In a recent episode of thePod Meets Worldpodcast,Boy Meets WorldstarsDanielle Fishel,Rider Strong, andWill Friedleengaged in an Ask Me Anything session with fans. One fan asked Fishel if there was anything she would change aboutBoy Meets World, and her response was genuinely surprising.Fishel said she wouldn’t want Cory and Topanga to get married.The revelation makes us second guessthe iconic couple’s happy ending.
Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence’s relationship was a central theme inBoy Meets World. The characters, played by Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel, were childhood sweethearts. They started dating in middle school and their relationship evolved into something beautiful throughout the series. In the Season 5 finale, titled “Graduation,” which aired in May 1998, Cory proposed to Topanga. The couple spent the entire sixth season engaged and finally tied the knot in the Season 7 episode “It’s About Time.” Their wedding was an emotional moment in the series because it officially meant they had transitioned into adulthood.
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However, Fishel believes they may have been too young for marriage at that point in their lives. She stated that it was“the right choice”for the series, but personally, she felt that it“could have gotten more mileage out of them being together, but not yet married.”Here’s what she said while elaborating on her thoughts during the podcast.
“I know from my just my memories of it, after we were married, feeling like, well, now we’re married, and they had to come up with new, like, upping the stakes for us. And I remember not loving those stakes.
I think I might have her still do the proposal, and maybe he still says yes, and we go through the whole planning, and then we end up deciding it’s maybe not the right choice for us right now. And we still stay together. We don’t have to be broken up, but maybe we just save the marriage aspect for the end of the show and not spend the last, like, full year of the show married.”
Cory & Topanga’s Marriage Worked Out, Regardless
It’s been almost 25 years sinceBoy Meets Worldended, and despite Fishel’s reservations, Cory and Topanga’s marriage worked out well in the narrative of bothBoy Meets Worldand its sequel,Girl Meets World. Over the years, several actresses from the show have voiced their concerns about certain narrative arcs. Fishel’s own comments are not the first time she has mentioned the show’s direction. At 90s Con, she toldPeople,“There are stories of it working out, but I would say, on a whole, getting married right out of high school is not usually ideal.”
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She referencedGirl Meets Worldhere, which aired from 2014 to 2017 and showed Cory and Topanga as a happily married couple with children.The spin-off centered aroundtheir daughter Riley and her friends, and mirrored the original’s thematic significance. In the show, the couple has been married for 15 years and their relationship has endured several highs and lows.
Fishel, along with her co-hosts Rider Strong and Will Friedle, is currently working on a documentary about their experiences reuniting for thePod Meets Worldpodcast years afterBoy Meets Worldended. It will capture the behind-the-scenes moments and personal dynamics of the trio, which is truly exciting.
