Phaneron

8th Apr 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

What I Meant To Say - S3-E3

Mr. Williams: I'm here to teach you to find the truth in the media. Because there is a difference between what they say, and what is real.
Mr. Turner: That was very good. Watch this: Hunter, what did he just say?
Shawn: Something about Israel.

Phaneron

8th Apr 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

8th Apr 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

What I Meant To Say - S3-E3

Mr. Turner: Man, I'm sorry, Eli. I still think you would've made a great teacher though, man.
Mr. Williams: Why? I mean, I have nothing to say to kids. I don't even understand kids.
Mr. Turner: But you know how to communicate, man, and you know how to do it honestly.
Mr. Williams: And that's what got me fired from producing the 6 o'clock news. I'm trying to show people what's really going on with slumlords in Philadelphia, and the station manager is saying "Well, let's see more of that woman that walks to work naked."

Phaneron

8th Apr 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

Back 2 School - S2-E1

Frankie: Hey! [Picks Cory up and slams him against locker.]
Cory: What'd I do!?
Frankie: You were almost in my way.
Cory: [Looks over notes] You're Frankie Stecchino, right?
Frankie: Yeah, how'd you know?
Cory: [Reading notes] "Strong territorial sense."
Shawn: We were just looking for our homeroom.
Joey: [Points at locker] It's in there.
Shawn: In there?
Joey: Right there.
Shawn: Thank you. Thank you very much. [Opens locker] Hey, I'm the first one here. [Gets in locker and closes it.]
Frankie: And now for you. Why was you almost in my way?
Cory: You know, if I was in my homeroom, I wouldn't be anywhere near your way.
Frankie: Huh?
Joey: I think he's saying that if he was someplace else, he wouldn't be here.
Frankie: What? You sayin' I'm gay!?
Joey: No, no I didn't say that. Come on, let's finish him off.
Frankie; No, I need to be alone with my thoughts.

Phaneron

8th Apr 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

8th Apr 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

The Thrilla' in Phila' - S2-E21

Cory: Alright Joey, you want me, you got me.
Joey: Good. Tonight, midnight, the abandoned warehouse on 7th.
Cory: No, 4 o'clock, Feeny's backyard.
Joey: No, 8 o'clock, the abandoned shipyard by the pier.
Cory: No, dinner time, my kitchen.
Joey: Is it abandoned?

Phaneron

8th Apr 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

8th Apr 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

Band on the Run - S2-E8

Revealing mistake: When Cory and Shawn are holding band auditions, if you watch the guy that is shredding on guitar, you can see that although he is moving his fingers all over the fret board, his picking hand remains motionless, showing that he isn't actually playing and the sound was added in post production.

Phaneron

5th Apr 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

31st Mar 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

Me and Mr. Joad - S2-E4

Mr. Feeny: You know, you seem amused by this display of defiance, Mr. Turner.
Mr. Turner: Oh, I am, I gotta say. 'Cause if I had done to me what I did to them, then I'd have done the same thing to me that they did.
Mr. Feeny: Go to the board and diagram that sentence.

Phaneron

31st Mar 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

Me and Mr. Joad - S2-E4

Mr. Feeny: I realise that all you 7th-graders are delicate, adolescent flowers, just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity: take this test, or die!

Phaneron

17th Mar 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

Risky Business - S1-E16

Deliberate mistake: Morgan turns on the stereo and starts dancing on the sofa with her doll. She then tosses her doll, which tips over a plant and breaks the glass on a set of French doors. The stereo magically stops the moment the glass breaks.

Phaneron

11th Mar 2020

Boy Meets World (1993)

Boys II Mensa - S1-E6

Question: When Mr. Feeny is talking to Cory in the cafeteria about his score on the IQ test, Feeny is shown purchasing a coffee from the vending machine. Are there actual elementary schools in the United States with coffee vending machines where prepubescent students have the ability to purchase a beverage more suited for younger adults and older? This isn't the faculty cafeteria mind you, because it's the same cafeteria the students are shown occupying throughout the first season. Seems a little irresponsible on the school's part to give students access to coffee.

Phaneron

Chosen answer: In the present day, with the United States abiding by more stricter school health laws, for the most part this wouldn't be in school cafeterias as many cannot even have carbonated beverage machines now. However, in the 90s when the show takes place, it wasn't unheard of for there to be coffee machines in the cafeteria of small schools where the teachers eat with the students as we see them do often in the show. The idea being that the cafeteria was small enough so a teacher or hall monitor could catch a student before they could drink the coffee.

25th May 2019

Boy Meets World (1993)

Janitor Dad - S4-E6

Question: When Chet and Verna are arguing about Chet getting a job, visible in the background is a painting of what I believe is an oak tree on a yellow background. Does anybody know the name and/or artist of this painting? My Grandparents used have a painting similar to it (if not the same one) and it also looks very similar to (and possibly the inspiration for) the cover art for the debut album of the band Days of the New.

Phaneron

Answer: I learned the answer to this one today. It is "Tree of Life" by Garé Barks.

Phaneron

31st Jul 2018

Boy Meets World (1993)

5th May 2017

Boy Meets World (1993)

Show generally

Other mistake: A lot of times in scenes in episodes taking place in high school, characters are shown walking up to their lockers and opening them without putting in the combination first.

Phaneron

18th Jun 2016

Boy Meets World (1993)

Risky Business - S1-E16

[Cory and Shawn are listening to the radio for the results of a horse race.]
Radio Announcer: And now the results of the fifth race at Pimlico.
Cory: Come on Neckflap, baby!
Radio Announcer: And the winner is Ne... [Cory accidentally unplugs the radio before he hears the result.]
Cory: Nuh!? What kind of name is Nuh!?
Shawn: You idiot, you ripped the plug out of the wall!
Cory: Well he said "Nuh." It's gotta be Neckflap. What other horse starts with "Nuh"?
Shawn: [reading the names of the horses from the newspaper.] Okay, we got uh, Neckflap, Nux Vomica, uh, Nunzio's Dream, and remarkably a horse called Nuh.

Phaneron

16th Nov 2015

Boy Meets World (1993)

Shallow Boy - S4-E5

Factual error: After Eric offends Corinna, she is able to write, record, mix, package and distribute an album of music within, at most, a matter of days to spite him. Accomplishing all that within such a short amount of time would be logistically impossible.

Phaneron

1st Sep 2015

Boy Meets World (1993)

Video

Risky Business - S1-E16

Plot hole: After Shawn leaves Cory's house to get a pizza, he calls Cory on the phone literally a minute later to tell him that Lenny Dykstra is at the pizza place. There's no way Shawn could have left Cory's house, walked to the pizza place, spotted Dykstra and either asked to use the restaurant's phone or found a pay phone to call Cory in such a short amount of time. (00:13:30 - 00:14:45)

Phaneron

28th Aug 2014

Boy Meets World (1993)

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