Danielle Fishel's neck tattoo in Boy Meets World

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"Boy Meets World" is a popular TGIF coming-of-age comedy from the 1990s, and follows Cory (Ben Savage) who navigates the hurdles of transitioning from childhood to young adulthood with the help of friends, family, and a mentoring teacher. His heart, however, gradually found itself falling for a girl named Topanga (Danielle Fishel).

Fishel found herself in multiple job-threatening situations at an early age; when the then-12-year-old kept delivering her lines too quickly, series creator Michael Jacobs threatened to fire her having already axed the original actress set to play Topanga. "He went through every single one of my lines and what he wanted and what I wasn't doing right and how slow I needed to talk," she told People in 2022. "[He said] 'if you don't come back tomorrow doing this entirely differently, you are also not going to be here,' referencing the girl I had replaced."

When the series first took off, Topanga's hairstyle became a signature, but when Fishel expressed a real-life desire to go short, the producers wanted the shearing to occur on camera, so they wrote an episode around it (Season 4's "Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow"). Later, Fishel wanted to change her appearance again, and this time didn't give anyone a heads-up. It wasn't until the hair department gave Fishel pigtails for a scene that a writer spotted a tattoo on the back of her neck and reported it to Jacobs. The actress was 18 when she got the ink and has since had it (and a second tattoo) removed.