TGI – Episode 607 “Everybody Loves Stuart” - Pod Meets World

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
I want to thank everyone who emailed us to let
us know about some alleged boy meets world of plagiarism
on a little show. Yeah, so, do either of you
watch Love is Blind?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh my god, India has become obsessed with Love is Blind,
which is the yes. It was one of those things
like yes, we somehow turned on the TV and it
was like an option. He's like, what's that and we
were like, oh, it's this crazy show to and he's like,
load's watch it. He has now devoured a whole season. Well,
and you know what's so interesting about is that he's
still like, doesn't he's not one of those kids who

(00:55):
ever cares about romance like people kissing a movie. And
he's like, but for whatever reason, Love is Blind is
like his jam and he just he thinks he's fascinated.
And it's kind of like, Okay, we sit and talk
about like why these people like each other and what
kind of risk they're taking, and and it's really I'm like, Okay,
if this is how we're going to talk about romance
and like talk through stuff, why not I guess sure? Yeah,

(01:16):
it's interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Now Love is Blind? Is that the n one?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes? I think Nick, because there's married at first sight, right, Yeah,
this is Love is Blind, Nick, And.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I've seen most of the seasons.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Okay, okay, it's it's mostly people just sitting in rooms
talking and they can't see each other, can't see each other.
They spend like a month or whatever getting to know
and then they just like get down on the knee
and and get engaged. And it's well awkward moments.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
But many a core Penga fans ears perked up this
season when a contestant, Dave, professed his love to a
woman he has never seen before. And somehow that's not
the craziest part of the episode. So the craziest part
is the connection to our show. So let's play a
TikTok from user lou Berger Music, who points out the issue.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
I'm sitting here watching Love is Blind and this moron,
Dave just stole a line from Boy Meets World.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Listen, man, if I.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Could dream of the perfect woman, oh, she wouldn't even
come close to you. That is from Boy Meets World.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
When asks to Panga to be I think that's what
he proposes to her. It's either a proposal or when
he asked to be his girlfriend.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
That is from Boy Meets World. You did.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
We actually haven't. We haven't seen that line yet on
the show. Have we haven't said.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
No, not yet I think, But oh god, that's great. Yeah.
If he just ended with with and I Love you
and then a Foenie call, uh, that would have been
the great proposal. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
So apparently he was not happy with the amount of
attention that he got from his first TikTok. He didn't
think people were taking this seriously enough, so he created
a song and I'd like to play it for you.
Have you heard about Dave on?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Love Is Behind.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
The Mother's Blinding is a reality show for people like
me who love to make themselves sad twenty to thirty
something singles blind day and get engaged and act like
they're the most important thing. And they all get really drunk,
get experience unique love and say a bunch of natsense. Well,
this season, with the Magic but Child's Wish, they brought
a potato to life named Dave and his portance. Lauren
had to endure his insecurities about his sister an annoying friends,

(03:34):
and suddenly, without warning, I'm pissed because he stole a
quote from boy meets world of proposed to her and
nobody is mad enough about it for my liking.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, we've all seen her dream of the perfect woman.
You can't get away with this. You can't get away
with this, Dave.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
You can't steal a line by means potato, he.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Said, that's no, no, he did.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
But if when he meets her, he says.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Dave, you're a potato. So anyway, I just I wanted
you guys to know about that the update. Thank you
so much to everybody who sent that into us. Uh
and yeah, there there, there we are on love is Blind?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
All right, what do you guys think? Do you think
that that's conscious plagiarism or do you think he had
just absorbed that line and actually has no idea where
it came from in his life and he just.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Thought it was to say, I think he knows. I
think if you if you absorb a full quote like that,
because like if the idea of like you're the most
perfect woman, you're you're more perfect than and then my imagination,
could you know, like you would reword it if it
were just the idea you absorbed, it wouldn't be.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
For word, Dave.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's also weird because later he said you had me
at Hello, and so I know that guy.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
This guy's just ripping off off.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
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Speaker 3 (05:06):
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(06:11):
today we are here to recap season six, episode seven,
Everybody Loves Stewart. It originally aired November sixth, nineteen ninety eight.
The synopsis Corey faces possible expulsion from college when a
creepy teacher pushes the boundaries with Chipanga. It was directed
by our very own William Rusty Russ Rusty. It was

(06:32):
written by Matthew Nelson. And before I jump into our
guest stars, what did you guys think of this episode?
What did you did you remember all the details of
the episode. What did you think?

Speaker 2 (06:43):
What a ROMP just a just a fun let's just
have some fun, just.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Like giggle fast mm hmmm.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, I mean no, it's just the exact opposite of
a ROMP.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, very rump.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
I'm trying to pronounce romp backwards more. Yeah, it's just yeah,
I don't know, it's it's really uh heavy handed didac Yeah,
and kind of painful to watch. So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, it's not a fan, not a fan. Okay, Well
what did you think?

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah? I didn't like. I know it was how to
Panga just sits there quiet through the whole freaking thing, like,
never speaks. It's not about her at all, even though
it's happened to her. I did. Sean is a completely
different human being. Uh, Sean has changed more than Eric
has changed in my opinion by this episode. I did

(07:42):
not get it. I don't know what's happening. I I
just I didn't get it. I didn't get it.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I definitely liked it more than either one of you did,
that's for sure. I did not appreciate how much of
it felt like it after school special. It definitely was
like real, you know, those be good though, sure, I
and I also exactly will you took the words out
of my mouth? I felt like this thing that happened

(08:10):
to Tapanga became about how is the man in her
life going to feel about it? And what's he going
to do about it? Like Tapega's agency was completely just
taken away. It was I did not appreciate that at all.
With that said, the idea that our show is a
show where you have followed us from the time we

(08:32):
were little kids until the time we are now in college,
and the importance of doing an episode about what happens
when all of a sudden, people in positions of power
take advantage of your trust. I think the the what
this what the goal of this episode was somewhere is

(08:56):
so important.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
And kind of ahead of its time in the nuance
of it, you know what I mean? In the in
the idea that like it's not completely clear.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Correct, you know, it's just the bad guy's not going
to be in a trench coat with a hood but
stalking you. He's gonna present himself as a friend, and
you may think he's really cool, And even if you
think he's really cool, that doesn't mean he's actually a
good guy. And even if you have a good experience
with him, it doesn't mean he's he's a good guy
to everyone. Like those things are so important.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
That's something our show often did well because the the
episode with Arianna Richards where she was getting abused by
her dad. Her dad was a banker, her dad was
an upstanding and somebody that everybody likes. So our show
often did things like this well, Yes, and.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
We personally have experience with it.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
It's so we do.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
It's such a personal it's so it's so important. So
for me, what I walked away from the episode with
was like I empathized with the writers who have a
very good idea to tell a very important message and
great ambition, Yes, a great ambition, and then you do

(10:12):
have to find how do we thread this needle? How
do we get across how important this is without being
too heavy handed and without trying to seem like we're
making light of it. They I don't think that goal
was achieved. I do think they just decided let's lean
into the melodrama of it. But anyway, I did at
least walk away from it going just on what we've

(10:36):
seen so far in the college level of anything really important,
going on real lesson happening, nothing, nothing's happened. So I
walked away from the episode going I at least appreciate that.
I see, let's share an ambitious, good message, even if
it wasn't handled the best.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
That's what I would say. That's literally what I said.
I watched it twice and I said that to Sue.
I said, an important message, not great execution, which is
which is what I came away. There's a lot, I mean.
The one time Tapanga opens her mouth, she's told to
be quiet by the Dean.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Wait what exactly?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
She never tells her story to anybody that can help,
literally never once. Corey doesn't even tell his story. It's
Feeni who takes charge, who wasn't there. The parents are
that Sean is not on Corey's side. It was strange
character moment after strange character moment in a very important message.
The one thing I did love which I think this
is the start of we're going to see more of

(11:33):
which I enjoyed just because I remember shooting them was
all of us together on the couch like we were
in friends, which I remember having a lot of fun
doing that and enjoying that dynamic of us just sitting
there in the student union having some dialogue, sipping on coffee,
like we felt like adults. So that I liked that
aspect of it, but a lot of it I was
just like, what the wait, what the hell is going on?

