The TV Chick

E is here, and you know what that means. Time for another Flashback Friday.  OK, guys, this was a really dramatic week on Boy Meets World.  For serious, important stuff.  Let’s jump into our spotlight episode, or should I say episodes? That’s right, we’re focusing on a 2-parter today… “A Long Walk to Pittsburgh.”

• OK, so the episode starts with Eric walking into Chubby’s (He’s having a lucid few episodes around this point).  And he totally catches Shawn and Topanga having an intimate moment.  He hugs and kisses her, oh, heck no!

• Eric then tries to sort of gently let Cory know what he saw by providing him with steak and cake.  I love steak! Oh, and Morgan is there, bugging the heck out of me again complaining about her grilled cheese.

• Cory sort of melts down and confronts Shawn and Topanga at school after he can’t get a hold of either of them on the phone. Cory confronts Shawn with a knock knock joke, oh Cory, never change.  Shawn tells Cory that he needs to talk to Topanga, but he was not making a play for his woman.  Oh, also, when Cory is talking to Shawn at Chubby’s, Eric comes in and jacks Shawn against the wall, and it is awesome.

• Cory then climbs into Topanga’s room (which is filled with packed boxes, spoiler alert!) and kisses her.  After, he pronounces, “I wanted to be the last one to kiss you before I killed you.” Creeeeeepy.

• Anyway, Topanga breaks the news that she is moving to Pittsburgh because her mom got a new job there.  Cory and Topanga then act sad together.

• Amy Matthews then becomes an enemy of love when she basically tells Cory that he should date other girls and chill the heck out.  Do you think Betsy Randle is just mad that she has to be in an Advil commercial now for her arthritis? I do. Cory then tells everyone that they’re going to make it work like Romeo and Juliet did, heh.  Don’t worry, Feeny explains the ending to him and tells him he believes in their love!

• Cory then goes to Topanga and tells her that they should just get married and live in an abandoned home in an upscale neighborhood with no bugs.  Love it, oh Cory. Topanga is like, no, I have to go to Pittsburgh fool.  But, we’ll call and mail letters.

• Shawn then tells Cory that he’s not worried because he’s watched a lot of TV, and the girl never leaves. We’re getting self-reflexive up in this piece again.

• But, she does leave, with Shawn saying “What the hell kind of TV show is this?!”

• AND SCENE! Onto the second part.

• There are these really weird British girls over at Cory’s place.  Shawn is macking on one of them really hard, while Cory is just depressed over Topanga.  I don’t know why Cory can’t just play his role as wingman here?  But everything is already messed up as Shawn is with the less hot girl.  Up is down, blue is green! In any case, Cory does end up occupying the cuter girl with his tale of woe.

• In another scene, Eric goes and gets Cory as he sits in Topanga’s empty room, creeeeeepy.

• Once we’re all back at the Matthews’ residence, there is a knock at the door! Topanga, and she came in the rain!

• Amy calls up Topanga’s parents to tell them where she is, and they send her Aunt Prudence over to take her back to her place and put her on a train back to Pittsburgh in the morning.  And get this guys, everyone clapped when Aunt Prudence arrived because the producers told people to.  And apparently, she is played by a woman named Olivia Hussey, who besides doing a 3-episode arc on Lonesome Dove, played Juliet in the 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet. I see what you’re doing there Boy Meets World writers/casting directors.

• Alan convinces Amy to stop being a beast, so she now believes in the power of teen love as well.  Aunt Prudence thinks it is reprehensible that her sister took Topanga out of her environment during her last couple years of school (but she doesn’t care about love).

• Anyway, Topanga is going to stay with her aunt for the rest of school, yay!

So, that was long.  So, I’m going to briefly tell you what happened on the other pertinent episodes this week because there was a lot of pertinence. In the episode entitled “Uncle Daddy,” Eric dates a girl with a kid.  It doesn’t work out.  But, it made me think of that episode of Step-by-Step where Cody also dates a girl with a kid.  All of this made me want to do a comparative essay of both episodes.  In college, I had a professor who majored in comparative literature (Russian and French literature).  This would be exactly like that, but different.  There’s also the episode “Cult Fiction,” where Shawn joins a cult, and doesn’t snap out of it until Turner gets into a motorcycle accident. (This is kind of like that episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch where Miles joins that weird cult with that guy who pretends to be a witch.)

We also have the episode “Learning to Fly” where Eric, Shawn, and Cory road trip down to Beach State College for Eric to take a campus tour. Cory convinces Eric that he is better than Beach State and that he is good enough for Pembroke, woot! Also, a weirdo college girl hits on Cory who is annoyed that Topanga didn’t want to join them on their trip. It ends up she didn’t trust herself alone with Cory. Scandalous!

We also have the episode “Brothers” where Matthew Lawrence joins the gang, finds his long lost brother Shawn, and moves in with Eric (and Shawn).

What a dramatic week! I need a nap from all this action. Comment back if you believe in the power of teen love! (I really shouldn’t be cracking jokes, after all I am married to the guy I’ve been dating since I was 17. Shout out to M!)