like, it's so funny because it 0:15:02.010 --> 0:15:05.350 dates it so poorly. You're like, just show the real screen. 0:15:05.390 --> 0:15:05.890 What are we doing? 0:15:06.580 --> 0:15:10.840 At this point, though, I was like, oh, great storyline 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.940 for something like this. Put your phone down and get 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.180 into an actual conversation. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.000 The thematics are wonderful. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.690 What a great issue for a. 0:15:21.470 --> 0:15:23.670 Boy Meets World style thing. 0:15:23.690 --> 0:15:25.530 Totally. 100%. 0:15:25.530 --> 0:15:28.090 You could pitch this as a Boy Meets World. Ruffini 0:15:28.110 --> 0:15:30.110 makes them go to the library with their phones down. 0:15:30.330 --> 0:15:30.950 It's like that. 0:15:31.270 --> 0:15:33.760 Yeah, this is clearly one of the out of the gate. 0:15:33.860 --> 0:15:36.220 Great ideas that probably helped sell the show. 0:15:36.300 --> 0:15:36.520 Yes. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:37.760 You know what I mean? It was like, Corey will 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.260 make them turn off their phones. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.500 Put your phone down and actually go talk to the guy. 0:15:41.570 --> 0:15:43.870 It's like, oh, great. This is perfect. Yes. 0:15:44.390 --> 0:15:44.910 It's yes. 0:15:46.130 --> 0:15:48.610 Lucas writes back history. I sit next to you, Riley. 0:15:48.730 --> 0:15:51.980 So do I. Maya isn't impressed. She points to Lucas. 0:15:52.140 --> 0:15:54.890 He's right over there. Riley shakes her head. No, too 0:15:54.930 --> 0:15:57.590 complicated over there. Lots can go wrong over there. The 0:15:57.630 --> 0:15:59.270 only thing that can go wrong over here is if 0:15:59.470 --> 0:16:01.900 I go over there. Maya just points at Lucas again, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.080 and so Riley hands over her school books and makes 0:16:04.140 --> 0:16:07.200 the trek to her crush. But instead of approaching Lucas directly, 0:16:07.340 --> 0:16:09.990 we see her head creep up behind him, looking at 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.730 him texting and smiling ear to ear undetected. Riley desperately 0:16:13.790 --> 0:16:14.510 mouths the words. 0:16:14.530 --> 0:16:14.950 This is very creepy. 0:16:15.300 --> 0:16:15.720 Hi. 0:16:16.090 --> 0:16:17.330 My kids loved this part. 0:16:17.610 --> 0:16:18.630 It's very cute. 0:16:19.530 --> 0:16:23.330 Logistical question. Did you take a break between shooting the 0:16:23.370 --> 0:16:24.910 pilot and series pickup? 0:16:25.370 --> 0:16:30.280 The original pilot was shot in 2013. And then when 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.640 we reshot, that was in 2014. So yes, like all 0:16:33.660 --> 0:16:35.980 through the holidays. Basically, they shot the pilot and then 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:37.400 we had months to wait to find out if we 0:16:37.420 --> 0:16:38.420 were actually going to get picked up. 0:16:38.470 --> 0:16:38.850 Gotcha. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:40.750 Then we found out we were getting picked up, but 0:16:40.770 --> 0:16:45.280 we had to do recasting. And then we shot the pilot, 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.180 I think in March. 0:16:46.500 --> 0:16:48.990 Okay. See, I think that's when we came to the set. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:49.690 Yeah. 0:16:49.770 --> 0:16:50.210 Yeah. Right. 0:16:50.250 --> 0:16:50.970 Not the first. 0:16:50.850 --> 0:16:51.910 Time was the second time. 0:16:52.010 --> 0:16:55.010 I already agreed to direct and be on the show 0:16:55.050 --> 0:16:56.690 and you would probably agree to be on the show. 0:16:56.950 --> 0:16:59.090 So we were willing to go to really, even when 0:16:59.110 --> 0:16:59.710 we went to the set. 0:16:59.850 --> 0:17:02.350 No, I had said no all the way up through 0:17:02.410 --> 0:17:05.010 season two, like halfway through season two when I finally 0:17:05.050 --> 0:17:07.340 agreed to come on the show. No, this was, yeah, 0:17:07.410 --> 0:17:08.860 I still wasn't doing anything. Okay. 0:17:09.390 --> 0:17:11.990 Back at the lockers, Maya simply mouths to her, talk 0:17:12.030 --> 0:17:14.950 to him. Riley tries again, but no words come out. Instead, 0:17:15.010 --> 0:17:17.969 she leans in and gleefully sniffs him. Maya calls her 0:17:17.990 --> 0:17:21.310 back and Riley proudly asks, how'd I do? Maya explains, 0:17:21.530 --> 0:17:23.950 you smelled him is what you did. Riley admits, I 0:17:23.990 --> 0:17:26.440 walk through life the way I walk through life. Maya 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.440 shakes her head. Can we please talk about this? Riley 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.060 returns to her phone and walks into the classroom. Maya 0:17:32.100 --> 0:17:35.300 pulls out her phone, it's a flip phone, to see 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.980 that Riley has just sent her a text. 0:17:38.220 --> 0:17:39.260 It says, Nope. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.500 Now in the classroom, Corey is at the chalkboard holding 0:17:43.540 --> 0:17:45.940 up a cell phone. You guys don't connect with each other. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.869 It's like you can't exist without these. You use emoticons. 0:17:50.510 --> 0:17:52.350 What is that? They're emojis, right? 0:17:52.869 --> 0:17:54.170 They were emoticons back in the day. 0:17:54.450 --> 0:17:54.729 No, no. 0:17:54.970 --> 0:17:59.750 Also, emojis is owned. It's like Kleenex. Oh, gotcha. You 0:17:59.790 --> 0:18:01.570 cannot say emojis. 0:18:02.550 --> 0:18:06.050 So what are they on your phone? Emojis. I'm just saying, 0:18:06.109 --> 0:18:08.100 I mean, they don't, There's not a different. 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:09.400 Is there a different word for them? 0:18:09.420 --> 0:18:10.859 You could say, it's not like you're going to have 0:18:10.900 --> 0:18:13.070 to pay a license. I think it was. 0:18:13.180 --> 0:18:13.879 They weren't allowed. 0:18:14.460 --> 0:18:16.100 But for a character on a TV show to say 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:20.800 the word emojis, like it's not going to. 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.420 Were they still emojis? Were they already being called emojis 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:24.460 in 2011? Yeah, it has. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:25.960 No one's ever called it emojis. 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.300 Oh, okay. 0:18:29.619 --> 0:18:31.639 I don't think anybody's ever, I mean, I'm sure the 0:18:31.869 --> 0:18:35.689 technical word is, the neutral technical word is probably emojis. Yeah, 0:18:35.710 --> 0:18:38.070 you're right. But this just goes to show how out 0:18:38.090 --> 0:18:39.510 of touch our writers were. 0:18:39.570 --> 0:18:41.669 I just wrote, I just searched it and it said, no, 0:18:41.750 --> 0:18:44.070 it's not owned by Apple. But I do remember there 0:18:44.090 --> 0:18:47.929 being a whole conversation. But maybe, I mean, I don't know. 0:18:48.030 --> 0:18:49.689 Now what would, now what would the, what would the, yeah. 0:18:50.150 --> 0:18:53.490 The word emoji was coined in 1999 in Japan by 0:18:53.770 --> 0:18:57.050 Shigetaka Kurita alongside his creation of the first set of 0:18:57.050 --> 0:19:01.690 176 pixelated pictographs for the mobile carrier NTT.como. 0:19:02.970 --> 0:19:03.850 This is from Tara. 0:19:03.910 --> 0:19:08.110 No single person or company owns standard digital emojis. Instead, 0:19:08.170 --> 0:19:10.850 the standard text codes and concepts are managed by the 0:19:11.090 --> 0:19:16.550 Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit group, while individual companies design their 0:19:16.630 --> 0:19:20.360 own visual art and a separate private business owns the 0:19:20.390 --> 0:19:23.240 literal word emoji as a brand. 0:19:23.260 --> 0:19:24.280 Oh my God. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:25.320 Can you imagine that? 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.500 So someone does own emoji. 0:19:28.210 --> 0:19:31.300 And they were not willing to pay to use the 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:32.740 term emoji. 0:19:32.980 --> 0:19:35.140 You think they had to pay to use the term 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:36.100 in a TV show? 0:19:36.300 --> 0:19:38.260 That's why I was like, huh, weird. I do remember 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.159 the conversation. We can't use emoji. We can't use emoji. 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:42.140 We can't use emoji. 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:46.090 I think that's Disney being paranoid. Maybe. 0:19:46.450 --> 0:19:51.460 Yeah. The term apparently entered the English language around 2012. 