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, Sean's completely different. To that point, Trina gets the
best laugh of the episode the way she says it
with like such honesty.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
And she's truly laughing. She's like it, Yes, it's so
well delivered. It's like, oh yeah, I love That's a genius.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
It's my favorite moment for her for sure. I also
did love that even like that it is at the
end when it's all of us kind of standing around,
it does even though Sean and Angela are broken up,
there is still that for some of us as friends,
like that still that is really nice. Well, to your point,
all of us being together is really nice, I will say, like,

(12:33):
and I don't necessarily when you think back to that time,
the nineties, I don't know that women felt as comfortable
speaking up. I will not agree with you more. No,
like if you look at the Monica.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Lewinsky, Oh yeah, no, I'm sure they didn't, and they
were lambastad when they did a lot of time. It
is so awful. But I mean, and we'll get into it,
but I mean she doesn't tell anybody in power to
the point where when it's already sitting the fan, she
goes to to Stuart and it's essentially says, unless you
stop this right now, I'm going to go tell somebody

(13:04):
like you haven't already said something. And I know it
was in a safe space at the time, but I
thought that was an odd way to put it. And
I know she's like almost like blackmailing him with something else.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's so confused why he like, I loved another thing
I loved. I loved that the paper they're discussing is
about gray area and about well, when when is it
crossing the line? When is it not? And so I
was confused why he then turned it around and was like,

(13:38):
well you came on to me as opposed to just
gaslightinger and going I didn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, we were talking about talking about you while you
were described that he's actually kind of the anti Feenie
and that he's like teaching you a life lesson through experience.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
So he's like, watch me come on to you exactly.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
And at the end of the episode, he could be like,
and now you've learned your lesson, right, class dismissed, and
it would have been like, oh the dark Phoenie. Yeah,
he's kind of I had the same thought. I was like,
is and and it's and that scene is interesting in
the way that he's playing with like could he be teaching,
could be just doing you know?

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, and Fred plays a great I mean he plays
a great I mean it's so it's so creepy this guy.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
But then later in the student union he's like, you
came on to me, and I'm like, wait, wait a minute,
there's a there's a better there's a better argument for this,
which is I have no idea what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
If we're discussing your paper.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
The door was open. I asked your roommate to stay, Like,
what's what's the problem of anything?

Speaker 1 (14:36):
You wanted me to come there? You told me were
you know, it was just it was a little weird anyway.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, and I want to say one of the things,
like this weird feeling that I had, like taking this
episode and thinking about the last episode, which is when
Topanga and Sean kiss and Corey freaks out right, I
was like, what is going on here?

Speaker 1 (14:53):
There?

Speaker 2 (14:53):
There? There's actually a theme building here. And they're very
different episodes. Obviously, one has played for comedy and one
has played for this drama, but they're both about Corey's
anxiety around regulating to pangas sexuality, like regulating her this
is And it's like they're it's played for comedy in
one case and played for like an important life lesson

(15:14):
the other. But in both cases the focus is on
his sort of trying to get like what right does
he have to own to pang another singing?

Speaker 1 (15:23):
What are her thoughts? What is it is it that
you like this guy that I'm going to forge? Yeah,
it's just.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
How is he going to manage that she might want
somebody else? And then how is he going to manage
that somebody else might want her like? And those are
sort of both questions about like now that we're engaged,
now that I own her or have her like how
do I regulate or manage this relationship personally with this?
And it's like it was right up against this, like
this notion of female sexuality where it's like the property

(15:49):
of the man that she's with, like which is like
you know, legally coverture or like female chattel like this,
and it's like right up against it where I'm just like,
what are we saying, Like why is a Corey's responsibility
to stand up for her? Why is it Corey's responsibility
to take the fall when he does stand up for her?
And it was like, clearly, like that's the concern. The
concern is not how Tapanga feels. It's about how to

(16:11):
the violation of Tapanga is reflected through current violates Corey's
rights and Corey's rights to her sexuality or to be
involved or deciding or I don't know. And it just
made me so uncomfortable. I was like this, you know,
like what to the point that you guys are making
like why isn't she speaking up?

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Why?

Speaker 2 (16:28):
And it's like right, and I get that, like in
the time that might not have been possible or understandable,
but taken with last week's episode, it is like there's
something going on here where it's like that, it's it's
all about Corey's Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Now, granted it is Boy meets World, so it's gonna
be through Boy the Boy's POV. But I think had
there been even a little bit longer of the scene
between Corey and to Panga, where we at least hear
Corey say, what do you want to do about this?
This happened to you? What do you What do you want?

(17:03):
How can I best support you?

Speaker 2 (17:04):
You can be an advocate for you?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
How can I how can I help you? And by
the way, this is up to you if you don't
want to say anything, which he can say I don't
agree with or whatever, but like, let me support you
there if you do, how can I be there to
support you? Whatever this is about you? What do you want?
Because I thought of that when then and the in
the scene where he pushes Stuart, I thought, did Tapanga

(17:27):
say I want you to confront him? Yes, go talk
to him? I want yes, please do that for me.
We don't know. We don't even know whether or not
to Panga wants this to happen or is expecting him
to say something like it. Topanga becomes unimportant.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
That's what. Even when the parents come in, they go, oh,
my god, Corey, do you hit it? Are you okay? Like,
what tell us what happened to Panga? My god is nothing.
And there was that one little moment at the end
where Betsy comes in and puts her shoulder on She's like, hey,
I'm glad you're It's something like that. And I'll bet you,
Betsy that in that conversation where she said I want

(18:03):
to say something to Tapanga, I will guarantee you that
was not in the original script.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah. Yeah, well, it's definitely an interesting episode, all right.
Guest starring Fred Savage as Stuart, the brother of our
star Ben Savage. Fred was one of the decades's most
recognizable young actors of the decade from the hit TV
show The Wonder Years, where he played Kevin Arnold. He
also starred in movies like The Princess Bride, Little Monsters,
and The Wizard. He would later turn his focus to

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directing TV on dozens of sitcoms, including Boy Meets World,
with two episodes in season seven kicking off his career
behind the camera, and then Bonnie Bartlett returns as Dean
Lila Bolander bye.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
She is really really great, great chance in this episode.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
See, she's awesome, really wonderful, even though I can't believe
she told Tapanga to like shut up.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well, so you were about to tell what happened?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
I mean, yeah, I was already to open my mouth.
You know this is not right? All right? So we
start in the Penbrooke classroom, standing in the back of

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the class to Panga confidently expresses her views and that's
why I believe a person is responsible for her own
destiny and can be anything she wants. Once her speech
is concluded, her teacher, Stuart proudly responds, ladies and gentlemen,
let's hear it for Tepanga. Lawrence, the next president of
the United States. Corey speaks up above everyone's applause. That
makes me the first lady. You see how secure I

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am in my sexuality. He turns to the boy sitting
next to him and gives him a small wave.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh whoa oho, such a Michael read.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
And then he kind of gives him a look like
he's flirting or something, and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, it was a strange. It was a strange.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well, it was kind of a callback to last week's
because doesn't he say hello when the guy walks in.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yes, he does, but I don't like.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
I confront him and yeah, so I think they just
liked the way he said it. Let's put it in
here now and then exactly.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
What it was. I'll guarantee you it got a huge laugh.
They loved it. And so with the I'm this boy,
I'm that boy, you know, they would we would hit
a joke one week and then they try to do
it in another episode, and that's exactly what this was.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, but I okay, it's like it came off of
the sexuality joke. And then I was confused if that
if it's somehow connected to that or I don't I
don't really understand. The professor asks Stapega if she really
believes in all that little merry sunshine stuff, and she
doesn't hesitate. Yeah I do, he smiles back, So do I,

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and then he adds to a point. He quickly swivels
to the other side of the class. Sean. Sean shouts
back Stuart. The professor points out nice haircut, and then
the hair, the hair joke, the hair comments and jokes
for the next several lines, just they keep a coming.
Sean thanks him.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah, he was, we've had some hair hair hair change,
but also some hair changes. Yeah, big on boy meets world.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, and then Stuart fires back, it looks like an
eight dollar haircut, So I guess he didn't really like
your haircut.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Okay, he's just showing that he's just ribbing.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Because he is one of the guys.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
One of the guys. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
He asks Sean, what philosophical belief to panga just spouted,
and Sewn responds free will. Stuart's impressed, calling him a
big deal with the new hair. Sewan adds she's in
charge of her own actions, therefore creates her own destiny.
Stuart wonders if Seawan agrees with her belief, and Shawn admits,
in my experience, you don't bet against a panga or
you'll get your butt kicked.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
Now, a studious intellectual, well, just we cannot be surprised
because when Sean went to college when he was still
in high school, he learned about free.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Will, and.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
What if I had brought up like, you know.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
It's just but Seawan is difft this season. He's just
I think was.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, like I'm just I'm sort of non existent as
a character. You know, like there's no like no recognition
of the Angela situation or like what I'm doing outside
of that situation. Yeah, I'm kind of just a sounding
board in this episode. Yeah yeah, yeah. It's low energy,
sort of like what is it's anything.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
This season has actually supported the hypothesis that Feene and
high school was stopping Sean from living his best life,
because the implication so far seems to be that Sean
got to college, lived, lived lives with his best friend,
is thriving in classes, is thriving socially, broke up with Angela.

