Girl meets world is fan service

for boy meets world. I watched 2 episodes (the one about  the time capsule & the one about eric running for senator or something) & they were packed with references to boy meets world. No this isn't my first time watching girl meets world & yes I knew that shawn was in it. I just half payed attention since it premiered for whatever weird reasons. Gmw is really touching almost as much as the wonder years but not quite. Ok this isn't a review but the first episode I saw was about a time capsule. The girls can't decide what to put in their's while corey remembers his high school time capsule.  Yes you can already see where this is going and it's going there by which I mean there is no time capsule,  ok I kid, there's no M Night Shamalanamongadadingdong twist. The matthews family(that feels weird to say) and maya and shawn all head to Mr Feeny's house in philadelphia where apparently the boys somehow dug a metal box in his backyard without him noticing.

Maybe they buried it when he was busy being principal at john adams high, eh I'll believe it. Ok while topanga is digging, of course mr feeny pops out and we are treated to a flashback of corey and shawn doing the point while they currently point at feeny. The more things change the more they stay the same, also riley does the eric style feeny call. Things get mushy when feeny asks riley if corey is a good teacher which she replies with "he says your the best" and then next scene. The box contained a jean jacket which topanga wore the first time corey said I love you to her which is an awesome scene if your feeling emotional. There was also a note from lauren(a girl who tempted corey at a ski lounge in boy meets world) which topanaga ripped because she put it in the box to have the perfect moment to tear it. In further fan service to bmw, shawn had put stuff that belonged to angela(poem book, lipgloss and van dam ticket stub) which brought back old feelings.

Yeah it's obvious he didn't end up with her and there is a subplot in this episode that I should mention. Maya(the girl version of shawn) doesn't have a dad and her mom seems to have a thing for shawn. He visits the coffee shop miss maya works at and she realizes that he may still have feelings for angela, meanwhile maya wants shawn to date his mom because she doesn't want him to leave. Shawn has become a cool mentor adult to her and they relate to each other. Ok got that? after the time capsule opening, shawn goes to see miss maya(her name isn't mentioned) where they just sit on a couch then talk. Here's where more water works come in, shawn see's her applying lip gloss so he asks her if it's angela's flavor and it's not.

She say's it's different and that she likes trying different things because sometimes it's what you need. If I was in the right mood this would be a tear jerking scene. This episode just tugs on your heart especially the scenes with maya realizing that shawn might try to go after angela but it's pretty strong and right up there with the final episode of boy meets world. I'll post about the other episode in another post because this post is already a wall of text. I also want to give it a proper entry as it's incredibly touching.

I like how gwm makes references to bmw so fans that watched it will understand but it's done in a way that today's kids will also get it without being lost