TOP 12 BEST EPISODES FROM GIRL MEETS WORLD

 Welcome Back to Disney! I hope you enjoyed my last post on the Top 10 Best Episodes from Lizzie McGuire. That was a really fun, nostalgia-filled post about one of the BEST and MOST ICONIC Disney Channel shows EVER, but this month Girl Meets Back to Disney. That’s right, this post is all about another pretty ICONIC, unforgettable, and one of my all-time favorite Disney Channel shows called, Girl Meets World. 💙🌎💜

 

If you’re new here, basically every month of this year I’m going back and re-watching every show that was on my Top Ten Disney Channel Shows post, in order from beginning to end, and picking the BEST episodes (my MOST FAVORITE episodes) from each season of each of those shows I mentioned in that previous blog post. So, since my last post of this little series of posts, was all about Lizzie McGuire (my #4 favorite Disney Channel show EVER, according to my Top Ten Disney Channel Shows post) it was now time to re-watch, rank, and discuss all of the BEST episodes from my fifth favorite Disney Channel show, Girl Meets World. So, of course, that is finally what I did during the end of March and all throughout April. And why I bring to you this post, which I’m SO EXCITED to finally get to share with you. 

Like I briefly mentioned before, I’ve been wanting to create this post to talk about this pretty AMAZING show for so long now, and so I’m so happy that I finally get to do so. 'Cause I was one of those people that was very excited to watch this show when I was younger, when it first came out, and made sure to catch every episode when they premiered on Disney Channel for the first time. I also, like mostly everyone (I assume), just grew up LOVING Boy Meets World and so I kind of have a similar love for Girl Meets World just because it is a part of the whole BMW universe. Which, I’ll get into some of my thoughts about that whole thing later on in this post. But for right now, for those of you who have never seen this show before and therefore have no idea what I am talking about, I’ll just give you a brief history and some fun facts about the show and why it’s one of the more unique and ICONIC Disney Channel shows of all time and of course one of my all-time favorites. (Yeah, that’s right. I said what I said). 🙂

Girl Meets World is a Disney Channel original coming-of-age, family, comedy series that ran for three seasons (I know, I know…BOOOO! Only three seasons?😞👎They definitely needed a fourth season in my opinion, and yes, I am still kinda mad about it), consisting of 72 episodes, from June 27, 2014 (right after the premiere of the DCOM Zapped) until January 20, 2017. The series is a spin-off, reboot, or continuation (as I like to call it), of the hit 90’s TGIF sitcom Boy Meets World (BMW), which aired from 1993-2000. And was, for many of those years, in the same time slot as Girl Meets World occupied (Friday nights at 8:30/9:00 ET/PT). The synopsis of the show is that it’s been fourteen years after BMW, and Cory (now a teacher) and Topanga (now a successful lawyer) are still married and now parents to a quirky 12-year-old girl named Riley (played by Rowan Blanchard) and an adorable 5-year-old son named Auggie (played by August “Auggie” Maturo). So, the show centers around the life of Riley and her friends and family, as Riley and her friends face some similar challenges to what Cory and Topanga faced on BMW. And every day Riley’s dad (Cory), who is also her history teacher, gives her a lesson that is actually a life lesson. But one of the most important things, or THE MOST IMPORTANT part of the show, is Riley’s strong relationship with her best friend, Maya (played by Sabrina Carpenter). As they help each other get through and learn to cope with the social and personal issues of their adolescence. 

 

Other notable characters from the show include: Riley’s crush, Lucas Friar (Peyton Meyer); their best friend and son of Minkus,  Farkle Minkus (Corey Fogelmanis); their other best friend and Lucas’s hometown best friend, Zay (Amir Mitchell-Townes); Farkle’s girlfriend and Riley, Maya, Lucas’s, and Zay’s best friend, Smackle (Ceci Balagot); Auggie’s girlfriend and “future wife”😂, Ava Morgenstern (Ava Kolker); and Maya’s mom, Katy Hart (Cheryl Texiera) . Some notable BMW characters also make recurring roles or cameo appearances throughout the series such as Shawn (Rider Strong), Mr. Feeny (William Daniels), Eric (Will Friedle), Mr. Turner (Anthony Tyler Quinn), Minkus (Lee Norris), and Harley Kiner (Danny McNulty). The series is also set in New York City where Cory and Topanga moved to, as also mentioned in the series finale episode of BMW. The series begins with Riley and Maya starting seventh grade and ends with them and their friends entering their first year of high school. This show truly is a modern version of BMW but from a girl’s perspective, which is what I really LOVE about it. 

Random interesting, fun fact: Did you know that in the show Cory and Topanga were originally going to have three children?🤯 Yep. Riley was actually going to have an older brother AND a younger brother.👨👩👦👧👦As the cast actually shot the first pilot in March 2013 with Teo Halm in the role of Elliot (Cory and Topanga’s oldest child and Riley’s older brother). But, on October 5, 2013, Teo Halm announced via Twitter that he was no longer involved with the series and, according to some sources, it was suggested that the series was undergoing some creative changes after the pilot and after his character (Elliot) was ultimately written out of the series. Not only that but Auggie, Riley’s little brother that did end up making it and staying for the whole series, was actually not originally going to be named “Auggie”. Yes, his name was originally going to be, Louis Matthews. (Yeah, I’m glad they went with Auggie, too). See below for some behind-the-scenes pics of the first original cast and filming of the first pilot: 

 

 

The Matthews’ house in the first filmed pilot even looks very different:

 

From seeing those images, I have to say, I’m pleased with the changes they made to the show. Although, it would have been interesting to see that original pilot with the older brother (Eliott), but I think Riley just having a younger brother (Auggie) was for the best. Though, no hate of course to the actor who was originally going to play the older brother. What do you think about all of this? If you’ve seen the show, do you think they made the right choice getting rid of the Elliot character and letting it just be Riley and Auggie as siblings? Again, I like the family dynamic they chose to go with in the end. 💓

 

Another fun fact: Girl Meets World was one of the few Disney Channel shows that got nominated for Outstanding Children’s Program at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for three years in a row (2015-2017). They didn’t win, but that’s still a huge achievement in and of itself.🏆

 

What’s also very interesting about this show is that (from what I know) it was the first EVER Disney Channel show where viewers and fans of the series led a campaign/petition basically begging Disney to renew the show for a fourth season. As on January 4. 2017 the writers of Girl Meets World (GMW) stated on their Twitter that they were informed by Disney Channel that the series would in fact NOT be renewed for another season. The cancellation of the series sparked media attention and of course outrage from fans. As viewers of the series even led a fan campaign appealing to Netflix to renew the show noting that the show was beginning to outgrow Disney Channel’s target demographic as the characters aged. Even a reporter of Vogue (Janelle Okwodu) said that the cancellation announcement “sent shockwaves through social media-in part because it meant one less realistic depiction on-screen of what it is to be a young woman”. Another Forbes reporter (Brandon Katz) commented that “the series laid out countless positive moral lessons for its young viewers”. And a Bustle reporter (Sabienna Bowman) described the series as “a landmark show” stating that, “Girl Meets World captured the hearts of the bright, socially aware generation who have grown up in the age of social media” while she also commended how it dealt with issues centered around young women. All of those sentiments and statements to which I very much agree with. This show, to my knowledge, was definitely the FIRST and LAST of its kind. 

On May 3, 2017, after four months of searching for a viable network, the co-creator of the series (Michael Jacobs) confirmed via Twitter that he wasn’t able to come to an agreement with any outlet to continue the show. Thus, effectively ending the series. 

 

So, we didn’t get a fourth season of Girl Meets World, but at least we still got three seasons of Girl Meets World. And I know this show is not the most popular among Disney Channel fans, that it gets a lot of hate (from what I’ve seen) from some BMW fans and even non-BMW fans, but I LOVE this Disney Channel show. Hence, why it even made it onto my Top Ten Disney Channel Shows post. I would say Girl Meets World is definitely one of those very underrated shows. So, that’s why I’m here to give it all the HYPE that I think it truly deserves. 💙💚💜

Again, I love this show for the family aspect, the girl empowerment aspect, and for the life lessons. And just for the overall great message/lesson being about how you don’t have to be blood to be family. A message/lesson that I also believe was prominent and the overall message in BMW, as well, and it just continued on into this show. As those reporters that I mentioned earlier basically said, this was a show that brought back family TV viewing. Something Disney Channel and just TV in general was missing at that time (Well, even more nowadays, but that’s a whole other conversation.) As this is a show that you could actually sit down and watch with your whole family (which I did many times). I, for one, remember watching episodes of GMW with my dad and my sisters, and it's great because there was/is something for everyone to enjoy while watching this show. You could also watch it knowing that you were going to leave with some positive, great moral lesson (not from every episode, but from the majority of them). And let me tell you, the focus of school on this show is definitely like NO OTHER Disney Channel show or TV show I’ve seen in general (except, for BMW, of course). As each and every episode has a life lesson wrapped up in a class lesson. Everything Cory teaches in class always usually applies to the kids’ lives. The school in this show is a whole character in and of itself.  In other words, there is a big focus on school in this show, which you either love or hate. I LOVE it more than hate it, I'll say that. 🏫📚❤💓

