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Boy Meets World stars have criticized how Cory behaves in the season 6 Valentine's Day episode. The coming-of-age comedy series, created by Michael Jacobs and April Kelly, maintains a devoted fanbase, and its characters and episode themes have been well-received by audiences.

Boy Meets World stars Ben Savage as Cory Matthews — a charismatic character whose romance with Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel) becomes a main storyline —and revolves around him as he grows up and experiences life. Other regular cast members include Rider Strong, Trina McGee, Will Friedle, and William Daniels.

However, speaking on Pod Meets World (via People), some of the cast discussed how Cory acted in a particular Boy Meets World episode. As Friedle explained, during the Boy Meets World season 6 Valentine's Day episode, the series presents "the worst version of Cory."

Fishel agreed that it was an unfavorable depiction of Cory, revealing that it even affected how she acted.

Boy Meets World alums Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle recently slammed a “terrible” Valentine’s Day episode on their rewatch podcast Pod Meets World. On July 10, the former child stars chatted about Season 6, Episode 16 titled “My Baby Valentine.” The episode followed Cory (Ben Savage) as he threw his mother a baby shower while also attempting to celebrate the February 14 holiday with his fiancée, Topanga (Fishel). Unsurprisingly, things didn’t go well for Cory. But the episode itself is what the Boy Meets World stars criticized. “It felt rushed. It felt weird,” Strong declared. He continued, “It just felt like a couple different episodes crammed into one. It was like, one about Cory’s anxiety and Valentine’s Day, and then it, like, really obviously doesn’t become about that. And I don’t know if he actually learned anything. It just felt kind of like a couple different...

While Boy Meets Worldmay be a beloved '90s sitcom, several members of the show's cast agree that one particular season 6 episode was beneath the show's usual high quality. Part of ABC's Tgif lineup, Boy Meets World was embraced by a young audience, and often featured cameos from A-list celebrities of the moment. Season 6, episode 15, "Road Trip," sees Cory accompany Shawn on a getaway after Shawn lost his father. A major storyline in the episode is their arrival at a diner, where they meet four waitresses played by the members of '90s girl group, Nobody's Angel.

On their rewatch podcast, Pod Meets World, Boy Meets World actors Will Friedle, Danielle Fishel, and Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter) discuss their thoughts on the episode (via EW). All three are in agreement that "Road Trip" is a dud as far as Boy Meets World episodes go. They cited the lack of plot as the episode's failing,...

Boy Meets Worldhas a lot of emotional storylines that fans still talk about. One such storyline is that of Shawn Hunter (Rider Strong) and his father. Throughout the series, Shawn ends up at Cory Matthews' (Ben Savage) home more often than not, because his home life wasn't the best. Some of the more emotional episodes consisted of Shawn and his brother, Jack (Matthew Lawrence), having to deal with their father, Chet (Blake Clark). Now, on a new episode of Pod Meets World, Strong spoke with co-stars Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle about the episode "Getting Hitched" and why he had a "breakdown" while filming it.

The 1999 episode featured Jack and Shawn going through Chet's trailer after he passed away. The two brothers have to unpack their father's belongings along with their feelings about his death. According to Strong, the episode was an emotional one because of Shawn's relationship with his father.

Rider Strong went through drama in front of and behind the camera during the later years of filming Boy Meets World. Strong and his costars Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle revisited Season 6, Episode 14, of the sitcom on the Thursday, June 19, episode of their Pod Meets World podcast. Titled “Getting Hitched,” the story saw Strong’s Shawn Hunter and his brother, Jack (Matthew Lawrence), deal with the death of their father, Chet (Blake Clark), the episode prior. While clearing out their dad’s trailer, the brothers get into an argument after Shawn learns that Jack’s stepfather was responsible for paying his college tuition, not Chet. It was while filming the emotional scene that Strong said he had a “breakdown” on set. “I just remember, during rehearsal for this scene. … I was really bored by my character,” Strong recalled on the podcast. “What’s funny is, in retrospect, this is actually a well-written episode for Shawn.

Long before gaining recognition for his roles in Parks and Recreation and Severance, Adam Scott had his first break when he joined the cast of Boy Meets World in its second season. It was a major opportunity for the actor, who had previously only landed background roles.

However, the role became memorable to Scott for reasons beyond just being his breakout moment. For 29 years, one particular incident lingered in his mind until he finally had the chance to confront his former co-stars about it.

