- Cory: Mom, Listen, I haven't been together with Topanga for twenty-two years, but we *have* been together for sixteen. 'Kay, that's a lot longer than most couples have been together. I mean, when we were born, you told me that we used to take walks in our strollers together in the park. When we were two, we were best friends, I mean, I, I knew everything about this girl. I knew her favorite color. I knew her favorite food. Then we became six, you know, and Eric made fun of me because it wasn't cool to have a best friend that was a girl or even know a girl, so for the next seven years I threw dirt at her. I like to call those "the lost years". Then when I was thirteen, Mom, she put me up against my locker and she kissed me. I mean, she gave me my first kiss. She taught me how to dance. She was always talking about these crazy things and I never understood a word she said. All I understood was that she was the girl I sat up every night thinking about, and when I'm with her I feel happy to be alive. Like I can do anything. Even talk to you like this. So that's, that's what I feel is love, Mom... When I'm better because she's here... and now she won't be. So we're finished.
- Shawn Hunter: [Cory and Shawn are discussing Cory and Topanga's recent breakup] Cory, Topanga went out with another guy last night. I'm really sorry, man.
- Cory: So we're the only two people in the world who still have hope for Topanga and me, and you're throwing in the towel?
- Shawn Hunter: [nods] Sorry, Cory.
- Cory: All right.
- [turns away]
- Shawn Hunter: You okay?
- Cory: Yeah, sure. It's a strange feeling, though.
- Shawn Hunter: What, knowing that it's finally over between you and Topanga?
- Cory: [turns back to face Shawn] No, being the only one who knows it's not.
- Topanga: I wasn't sure this day would ever come, but you were. I wasn't sure love could survive everything we put it through, but you were. You were always strong and always sure. And now I know I want you to stand beside me for the rest of my life. That's what I'm sure of.
- Cory: I have to talk to her now, OK.
- [to Shawn]
- Shawn Hunter: Go ahead.
- Cory: Ever since I was young I never understood anything about the world, and I never understood anything that happened in my life. The only thing that ever made sense to me was you, and how I felt about you. That's all I've ever known and that's enough, that's enough for me, for the rest of my life. Topanga, we gonna get married?
- Topanga: Yea, we are.
- Cory: Good, cause, umm I have these rings... I love you, Topanga.
- Topanga: I love you too, Cory.
- Eric: I have a question that I'm going to need a yes or no answer to. How many people get into Yale each year?
- Mr. George Feeny: No.
- Topanga: [reading her yearbook quote to Cory] You do your thing and I do my thing. You are you and I am I. And, if, in the end, we end up together, it's beautiful.
- [Jack and Eric are dressed up as girls to avoid bullies]
- Mr. George Feeny: Hmm, double d's, just like your grades.
- Morgan Matthews: Mommy, if my dolly's cold, can I put her in the toaster oven?
- Amy Matthews: No, honey. That would be a mistake.
- Morgan Matthews: Mommy?
- Amy Matthews: Yes?
- Morgan Matthews: I made a mistake.
- Amy Matthews: [runs over to toaster oven and pulls out doll] Cory, didn't you smell that?
- Cory: Yeah, I just thought we were having plastic for dinner.
- Cory: You are going to learn something from life every day. And make mistakes. And you'll make good friends and Mr. Feeny will probably teach you every grade you're ever in. And maybe someday you'll fall in love with a woman as wonderful as Topanga. How would you like that?
- Joshua Matthews: Yeah.
- Cory: And be lucky enough to make a good friend as Shawn. How'd you like that?
- Joshua Matthews: Good.
- Cory: And when you're not a little boy anymore, when the world has taught you how to be a man... Then you'll still make mistakes. But your family, and all those good friends you've made along the way, will help you. And even though you'll think the world has gone out of it's way to teach you all the tough lessons, you'll realize that it's the same world that's given you your family and those friends, you you'll come to believe that no matter what happens, somehow the world will protect you, too. "Boy Meets World." Now I get it.
- [John Turner is in a coma]
- Shawn Hunter: John, how could you be in here? How could you screw up on your bike? I have never seen you screw up on anything. I'm the screw-up, remember? C'mon you remember... Don't do this to me, John. I don't do alone real good... I know you're in there but it's like you're not really here. You're not talking but I know you're here. So I'm just gonna talk, you can listen.