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It hasn't even mentioned it.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Just Sean is doing really well off camera. He's stuck
with this friend group is like to his detriment, and.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Sean needed off of Boy Meets World.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
If you were the right god, Like this is just
my body, My soul is way on the other side
of the town of Ocal.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
You can see it because I know you. You can
see that you are dead, dead inside it.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
There's no I can tell that I'm not and I
feel it watching it. I'm sitting there. I remember this
feeling of like gotta say the thing, gotta get that
fake energy going through the motions, and you're going it's Yeah,
it's too bad that there's not you know. Yeah, when
I think about like when we started this rewatch and

(23:35):
we hit like goofy, confident, funny Sean in like second season,
and I was like, oh, whoa, I forgot that this
Seawn existed. Now I just want it back so bad,
and I like, wouldn't it be great if like, and
I hope this comes because I don't remember, but I
hope that like Corey and Sean get into some kind of.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Something to be like, oh, Sean's caring about his friend
again and actually involved in the storyline, like in a
real yeah I missed that.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah to Panga nods and approval at what Sean said.
The professor turns to Corey. Now, how about it, Romeo,
you buy what Juliet is saying. Corey nods. I think
you have to have some control over the things that
happened to you.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Stuart surprised Juliet, and Juliet was in the pilot. Man,
It's like, I know, but it's like, my.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
God, to Panga, Romeo and Julia, it doesn't end.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
It doesn't, Juliet, I know, but there's so much, like
you know, this is just to establish you know that
they're married, that they're that everybody knows exactly so committed
they are, like the real love thing.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
And I think that's what they're doing. They went out
of their way to show that. You know, Stuart knew
that Corey and to Pango worked together. Right. That's that's
what all this is about, is you've got to just
rapped us up, the scumbag.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
One someone else's woman.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah, I mean that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Stuart surprised, and he gives Corey a hypothetical. Corey Matthews
wakes up one morning, he kisses his lovely wife, he
leaves his nice suburban home, and and then he gets
hit by a bus. Sean blurts out, I'll miss you, buddy.
Corey isn't phazed. I don't get hit by a bus
because I used crosswalks. I memorize the bus schedules, and
if I got a wife like Tapanga, I ain't leaving
the house. Stuart isn't backing down. Bus hits you anyway.

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He asks the class, what's that called, and Angela answers, fate.
Your life is predestined and there's nothing you can do
about it. Corey's worried that bus is going to drive
right through my house to get to me. Sean shouts
out again, I'll miss you, buddy. Stuart reveals that most
of the class's recent papers were pretty bad. He reminds
them this is in high school anymore, and he encourages
them to free up their minds. With that, the students

(25:37):
start to file out. Corey b lines to Sean, this
guy is awesome. I've been waiting a thousand years for
a teacher like this. Sean agrees. He's not like Feenie
at all. He treats us like equals. Feeni was like
a parent. This guy's like a friend.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Also, did it bump either of you that there's eight
bajillion names to pick from? But they took Stuart, as
in Stuart mankis. I know?

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Why would they do Stuart?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Why double up on this? And but this is also
a TV trope. Everybody on Mash is married to someone
named Louise so or Mildred. There's only two names of
any women on the entire show, so it's like you
could have picked anything. Why go Stuart again, I'm just curres.
I like to know why that is.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
I did not think of it, And it's a very
valid question.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
I do not know. Yeah, that's what I was thinking of,
was like why why Stuart?

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Well, then we're in the student union. Stuart is playing
pool with the gang and Angela makes a shot. She
tells her professor. He owes her a coffee. Stuart knows
the drill and asks if anyone else would like one,
and response Corey to Panga and Sean, I'll take him
up on his offer. The professor jokes that he only
has two hands, so he asks Topanga for a little help,
and she happily agrees.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
The persons city you asked the people around you, Hey,
you over there, get up and come with me. That's
all part of the plan.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
And if they could have gotten away with it, this
would have been.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Beers of court. Yeah, that's what it's supposed to be.
Did either of you have a teacher like this, either
in high school or college the teacher were Now that
you look back at, you're like, wow, that was actually
super creepy that this guy or girl was showing up
at parties or hanging out with friends or any like like,
did you have any of that?

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I did not have any teachers showing up at parties
or pretending to be our friends. But that doesn't mean
I didn't have any creepy teachers. I very much had
a creepy, creepy history teacher who had a reputation for
putting all of the young girls in the front couple
of rows and all of the other kids in the

(27:42):
back rows. And he regularly wore pretty fitted short shorts
and then would sit on the desks of the girls
in his class, and it was it was like a
well known thing that everyone's like, oh, you got that guy. Yeah,
I'm sorry, and it was just like uncomfortable for everyone involved, Like, man,
I'm stuck with this guy. So yes, those teachers, that

(28:03):
kind of teacher existed for.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Me, those bows, that's awful. I a teacher who you know,
was very seemed very young and cool to all of us,
but always maintained a level of like authority and was
a great teacher in the classroom. But he was only

(28:25):
twenty three, you know, in retrospect, so I think a
lot of that vibe was actually just a function of
his age age. But then I found out he ended
up dating somebody from my grade after she graduated, and
I don't know anything about it because, like you know,
I wasn't around like for that. But that's when I
was like, oh, maybe maybe he was crossing the lines
in ways that I just had no idea. Wow, But

(28:47):
that was only retroactively, Like at the time, he was
always still very much an adult, do you know, like
he's different than the other adults, like, but he was
still very much a good teacher and an adult in
my life. But yeah, he was like twenty three, twenty four,
so there was a sense of like, oh, kind he's
kind of cooler in one of us and talk to
him about like right, I don't know, so there wasn't
that vibe.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
And yeah, well there was a guy in our high
school that we always thought he'd always, like every year
be very close with one or two of the younger girls.
So there was always rumors that it's like that, is
that inappropriate?

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Is that weird?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
And then like ten or fifteen years later, he was
fired for that exact thing where wow, they proved that
something had happened and he was out made the papers
and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, creepy.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Once out of earshot, he thinks Toapega for taking his
class and challenging things. He admits a teacher likes a
student who participates and shakes things up. It makes class
more exciting. Topeka, surprised and earnestly thanks him for the compliment.
Stuart orders the five coffees and then says to Tapanga,
if we don't challenge our leaders, we have no right
to complain over how they lead. Topega recognizes that that

(29:50):
is a quote from her paper. He tells her it
was a good paper besides the area where she got
a little lazy with the summary. But they'll go over it.
He asked, well, can's the paper about?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Why is it about out discussing late? Right?

Speaker 3 (30:03):
But is it about free will? Or then what does
that have to do with leaders? Is that so it's
about ethics? Is what the papers supposed to be about.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yes, I'm assuming.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah it's ethics with people who are in positions of power.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Yeah, okay, Because I was like, wait, is it about
free will or is it about being It's like and
that's why it made no sense when he brought the
cat at the end, like, wait, what is this paper about.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Whatever it needs to be about for the lines, I'm
just curious.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, he asks how campus life is going into Penga
shrugs Angela and I are in Mackay so small rooms,
lousy food. He sarcastically responds, welcome to college. As they
leave with the coffees, Dean Bolander and mister Feenie walk
by and say hello. Now at the counter, the Dean
asks George what he'd like, but Feenie insists it's on him.
He reminds her he's the new teacher on campus. It
wouldn't be professional to accept a drink from his boss.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
And you see Matt in the background. Matt is just sitting.
Matt's on the couch in the background, waiting for the
next scene to start, and at times he's just watching
the scene. You just watch.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
He's watching the show. He's just watching the show take place.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
He's like watching for a little while, and then he
turns and then he's like kind of watching a little thing,
like all right, yeah, MAT's just watching the show like
everybody else.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
The Dan asks again what he would like to drink,
and Phoene swiftly answers double blended, non fat, no whip frappuccino.
Phoenie shrugs, I usually take care of myself. She encourages
him to relax, and he takes a deep breath in response.
Now more relaxed, Phoene speaks up, Do you think I
could have a biscatti too? She shoots him a look,
I'm not rich, Phoene other So.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
I want to watch this show.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
I know.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
I want to watch Phoenie and Bolander have a show
that their age group. You you focus it towards like
the same kind of Golden Girls era kind of people.
And that's a television show. I would watch.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Everytally watching them try and figure out youth culture and
like them, but like not understand them. That's a great ideas,
been so great.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
And then dating and what's dating that age like? And
what is that a tale? And the first time they
have to hook up, Oh my god, there's so much
to mind there. That would have just been incredible. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Meanwhile, Eric is sitting with Corey and his friends looking
in Stuart's direction. I don't like him. Corey says he
doesn't even know him, but Eric argues, I'm telling you something.
I have a gift. I know people. Then he notices
a girl in the distance from behind and shouts, hello, Wow,
how would you like to come home to that every day?

