Boy Meets World Solid On Woman Meets World Inappropriate Conduct

To at the present time, Boy Meets World continues to be one of the crucial beloved reveals. The sequence ran from 1993 to 2000 and aired 158 episodes.

Over the course of seven seasons, many iconic TV moments had been born from characters like Mr. Feeny (William Daniels), Eric (Will Friedle), Cory (Ben Savage), Topanga (Danielle Fishel), and Shawn (Rider Robust). Heck, folks nonetheless speak concerning the closing minutes of the sequence as the most effective TV moments of all time.

Then, 14 years after the sequence ended, a brand new spinoff started on Disney Channel known as Woman Meets World, which centered on Cory and Topanga’s daughter Riley (Rowan Blanchard) as she navigates college, associates, and rising up.

And now, it has been virtually precisely 30 years since Boy Meets World premiered on ABC, and not too long ago Will, Rider, and Danielle have come collectively to re-explore their time on the hit sitcom with their podcast, Pod Meets World.

Like most rewatch podcasts, their present goes episode by episode as they focus on what it was like filming the sequence, what was occurring behind the scenes, and rather more. Notably, they’ve opened up about working with the present’s creator Michael Jacobs and among the mistreatment they confronted behind the scenes.

Will, Danielle, and Rider stated they did not understand how unhealthy the behind-the-scenes habits was till they returned for Woman Meets World in 2014, the place Danielle was a sequence common and directed episodes, whereas Will and Rider appeared as visitor stars and wrote and directed episodes, respectively.

In a brand new interview with Selection, the trio talked about their podcast and dove deeper into the habits they witnessed behind the scenes of Woman Meets World, particularly the “troubling power dynamics at play within the show” and the way it made them take a look at their very own experiences on Boy Meets World from a brand new perspective.

Woman Meets World notably marked Danielle’s first sitcom since Boy Meets World ended, and he or she stated she instantly realized how inappropriate among the habits on set was.

“There’s a lot to be said for taking some normal workplace environment rules to Hollywood. Maybe, if this would never fly in any other professional environment, maybe some of those professional rules should apply on our sets. Maybe the things that would happen in your accountant’s office where someone would then call HR and it would come to an end, maybe we should participate in those things here,” Danielle stated.

She continued, telling Selection, “I think I was one of the people on that set who oftentimes would say, ‘Hi, what are we doing here? This is weird. And I know it’s normal for what we do, but I don’t think it should be normal and I think we should stop this from happening.'”

In a current episode of Pod Meets World, Danielle, Will, and Rider talked about boundaries being crossed on set, and Will famous that he’d seen it occur on Woman Meets World.

Will stated, “I got to come in and occasionally look at the entire thing that was happening. You saw a lot of those traits, where it was, you’d walk in and somebody 13 or 14 would be sitting on somebody’s lap who’s 35. There’s nothing overtly sexual about it, but it’s still inappropriate.”

He continued, saying, “It’s completely on the adults. It’s not on the 13-year-old girl to say, ‘Wow, I shouldn’t run up and jump on somebody’s lap because that’s inappropriate.’ It’s on the man to go, ‘No, no, no — I like you a lot but why don’t you sit over there and we’ll have a conversation. It’s just not appropriate.’ You don’t see that nearly as much as you should. It was very strange.”

Whereas engaged on Woman Meets World, the trio stated they started to comprehend how inappropriate the habits they skilled on Boy Meets World was. On the podcast, they’ve talked about often being round conversations from grown adults the place they talked about “how hot the guest stars are” and the way the ladies’s “skirts weren’t short enough.”

Whereas the trio don’t have anything however great issues to say about Rowan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Peyton Meyer, who lead the sequence, they defined that their experiences on Woman Meets World had been “hindered by the fact it was the cast and crew returning from Boy Meets World.”

Now, because the adults on set, they noticed the whole lot in a different way. “I was like, ‘Oh, this is what’s really happening here,'” Rider added. “It was hard and horrible to go through. But ultimately, very healthy and healing to experience.”

“Certain people counted on us not talking to each other. When it was revealed that we were talking to each other, the curtain was pulled away,” Will stated. “When we started comparing notes, it wasn’t great. So, I’m very glad that I had very limited involvement with Girl.”

All three of them agreed that if Woman Meets World did not occur, they could nonetheless be “ranting and raving in only the most positive ways” about Boy Meets World.

Danielle elaborated, saying, “Your memories start coming back to you about when this happened and when that happened. You start to see it differently. Even being able to do that, that takes a certain amount of growing up and self-reflection to even recognize it happening. And I don’t think everybody recognized it happening.”

One other factor that occurred with Woman Meets World was Danielle realized the ability dynamics that had been at play from the very starting. Particularly, she did not know that the whole thing of the unique solid wasn’t informed concerning the spinoff.

Danielle stated she was initially informed that Woman Meets World would solely embrace small tie-ins and cameos from the unique solid, with the brand new solid actually main the sequence. Nevertheless, that turned out to not be the case, and Danielle and Ben ended up being sequence regulars.

“Honestly, the kids suffered for that,” Danielle stated. “It should have been their show, its own thing with little moments here and there of tie-ins — and that’s what I was told it was going to be. I was under the impression from the very beginning. I was also told that you guys [Will and Rider] were all in on it.”

In the end, Will, Danielle, and Rider say they’re grateful for his or her time on each Boy Meets World and Woman Meets World as a result of it allowed the trio to stay shut, with Rider saying, “Boy Meets World is an overwhelmingly positive experience in all of our lives.”

As a longtime Boy Meets World fan, I’ve actually been having fun with Pod Meets World and I am glad Will, Danielle, and Rider are having these conversations. What’s additionally nice is that they’ve invited different youngster actors to come back on the podcast to share their experiences as properly.

You possibly can learn Will, Danielle, and Rider’s full interview with Selection right here.

And you may try their podcast, Pod Meets World, right here.