Boy Meets World

Season 7

Show Me the Love

For Love and Apartments

1. A third actor portrays Topanga's dad in the series, and a second actress portrays Topanga's mom.
2. The lowest-rated episode of the series (November 2020).
3. The US History textbooks the boys are holding in the classroom at the end of the episode are the same ones they had in high school.
4. Mark Harelik is the third actor to portray Topanga's father, after Peter Tork and Micheal McKean. Marcia Cross is the second actress to portray Topanga's mother, after Annette O'Toole.

Angela's Men

1. The actors never finish the final scene because they crack up on every take. As a result, instead of airing the final scene as originally written, the tag for the episode contains several takes of the actors attempting to complete the scene.
2. This scene is evidence for why Rider Strong & Will Friedle are rarely on screen together - Strong stated after Boy Meets World finished that the writers tried to avoid their characters interacting, as the two could rarely film a scene together without laughing.
3. Julius Carry (Master Sgt. Moore) previously played Professor Michaels in Boy Meets World: Fraternity Row (1997).
4. The ribbons worn by Master Sgt Moore look to be from the Navy Junior Reserves Officer Training Corps organization.

No Such Thing as a Sure Thing

1. The character who plays the star football player's name is Jerry Mungo. Reversed the name reads Mungo Jerry, who released the hit song "In The Summertime."
2. The same penguin costume used in Smart Guy (1997).

You Light Up My Union

1. The title is a parody of "You Light Up My Life," a Grammy Award and an Academy Award-winning ballad written by Joe Brooks for the movie of the same name. Debbie Boone had a big hit with this song.

They're Killing Us

1. Cory's line, "Let me touch something!" was removed when this episode aired on The Disney Channel.

It's About Time

1. The grocery store assistant manager from season one, Leonard Spinelli, is also the minister who married Cory and Topanga in season seven.
2. Willie Garson plays the minister at Corey and Topanga's wedding. He also plays two other characters in the series. He appears as the grocery store assistant manager, Leonard Spinelli, in two episodes of season one ("Father Knows Less," "The Father/Son Game") and as Mervyn, a man interviewing to work at the Matthew's Sporting Goods store (Janitor Dad).
3. This episode takes place on November 5, 1999.

The Honeymooners

1. Anne Haney, who played Mrs. Nelson in this episode, co-starred in Mrs. Doubtfire with Matthew Lawrence, who plays Jack Hunter
2. Topanga says that she wants to name their children Stephen and Chloe. Chloe was the name of Topanga's mother in season one. Her name was changed to Rhiannon later in the series.
3. Cory's coconut heads include Jay Leno, David Letterman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Howard Stern, John Lennon and Elvis Presley.

The Honeymoon Is Over

1. The tag is a series of outtakes by Daniel Jacobs, Michael Jacobs's son, attempting to deliver his line, "I see dead people." In the last shot, he delivers the line perfectly but immediately turns to the crew offstage, exclaiming, "I did it!" ruining the scene take.

Pickett Fences

What a Drag!

1. A Hunter and a Matthews previously dressed as women in the episode Chick Like Me. In both episodes, the Hunter (Shawn and Jack) are shown as beautiful women receiving men's attention, while Matthews is not a pretty woman and doesn't receive any attention.

Family Trees

1. Guest directors included Ben Savage's brother Fred Savage, William Russ, who played Alan Mathews, and Mickey Dolenz, a former member of the Monkees band.
2. The director Fred Savage is the older brother of Ben Savage (Cory Matthews).
3. This episode takes place in December 1999.

The Provider

I'm Gonna Be Like You, Dad

1. Ralph Manza (Uncle Morrie) died on January 31, 2000, only three days after this episode aired, at the age of 78.
2. Despite references of Eric needing the experience, he worked with his dad at the grocery store for a couple of years and worked at the camping store. His father had faith in him since they were partners previously. It is never clear what Eric's major is.
3. The title is a line from the 1974 folk-rock song "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974, his only #1 hit song.
4. This episode takes place in January 2000.

The War

1. When Rachel tries to persuade Jack to join her team by offering her "cookies" to him, Shawn responds with the familiar phrase: "WHOA!" paying homage to Matthew Lawrence's brother (Joey Lawrence), who played Blossom's brother in the TV series "Blossom." "WHOA" was Joey Russo's signature catchphrase in that series. After Shawn says this in the episode, you can see Matthew's sign of approval.
2. This episode originally aired on Matthew Lawrence's 20th birthday.

