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TMC · 07-06-2017, 01:28 AM

Boy Meets World was your typical coming of age sitcom about a specific family and the lead character's friends, like Wonder Years (incidentally, starring Ben Savage's brother, Fred) and such. But it was just done very, very well and felt "real" and tackled some heavy issues (but not in a necessarily heavy-handed manner like say what Saved by the Bell would do) such as sexual abuse, drug abuse, divorce, and death. Girl Meets World, by contrast, was heavily sanitized and didn't come anywhere near the "realness" that Boy Meets World did.

mancraft · 02-06-2018, 03:15 AM

well, when a show gets popular, they start to include discourse on social justice

TMC · 03-16-2018, 08:20 PM

Another thing to consider is that on Girl Meets World, they really didn't even act like kids. For instance, they went on these endless monologues that really nobody in that age group would talk like (at least not in the way they did).

07-06-2017, 01:28 AM	#16
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,959	Boy Meets World was your typical coming of age sitcom about a specific family and the lead character's friends, like Wonder Years (incidentally, starring Ben Savage's brother, Fred) and such. But it was just done very, very well and felt "real" and tackled some heavy issues (but not in a necessarily heavy-handed manner like say what Saved by the Bell would do) such as sexual abuse, drug abuse, divorce, and death. Girl Meets World, by contrast, was heavily sanitized and didn't come anywhere near the "realness" that Boy Meets World did.
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02-06-2018, 03:15 AM	#17
mancraft Spammers Forum Hawk Join Date: Jan 30, 2018 Location: Alaska Posts: 3	well, when a show gets popular, they start to include discourse on social justice

03-16-2018, 08:20 PM	#18
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,959	Another thing to consider is that on Girl Meets World, they really didn't even act like kids. For instance, they went on these endless monologues that really nobody in that age group would talk like (at least not in the way they did).