Adam Scott recalled the Boy Meets World incident that had been haunting him for 29 years

Adam Scott joined the cast of Boy Meets World in season 2 as Griff Hawkins. However, the brief experience left him with a memory that would haunt him for the next 29 years until he confronted his former co-star, Rider Strong, in a 2023 appearance on the Pod Meets World.

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You might recall Boy Meets World as the ’90s sitcom in which a young Ben Savage navigated the rough waters of adolescence.

But like so many sitcoms of that era, the show sort of overstayed its welcome, and by the end, it was a 2000s show in which its teen stars were all grown up and trying to make sense of adulthood (no one has ever succeeded in this task).

Anyway, viewers got to see Cory and Topanga go from middle school sweethearts to man and wife, and the change in their circumstances presented new challenges to both the young couple and the show’s writers.

Actors Will Friedle, Danielle Fishel and Rider Strong pose for a photo during a game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citizens Bank Park on September 27, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images) The end of...

During last week’s episode of “Pod Meets World,” “Boy Meets World” cast mates Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle discussed their disappointment with how an episode from the hit ABC series failed to center the experience of Topanga Lawrence’s (Fishel) after she was hit on by her college professor and instead spotlighted Cory Matthews’ (Ben Savage) response to it.

“I felt like this thing that happened to Topanga became about: ‘How is the man in her life going to feel about it, and what’s he going to do about it?’” Fishel said, mentioning that her character’s “agency was completely taken away.”

The scene happened in Season 6, Episode 7 of “Boy Meets World”: “Everybody Loves Stuart,” during which college couple Topanga and Cory begin to fancy their new professor, Stuart (Fred Savage). But when Stuart visits Topanga in her dorm room where he makes her uncomfortable...

Boy Meets World stars Danielle Fishel and Rider Strong do not have fond memories of their characters locking lips in a 1998 episode of the show.

The 43-year-old actress and the 45-year-old actor reflected on a season six scene where Topanga and Shawn kissed while shooting a promotional film for a fictional college, causing Corey, played by Ben Savage, to get jealous.

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“This episode is maybe the worst episode of television I’ve ever seen ever in my life. It’s terrible. There’s not one redeeming quality other than Ben. It makes no sense. It’s stupid, and it is not funny,” Danielle said on the Pod Meets World podcast.

Danielle also said that the moment made her realize she was “done” with the beloved teen sitcom. “I checked my soul out of my body,” she said.

Meanwhile, Rider said he blocked out filming the episode from his memory.

In a sit-down a year after the release of Investigation Discovery’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Drake Bell — whose revelations of experiencing sexual abuse at the hands of his former Nickelodeon dialogue coach/manager Brian Peck triggered massive shockwaves throughout the industry — said he has experienced a “roller coaster of emotions” amid the support he’s received.

“It’s been a really nice weight lifted,” he told People. “It’s a roller coaster of emotions. I don’t want to sugarcoat it and make the message, ‘Hey, all you got to do is just tell somebody and get your story out and when you wake up the next day, it’s going to be gone and everything’s going to be fine and you’re going to walk through life without any pain or sorrow or sadness!’ It’s always going to be there, but...

Drake Bell told People magazine that a weight has been lifted, one year after the airing of ID Discovery’s “Quiet on Set.” The documentary series featured Bell going public for the first time about being sexually assaulted as a teenager by his Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck. It was perhaps the biggest bombshell to emerge from “Quiet on Set,” which also detailed claims of misconduct behind the scenes at Nickelodeon during the 1990s and early 2000s.

“It’s been a really nice weight lifted,” Bell said while marking the one-year anniversary of the “Quiet on Set” premiere. “It’s a roller coaster of emotions. I don’t want to sugarcoat it and make the message, ‘Hey, all you got to do is just tell somebody and get your story out and when you wake up the next day, it’s going to be gone and everything’s going to...

Before his Emmy Award nomination for "Severance" (the mind-bending second season of which is currently underway on Apple TV+) playing a man who literally splits his working and personal lives, or starring on the beloved sitcom "Parks & Recreation," Adam Scott was one of several guest stars on "Boy Meets World" who went on to make it big. The ABC sitcom was part of the popular T.G.I.F. Friday night programming from 1993-2000 before re-running on the Disney Channel and ABC Family. "Boy Meets World" follows a neurotic 11-year-old through his school years as he navigates becoming a better person with the help of his wise teacher Mr. Feeny, a romantic relationship with his one true love Topanga, and social class differences with his best buddy Shawn.