2008, 0:19:51.460 --> 0:19:54.659 growing rapidly in global use after tech companies integrated native 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.520 support into mobile operating systems. 0:19:58.020 --> 0:20:02.020 You use emoticons rather than emotions. You're an unfeeling generation 0:20:02.060 --> 0:20:06.730 of zombies. Maya and Riley jokingly mimic actual zombies. Corey 0:20:06.770 --> 0:20:09.810 isn't amused. Stop eating her. Then another student walks into 0:20:09.830 --> 0:20:12.550 the classroom. Corey lets her know. You're late, Miss Mizell. 0:20:12.950 --> 0:20:16.510 Mizell explains, deadpan. My goldfish died. You see, this is 0:20:16.530 --> 0:20:18.970 what I'm talking about. Miss Mizell has clearly suffered a 0:20:19.020 --> 0:20:21.119 tragic loss, yet she does not seem in touch with 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.560 her actual emotions. Mizell is offended. 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:24.300 Excuse me? 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.459 I've been crying my eyes out. I'm going to have 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:28.780 to leave class early. With that, she turns around and 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.940 walks out. Corey is perplexed. Oh, she actually made it 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.100 out the door this time. He reopens the door and 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:36.780 Mizell is ecstatic. I actually made it out the door 0:20:36.820 --> 0:20:42.959 this time. I don't know. I think it's a little like, again, 0:20:43.220 --> 0:20:48.750 going back to the playing on Mr. Feeney, how like 0:20:48.830 --> 0:20:52.050 Corey or Sean would have tried to make up an 0:20:52.090 --> 0:20:56.580 excuse to walk out of class and then- the adult 0:20:56.619 --> 0:20:58.460 would be like, oh, that's funny. They think they pulled 0:20:58.540 --> 0:21:00.360 one over on me. And sure enough, the kid's like, wow, 0:21:00.380 --> 0:21:01.500 I got pretty far this time. 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:01.800 Right, Mr. 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:01.959 Feeny? 0:21:01.980 --> 0:21:03.840 Like, I think that's- But it's. 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.040 A non-established character. 0:21:05.060 --> 0:21:07.580 I know. So it felt like, oh, it is clearly 0:21:07.619 --> 0:21:09.620 like they're trying to add a new character to like 0:21:09.660 --> 0:21:11.980 have a bit. And it's, but it feels weird. I 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.540 was just like, we just started the show. Like- You 0:21:14.580 --> 0:21:18.480 have Farkle, you have Lucas, you have Maya, you have Riley, 0:21:18.500 --> 0:21:21.000 like you have characters that we haven't established their regular 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.980 stuff enough and you're introducing a new character and then 0:21:24.070 --> 0:21:26.070 referencing it as if it's a thing that we've already 0:21:26.130 --> 0:21:26.850 seen before. 0:21:27.390 --> 0:21:28.030 Very strange. 0:21:28.710 --> 0:21:31.050 I just didn't get it. I didn't understand the joke. 0:21:31.730 --> 0:21:33.850 She rushes back to her desk. Riley brings it back 0:21:33.890 --> 0:21:37.109 to the original diatribe. Dad, adjust and deal. Cell phones 0:21:37.130 --> 0:21:40.350 have been around for like forever. Corey replies, it'll amaze 0:21:40.369 --> 0:21:42.230 you to know that there was a whole world before 0:21:42.290 --> 0:21:43.330 you and cell phones. 0:21:43.510 --> 0:21:43.770 World? 0:21:45.250 --> 0:21:45.810 A world. 0:21:46.650 --> 0:21:47.670 Riley picks up her phone. 0:21:47.730 --> 0:21:49.920 And it will amaze you to know that I have 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.520 394 friends in here, Corey quips. And I'm amazed that 0:21:52.540 --> 0:21:55.240 you believe that. Then he draws a horizontal line on 0:21:55.260 --> 0:21:58.220 the chalkboard. This is a timeline of all human existence. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:02.180 He marks the beginning. Starting here is everyone who ever lived, laughed, loved, 0:22:02.220 --> 0:22:04.810 and understood the value of life. The cell phone era, 0:22:04.850 --> 0:22:07.330 which begins right around here, he says as he marks 0:22:07.350 --> 0:22:09.550 the end of the line, pretty much destroys all of that. 0:22:09.830 --> 0:22:13.310 Way to go, you. Lucas raises his hand. Sir, if 0:22:13.369 --> 0:22:16.480 I may take a different position? Corey responds, yeah, save me, Mr. 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:16.800 Fryer. 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:17.580 Did I go too far? 0:22:18.060 --> 0:22:20.639 Lucas says, always, sir. I understand your point, but I 0:22:20.700 --> 0:22:22.500 use my phone to video chat with my old friends 0:22:22.540 --> 0:22:24.660 and to find out what's going on in Texas. Maya 0:22:24.700 --> 0:22:27.359 joins in, yeah, how else can he keep tabs on 0:22:27.420 --> 0:22:30.280 all the, and she does a country accent, hoedowns and 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:34.700 cattle pageants. Riley pleads with her friend, Maya. Lucas interjects, 0:22:35.130 --> 0:22:38.090 It's okay, Riley. I'm unaffected by Maya's views of country life. 0:22:38.530 --> 0:22:41.109 As my uncle Buster always says, be like an eagle 0:22:41.230 --> 0:22:44.609 and soar above the mockingbird. Riley rubs it in Maya's face. 0:22:44.770 --> 0:22:48.600 You're the mockingbird. Maya admits she knows and angrily turns 0:22:48.660 --> 0:22:51.040 around to Lucas. It kills me that I can't get 0:22:51.060 --> 0:22:54.720 to you. Lucas tips an imaginary cowboy hat at her. Sorry, ma'am. 0:22:55.260 --> 0:22:59.800 She turns back around and frustratedly vents. And then Farkle 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:00.520 raises his hand. 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:01.620 Farkle time, sir? 0:23:02.070 --> 0:23:05.359 Corey beams. Oh, I love Farkle time. The two switch 0:23:05.390 --> 0:23:07.660 spots as Farkle stands at the teacher's desk to address 0:23:07.700 --> 0:23:10.540 the class. With all due respect to history, Mr. Matthews, 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:12.860 what's important to our generation will be on this side 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:17.340 of the timeline when Farkle and technology rule. He approaches 0:23:17.380 --> 0:23:19.990 the girls as he continues. And I will easily be 0:23:20.050 --> 0:23:22.530 able to make another one of you. He proudly taps 0:23:22.609 --> 0:23:24.490 Riley's head. He actually pulls out a piece of her hair. 0:23:24.590 --> 0:23:26.810 He's pulling her hair because he's going to clone her. 0:23:27.050 --> 0:23:27.270 Right. 0:23:27.750 --> 0:23:30.250 He proudly yanks a piece of Riley's hair out of 0:23:30.270 --> 0:23:33.100 her head. and another one of you, and now ripping 0:23:33.140 --> 0:23:34.899 a piece of Maya's hair out of her head with 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:35.710 the same excitement. 0:23:35.930 --> 0:23:39.770 Farkle question, was he even by this point, while the 0:23:39.830 --> 0:23:42.370 audience didn't know, did Michael and everybody already know that 0:23:42.410 --> 0:23:44.730 this was supposed to be a minkus? 0:23:44.790 --> 0:23:46.890 They had already played videos for all the kids about 0:23:46.930 --> 0:23:48.689 who they were supposed to be and asked them to watch. 0:23:48.710 --> 0:23:50.449 No, no, no, but I mean, was his character supposed 0:23:50.490 --> 0:23:52.170 to be a minkus by this point? Like, did we 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:53.540 already know that he was? 0:23:53.619 --> 0:23:56.600 Oh, no, I think he always had that as a hope. 0:23:57.740 --> 0:23:59.960 But the last name was Farkle, and then it kind 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:01.320 of had a, Exactly. 0:24:01.380 --> 0:24:03.780 Then it became Farkle Minkus. So yeah, his last name 0:24:03.820 --> 0:24:04.400 was Farkle. 0:24:04.859 --> 0:24:06.619 So he was supposed to be like Minkus, but at 0:24:06.660 --> 0:24:09.540 this point he wasn't actually supposed to be Minkus' offspring. 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:15.270 Exactly. But I think Michael always thought if we bring 0:24:15.310 --> 0:24:19.530 him back, he would be related to Minkus somehow. Riley 0:24:19.570 --> 0:24:22.090 is confused. Wait, so now there's four of us and 0:24:22.210 --> 0:24:25.010 one of you? Creepily, Farkle takes it in. That's awesome. 0:24:25.530 --> 0:24:27.910 He breaks the haze and states, the future. You can't 0:24:27.950 --> 0:24:28.350 escape it. 0:24:28.570 --> 0:24:29.050 I am Farkle. 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:31.540 And with that, he raises his hands to the sky 0:24:31.580 --> 0:24:34.219 and returns to his desk. Corey returns to the front 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:35.800 of the classroom. The assignment. 0:24:36.180 --> 0:24:38.140 You can't escape it. I am a teacher. 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:38.240 Okay. 0:24:41.900 --> 0:24:42.980 With that, he raises his. 