Speaker 3 (32:29):
It's such a weird joke to forget the even just
the creepy part. It's just a weird joke that it's
clearly her. She's five feet away.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
She's also seven feet tall.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
And.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, yeah, I get what they're going with, but it's
just a weird joke that was kind of like, why
that joke?

Speaker 2 (32:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
I also am I get that they I'm a little
confused about. I love that Eric has this perception and
that he picks up on it, but how does it
what's the benefit of it in the storyline that Eric
also didn't like him or have a good feeling about him.
That to Pega's not making it up. I don't know

(33:15):
what is.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, I think it's I think it's a plant the
seed because so much of this episode is about arriving
at a moral conclusion like right, and and an order
like in order to make that conclusion like correct. So
there's no doubt at the end that Stewart is an
awful person who has done a bad thing.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
It's like they wanted to also represent the possibility of ambiguity, right.
They wanted it to be like people that take advantage
of situations like this are often the friendly one, you know,
and so you kind of can't have it both ways,
especially on a kid's show. It's like you can't have
it be crystal clear that this person's bad and also

(33:56):
so you so if you you know, if you notice,
by the end of the episode, everybody's like literally on
one side of the room against Stuart. It's like everyone
that we know, our family, like our who we identify with,
has is able to see this guy for what he is,
but the rest of the world might not. And it's
like the whole episode is about everybody coming to that
conclusion and reaching it with absolute certainty and inviting the

(34:17):
reader or the watcher into that certainty, but then leaving
the window open that like, and we have to be
careful because arriving at this certainty could be difficult sometimes,
and so like you have to plant that seed with
somebody like Eric, who even though he's the dumb one
or he never can see things, he kind of instinctually knows.
And it's it's like an interesting you know, it's.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
I had a weird realization during this episode. Eric is
a dog, meaning he's got a great heart.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
He's a golden retriever.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
They always say like if you have a dog, if
a dog doesn't like somebody, you trust that and I
swear to god. Eric is like he's got the long
shaggy hair, and.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
You are a golden retriever.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Retriever. You're smart, you're superfl You're loyal as hell, good.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Heart, really loyal intuition.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Swim yes, shut on the grass.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
It might hump your leg.

Speaker 8 (35:15):
I might have, you know, but well intentioned.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
But you have to tell him that it's not the
right place.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I'm telling you, Eric, is it really is that? I wonder, like, yeah,
that's so cool. I I am this weird. I'm having
this really hard time with Like the way that Eric's
comedy is responded to by the other characters is getting
really boring to me. In this episode, it's twice that
people go unbelievable, You're just, You're just and it's like

(35:45):
that beat that sort of is I don't know, it's
it's like it's.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
The opposite of yes and shut up.

Speaker 8 (35:54):
But I was thinking about a relationship to like cringe
comedy or like because I think, like what now, what
an Eric type character would be, you know in later
comedies is like zach alifan Akis in.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
The hangover or somebody who like says the like crazy
inappropriate thing that you're just like, what what? And in
cringe comedy that's played for like discomfort and like everybody
being like we don't know what to do with this
like awkward energy or whatever. And in our show it's
like this explosive awkwardness and out of touch and then
we have to like cap it down and like immediately
be like that's not right and shame it. And I'm like,

(36:29):
stop shaming it, Like I don't care. We don't need
to contextualize it. Let's just let him be crazy. And
I'm hoping that we.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Lose that as at least because when the dog gets
too yuppy, you've got to sit there and tell.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Me its crazy place.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, well Jack cringes, we do come home to that.
It's Rachel, you unbelievable, incredible buffoon. Eric goes back to
his original point. He has a feel for these things,
and Stewart is no feene. He couldn't even clap Peoenie's erasers.
Then Eric ye over with the Phoene call fne Yo
having coffee with the Dean whoa fanny. He shrivels in

(37:06):
his chair and Dean Bolander gives a little wave. Sean
tells Eric, sooner or later, you're gonna have to cut
this chord from Phoenie and see what else is out there.
Eric isn't hearing it. If there's one thing I know,
it's people I've lived among them. It's my fifth sense.
Jack corrects him, you mean your sixth sense. Eric responds, no,
that's smell. You gotta be real lucky to get that,

(37:27):
which is.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
So cute, strange, And you notice you're trying not to
laugh as you and I are speaking. This is right now,
writer peak us can't be in the same scene.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
You guys cannot. I thought of it when it was happening.
I was like this, There are reasons why you guys
thought we can't work together, and this is one of them.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
And it seems like this.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Eric reiterates this. Stanley guy Jack correcshim Stuart. Eric adjusts Stuart,
he's bad news. You trust me. We see Tapega now
playing pool alongside Stuart, and everything seems fine from here.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Little camera move there.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Notice that we all, we all become the camera.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
We turned towards the back and the camera follow clever, rusty, clever.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Will's picking up on it.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Now, I get it.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Then we're into Panga and Angela's dorm. The girls are
hanging out and there's a knock at the door. Okay,
you want to know something that's stupid. That really bothered me.
Angela is sitting on the bed and she is painting
her nails, and she has her purse on her shoulder,
just ready to just ready to go. Just why why
she's she's painting her nails? She is not I know that.

(38:36):
Later to Penga says, we were getting ready to go
to the dorm, and I guess the argument could be,
once your nails are wet, you don't want to have
to put your arm through the sleeve. But the minute
the shot was on her, I was like, why, where,
where's where's she going? Why is her purse on her shoulder?
Why she's sitting on the bed painting her nails? Drove
me nuts?

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Got a wax.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I know it's a TV show, it's a rough everything.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
You're right, I did take it too far with that one.
There's a knock at the door. It's Stuart. They are
surprised to see him. He notices one of his students
in the hallway, Hansen, you owe me a paper. I
don't believe in grades, but i'll flunk your butt to
paying an. Angela laugh as Stuart enters to Panga. I
was in the neighborhood and we talked about going over
your paper.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
So okay, I'm in the neighbor this guy's shady.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Stuart tells Angela, I don't have your paper, but we
can discuss what I remember. Tapanga explains they were actually
about to head to the student union. She tells Angela
to go ahead without her and she'll meet her there.
On her way out, Angela jokingly comments, you two leave
the door open. Both of them laugh it off, which
is weird. I don't know why this joke was made.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
I think to make it clear that the door is
left open. But yes, that was never Yeah, but it's
it is like we're that Angela would even make the joke,
Is it right?

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Because then it implies that, like, you guys want to
put potential.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah right.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
It's just kind of weird.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
So, I mean, is this okay? Are teachers actually allowed
to date their students in college?

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Well, it's actually I mean, I think it varies somewhat
from school to school, but like I know that, Like
in my faculty handbook it's you you cannot have a
relationship with a student that you are teaching or that
you're in a supervisory role of any sort, And then
relationships with students in general are just kind of discouraged,
like because there's the potential. It's like it's spelled out, like,

(40:34):
but the only real prohibition, like that's an actual rule
is like if you're in a supervisory role or you're
in there or you're teaching their class, them in class,
there can be no relationship.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
What about if you what about if they have an
end up in the future in your class?

