Boy Meets World

Season 5

Brothers

1. This episode marks the debut of Jack Hunter.
2. The candles in Cory's room are the same candle that Mary Beth lights to set the mood in the Season 4 finale.
3. In this episode, Cory is dying for Eric to leave so he can finally have the room to himself. Cory's tune has changed since the Season 3 finale, in which Cory is devastated over his brother leaving, having felt he never got to know him.
4. Jack arrives as Shawn's half brother (somewhat anti-climactically). We saw a half-brother living in the trailer park during an earlier season but he is never mentioned again.
5. Although Jack Hunter (Matthew Lawrence) is Shawn Hunter's (Rider Strong) older brother, Matthew Lawrence is actually 2 months younger than Rider Strong.

Boy Meets Real World

1. William Daniels mentions that The Graduate (1967) was a great film. He played Mr. Braddock in that movie.
2. First appearance of Angela played by Trina McGhee
3. In one of the clips from Cory's documentary, Eric mentions its his first time doing laundry by himself. However, in a previous episode in season 4, the one where he gets a stepson, he mentions to his then girlfriend, that he always carries coins because he does his own laundry.

It's Not You... It's Me

1. Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) applies to Stanford University. Ben Savage attended Stanford University after the show ended.
2. The flashback scene takes place in 1987.
3. While in Mr. Feeny's office, Topanga is wearing the same dress from the opening credits.

Fraternity Row

1. Julius Carry, who plays Professor Michaels, also returns later in the series as Sergeant Moore (Angela's father) for two episodes.
2. Season 5 reveals that Cory does not know how to spell Shawn's name.
3. Eric's fraternity is Magnum PI, but the Greek letters he nails on his door are mu-rho-phi.

The Witches of Pennbrook

1. Along with Boy Meets World: By Hook or by Crook (1995) and Boy Meets World: Stormy Weather (1996), this is one of only three episodes in which Ben Savage (Cory Matthews) and Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter) do not share a scene.
2. Millie is played by Candace Cameron Bure, best known from fellow 90's sitcom as DJ Tanner in Full House (1987).
3. The episode title is a riff off of the novel/movie "The Witches of Eastwick"
4. This episode takes place in October 1997.
5. Melissa Joan Hart makes an appearance as Sabrina Spellman from fellow 90's sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996) at the end of the episode.

No Guts, No Cory

1. The only episode that starts before the title song
2. The episode Boy Meets World: The Witches of Pennbrook (1997), which aired right before this one featured a cameo by Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. This is likely how Salem Saberhagen (her cat) managed to be in Philadelphia with no other explanation. This episode was part of a unique crossover with other shows in the TGIF programming block. The Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996) episode Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Inna-Gadda-Sabrina (1997) aired immediately before "No Guts, No Cory" and featured Salem transporting the cast to the 1960s. "No Guts, No Cory" was then immediately followed by the You Wish (1997) episode You Wish: Genie Without a Cause (1997), set in the 1950s, then by the Teen Angel (1997) episode Teen Angel: One Dog Night (1997), set in the 1970s.
3. This episode takes place from 1941 to 1945 and in 1997.
4. The title comes from the expression: No guts; no glory.
5. The words Versailles (Yvonne Sciò) say to Cory/Pierre (Ben Savage), "Au revoir mon chérie, mon coeur est toujours avec toi!" mean "Goodbye my darling, my heart is always with you."
6. Mr. Feeney is set to officiate Topanga and Shawn's wedding in the 1940s. Years later on the spin-off Girl Meets World Mr. Feeney actually officiates Shawn's wedding to Katy Hart.