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:45.030 Hands. 0:24:45.050 --> 0:24:45.530 Oh, okay. 0:24:45.790 --> 0:24:46.520 And with that out of the. 0:24:46.510 --> 0:24:47.290 Way, he continues. 0:24:47.420 --> 0:24:49.680 Okay, so here's what we're going to do, guys. We're 0:24:49.700 --> 0:24:51.810 going to split into teams and discover whether or not 0:24:51.869 --> 0:24:55.129 new technology has made us better people. You'll do presentations 0:24:55.190 --> 0:24:59.320 on your findings. And here's a twist. No computers. Farkel 0:24:59.359 --> 0:25:01.700 is flabbergasted. He hits his hands on the desk. 0:25:01.940 --> 0:25:02.160 What? 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:05.090 Corey proudly states, we're going old school. You're going to 0:25:05.109 --> 0:25:06.990 do your research at the New York Public Library. 0:25:07.230 --> 0:25:08.650 We weren't allowed. 0:25:08.210 --> 0:25:11.609 To use typewriters or computers when I was in school. Oh, yeah. Literally, 0:25:11.650 --> 0:25:13.250 they thought that that meant you could cheat. 0:25:13.270 --> 0:25:14.790 Spell check. Spell check and everything. 0:25:14.830 --> 0:25:17.590 So we literally weren't even allowed to turn in typed papers. 0:25:17.630 --> 0:25:18.290 You had to write them. 0:25:18.990 --> 0:25:19.510 It's crazy. 0:25:20.250 --> 0:25:21.190 Maya turns to Riley. 0:25:21.410 --> 0:25:21.690 Where? 0:25:22.170 --> 0:25:23.020 Corey's unfazed. 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:25.450 And here's another twist, because I trust you not at all. 0:25:25.890 --> 0:25:29.460 Give me your cell phones. Riley screams, no, as Corey 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:32.129 proceeds to collect all their phones. Can you imagine that 0:25:32.170 --> 0:25:33.669 your kid has a phone and then the teacher just 0:25:33.710 --> 0:25:34.109 takes them all? 0:25:34.130 --> 0:25:36.250 I was going to say, it felt very invasive. I 0:25:36.270 --> 0:25:37.610 was like, no, no, no. 0:25:37.630 --> 0:25:39.859 There's going to be a school policy about this. You 0:25:39.890 --> 0:25:42.640 don't get to grab kids' phones and keep them from them. 0:25:42.900 --> 0:25:43.980 What if something happened? 0:25:44.340 --> 0:25:45.399 You can say. 0:25:45.260 --> 0:25:47.700 No phones in a classroom. That's fine. But my teacher, 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:49.420 is he keeping them overnight? 0:25:49.660 --> 0:25:51.480 Can my kid not have their phone? 0:25:51.540 --> 0:25:52.740 That's not okay. Yeah. 0:25:52.859 --> 0:25:53.740 No, it was weird. 0:25:54.040 --> 0:25:57.660 Again, I don't think the writers were... We're very savvy 0:25:57.680 --> 0:25:59.060 to technology issues. 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:01.020 Of course they were, sir. They were using that new 0:26:01.060 --> 0:26:01.760 telephonic device. 0:26:01.820 --> 0:26:02.300 It's crazy. 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:07.350 Then it's time to assign teams for the assignment. He 0:26:07.390 --> 0:26:09.850 starts with Maya. Farkle jumps up and sits on her lap. 0:26:10.010 --> 0:26:10.390 What up? 0:26:10.930 --> 0:26:12.910 Maya pushes him off and Corey continues with the teams. 0:26:12.990 --> 0:26:15.790 And Riley, you will be with Lucas and Riley share 0:26:15.830 --> 0:26:17.770 a smile and wave. Corey is disgusted. 0:26:18.010 --> 0:26:19.080 No, no. 0:26:19.900 --> 0:26:20.720 Saved by the bell. 0:26:20.859 --> 0:26:23.100 Everyone gets up to leave and Corey is not amused 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:26.760 with Lucas. Why did you have to come here? Lucas apologizes. 0:26:27.140 --> 0:26:30.740 Sorry I make you uneasy, sir. Riley shakes her head. Dad, 0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:32.489 we don't even have our phones. I mean, what could 0:26:32.530 --> 0:26:36.650 possibly happen? As she leaves, Corey looks more concerned than ever. 0:26:37.470 --> 0:26:39.649 Is there a lot of, because it's now two episodes 0:26:39.690 --> 0:26:41.510 in a row, is there a lot of lap sitting? 0:26:41.850 --> 0:26:43.370 There seems to be an awful lot of lap sitting. 0:26:43.650 --> 0:26:44.630 So much lap sitting. 0:26:44.650 --> 0:26:47.700 So much lap sitting. Bay windows, lap sitting. 0:26:48.900 --> 0:26:50.720 It seems like there's an awful lot of somebody ending 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:52.500 up on somebody else's lap in the show. 0:26:52.869 --> 0:26:58.169 Okay. That's a weird observation, but it's totally accurate. Okay. 0:26:58.830 --> 0:27:00.970 Maya and Riley are back in the hallway when Lucas 0:27:01.010 --> 0:27:02.990 passes by again, but this time Maya speaks up. 0:27:03.470 --> 0:27:05.990 Hey, soaring Eagle, you walking with us to the library tonight? 0:27:06.340 --> 0:27:06.939 Lucas smiles. 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:07.420 Sure. 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:08.440 If that's good with you guys. 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:11.679 Maya says, well, seeing as how you're Riley's partner on 0:27:11.700 --> 0:27:13.480 this assignment, I guess we should find out if it's 0:27:13.540 --> 0:27:14.120 okay with her. 0:27:14.500 --> 0:27:15.520 She turns to her best friend. 0:27:16.020 --> 0:27:16.400 Riley? 0:27:17.000 --> 0:27:20.320 Riley doesn't respond. She just stares at Lucas. Maya pushes 0:27:20.340 --> 0:27:23.340 her to speak. Riley, any thoughts on this that might 0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:26.050 come out of your mouth in word form? Riley is 0:27:26.070 --> 0:27:29.969 still catatonic. A frustrated Maya continues. No, because you don't 0:27:29.990 --> 0:27:31.510 have your phone anymore, so what are you going to 0:27:31.530 --> 0:27:32.350 do to communicate? 0:27:33.070 --> 0:27:37.290 I wonder. Zombie-like, Riley puts two thumbs up and smiles. 0:27:37.750 --> 0:27:38.270 Maya notes. 0:27:38.930 --> 0:27:41.890 Oh, look at that. Two thumbs up from Riley. And 0:27:41.910 --> 0:27:42.609 a smiley face. 0:27:43.609 --> 0:27:45.670 We're back at the Matthews' house. The family is sitting 0:27:45.710 --> 0:27:47.970 at the dinner table when Augie announces it was a 0:27:47.990 --> 0:27:50.879 good day. And then my friends treated me nicely. And 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:54.189 then my teacher measured us. And then I'm growing. And 0:27:54.230 --> 0:27:58.350 then Jenny Lewis loves me. I think it's because I'm growing. 0:27:59.210 --> 0:28:02.470 And then, do we think this was named Jenny Lewis 0:28:02.590 --> 0:28:07.420 after Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kylie? No, just, okay. Riley 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:09.820 shakes her head. It wasn't a good day. Then my 0:28:09.900 --> 0:28:12.160 friend pulled my hair out. And then my teacher took 0:28:12.180 --> 0:28:14.880 my phone away. Then my teacher was also my father. 0:28:14.900 --> 0:28:18.690 Augie offers the note. At least you're growing. Topanga is 0:28:18.710 --> 0:28:21.629 more sympathetic. Honey, please don't come apart. Look at this 0:28:21.690 --> 0:28:24.189 as a beautiful opportunity to spend some time with your family. 0:28:24.630 --> 0:28:28.770 Everyone exchanges smiles at one another until Augie breaks the silence. Hello, Riley. 0:28:29.430 --> 0:28:32.469 Riley responds, how you doing? Augie asks, want to hear 0:28:32.490 --> 0:28:34.910 about my day? It was a good day. Riley cuts 0:28:34.930 --> 0:28:35.260 him off. 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:35.740 Mom! 0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:39.240 Topanga turns to Augie. Forgive her. She misses her telephone. 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:42.460 Augie hands her a toy. Well then, she can have mine. 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:45.020 Riley examines it and presses a button, causing it to 0:28:45.060 --> 0:28:48.860 beep and say, the cow goes... Augie finishes the phrase. 0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:51.700 Moo. Isn't he like six? 0:28:51.980 --> 0:28:53.300 Yeah, this is way too old. 0:28:53.680 --> 0:28:55.360 Yeah, I thought he's way too old to be having 0:28:55.400 --> 0:28:55.720 this toy. 0:28:55.760 --> 0:28:57.720 Kids like 14 years old. 0:28:57.740 --> 0:28:58.800 Yeah, it was. 0:28:59.080 --> 0:29:00.910 And of course, the real Augie was probably only a 0:29:00.950 --> 0:29:02.709 couple of weeks away from graduating from college. 0:29:03.030 --> 0:29:03.450 Exactly. 0:29:03.490 --> 0:29:05.270 He's getting a second doctorate by this point. 0:29:05.290 --> 0:29:05.690 So, yeah. 0:29:06.870 --> 0:29:08.790 Riley's at her wit's end. I'm not going to make it. 0:29:09.260 --> 0:29:12.880 Topanga explains, that's what your father thinks. Corey gloats, she can't. 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:15.700 And Topanga warns her daughter, please don't make your father right. 