- [pause]
- Shawn Hunter: John, even when I was at the Centre, it was all the things you taught me that made me wonder if it was the right place for me or not. But you didn't teach me enough. You, and Cory, and my parents, and the Matthews and the handful of people who really care about me, so don't blow me off, John.
- [Looks up]
- Shawn Hunter: Don't blow me off, God. I never asked you for anything before and I never wanted to come to you like this, but don't take Turner away from me; he's not done yelling at me yet. God, you're not talking but I know you're here, so I'm gonna talk, and you can listen.
- [pause]
- Shawn Hunter: God, I don't wanna be empty inside any more.
- [Cory and his mother are compromising]
- Amy Matthews: Thirty minutes.
- Cory: Half an hour.
- Amy Matthews: Deal.
- Alan Matthews: Hey, son! How was your day?
- Cory: Fine.
- Alan Matthews: What'd you do in school?
- Cory: Nothing
- Alan Matthews: Hey, *hold on*! Wait there!
- Alan Matthews: You know, everyday I ask you, "What did you do?" and everyday you tell me "Nothing." Well, I'm tired of nothing. I mean we both know something happened in school today and I want to know what it is!
- Cory: I decided to be a girl.
- Alan Matthews: Well, you taught me a very valuable lesson there, son.
- Shawn Hunter: You know the book, "Black Like Me"?
- Amy Matthews: Sure, is that what you guys are reading in school?
- Alan Matthews: Don't ask questions, honey!
- Topanga: I don't sweat, I glisten.
- Shawn Hunter: [hands her a towel] Well, you're glistening like a pig.
- Cory: It was raining... you had an umbrella... I grabbed it, stuffed it down your throat, and then I opened it. Shawn, I Mary Poppinsed ya.
- Sergeant Moore: Boy you are disgrace to this community, this country, and humanity in general!
- Eric: Oh, wow!
- Topanga: Yeah, Shawn, you were wrong about Feeny and you're wrong about this.
- Shawn Hunter: You were wrong to break up with Cory.
- Topanga: What does that have to do with anything?
- Shawn Hunter: Did any of this happen while you two were still together?
- Topanga: No.
- Shawn Hunter: You've killed us. You've killed us all.
- Eric: Hey, hey. Now there's only two people horribly dead here, that's an acceptable loss.
- Amy Matthews: Apparently, Cory would rather listen to the game then try and understand the emotional content of Romeo & Juliet.
- Cory: Mom, I'm a kid. I don't understand the emotional content of Full House.
- Morgan Matthews: I do.
- [Mr. Turner and Mr. Williams break up a fight between Cory and Shawn]
- Jonathan Turner: Hunter? Matthews?
- Eli Williams: Did you guys know you were fighting each other?
- Jack: She got sick and said that chicken soup would help her feel better. I told her it probably would. Then I went bowling.
- Eric: Guys, I've come to a conclusion: Men are idiots.
- Eric, Cory, Alan, Shawn Hunter, Mr. George Feeny, Jack: What?
- Eric: Wait! There's more! Men are big idiots.
- Eric, Cory, Alan, Shawn Hunter, Mr. George Feeny, Jack: Hmm... yeah.
- Cory: That's just what I want - to be Topanga's boyfriend. And then we can name our children Chewbacca and Plankton.
- Eric: See, duckies are good, cuz not only do they give you that non-threatening sense of security, but you can feed 'em crackers and you can ride 'em. See, duckies are the horsies of the ocean. No, I mean they are.
- Cory: Okay, someone explain to me about duckies before I hit him with a spoon.
- Amy Matthews: It's wallpaper.
- Topanga: It's adorable.
- Alan Matthews: It's for you room.
- Eric: DUCKIES RULE.
- Eric: My grades aren't good enough to get me into college?
- Mr. George Feeny: Your grades, my friend, aren't good enough to get you a Slurpee.
- Mr. George Feeny: Mr Matthews, what was I just talking aboout?
- Cory: [stutters] Uhhh...
- Mr. George Feeny: Ok, Mr. Hunter, what was I just talking about?
- Shawn Hunter: President Roosevelt and the New Deal.
- Mr. George Feeny: [clutches heart] O dear lord he's right.
- Shawn Hunter: Hey Mr. Feeny, it's been my answer for two years. It had to pay off sometime!
- [Cory rips the blanket off Topanga and Shawn]
- Cory: Underpants.
- Shawn Hunter: I always sleep like this.
- Cory: Underpants.
- Shawn Hunter: Oh, here we go.