Speaker 5 (40:49):
That is it.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Then if you're in a relationship with somebody, then you
shouldn't be that person's teacher and you shouldn't try to
take that person's class. That part I actually don't know, Yeah,
because that's what's interesting is like sure, this semester, he's
not my teacher, but next year he could be.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Well, I think that's why there's the overall like discouraged,
Like we can't prevents from doing it, but you need
to you have the responsibility as a teacher. You have
to know that we discouraged this. This is not what
we you know, So I think if there was ever
a complaint, it's being on the faculty, and that is
to be like, okay, you know, we we cross the
line here, but definitely you cross the line if if somebody,

(41:25):
if you're in a class together, there's any sort of
actual power over one another, but there is a general
power dynamic that is like, just avoid this at all costs. Basical.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Okay, Well, good to know. It's nice to have a
professor on the pod. Thak you for our questions. Thank you,
professor writer. Well now alone. Stuart points to a picture
on Tapanga's desk and asks if it's her mom. She
says it is. The photo was taken at Martha's vineyard.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
He admits, no, no, sorry to Panga and Jedediah and
Chloe are not going and hanging out in Martha's vineyard.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
This is another one where the family will. I don't
know if you've noticed, but Tapanga is no longer the
Topanga of nineteen.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
What I'm saying, Topanga's different, Sean's different, Eric's different. Corey
is the only one that's basically kind of the same
character now than he used to be I mean, entirely
different than Chloe and Jedediah and Topanga are hanging out
in Martha's Vineyard. No way making Woodstock, New York exactly
same thing. Make it Wouldstock, Prescott, Arizona, make it anywhere

(42:26):
slightly hippyish, but they make it the most highbrow like
Martha's Vineyard. Really, I was amazed. I was amazed by that.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Here we are in the Hamptons, right right.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
It's like our annual summer trip to the Hampton.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Seriously, your dad was one of the monkeys, and then
was his final tap and then was the other guy,
and it's like, come on.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
He admits she's real pretty. Topanga thanks him. Then Stuart
tells Tapanga to sit down. Topega gets comfy on Angela's
bed and Stuart explains this paper was too good to
fizzle out on the conclusion you're too smart for that.
He begins to read a section aloud. It's possible to
cross the line morally and yet not cross the line.
Actually it's too vague. He doesn't know what she's talking about.

(43:09):
T Pega explains, well, the paper was on morality and ethics,
and I was just saying there are definite gray areas.
Stuart jokes, I know what the paper was about because
I assigned it. He sits next to her on the
bed and encourages her to be more specific, because the
devil's in the details. He asks, I'm sitting here with you, right,
I'm your teacher and I find you attractive. But we're

(43:31):
talking about the assignment. Now, have we crossed the line?
To Penga stays calm, considering his newest statement, Yeah, and
she shakes her head. I don't think so. No, So
Stuart takes it a step further. I'm your teacher and
I find you attractive, and now we're not talking about

(43:51):
the paper. Have we crossed the line? To peg is confused?

Speaker 5 (43:55):
What?

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Stuart scoots closer to her and grabs her hand, which
is resting in her lap. What if I said to
you that I think about you and I'd like to
see you more than just on Tuesdays and Thursdays. To
Pega's in shock, Stewart asks, see where it gets gray?
He gets quiet. He quickly stands up and directs his
attention back to the picture on her desk. When did

(44:17):
you go to the vineyard, she nervously says, two summers ago,
and he asks beautiful, isn't it. He gives to Panga
one more example. We're adults, and I'm telling you that
i'd like to get to know you better. He sits
back down on the bed and moves a piece of
her hair behind her ear. And that's what I'm going
to do.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Weird, cree creepy.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Tapanga admits, you're making me uncomfortable. I want you to leave.
He shakes his head. That's not what you want. Oh,
She's flabberg asked. What just then Corey knocks on the
door and enters. He jokingly admits if I wasn't such
a trusting boyfriend, this would look bad. Panga looks very

(45:00):
worried as Corey asks, how come you don't make house
calls on me? Stuart. He stands up and playfully ruffles
Topanga's hair. Be cuz I'm talking to the brains of
the family, He declares, I'm going to leave you two alone,
and he assures Topanga they'll finish this later. Corey watches
him leave with admiration. Oh hey, you gotta love that.
I mean, Feeni wouldn't be caught dead in a dorm room.
Sean's right about this. Guy. He's in a whole other league.

(45:23):
Tepeg is still in shock. She tells Corey that she
didn't like him being there. She didn't like it at all.
Corey notices her demeanor and asks if she's okay.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
And from this moment on, it's no longer about Tapanga.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Nope, that's it.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
That's why I think I was so thrown by this episode,
because they've completely set it up. This is going to
be a Tapanga storyline. Tapanga's going to deal with this,
She's going to deal with it to help her friends.
She's going to find the strength she's gonna but and
then it's no longer about to Pega.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
From this second Corey walks in.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
It is now Corey's taken over the story, and it's
about how he's gonna deal with what happened to Tapanga.
And I thought that they should have stayed with the
Tapanga storyline, which to me is much more interesting.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Totally. Then we are back in the student union. Rachel's laughing.
You take your middle name and you put it with
the street that you live on. Jack asks, and that's
your I thought we were going somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
The soap opera name is your middle name and the
street you grew up on, which is I think what
we do in this, right, that's that's what we say.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Actually, it's kind of great because then it's such a
soap opera name. Mine would be Alan Redrock King Barnett, Marstine.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Via del Taklot. Yes, it does work. My gosh, that's
so funny.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
That's great, okay, And this is where we get another
middle name for Eric, Yes, Randall, because we have we
said Neil before. But then she's like, that's not your
middle name.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
I don't know either, Yeah, they can't. This is I
think that this is the second or third time we've
heard a middle name of Eric. Now, so I thought
it was Eric. I say at one point, my name
is Eric Neil Matthews. And then yeah, Betsy says, that's
your your middle name. But then maybe we don't ever
say that.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Right, Maybe maybe she was thinking it was Randall.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
Randall, Eric, Randall Matthews.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
She nods, mine's Kimberly Beaumont. Eric chimes in with a
smolder Jonathan Cumberland jack Burst's bubble. Eric, your middle name
is Randal, he tries again, Tony Randall. The odd couple
Jack asks if he ever listens to the rules, so
Eric corrects himself, who is Tony Randall? Jack sarcastically answers, right,
you win. Eric giggles always win.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Huh, I always win.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Then Corey spots Stuart over by the pool tables and
right up to him. The professor greets him with a smile. Hey, Romeo.
Corey wonders if they can talk on the patio for
a second. As Corey leads him outside, Stuart comments, your
paper was pedestrian. This isn't high school anymore. You gotta
take chances. Corey cuts him off, We're not talking about
the paper. Stuart's surprised, so Corey flatly tells him Tapank

(48:18):
is real uncomfortable about your dorm visit. Stuart wonders why,
and Corey scoffs she thought you were hitting on her,
So Stuart lets out a little laugh and asks, what
if I was. Corey can't believe what he just heard.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Do you hear the audience, by the way, throughout this
entire episode, Yes, the second he puts his hand near
you on the bed or anything stuff, the audience is
going or oh, I'm ne'er there. The entire time for
this yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Oh yeah, So Corey repeats it back in shock what
if I was? And then from inside the student union,
Sean tells everyone his soap opera name Patrick Trailer Park,
which gets a rowdy laugh. Angela offers hers se Nae
Martin Luther King Boulevard. No one laughs at that one,
so Angela laughs to herself, gosh, I gotta get some

(49:05):
black friends. The best joke of the whole show, and
maybe the last laugh of this direct correct, actually no
will coming into the court room.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Oh yeah, that's good.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
So do I mean, do you guys remember this week
like the whole sure.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yes, I remember. I remember the discussion being very detailed
in the original script. Corey dex in the face right in.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
The student union, right like.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
I think it was always outside.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
It was always I thought, Okay, I didn't know if
it was off camera or we actually saw Corey like
in the background punch the teacher in the face.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Yeah, and so they Ben felt very strongly as an
actor that Corey would never punch anyone, and he felt
comfortable enough good for him to say something and he Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
The reason it kind of became a big deal is
that surprisingly TV Guide was there that week.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Ben, we're working together, and so TV Guide was there.
This is the first time TV Guide had ever been
on our set and the whole week.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Were they there one day?

Speaker 2 (50:17):
I don't remember, probably more than one day, because I
remember the the resulting article had interviews with people, you know,
outside of having been there that one day. I think so,
or maybe they just did follow calls. I don't know,
but it was a really interesting because I remember thinking
it was very unfair the way that TV Guide portrayed Ben,
because the point of the article was kind of can

(50:38):
you believe that a child actor, which is ridiculous considering
he's eighteen I think at this point is pushing back
against his writing staff or you know what. And and
what was great about the article to me was that
they interviewed Michael and Michael was like, Ben has every
right to do this, like this is our process and

(50:59):
like he Michael was like, no, it's okay, you know,
we disagree, and we because they did. They disagreed, and
that was the thing. We all a note session had
this out like for I remember, like an hour of discussion. Yeah,
and it was like who's going to give and like,
because Michael was insistent that Corey would be upset enough
to punch this teacher, and and and Ben was like,

(51:20):
I know Corey, and I feel like I have a
right to speak for this character. And Corey would never
hit somebody, you know, in this context. And that was
you know, it's a debate, and it was kind of like,
how does the storyline exist without that right? Which is tricky,
and so this the compromise that we ended up with
is this push and then they still refer to it
as a hit, correct, but it's never a punch.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
It's never a punch, which is to me, does make
it very weird later when it's you hit a teacher
and I hit a teacher and the bylaws are about
hitting a teacher, and it's like, but that not much happened.
And then also, I mean I haven't gotten to it
yet in the recap, we're about ready to get there.
But the way that Stuart leans into Cory right before too,