Anyways, all those things I just mentioned are what I believe make this show so UNIQUE and SPECIAL. So, what are we waiting for? Let’s get into the Top 12 Best Episodes from Girl Meets World and learn just some of those great lessons right now! 💙🌎💜

Just a brief note before we begin: Since there are only three seasons of this show, to make it a fair and even total number of episodes, I decided to choose only FOUR episodes from each season that are my most favorite and ones that I truly believe are the BEST. So, four episodes for each season to make 12 total BEST episodes. The seasons are also not going in any particular order of what I like least or most best, only the episodes in each season. In other words, the seasons themselves are not ranked in any particular order, you will just see Season One’s episodes first, but then the episodes within that season (and for the episodes within seasons after that) are ranked from least to most favorite. I will just tell you my favorite seasons in order at the very end of this post. Also, I did not watch or choose to include any of the Christmas or Halloween-themed episodes from the show in this ranking, because I just feel like holiday-themed episodes like those are just not fair to rank among regular, non-holiday-themed episodes from the show. To me they belong in their own separate category, because they have a whole different vibe. Plus, I wouldn't choose a Christmas or Halloween episode over a non-Christmas or non-Halloween episode to watch all the time. I hope that makes sense. Now, for real this time, let’s get into the Top 12 BEST Episodes from Girl Meets World!

        

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GIRL MEETS WORLD: SEASON 1

 

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#4 “Girl Meets Flaws” S1E13 - Premiered October 17, 2014

 

This is one of the BEST episodes from Season 1 of Girl Meets World just for the great, relatable, important, positive message/lesson alone (which I will get into more details about later). However, I have to admit, I was never the biggest fan of this episode before. Until I watched it again for this post, and I can honestly say now, that I have found a new love and appreciation for this episode. Again, especially because of the message/lesson that I think everyone can learn from and/or relate to. Having said that, this episode is great, but I still put it as my least favorite of the four from this season just because it is a little more boring (at times) when compared to the others and it’s one of the more emotional, downer episodes of the show. Though, don’t get me wrong, because this is still one of the BEST and one of my MOST FAVORITE episodes of Season 1. Hence, why it even made it onto this ranking at all. 

Basically, if you’ve never seen this episode, it’s about Farkle skipping class again and hiding in the janitor's closet after being bullied and made to feel worthless by another student at school.😞To which Riley, Maya, and Lucas then go around trying to figure out who is picking on Farkle, and why. It turns out (SPOILER ALERT), that it’s a kid in their class named Billy. In the end, Riley starts a campaign of sorts that makes Billy see the error of his ways, and their whole class learns how to respect each other’s differences in the process.💓 

Like I mentioned before, this episode is one of the more deep, emotional, and thought-provoking episodes from the show. It is one that really makes you think and feel. A great example of what this whole show does in general whenever you watch it. At least, it does for me, every time I watch it. This is an episode that I would definitely choose to watch again in the future sometime, but it’s not one of those episodes that I would choose to just watch all the time, just because it is on the more sad, moodier side. But, it’s definitely an episode that I would recommend someone to watch FIRST if they’ve never seen the show before. As it is a must-see episode. 

This episode is not all serious, though. As it does have its funny moments, as well. Just the deep positive message/lesson certainly overtakes the whole episode. Especially the scene when they are all in the classroom and Farkle writes the word “JEALOUS” on his bully’s forehead (Billy’s forehead). That whole scene just makes you want to stop everything you’re doing and really pay attention to it, because the scene itself is just so silent that you could hear a pen drop, but it certainly leaves a lasting impression. It's just a really powerful, impactful moment. When Cory walks into the classroom and sees all the students with black marker writing on their foreheads. Those black marker writings on each of the students’ foreheads being a word that describes a flaw that each student feels that they have. Yeah, that whole ending classroom scene is definitely my favorite part of this whole episode.

Like I said, at the end of this episode each student has written on their foreheads a word describing their flaw. Riley having the word “INSECURE” on hers. As she says, “It’s always mattered more to me what my friends think about me than what I think”. Maya’s forehead has the word “BROKEN” written on it in black marker. As she then says, “When I own it, it doesn’t make me feel so bad.” Lucas’s forehead says the word, “MR. PERFECT”, and Farkle’s forehead says the word, “NOTHING”. Billy tries to at first walk out of the classroom because he doesn’t want to participate in this writing-on-the-forehead-flaw-thing, but not before Cory can get in his head and in his heart to change how he feels. SPOLIER ALERT: It ends up being revealed by Billy that he was just jealous of Farkle being a genius and him (Farkle) not having to try hard to have great friends like Riley, Maya, and Lucas. So, Billy joins their team of being a flawed individual as he then lets Farkle be the one to write his flaw (that of “jealousy”) on his forehead. And I like when Cory says to the class, “We’re all human beings. We’re all on the same team. And if we sense our own flaws because we see them in others...it’s true friends who help us wipe them away.” Something the students then do, wipe each others’ flaws off each others’ foreheads. Billy apologizes to Farkle and wipes off Farkle’s word on his forehead but when Farkle asks Billy if he wants him to get rid of his, Billy says, “No, I just got mine. I think I’d better try to understand it a little bit more. Which is just a great message/lesson in and of itself. I also really love the part at the very end of this episode when it’s the day of the awards ceremony and they are all wearing turtlenecks just like Farkle’s (just different colors), something he got bullied for at the beginning of this episode and wanted to give up, but they all have them on at the end to be like a voice of solidarity with him (Farkle) when it comes to his fashion choices. 

 

There are so many great messages/lessons that one can take away from this episode. Not only knowing that bullying someone is NEVER okay, and that you should never try to hide or be invisible when you are being bullied by someone, because it just doesn’t help. That you should always tell someone when you’re being bullied and that violence should never be the first response to such a situation and is more than likely never the answer. But also the message/lesson of knowing that people can change. Bad people can change, too. Just like Billy does by the end of this episode. And just like it is known, and referred back to in this episode, that Harley Kiner (who used to be a bully to Cory when they were in high school) also changed to become a nicer person, as well. Another message/lesson about knowing that EVERYONE has flaws, and that no one is perfect. That you should never be jealous of someone or of somebody’s else’s life (like Billy was of Farkle’s), because everyone is going through something and nobody has it all together even when you might think they do. Nobody’s life is perfect. (Like Hannah Montana would say, “NOBODY’S PERFECT”...You know I just had to.💜💗🎶) The message of knowing not to let anybody crush your spirit or make you want to change who you are is also very prominent in this episode. Be who you are, even if that makes you unique or different from everybody else. 

Another great message/lesson that Riley also learns in this episode, is knowing that you don’t need a trophy to make you feel good about yourself. As at the beginning of this episode when Cory mentions graduation and awards night coming up and how several of the students are going to be recognized for their achievements with Maya being awarded the “Griff Hawkins Totally Cool Award”, Farkle the “Joseph T.R. Epstein Confidence Award”, and even Lucas and Billy Ross being up for the “Scholar Athlete Award”, Riley feels kind of upset about this at first as she even says that she feels invisible. But Maya basically lets Riley know that her self-worth isn’t based on some trophy. But, then at the end when Riley has finally come to terms with not getting an award like the other students and she’s okay with that, Cory (her dad) does end up giving her the “John Quincy Adams Spirit Award” (a surprise to him and Riley), which is an award for the student with the courage to stand up for what they believe in and change us for the better. Which is a very cute and sweet daddy-daughter moment in and of itself, a moment from the episode that actually made me smile and go “Awww” in my head. As when Cory goes up to give Riley the award he slides his finger across his forehead and says, “Proud”. 💕

The class lesson that Cory is teaching the class at the beginning of this episode also, of course, ties in perfectly with the life lesson the kids end up learning, too. As Cory brings up the names of Ghandi and Jackie Robinson and he asks the students what each of those two people did. When he brings up Malala and asks what she did, Riley says, “The Taliban doesn’t think that women should be educated. She stood up to them and became the first teenager ever to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.” And then Cory tells the class that sometimes the world presents you with opportunities to show who you really are and then he asks the students, “Will you have the courage to stand up to someone who tries to take your spirit away?”. And then that’s when Riley gets up from her desk to go and find Farkle hiding in the janitor’s closet, but before she leaves out of the classroom and asks Cory if she can be excused, Cory says for what, and Riley says to him, “The world has presented me with an opportunity,”, which she greatly passes as she ends up helping her friend and winning an award for her great spirit in the end. So, like the majority of episodes from GMW, you learn a great history lesson and life lesson from this episode. 

