The TV Chick

E here, back for another week of Flashback Friday. Man, was my DVR busy this week capturing 10 ‘new’ Boy Meets World episodes. But, it was a week full of classics, so who am I to ignore any one episode. (Side Note: Is anyone willing to come clean my house before my mom and grandma get here because I’m out of time after watching too much ABC Family?)

Anyway, onto the highlights. So, we got a chance to see Cory and Shawn go to a ‘boy, girl’ party in the episode “Fear Strikes Out.” Unfortunately for Cory, Eric got him ridiculously stressed out before hand and when it was his turn in the closet for “7 Minutes in Heaven” (with Topanga!) he totally fell apart. By the time Topanga calms him down, time is up, and he is officially declared a nice boy. I remember watching this episode as a kid and being completely mortified for Cory; it’s a bummer feeling like you’re behind everyone else. (And boy was I behind. I was still wearing puppy dog sweatshirts and dresses my mom picked out for me from Jessica McClintock. Yes, even worse than Rachel Berry on Glee with her penchant for animal sweaters).

Another great episode this past week was with Cory dating TK, also know as Theresa Keiner, also known as Harley Keiner’s sister. I had an lol moment when she stared sending Cory floral wreaths, a clown made out of candy, and steaks. And then I had a fuzzy feelings moment when TK told us how Harley is the only one that takes care of her. Both have daddy issues and should probably be on an episode of LOST because of this.

Ooo, Ooo, and then we had “Band on the Run” with Cory and Shawn pretending to be in a band to woo the ladies. They’re exposed when they are asked to perform at the school dance, and well, they can’t because they have no musical talent or experience. We also have a very special guest spot by some of The Monkees.

But, our main episode this week is “Breaking Up is Really, Really Hard to Do.”

• Cory is freaked out because everyone is coupling off (he receives an invite to a couples only dinner party). ← I think this is weird. 7th graders don’t have dinner parties.

• Cory then asks out this chick Wendy so he can fit in.

• B plot – Eric has to stop dating (Alan and Amy’s orders) because his grades are abysmal. He then tells them his grades don’t matter because he wants to be a weatherman, heh. His friend Jason then takes him to the mall so he can get his hair shampooed by an attractive (this is debatable) hairdresser. This is also sort of weird. If I were in this situation with the freedom to go to a mall, I’d probably just go hang out with a girl. Am I right? Yeah, I think I am. Definitely weird.

• C Plot – Mr. Turner teaches Mr. Feeny how to play racquetball. But, oh that Feeny. He totally pulls the wool over Turner’s eyes with his mad skillz on the court.

• Back to the main plot, Wendy is getting really weird and possessive. Like hounding my man Cory’s time here. Shawn is like this is no good and asks Cory how long they’ve been going out. When Cory tells him it has been a week, Shawn is all “Oh, break-up.” ← This to me is very normal middle school behavior (not weird dinner parties). I remember that I found out my middle school boyfriend of a couple weeks and some change and I were no longer together when someone asked him if we were still going out (I was standing right there mind you), and he gave me a once-over and said no. Heh.

• Anyway, Cory writes her a break-up note, she freaks out. He covers thing up like it was never his intention to break-up because he feels bad. (She also writes a really weird poem called “Leave Me, and I’ll Die.” What the heck, right?)

• We also get an amazing flash forward scene to where Cory and Wendy have been married for 90(!) years, and he’s sort of hating life and stealing condiments from the restaurant.

• So things get stalkerish in our next scene when Wendy comes over and cooks dinner with Amy. Cory is creeped out (although excited about her Belgian waffle skills). She starts talking about having 3 kids with Cory, and Cory leans over to Alan and is all “What do you think of that Gramps?” ← I lol’d. Alan and Cory then go outside and Alan says, “Nutcase?” and Cory says, “You think?” ← More lol’ing.

• Cory is finally off the hook when he admits that he only asked her out because he needed to be a part of a couple. She gets all indignant and breaks up with him. Cory then mopes because he misses Wendy. What a glutton for punishment! Also, where the heck is Topanga?!

Alright, I’ll leave you all with this. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for Cory next week. Comment back if you had dinner parties in 7th grade, because I’m really baffled by this.