TSM goes Step by Step to the Full House of Family Matters

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

I love how Boy Meets World is so far the only sitcom in the history of television that has had professional wrestlers guest star more than once. Usually, wrestling is a punchline to how dumb a character is, but on Boy Meets World, the wrestlers were characters themselves, and wrestling itself wasn't treated as a *total* joke.

Yep.. they had an entire episode devoted to Cory trying to make it to a wrestling match at MSG (despite living in Philly...)_ which pisses off Topanga cos she has a prom dance or something.

I think you're thinking of the one where Cory along with Shawn & Ethan Suplee are trying to be in Vader's corner for his match with Jake Roberts at the Spectrum while also switching to go to Topanga's Sweet 16 party.

Yup. Vader vs. Roberts took place at the Spectrum.
But MSG was indeed mentioned...the winner of the match got a WWF Championship shot vs. Shawn Michaels at the Garden.

Yeah, and the match was filmed at an actual WWF house show, which makes me wonder if anyone in that crowd was confused as to why Cory and Shawn from Boy Meets World were at ringside accompanying Vader that night.

The best part of that episode is when Cory starts getting confused going back and forth so much, so he ends up showing up to Topanga's sweet 16th birthday party with a Vader mask on.

Also, Wikipedia says that the Flintstones episode that Shawn referenced was wrong.

 

[Psycho Penguin]

Topanga's parents changing was one of the funnier parts of the earlier seasons. They completely disappeared when she hit college, I believe.

I guess it was just to rewrite her character, she needed to have different parents.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

Topanga's parents changing was one of the funnier parts of the earlier seasons. They completely disappeared when she hit college, I believe.

Actually, the episodes when they got divorced happened towards the end of her freshman year-beginning of her sophomore year of college.

 

[Psycho Penguin]

Really? Wow. You're right though, I remember her living situation then.

 

[Richard]

I love how Boy Meets World is so far the only sitcom in the history of television that has had professional wrestlers guest star more than once. Usually, wrestling is a punchline to how dumb a character is, but on Boy Meets World, the wrestlers were characters themselves, and wrestling itself wasn't treated as a *total* joke.

Yep.. they had an entire episode devoted to Cory trying to make it to a wrestling match at MSG (despite living in Philly...)_ which pisses off Topanga cos she has a prom dance or something.

I think you're thinking of the one where Cory along with Shawn & Ethan Suplee are trying to be in Vader's corner for his match with Jake Roberts at the Spectrum while also switching to go to Topanga's Sweet 16 party.

Yup. Vader vs. Roberts took place at the Spectrum.
But MSG was indeed mentioned...the winner of the match got a WWF Championship shot vs. Shawn Michaels at the Garden.

Yeah, and the match was filmed at an actual WWF house show, which makes me wonder if anyone in that crowd was confused as to why Cory and Shawn from Boy Meets World were at ringside accompanying Vader that night.

Certainly didn't help that Vader was supposed to be a monster heel at the time.

 

[cheex incarnate]

I haven't had time to leaf through the whole thread, but has The Torkelsons (sp?) been brought up yet? that shit was my shit

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

Watching the early Boy Meets World episodes on ABC Family, it's clear that even the main characters got retooled too. In the first season, Cory and Shawn were just regular ordinary kids who hated school and thought girls were icky, Topanga was a hippie chick and Eric was just a regular teenager who managed to get all the girls. They didn't make Shawn into a poor kid from a trailer park or Eric into a moron or Cory socially awkward until the next season. And they completely changed Topanga's character.

I wish MINKUS~! stayed around a little while longer. That dude was awesome. Not as awesome as Mr. Feeny was, though.

The 1st season had the best theme song out of all the seasons, by the by.

I remember when I was a kid, I used to think that Cory had a crush on his little sister, since in the opening credits, it really looks like he's dreaming about her.

 

[Psycho Penguin]

Yeah the entire show got rebooted twice (once at start of season 2, once when they head off to college). Cory became a hypochondriac, Eric became clinically insane, Topanga became a bit of a bitch, and Shawn was dealing with a ton of family stuff.

I have season 1 on DVD, I should watch it again sometime. I actually didn't start watching the show as it aired til they were graduating high school (the episode where he proposes, in fact.)

