Rider Sturdy says Boy Meets World dropped the ball on one other critical episode of the present wherein Shawn abuses alcohol.
Tonight, on a really particular episode of Boy Meets World, Shawn will get crunk…Boy Meets World, like many sitcoms (particularly of the Disney-backed TGIF selection), had its share of episodes that took on critical points, hitting on the whole lot from youngster abuse to teenage intercourse to cults. However one episode that also sticks with Rider Sturdy is “If You Can’t Be With the One You Love”, which targeted on Shawn Hunter growing an alcohol dependency, one thing he doesn’t suppose the present dealt with effectively in any respect.
As Rider Sturdy remembered of the season 5 episode of Pod Meets World (the Boy Meets World rewatch podcast he co-hosts), Shawn was seeing “having a good time with Cory and doing handstands and peeing on cop cars and just, like, woohoo, fun loving. And then in that second half, it’s as if he’s a 45-year-old alcoholic who’s like, ‘I can’t stop, but I gotta keep doing this.’ I don’t think that’s realistic.” He added, “The real problem that I see is it’s actually a disservice to people. The real issue with drinking is that often it’s sneakier, it’s weirder, it’s slower. It slowly takes over people’s lives…to condense it is to oversimplify the issue in a way. The counterargument I’m making in my own head is that it’s for children. And for children, you just wanna see that drinking is bad. Stay away from it for as long as you can. Do it when you’re older.”
The episode discovered Shawn changing into so belligerent that at one level he shoves his girlfriend Angela (Trina McGee), in one of many largest slights to her character as a result of, as co-host Danielle Fishel famous, Shawn bought to maintain her as his girlfriend with out dealing with that set of penalties.
Total, Rider Sturdy insists that these behind the scenes of Boy Meets World dropped the ball on that episode, saying that by making an attempt to interrupt down that type of story into one block of your Friday night time did no justice to the seriousness of the subject. He, too, felt the identical means about “Prom-ises, Prom-ises”, the once-banned episode that he mentioned mishandled the subject of intercourse and contraception.
What do you keep in mind about this episode of Boy Meets World? How do you suppose the matter was dealt with?