(52:06):
he touches Corey, and whether Jensen and I talked about it,
and Jensen is convinced he's touching him like like Corey,
don't worry, like in some sort of in a calm
down or like play cating sense from what I felt
like it looked to me like he pushed Corey, and
the fact that the last thing we see Stuart say

(52:28):
is what if I was? And then Corey says back,
what if I was? To me, that's on a tense note,
the idea that it's anything other than Stuart escalating it
by like hey, man, get away from me or something.
I don't know. It just it felt it felt like
an odd choice for there to be any contact between

(52:49):
the two of them before it's Corey just shoving him.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Well, the big cheat is that we don't see the
scene right right, We don't hear it, know what was
actually said, we don't know why. And I was thinking
about this relationship to the use of violence against mister
mac where Alan pushes him, and it was clearly written
to justify Alan. It was clearly written to say we're

(53:15):
on his side, it's okay that he did this. And
the choice here to not see the specific dialogue, to
not see the ramp up to it, is really interesting
because it implies I guess, on one hand, it was
a choice to leave it somewhat ambiguous, so you weren't
just immediately on corey side, because otherwise, why we have
to watch the rest of the episode to learn. But also,
I don't feel like anybody is ever not on Corey's

(53:38):
side for the rest of the episode because we are
all sort of like he had the right. He did
violate the policy, but he was in the right to
have right this guy Like that's sort of the double
standard ish like weird sandwich that our show is doing,
and by not showing the scene, the audience is sort
of left to assume that the.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Great justify it.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
That's the gray area that the paper was about, was
that that the ethical gray area. Is it okay to
you know? Is violence ever okay? In The answer to that,
of course is sometimes yes, sometimes it's necessary.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
But we didn't I think writer would disagree with you.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Yeah, you would. You don't think you don't think violence is.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Every I was gonna say, I think this is really
interesting because I do think Will is like, if somebody
were to do something to Sue, we'll be like, sorry,
the only one to kill you. I'm going to kill you.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Yeah, and justified to do it right.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
And I think that when you're creating fictional universes, right,
in a fictional situation, it's beholden on you to represent
that situation, and then you know you're creating everything, right,
You're creating the whole situation, You're putting these people in position.
And that's like, was my problem with the Alan mister
Mac thing, is like you could easily create a situation
where mister Mac pushes him and you know, and justify it.

(54:51):
And and so I just sort of roll my eyes
at situations where violence is, you know, fictionally created in
order to showcase somebody's heroism in the willing to go
to violence, and I just find that to be easy
to manipulate. And so in this case, it's really interesting
that we don't see what actually triggers Corey to do
the thing. And I don't know, like I don't I'm

(55:12):
not sure if it was a good choice or bad choice,
but it's clearly a choice, right, as opposed to the
mister Max situation where you see Alan inspired to violence
and we are supposed to be like, yeah, do it, man,
that's a bad person and you are a good guy.
And in this case we have the space this absence
of what explanation, and then we spend the rest of
the episode saying, well, Corey has to have been in

(55:34):
the right because it's Corey, but we don't need to
see the actual justification. It's I don't know, I'm not
quite like like, I don't have all like my opinions
about it. I just found it fascinating. And then there's
another absence later, which is when Stewart talks to Maitland.
We don't hear what he says that, Yes, these two
absences that like actually trigger like the next beats or

(55:58):
the way the characters are interact, and it's like, by
not seeing them, I'm just it was clearly a choice,
and I'm not sure what exactly that choice was, or
why if it had to be that way or what,
but it's it's something I'm thinking about. I'm really interesting,
and this one seems like a big one.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
He does say it, well, he well, he does say
during the thing what he says to him, But what
what that that triggered him to put I mean, maybe
not the exact trigger, Corey, Corey, he says to him.
He says, not only does he say to me that yes,
he was hitting on her, but he said he was
never going to stop, and so he Corey actually says it.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
So so Stuart apparently said.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
To him, yeah, I was hitting on her, and I'm
gonna keep on hitting on her every day until she
ends up in my bed and blah blah blah. And
so that's that was the at least they alluded to.
That says, yeah, he told me he was never going
to stop, and it's like, yeah, then he shoved them
through a glass window.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Right well.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Rachel asks Tapanga what her middle name is, but Tapega
says she doesn't want to play. She's fixated on Corey
and Stewart getting animated outside. Jack wonders why she doesn't
want to play, and to Panga makes an excuse, I
have a weird middle name. Jack isn't buying it. Your
first name's to Panga, could what could your middle name be?

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Jackson wanted to say it.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
I don't know. Oh, and Maitland has apparently now met everybody.
Rachel knows everybody because you never met anybody before, and
now she's now she's in one.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Of the this is the first time, you're right.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Well, she met everybody when we shot opening title sequences
exactly and now here yea.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
In the background, we see Stuart reach for Corey and
Corey aggressively shoves him, sending Stuart right through the door
and straight to the ground.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Good by the way, I know, I mean that was
that was a violent shove. The camera angle. You really
see him fly, you see him land. I mean that was.
That was a good stunt.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Everyone jumps up from the crash, shocked to see what's happened.
Stuart brushes himself off and says, congratulations, you just got
yourself kicked out of college. No one knows what to do.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
What would you do?

Speaker 3 (57:56):
It? Different? Shop different.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
We're in Corey and Shawn's dorm to Panga, Sean and
Angela watch a worried Corey pace. Sean asks, how could
you do this to Stuart?

Speaker 3 (58:12):
I was like, wait, Sean, is is not on Corey's side?
Just blindly and automatically, of course he would be that Sean.
It's like it's it wouldn't matter what he did. It's like, hey,
I shot the teacher, Like yeah, he had every right to.
What do you do? I don't know, but Corey did
it so, I mean the same way. He's like, I
would never root against a panga. He's how could you
do that to Stuart?

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Sean says, this it's so weird.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Well, I do think now that now that you're saying this,
the story Shawn's storyline. Shawn's arc in this episode is
that he is like just all about Stuart, like he
is completely I mean.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Stuart might as well be mister Mack's.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Yeah. Yeah, And I guess actually, I don't know how
much of that is is maybe in my performance, but
or maybe it could have been written to a little
bit more to imply that, like from the beginning, like
like when when Stuart leaves the class, you just see
Sean like following him out and Corey being like Sewn Sean,
Oh okay, you know, like then it would have been
like Shawn has gone astray. Yes, but yeah, I would

(59:10):
have maybe it could have been a little bit stronger
because now I'm realizing because then he the point of
the courtroom scene is that Sean finds himself having to
betray Jeanie and choose and feels bad about it, and
he goes, oh my god, that is like so yeah,
I could have been Maybe that's just on me performance wise.
I should have been more like Stuart's my best pal

(59:30):
and this is so fun and Corey you're being it.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
Yeah, I don't know. I found that weird. Yeah, it
is weird, by the way, I would love if they
if somebody would do this for me is the second.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
Stuart comes flying through the door and lands on the
ground in the student union. It just freezes on him,
and then Daniel Daniel Stearns's voice comes in. It's just
like I couldn't believe that Corey shoved me to the ground.
That would have been so awesome just to see that.
For two seconds, Cory gets defensive. I don't know, I've
never hit anybody before. Sean says that his out of

(01:00:02):
control moments are usually funny, but this was too far.
He could get in trouble. Then Amy and Allan burst
into the room. Alan is flustered, Hey, no matter what happens,
we're behind you, no matter what. Corey summarizes the first
time in my life, I hit somebody and it's a teacher.
Alan siys, you w idiot, I thought you hit a student.
Amy wonders what could have possessed him to do such
a thing. Corey defends his actions. He made a move

(01:00:24):
on Topanga. Alan asks in class, and Corey corrects him.
No in her dorm room, and she doesn't speak up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
She doesn't say anything.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
No Panga's just sitting there. It's like, how does Amy
not go to her? How? You know, how do we
not see part of that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Sound that a phone call was had to let Amy
and Allen know they needed to get here. And none
of what happened to Tabanka was involved in that phone call.
It was just hey, and you need to get here
because and no, like listen, nothing just.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
It's no longer to Panga is an accessory to her
own story all of a sudden, which I found really
really off putting. I know, you're strange. I don't. And again,
they clearly changed the punch to a shove for the
stunt and for what Corey does, but didn't any of
that dialogue At the end, it was still hit hit.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Amy and Allen look at each other, be fuddled. Then
Eric runs into the room breathless. Okay, I saw the
whole thing. I can testify in court that teacher hit
I repeat, hit young Corey Matthews. Corey can't lie, no,
I hit him. Eric proudly grins, Yeah, I know, dude,
I saw the whole thing. That dude sailed. He forces
a five on Corey, then turns to his parents. You
guys know about my fifth sense. Right, Amy is unamused.

