Why did BMW time-jump by two years?

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In the first season, there's an episode (called "Class Pre-Union") in which Mr. Feeny and Cory in effect, trade places for a week. At the start of the episode, Mr. Feeny tells his class, "You are the class of 2000". Cory, Shawn and Topanga however, ultimately graduated in the year 1998 at the end of the fifth season.

In fairness, Boy Meets World was never the strongest show in regards to upholding its continuity. So I guess, I shouldn't be too surprised that they would goof up in this particular regard. It just feels like having the show go another two years (AKA the "College Years") after high school graduation (the high school years were more or less, the "peak" years for BMW) made things sort of anti-climatic (the show continuing after Cory and Topanga got married with standing).

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Season 1, episode 12 - "Once in Love With Amy". The stinger explains every continuity "error" and "problem" that you might have.

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they never should have ended the show the way they did

[spunkygirl]

Uhm why? The ending was perfect

[GQ28]

I think that it made since for them to graduate in 1998. Ben, Danielle and Rider are from my generation. I have been watching BMW since I was 14, I'm 35 now. Ben was born in 1980, Danielle 1981 and Rider 1979... Do the math...

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Originally Posted by spunkygirl

Uhm why? The ending was perfect

Angela wasn't even in the finale

[FuriosityShell]

Angela didn't need to be in the finale. Her character received closure the episode right before.

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Originally Posted by Blackout

they never should have ended the show the way they did

BMW theoretically, could've lasted nine seasons, if it weren't for the 2 year time jump as well as the addition of the "college years" (Seasons 6-7). But the way that the show actually ended wasn't exactly the point that I was trying to make.

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Originally Posted by FuriosityShell

Angela didn't need to be in the finale. Her character received closure the episode right before.

Oh I know all of this, don't get me wrong.


I just thought the episode of her moving away overseas was stupid. Shawn didn't even mention her in the finale, did he? They easily could have had Angela move to NY with the rest of them.


Series finale was on today and I watched it btw.

[JO Sweet Heart]

I picked up on this too because when the show started the kids were in my grade which was the 6th and when the second season started the 9th grade is what they were going into when I was going into the 7th.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

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Boy Meets World and Its Missing Two Years

After Season 1, though, the show decided that with the actors actually being high school age now, why keep them in junior high? Especially since now the kids could ostensibly start doing dating plotlines (although obviously it wasn’t until Season 3 that the dating stuff became a major part of the show), so Season 2 saw Cory, Shawn and Topanga enter high school, skipping seventh and eighth grades completely….

Now, you could say “It’s not necessarily a retcon, since two years could have just passed offscreen,” but it WAS a retcon because Eric was now just a junior in high school, thus he went from being four years older than Cory to two years older. Also, in the first season, their teacher, Mr. Feeny, says that they will be the high school graduating class of 2000, but they graduated in 1998.

Also, when Cory and Topanga later discussed their first kiss, it occurred when they were 13, not 11.

The show just retconned out two years. It’s pretty funny, really. I think it worked for the show, but it’s still funny.