Josh Perlman
If there’s one 90s TV series that remains a classic to this day, it’s “Boy Meets World.”
We all secretly modeled our middle school relationships after that of Cory and Topanga, tried our hardest to be half as cool as Shawn and told ourselves that one day we would get a teacher just like Mr. Feeny.
But this week I stumbled across some unsettling news concerning one of my all-time favorite TV shows. Stars Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel have reportedly signed on to reprise their roles in a new Disney Channel spin-off, “Girl Meets World.”
The sequel will follow Cory and Topanga’s 13-year-old daughter Riley as she experiences the same ups and downs of young adulthood the original cast faced throughout its seven seasons. “Boy Meets World” creator Michael Jacobs is backing the project, with the pilot still in production and a nationwide search for the show’s lead actress still in progress, according to TV Line.
Though many fans will surely welcome this as a second chance with the characters they grew to love, I can’t help but feel both angered and confused. The pilot will air with some pretty big shoes to fill, and I’m confident that the resulting disappointment among viewers will be catastrophic.
The truth is that spin-offs are never a good idea.
Remember when Matt LeBlanc tried to relive his “Friends” days by starring in the NBC spin-off “Joey?” Yeah, the rest of us tried to block that out from memory, too.
“All Grown Up” took any imagination out of what the future held for the beloved “Rugrats” characters. And I’m sorry, but I was not expecting Tommy’s hair to be quite so purple.
“Sabrina’s Secret Life” was a spin-off of a spin-off of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” That one pretty much speaks for itself.
The list goes on and on, and the end result is always the same. You can make a molehill into a mountain, but you can’t make a mountain into two mountains. At some point the networks will have to realize that they can’t rely on old successes just because they’re running out of ideas.
I think many “Boy Meets World” fans will agree with me when I say that with a TV show as epic as this one, sometimes it’s best just to accept it for what it is and let it rest in peace.
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