There is definitely no other episode like this one from a Disney Channel show ever, which is a great thing, because it just makes it that much more unique and special and the message/lesson of this episode is an IMPORTANT one for everyone to learn and continue to know, especially in today’s world. Everybody has FLAWS. NO ONE is PERFECT, including me. In fact, I would say one of my flaws is that I’m insecure. Although, unlike Riley I’m not necessarily insecure in caring about what other people think about me than what I think about myself, as I more so care about what God and my family thinks about me than anything. As I could care less about what strangers think about me when they don’t even know me. But, my insecurity is more about my lack of self-confidence at times, for example, when it comes to certain things about my body. Things like that. Things that I probably shouldn’t care about but do at times because I’m also an over-thinker and get in my own head a lot. But anyways, enough about me, what about you? What’s a flaw that you have? If you are comfortable sharing it, please comment down below. If not, that’s certainly okay, too. 😊💓

 

Here’s a clip of the best and most emotionally deep, thought-provoking scene from this episode, and the cute/sweet daddy-daughter moment: 

 

 

#3 “Girl Meets World” S1E1 - Premiered June 27, 2014

 

Of course, this is one of the BEST and one of my most favorite episodes from not only Season 1 of GMW, but from the whole series in general. I mean, it’s the episode that started everything else to come from the show. It was truly a no brainer that I was going to include this episode on this ranking. I mean, again, how could I not? 

Usually, the very first episode of a series is one of the most unforgettable and ICONIC and that is definitely true for this one. This episode is so, so, SO NOSTALGIC to me. In fact, I still remember all the headlines and commercials leading up to the premiere of this episode. I even still remember exactly when and where I was when I watched this episode for the first time when it premiered on Disney Channel in 2014 (at night, in the living room, with my sisters). This is also one of those episodes where I know every line the characters say before they even say it and every scene that happens before it even happens. (Yeah, I know. I’ve seen it that many times.) I was very excited and only a little curious to watch this episode again for this post just because I hadn’t seen it in a very long while, but I basically already knew everything about it and I knew that I would still love it, which I did. Hence, why it’s here at #3 on this ranking. It was a favorite of mine then and it still is now. It truly never gets old. Literally, I’ve seen this episode so many times, too many times to even count at this point, and I could watch it so many more times over again. Yes, it’s just one of those episodes. But, enough about me, let’s get into what this episode is all about. 

In this episode, it’s been several years since Cory and Topanga moved to New York City and we meet their daughter, Riley, and her best friend, Maya, as they begin to navigate the challenges of life and school. In this particular case (episode), after Cory (who, again, is also Riley’s history teacher) assigns the class to write an essay about something they would fight for, Riley and Maya decide to fight for no homework.📄✎📚 So, Maya leads this homework rebellion in the class and Riley joins in because she wants to be just like her best friend (Maya) - much to her dad, Cory's surprise. This ends up with a fire alarm sprinkler setting off in the classroom and Riley winding up choosing to fight for her friendship with Maya instead. As well as, Cory and Topanga having to understand that their daughter (Riley) is growing up and they need to be there for her. Honestly, my description of this episode probably doesn’t even do it that much justice. You just have to watch this episode at least once to find out how great it truly is. 

If you don’t recall, last year on this blog, I created a post where I ranked every first episode from a Disney Channel show, (which you can view here) and this episode is so good that it ranked in the Top 5 out of all the 32 first episodes from Disney Channel shows I chose to include for that ranking. So, this episode is not only one of the BEST episodes from the show itself but also one of the BEST first episodes from a Disney Channel show EVER. And, yes, I still stand by everything I said in that post. Which is also why I’m gonna keep this short since I’ve already talked about this episode before and have pretty much the same thoughts and opinions about it. So, if you want to read more of my thoughts and opinions about this episode then just click here. 

There are so many funny, memorable, and just ICONIC lines from this episode. Such as when Riley and Cory come home from school and Cory tells Topanga what happened in class that day. As he (Cory) says to Topanga that Riley walked out of the class with Maya and that she wants to be just like her (Maya), and so Topanga says to Riley, “Why would you wanna be Maya?” and Riley says, “She’s cool. She has a wild side. She does what she wants” and then Topanga says, “But you’re such a good person” and Riley says the unforgettable, ICONIC line, “Who cares about that” (as I say in the voice she does). Another funny and memorable quote from Riley in this episode is when Cory brings up the subject of The Civil War and asks the class what it was and Riley says the answer and gets it right to which Cory then says to her, “What, you actually studied it?” and Riley says, “No, I’m living it”. And of course the whole beginning scene of this episode when Riley, Maya, Cory and Topanga are in Riley’s room also has some unforgettable, memorable quotes as well. One being when Riley asks her dad, “How long do I have to live in my father’s world?” and Cory says, “Until you make it yours. Riley, do you know what I want more than anything? Go ahead, make it yours” and Riley says, “I will. And when I do, will you still be there for me?” and then Topanga comes in and says, “Right here. We’ll be right here.” 

You also get a lot of the BMW nostalgia and parallels already just by watching this first episode. From the return of some of the BMW main characters, Cory and Topanga (even Mr. Feeny), to the new kid characters themselves being very similar to the characters from BMW (Riley = Cory and Topanga, Maya = Shawn, and Farkle = Minkus), to the lunchroom scene (that was a very popular set in Season 1 of BMW), to the history lessons and just history class being the main subject and focus at first (just like BMW), to even just the name of the school itself being John Quincy Adams Middle School (You know, John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams. And John Adams High School was the name of the school in BMW where Cory, Topanga, Shawn, and Eric went). Another fun and random 90’s nostalgia thing about this episode is that the mom (Lisa aka Jackee Harry) from another hit 90’s TV show, Sister, Sister, also guest stars on this episode. As she is there every time Riley and Maya go on the subway. She actually appeared in a few other episodes of GMW, as well. 

This episode also mentions some things that are pretty big and become important aspects of the show and the just the beginning of future storylines and story arcs that were to come in future episodes of the show. Such as, the first mention of Maya having a bad home life. As she tells Cory in this episode that she has nobody at home who helps her with her homework. Maya’s home life and family dynamic being an important and huge part of this show. It’s even mentioned in this episode for the first time, that Farkle has had a crush on both Riley and Maya since the first grade. Relationships that they dive into deeper starting in Season 2 of the show. Among many other things.

A prominent message/lesson in this episode that Riley ends up learning is that it’s important to let your friends be them and for you to be you. In other words, the best thing you can do for anyone is to just be YOU. There’s another important message/lesson in this episode about the importance of always being there for your friends when they need you. And knowing that only YOU decide who you want to be (good or bad) and who you want in your life and how you want to live your life. 

 

As the class lesson in this episode is also all about The Civil War and how during it, we were trying to find out who we were as a people, which is the same thing that Riley is trying to do in this episode. Find out who she is and who she should be. Cory, at one point, mentions to the class how history shows that bad things happen when you don’t know who you are. Which again, falls true in this episode when Riley helps Maya lead the homework rebellion, and then chaos ensues. Like I mentioned before, Riley’s Civil War ends up becoming her choosing to fight for no homework or for her friendship with Maya. To which Riley chooses to fight for her friendship, something she believes is worth fighting for, and she wins. In the end she wins her Civil War. So, the history lesson does tie back pretty well to the life lesson in this episode. 

The only thing I don’t like about this episode, and is something I had just caught for the first time watching it back this time around for this post, is a comment made by Cory in this episode to Maya. As when Riley and Maya first enter the class Cory says, “Okay, let me get back  to jammin’ some learning into your heads. The Civil War”, Maya mocks him by saying, “The Civil War”. And Cory obviously doesn’t like this, or is a little annoyed by it, and he then says to Maya (sarcastically), “Thank you, future mini mart employee of the month”. Again, I didn’t catch that comment ever before while watching this episode, but this time I did, and I just didn’t like it. Maya does end up saying to him after he says that little comment, “Would I be making more money than you?” and Cory doesn’t answer the question and just stays silent until he again says the words, “The Civil War!”. To me, it still came across as a dig at mini mart workers (any grocery store workers) and it was definitely putting down an honest, noble job that real people have, which I hate when shows do that. So that was a bummer, but I still love and appreciate the rest of this episode for what it is. I just try to ignore and look past that ignorant comment made by Cory. As the comment was just very unnecessary and it didn’t add to the storyline at all.  

Overall, this episode is great with a great message/lesson. It’s very funny, random, nostalgic, deep, thought-provoking, pretty sad and emotional at times, and just a great episode not only from Season 1 but from the whole show. And it may be kind of cheesy at times but it is still an episode I would watch again, because something about it just gets me hooked every time. 

 

 

      

        

   

   

#2 “Girl Meets Brother” S1E15 - Premiered November 28, 2014

This is another GREAT episode from not only Season 1 but from the whole show. I’ve always loved this episode ever since I first watched it when it first premiered on Disney Channel in 2014, but I never thought that it would make it onto this ranking and even be this high on the ranking. So, I’m kind of surprised myself, that I put this episode here at #2. But, what can I say? It truly is a great episode, and I’m so excited to finally get to talk about it on here.