0:29:15.780 --> 0:29:17.360 It's no good for any of us when your father 0:29:17.400 --> 0:29:20.900 is right. He nods, she's right. Riley asks her dad 0:29:20.940 --> 0:29:23.290 why he's doing this and Corey shrugs, because I want 0:29:23.310 --> 0:29:25.730 you and your friends to become real human beings. And 0:29:25.770 --> 0:29:27.590 I believe that by doing this, you guys can learn 0:29:27.610 --> 0:29:31.090 to become real human beings. The front door intercom buzzes, 0:29:31.270 --> 0:29:34.750 hey losers, it's Maya. Corey adds an exception, except her. 0:29:35.390 --> 0:29:36.790 Riley stands up to let Maya in. 0:29:37.010 --> 0:29:37.390 You know what? 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:38.380 I'm going to do this. 0:29:38.690 --> 0:29:40.480 I can get through this whole thing without making a 0:29:40.520 --> 0:29:43.700 text or a call. Topanga offers some encouragement. Of course 0:29:43.740 --> 0:29:44.459 you can, sweetheart. 0:29:44.640 --> 0:29:45.100 And you know what? 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:48.040 You're already a wonderful human being. But every so often, 0:29:48.480 --> 0:29:51.560 little tests like this are going to come up. Riley asks, why? 0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:55.450 Topanga replies, because it's your father's job to give you 0:29:55.470 --> 0:29:58.310 little tests. And maybe along the way, you guys are 0:29:58.330 --> 0:30:00.350 going to learn a little bit more about yourselves. 0:30:02.830 --> 0:30:03.170 I know. 0:30:04.070 --> 0:30:04.960 What in this world is it? 0:30:07.330 --> 0:30:09.230 Like, what are they arguing about? 0:30:09.370 --> 0:30:10.770 I don't know. I don't know. 0:30:10.810 --> 0:30:11.830 Like, nothing has changed. 0:30:12.190 --> 0:30:12.330 Nope. 0:30:12.450 --> 0:30:14.730 I'm going to go do my assignment. See you later. 0:30:15.090 --> 0:30:15.830 That's all that's happened. 0:30:15.950 --> 0:30:17.650 Like, I'm going to the library to do the thing 0:30:17.670 --> 0:30:18.520 that Dad told me to do. 0:30:18.910 --> 0:30:19.040 Yep. 0:30:19.060 --> 0:30:20.709 With my friend Maya. And yet we have to talk 0:30:20.730 --> 0:30:25.700 about it. Why test be human being, fully realized identity, self, person, you? 0:30:25.740 --> 0:30:25.900 Yeah. 0:30:26.740 --> 0:30:28.460 Test my lesson to get the world. 0:30:28.840 --> 0:30:30.660 Yeah. 0:30:30.720 --> 0:30:32.400 It's so weird. 0:30:33.060 --> 0:30:35.830 With that, Maya opens the door. Yeah, like I've learned 0:30:35.850 --> 0:30:38.790 that I'm actually really okay with all of this. Topanga's surprised. 0:30:39.030 --> 0:30:39.790 You don't miss your phone? 0:30:40.110 --> 0:30:42.050 Maya shrugs. I was the only one in class without 0:30:42.070 --> 0:30:43.950 a smartphone anyway, and now I kind of feel like 0:30:43.990 --> 0:30:44.630 everybody's even. 0:30:45.470 --> 0:30:46.590 The intercom buzzes again. 0:30:46.810 --> 0:30:47.370 It's Farkle. 0:30:47.650 --> 0:30:48.150 And Lucas. 0:30:48.610 --> 0:30:51.120 Riley screams and runs out the door with Maya. Corey 0:30:51.130 --> 0:30:53.320 turns to Topanga. Did you see that? Do you know 0:30:53.340 --> 0:30:53.780 what that was? 0:30:54.210 --> 0:30:54.830 That was boys. 0:30:54.930 --> 0:30:56.490 Too soon for boys. Not ready for boys. 0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:57.260 I don't want boys. 0:30:57.390 --> 0:30:59.840 We just going to accept boys? Topanga is ready to 0:30:59.880 --> 0:31:02.560 shift her focus. It happened. She's gone. She was nice. 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:04.920 We had fun, but we still have him. Topanga turns 0:31:04.960 --> 0:31:05.360 to Augie. 0:31:05.580 --> 0:31:07.420 You want a color? Augie is thrilled. 0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:10.100 Color! The whole point of Boy Meets World was he 0:31:10.180 --> 0:31:13.490 knew love from two years old and fought for it 0:31:13.570 --> 0:31:16.370 no matter what happened. That was the whole point of 0:31:16.430 --> 0:31:21.720 the character. And so I don't get this, not, boy, 0:31:21.740 --> 0:31:25.300 he's too young for, it's like, I get you're the 0:31:25.360 --> 0:31:27.340 dad and it's your daughter and I understand, but it 0:31:27.380 --> 0:31:28.760 was literally your entire character. 0:31:28.880 --> 0:31:33.340 And wouldn't it have been amazing to see Topanga not 0:31:33.420 --> 0:31:37.200 feel that way and to see Topanga say, I gave 0:31:37.280 --> 0:31:38.200 up Yale for you. 0:31:38.400 --> 0:31:38.680 Yeah. 0:31:39.000 --> 0:31:41.480 I don't want that for her. And for him to 0:31:41.500 --> 0:31:45.240 say like, what are you saying? And say, I'm not 0:31:45.260 --> 0:31:48.070 saying anything. I wouldn't change anything about my life. But 0:31:48.090 --> 0:31:48.940 I don't want that for her. 0:31:49.070 --> 0:31:50.130 That would be amazing. 0:31:50.450 --> 0:31:51.730 Amazing. Powerful. 0:31:52.110 --> 0:31:53.250 And they'll never do it. 0:31:53.950 --> 0:31:55.370 So good. Yeah, amazing. 0:31:56.090 --> 0:31:57.709 By the way, the color of your crayon in your 0:31:57.730 --> 0:31:59.890 hand just kept changing. You had a green one, then 0:31:59.910 --> 0:32:01.030 a yellow one, and then it was red, then it 0:32:01.050 --> 0:32:01.350 was green. 0:32:01.690 --> 0:32:05.910 If you are saying I'm bad with continuity, I'm— Listen, 0:32:05.990 --> 0:32:08.130 I had to actually color with Gawky. I had to 0:32:08.190 --> 0:32:10.750 really color with him. So we were really coloring over there, 0:32:10.870 --> 0:32:12.090 and then, you know. 0:32:12.270 --> 0:32:14.250 I'm saying it's not the best crafting I've ever seen, 0:32:15.310 --> 0:32:17.410 which is crayon acting, and I think everybody knows that. 0:32:18.010 --> 0:32:19.530 Of course we know what cracting is. 0:32:19.530 --> 0:32:20.150 Cray-acting? 0:32:21.770 --> 0:32:23.910 Crayola? Cray-acting? Cray-acting. 0:32:26.130 --> 0:32:29.740 Augie is thrilled. Color! Topanga responds. Of course you do. 0:32:29.940 --> 0:32:32.959 Let's color for the rest of our lives. But Augie wonders, 0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:35.780 will I be getting a real cell phone someday? She nods. 0:32:36.180 --> 0:32:36.500 Someday. 0:32:36.980 --> 0:32:40.320 Augie's upset. Dominic Falcone has a real cell phone. Topanga 0:32:40.340 --> 0:32:42.840 leans in. Would you rather have a real cell phone 0:32:42.920 --> 0:32:45.800 or would you rather color with us? He smiles. Color 0:32:45.820 --> 0:32:49.350 with you. Corey celebrates the innocence. But then Augie asks, 0:32:49.890 --> 0:32:52.530 does that get me a cell phone? And Corey's smile fades. 0:32:53.030 --> 0:32:55.810 Topanga notes, not too much longer with this one either. 0:32:56.250 --> 0:33:00.170 Corey offers, well, you'll always have me. Topanga inhales sharply. 0:33:00.570 --> 0:33:01.330 Yeah. 0:33:02.430 --> 0:33:04.570 By the way, if you pronounce his name slightly differently, 0:33:04.610 --> 0:33:07.470 it sounds like a perfect Batman bad guy. Dominic Falcone. 0:33:08.090 --> 0:33:10.390 Dominic Falcone. Dominic Falcone. 0:33:10.570 --> 0:33:13.650 I don't remember how Augie said it. Did he say Falcone? 0:33:13.710 --> 0:33:16.390 I can't remember, but it's a perfect bad guy name. 0:33:29.090 --> 0:33:31.870 Then we're at the library. Riley, Maya, Farkle, and Lucas 0:33:31.930 --> 0:33:35.150 slowly enter and cautiously look around. Riley asks, what is 0:33:35.210 --> 0:33:38.200 this place? Farkle takes in the mystery. This is where 0:33:38.220 --> 0:33:41.400 the ancients stored all their wisdom. Maya marvels at a bookshelf. 0:33:41.860 --> 0:33:45.680 Look at all of those. Farkle offers, books. Maya and 0:33:45.720 --> 0:33:50.700 Riley are in a trance. Books. Lucas grabs one from 0:33:50.720 --> 0:33:52.680 the shelf and blows the dust off to read the title. 0:33:52.980 --> 0:33:54.620 Tales of Human Interaction. 0:33:54.760 --> 0:33:56.120 That's a funny joke. 0:33:56.440 --> 0:33:57.230 No sense to me. 0:33:57.270 --> 0:33:59.530 It's a funny joke, though. The Tales of Human Interaction 0:33:59.550 --> 0:34:00.250 covered in dust. 0:34:00.690 --> 0:34:03.190 But then it's about computers and cell phones, so it's 0:34:03.210 --> 0:34:03.690 a new book. 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:08.300 And what is the book. 0:34:07.300 --> 0:34:09.080 They walk into the library they find the one book 0:34:09.120 --> 0:34:11.239 about exactly what they're looking for and how you don't 0:34:11.340 --> 0:34:13.319 use that as a joke how you don't walk in 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:15.660 and have one of the characters go how are we 0:34:15.780 --> 0:34:17.710 ever going to find anything in here we'll never be 0:34:17.730 --> 0:34:19.310 able to pull off one book oh look got. 0:34:19.150 --> 0:34:21.430 It this place is easy how do you not. 0:34:21.330 --> 0:34:24.509 Do that and then they blow dust off the book 0:34:24.590 --> 0:34:27.130 and he opens it up and it's like the cell 0:34:27.190 --> 0:34:29.310 phone in 2030 what the hell. 0:34:29.810 --> 0:34:33.319 It didn't make any sense you're right that is that 0:34:33.380 --> 0:34:35.600 is funny It's so. 0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:38.399 Weird that a show could be so smart and so 0:34:38.469 --> 0:34:40.589 dumb at the same time. Yes. You know what I mean? 0:34:40.620 --> 0:34:45.049 Yeah. Because it's really sophisticated. It's trying to be very 0:34:45.110 --> 0:34:47.129 sophisticated in so many ways. 0:34:47.190 --> 0:34:47.450 Yes. 0:34:48.070 --> 0:34:51.330 And by the way, a comedy of young kids walking 0:34:51.390 --> 0:34:55.210 around the library going, what is this place? And the 0:34:55.350 --> 0:34:56.170 ancients kept their wisdom. 