I Love You, Donna Karan: Part 1

1. This episode takes place in November 1997.

Chasing Angela: Part 2

1. This episode takes place in November 1997.

How to Succeed in Business

1. Phil Leed's third appearance in the series plays a different character. He appeared twice in season 4 in "You Can Go Home Again" and "Quiz Show".
2. While watching a TV soap opera, Cory says, "Susan Lucci, how do you not win an Emmy?" In 1999, two years after this episode aired, Susan Lucci did win an Emmy for her role on All My Children.
3. The title is based on the movie/musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (1967). The original Broadway production opened at the Forty-sixth Street Theater in New York on October 14, 1961, ran for 1417 performances, won the 1962 Tony Awards for the Best Musical and Book, and was nominated for Best Score.
4. Although the name of the TV show Cory watches is never explicitly mentioned, you do hear dramatic, soap-opera-like music and Cory comments on real-life actress Susan Lucci's performance. Susan Lucci stars in the daytime soap opera "All My Children." Both Boy Meets World and All My Children aired on ABC network for the entirety of their television runs.

Last Tango in Philly

1. At the end of the episode, the outside shot of the club that Topanga, Angela, and Amy go to is the same club that Wayne and Garth go to at the beginning of "Wayne's World."
2. The restaurant Topanga and Angela work at is the same set as Chubbies.

A Very Topanga Christmas

1. This episode takes place from December 23 to December 24, 1997.

Raging Cory

1. The first appearance of little Cory (Shawn's pig) since season 3.

The Eskimo

1. Out on the balcony, Eric holds a coffee cup that his parents had in their home in earlier seasons.
2. This episode takes place in January 1998.

Heartbreak Cory

1. This is the first of nine episodes to be directed by cast member William Russ.
2. This is one of only four episodes in which Will Friedle (Eric Matthews) does not appear. The others are Boy Meets World: Sixteen Candles and Four-Hundred-Pound Men (1996), Boy Meets World: If You Can't Be with the One You Love... (1998) and Boy Meets World: Starry Night (1998).

First Girlfriends' Club

1. The title of the episode is a riff off of "The First Wives Club"
2. Topanga is chased through the halls as people interview her for the school paper. She gets mad & calls the guy a "Jimmy Olsen freak." Kristanna Loken (Jennifer Bassett) was on an episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as a girl who starts a relationship with Jimmy Olsen, thinking he is Superman's alter ego.
3. This episode takes place on February 14, 1998.
4. Lindsay McKeon and Larisa Oleynik would both appear in the same 3rd Rock From the Sun episode in 2000.
5. Kristanna Loken would later reprise her role as Jennifer Bassett, now the wife of Stuart Minkus (Lee Norris) and the mother of Farkle Minkus (Corey Fogelmanis), in Girl Meets World: Girl Meets Farkle (2015) and "Girl Meets World" (2014) {(#2.34)}.

Torn between Two Lovers (Feeling Like a Fool)

1. The title come from the song "Torn Between Two Lovers" written by Peter Yarrow and Phillip Jarrell in 1976.
2. This episode takes place in February 1998.

And Then There Was Shawn

1. Often considered by many fans to be the best episode in the series.
2. Eric says, "hi dee ho," a Mr. Hankey reference from South Park.
3. Mr. Feeny's line, "This class will not be interested in the romantic goings-on of its students than it is with whatever the hell I'm teaching!" was heavily edited to remove the word "hell" when this episode aired on Disney Channel. The word is reinserted into the episode for the Disney+ streaming service.
4. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Will Friedle were dating when filming this episode. They had also recently starred in Trojan War (1997) together.
5. Jennifer Love Fefferman is played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, who co-starred with Neve Campbell on Party of Five (1994). Both actresses led their own respective 'slasher film' franchises (Campbell in Scream (1996) and Hewitt in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)), which are parodied heavily in this episode. Also, Rider Strong and Ben Savage previously made guest appearances on Party of Five.
6. This is one of two episodes to be rated TV-PG-V. The other was Boy Meets World: Brotherly Shove (2000).
7. The title is a reference to the Agatha Christie novel, "And Then There Were None."
8. At a 9.5, this episode is tied with the series finale episode, Brave New World Part 2.
9. Some sources have claimed that the janitor is played by Joe Turkel of The Shining (1980) fame, though episode director Jeff McCracken denies this. He stated the show's casting directors found the actor, "They brought in that guy, and we all just went, 'Yes, perfect.' I don't even know if he's an actor - I've never seen him again. He just had one of those looks."
10. Richard Lee Jackson's younger brother Jonathan Jackson played Ricky Ferris in Boy Meets World: Starry Night (1998) and Boy Meets World: Honesty Night (1998).
11. Eric's line "Oh my gosh! They killed Kenny!" (and later "They killed Feeney!") is a South Park reference. Both times, you see Eric mouth the words "You bastard!" which is drowned out by all the screaming.
12. Shawn asks Mr. Feeny if he recalls getting stabbed in the back. This is exactly how Mr. Feeny is "killed" (with a pair of scissors).
13. The "killer" calling the payphone and asking Jack what his favorite scary movie is, is a reference to the Scream (1996) franchise.

