Boy Meets World

Trivia: During a panel at the 2021 FanX event in Salt Lake City, Will Friedle revealed that due to his unusual accent, several cast members mistakenly believed that William Daniels was English for the first few years they knew him. At the same panel, Daniels said he developed the accent from being around other stage performers when he was around 15 years old.

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Trivia: The first time the "Feeny call" was directed at William Daniels in public, which he says was by some students getting off a bus on 8th Avenue in New York City, he got spooked by it and ran away.

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Trivia: Eric Matthews is often viewed as an example of Flanderization, when a character's becomes dominated by a single personality trait over time. As the series progresses, Eric becomes more and more "wacky" and does stupider things.

I Never Sang For My Legal Guardian - S3-E20

Trivia: Mr. Feeny makes a reference to Eric going for a ride inside a clothes dryer when he was in 5th grade. Will Friedle said this actually happened to him when he was 4 or 5 years old. He was playing hide-and-seek with his brother and hid in a dryer that he said automatically turned on when the door was fully closed.

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The Pink Flamingo Kid - S3-E17

Trivia: When Alan asks Eric why he has a box full of junk, Eric responds with an over-the-top cackle. This cackle was originally meant to be a recurring thing for Eric, but Will Friedle and Michael Jacobs agreed it shouldn't be a thing.

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Me and Mr. Joad - S2-E4

Mr. Feeny: I realise that all you 7th-graders are delicate, adolescent flowers, just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity: take this test, or die!

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Boys II Mensa - S1-E6

Question: When Mr. Feeny is talking to Cory in the cafeteria about his score on the IQ test, Feeny is shown purchasing a coffee from the vending machine. Are there actual elementary schools in the United States with coffee vending machines where prepubescent students have the ability to purchase a beverage more suited for younger adults and older? This isn't the faculty cafeteria mind you, because it's the same cafeteria the students are shown occupying throughout the first season. Seems a little irresponsible on the school's part to give students access to coffee.

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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.

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