Basically, in this episode Cory and Topanga finally decide to teach Riley the importance of responsibility by letting her babysit Auggie for the first time while they go out to celebrate their 15th anniversary. But when Riley finds it a perfect time to invite Maya over while she’s supposed to be babysitting Auggie, Auggie gets sad and upset because he planned this whole “Auggie and Riley’s Pirate Adventure Best Night Ever” and all Riley wants to do is hang out with Maya. There’s also a proposal in this episode. This is a very cute, sweet, and nostalgically, fun-filled episode. I also just realized that this is one of the few episodes where there is no class lesson, just a great life lesson, which just makes this episode that much more unique. 

This episode is very funny from the very beginning. In fact, one of the more memorable and funniest quotes from this episode (and from the whole show) is when Riley and Maya are at the subway station wearing cheerleader uniforms because they tried out for the cheerleading squad (but, SPOILER ALERT, they didn’t make the team) and Maya says to Riley, “Why do you make me do these things? Pom poms are stupid and pyramids made of humans freak me out…And what are these? (as she looks down at her legs)” and Riley says to her, “Those are your legs” and then Maya says, “Have you ever seen anything so white?”. I’ve just always found that part to be so funny and relatable, because I’m as white as a ghost, too. Which I’ve always been a little insecure about, but what Maya says in that scene is really funny and I felt seen.🤭👀👻 But, it’s even funnier when Riley responds and says, “One time, when I looked into the sun.” 😂🌞

Another funny quote and moment from this episode is when Maya is talking about going to Demolition (a vintage store) to get some clothes to change into immediately, and she wants Riley to come with her but Riley tells her that she has to be home in 15 minutes because she has a curfew. When Maya tells Riley that she’s the only person she knows that has to be home by seven, Riley says, “It’s ridiculous. They treat me like a baby” and Maya says, “Who?” and Riley says, “Mom and dada (she says in her baby voice).”👶They do both end up going to Demolition with Riley knowing the possible punishment she’ll get, but taking the chance anyway. It’s even funnier when Riley and Maya end up getting back to Riley’s house only seven minutes late and Riley tries to convince her parents that she’s edgy for doing that and going to an alternative store and buying a T-shirt that says “Bleh” on it. ❤✌😎

 

But, Cory and Topanga don’t care that she was just seven minutes late. In fact, they think it’s really funny that RIley thinks she’s all “rebellious” for doing so. Cory and Topanga (who can’t keep a straight face) tell Riley that they only gave her a curfew of 7:00 PM because they knew that even when she got all “rebellious” that Riley would still be back by 7:30 PM. And when Cory and Topanga start laughing again Riley says the infamous, funny line, “What are you laughing at? I’m outta control!”

Riley still believes that she is too old for a seven o’ clock curfew…she REJECTS IT! REJECTS IT! WON’T EVEN RESPECT IT!📣😊😉 (iykyk)...and therefore tries to get her parents to change it to a later curfew (10:00 PM). So, after a pretend court case between Riley and her parents about the issue, Cory and Topanga agree to settle with an eight o’ clock curfew for Riley, as long as she gets proper rest and her schoolwork doesn’t suffer. But, of course, Riley tells them that it’s not just about the curfew, that she wants them to think of her as more of a grown up. And that’s when Cory says to Riley that grown ups have responsibilities, and then Auggie actually gives them the idea to let Riley babysit him while they go out. Cory loves the idea but Topanga decides to ask Auggie if he thinks that Riley is ready for that kind of responsibility and Auggie says the cutest and sweetest thing about Riley, as he says, “I would put my life in her hands.” 👧👦💞Although, Cory and Topanga don’t leave for their date until they of course give Riley the baby egg lesson.👶🥚 It’s also pretty funny when Riley then says to Auggie, “Aww, Auggie, you really want me to babysit you?” and Auggie says, “Yes, I trust you”. But then Auggie immediately (unbeknownst to Riley) goes to do a trust fall and Riley doesn’t catch him.😂 There’s so many great, funny moments in this episode that I could go on and on about, but I'll stop there.

Another thing that I love about this episode is that we get to see more of the daddy-son and mother-daughter relationships in this one episode and just the whole Matthew’s family dynamic. As there’s some special moments between Auggie and Riley, Cory and Auggie (as Auggie helps Cory get ready for his date with Topanga), and between Topanga and Riley (as Riley helps Topanga get ready for her date with Cory). Speaking of Topanga and Riley, this isn’t the overall message of this episode but I like the scene when Topanga is in Riley’s room getting ready for her anniversary date with Cory and she asks Riley how she looks when she’s all done and Riley says, “Wow!” and Topanga says, “Wow is good?” and Riley says, “Wow’s amazing. When am I gonna look wow?” and Topanga says to her, “Aw, honey. You already do” and Riley says,”Daddy’s going to love the way you look.” and Topanga then says, “Thank you, honey. But you wanna know one of the reasons I married your father?...He loves me no matter how I look.” That quote, and moment between Topanga and Riley, just really stood out to me more than ever before. I really loved what Topanga said here about looks not being everything and a great message to girls/women that a great guy should love you for more than just your looks. And vice versa. Looks shouldn’t be the end all be all in a relationship. So, that was a great message in and of itself. Again, although it isn’t the main message/lesson of this episode, it’s still worth mentioning here. 

This is also one of the few episodes from GMW where we get to see some throwback BMW clips. We get NOT one, but TWO flashbacks to two ICONIC BMW scenes in this one episode. As while Cory and Topanga are on their date they see another couple and Topanga mentions the episode and moment from BMW when she pushed Cory against the lockers and they had their first kiss. They also mention and show a tiny clip of the time when Topanga proposed to Cory at their high school graduation. Throwback BMW clips are always a plus. Like I also mentioned briefly before, we also get a proposal in this episode as Cory proposes to Topanga and asks her to marry him again, and not with just any ring but with a blue raspberry ring pop. (Yes, an actual candy ring.) 😂💙💒There’s also a great singing moment in this episode by Riley and Maya, as they sing the theme song of a show that they are super invested in called the Red Planet Diaries (Hmmm...and I’ve always thought, is that a play on the TV show The Vampire Diaries?). 🧛💓📺🎶This is actually a pretty ICONIC moment in the show, because it’s a very funny thing that they continue to do later on in Season 3 of the show. Plus, any episode with singing or music, I just LOVE.🎤🎶  

There’s a few great messages/lessons in this episode. The one that I already mentioned earlier, but another one is knowing that babysitting a child is a big responsibility. A child is not an egg. Once you crack it, you can’t just go get another one to replace it. As well as just knowing the importance of responsibility at any age. And of course, there’s the main overall message about the importance of paying attention to the people who really care about you, which is your family. Family comes first over everything. As after Auggie abruptly turns off Riley and Maya’s show because Riley won't pay attention to him, Riley gets upset and feels that Auggie ruined her and Maya’s night together. But, when Maya tells Riley that he (Auggie) could say the same thing about her (Maya) and that he just wanted to spend time with his sister and that she’s lucky to have a brother who cares to spend time with her like that, Riley says, “I know. It’s like we don’t pay attention to the people who really care about us…There’s someone who really cares about me, and I’m not letting him know that I care about him, too. And I really love the little guy. And all he wanted to do was show me his room…I gotta go talk to Auggie.” And so, she does just that. This episode is also just a great reminder to tell the people you care about that you love them, whether it’s your siblings, friends, whoever it is.💕 

In the end, Riley apologizes to Auggie for ruining his planned fun night to spend time with her and she and Maya set up all the pirate stuff in Auggie’s room and put on the pirate costumes that he originally had planned for them to play and they (Riley, Auggie, and Maya) spend the rest of the night playing pirates and they still have the BEST NIGHT EVER, with Maya. And Auggie even tells his parents, after telling them that he wanted a brother because Riley was not being a good babysitter to him, that he actually doesn’t want a brother because he’s the brother. Awww...💗💙👧👦

If you have siblings out there, then you can definitely relate to this episode. I mean, you don’t just have to have a little brother like Riley either, in order to be able to relate to this episode. As I only have two sisters, but whenever I watch this episode I can relate to how Auggie feels in this episode thinking back to the times when my sisters and I were younger and whenever one of us had a friend over in which that sibling chose to spend time with their friend instead of me or my other sister. Hey, it happens, but it’s all just a part of growing up and becoming your own person. Plus, as long as you still make time for your family, and don’t shut them out completely, that’s really all that matters. FAMILY > everything ALWAYS. 

This is just a great, feel-good episode that I would for sure watch again at any time. It has its funny moments, dramatic moments, emotional moments, very relatable moments, nostalgic moments, and even musical moments. But above all else, and one of the main reasons why I chose to rank this episode higher than the previous ones is because of the family/sibling focus and the overall message about family. This episode made me laugh and smile a lot and it just gives me a warm, comforting feeling every time I watch it. Definitely an episode from the show that I recommend fans of GMW or even BMW to watch. 

        

    

          

#1 “Girl Meets Game Night” S1E17 - Premiered January 9, 2015

This is the BEST and my MOST FAVORITE episode from Season 1 for many reasons. However, this is an episode that I never really thought would be the best or one of my most favorites before doing this. I do have fond memories of watching this episode quite a lot when I was younger but I just never thought I would actually ever include it on a ranking such as this one, and consider it one of the best among all the other episodes from Season 1. But, it’s not only the best from Season 1 but one of the best from the whole show. And I’ll tell you why. 