0:34:56.610 --> 0:34:57.690 Brilliant. Yeah. 0:34:57.830 --> 0:34:59.010 That's hysterical. 0:34:59.469 --> 0:35:00.860 And then they do a couple of things where you're like, 0:35:01.010 --> 0:35:02.509 that doesn't make any. Why? 0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:05.490 What is that about? That doesn't make any sense. And so, yeah, 0:35:05.590 --> 0:35:07.150 it's so strange. 0:35:07.170 --> 0:35:11.110 It seems like a lot of the abstract notions sometimes 0:35:11.130 --> 0:35:13.390 they hit out of the park, and the little ones, 0:35:13.450 --> 0:35:15.879 they're whiffing. It's like, how is that possible? 0:35:17.300 --> 0:35:20.700 Yeah, no, you're not wrong. Maya grabs it from him. 0:35:20.800 --> 0:35:21.310 We'll take it. 0:35:21.440 --> 0:35:23.739 Thanks, Quickdraw. She throws the book down on the table 0:35:23.780 --> 0:35:26.000 and slides it to Farkle. Do whatever you do with that, 0:35:26.420 --> 0:35:26.839 he asks. 0:35:27.280 --> 0:35:29.469 You mean read? Then he opens the book to the 0:35:29.489 --> 0:35:30.030 first page. 0:35:30.190 --> 0:35:32.650 Chapter one. Maya rolls her eyes and cuts them off. 0:35:32.830 --> 0:35:33.790 Oh, I'm bored out of my mind. 0:35:33.830 --> 0:35:34.710 Let's go to a movie. 0:35:35.330 --> 0:35:38.089 An annoyed librarian angrily shushes them and they all turn 0:35:38.110 --> 0:35:40.270 to her scared. I thought that moment was really like 0:35:40.469 --> 0:35:45.110 very Scooby Doo and funny. It was cute. Farkle explains 0:35:45.150 --> 0:35:48.719 as the group approaches her. There's one of the ancients now. Oh, 0:35:49.219 --> 0:35:53.140 wondrous gatekeeper of the knowledge. We are travelers from another 0:35:53.200 --> 0:35:54.220 time and place. 0:35:54.600 --> 0:35:55.060 So funny. 0:35:55.580 --> 0:36:00.259 Riley jumps in. Seventh grade middle school. Farkle continues. We 0:36:00.300 --> 0:36:03.020 wish to partake of this information from your great hall 0:36:03.060 --> 0:36:08.390 of wisdom. Riley earnestly asks, do you rent phones? And 0:36:08.430 --> 0:36:12.109 the librarian shushes them again. They're confused. Lucas points out, 0:36:12.670 --> 0:36:14.950 there's no one here but us. Maya doesn't get it. 0:36:15.170 --> 0:36:15.989 Why do we have to shush? 0:36:16.600 --> 0:36:19.590 Farkle takes control. Let me handle this. She obviously likes 0:36:19.660 --> 0:36:20.210 it quiet. 0:36:20.850 --> 0:36:22.850 And then they make him creepy again. Why does he 0:36:22.870 --> 0:36:24.230 have to be always creepy with girls? 0:36:24.410 --> 0:36:26.770 I find it a little creepy creepy. I'm sorry. And 0:36:26.790 --> 0:36:28.810 he's so funny, but it's like, why didn't he stick 0:36:28.830 --> 0:36:29.870 with the ancient wisdom? 0:36:30.330 --> 0:36:30.750 Let us know. 0:36:30.989 --> 0:36:32.860 Now he's going to be like, hey, book lady. And 0:36:32.880 --> 0:36:33.660 I was like, ugh. 0:36:34.180 --> 0:36:34.460 I know. 0:36:34.800 --> 0:36:35.080 Yeah. 0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:37.980 That's nothing compared to the end of this episode for 0:36:38.020 --> 0:36:39.560 creep factor, in my opinion. 0:36:39.580 --> 0:36:41.000 Wow. 0:36:41.080 --> 0:36:41.620 We'll get there. 0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:41.980 Yeah. 0:36:44.340 --> 0:36:45.960 Flirtatiously, Farkle turns to her. 0:36:46.060 --> 0:36:50.069 Hello, book lady. The librarian finally responds. Well, hello. And 0:36:50.110 --> 0:36:53.050 who might you be? He slyly replies, I might be Farkle. 0:36:53.510 --> 0:36:55.910 The librarian asks, would you do me a favor, Farkle? 0:36:56.190 --> 0:36:59.230 He playfully winks. Oh, you know I will. She points 0:36:59.270 --> 0:37:01.870 to the table. Why don't you go over there and shh. 0:37:02.469 --> 0:37:03.070 Farkle frowns. 0:37:03.500 --> 0:37:06.219 Well, that's disappointing. Maya grabs him and they return to 0:37:06.239 --> 0:37:08.160 the table. But Riley and Lucas are now alone with 0:37:08.180 --> 0:37:13.920 the librarian. So Riley offers and Lucas carefully responds. Yeah. 0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:17.200 They are at a standstill. Back at the table, Maya 0:37:17.239 --> 0:37:19.580 and Farkle are looking at the book. Farkle points out, 0:37:19.880 --> 0:37:24.260 this chapter is called Disconnect to Connect. Maya takes over reading. 0:37:24.780 --> 0:37:27.900 Not until we put down our phones, switch off our computers, 0:37:28.000 --> 0:37:29.460 and look at each other's eyes will we be. 0:37:29.440 --> 0:37:30.200 Able to touch each other's hearts. 0:37:30.219 --> 0:37:30.879 I have no idea what's happening. 0:37:30.940 --> 0:37:32.700 What is this scene about now? Like, what are they 0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:37.300 planning to do? I don't know what's happening. Their assignment 0:37:37.360 --> 0:37:38.060 is to do what? 0:37:38.820 --> 0:37:44.560 To use the library to write a paper. Wait, was 0:37:44.620 --> 0:37:45.500 it about writing a paper? 0:37:45.520 --> 0:37:49.450 Yeah, they had to do a presentation about connecting with 0:37:49.590 --> 0:37:52.350 people without technology, right? And so you couldn't use computers 0:37:52.390 --> 0:37:53.980 and you had to go to the library to research it. 0:37:54.690 --> 0:37:57.750 And so they found a book that's literally about the thing. 0:37:57.870 --> 0:37:58.250 Correct. 0:37:58.730 --> 0:38:00.070 And so now what are they trying to do? 0:38:00.070 --> 0:38:00.750 Which is covered in dust. 0:38:01.140 --> 0:38:02.759 And now what are they, I don't understand the rest 0:38:02.800 --> 0:38:04.510 of the scene because it's like jumping back. 0:38:04.530 --> 0:38:07.370 Like Maya's doing artwork. He's reading the book. 0:38:07.730 --> 0:38:08.750 They don't have to write a paper. 0:38:08.850 --> 0:38:11.509 So what he said was we're going to split into 0:38:11.570 --> 0:38:15.129 teams and discover whether or not new technology has made 0:38:15.170 --> 0:38:19.310 us better people. You'll do presentations on your findings. Here's 0:38:19.350 --> 0:38:20.570 a twist. No computers. 0:38:20.930 --> 0:38:23.489 Okay. Okay. 0:38:23.570 --> 0:38:25.069 I still don't know what that means. Like I, So 0:38:25.090 --> 0:38:26.839 they're just supposed to hang out together and then. 0:38:27.090 --> 0:38:29.989 And talk about whether or not new technology has made 0:38:30.070 --> 0:38:31.110 them better people. 0:38:31.290 --> 0:38:33.270 Yeah, and do research without using a computer. 0:38:33.670 --> 0:38:36.010 To do research on what? What are you supposed to research? 0:38:36.270 --> 0:38:38.670 Well, they found the book right away because it's called 0:38:39.130 --> 0:38:40.969 Disconnect to Connect or whatever it is. 0:38:41.050 --> 0:38:42.830 Oh my God, it's so weird. 0:38:43.750 --> 0:38:50.250 Yeah, you're right. Not until we put down our phones, 0:38:50.390 --> 0:38:52.469 switch off our computers, and look at each other's eyes 0:38:52.489 --> 0:38:55.080 will we be able to touch each other's hearts. Yeah, 0:38:55.200 --> 0:38:57.440 like that's going to work on anybody. We cut back 0:38:57.480 --> 0:38:59.640 to Lucas and Riley, who are now simply staring at 0:38:59.660 --> 0:39:01.600 each other. We go to a commercial break and we 0:39:01.660 --> 0:39:04.900 return to see Maya and Farkle are now sitting at 0:39:04.980 --> 0:39:08.239 a bay window. Farkle scans the library. People used to 0:39:08.300 --> 0:39:10.629 need places like this. Now we can hold everything that's 0:39:10.670 --> 0:39:12.830 here in a little device we can put in our pockets. 0:39:13.150 --> 0:39:14.509 I don't even need to look out this window to 0:39:14.530 --> 0:39:16.110 know what phase the moon is in or where the 0:39:16.130 --> 0:39:19.290 stars are. Maya is writing on a notepad. Yeah, well, 0:39:19.350 --> 0:39:20.969 I don't have a phone like that. I just had 0:39:20.989 --> 0:39:24.640 the actual sky. Farkle apologizes. I'm so sorry for you. 0:39:24.860 --> 0:39:27.370 You're at a real disadvantage. That can be the basis 0:39:27.390 --> 0:39:28.530 of our presentation, okay? 0:39:28.890 --> 0:39:29.830 You want to read back the notes? 0:39:30.430 --> 0:39:34.370 She's confused. What notes? Farkle is shocked. You weren't taking notes? 0:39:34.989 --> 0:39:37.250 Maya was not, so Farkle gives up. You know what? 0:39:37.870 --> 0:39:38.390 Why bother? 0:39:38.510 --> 0:39:40.270 Without a computer, all we have is a pencil and 0:39:40.290 --> 0:39:42.930 a pad. What could we possibly do with that? He 0:39:42.950 --> 0:39:45.180 takes the pad from Maya and notices she's drawn a 0:39:45.410 --> 0:39:46.840 beautiful city landscape. 0:39:47.500 --> 0:39:47.780 Wow. 0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:51.830 Maya, I had no idea. She shakes her head. Yeah, 0:39:52.690 --> 0:39:53.330 neither did I. 0:39:54.410 --> 0:39:56.550 So this is the first thing she's ever drawn? 