Seven the Hard Way

1. The flash forward version of Eric reappears during an episode of the Disney Channel spin off series, Girl Meets World: Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels (2015).
2. In the flash-forward scene of this episode, Topanga mentions that she and Cory have a daughter named Beverly Glen. In Girl Meets World (2014), their daughter is named Riley, who was around 5 when this episode took place.
3. The flash-forward scenes take place in 2006.
4. This episode originally aired on Matthew Lawrence's 20th birthday.

She's Having My Baby Back Ribs

1. The stuffed penguin in the background in Cory and Topanga's bedroom is the same stuffed animal that is called "Hugsy, the bedtime penguin pal" in Friends (1994).
2. Will Friedle- who plays Eric, had gained weight over the seasons. In this episode, they poke fun at his weight. He revealed his weight gain was due to having chronic anxiety, and the medication he took for it made him gain weight.
3. The first and only appearance of the oft-mentioned (by Cory mostly) Nana BooBoo.
4. This episode takes place in February 2000.

How Cory and Topanga Got Their Groove Back

Brotherly Shove

1. One of two episodes to be rated TV-PG-V. The other is Boy Meets World: And Then There Was Shawn (1998).

As Time Goes By

1. The title of this episode comes from the song of the same name in Casablanca (1942).
2. When Topanga (as Trixie) asks Cory (as Rory) if he wants more coffee, he responds with, "Hit me, baby... one more time." a nod to the Britney Spears hit "...Baby One More Time", released a year earlier.

Angela's Ashes

1. This marks the last appearance of Angela. However, Trina McGee would reprise her role in one episode of Girl Meets World (2014).
2. The director Fred Savage is the elder brother of Ben Savage (Cory Matthews).
3. The pictures that Eric gives to Angela to hand out in Europe is the same photo that he hangs on Cory and Shawn's dorm wall in The Psychotic Episode.
4. Episode title shares the name with the film Angela's Ashes (1999), released the previous year, and the Frank McCourt novel on which it was based.

Brave New World: Part 1

1. The geranium Mr. Feeny uses for his metaphor about Topanga needing room to grow is the same plant that Cory gave him in the hospital in the final episode of season one, Dream of Feeny.
2. This episode is the only clip show of Boy Meets World's run.
3. TV Guide lists Boy Meets World as one of the best series finales of all time.
4. This episode originally aired on Danielle Fishel's 19th birthday.
5. The title is based on the 1931 futuristic novel 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley about London 500 years in the future (632 A.F. in the book), a society based upon the teachings of Henry Ford.

Brave New World: Part 2

1. The final scene of the series, with Mr. Feeny saying goodbye to Cory, Topanga, Shawn, and Eric in the iconic classroom set, was done in one take because the actors were so emotional they could only manage one run-through.
2. While most sitcoms are canceled due to low ratings, Boy Meets World (1993) was cut when its ratings were arguably the highest. ABC would have rather continued with it. However, Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter) and Ben Savage (Cory Matthews) were accepted to Columbia and Stanford, respectively, and the cast had to "get on with their lives."
3. Danielle Fishel (Topanga Matthews) claims that her tears in the finale were real, and the producers just ran with it because it felt more natural. She claims she felt emotional because she knew the show was ending.
4. Even though Trina McGee was not in the series finale, she was said to be in attendance during filming. Jason Marsden, Blake Clark, and Willie Garson were all present during the final scene.
5. This episode originally aired on Danielle Fishel's 19th birthday.
6. Mr. Feeny reveals, while he and Cory are saying their goodbyes, that Cory's birth name is Cornelius.
7. Series Finale drew a record 17.1 million to ABC during the hour-long block. Film critic Roger Ebert praised the series in an article in the Chicago Sun-Times the day after it aired.
8. Rider Strong can be seen nearly breaking character and laughing in the scene where Chet yells at Shawn and Jack for claiming that money doesn't make one rich.
9. The series-finale scene in Mr. Feeny's classroom was filmed once, which was great until they noticed one thing, Topanga had a tattoo of some Chinese letters on her neck.
10. Critics gave "Brave New World" positive reviews. One critic stated: "The finale of Boy Meets World was a great one that wrapped up the series in a very nice, fulfilling way. This was a powerfully moving finale. It had some great humor, and the emotion in the final scene was well-done."
11. Both Fred and Ben Savage have a sitcom that made the list of TV-Guides best series finales of all time. Boy Meets World and Wonder Years. Both received nationwide recognition.
12. This is the only episode to mention the series title "Boy Meets World" (excluding the title songs).
13. William Daniels (George Feeny) said his favorite moment in the entire series was his very last scene.
14. Cory's first name is short for Cornelius.
15. The title is based on the 1931 futuristic novel 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley about London 500 years in the future (632 A.F. in the book), a society based upon the teachings of Henry Ford.
16. Last show of the series.