Sunday, August 12, 2007

Boy Meets World


Boy Meets World is an American television sitcom that chronicles the events and everyday life lessons of Cory Matthews, who grows up from a pre-pubescent boy to a married man. The show aired for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000 on ABC, where it was one of the headliners of ABC's TGIF lineup.

Characters
Main article: Characters of Boy Meets World
Cornelius A. "Cory" Matthews - played by Ben Savage
Eric Randall Matthews - played by Will Friedle
Shawn Patrick Hunter - played by Rider Strong
George Hamilton Feeny - played by William Daniels
Alan Matthews - played by William Russ
Amy Matthews - played by Betsy Randle
Morgan Matthews - played by Lily Nicksay/Lindsay Ridgeway
Stuart Minkus - played by Lee Norris (Season 1; appearance in season 5)
Topanga Lawrence-Matthews - played by Danielle Fishel (recurring Season 1; Seasons 2-7)
Jonathan Turner - played by Anthony Tyler Quinn (Seasons 2-4)
Eli Williams - played by Alex Désert (Season 3)
Jack Hunter - played by Matthew Lawrence (Seasons 5-7)
Angela Shinaynay Moore - played by Trina McGee (recurring Season 5; Seasons 5-7)
Rachel Kimberly McGuire- played by Maitland Ward (Seasons 6-7)

[edit] Plot
The show revolves around Cory Matthews; the other characters often serve to help him cope with his difficulties in achievement in school, his moral conflicts with his best friend, Shawn Patrick Hunter, and his trouble understanding his girlfriend Topanga Lawrence. Shawn is dissimilar to Cory; he is a social rebel, he has an unsupportive family, and he has success with women, something which Cory envies at times. Cory's mother and father (Amy and Alan Matthews) are hard-working people trying to make a decent living in order to raise their three children (by the end of the series, a fourth child, Joshua Matthews, is born). Their other two children are Eric Matthews, the funny, handsome, half-witted older brother who tries to distance himself from Cory at all possible times; and Morgan Matthews, the younger sister, who sometimes uses her position as means of getting what she wants. Cory, with his stubbornness and laziness, struggles with his friends to get through school. To help them, there is Mr. George Feeny, Cory's teacher and neighbor. He tries as hard as possible to get them through school and he eventually does. Finally, there is Topanga Lawrence, Cory's first love, and in the later seasons, his fiancée, then wife. Topanga and Cory's relationship is the main focus of the later part of the series, and at the end of the series, Topanga, Cory, Shawn, and Eric leave suburban Philadelphia for New York City while later new-comers to the cast, Jack and Rachel join the Peace Corps and Angela goes to Europe with her father

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