0:39:56.870 --> 0:39:57.130 Why? 0:39:57.150 --> 0:39:59.230 Because she's busy on her flip phone? 0:39:59.750 --> 0:40:01.910 She doesn't have a phone. That's what she's saying. 0:40:02.690 --> 0:40:03.910 I know. 0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:05.420 So why doesn't she know that? 0:40:05.460 --> 0:40:09.180 Why doesn't she say, all that time you've been on 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:10.180 your phone, I've been. 0:40:10.219 --> 0:40:10.840 Learning to draw? 0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:12.719 Yeah, or it's no big deal, or I've just been 0:40:12.739 --> 0:40:14.440 doing it since I was young. I mean, whatever, but 0:40:14.480 --> 0:40:15.460 the idea is like, wow. 0:40:16.150 --> 0:40:18.130 I know, but again, even if she didn't say all 0:40:18.170 --> 0:40:21.610 that time, the idea being, look what she has learned 0:40:21.710 --> 0:40:24.030 because she wasn't wasting her time on a phone. 0:40:24.190 --> 0:40:26.989 She's been saying since the first scene, get off your 0:40:27.030 --> 0:40:29.370 phone and talk to each other. She literally was the 0:40:29.430 --> 0:40:32.450 voice of get off your phone and talk to Lucas. 0:40:32.969 --> 0:40:35.890 So there's nothing she needs to learn. Maya already knows 0:40:35.930 --> 0:40:37.510 this and doesn't have a problem. 0:40:37.910 --> 0:40:38.089 Yeah. 0:40:40.510 --> 0:40:40.670 Yeah. 0:40:40.989 --> 0:40:44.270 So I don't know why I didn't either. Meanwhile, Riley 0:40:44.290 --> 0:40:46.850 and Lucas are sitting together reading. Riley tells her crush, 0:40:47.070 --> 0:40:48.549 my dad thinks that we have no idea how to 0:40:48.590 --> 0:40:51.450 talk to each other. Lucas nods. What if he's right? 0:40:51.969 --> 0:40:53.530 The librarian returns to interrupt. 0:40:53.790 --> 0:40:53.989 Shh. 0:40:54.489 --> 0:40:57.930 They're both confused. Lucas clarifies. But we're not saying anything. 0:40:59.930 --> 0:41:01.200 But they were. 0:41:01.570 --> 0:41:01.760 Yeah. 0:41:04.200 --> 0:41:05.600 And then the librarian nods. 0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:07.100 I know. 0:41:10.320 --> 0:41:14.060 So again now. This deeper meaning is that even though 0:41:14.080 --> 0:41:18.990 they're talking, they weren't talking deeply enough about subjects that matter. 0:41:19.150 --> 0:41:22.390 And now the librarian knows that. And so she's been 0:41:22.530 --> 0:41:26.550 shushing them to try to get them to talk deeper. 0:41:26.570 --> 0:41:37.390 To really talk. That is some like.... 0:41:34.800 --> 0:41:37.379 Ben Reilly doesn't get it. Then why are you shushing us? 0:41:37.440 --> 0:41:41.180 The librarian scoffs. Because I can't take it anymore. 0:41:41.200 --> 0:41:42.440 Layer on layer. 0:41:43.180 --> 0:41:46.730 You guys are hopeless. She calls Riley over to her desk. 0:41:47.170 --> 0:41:49.430 Couple of sweet kids like you and you sit there 0:41:49.469 --> 0:41:52.109 like a couple of lumps. You're a disgrace to every 0:41:52.150 --> 0:41:56.150 single story on these shelves. Riley asks, okay, so what 0:41:56.190 --> 0:41:59.520 do I say to him? The librarian has a suggestion. 0:42:00.219 --> 0:42:00.760 Look around. 0:42:01.060 --> 0:42:03.560 Nothing here but books about boys and girls and men 0:42:03.600 --> 0:42:05.669 and women and what they say to each other. Open 0:42:05.810 --> 0:42:07.890 any one of them and you, Riley grabs a book 0:42:07.950 --> 0:42:10.210 on the librarian's desk, but she stops her. Not that one. 0:42:10.830 --> 0:42:12.850 Riley tries to grab another one and the librarian stops 0:42:12.870 --> 0:42:14.650 her again. Oh boy, definitely not that one. 0:42:15.030 --> 0:42:16.750 I liked the idea behind this. 0:42:17.900 --> 0:42:19.890 You're trying to have a love story surrounded by some 0:42:19.910 --> 0:42:22.089 of the greatest love stories in the history of the world. 0:42:22.130 --> 0:42:25.010 Like read around. That idea is great. 0:42:25.530 --> 0:42:25.670 Yes. 0:42:25.989 --> 0:42:28.220 And all it would take is that while the librarian 0:42:28.280 --> 0:42:31.100 is walking past them, she overhears something stupid that one 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:33.219 of them says or something superficial. 0:42:33.640 --> 0:42:37.090 But instead it's like this, shh, I know. It's so like, like. 0:42:39.860 --> 0:42:41.879 And I love that they're setting it up that she's 0:42:41.920 --> 0:42:45.279 obviously reading something pretty smutty. Something pretty spicy. 0:42:45.360 --> 0:42:47.819 I love that. No, not that one. No, definitely not 0:42:47.860 --> 0:42:48.440 that one. 0:42:50.580 --> 0:42:53.170 Look, all these books have one thing in common. You 0:42:53.210 --> 0:42:55.990 start on page one, and each page you turn brings 0:42:56.030 --> 0:42:59.710 you deeper into the story. What's your name? Riley, she responds. 0:43:00.150 --> 0:43:04.070 The librarian then asks, what's his name? Riley answers, Lucas. 0:43:04.650 --> 0:43:07.259 The librarian leans in closer to Riley. You like a 0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:07.800 good story? 0:43:08.300 --> 0:43:08.819 Riley nods. 0:43:09.380 --> 0:43:12.219 Then start at the beginning. With that, Riley walks back 0:43:12.260 --> 0:43:15.399 to Lucas. Hi. He looks up and says hi back. 0:43:15.860 --> 0:43:18.430 She sits back down and returns to her book. Over 0:43:18.450 --> 0:43:20.830 at the windowsill, Maya is now reading their book out loud. 0:43:21.370 --> 0:43:23.450 Because it's not until you really looked at each other 0:43:23.489 --> 0:43:25.550 and made a human connection that you can even begin 0:43:25.590 --> 0:43:28.009 to know each other. Farkle instructs her to look in 0:43:28.030 --> 0:43:31.529 my eyes. Maya quickly responds, no. Farkle isn't deterred and 0:43:31.570 --> 0:43:33.760 keeps demanding she looks in his eyes, but Maya keeps 0:43:33.780 --> 0:43:36.100 saying no. We cut back to Lucas and Riley, and 0:43:36.140 --> 0:43:39.730 now they're actually having a conversation. Lucas says he misses 0:43:39.770 --> 0:43:41.890 his pets in Texas, and Riley reveals that she had 0:43:41.910 --> 0:43:45.880 a hamster. Lucas reveals he had 24 horses, which, by 0:43:45.960 --> 0:43:48.000 all accounts, is too many horses. 0:43:48.140 --> 0:43:50.020 It's like 22 too many horses. 0:43:50.360 --> 0:43:51.200 Yeah. 0:43:51.219 --> 0:43:53.990 So he's got to be from a big horsing ranch 0:43:54.050 --> 0:43:54.850 family kind of thing. 0:43:54.850 --> 0:43:56.230 20, that's a lot of horses. But also, what is 0:43:56.330 --> 0:44:01.029 the librarian's advice about starting on page one? Start at 0:44:01.050 --> 0:44:01.570 the beginning. 0:44:01.670 --> 0:44:04.450 I think it means the more in-depth the conversation you have, 0:44:04.489 --> 0:44:06.580 the deeper you get into your story with the person. 0:44:06.620 --> 0:44:08.980 Yeah, and you don't have to jump into the deep end. 0:44:09.000 --> 0:44:11.279 You start in the shallow end and you work your 0:44:11.320 --> 0:44:13.660 way to the deep end. So you can start with 0:44:13.680 --> 0:44:16.580 hi and then hi and then where are you from 0:44:16.640 --> 0:44:17.360 and from Texas? 0:44:17.380 --> 0:44:18.759 What do you do in Texas? 0:44:19.390 --> 0:44:21.710 Which actually mirrors what Maya says at the beginning where 0:44:21.730 --> 0:44:23.290 it's like just go over there and say hi and 0:44:23.310 --> 0:44:25.150 she keeps going down. Hey, hey there, like from the 0:44:25.190 --> 0:44:27.489 last episode too. It's like just start the conversation. 0:44:28.410 --> 0:44:31.980 Riley nods. You win. Tell me about them. Lucas continues. 0:44:32.380 --> 0:44:35.700 One day after school, Sophia was foaling. Riley asks, that 0:44:35.739 --> 0:44:36.899 means she was giving birth, right? 0:44:37.219 --> 0:44:40.750 Lucas smiles. He's impressed. Not too bad, city girl. He 0:44:40.770 --> 0:44:41.210 goes on. 0:44:41.350 --> 0:44:44.210 So I called Dr. Galando and he talked me through it. Anyway, 0:44:44.330 --> 0:44:48.430 that was all. She encourages him. More. Immediately, he continues. 0:44:48.810 --> 0:44:50.710 Did you know that a baby horse stands in the 0:44:50.750 --> 0:44:54.589 first hour after it's born? Riley's intrigued. Really? I'd like 0:44:54.610 --> 0:44:56.299 to have been there for that. He says it was 0:44:56.320 --> 0:44:57.040 the coolest thing. 0:44:56.940 --> 0:44:58.700 He's ever seen. It's a pretty intense story, I gotta say. 0:44:59.530 --> 0:45:02.610 Cool story, though. You give birth to a horse? Yeah. 0:45:03.430 --> 0:45:05.140 They did it on M.A.S.H., too. You gotta reach in 0:45:05.160 --> 0:45:05.860 and flip it around. 0:45:05.880 --> 0:45:09.100 A little more animation would, I think, come, you know, 0:45:09.140 --> 0:45:11.020 like this, this is like a big deal. 0:45:11.360 --> 0:45:11.620 Yeah. 0:45:11.640 --> 0:45:13.760 Like, you're not gonna believe this. Like, I was stuck 0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:15.870 giving birth to a horse at the age of 11. 