"Boy Meets World" was one of Adam Scott's first acting jobs, and even though his role as the high school bully Griff Hawkins was brief,...

Ben Savage‘s relationship with his Boy Meets World co-stars is still estranged.

The 44-year-old actor and his former castmates have been on the outs for several years after he ghosted them and just “kind of disappeared from our lives.”

During a recent episode of the Boy Meets World rewatch podcast, Pod Meets World, Will Friedle offered an update on his strained relationship with his on-screen brother, as well as their co-stars Rider Strong and Danielle Fishel.

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“Ben is one of the most important people I’ve ever met in my life and I can’t stand the fact that he won’t speak to us,” Will shared on the Monday (February 24) episode of the podcast. “And that’s what it is: He won’t speak to us.”

Will noted that he still doesn’t know why Ben stopped speaking to them.

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Danielle Fishel and Maitland Ward had it out.

A lot of drama has emerged from the Boy Meets World cast’s podcast. From memories of predators who manipulated them to hide to recollections of what it was like to film, they’ve shared a lot.

This time, the drama erupted on the podcast itself.

An attempt to rehash and maybe smooth over old issues led to a head-to-head confrontation between Danielle Fishel and Maitland Ward.

Danielle Fishel speaks onstage at the Boy Meets World 25th Anniversary Reunion Panel during the New York Comic Con 2018 at Javits Center on October 5, 2018. (Photo Credit: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) Maitland Ward was a ‘Pod Meets World’ guest

On the February 23 episode of the Pod Meets World podcast, Boy Meets World alum Maitland Ward sat in as a guest.

It turned out to be a deeply contentious episode — and not over the...

It was a tense reunion between Boy Meets World stars Danielle Fishel and Maitland Ward on the latest episode of the Pod Meets World podcast.

Ward was a guest on the podcast hosted by Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Firedle, as the Boy Meets World alum talked about Season 6 of the ABC sitcom. Ward joined the show in 1998 and stayed with the series until its end in 2000.

Midway through the podcast that premiered on February 24, Fishel asked Ward, “Do you hate us?”

“No, I don’t hate you,” Ward said, adding, “I think that you hate me because you wouldn’t speak to me on Girl Meets World and that was hurtful.”

Ward was referring to the Boy Meets World spinoff sequel series, Girl Meets World, which aired on Disney Channel for three seasons. In 2013, Ward shared a photo from the set of the series alongside stars Rowan Blanchard and Sabrina Carpenter.

In a podcast first, “Pod Meets World” included the following warning at the top of their latest episode: “This episode contains a bunch of adult language and subject matter. Please proceed with caution.”

The Feb. 23 episode featured Maitland Ward, the actor best known as Rachel McGuire on “Boy Meets World.” After visiting the “Girl Meets World” set in 2015, Ward began growing her personal brand and later went on to become an adult film star. While they did discuss that transition and her work now, it wasn’t until after that discussion that things got extremely tense.

The tone changed about 55 minutes in, when co-host Danielle Fishel asked, “Do you hate us?” Ward replied, “No, I do not hate you. I think that you hate me, because you wouldn’t speak to me on ‘Girl Meets World,’ and that was hurtful.”

From there, the pair went back and forth about their relationship through the years.

The creator of ABC‘s “Tgif” is setting the record straight.

Jim Janicek created the popular programming block back in the 1980s, and it has featured such shows as Roseanne, Full House, Family Matters, Step by Step, Boy Meets World and more.

While many thought it stood for “Thank God It’s Friday,” Jim reveals that the Friday night block’s acronym actually stood for something else!

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“[Tgif] is not ‘Thank God It’s Friday,’” Danielle Fishel said on a new episode of her podcast, Pod Meets World.

Along with her Boy Meets World co-stars and co-hosts Rider Strong and Will Freidle, they cleared it up that Tgif stands for “Thank Goodness It’s Funny.”

“We were [first] talking about things like the ‘Friday Fun Club,’” Jim revealed. “There’s a whole list [of brand names] somewhere I probably could dig up, but I remember that one. You know, ‘It’s Friday Night.

It's not unusual for an actor or stunt person to play multiple characters in the same movie, especially when they're bogged down in prosthetics and make-up, which makes it hard to recognize them. But 20 characters? That's definitely more than average. For stunt actor and little person Kevin Thompson, though, it was worth it to be a part of the Star Wars universe in Return of the Jedi, even if the Ewok costumes he wore were a little constricting.

