It turns out that producers of Boy Meets World had ulterior motives when it came to featuring so many food fights on the hit ‘90s series.
“We had a producer on the show that had a very strange food fetish,” Will Friedle, who played Eric Matthews on the ABC sitcom, claimed on the Wednesday, March 26, episode of his “Pod Meets World” recap podcast. “It was almost, like, a sexuality when it came to food. So, that’s where he was going with this.”
Friedle, 48, and cohosts Rider Strong and Danielle Fishel were discussing the season 6 episode “Hogs and Kisses,” where Rachel (Maitland Ward) instigated a food fight with roommates Eric (Friedle) and Jack (Matthew Lawrence) after they tried to change their behavior to be more prim and proper to impress her. Rachel started the messy brawl as a way to prove that she shouldn’t be treated differently because she’s a woman.
“And then the feet in the marinara on my face, [that] was all a sexual thing,” Friedle further alleged.
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Boy Meets World became a family sitcom phenomenon during its seven-season run on ABC from 1993 to 2000. Created by Michael Jacobs, the show followed the life and life lessons of Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) from home with parents Alan (William Russ) and mother Amy (Betsy Randle) to school with neighbor and forever-teacher George Feeny […]
While Strong, 45, didn’t remember the producer’s apparent foodie request, Fishel, 43, did.
“Cory and Topanga have one, too,” Fishel recalled of her TV husband Ben Savage’s character. “I think there is a movie called Nine and a Half Weeks, where they have sex in a food fight. That movie was mentioned to me during that episode about 75 times.”
Strong, meanwhile, pointed out that “the food fight thing” was a standard trope on kids’ shows — outside of any potential fetish.
“Nothing about this episode said, ‘We are still a kids’ show,’” Fishel asserted, to which Friedle concurred about the college setting that BMW transitioned to for seasons 6 and 7.
“I don’t even care what the story is anymore,” Friedle quipped. “I’m over it for the B-story, but if I have to see Jack and Eric and Rachel just in the apartment for another episode, I’m gonna lose it. It’s, like, ‘Are you kidding me? Now we’re just the three of us in that one little space trying to woo this girl still.’”
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While Friedle was over the Eric-Jack-Rachel love triangle, he was more into the main story of the episode when Cory (Savage) got jealous about the prospect of Shawn (Strong) kissing Topanga (Fishel).
“I could watch that [version of] Ben all the time. He was so funny [and] it might be my favorite Ben Savage performance I’ve ever seen,” Friedle added. “He’s just so good. He also looks shredded when he comes in and then he rips off his shirt and, like, ‘Damn.’”
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