The Boy Meets World Episode So Bad, Even the Cast Trashed It
The cast of Boy Meets World just put one of their own episodes on blast — and not in a cute, nostalgic way.
On their rewatch podcast Pod Meets World, Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle tore into a Valentine's Day episode they say is so bad, it barely qualifies as television.
The target? Season 6, Episode 16, "My Baby Valentine," which originally aired in 1999. The plot follows Cory (Ben Savage) trying to juggle Valentine's Day with throwing a baby shower for his mom. But according to the cast, the real disaster wasn't in the script — it was the script.
Rider Strong summed it up:
"It felt rushed. It felt weird. It just felt like a couple different episodes crammed into one. It was like, one about Cory's anxiety and Valentine's Day, and then it really obviously doesn't become about that... it just felt kind of like a couple different episodes got crammed together and they just rushed this one out."
Will Friedle agreed, especially about how Cory is written:
"I hated Cory, but I think you're supposed to. But he was just the worst version of Cory you'll ever see ever. It's just terrible."
Danielle Fishel doubled down, calling it "definitely the worst of the worst version of Cory I think we've ever seen consistently through an entire episode."
She even recalled filming a scene where Cory grabs Topanga's shoulder a little too forcefully:
"He grabs me by the shoulder and you can hear that there's enough force that it changes the way the words are coming out of my mouth. Like, my breath changes. It's just—it's not a good Cory."
It's not the first time they've trashed episodes from their own show. Back in March, Fishel called out another clunker: Season 6, Episode 6, "Hogs & Kisses" — the one where Topanga kisses Shawn.
Fishel didn't mince words:
"It's terrible. There's not one redeeming quality other than Ben. Maybe the worst episode of television I've ever seen ever in my life."
That episode hit her so hard, she admitted:
"I was done. I checked my soul out of my body."
For fans brave enough to relive the damage, Boy Meets World is streaming on Disney+.