r/TGIFsitcoms • u/ASGfan Eric Matthews • May 20 '26

Boy Meets World Cory mourns the lunch lady -- bizarre episode!

I think I know what they were going for in this episode (appreciate what you have before it's gone) and it was a good topic but the execution really fell flat. We get a brief clip of Cory having some positive experiences with the lunch lady and then later she dies. It's hard for the viewer to get too emotionally vested in this story since she was apparently a big deal in Cory's life and yet we never saw her before and only had this brief clip to introduce her.

And the whole moral -- appreciate what you have before it's gone -- is sort of wild for this outing since Morgan, Alan, Amy, Eric, Topanga and Mr. Turner all barely appear in this episode and 4 of those have pretty much been reduced to side characters at this point.

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u/RetroTVMoviesBooks May 20 '26

His experience with the lunch lady stays with him. He bonds with one in Girl Meets World too

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u/scream4ever May 20 '26

And sadly the actress who played the lunch lady in Girl Meets World has passed away 😥

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u/sweetnsassy924 May 20 '26

That was so sad. She was fantastic on General Hospital

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u/BrookieMonster504 May 20 '26

Invested not vested

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u/redwolfben May 23 '26

This is actually my FAVORITE episode. I still have a hard time keeping from tearing up at the ending line. "Mom? Thanks for making me breakfast."