The show “could have gotten more mileage out of them being together, but not yet married,” Fishel said on ‘Pod Meets World’
If Danielle Fishel could change one thing about Boy Meets World, she would have had Cory and Topanga wait to get married.
On the most recent episode of re-watch podcast Pod Meet World, Fishel and co-hosts Rider Strong and Will Friedle invited several fans of the beloved ’90s sitcom on to ask them anything. One listener wanted to know what the three stars would change about Boy Meets World if they could go back in time.
Fishel, 43, was the first to answer, dropping something of a bombshell: “I don't think I would have Cory and Topanga get married,” she said.
As Boy Meets World fans are well aware, Fishel’s character Topanga Lawrence proposed to high school sweetheart Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) in the show’s May 1998 fifth season finale. Fresh out of high school, the two characters spent the show’s sixth season engaged before tying the knot early in the seventh and final season.
“I think I might have her still do the proposal,” Fishel explained, “and maybe he still says yes, and we go through the whole planning, and then we end up deciding it's maybe not the right choice for us right now. And we still stay together. We don't have to be broken up, but maybe we just save the marriage aspect for the end of the show and not spend the last, like, full year of the show married.”
Fishel’s character did briefly call off the wedding early in the show’s final season, but the couple quickly reconciled and were married in the November 1999 episode “It’s About Time.”
As Strong noted, Fishel’s answer was something of a hot take considering the Pod Meets World hosts have yet to cover the episodes in question.
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“I know from my just my memories of it, after we were married, feeling like, well, now we're married, and they had to come up with new, like, upping the stakes for us,” Fishel recalled. “And I remember not loving those stakes.”
Fishel added that she felt like the show “could have gotten more mileage out of them being together, but not yet married.”
The actress previously told PEOPLE at 90s Con earlier this year that the characters were definitely too young to get married. "There are stories of it working out," Fishel said at the time, "but I would say, on a whole, getting married right out of high school is not usually ideal."
Despite Fishel’s misgivings, it all worked out for Cory and Topanga in the end. Both Fishel and Savage returned as their Boy Meets World characters in the Disney Channel’s 2014 reboot, Girl Meets World. The series found Cory and Topanga still married after 15 years, and raising their tween daughter Riley (Rowan Blanchard).
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Strong and Friedle had their own changes they would have made to the show. After joking that he would have recast Strong’s character, Friedle, 47, said he would have liked to see Lee Norris’s character, Stuart Minkus, stick around longer. Minkus only appeared in Boy Meets World’s first season, returning for a guest appearance in season 5.
“There was so much comedy to be mined there and the relationship between the four of them as a group, as a friend group,” Friedle said of Fishel, Strong, Savage and Norris’s characters. “I think they missed an awful lot of funny by getting rid of Lee.”
Both Fishel and Strong agreed. “What a missed opportunity,” said Strong, 44. “His talent alone, just being there, even if he was, like, not in every episode, but he would have made Minkus so great as he got older.”
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Similarly, Strong said he wished Anthony Tyler Quinn, who played Cory, Topanga and Shawn’s high school English teacher, hadn’t left the show after season 4.
“The other thing I was thinking is, like, maybe just go back and stop at season 4,” Strong added. The three Pod Meets World hosts have been consistently critical of many of the choices and storylines in Boy Meets World’s fifth season since they started recapping it earlier this summer.
“The show at season 4 would've been enough. Good run. We’d have gone out on a high note,” Strong said. “But I actually think maybe if we had kept [Quinn], because that would've been the end of season 4, the show would have stayed a little more grounded or a little more in the vein that I'm not feeling in season 5.”
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