Thompson appeared on a recent episode of Pod Meets World hosted by Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, and Will Friedle, who are just three stars from the hit '90s sitcom Boy Meets World. They regularly re-watch old episodes of their series, and were joined by Thompson – who was a stand-in for the child actors – and his wife, Tracey. The subject of Star Wars was eventually brought up, and it was then that...

Seth Meyers went on an epic Boy Meets World rant on his show Late Night with Seth Meyers, and didn't hold back that Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel) made a mistake by proposing to Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) during their high school graduation. Boy Meets World originally ran on ABC for seven seasons between 1993 and 2000 and followed Cory growing up. One of the main storylines of the show was his relationship with Topanga, showing them growing closer together and eventually getting married.

During the "A Closer Look" segment on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host reacted to a social media post from Vivek Ramaswamy, which said, "A culture that venerates Cory from 'Boy Meets World,' or Zack & Slater over Screech in 'Saved by the Bell,' or 'Stefan' over Steve Urkel in 'Family Matters,' will not produce the best engineers." After discussing the other two sitcoms,...

Mike Myers says you can’t just make a catchphrase happen. “I’ve never designed a catchphrase. I just like how people talk,” Myers told Vulture late last year. “Remember ‘Get in my belly?’ That was improv. It wasn’t, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, my next catchphrase.’”

But Jaleel White says the producers of Family Matters were intent on creating a signature slogan for his Urkel character. “They tried a million darn catchphrases,” he told Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle on the Pod Meets World podcast, per People.

It took a while to get to “Did I do that?” White said — and some of the early stabs were pretty lame. “The first one that they ever tried really was Steve would just bump into inanimate objects — an end table or a lamp, knock it over and say, ‘Excuse me.’ That was it.”

Er, easy to see why that one didn’t catch on.

Netflix just launched WWE Raw as a live weekly streaming event and there were plenty of celebs in attendance for the first show!

Macaulay Culkin, Baby Reindeer‘s Richard Gadd, and Suits: LA‘s Stephen Amell were among the stars who attended the Raw event on Monday (January 6) at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.

Other stars included Tiffany Haddish, O’Shea Jackson Jr., David Arquette, Seth Green, Nikki Garcia, and more.

Raw first premiered back in 1993 and aired almost exclusively on USA for the last three decades. Netflix recently signed a 10-year deal with WWE to air the program and the deal has been reported to be worth $500 million per year.

Check out the cast of wrestlers who will appear throughout the season!

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The cast of Boy Meets World candidly reacts to Mr. Turner's one-sentence sendoff. Played by Anthony Tyler Quinn, the character of Jonathan Turner was important in the early seasons of the family sitcom. Appearing in 51 episodes, which went from season 2 to season 4, Turner develops a fatherly relationship with Shawn Hunter (Rider Strong). It makes it all the more jarring when Mr. Turner is abruptly written off the show after getting into a motorcycle accident, with Quinn not reprising the role until the spinoff Girl Meets World.

With the rewatch podcast Pod Meets World revisiting the season 5 finale "Graduation", which features a joke about the fact that Mr. Turner wanders a part of the school that the protagonists never visit along with other disappeared supporting characters. Danielle Fishel (Topanga) and Will Friedle (Eric) reacted to the Mr. Turner joke, along with Strong, and they shared mixed feelings. While they acknowledged that it was funny,...

The '90s was a complicated time to be a TV teen. While the kids of "Beverly Hills, 90210" and "Melrose Place" were entrenched in constant scandalous teen drama, a gentler, more family-friendly version of teen life was drawing in audiences on ABC. "Boy Meets World" ran for an impressive 158 episodes, from 1993 to 2000, and remains a pop cultural touchstone — albeit not quite as potent of one as its cattier primetime counterparts — to this day.

Like every memorable sitcom, "Boy Meets World" knew how to pick a guest star, and several of the actors who showed up across its seven-season run went on to be pretty dang famous. In a few cases, people who were already big-name actors at the time also dropped in on the kids of John Adams High. If you watched the show at a young age, though, you'd be forgiven for not recognizing the industry veterans and...

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This article contains mentions of alcoholism.

Boy Meets World first aired on the Disney Channel in 1993 and quickly established itself as one of America's best teen sitcoms. The series follows Cory Matthews and his peers, and they navigate the confusing world of teenage hormones and adult expectations. The hit sitcom ran for seven seasons and offered fans a comprehensive sense of closure.