 

[Jebus]

Cory morphed into an old Jewish man for some reason.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

I've always enjoyed watching relationships evolve, and both Boy Meets World and Family Matters had that in common. With Boy Meets World, you had the Cory-Topanga relationship, where we saw them in pretty much every situation possible, except for actually having kids: first they were friends, then they realized they loved each other, then they became a couple, then they broke up, then they became just friends, then they realized that they still loved each other, then they became a couple again, then they broke up again, then they hated each other, then they realized that they STILL loved each other, then they got back together, got engaged, then Topanga wanted to break up with Cory but Cory convinced her to stay together because love conquers all, then they got married and then got to live life as a married couple for a couple of episodes.

With Family Matters, we went from one end of the spectrum to the other. Laura DESPISED Urkel at first, and yet, in the final episode, they're engaged to be married. We saw Laura go from hating Urkel, to tolerating him, to being friends with him, to wanting his alter ego, to realizing that she really loved *him* all along. Which I guess was a lesson that the writers wanted to give us, the viewers, that if you pester a girl long enough for many years, eventually, she'll break down and want to date you. Good to know!

 

[strummer]

Which I guess was a lesson that the writers wanted to give us, the viewers, that if you pester a girl long enough for many years, eventually, she'll break down and want to date you. Good to know!

That didn't work for poor Skippy with Mallory!

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

Or Screech with Lisa!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

It's a bit surprising when you realize that Saved By The Bell only really lasted four seasons (five if you count Good Morning, Miss Bliss). It didn't even manage to make it to the 100 episodes that are usually required for a show to make it into syndication. To put it into perspective, Saved By The Bell: The New Class lasted seven. Maybe someone who lived through SBTB when it was in its first run will disagree but to me, it always seemed like the show was way more popular in reruns than it was when it was actually in its first run.

Point is if it had lasted three or four more seasons then we definitely we would have seen Screech tap Lisa's black ass. Then again, she wasn't on The College Years so who knows.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

I very rarely caught a first run SBTB episode on the TNBC block. Monday to Friday syndication in 1991 was how I rolled.

 

[chuck415]

Hell, that's how I still roll.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

I did watch The College Years as it happened though.

Moving back to TGIF, I was sad they had to make Mr Belvedere S4 a Shoutfactory.com exclusive. Naturally they sell it as MSRP and you get no chance for an Amazon discount.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Mr. Belvedere and Matlock are tops on the list of TV shows with themes way funkier than the shows themselves.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

Point is if it had lasted three or four more seasons then we definitely we would have seen Screech tap Lisa's black ass. Then again, she wasn't on The College Years so who knows.

She did make a cameo in the last episode, I think. The one before the TV movie where Zack and Kelly got married and the original Saved By The Bell story arc ended for good.

 

[MFer]

Saved By The Bell actors did have a pretty decent success rate after the show. Tiffani (no Amber) Thiessen did 90210, then Fastlane (of course, I was probably the only one who watched that show), and now White Collar. Mark-Paul Gosselaar had his run on NYPD Blue and was on Raising The Bar. Mario Lopez has been all over the hosting circuit while tapping some fine Latina ass along the way. Dustin Diamond...well I guess being a reality trainwreck is fitting for him. Can't win 'em all (Showgirls, anyone?)

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

Mark-Paul Gosselaar appearing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon *as* Zack Morris is still one of my favourite TV moments of all-time. I enjoy how the cast has no problems embracing their past and accepts that their biggest contribution to television history is Saved By The Bell (except for Screech).

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I don't know. Dustin was the one who wrote a sleazy tell all about the show and him and Belding were the only ones from the cast to actively participate in the E! True Hollywood Story so despite what he says, it's not like he's unwilling to cash in on being Screech. His sex tape was called "Screeched" for Pete's sake. Only reason he didn't show up for the People Magazine reunion was because the rest of the cast didn't want him there.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

The boys' reaction to Topanga growing boobs over the summer when they hit junior high school is my only lasting memory of Boy Meets World. That and the first time I'd ever heard of the Seven Minutes in Heaven game. The constant tease of hot first base action kept me coming back to that show in fifth grade, and then middle school wasn't anything like it. I was pissed.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Best Boy Meets World is the Halloween episode where they all get gruesomely murdered.

 

[Robert]

Was that the Scream parody?

 

[Mattdotcom]

Yes.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Jennifer Love Hewitt was in that episode! Good times.

 

[Gary]

Bab: you need to post that fan fiction diary of the Tanner's mom.

 

[BUTT]

http://www.full-house.org/fhfpc/fhfpcfr.html

 

[wnyxmcneal]

You guys should google for the Full House chronology. It's a 100+ page oral history of the Tanners

 

[Gary]

Holy fuck, it's 404 pages long.