If You Can't Be with the One You Love...

1. One of three episodes to be banned from airing on The Disney Channel, primarily because of its themes of teen drinking and physical abuse. The other two episodes that are prohibited are Boy Meets World: Prom-ises, Prom-ises (1998) and Boy Meets World: The Truth About Honesty (1999).
2. One of only four episodes in which Will Friedle (Eric Matthews) does not appear. The others are Boy Meets World: Sixteen Candles and Four-Hundred-Pound Men (1996), Boy Meets World: Heartbreak Cory (1998) and Boy Meets World: Starry Night (1998).
3. The title references the Crosby Stills Nash and Young song "Love the One You're With." The chorus contains the words, "If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with."
4. This episode takes place in March 1998.

Eric Hollywood

1. The only episode where we intentionally see the cameras and set behind the "4th wall."
2. Mr. Feeny doesn't know what ABC is. Boy Meets World aired on ABC Network.
3. Eric's first instance of mixing up "niece" and "niche." He does this again in "Seven the Hard Way" and "I'm Gonna Be Like You, Dad." He also does this in the sequel series Girl Meets World.
4. Majority of child writers for "kid gets acquainted with universe" are Michael Jacobs' children

Starry Night

1. This is the fourth and final episode in which Will Friedle (Eric Matthews) does not appear. The others are Boy Meets World: Sixteen Candles and Four-Hundred-Pound Men (1996), Boy Meets World: Heartbreak Cory (1998) and Boy Meets World: If You Can't Be with the One You Love... (1998).
2. Jonathan Jackson's elder brother Richard Lee Jackson played Kenny in Boy Meets World: And Then There Was Shawn (1998) only three episodes earlier.
3. Cory says to Shawn: "Oh, I'm a clown to you, huh? Am I here to amuse you?" an apparent reference to Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.

Honesty Night

Prom-ises, Prom-ises

1. This is an episode banned from Disney Channel as well.
2. The title comes from "Promises, Promises", the musical version of "The Apartment", which opened at the Shubert Theater on December 1, 1968 and ran for 1281 performances.
3. Trina McGee (Angela) revealed that she was heavily pregnant during this episode that's why she was always behind a large object.

Things Change

1. This episode marks the final appearance of Chubbie's, the regular hangout of Cory and his friends from seasons 2-5.

Graduation

1. In the season 5 finale, Boy Meets World: Graduation (1998), Shawn decides to go straight from high school to a full-time job because he disliked high school so much that he can't see himself enjoying college. In an earlier episode of the same season, Boy Meets World: Fraternity Row (1997), Shawn takes a college course and loves it so much that he considers dropping out of high school to go to college.
2. The only episode where Minkus and Angela appeared together.
3. They are the graduating class of 1998, but in an episode, in the first season, Mr. Feeny says they are the graduating class of 2000.
4. While Eric is climbing out of Feeny's window, the background music is Eric's self-created theme song for "The Good Looking Guy," a TV show he thought up to star in about a good-looking, crime-solving detective.
5. "Graduation" is the last episode featuring Frankie Stechino (Ethan Suplee), Joseph "Joey the Rat" Epstein (Blake Soper), and Stuart Minkus (Lee Norris), who hasn't appeared since the last episode of the first season.