Though the sitcom didn't really contain any racy scenes or foul language, Disney removed three episodes from syndication. Yet, because of the show's mild tone, fans are still confused about why these episodes were censored. So, what Boy Meets World episodes were banned, and how can fans watch them in the present day?

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For a very brief period in 2002, and just before the character of Timothy McGee was introduced to the world in NCIS, actor Sean Murray opted for a more laid-back role. Instead of being stationed in Washington DC’s Navy Yard with Gibbs, Dinozzo, and Ziva, where they would investigate crimes inside the Navy, the TV actor would be placed in Chinatown, Manhattan - living a day-to-day life with three childhood friends in a nice, big loft.

Just before stepping into the role of a field agent in the fourth-longest-running scripted live-action U.S. prime-time TV series, Murray would instead be slacker Todd Mitchell, an unemployed schemer who seems to have an odd fascination with Star Wars. Even though Upn unceremoniously pulled the plug on this oddball...

Danica McKellar has good news for those who didn’t like the original ending of “The Wonder Years” — things may have changed! The actor, who played Winnie Cooper on the sitcom from 1988 to 1993, opened up about how she views the controversial ending.

In the final episode, which aired May 12, 1993, the narrator revealed that Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) and Winnie did not end up together, despite their on-again off-again relationship throughout the series. She went to Paris to get her art degree and Kevin got married to someone else, but the pair remained friends.

“Fans still get upset about it,” McKellar said on the Nov. 25 episode of “Pod Meets World.” She explained that often in the show, “everything didn’t all work out in the end,” which was a way to be relatable to the audience.

“Most of our lives don’t out the way we wanted them too, or thought they were going to,...

For many tweens and teens growing up in the mid-to-late-1990s, Friday nights meant a bucket of popcorn and sitting down in front of the TV for a night of ABC's "Tgif" programming lineup. Shows like "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," "Sister, Sister," and "Boy Meets World" catered to teens while still being family-friendly enough for primetime network TV, but occasionally they delved into topics that were a little more adult to actually have something to say to their teen audiences. "Boy Meets World" eventually ended up in syndication on The Disney Channel, along with several other "Tgif" favorites, but there were three episodes that originally aired on ABC that Disney Channel refused to air themselves.

Banned episodes are nothing new in the world of television — heck, "Frasier," "Family Guy," and "Friends" all have episodes that were banned from airing in one form or another — but the three that were prevented...

Tonight, on a very special episode of Boy Meets World, Shawn gets crunk…Boy Meets World, like many sitcoms (especially of the Disney-backed Tgif variety), had its share of episodes that took on serious issues, hitting on everything from child abuse to teenage sex to cults. But one episode that still sticks with Rider Strong is “If You Can’t Be With the One You Love”, which focused on Shawn Hunter developing an alcohol dependency, something he doesn’t think the show handled well at all.

As Rider Strong remembered of the season five episode of Pod Meets World (the Boy Meets World rewatch podcast he co-hosts), Shawn was seeing “having a good time with Cory and doing handstands and peeing on cop cars and just, like, woohoo, fun loving. And then in that second half, it’s as if he’s a 45-year-old alcoholic who’s like, ‘I can’t stop,...

Lopez Vs Lopez, currently airing its third season on NBC, combines family sitcom antics with a dose of genuine pathos. George Lopez stars as an alcoholic who is forced to move in with his estranged daughter, a status quo shift that forces him to rethink his life and strive to do better for the sake of his daughter, grandson, and the rest of his family. The show is co-created by Mayan Lopez, George's real-life daughter who also stars as George's on-screen progeny.

Danielle Fishel is best known to audiences as Topanga Lawrence, the free-spirited romantic lead in the classic ABC teen-oriented sitcom, Boy Meets World, which ran for seven seasons. She reprised her role in the sequel series Girl Meets World, which ran for three seasons on The Disney Channel. Fishel directed multiple episodes of Girl Meets World and has since gone on to work behind the camera on various Disney Channel shows,...

In a recent episode of the “Pod Meets World” rewatch podcast, actor Rider Strong talked about how uncomfortable he was with a controversial “Boy Meets World” episode that dealt with teen drinking and addiction. He said that he had deep worries about how the show portrayed alcohol abuse.

During the show’s fifth season, Strong’s character Shawn Hunter and Ben Savage’s character Cory Matthews both had problems with drinking in the episode that Disney eventually banned. Strong said his performance was “half-assing it,” which showed he was very uncomfortable with how the episode dealt with a serious issue.