In this episode, it’s FAMILY GAME NIGHT, and Cory is excited because it’s his favorite night of the month. But Cory very quickly gets upset and a little jealous (okay, A LOT jealous) when he sees that Riley has invited all of her friends (well, Maya, Lucas, and Farkle) to their house to play, too. Therefore, Cory wants to send Riley’s friends away but he thinks that by doing so he will be pushing his daughter away. 

Now that I think about it, this has always been one of the more stand-out episodes from the show. So, I don’t know why I would have ever questioned including it on this ranking, which I did at first. But now, it’s here at #1 for many reasons. When going back to watch these episodes of this show for this post, this is actually one of the episodes that I couldn’t wait to get to watch again. In other words, I was very excited to re-watch this episode and always will be. Probably because, once again, it’s all about FAMILY and GAMES. Well, one game that is, which they play that is perfectly titled, “The Family Game: The Game For Families”. I also just love having game nights with my own family, so that’s also what makes this episode that much more relatable, fun, and entertaining. 🎲

The class lesson that ties into the life lesson in this episode is The Revolutionary War. And this episode is interesting because it goes back-and-forth, from present time to past time, to move the story along. As throughout this episode, if they say anything while they are playing the game in present time that relates to the history lesson the kids learned and Cory taught in class that same day, it transitions to that past moment to show the resemblance to their current life situation. I know, that might sound really confusing how I just described that but if you’ve seen the episode then you know what I’m talking about. If not, then that’s why I highly suggest you watch this episode to find out. 

Again, this episode starts out with Cory being all excited about family game night, and Riley asking him why they make such a big deal about game night and Cory says, “Because game night is sacred” and he tells her that there’s gonna come a day when she (Riley) starts to prioritize her friends over her family. To which that day has quickly come for Riley, as right after Cory says that to her, her friends then walk in through the door. And Cory tries to tell Riley to choose what’s more important to her. Her family or her friends? But Riley, of course, doesn’t know why she has to choose one or the other. All she knows is that she loves her friends and she wants to hang out with her friends. Cory starts flipping out when Riley and her friends gather around the table to play the family game and Topanga tells Cory that flipping out is only going to make things worse and drive his daughter away. And then Riley mentions to Cory how it’s exactly like what he was teaching in class about the American Revolution. As earlier that day, Cory said to the class that when it comes to the American Revolution, imagine England as a father and America as his child, knowing it’s time to break away. And that was the Revolutionary War. 

During the whole family game night situation, Riley is John Adams (the one who wanted freedom) and Cory is King George (the one who did not want to give the American colonies their freedom). John Adams staged an act of rebellion against his father King George just like Riley basically does in this episode against Cory. King George left the colonies no choice but to break away and become independent. As Cory liked to say, because they were fighting for the sake of their families because family is the most important thing in the world. But Riley, during family game night and during their class acting out of the Revolution, reminds her father and adds the words “and friends” to that sentiment. And during the class lesson and at home during family game night Cory asks Riley the same question, “Riley, you don’t think family should come first?” But in class she couldn’t answer it because she was John Adams staging an act of rebellion and during family game night she couldn't answer it because she was too busy trying to play a family game with her friends. And Lucas in this episode makes a great point when the class is acting out the Revolutionary War, as he (Lucas aka George Washington) says, “You really have to wonder, if the king wasn’t so stubborn, could something have been worked out so America would still be in the British family?” To which Cory says, “A nation, or a family, can only remain united if its leaders govern fairly. And address the needs of all of its members. Both old and young.”

Maya even lets Riley know, during game night, that she’s destroying her parents. And Riley realizes that the family game they are playing is not a game to Cory and Topanga at all. Therefore, she asks Maya how they can possibly win, and Maya says, “You don’t win. You just play with them, Riley. It’s game night. Their favorite night of the month.” And even later when Cory and Topanga are talking to each other about the events of the night Cory ends their conversation by saying, “Every parent I know who has kids this age tells me, this is when they head towards their friends. But eventually, they make their way back.” (In the words of Hannah Montana, “You’ll always find your way back home”.😊🎶 Again, you just know I had to.)  

At the end of their class lesson, Cory goes on to explain how the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, leaving a rift between England and the United States. And that even though the two countries love each other now, it took some time. In fact, as Cory tells the class, it wasn’t until 1814 when another American helped mend that relationship. That American being John Quincy Adams. It took the next generation to bring everybody together. And when Riley asks her dad, “So, people that go to war can actually become friends?” Cory says, “Revolution is a short moment in time. But if you play the long game correctly, everybody can end up just where they’re supposed to be.” Just like Riley (the next generation) does with her friends and family during game night in this episode. 

When it goes back to the present time of them playing The Family Game and one of them just needs to roll a 12 in order to win and for the game to be officially over, Riley is the one to do it and Lucas cheers that the game is finally over but Riley says it’s not. That she isn’t going for the success square, but for the circle in the middle. As she then says, “We are going to play the long game…Because tonight the family game is not about winning.” Riley even apologizes to her mom for trying to beat her at the game, and tells her that she only wanted to win because she wanted to be just like Topanga (the killer shark who always wins) and for Topanga to be proud of her. And, as Josh reads on the back of the board game box, “In the long game, the players all play together to conquer the game itself.” So, they all play the game as one big team. And Riley promises her dad that nobody is going anywhere, that she’s not going anywhere. And Cory lets Riley know that if it’s these friends (Maya, Lucas, and Farkle) that she chooses to leave her family for someday, then her friends are welcome to play with them any time. As Cory tells Riley that she has made wonderful choices. And then when Riley says to Cory, “You’re gonna buy the friends game?” Cory says, “Yeah” and Topanga asks if they can play the “friend game” with Riley and her friends, and Maya says that they can any time they want. Then Riley tells Cory that he’s a good king and Cory tells Riley that she’s a good Quincy Adams, and Riley says, “Oh, the kid who brought everyone together…told ya.”

In the end, they see and learn that in the long game friends become family. And when Riley says, “It’s not a game at all” Auggie then asks Topanga, “What is it then?” and Topanga says, “It’s life.” Life is the long game. And at the end of this episode we get a second glimpse of Maya and Josh’s budding relationship as Maya says that when it comes to him (Josh) she’s in it for the long game. (I SHIP💕)

So, this episode also features the second appearance of Cory’s younger brother and Maya’s crush, Josh. As, again, he is the host of family game night. The resemblance of the school name in GMW to that of the school name from BMW, is also mentioned in this episode. This episode is also the first time that Riley really comes to the realization and learns that Cory’s school was named after John Adams and Riley’s school of course being named after John Quincy Adams means that her dad’s school was the father of her school. And of course, everyday Cory is her father and she is his child. It all comes full circle with the lesson and everything. Like the majority of episodes from this show, you actually learn a history lesson in this episode. Well, at least I was reminded of what the Revolutionary War actually was and that John Adams, George Washington, and Ben Franklin started it. 

This episode is just really funny and relatable, and I believe it’s just the epitome of what this show is all about: family, history, and good lessons. Again, I just love the overall message of this episode about family being the most important thing but knowing that friends are also important and can be family, too. Which kind of goes back to the overall message of BMW and what this show is all about in that you don’t have to be blood to be family. But, there’s so many other great messages/lessons that one can take away from this episode, as well. This episode is also one of the more UNIQUE and SPECIAL ones from the season because throughout most of the episode the whole cast is in one big scene together majority of the time, which is very rare and always interesting to watch. I would say if you’re just starting to watch this show and you only want a few episodes to start out with to watch, then this episode should most definitely be one of them. This episode truly never gets old and I would most definitely watch it again any day, any time. Especially, when I want a good laugh, this is one of the episodes from the show I’m picking to watch. 

 

          

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I'm going to include some honorable mentions for each season, as well, because there are just too many good episodes. 😊

 

  SEASON 1 HONORABLE MENTIONS (in no particular order): 

 - Girl Meets Fish

- Girl Meets Master Plan

- Girl Meets The Forgotten 

  - Girl Meets Crazy Hat

  - Girl Meets Popular

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GIRL MEETS WORLD: SEASON 2

(from least to most favorite)...

  

#4 “Girl Meets Creativity” S2E14 - Premiered August 21, 2015

 

This is a great, teachable, relatable, very CREATIVE episode from Season 2 of GMW, and obviously one of my most favorites from the whole show. As the title suggests, this episode is all about art, music, and just CREATIVITY, which are all things I LOVE and believe are very IMPORTANT in life. However, surprisingly, this is one of those episodes that I was never the biggest fan of when I was younger watching this series, so I’m a little shocked that I’m including it on here. But, after watching it back this time around I really found a new love and appreciation for this episode. It TRULY is one of the better episodes from Season 2 and from the whole show. 

