Boy Meets Wine
Sisters Brie and Jules uncork a new bottle of wine each week and unpack an episode of the hit 90s sitcom, Boy Meets World! Try some new wines and get an English teacher’s take on the brilliant (sometimes not-so brilliant) writing of a show that shaped a generation.
Episodes
This week we sipped Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay and watched Season 2, Episode 16: “Danger Boy.” That’s right! We’re back to the “[Fill-in-the-Blank] Boy” motif! This was a silly one, but it features probably the most iconic shot from the early days of this series: Cory and Mr. Feeny on a roller coaster, mouths agape, Feeny’s glasses askew. Both Cory and Mr. Feeny find themselves being undere...
This week, we tried The Pinot Project and watched Season 2, Episode 15: “Breaking Up Is Really, Really Hard to Do.” Cory invites Wendy to a “couples only” party, and they end up on very different pages about how serious the “relationship” is (Wendy sees Cory as endgame; Cory just wanted a date). We consider this the episode where Cory determines what “committed love” means to him: com...
This week we tried Uno, an Argentinian Malbec, as we chatted about Season 2 Episode 14: “I Am Not a Crook.” This episode was shockingly topical. Cory runs for class president, Shawn acts as his campaign manager, and hijinks ensue as the youth play out all the unfortunately typical patterns of the democratic process. As the kids engage in dirty politics and smear campaigns, Feeny holds back the urge to intervene so Turne...
This week we sipped St. Francis cabernet while we unpacked Season 2 Episode 13: “Cyrano.” Ever see an episode of a TV show where a conventionally attractive (but less intellectual) character gets help wooing a sophisticated lover from a less popular (but more eloquent) friend? Well that (arguably overused) plotline is inspired by a late nineteenth century play called “Cyrano de Bergerac” by Edmond Rostand. M...
This week we sipped A to Z Wineworks Pinot Noir and watched Season 2 Episode 12: “Turnaround”. Cory learns “you dance with the one that brought you” in this Pygmalion-inspired episode about a Sadie Hawkins-style “Turnaround” school dance. This is the one where Shawn and Cory give a Swedish-American girl a makeover (a la “She’s All That” or “Pretty Woman” or “My...
Cory and Sean are definitely NOT the good guys in Season 2 Episode 11: “The Beard”. Sean can’t choose between two girls, so he asks Cory to keep one of them “off the market” by dating her until Sean decides whether or not he wants her. We unpack Cory’s famous line, “What am I Tupperware?” and determine that: the girls are reduced to “meat”, Cory’s reduced to “T...
When you remember you have free will, you pick up a bottle of Moët and Chandon just to talk to your sister about Season 2 Episode 10 of Boy Meets World titled, “Sister Theresa”! “Politeness kills,” according to Cory, and, honestly? He’s not wrong. When politeness requires dishonesty, it can be detrimental, especially in relationships. We loved the way the writers made a distinction betwee...
The sisters sip Juggernaut Cabernet Sauvignon (and talk about their first kisses — Ooh! Aah! ) in Season 2 Episode 9: “Fear Strikes Out”! Cory goes to a makeout party and learns that no one actually knows what they’re doing… except maybe Shawn. Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all!
This week we tried Gerard Bertrand Côtes de Roses Rosé and discussed Season 2 Episode 8: “Band on the Run”. Cory and Sean form a fake band to impress girls, and Alan learns that he was never actually that good at playing guitar… Cory has to relearn the importance of being true to himself, and when Topanga expresses that she doesn’t mind Cory’s lack of guitar skills, we can’t help but notice she ...
Now we know why the blurb for this one is just, “Literature comes alive for little Cory...” Sex, lies, and videotape are the topics addressed in this scandalous episode in which Turner takes his progressive teaching moves a bit too far… We sipped Ruza Rose and talked at length about S-E-X in Season 2 Episode 7: “Wake Up, Little Cory!”
Where have WE been? Where have YOU been!? This week, we sipped another Winc wine as we discussed Season 2 Episode 6: “Who’s Afraid of Cory Wolf?” A red blend called “Illusion” paired perfectly with an episode we…sort of wish was just an illusion. If you don’t want this one to go right over your head, we recommend watching the 1941 black-and-white film, “The Wolf Man&rdq...
Do you think Cory Matthews is “cool”? This week we tried the next bottle in our Winc subscription box: Finke’s Sparkling Brut from Italy, and we paired it with Season 2 Episode 5: “The Uninvited”—Cory tries to fit in with the popular crowd. Pop a bottle of bubbly and join us as we discuss what it means to be COOL. Spoiler: trying to be cool is super uncool.
Welcome to our first ‘Chaser’! In this episode, Brie invited her coworker (and fellow English teacher) Brian on the pod to further discuss Season 2 Episode 4: “Me and Mr. Joad”. We dropped a hint at the end of the blurb for our last episode, and if you guessed ‘Mike’s Hard Lemonade’, ding ding ding! Indeed, in this, our first ‘Chaser’ episode, Brie and Brian sipped...
This week we tried ‘Wonders Vin de France’ from our Winc subscription box: a white blend made with no sugar and organic grapes! Speaking of grapes, Cory reads “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck in Season 2 Episode 4: “Me and Mr. Joad”. Cory and Shawn decide to unionize and walk out of school when they are forced to take a test… Brie had so much to say about this episode, she recorded ...
Today we discuss the (Porter and) ‘Plot’ of Season 2 Episode 3: “Notorious”. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” lays a (vague) moral framework for Cory’s struggle to decide whether or not to turn Shawn in for playing a prank on Feeny. “Porter and Plot” is the name of this week’s smooth, misty Cab Sauv from the cozy coasts of Mendocino, CA!
We may have loved this week’s bottle of Piu Gioia Pinot Grigio, but Cory feels anything but ‘pure joy’ in Season 2 Episode 2: “Pairing Off”. Cory and Shawn attend their first “make-out party”, Amy is surprisingly stoked about it, and the entire cast attends a poetry slam that makes peaches seem…sexy? Anyway…Cin cin!
Season 2, baby! We uncorked this fresh new season with a bottle of Ruffino Chianti (delicious, a bit peppery, tastes like Italy)! Made with grapes named after “The Blood of Jupiter”, this ‘Sangiovese’ was the perfect pairing with an episode about Homer’s ‘Odyssey’—and Cory’s 22-minute odyssey in “Back 2 School” leads him to discover that the best way to...
This is it! The last episode of Season 1. We laughed, we cried, and we imbibed great quantities of Purple Power mead—homemade made by Jules’s Nashvillian friend, Roy Black! ‘Twas the perfect beverage for an episode with copious references to Beowulf… So grab a glass of honey-wine and get ready for an episode about guilt, death, and the privilege of education. Dear listener, thank you for stick...
We tried Bogle Petite Sirah this week for Season 1 Episode 21: “Boy Meets Girl”. In this penultimate episode of season 1, we revisited the emotional roller coaster of puberty, got real about our current relationship statuses, and defined what makes for a healthy, lasting partnership. Cheers!
Since brevity is the soul of wit, we’ll keep it short: Brie and Jules drink Cavit Pinot Grigio and discuss the messy plot of Hamlet in Season 1 Episode 20, “The Play’s the Thing”!
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