The episode, “If You Can’t Be With the One You Love,” starts with Cory drinking after breaking up with Topanga. It then moves on to Shawn’s drinking problems, which are caused by his family’s history of alcoholism. Strong didn’t like how the episode’s sudden changes...

Boy Meets World actor Rider Strong recalled one particular episode that made him “very uncomfortable” and “so miserable” to film.

In a recent episode of Pod Meets World — the rewatch podcast dedicated to the ’90s sitcom co-hosted by Strong, Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle — the trio discussed an alcohol-themed episode that was eventually banned from airing by Disney for its mature content. Strong, in particular, found the episode to be a watered-down warning message about alcoholism that ended up being more of a “disservice.”

“I’m just half-assing it this entire episode,” he began. “I’m so miserable.”

Strong continued, “I was probably 17 the first time I tried alcohol, so it was probably right before this. But I remember Ben [Savage] and I talking about, like, ‘How do you play drunk?’ and having conversations about it. And he nails it. He’s so good at it.”

Throughout the podcast, Strong called...

Jennifer Love Hewitt was killed off in an episode of Boy Meets World because of her real-life relationship with series star Will Friedle (Eric Matthews). Hewitt appeared in the 1998 episode "And Then There Was Shawn," where the characters were locked in John Adams High School, while a killer was hunting them. Just like almost everyone else in the episode, the killer murders Hewitt's character (although it was later revealed that the entire episode was a dream).

On the Pod Meets World podcast, Friedle discusses the episode with fellow Boy Meets World stars Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter) and Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence). Friedle reveals how shortly after his relationship with Hewitt ended, series creator Michael Jacobs told him that the reason he had her appear in the episode was so that he could have her killed off in front of Friedle.

Jacobs told Friedle about how the actor believed that he...

As reported by /Film on January 4, 2017, the Disney Channel canceled "Girl Meets World" after three seasons. Upon completing production on the show's third season, the "Girl Meets World" cast and crew had been patiently waiting to hear whether or not their series would be renewed for a fourth go-round. Instead, the show's aptly-titled season 3 finale, "Girl Meets Goodbye," became forever known as the final episode.

If you listen to "Pod Meets World," the podcast hosted by "Boy Meets World" and "Girl Meets World" veterans Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Rider Strong, you'll get the sense that Michael Jacobs -- the co-creator and head executive producer on both shows -- is a very dogged and focused individual who knows what he wants and will do anything to get it. So, when fans raised hell on social media, he shopped "Girl Meets World" to Netflix and other platforms. However, after four months...

Children's TV shows of the 1990s weren't afraid to get quite scary and intense, with many standout episodes of beloved series leaving a lasting impression in the form of nightmares. The 90s were quite an interesting time for children's media, with loosened restrictions on what networks could get away with leading to some very experimental episodes of TV. While modern kids' shows can be quite scary, the childhoods of millennials are filled with particularly horrifying TV scenes that still cause bad dreams even today.

Interestingly enough, it wasn't strictly the explicitly horror-themed series that got quite terrifying in the 90s. Horror anthology TV shows made for kids like Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? may have seen an increase in popularity this decade, but standard children's fare like cartoons or tween dramas could get just as frightening. The 90s truly held nothing back when it came to the...

The Cabin Fever pancakes scene might be the strangest in the Eli Roth debut horror movie, and it still makes very little sense all these years later. Roth has had a varied directorial career, and whether one loves or hates his films, it's hard to deny that they're usually at least memorable. That began with Cabin Fever (2002), a bizarre blend of horror and comedy. One minute, a character shaves their leg's skin off due to a terrifying flesh-eating virus; the next, Roth makes a cameo as a stoner. The tone of Cabin Fever is all over the place.

How much of that odd sensibility was informed by Roth himself becomes quite apparent when watching the 2016 Cabin Fever remake, which stuck to the original very closely but seemed to lack any of its charm or heart. As much weirdness as can be found in Cabin Fever, the award for the oddest scene goes to the "Pancakes!

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Boy Meets World was one of the 1990s' most popular sitcoms, and the creative minds behind the series believe that it could have run for as many as ten seasons if it weren't for the undeniable fact that time ages us all. Instead, this memorable family sitcom that focused on the exploits of Cory Matthews, played by Ben Savage, ran for over 150 episodes across seven seasons.

