Boy Meets World was “irresponsible” with intercourse

The very first thing you consider when discussing Boy Meets World isn’t intercourse, even in the event you did have a poster of Topanga in your wall. However Rider Robust, who performed Shawn Hunter on Boy Meets World, has opened up about how the showrunners botched dealing with the matter in knowledgeable manner.

On a current episode of the rewatch podcast “Pod Meets World”–which Robust co-hosts with Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence) and Will Friedle (Eric Matthews)–Rider Robust put Boy Meets World writers and producers on blast for not selling a wholesome method to intercourse. “I keep in mind being very upset throughout that complete week…I used to be very upset with the adults on our set — the best way that they had been approaching this, particularly as a result of we weren’t discussing protected intercourse.”

The Boy Meets World episode Rider Robust is referring to is season 5’s “Promenade-ises, Promenade-ises”, a once-banned episode that targeted on Rider Robust’s Shawn and Ben Savage’s Cory Matthews attempting to lose their virginity to their respective girlfriends.

“The truth that we’d not carry up Cory and Topanga utilizing condoms or having a dialogue about contraception in any respect,” Rider Robust mentioned, “and but all the episode was about whether or not ‘will they’ or ‘will they not’.” He claims to have approached Boy Meets World co-creator Michael Jacobs about this, however Jacobs brushed him off. “I felt, on the time, that that was extremely irresponsible.”

The podcast has confirmed to be not only a favourite for Boy Meets World followers, however the spot for numerous revelations concerning the ABC sequence. Earlier this yr, Trina McGee, who performed Angela, mentioned her emotions on being overlooked of the present’s sequence finale.

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