Basically, this episode is all about the students coming together and finding a CREATIVE way to convince the school board to keep art and music in their school. As the school board wants to replace the art room for a test-taking room. Although this episode never used to be one of my favorites from the show, it has always been a stand-out, more memorable episode to me. Especially the whole, long School Board Meeting scene from this episode. I mean, who could ever forget that scene and moment? This episode is also the start of Riley and the purple cat.🐈Which, if you’ve seen this show, then you know exactly what I mean when I say that. And if you’re not familiar with this show, well, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about later on in this post. 

This episode starts out, of course, with Riley and her friends in art class and Riley tells the art teacher that she favors Maya over her (because all Riley ever paints is a purple cat). The art teacher tells Riley that it’s because Maya has something very special, that she paints from a place few of us are able to reach. And it’s kind of funny (but not so funny) when Riley says, “That’s because she has an awful life” and then Maya says (sarcastically), “I love it when I’m reminded.”😂 I mean, sad but true. Sometimes, the best art comes from bad, lived experiences. Then the art teacher holds up Maya’s painting of a closed door to show Riley, and Riley says, “I wanna know what’s behind that door.” And then the art teacher says, “So does the artist (referring to Maya), because I think it’s been closed to her up until now”, and Riley says to Maya, “I’m gonna get you in that door, Maya.” And that’s when the art teacher says, “Good, because it’s Maya’s last painting”, and she goes on to explain why. Which is because the school board is cutting art and music classes. When the class hears this awful news, Riley is more worried about Maya not having art than anything (as she, and everyone, knows that Maya’s the artist and she’s just the artist’s best friend), Farkle is worried about drama and not being able to play Pippin, and Zay’s all like, “Nobody better cut my ballet.” And when the art teacher once again says, “Ballet gone. Art, music, drama, dance, all of it…gone”, Riley turns to Maya and says her name and Maya just says, “It’s okay, Riles. Just another door closed.”

The class lesson that ties into the life lesson in this episode is all about the Dark Ages. So, we learn/ re-learn about the Dark Ages in this episode. Cory says to the students that the Dark Ages was a time of cultural deterioration, a decline of the creative spirit of an entire continent, as people lost interest in art and music because it was taken away from them. So, it's just like the whole synopsis of this episode, in which the school board is cutting the arts at their middle school and there being the possibility of the students losing interest in art altogether because of it. In other words the New York City School Board is putting them in the Dark Ages. And when Riley asks Cory the question of, “If they're gonna put us in the Dark Ages, then who’s gonna get us out?” Cory takes it back to their history lesson and says that other artists, like Michaelangelo and Da Vinci, helped get the people out of the Dark Ages. And that this explosion of creativity was called the Renaissance. 

And, I just have to say that Lucas in this episode really annoyed me. (I mean, his character annoys me in a lot of the episodes from this show but in this one specifically) because there’s a moment in this episode when they are in Cory’s class and Lucas is hyping up Maya and complimenting her for being a real, true artist, and it’s not that he shouldn’t have said those things to Maya because Maya is a great artist and deserves all the credit, but it’s just the fact that he didn’t also compliment Riley’s art and make Riley feel good about her art. ‘Cause even if Riley isn’t the better artist out of the two of them (Maya and Riley) she still loved and cared about art and didn’t want to see the art class go, either. Yeah, that was just a little thing that kind of bugged me about Lucas and even about the art teacher because I didn’t like it either when the art teacher at the beginning was putting down Riley’s artwork. Like for real, I’d take a painting of a purple cat over a painting of a closed or open door any day. 🐈💜

In the end, the students end up saving the arts by thinking creatively and going to the School Board Meeting and demonstrating artistically why the arts are important and should not be cut from the school budget. To which they succeed. At one point during the Board Meeting, some of the students take down all of the art on the walls of the room they are in to show what it would look like if there was no art, and at the end of the meeting the head lady of the board tells the students to hang the paintings back up on the walls. But it’s interesting because the painting that Maya takes down and then hangs back up on the wall is a painting by the head lady of the board herself and it’s of an open door (a painting that looked much like Maya’s closed door painting at the very beginning of this episode). 

At the very end, when Riley and Maya and the rest of the students are back in art class painting, the art teacher looks at Maya’s painting and says, “Very hopeful, Maya. What do you call it?”, and Maya says, “The Renaissance.” (which ties back to Cory’s history lesson). And, of course, when the art teacher looks at Riley’s artwork it’s a painting of 50 million purple cats. 😂💜🐈

There’s also a notable BMW character who guest stars on this episode, which is Mr. Turner (Anthony Tyler Quinn). He was featured on a few episodes of the show. Of course, this being one of them. Also, random side note, in this episode when the students are asking the head lady of the board what some of her favorite books are, the lady says one of them is Bridge to Terabithia, and I can relate to that as I love Bridge to Terabithia. Well, I’ve never really read the book, but I LOVE the movie.

There’s a few great, positive messages/lessons from this episode. From not only it being about just the importance of art and being grateful for the art in our lives. But there’s also the message about never giving up on something you love or care about, the importance of thinking differently and creatively, and knowing that it's never too late to do the right thing.  

Don’t stop something that you’re very good at is another prominent message/lesson from this episode and kind of goes along with the one I mentioned before about never giving up on something you love or care about. But for real, if you have talent (which, I like to believe, that everyone has some kind of talent) don’t give it up and don’t be afraid to share it with the world. Something that Lucas basically says to Maya in this episode. There’s also the message/lesson about believing in yourself. ‘Cause if YOU don’t believe in yourself, how can anyone else believe in you? Another memorable quote and message that stood out to me from this episode is when Riley and her friends are trying to think of a way to save the creative arts and Farkle says to them a quote from Einstein, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Another important message/lesson, or reminder, that the art teacher says to the students at the end, is to find something that inspires you and never forget that for the rest of your lives. 

 

I not only love the many great messages/lessons of this episode, but another reason why I chose to include this episode in this ranking is because of just the whole ART aspect of it all.🎨🎭 As that’s always been one thing I’ve always loved about GMW, and another thing I find to be very interesting and unique about this show, is their inclusion of art as like its own character basically. As in quite a few episodes of this show they have talks about art and show Maya and Riley creating art. It’s just a whole thing in and of itself. This show just speaks art, art, and more ART to me. I have always loved art, too…painting, drawing, all that good stuff. And so, the episodes like this one where they would show Riley and Maya in art class were always some of my favorite moments of the show. If you’ve been a fan of this blog for some time now, then you know I also LOVE MUSIC, and this episode also has a few singing moments in it which of course I just also LOVE, LOVE, LOVE about it. 🎶🎤🎹

Again, I just love this episode because it’s all about ART. You get to learn some of the history of art and are just reminded of why art is so important to our everyday lives. And just like the art teacher says to Riley at the beginning of this episode, art is all about making you feel something and it’s something that makes you happy. And this episode does just that. It makes me happy to watch and it certainly makes me think and feel.😊

Overall, this episode is very nostalgic, funny, relatable, deep, and thought-provoking. It handles one of the more important topics covered on the show very well. ‘Cause, again, I LOVE art and music and I agree with it being just as important if not MORE IMPORTANT than any other subject(s) in school. Everyone needs some kind of art in their lives, but you can’t really escape it because art is everywhere. From the books you read, to the music you listen to, to the movies you watch, and to even the sky you see everyday (just one of the greatest works of art ever, given from God).🞦🎶🎬📚🎨
    

#3 “Girl Meets Yearbook” S2E12 - Premiered August 7, 2015

 

This is another episode that I’m really surprised made it onto this ranking. As this is not an episode that ever really stood out to me before re-watching it again for this post. In fact, going into re-watching this whole show, this was an episode that I was very curious to watch because I did not remember anything about it before watching it again. Although, now I certainly do, and I could never forget this awesome episode. It’s truly one of the BEST. Hence, why it’s here at #3 on this ranking. 

In this episode, it’s “YEARBOOK TIME!” 📕 A time for the students to find out who they are and what they all really think about each other. Riley and Farkle hand out the new yearbooks to their classmates and they all read their class superlatives. Riley gets nominated as the “Most Likely to Smile Herself to Death”😁, Farkle is the “Most Likely to Be Farkle”, and Lucas gets voted as “Most Likely to Be Okay With Whatever Happens”. And, yeah, they never say what Maya’s “Most Likely…” is. I’m assuming her’s is, “Most Likely to Never Get A Most Likely”.😂 But, when Riley and Farkle realize that their superlatives are just really their classmates making fun of them, they get kind of down about it and decide to change their image so that maybe their classmates will view them differently. Riley goes to the dark side and becomes a goth girl named Morotia M. Black (And, yes, the “M.” stands for Morotia) and Farkle becomes Donnie Barnes: Regular Guy. ❤ At first, Riley and Farkle act like they don’t care what their other classmates have to say about them, but then that obviously changes, as they were just suppressing how they really felt in the moment at first. 