Decades after its run ended, Boy Meets World became the latest former television show in a long line to be revived for nostalgia in the form of Girl Meets World, which told the story of Cory Matthews's daughter, Riley. Considering Boy Meets World was popular enough to revive, why did the series have to go away in the first place?...

If you're a reader of a certain age, there's a chance you grew up watching "Boy Meets World." The coming-of-age comedy lasted for seven seasons, and audiences were able to watch Cory and Eric Matthews, Shawn Hunter, Topanga Lawrence, and Angela Moore transition from childhood into adulthood, all under the watchful eye of their parental figures and their collective mentor, Mr. Feeny. Years after the show's end, "Boy Meets World" returned for a new generation as "Girl Meets World," focusing on the daughter of Cory and Topanga, Riley, and her mischievous friend Maya Hart, played by pop sensation Sabrina Carpenter. The reignited love of the series inspired the iHeartPodcasts network to launch "Pod Meets World," a retrospective series where the show's stars Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence/Matthews), Will Friedle (Eric Matthews), and Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter) revisit each episode.

The trio is often on the convention circuit together as well,...

Actress Danielle Fishel has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 43-year-old star of Girl Meets World announced her diagnosis on her Pod Meets World podcast posted on Monday. Fishel stressed that, thanks to routine cancer screening, her form of cancer was caught "very very very early," with a number of options for treatment, according to a report by Variety:

I was recently diagnosed with Dcis, which stands for Ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer [...] Its very very early, its technically stage zero [...] They found it so early that Im going to be fine.

She did confirm that she will have surgery to remove the cancerous growth, but assured listeners and fans that the early detection provided the strong possibility for a full recovery. Her recent announcement is a sobering jolt of reality for her many fans who have grown up with her. In the 1990s,...

Boy Meets World celeb Danielle Fishel recently broke her silence on a devastating diagnosis. What is going on with this situation, and what did she have to say about it?

Danielle Fishel Rose To Fame On Boy Meets World

Boy Meets World put Danielle Fishel on the map. She played Topanga Lawrence on the popular 90s show. The original program ran from 1993 to 2000. These characters became the voice of a generation. All these years later, viewers still have fond memories of watching the show, including watching Danielle Fishel’s iconic portrayal of Topanga.

Fishel, now 43, still has ties to the show and other cast members. She is part of a popular podcast called Pod Meets World. On the podcast, Fishel and other stars reminisce about the show. They also share behind-the-scenes tidbits that viewers may not be aware of.

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Danielle Fishel, best known for her role as Topanga Lawrence on the popular ’90s sitcom Boy Meets World, has revealed that she was recently diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. The 43-year-old actress shared the news on Monday’s episode of Pod Meets World, a rewatch podcast she co-hosts with former co-stars Rider Strong and Will Friedle.

Fishel began the podcast by addressing her listeners directly, revealing, “Something that Rider and Will were actually two of the first people I told the news to… I was recently diagnosed with Dcis, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, a form of breast cancer.”

She explained that Dcis is categorized as “technically stage zero,” highlighting the early detection. Fishel reassured her fans that she is confident she will be fine, noting that her current treatment plan involves surgery to remove the cancerous cells, with additional treatments to be determined.

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Danielle Fishel has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer at the age of 43.

The “Boy Meets World” star — who famously played Topanga on the ’90s show and in its sequel series “Girl Meets World” — announced her diagnosis on her rewatch podcast “Pod Meets World.”

“I was recently diagnosed with Dcis, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer,” she revealed on Monday’s episode. “It’s very, very, very early, it’s technically stage zero.”

Fishel explained that she “had to make a lot of decisions over the last couple days” and plans to have surgery to remove the pre-cancerous lesions. She added that it was discovered in her annual mammogram appointment, which she’d made the moment she received a reminder it was time to do so.

“They found it so, so, so early that I’m going to be fine. So,...

Boy Meets World alum Danielle Fishel has revealed that she has breast cancer.

At the start of the latest episode of podcast Pod Meets World, the actress shared, “I was recently diagnosed with Dcis, which stands for Ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer.” She explained that it was detected “very, very, very early; it’s technically stage zero.”

Fishel assured listeners that she’s “going to be fine,” as she is having surgery to remove it and will receive follow-up treatment. “I’ve had to make a lot of decisions over the last couple of days,” she said.

“The only reason I’m sharing it is, if you’ve ever had those thoughts in your life where someone close to you is diagnosed with cancer, somewhere in your mind you think, ‘What would I do if it were me? What would I do in this situation?...

Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The actress, who rose to fame as Topanga on the Nineties sitcom, shared the news during Monday’s episode of “Pod Meets World.” During the hour-long podcast episode, Fishel said the cancer was discovered after a routine mammogram visit.

“It is very very very early; it’s technically stage zero to be specific. I was diagnosed with high-grade Dcis with micro invasion, and I’m going to be fine. I’m having surgery to remove it,...

Variety is reporting that Danielle Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence in the popular 90s sitcom Boy Meets World, has recently revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. However, the good news is it was caught early and the actress is assuring fans that she’ll be ok. In her podcast, Pod Meets World, which she co-hosts with Boy Meets World castmates Will Friedle and Rider Strong, Fishel opens up about receiving her diagnosis at 43 years old. She stated, “I was recently diagnosed with Dcis, which stands for Ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer. It’s very very very early, it’s technically stage zero.”

Fishel tells listeners that she was diagnosed with “high-grade Dcis with micro-invasion” and is planning to have surgery to remove it. She explains the big decisions that she’s made over the course of events. She admits that she...

Former Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel is battling breast cancer.

On the latest episode of her “Pod Meets World” podcast, Danielle revealed her diagnosis to fans.

With her co-hosts and former BMW costars Rider Strong and Will Friedle alongside for support, Danielle stated that she’s optimistic about her chances for a full recovery.

Danielle Fishel attends the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on September 22, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Greg Doherty/Getty Images) Danielle Fishel Is Battling Breast Cancer

“I would like to share something with our listeners, something that Rider and Will were two of the first people I told the news to,” Fishel said on Monday’s episode, according to Us Weekly.

“I was recently diagnosed with Dcis, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer. It is very, very, very early,” she added.

“It’s technically stage zero.

Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel has been diagnosed with breast cancer, specifically, “ductal carcinoma in situ.”

The 43-year-old actress, who portrayed the beloved Topanga on the show, announced the health news on her “Pod Meets World” podcast, with she co-hosts with two of her Boy Meets World co-stars, Rider Strong and Will Friedle.

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She opened the episode by sharing, “I would like to share something with our listeners, something that Rider and Will were two of the first people I told the news to. I was recently diagnosed with Dcis, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer. It is very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero. To be specific, just because I like too much information all the time, I was diagnosed with high-grade Dcis with micro-invasion.”

She continued, “I’m going to be fine.

“Boy Meets World” star Danielle Fishel opened up on the latest episode of her “Pod Meets World” podcast about being diagnosed with breast cancer at 43 years old.

“I was recently diagnosed with Dcis, which stands for Ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer,” she said at the start of the Aug. 19 episode. “It’s very very very early, it’s technically stage zero.”

Fishel went on to explain she was diagnosed with “high-grade Dcis with micro-invasion” and is planning to have surgery to remove it.

“I’ve had to make a lot of decisions over the last couple of days,” she said before adding that at first she only planned on telling her immediate family and friends but no one else. She thought she’d prefer to “suffer in silence” and “suck it up,” only telling others after she’d beat it. Fishel changed her mind...

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Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel describes an uncomfortable experience she had regarding her physical appearance while on the show. Fishel played Topanga Lawrence throughout Boy Meets World's 7 seasons that aired from 1993 to 2000. On a podcast called Pod Meets World, Fishel re-watches and reflects on every episode of the popular sitcom alongside co-stars Rider Strong and Will Friedle, who played the respective roles of Shawn Hunter and Eric Matthews.

During a recent episode of Pod Meets World, Fishel discussed being told by producers about an episode revolving around the weight she had gained. Season 7, episode 17, "She's Having My Baby Back Ribs,...

In a recent episode of the Pod Meets World podcast, Boy Meets World stars Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle engaged in an Ask Me Anything session with fans. One fan asked Fishel if there was anything she would change about Boy Meets World, and her response was genuinely surprising. Fishel said she wouldnt want Cory and Topanga to get married. The revelation makes us second guess the iconic couples happy ending.

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Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel discusses the one key story moment she would have changed in the original TV series.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Fishel opened up about the subject during a recent episode of the rewatch podcast, Pod Meets World. "I don't think I would have Cory [Savage] and Topanga [Fishel] get married," Fishel stated. "I think I might have her still do the proposal and maybe he still says yes, [and] we go through the whole planning. Then, we end up deciding it's maybe not the right choice for us now."

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