When I was a young child I was memorized by the teenage
adventures of Corry Mathews and Shawn Hunter, on a little tevelvison program
which was a part of ABCs TGIF. I miss the day when all that matters was a fresh
box of pizza from the local pizzeria, and to turn on the television for ABCs Friday
night lineup. It was all that mattered apart from the new power ranger toys,
and the Saturday morning cartoons that would follow that next day. When you
were a kid did you picture high school to be a fun experience, for some of you
things turned out different? But Boy Meets World a show which went along with
the concept of a boy getting to know to real world through life lessons from
his teacher/next door neighbor George Pheney played William Daniels, who started
in the graduate with Dustin Huffman. Shawn Hunter the cool friend with the
leather jacket, and good looks who came from the wrong side of the tracks, in a
trailer park with a alcoholic dad; as oppose to Corry and his more middle class
life. Shawn seem to struggle thought with his family issues, and oppose to
Corry, who if had family issues they were always worked out. However, Shawn
with his good looks had a way with the ladies, and had the balls to make a pic
nic in snow for one of his sweet hearts. Eric Corry’s older brother was the perfect
example of how being the younger or middle sibling can feel underwhelming. Eric
was the cool well-dressed older brother with a car, and would always be dating.
But Eric who wasn't very academic was always not doing so well in school. Eric
was the prime example of the consequences of what Pheney said would happen if
you didn't give everything your best. Eric wound up staying home after high
school, and his character became more focused on comic relief. Corry and Shawn always seemed to come out
learning a lot after each episode; however the show was the back drop for
something more than just life lessons. The show told the story not just of a
friend ship, and the bitter sweet relationship between student and teacher but
something else. The greatest love story since Romeo and Juliet, unfolded as the
romance between Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence blossomed into a passion of undying
love that would last a life time. They knew each other since they were kids,
they she kissed him against his locker in Junior High, and he traveled all the
day to Disney Land, to hold her in his arms and win her back. Were Corry and
Topanga a perfect example of the American relationship, with all the up, and
downs, flows, ad consequences. Yet as my generation comes of age, what has shown
like Boy Meets World taught us. Can one teacher make a difference in your life,
if you have one best friend are you pretty
set, you don't need to date four million girls, you need to be with one girl
that makes you feel like a million. Did Pheney teach you the true value of learning?
If you study and give things your best it will pay off. And most all that the
things you learn in school reach further than just the class room. Yet as my generation
grows old, a new generation has taken over. We all they know that Corry and
Topanga got married, and the show ended with the couple moving to New York.
Some yet to wonder what happened, and some think for it to be obvious. Girl
Meets World is set to premier on the Disney channel with Corry and Topanga as
parents. But my overall point is will this new show for the generation has the
same impact as the old did. Will Corry and Topanga daughter Riley is as fun to
watch. For the new generation maybe, if the shows is aiming and young girls.
There will always be an old generation, and can’t accept the new ideas and formula.
But one thing will always be certain when the new Girl Meets airs, that the
teaching of George Pheny, (whom I’m not sure is going to be in it) will always
live on, and that there will be a Corry Mathews and Shawn Hunter in all of us.
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