There’s so many random, funny moments and quotes in this episode that I just love. One moment being at the beginning after Riley reads her yearbook superlative and she says, “I’m not all sunshine and rainbows. 🌞🌈I have a dark side❤” and then Maya asks to see Riley’s dark side face and Riley shows it to them and they just all say, “Awww” because it’s not a “dark side face” at all. Also when Lucas is telling Riley and Farkle not to make a big deal of these titles given to them by other people in the yearbook, he says, “Well, what’s more important to you? What you think of yourself or what other people think of you?” And Riley answers, “What I think of myself” (to which Farkle agrees) but then she says that what she thinks of herself is that it really bothers her what other people think of her (and to which Farkle agrees). I thought that was really funny. Another very funny moment and quote from this episode is when Riley, Maya, and Farkle are in Riley’s bedroom and Maya is telling Donnie Barns and Morotia M. Black that she has no interest living in a world without Riley or Farkle and that she’s not going anywhere until the two of them come back and Farkle says to her, “Maya, the people you knew aren’t here anymore.” And then Maya asks, “Then, can you please tell me where I can find them?” and Riley says, “They’re in the yearbook. Keep in touch and have an awesome summer.” 😂 I also love the part after Maya leaves Riley’s bedroom and it’s just Donnie Barnes and Morotia M. Black sitting at the bay window in the dark (after Riley turns off the lights) and Morotia (Riley) says to Donnie (Farkle), “Pay no attention to the bunny night light.”🐇 Again, there’s just so many laugh out loud moments in this episode that truly never get old. 

This is also a pretty important episode when it comes to the whole Riley, Lucas, and Maya love triangle story arc, because a big secret is discovered. As when Maya can’t get through to Riley, she decides to become Riley. But before she gets inside Riley’s soul by “becoming” Riley with the help of her mom, Katy (Maya’s mom) warns Maya that when she becomes Riley she may learn things about her (Riley) that she didn’t know before that she may even learn a secret even that person themselves didn’t know. Which, if you’ve seen this whole series, then you already know what the secret ends up being. And if you haven’t seen this show before, I won’t divulge the secret here, just so it gives you an excuse to immediately go watch this episode to find it out for yourself. Also, the mention of Maya and Lucas winning favorite couple in the yearbook, also foreshadows things to come with the whole love triangle thing. But, this episode is also just the first time that Maya loses herself by trying to be Riley, which she does try to do again in Season 3. 

The history lesson that ties back to the life lesson in this episode is that of Iceland and Greenland. As Cory tells the class in this episode that the Vikings discovered this beautiful green country and they didn’t want anyone else taking their new country, so they decided to name it Iceland. Based on the name, everyone figured it must be cold there, so nobody went there. Then another Viking comes along, Erik the Red, and he discovers a land of snow and ice. And he wants everyone to go there instead, so he names that place Greenland, and everyone goes there. So, just like with the yearbook superlatives, the Vikings made everybody think of Iceland and Greenland in ways that weren’t true. As Cory says, “The jerks!” But, what else happened is that after everybody went to Greenland because someone told them to, they all died. Yep, sadly they came to an inhospitable, uninhabited ice ball named Greenland because someone said it was pretty. And the first thing they did was die. Now, obviously that doesn’t happen to any of the characters in this episode, but it goes back to the importance of remembering that you shouldn’t pay attention to what everybody says. Because, like Cory tells the class in this episode, “if you listen to everybody else, you just might end up crashing your little ships under the rocks.”

The importance of not caring what anybody else thinks about you (especially strangers; people that don’t even know you), that it’s more important to care about what you think of yourself or if anyone else, the people closest to you, because they know you best and have your best interest at heart, is also a prominent message in this episode. Like Maya says to Riley, “If you wanna listen to people, listen to the right people.” And besides, like Lucas says to Riley and Farkle in this episode, it’s not like you can just turn around and be someone new. (Even though RIley, Farkle, and Maya kind of do that in this episode, but it doesn’t really work in the end). It’s important to just be the best person you can be, like Donnie Barnes says at one point during this episode. Just BE YOURSELF, ALWAYS. ‘Cause there IS value to your existence here on this earth. I also like what Cory says in this episode to Lucas after he tells the class about how Iceland and Greenland came to be and Lucas asks him, “So, you’re saying the perception of a thing doesn’t make it so?” and Cory basically tells him that people are gonna say stuff but it’s how you react to what they say that makes you the person you are. And Cory tells Riley to just not react to people and their opinions about her that aren’t true. To just be her smiling, happy self. I also love what Lucas says to Riley, Farkle, and Maya when he says to them, “If you let someone say who you are then you really won’t be who you are. And you certainly won’t end up being who you were meant to be.” 👏 That’s so deep and so true.  Lucas was actually speaking some wise words for once, in this episode. As I also like in this episode when he tells the class that what you say to people matters. 

There’s also that message about knowing that as people grow up they do change and that can sometimes be a great thing. It's inevitable most of the time. I also love the moment and message when Maya is taking down all the dark curtains in Riley’s room to bring in some light and Riley says, “Wow, there is a lot of light in this world.” and Maya says. “If you let it in, yeah. You know who taught me that? (as she knows it’s Riley who taught her that).” That was just a great, subtle message and metaphoric way to send a message about the importance of letting the light in and not the darkness when it comes to depression and when it comes to not letting in the hate and lies about you but the truth and all the good things. 

This episode also has a bit of mystery, as I mentioned before with the secret that Maya finds out, which also leaves a bit of a cliffhanger. ‘Cause towards the end of this episode Riley says to Maya, “Your mom told you that you might find out a secret about me, did you find anything out about me that maybe you should tell me?” and Maya lies and says, ‘No.” There’s also another big PLOT TWIST at the end of this episode (which I had totally forgotten about until I saw it again) when Farkle decides not to change back into the Farkle he once was. As he basically tells Lucas that change happens, he’s growing up and finding out who he is. As he also says to Lucas, “In order for a living organism to thrive, it needs to be allowed to grow.” So, Farkle goes back to having his name be Farkle Minkus and not Donnie Barnes but he gets rid of wearing his colorful turtlenecks every day. Though, he doesn’t change too much as of yet, because he’s still the science genius who wants to one day take over the world. But, just as he tells Lucas, he wants to take over himself first before he tries to take over the whole world. So, this episode definitely has so many things about it that make you wonder, “What’s next?”

This is a one-of-a-kind episode, not only from the whole series but from any Disney Channel show ever, because this episode shows two characters in a bit of a depressive state. Which is really relatable. As I’m sure lots of people have felt depressed or have even gone through a long phase of depression at one time or another, I know I have. So, I love and appreciate this episode just for including that. But, this is also a very relatable episode in other ways, too. I’m sure everyone can relate to this episode, as everyone has had to come to terms with their identity and it can be hard at times. I mean, really, finding out who you are and coming to terms with your identity can be difficult at any age, but just from my own experience probably more so in your teen years. Also, just blocking out the hate and trying not to care about what other people think is hard, too. So, I do feel for Riley and Farkle in this episode a little bit. Although, the whole Maya turning into Riley thing is not realistic at all. I mean, you can’t literally become someone else and get inside their soul like she supposedly does in this episode. It just doesn’t work that way and that’s just impossible, but it’s whatever. It still worked for this episode. 

Overall, I just love the many great, positive messages this episode gives to viewers. It’s also one of the funniest episodes from not only Season 2 but from the whole show, which is also one of the main reasons why I ranked this episode higher than the previous one because I love an episode that can make me laugh out loud, and this episode does just that a little more than the previous one. But, it also makes me feel and think a lot, too. As this episode is very deep, pretty emotional and very thought-provoking. This is just an unforgettable episode and one that I would most definitely watch again. 

   

   

#2 “Girl Meets Gravity” S2E1 - Premiered May 11, 2015

 

Now, this is an episode that has always stood out to me from Season 2 and has always been one of the episodes that comes to my mind FIRST whenever I think about this show. I still remember when and where I was the first time that I watched this episode when it first premiered on Disney Channel in 2015. In fact, I remember watching it that night with my sister (celebrategoodtimesblog.blogspot.com). So, this episode is definitely one of the more nostalgic ones to me. Going into re-watching this series again, I was very excited to watch this specific episode again, for many reasons. I was also a little curious just because I hadn’t seen this episode in a long time before doing this, so I was curious to see if my opinions of it had changed at all. But, of course, they didn’t. If anything, I found to love and appreciate this episode even more than I ever did before. Hence, why it’s even on this ranking at #2. 

Basically, if you’ve never seen this episode or show, this episode starts off a brand new season and a brand new school year. Where Riley and Maya are anxious to begin eighth grade and they have a new teacher who isn’t Riley’s dad. Meanwhile, Ms. Svorski asks Topanga to take over at the bakery because she is dying. Yes, this episode is one of the most emotional, sad, depressing episodes of the show. ❤ Which is the only reason why this episode did not make the #1 spot, because it’s not an episode that I could watch all the time. However, I still LOVE this episode a lot and it certainly deserves its spot on this ranking. 