0:45:15.870 --> 0:45:19.009 Yeah. I mean, that's what this kid is saying. Yes. 0:45:19.050 --> 0:45:21.330 I feel like, Let's make a bigger thing out of this. 0:45:21.390 --> 0:45:23.489 You know, like describe it. Like, oh my God, I 0:45:23.510 --> 0:45:26.020 was scared. I was nervous. The doctor talked to me. 0:45:26.030 --> 0:45:28.080 I don't know. It's like a monologue moment. 0:45:28.420 --> 0:45:28.680 I know. 0:45:28.739 --> 0:45:31.219 It's so weird the way it's played on written as 0:45:31.280 --> 0:45:33.700 just like, meh, I did this crazy thing. 0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:36.339 It's like, you gave birth to a horse, dude. 0:45:36.380 --> 0:45:37.480 Anyway, that was all. 0:45:38.080 --> 0:45:43.529 Yeah. Like, your elbows are bloody. That's what you should say. 0:45:43.550 --> 0:45:45.930 Like, I was in up to my elbows and she's like. 0:45:46.130 --> 0:45:48.950 Oh God. I mean, it must have been... Like, you know, 0:45:48.969 --> 0:45:51.850 that's like a real thing. That's like an intense experience. 0:45:52.370 --> 0:45:52.930 So weird. 0:45:52.989 --> 0:45:57.489 I mean, especially because it impacted him so much. 0:45:57.960 --> 0:45:59.160 He figured out what he wants. 0:45:58.960 --> 0:46:00.660 To do with his life. Yeah, exactly. 0:46:00.700 --> 0:46:01.960 He wants to be a horse birther. 0:46:02.940 --> 0:46:05.160 He says it was the coolest thing he's ever seen. 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:07.840 He adds, and I was a part of it. He 0:46:07.880 --> 0:46:12.569 turns to her and asks, Riley? She responds, Lucas? He says, 0:46:13.370 --> 0:46:17.710 I've never told this to anybody before. Riley is very excited. 0:46:17.890 --> 0:46:20.270 Is he going to say he likes her? And then 0:46:20.310 --> 0:46:23.009 Lucas reveals, I think someday I might like to be 0:46:23.050 --> 0:46:29.370 a veterinarian. Disappointed, she says, that's cool too. He goes on, 0:46:29.610 --> 0:46:32.690 I delivered this beautiful Palomino. I'd show you her picture, 0:46:32.750 --> 0:46:35.610 but I don't have my phone. She sighs, that's okay. 0:46:35.650 --> 0:46:39.080 Just keep talking. And he gives her a big smile. Nearby, 0:46:39.140 --> 0:46:41.239 Maya is still reading the book to Farkle. There's no 0:46:41.280 --> 0:46:43.480 connection you can make with any screen that compares to 0:46:43.500 --> 0:46:46.580 the moment you understand only human beings have souls. 0:46:46.680 --> 0:46:48.940 And did you notice this? There was a really weird 0:46:49.020 --> 0:46:56.799 beat here. So she's talking to Farkle and doesn't look 0:46:56.900 --> 0:46:59.930 over and then they just cut to, it's not even 0:46:59.950 --> 0:47:02.009 at the right time, but there's a weird cut where 0:47:02.050 --> 0:47:05.009 all of a sudden they just cut to Riley and 0:47:05.070 --> 0:47:07.469 Lucas mid conversation, but you can't hear what they're saying 0:47:07.510 --> 0:47:10.009 for a split second. And then they cut back to, to, 0:47:10.310 --> 0:47:12.390 it was the weirdest jump cut where it was like, 0:47:12.430 --> 0:47:14.910 what the, what? I rewound it three times. I was like, why, 0:47:15.190 --> 0:47:17.280 why did they just cut there to that? It was so, 0:47:17.550 --> 0:47:18.989 it almost just looks like they forgot to take a 0:47:19.010 --> 0:47:25.040 shot out. It was so weird. It was really, really strange. Yeah. Hmm. 0:47:25.340 --> 0:47:28.299 Farkle yells, I have a soul. They trade jabs again. 0:47:28.460 --> 0:47:31.819 Maya says no. And Farkle swears he does eventually looking away. 0:47:33.430 --> 0:47:34.090 Maybe he doesn't. 0:47:34.530 --> 0:47:35.390 I don't know. 0:47:35.530 --> 0:47:39.569 Well, that's one of the jokes is he's a robot, right? Yeah. 0:47:39.590 --> 0:47:40.029 I don't know. 0:47:40.790 --> 0:47:42.850 Corey, Topanga, and Augie are now back at the bay 0:47:42.910 --> 0:47:45.630 window of their living room. Augie announces, I colored a 0:47:45.660 --> 0:47:48.700 new picture. Topanga asks him, can you stay like this forever? 0:47:49.239 --> 0:47:50.239 Corey puts him on his lap. 0:47:50.360 --> 0:47:51.040 Would you please? 0:47:51.100 --> 0:47:53.300 That'd be great. Augie points to the other side of 0:47:53.320 --> 0:47:57.080 the room. The picture's over there. He drew stick figures. 0:47:56.780 --> 0:47:58.420 Right on the wall. 0:47:59.020 --> 0:48:01.480 Mommy, Daddy, Augie, and no Riley. 0:48:02.030 --> 0:48:05.359 Corey is startled. Uh, Augie, I don't know if you should. 0:48:05.580 --> 0:48:09.080 Topanga cuts him off. It's beautiful, she whispers to Corey. 0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:11.219 I think that's what you're supposed to do. I have 0:48:11.260 --> 0:48:11.800 no idea. 0:48:12.080 --> 0:48:14.450 Okay, what is, why does she have no idea? They 0:48:14.469 --> 0:48:15.280 have two kids. 0:48:15.300 --> 0:48:15.590 Yes. 0:48:16.710 --> 0:48:18.370 Why does she have no idea what to do? 0:48:18.430 --> 0:48:19.510 None of this makes sense. 0:48:19.910 --> 0:48:21.870 And why is that a part of the story? 0:48:21.989 --> 0:48:27.550 Like, were you, like, was Topanga, I don't, I don't, 0:48:27.570 --> 0:48:28.850 I don't understand what this scene is about. 0:48:28.870 --> 0:48:30.690 I didn't, I didn't get it either. This is your 0:48:30.750 --> 0:48:31.610 second child. 0:48:32.070 --> 0:48:32.250 Yeah. 0:48:33.460 --> 0:48:37.180 Is the point that Corey was right about something that Topanga– 0:48:37.840 --> 0:48:40.180 because in the previous scene you were saying just stay– 0:48:40.380 --> 0:48:42.799 as long as it stays coloring, stay young forever, it's 0:48:42.820 --> 0:48:43.279 going to be okay. 0:48:43.660 --> 0:48:45.060 I don't know. I don't know what the point of 0:48:45.080 --> 0:48:45.580 this scene is. 0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:46.720 Yeah, I didn't get it either. 0:48:46.780 --> 0:48:48.379 Or Topanga's reaction to this scene. 0:48:48.400 --> 0:48:51.759 Why wouldn't Topanga know what to do? 0:48:51.989 --> 0:48:58.140 I don't know. I also– the librarian being the person 0:48:58.640 --> 0:49:03.780 who helps Riley figure out how to talk to Lucas. Again, 0:49:03.960 --> 0:49:07.420 another situation where if they were going to keep with 0:49:07.460 --> 0:49:10.299 this idea that Topanga was going to be totally accepting, 0:49:10.530 --> 0:49:12.290 which wouldn't have been my choice. My choice would have 0:49:12.310 --> 0:49:15.820 been that Topanga could have been, like I said, against it. 0:49:15.870 --> 0:49:16.670 I don't want that for her. 0:49:17.670 --> 0:49:19.150 But if they were going to keep with the idea 0:49:19.170 --> 0:49:22.500 that Topanga is is open to her, open to this, 0:49:22.719 --> 0:49:26.800 another great point of conflict would be that Topanga helps 0:49:26.920 --> 0:49:30.459 Corey with his assignment by teaching Riley how to open 0:49:30.580 --> 0:49:34.470 up to Lucas. And Corey's like, that's not what I meant. 0:49:35.090 --> 0:49:36.990 But that is, that was what the assignment was. 0:49:37.010 --> 0:49:37.170 Yeah. 0:49:37.860 --> 0:49:40.680 And that's exactly what Topanga did for Corey. 0:49:40.980 --> 0:49:43.820 And it would have braided the A and B storylines perfectly. 0:49:44.640 --> 0:49:46.540 You've also been coloring with him the whole time. So 0:49:46.660 --> 0:49:48.600 did you not notice him coloring on the wall and 0:49:48.660 --> 0:49:50.800 somehow getting a ladder out to cover the top of 0:49:50.840 --> 0:49:51.830 the refrigerator as well? 0:49:52.250 --> 0:49:52.529 I know. 0:49:52.950 --> 0:49:53.190 I know. 0:49:53.810 --> 0:49:57.489 I don't know. Just then, Riley walks into the living 0:49:57.510 --> 0:49:58.490 room and looks up at the ceiling. 0:49:58.730 --> 0:49:59.390 She's in love. 0:49:59.690 --> 0:50:02.390 Topanga, busy cleaning the fridge, smiles at her, but Corey 0:50:02.430 --> 0:50:03.010 is confused. 0:50:03.510 --> 0:50:06.130 How was your night, Riley? She replies, thank you for 0:50:06.170 --> 0:50:08.280 sending us to the library. He's shocked. 0:50:08.560 --> 0:50:08.860 Really? 0:50:09.480 --> 0:50:12.279 Yes, she says. Lucas and I did really well on 0:50:12.300 --> 0:50:16.790 the assignment. I think that we're connected. Corey crosses his arms. 0:50:17.030 --> 0:50:18.710 What are you being connected? What are you talking about? 0:50:18.750 --> 0:50:21.870 How did you connect? Riley explains. We talked about stuff 0:50:21.890 --> 0:50:25.029 that was important to us. Too important to text. Did 0:50:25.050 --> 0:50:26.910 you know that when you listen to someone, they'll tell 0:50:26.950 --> 0:50:29.149 you stuff? Corey puts his hands on his hips. 0:50:29.590 --> 0:50:30.030 Oh boy. 0:50:30.719 --> 0:50:34.200 Riley continues. Friends talk to each other, but real friends listen. 0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:36.500 Maya knows how to draw and I know how to 0:50:36.540 --> 0:50:39.350 be a real friend. You're a good teacher, dad. You 0:50:39.390 --> 0:50:41.390 can keep my phone as long as you want. She 0:50:41.430 --> 0:50:43.330 hugs Corey and his jaw is almost on the floor. 0:50:43.830 --> 0:50:46.210 Riley practically skips to her room and Topanga walks over 0:50:46.250 --> 0:50:49.410 to congratulate her husband. He's even more confused than before. 