- Mr. Turner: Hunter, Matthews, stand up!
- Shawn: I didn't do it.
- Mr. Turner: Uh huh. Anyway, Hunter, who's your best friend?
- Shawn: Um... you are, sir!
- Mr. Turner: Good answer. Matthews, who's your best friend?
- Cory: Shawn is.
- Mr. Turner: And what would you do to someone who messes with your best friend?
- Cory: I'd kill him.
- Mr. Turner: And on that note, I'd like to introduce you to your new teacher and my friend Mr. Williams. So if any of you mess with him, I'll kill you.
- Cory: [about Topanga] She goes away for the summer and comes back a woman.
- Shawn Hunter: Yeah. Kinda like Coach Franklin.
- Cory: Someday, Topanga's going to be a mother, and I'm going to be the father. Or, the uncle. Or, the way I'm going, the guy down the street with the binoculars.
- Mr. George Feeny: I, for example, have a young neighbor who sings along to his little sister's Barney records.
- Cory: You hear that?
- [Eric and Topanga have gone on a diet together, but are keeping it a secret; Cory thinks the reason Topanga is acting differently is that she's pregnant]
- Eric: [to Topanga] Look, in a few months, everything's gonna be back to normal, okay?
- Cory: All right, Eric. What's going on?
- Eric: Hey, Cor. You smell like chicken.
- Cory: Don't change the subject. I know Topanga confided in you. What did she tell you?
- Eric: She told me that she's in trouble and it's all your fault. Your waffles and butter did this to her.
- Cory: Why would Topanga confide in you instead of her own husband?
- Eric: Because she knew how you'd react.
- Cory: You mean like this?
- [screams]
- Cory: My life is over!
- [back to normal voice]
- Cory: Like that?
- Eric: That's why she came to me, okay? People like us have similar appetites, that's how we get into situations like this.
- Cory: You've been in this situation before?
- Eric: Yeah, on and off since high school.
- Cory: Do Mom and Dad know?
- Eric: Yeah, Mom and Dad know. Dad actually thinks it's kinda funny.
- [laughs]
- Cory: Oh, no, Eric. There is nothing funny about this. Every day she gets bigger, my life gets a little more complicated.
- Eric: Your life? Is that all you can think about? What about Topanga, huh? What is she supposed to do? Her body's out of control and she has nowhere to turn! Look, if you can't be supportive then the best possible thing for you to do is just stay away from her. Just stay away from her!
- Cory: [hysterical] I don't know what I should do!
- [both run away, in opposite directions]
- Cory: I believe in love like I believe in God: you can't touch it, you can't see it, but you can feel its wrath.
- Shawn Hunter: And its goodness. You can feel love's goodness.
- Cory: I wouldn't know
- [trying to straighten Cory's hair]
- Cory: Is this stuff supposed to be burning?
- Shawn Hunter: Why, is it burning?
- Cory: No, I was just trying to make conversation, because we don't get enough chances to talk any more.
- Cory: Mr. Feeny, under my desk is a key. It opens locker 703 in a Florida station. In there is all my homework from the past 5 years. I'm actually a wonderful student. I listen and I know everything.
- Mr. George Feeny: What's the capital of Montana?
- [pause]
- Cory: You're not going to Florida, are you?
- Morgan: Cory and Topanga sitting in a tree. A-B-C-D-E-F-G
- Shawn Hunter: If I was only going to be alive for one more minute, I'd spend it looking in your eyes.
- Angela Moore: And if you were only going to be alive for one more minute, I'd tell you to stop lookin'... and start kissin'.
- [Cory is hitch-hiking and an Amish man approaches in a carriage]
- Amish Man: Hello, young man. Are you in need of a ride? I'm going to that farmhouse there.
- [he points]
- Cory: That farmhouse there?
- [points]
- Amish Man: That farmhouse there.
- [pointing]
- Cory: Well, I'm going to Philadelphia.
- Amish Man: Well, I can take you as far as that farmhouse there.
- [points]
- Cory: Yes, but, you see, I'm going to Philadelphia, so that really does me no good.
- Amish Man: That may be, but, my will is just and my heart is pure.
- [drives off]
- Cory: ...Which also does me no good.
- Cory: Last night T.K. and me talked on the phone for two hours. That beats my previous time spent on the phone with a girl by like... two hours.
- Mr. George Feeny: Friendship for example, is a real gift. It's given with no expectations and no gratitude is needed, not between real friends.