“Boy Meets World” star Danielle Fishel thinks Cory and Topanga shouldn't have gotten married on show
Fishel says she "might have her still do the proposal," though.
Boy Meets World star Danielle Fishel thinks her character Topanga and Ben Savage's character Cory should have maybe said "I don't" instead of "I do" on the show.
Fishel made the surprising revelation on the newest episode of re-watch podcast Pod Meets World, which she co-hosts with fellow Boy Meets World stars Rider Strong and Will Friedle. The episode, fittingly titled "Fans Meet World," invited several fans of the hit ’90s sitcom to ask them anything, with one fan in particular asking if they had a time machine and could use it to change any one thing about the series, what would it be.
“I don't think I would have Cory and Topanga get married,” Fishel responded, much to the surprise of her costars.
Fishel’s character Topanga famously proposed to Savage's Cory in the show’s fifth season finale, at the sweethearts' high school graduation ceremony. They were engaged for the sixth season and eventually married in the seventh and final season.
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“I think I might have her still do the proposal,” Fishel explained, “and maybe he still says yes, and we go through the whole planning, and then we end up deciding it's maybe not the right choice for us right now. And we still stay together. We don't have to be broken up, but maybe we just save the marriage aspect for the end of the show and not spend the last, like, full year of the show married.”
Both Strong and Friedle pointed out that Fishel's pick was a bit of a "hot take," but Fishel stood by it.
“I know from just my memories of it, after we were married, feeling like, well, now we're married, and they had to come up with new, like, upping the stakes for us,” Fishel said. “And I remember not loving those stakes. I feel like we could have gotten more mileage out of them being together, but not yet married.”
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Fishel's comments on the podcast echo sentiments she made recently that she felt the two characters were too young to get married. "There are stories of it working out," Fishel told PEOPLE at 90s Con earlier this year, "but I would say, on a whole, getting married right out of high school is not usually ideal."
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Boy Meets World aired for seven seasons on ABC between September 1993 and May 2000. Things ultimately worked out for the lovebirds, though, because Savage and Fishel reprised their roles in the the Disney Channel 2014 reboot, Girl Meets World, which followed the couple as they raise their daughter 15 years later.
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