0:50:49.790 --> 0:50:52.210 What did I do? Topanga reveals, you just taught our 0:50:52.230 --> 0:50:55.180 daughter how to feel. Whoa, Corey can't believe it. 0:50:55.530 --> 0:50:56.029 I did that? 0:50:56.469 --> 0:50:57.090 Topanga nods. 0:50:57.350 --> 0:50:57.830 You did? 0:50:58.330 --> 0:51:00.149 Corey shakes his head. I didn't mean to do that. 0:51:00.450 --> 0:51:04.009 She has feelings now? Topanga nods again. Corey wants to 0:51:04.030 --> 0:51:07.200 know how many? His wife smiles. All of them. He 0:51:07.219 --> 0:51:09.739 demands we'll put them back, but Topanga breaks it to him. 0:51:10.020 --> 0:51:12.160 We can't do that. Corey says he has a way, 0:51:12.200 --> 0:51:15.820 but Topanga insists there's no way. Then we jump to 0:51:15.840 --> 0:51:19.600 the classroom. Excitedly, Corey passes the phones back to the students. 0:51:19.880 --> 0:51:22.000 Here you go. Take your phone. Take it now. 0:51:22.080 --> 0:51:22.640 Good. Great. 0:51:22.700 --> 0:51:24.440 Nobody talks to nobody. No more feelings. 0:51:24.500 --> 0:51:24.960 Thank you. 0:51:25.500 --> 0:51:27.880 Then announces, okay, guys, the great technology debate. 0:51:28.100 --> 0:51:28.920 Let's boot it up. 0:51:29.600 --> 0:51:31.680 Riley and Lucas walk to the left side of the chalkboard, 0:51:31.739 --> 0:51:35.200 Maya and Farkle to the right. Farkle begins his presentation. 0:51:35.989 --> 0:51:38.170 I have always believed technology would help us fulfill our 0:51:38.230 --> 0:51:41.189 potential as a species. And when Farkel does rule the world, 0:51:41.270 --> 0:51:43.200 no matter what device we come up with, we should 0:51:43.239 --> 0:51:45.620 also never forget what we can do with a pencil, 0:51:45.900 --> 0:51:49.319 a piece of paper, and our own imaginations. He shows 0:51:49.380 --> 0:51:51.960 Maya's drawing to the class. I've been keeping this in 0:51:52.000 --> 0:51:54.420 my pocket where my phone used to be. I keep 0:51:54.460 --> 0:52:00.660 looking at it. I'm fine. Maya smiles. Thanks, Farkel. He 0:52:00.700 --> 0:52:01.399 instructs her again. 0:52:01.560 --> 0:52:05.410 Look in my eyes. But Maya insists, no. Riley's up next. 0:52:06.180 --> 0:52:08.200 I thought my whole life was in my phone, but 0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:10.260 it turns out that I don't really have any friends 0:52:10.330 --> 0:52:12.390 in there. And you don't need your phone to connect 0:52:12.430 --> 0:52:16.430 with your real friends. Lucas joins in. Allow us to demonstrate. 0:52:17.090 --> 0:52:22.560 They turn to each other and exchange hellos. Ta-da. 0:52:22.580 --> 0:52:25.420 When this boy meets where? 0:52:26.000 --> 0:52:26.680 So the, yeah. 0:52:27.180 --> 0:52:30.459 I know, yeah. Again, good message. Uh-huh. 0:52:30.800 --> 0:52:31.300 Good message. 0:52:31.560 --> 0:52:33.520 Yes. Yes. Get off your phone. 0:52:33.719 --> 0:52:37.120 Live your life. Great issue to tackle for kids. Correct. 0:52:49.630 --> 0:52:52.049 Now in the library, Corey walks to a bookshelf and 0:52:52.070 --> 0:52:54.670 moves a book, trying to find something. We hear a 0:52:54.710 --> 0:52:57.160 voice say, I'm not that tall. He then goes for 0:52:57.180 --> 0:53:00.620 the bottom shelf. The voice asks, really? When he finally 0:53:00.660 --> 0:53:02.920 moves some books from the middle shelf, it reveals Maya. 0:53:03.180 --> 0:53:03.620 She smirks. 0:53:04.080 --> 0:53:06.799 How you doing? Corey demands, you will keep an eye 0:53:06.860 --> 0:53:08.880 on Riley at all times. You will send me a 0:53:08.930 --> 0:53:10.690 message alert. You will send me pictures. 0:53:10.710 --> 0:53:16.529 This is so inappropriate. I just think it's so creepy. 0:53:16.630 --> 0:53:19.290 As both teacher and parent. 0:53:19.310 --> 0:53:20.200 Unbelievable. 0:53:21.100 --> 0:53:23.660 You know, like the, there's like this very simple rule. 0:53:24.060 --> 0:53:26.180 Like if an adult asks you to keep a secret, 0:53:26.840 --> 0:53:28.779 you know, like that, I told my son that it's 0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:31.690 like very basic parenting thing. Like if any adult asks 0:53:31.710 --> 0:53:34.290 you to keep a secret, Don't trust that person or 0:53:34.330 --> 0:53:34.950 come tell me. 0:53:35.180 --> 0:53:35.600 Yep. 0:53:36.360 --> 0:53:37.960 And here is the teacher. 0:53:38.140 --> 0:53:38.400 Yes. 0:53:38.500 --> 0:53:40.560 Asking her to keep a secret. And that secret is 0:53:40.580 --> 0:53:42.020 to keep an eye on his daughter. 0:53:42.040 --> 0:53:42.840 Right. 0:53:42.890 --> 0:53:44.190 Send pictures and messages. 0:53:44.590 --> 0:53:47.450 And he's giving her a phone, which is anti everything 0:53:47.469 --> 0:53:49.010 that he's been this entire time. 0:53:49.210 --> 0:53:49.410 Yep. 0:53:49.570 --> 0:53:51.400 And not in a funny way, like in a really 0:53:51.460 --> 0:53:52.100 horrible way. 0:53:52.520 --> 0:53:52.719 Yeah. 0:53:53.060 --> 0:53:54.680 Like, you know, I get the joke of like, oh, 0:53:54.739 --> 0:53:55.820 he learned the lesson. 0:53:55.920 --> 0:53:59.060 He learned the wrong lesson. But like, it's not cool. Like, 0:53:59.660 --> 0:54:01.980 I was like genuinely disturbed by this. And I can't 0:54:02.020 --> 0:54:03.560 believe if Disney. 0:54:03.239 --> 0:54:07.150 Is like seriously over like, you know, being very sensitive 0:54:07.230 --> 0:54:09.190 and like making sure that the messages that they're giving, like, 0:54:09.210 --> 0:54:11.910 I can't believe this got through because it's truly a 0:54:11.950 --> 0:54:12.570 weird message. 0:54:13.030 --> 0:54:18.290 Especially because it hasn't been set up at all that 0:54:18.680 --> 0:54:21.320 one of the benefits to technology is safety. 0:54:21.940 --> 0:54:23.940 Yeah. Or tracking somebody. 0:54:24.000 --> 0:54:26.920 If it had been set up at all that Maya 0:54:27.000 --> 0:54:29.640 finds herself in unsafe situations. 0:54:29.780 --> 0:54:32.080 Oh, that's such an easy solution. You're right. That would 0:54:32.100 --> 0:54:33.580 have been such an easy solution. 0:54:33.600 --> 0:54:36.060 Then he could be giving her a phone to say. 0:54:36.080 --> 0:54:36.780 For that purpose. 0:54:37.120 --> 0:54:37.400 Yes. 0:54:37.420 --> 0:54:42.069 I have your tracking. I know where you are. If 0:54:42.110 --> 0:54:45.110 you ever need me, you please. My phone number is 0:54:45.150 --> 0:54:47.549 the only phone number in there. You know, like that 0:54:47.630 --> 0:54:50.390 kind of a thing. If that had been anywhere in 0:54:50.510 --> 0:54:54.850 the storyline, that the only way Maya feels like she's 0:54:54.890 --> 0:54:57.589 missed out is that she needs it for some sort 0:54:57.610 --> 0:54:58.109 of safety thing. 0:54:58.969 --> 0:54:59.780 Then that all makes sense. 0:54:59.989 --> 0:55:00.140 Yeah. 0:55:00.600 --> 0:55:02.500 But the way it's been set up to this point 0:55:02.600 --> 0:55:06.759 is that Maya feels a little left out because she 0:55:06.780 --> 0:55:08.160 doesn't have a cool phone. 0:55:08.320 --> 0:55:08.759 And that's it. 0:55:09.380 --> 0:55:12.730 But she... So I was trying to remember, are there 0:55:12.850 --> 0:55:17.850 other than when at when Chet left and left Sean 0:55:18.070 --> 0:55:21.069 with the Matthews? Was there a time where Alan and 0:55:21.250 --> 0:55:25.710 Amy were buying things specifically for Sean? I don't think 0:55:25.730 --> 0:55:28.990 there was. Corey might give him something. Here's my basketball 0:55:29.010 --> 0:55:32.509 or whatever for Christmas. But I don't recall ever Alan 0:55:32.550 --> 0:55:35.589 and Amy like taking that roll on of now I'm 0:55:35.610 --> 0:55:37.410 going to. Here's this, here's that, here's this. 0:55:37.430 --> 0:55:38.870 Just housing him, right? Yeah. 0:55:39.530 --> 0:55:42.420 And then she's buying him clothes because he had nothing. 0:55:42.620 --> 0:55:43.920 And he was living with them. 0:55:44.140 --> 0:55:44.339 Right. 0:55:44.600 --> 0:55:45.460 Yeah. 0:55:45.660 --> 0:55:46.640 Yeah. Weird. 0:55:47.219 --> 0:55:50.180 Maya nods. You're really scared, aren't you? Corey explains. 0:55:50.500 --> 0:55:51.080 I'm a father. 0:55:51.560 --> 0:55:54.560 Yeah, Maya says. They're just friends. Corey isn't convinced. 0:55:54.860 --> 0:55:55.299 Believe me. 0:55:55.510 --> 0:55:58.790 I know the story. Maya reminds him. You're forgetting that 0:55:58.850 --> 0:56:01.730 I don't have the technology. Corey places a phone on 0:56:01.750 --> 0:56:05.250 the bookshelf. Now you do. She can't believe it. You 0:56:05.270 --> 0:56:08.730 got me a phone? He admits, my motives are completely selfish. 0:56:09.370 --> 0:56:09.890 She looks at him. 0:56:10.450 --> 0:56:11.430 I'm not sure they are, Mr. 0:56:11.450 --> 0:56:14.120 Matthews. He reaches into his pocket and takes out a 0:56:14.140 --> 0:56:17.120 pack of colored pencils. Well, I also got you these. 0:56:17.480 --> 0:56:19.340 You let me know everything that's going on with Riley, 0:56:19.380 --> 0:56:22.200 and if something beautiful ever happens, paint me a picture. 0:56:22.760 --> 0:56:25.280 With that, he pats her on the back and walks away. 0:56:25.910 --> 0:56:26.540 Thank you all for. 0:56:26.450 --> 0:56:28.750 Joining us for this episode of Pod Meets World. As always, 0:56:28.790 --> 0:56:31.569 you can follow us on Instagram, podmeetsworldshow. 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