Continuity mistake: After Topanga and Angela hug, Angela puts her hands on Topanga's arms. When the shot changes, Angela's arms are suddenly down at her sides. (00:18:27)
Continuity mistake: When Topanga is telling Cory that she had her internship interviews in the morning, her arms are folded. When the shot changes, her arms are down at her sides. (00:07:39)
Continuity mistake: When Cory is saying to Shawn "Are you going to nice yourself out of the girl you love?", Shawn's right foot is resting on his left knee, and his left hand is on the foot. When the shot changes, his left foot is now resting on his right knee, and his left hand is resting on his left thigh. (00:05:06)
Continuity mistake: When Eric is hugging Angela, her arm is on his shoulder. In the next shot, when Jack is saying "How am I going to survive without money?" you can see, between him and Rachel, that Angela now has her arm on Eric's back. (00:16:58)
Chosen answer: In the present day, with the United States abiding by more stricter school health laws, for the most part this wouldn't be in school cafeterias as many cannot even have carbonated beverage machines now. However, in the 90s when the show takes place, it wasn't unheard of for there to be coffee machines in the cafeteria of small schools where the teachers eat with the students as we see them do often in the show. The idea being that the cafeteria was small enough so a teacher or hall monitor could catch a student before they could drink the coffee.