{"id":32407,"date":"2012-04-20T21:31:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T01:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32407"},"modified":"2020-06-30T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:31:49","slug":"it-should-really-have-been-called-boy-meets-world-through-his-fuck-up-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32407","title":{"rendered":"It should really have been called \u201cBoy Meets World Through his Fuck-up Best Friend\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the last few months, I\u2019ve been watching a lot\u00a0Boy Meets World<\/em>\u00a0reruns.\u00a0 It\u2019s on in the mornings in that time I\u2019m preparing for the day and eating breakfast, and those few minutes before I leave for work.\u00a0 It was a show I enjoyed a lot while growing up, when it occupied the 9:00 p.m. slot of TGIF, and it\u2019s admittedly a trip down memory lane, watching it on most weekday mornings.<\/span><\/p>\n

But watching it through my old-as-shit grownup eyes now, it\u2019s so obvious of what the dynamic of the show really was.\u00a0 It was never so much of the life and development of the main character, Cory Matthews through his own actions, as much as it was Cory and everyone else learning, living and understanding life by means of best friend Shawn Hunter\u2019s constant fuckups.\u00a0 Pretty much all of the adversity of the Cory character stems from girls and school.\u00a0 All other conflicts throughout the series are funneled through Shawn\u2019s character, and it\u2019s up to Cory, his family and Mr. Feeny to guide him through all these life\u2019s roadblocks, and where they can all learn and grown through his parade of failure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s easy to miss this pattern when one, you\u2019re a kid, and two, you\u2019re limited to an episode a week, but through the luxury of being old, and literally tuning in at the tail-end of every episode where the resolution, often involving Shawn being smacked into reality and everyone learning in the process, happens, and the predictable setup of the following episode makes for easy understanding of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This morning was the episode where Shawn got involved with a cult\u00a0LOL<\/strong>, and where not just Cory, but Cory\u2019s parents\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0Mr. Feeny all interjected themselves into the fray, and it turned into a tense, emotional standoff between the grown-ups and the cult leader, while Cory and Topanga cornered Shawn into a hospital room where \u201cthe cool teacher\u201d and Shawn\u2019s current surrogate father, Mr. Turner was in a full body cast, freshly admitted after a motorcycle accident, and barraged him with some moral-beating diatribe, prompting him to see the error in his ways and seek faith.\u00a0 But the bottom line is that Shawn\u00a0almost joined a cult<\/strong>, among all of the other fuckups in his character\u2019s life that he was subject to.\u00a0 I mean really, who the fuck is as weak-willed and minded to fall for a cult?\u00a0 Do cults even exist today?<\/span><\/p>\n

But it really got me thinking about the Shawn character, and about how he\u2019s pretty much the sole reason the show managed to stay on as long as it did.\u00a0 Without Shawn Hunter, there pretty much is no reason for any substantial storylines to exist in Boy Meets World.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Cory Matthews\u2019 drama history:<\/span><\/p>\n