(01:01:48):
You've told us about it, yes, Eric reveals, well, it's
working overtime right now. I can feel it in my veins.
This guy's bad. Then Phoene storms into the room, complaining,
you can't talk to that woman. She's the dean of
the universe. You can't reason with her. He mimxed her.
This is a university. The university has rules. He shouts
down the hall. Well, I have rules too, Missy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Angry Feenie, I know, I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
I don't like Anny intervening naturally, because Corey is his guy,
and like Feenie would be very much about university of
rules and protocol and boundaries, and like, I just feel
like the Feenie response would be much more where it
sort of ends up, which is, like Corey, you violated,
you know, a university policy and you shouldn't have, and

(01:02:35):
you will take the consequences for that. But I'm on
your side for x y Z and you know whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Like Feenie would have been the first person to bring
it back to Topanga, of course, he would have been
like Corey, we will deal with your behavior later. The
problem here is what happened to Tapega, and that's what
needs Stewart because then that is his entire focus in
the courtroom. Why are you alone with her? Why are
you doing this? He wouldn't be coming in going I

(01:03:02):
have to defend Corey. He'd be saying what you did
was out of line, and we'll get to that. But
you off to the side to Pangas this is about you.
I also do not like I want to say it.
It's a thing we write. It's in Boy Meets World
a few times, and I know it comes back around
in Girl Meets World as well.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
I have rules to Missy. Calling a woman missy, it
feels like you are calling her ail, like you're making
her a child Phoene. In my opinion, it is a
belittling way to address somebody, unless it's like I don't know,

(01:03:45):
I just didn't like it. I really did not like
it with Feoene to the dean, it just feels snaky.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Chicks can be sensitive, So yeah, listen here, Missy. Well,
that's the other thing you'd understand.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
He was actually talking about the dean of admissions, which
is different whose name is Missy sma Right, He's literally, Okay,
that's Missy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Does anybody is Missy anymore?

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
No, it's a very old school thing, and it's very
talking down to It's very listen here, Missy. It's like
for Feenie to do that to the dean just feels gross.
Corey speaks up, you know what, this guy knows what
he did and he deserves what he got.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Little miss Sunshiny in the beginning.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Little do you really believe all that, little miss miss Sunshine?

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Miss Yeah, yeah, it's that he like feminizes ethical values
in the beginning and like whatever, So that's so weird.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Yeah, it's odd, Little Mary Sunshine, Little little Mary Sunshine. Yeah, okay,
Corey speaks up. You know what, this guy knows what
he did and he deserves what he got. This is
all going to go away. Phoene has bad news. The
Dean is scheduled a hearing. There's a possibility that Corey
could get kicked out of school. Corey and Topanga look petrified.

(01:05:00):
We're in the student union, Eric, Jack, and Rachel enter
and Eric immediately spots Stewart doing some paperwork at a table.
Eric tries to turn around to leave, but Jack stops him.
Eric tries to act inconspicuous, but demands his roommates come
with him. Jack groans, why why are you my friend?
Why can't I have better friends? Rachel asks Eric what
he's doing. Eric points to Stuart, that's the guy that

(01:05:20):
hit young Corey Matthews. So he's come up with a plan,
an extremely complicated plan. He tells Jack to go over
and flaunt himself. Jack says no, so Eric asks Rachel
to do it instead. She's taken aback, so Eric encourages
her tease him, trap him, do what women do. It's ingrained.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
This whole scene is just like why.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
It gets to completely and totally unnecessary. Take this out
and give us more of Tapanga trying to figure out
what the hell's going on? Longer scenes everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Or just have a connected like if Eric is preparing
his defense of Corey, yeah, and Jack and Rachel are
helping him do that, it would have been You can
come up with a million other things. Is this scene
has nothing to do with the plot other than giving
the three of you something to do and hopefully inserting
laughs Like that's what which is fine? Like I get
the balance, like the need for balance, but I just

(01:06:12):
don't like this scene. This scene is nice.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
I do think that's what the idea was. That he's
building his defense, which is if you go over there
and throw yourself at him, he'll come on to you.
That's yeah, that's okay. So that is what the point is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
It's just it wasn't executed very well well.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
It also could be done without the insults to just
two women, like here, I have a great idea. He
obviously likes attractive women. Go over there, see if you
can get him to come on to you instead. You're like,
do what, trap him? Do the thing that you women do.
It's ingrained in you. And then Eric imitates a girl
giggling and rests his hand on her face. I'm a
pretty good but Rachel is not interested in this plan.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
Give it to give give the joke to Rachel. So
what you do is Eric, Eric goes, I'm going to
trap him. I'm gonna go over there. I'm going to
hit on him. He's gonna and and Rachel he goes, hey,
why why don't you leave this one?

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
I think I think I could do this.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
Yeah that you know, if you give her the power
in the scene, you can get the same thing, but
the one.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
Instead of for some reason, Eric being kind of insulting
and gross. Let her be like, Okay, I see what
you're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Good idea, Hey, let me interesting where she gets rejected
and is upset about it would be much funny because
she's so confident. She's like, I can always.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Go there's one thing I know. It's how to get
a guy, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Right, And then backfires and she's flustered.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
That would have been Yes, that would have been much
much funnier. So she is not going to go over
there and flaunt herself. That's the other thing is that
her not wanting to help makes it extra gross, but
he's forcing her to do it. Let her be like, ooh,
I see what you're doing here.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
I could need my new friends.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Let me show you what I can do for you.
And it's like that you don't want it? What? And
then she's got a big yeah, change, Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
Eric demands you will flaunt if there was ever a
problem in your family. There's nothing I would not do
to help them. I would go to prison for your
family because we live together, and I feel like I
am a part of your family. Except when I dream
about you and you're in that little pink robe and
you start doing that thing. Rachel cuts him off and
reluctantly agrees. Eric wants her to practice on Jack, but
they're not enthused. Rachel kicks it off. Hi, Stuart, how

(01:08:13):
are you doing? I hear you're a really good teacher.
Eric laughs, I'm more woman than that. Rachel tells him
to shut up and walks toward the professor. She sits
at his table and starts off quite awkwardly, shuffling papers,
adjusting herself, but lands at a smile. We see Eric
and Jack watch closely. The next thing you know, Stuart
is whispering something in Rachel's ear as she giggles. But
Rachel turns on a dime and angrily stands up. What

(01:08:36):
did you say? Am I too tall for you? Is
it the fiery, wet red hair is the little boy
afraid of commitment? Well, you know what, I will not
allow you to reject me. I'm gonna reject you. You
will not hurt me. She walks out of the student
union with her head held high. Eric starts to give
Jack the same spiel about helping anyone in his family,
but Jack quickly stops him. I'm not flirting with a guy, okay,

(01:08:57):
I don't care if they give your brother the chair.
Right Then to Panga cautiously makes her way up to Stuart.
He notices her, and she says, you did cross the line.
You used a position of power unethically, and Corey protected
me the only way he knew how, and now it's
my turn to do the same for him. She demands
that he leave Corey alone and make this go away,

(01:09:17):
or she'll tell the dean that he came on to her.
Stuart thinks it over and respond if.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
That's an option, becau, isn't that I mean? I Corey
confronts him. He says, what if I was hitting on her? Well,
then you're violating your your the school policy and let
me go. Let's go talk to the school policy like
we'll get you fired. Like confrontation over right, and so

(01:09:45):
like the second that this, uh, like why does the
Pangan need to go talk to Stuart about this now?
Like she should just go to the dean. You have
plenty of witnesses or you know, like hopefully you have
a good enough case. I don't know, Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
Know, it's like like she wants him to keep his job.
I'll let you keep your job here. If you just
make sure Correy doesn't get in trouble for it, then
you can just go about your way.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Is exactly what you were talking about where, you know,
especially back in the early nineties, a young girl might
not just didn't have the support system or the idea
that going and reporting somebody maybe was not done as much.
I mean, I just don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
I mean when she tries to tell the Dean something,
the Dean shuts her up, so I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Yeah, she literally never tells her story to anybody but Corey,
and we don't even see that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
We don't see it. Yeah. Stuart thinks it over and responds,
you came on to me. To Penga's blown away hear
the audience, they're like a Stuart shows no empathy as
he gets up and leaves. See you at the hearing.
And then we're at the hearing. Dean Bolander is surrounded
by people as she takes a seat for the hearing.
She reminds everyone that this is not a trial, so
they should not make a courtroom drama out of this,

(01:10:56):
and then right on cue the theme from People's court
plays is the doors wing open to reveal Eric in
a suit carrying a briefcase. He opens it to reveal
a tape player. He presses stop, and the music abruptly ends,
with everyone staring at Eric, including Feenie and Corey sitting together,
Jonathan Cumberland for the Defense, and nearby Jack Comedy simply

(01:11:17):
utters unbelievable before distancing himself from his roommate. Foene demands
Eric to leave, but Eric insists to their partners Feenie
and Cumberland, Cumberland and Feenie, Feenie and Feenie and Feenie
and Eric, but mostly Phoene, because I love my brother
and I want to help Corey earnestly. Thanks Eric. Eric
tells his new partner Foenie, I know you've got a

(01:11:38):
thing going with the Dean, so if it looks like
we're going to lose, just play the love card, okay.
Phoene tells him to shut up in the Dean's size, unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Now they clearly cut something here, because you see me,
I take a breath and I'm right about to say
something and they cut away to her saying unbelievable. Oh wow,
I don't know that was a Disney thing that maybe
maybe there was something inappropriate that I said, but that
Eric says, but clearly there was a line there that
they took out.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
That's so funny. Well, the Dean begins the hearing. First,
she asks Stuart what happened? Why would they not ask
Topenga what happened?

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
Ever, by the way, in the entire.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Thing, the professor explains he was at the student union
when Corey asked him to step outside. He thought it
was to talk about a grade, but it was to
accuse him of making a move on to Penga, and
then he hit him. Phoene jumps in with a question,
what were you doing into Benga Lawrence's room. Stuart explains
he was going over her paper, and Phoene's quick to
follow up in her room that sounds odd to me.

(01:12:35):
Stuart defends his teaching style. He has a relationship with
his students outside of the classroom, which allows them to
connect better inside the classroom. He encourages Phoene to ask
any of them. Stuart looks around the room and points
out Sean does he have any problem with his teaching method?
Sewan answers no. In fact, Stuart remembers Sean saying he's
the best teacher he's ever had. Sean admits he did

(01:12:56):
say that, but he doesn't really think his opinion matters.
Dean Bolander is interested in Sean's perspective and asks him
to continue. Sean nervously clears his throat. You treat us
like equals, like adults, when a lot of teachers treat
us like kids. Stuart calls out mister Feenie for example.
Sean push pushes back, mister Feenie's a really good teacher.
The professor smirks, Yeah, but he treats you like a kid.

(01:13:20):
Sean tells Stuart he made his point. He explains that
Phoene's been their teacher in grade school then in high school,
so he may feel like he needs to protect them.
He turns to Feenie and apologizes, but Phoene tells him
not to worry about it. Phoeney questions Stuart again.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Why is this about Sean?

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
I know, I don't know. Everybody talks about Dean Bolander
is like, Sean, I need to hear more from you, please?
Can you tell me more about your opinion of Stuart?

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
Yeah? And what does that have anything to do with
any guy whose friends correaks this teacher. I don't know
how that's a defense or an.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Complete who cares his opinion means nothing. Phoeney questions Stuart again,
how did you know what dormitory Topanga is in? Stuart
insists that she told him she lived in the Mackay dorms.
Completely unprompted, he asks Topanga, isn't that right? Tapega begins
to explain, yes, that's true, but Stuart cuts her off.
Thank you. Phoene asks Stuart if he truly thought it

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was proper to be in a young female student's bedroom.
Stuart corrects him a dorm room also serves as a
living room, a TV room, or a study. It was
not a bedroom when I was in there. Phoene raises
his voice, Stuart, do you believe, as a college professor
that it is okay to be alone in a dorm
room with a young female student. Stuart shrugs. The door
was open. I even asked her roommate to stay. In fact,

(01:14:35):
it was Topanga who showed Angelo away. Isn't that right?
To Panga? Topanga responds, she was on her way to
the student union. I didn't feel if He cuts her
off again, thank you, Stuart asks Pheoenie if he has
any more questions than Phoenie answers just one. Is it
okay if I rip your head off and roll it
down the hallway? The inmates in the audience laugh, breaking
the tension. Stuart tries to reason with him, George, you

(01:14:59):
and I both know that it teacher is only as
effective as the respect he is given, and Corey's show
of disrespect undermines me and this university to Penga shouts back,
and your show of disrespect undermines me. The Dean raises
her voice, Miss Lawrence, but Topanga keeps her eyes on Stuart.

(01:15:19):
You know what you did? Stuart insists he didn't do anything.
Corey jumps in, he made a move on to Panga
on my fiance. Dean Bolander doesn't tell him to shut up.

Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
Now, I was gonna say, the only person she tells
to shut up is to Panga.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
The entire time he uses his power and authority to
take advantage of her. And he told me there was
nothing I could do and that he was never going
to stop. So I did something. I realized that this
wasn't the smartest thing in the world to do, but
it was all I could come up with at the time.
The Dean states, striking a member of this faculty is inexcusable,
no matter what the provocation. Sean asks the Dean if

(01:15:53):
he can say something, and she allows it. Sean takes
a jacket. Because you're not tapanga, I'm gonna let you speak.
Sean tells his best friend, it's okay with me that
you hit him. Corey thanks him and turns to the Dean.
It's okay with Sean, the Dean explains, but it's not
okay with me. According to the by laws of this university,

(01:16:16):
I am bound to expel or suspend any student for
striking an educator for any reason whatsoever. Phoene begs her
to reconsider, but she shoots him down. You can't protect
them anymore. Phoene takes a seat without saying another word.
Dean Bolander continues, Corey matthews, I hereby suspend you from
this university for a period of one day. Stuart looks
at her in shock. One day. The Dean adds, you are, however,

(01:16:39):
under probation for the remainder of this term, and I
will not take kindly to your solving any other problems
with anything but words. Corey assures her she won't need
to worry about that. Stuart argues, Dean, he hit a teacher.
Dean Bolander raises her voice back at him. A teacher
must be someone a student can trust. The second the
teacher uses pressure on a student for any reason, what'soever

(01:17:00):
other than academic, that trust is destroyed. Stuart thinks that
there must be some sort of misunderstanding, but Dean Bolander
cuts him off. She points at mister Feeney, this is
a teacher. I'm not sure what you are, but you
can be certain I'm going to find out. So it's
clear she believes.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
To Panga, having heard her side at all, she just
she just needed to hear de men.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Talking right, So right, But I guess all she is
supposed to be addressing right now is the physic whether
she yeah, well correct, yeah, the charge that Stuart brought forward.
But couldn't she then after this meeting go to Panga
and say, if you would like to file charges against.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Stewart, Yes, we can open that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Yes because obviously there seems to be enough evidence and
I need to do and I believe you because she
seems like she does. So if she believes her.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
That would be the by the way, you could do
that in one line. In one line, she could say,
but you can be sure, I'm going to find out
to Penga, I would love to talk with you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Yeah, right, if you will like to file a report,
come to meet me up, let's go. Let's go do
that right now. I am correct glad to do that,
and we will have a whole other tune.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
Then we believe that Topanga gets a whole thing for herself.
That there gets to be a side of this. It's
about that's about Topanga. But first, apparently they had to
get through this. You know, this shoving hitting a teacher situation.
It would have for me made all of this, yeah
feel better.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
Again with just one Corey walks into that dorm room.
The entire show shifts. It's no longer about to Panga,
is now about Corey. Yeah, which I found out.

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
Stuart stares back at the Dean as she adjourns the hearing,
telling everyone to go home. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief,
and Amy makes her way up to Tapanga. I'm so
sorry you had to go through all this, Alan, thanks
Feenie for sticking by them. He asks his son how
he's doing, and Corey says he's okay. Alan and Amy
leave just as Sean and Angela approach. Sean tells Feeney,
I don't know how I could have compared him to you.

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Phoene is unaffected and pats him on the back. Corey exclaims,
I guess college is a lot different than high school. Huh.
Phenie nods, I'm afraid so. And I'm also afraid that
the dean is right. I've tried to protect you for
too long in the shelters of high school. This is
a major university, this is life, and these things happen,
and you're not children anymore. Melancholic music plays as Corey, Sean, Tapanga,

(01:19:17):
and Angela all stand together and let his words sink in.
Corey repeats, We're not children anymore. Topanga wonders when did
that happen? Angela explains, I don't know today. I think
Sean thinks for a moment and says, guys want to
go get ice cream or something. They smile and nod,
and then they leave the room together and that's the

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end of our show.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
There's no tag, no, It's like the special episodes in
mash that just ended with no music, just yeah the
credits This is Cris Yeah Yeah.

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