This episode is like no other episode I’ve seen from a Disney Channel show before, for many reasons. But especially just for the fact that it involves the topic of death and shows an actual funeral, which, I think is great because it just makes this show that much more realistic and relatable. This is also a more unique and special episode because it’s kind of like an I Didn’t Do It type of episode, which, if you’ve seen that Disney Channel show before then you know exactly what I mean. If not, well, basically this episode starts out in the present day with Riley talking at Ms. Svorski’s funeral, and then it goes back to show the past few days leading up to that present day, which, that in and of itself makes this episode all that more interesting to watch. In fact, the very beginning and the very sad, emotional ending of this episode has always been the most memorable parts of this episode to me.  

The whole episode is great, but this episode starts out very interesting and it really pulls you in, because it begins with a close-up of just Riley as she’s talking (to what at first seems like directly to the audience ourselves, but later we find out it’s to her friends and family at Ms. Svorski’s funeral) in front of a green screen of space and the planet Earth moving around behind her. 🌎 To which Riley says the ICONIC line, “Riley Matthews, from Greenwich Village, New York City, the United States of America, the continent of North America, Western Hemisphere, the Earth, the Solar System, the universe, the mind of God. And in the middle of all of it, is John Quincy Adams Middle School, me and my friends, because we are the center of the universe. At least, that’s what I thought.” 

This episode starts out showing Riley and Maya having a new teacher, but it doesn’t last that long because Riley and Maya quickly make the new teacher quit, and of course Cory (Riley’s dad) becomes their teacher again for the new school year. When Cory walks into the classroom Riley says, “I can’t believe you’re gonna be my father again…(she meant teacher) I said what I said.” And Maya echoes that sentiment saying, “Seriously, Matthews, how’s this possibly happening?”, but Farkle is actually glad that Cory is their teacher again because he likes that Cory lets him have “Farkle Time” and lets the other students talk as well, instead of just being the teacher who wants to talk all the time and not let the students get a word in like Farkle, Lucas, and Maya mention about that other “new teacher” they were close to having for eighth grade before Cory came back. When they’re talking about that other guy (the other teacher) Riley says, “I don’t think he knew that history class is supposed to be about our lives.” To which then Cory goes into the class lesson about Galileo. 

Cory says how everyone believed that the sun revolved around the Earth, except for Galileo. That everyone thought they were the center of the universe and that everything circled around them. And then that’s when Riley says that she knows someone who circles around her a little too closely, and it’s him, Cory. Riley and Maya talk about being a year older and mention how they should be able to head off and explore without Cory always being there. So, they (Riley and Maya) decide to transfer out of Cory’s classroom and into another. They ask Farkle and Lucas if they want to join them but Farkle and Lucas decide to stay in class with Cory teaching as they say to Riley and Maya that they like Cory and how he teaches and how he treats his students. And then it goes back to the present day (back to the close-up shot of Riley talking directly to the camera) and Riley saying, “We think we’re the center of the universe. We think everything revolves around us. We depend on the sun for light. For warmth. Every morning, every day. When it’s gone, we sleep. Trusting, that in the morning, it will always come back again.”🌒

In the new class that Riley and Maya transfer themselves to, they begin to realize that they are just numbers, not people to the teacher, and the teacher herself isn't all that different from Cory. And it’s funny because when Riley and Maya are in the new classroom, they see similar students that mimic their friend group. As there’s already a Riley, a Maya, a Farkle, a Lucas, and even a Sarah in the class they transfer to. After Riley and Maya realize this, it goes back to Riley talking directing to the camera in front of the faux solar system scenery behind her, as she says, “Here’s what’s funny. If you’re standing on the moon, you’d think the Earth was revolving around you, instead of the other way around. It’s really all about perspective. It’s hard not to believe that you are the center of everything, until something shows you you’re not. So, Riley and Maya decide to transfer back to Cory’s class, because as Riley says, “As bad as this is…everything else is worse.” 

There’s a few great messages/lessons in this episode. One, of course, being about the importance of knowing that you are not the center of the universe. That the world does not revolve around just you. But, there’s also the very important message about not taking people for granted, especially the people you love the most in your life, which are your family and friends. As Cory mentions, when he talks about his favorite book “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder to the class. 

But, before Riley learns all that, she begins to feel that both her parents (Cory and Topanga) are just constantly circling around her like planets, because her mom now owns her and her friends hang out spot, Ms. Svorski’s, and her dad is her school teacher. Maya’s mom, Katy, also gets hired in this episode to work at Ms. Svorski’s (now called Topanga’s). To which Maya doesn’t like, either. So, Riley and Maya voice this to their parents, that they just don’t want them to be everywhere they are all the time, and their parents all agree to give them their space and stay out of their way. Of course, their parents also say to them that they’ll always be there for them if they need them. So, when their parents finally leave them alone and it’s just Riley and Maya sitting alone at a table at Topanga’s (aka Ms. Svorski’s) there’s just a lot of silence and Riley and Maya don’t really know what to do then but Riley does say one word, “Kings.” She thinks they are kings for doing that.♚ 

Then it goes back to the close-up of Riley talking directly to the camera in front of the space background, as she says, “The sun doesn’t go around the Earth. We are the ones moving. We orbit the sun because we need it. We need it’s light and its heat, and if it wasn’t there, we’d be dark and alone. I wasn’t in Ms. Svorski’s orbit for very long, and I missed out on someone wonderful. My brother knew better. He was her very good friend. (as Riley then grabs Maya’s hand and brings her up to stand alongside her) We think that we’re the center of the universe. But the truth is…we need to circle the ones we love for as long as they’re here. (as Riley and Maya both then go walk up to their parents) We need to keep them close because, no matter how far we travel they are the ones who hold us in place. It’s gravity, and without it, we would just all float away from each other. We are not kings at all. We are just tiny little specs.” And then she recites that whole beginning monologue that starts with, “My name is Riley Matthews…” and then she brings it back to earlier in the episode when Cory talked about Our Town, as she finishes her speech by saying, “That’s from Our Town. My father’s favorite play…Just for a moment, we’re all together. Let’s really look at one another.” As this is also the words Cory recited from the book to his class after Riley and Maya returned from transferring out of it. 

Yeah, sorry that was long, I know. But, I felt that all the words she says there are really important, and I didn’t know any other way to condense it.  There’s so many great messages/lessons that you can take just from that quote alone. Such as the importance of the here and now. I really like when Riley and Cory, in this episode, talk about really looking at the life you have in front of you because it can all change in an instant. That’s something that I try to remind myself to do more of every day. To really look around me at times, because it’s the small things that really matter in life. And life is precious. It’s important to hold on to the big moments and the small moments. 

Another moment and quote that stood out to me while watching back this episode was when Topanga and Auggie go to visit Ms. Svorski at her bakery and Ms. Svorski (knowing that she’s probably not going to live much longer) tells Auggie to tell his mom (Topanga) that the world is changing and the bakery needs to change, too. When Auggie tells his mom this, Topanga says, “But, this place is so charming. It’s so…you.” and Ms, Svorski just says that people come and people go and tells Topanga she also needs to change the name of the place. But Topanga doesn’t want to, as she says, “What? No, this place will always be Svorski’s.” And then Ms. Svorski says, “No such thing as “always”. Now place Svorski’s, soon place Topanga’s. World keep turning. Life go to next people. This has always been good idea.”  Such a true statement. Things change, people change, people will come in and out of your life, and you’ll one day leave theirs. That’s just life. There’s no such thing as “always”, on Earth, that is. Now, I believe that life in Heaven is FOREVER and ALWAYS. 🞦🌈⛅ 

 

Overall, although this episode is probably the most dark, sad, and emotional episode from the show, it is still a GREAT episode and will forever be one of my favorites. It has very great, positive, and true messages/lessons. Plus, it does still have those very funny moments in it. And another plus, is that there is a little guest appearance by Mr. Feeny himself in this episode. As Cory and Mr. Feeny have a nice, short and sweet conversation at the very end of this episode when Cory calls to check up on him. Usually, the first episodes of any season are one of the most memorable, and that certainly stands true for this episode. 'Cause again, it’s not only one of the best from Season 2 but from the whole show in general. It truly never gets old to watch. And like I mentioned before, I would most definitely choose to watch this episode again, just not all the time. 

     

    

    

   

 

#1 “Girl Meets Cory and Topanga” S2E16 - Premiered September 18, 2015

 

 

Now, this…THIS is the BEST and my MOST FAVORITE episode from not only Season 2 but from the whole show. Yes, the WHOLE SHOW. AHHHH…I’m just so excited to finally get to talk about this episode. You know how I said before that the “Girl Meets Family Game Night” episode is the epitome of this show, well I kind of take that back because THIS episode is what I actually believe to be the better representation of what this show is all about, which is the colliding of two worlds. Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World, that is. As this is THE episode that I would tell someone to watch in order to know what this show is all about. This is just an ICONIC episode and I’ll tell you why. 👧🌎👦

In this episode, Riley realizes that her parents (Cory and Topanga) are making a positive impact in the world which causes her to question the impact she’s making to the world. And if her contributions to the world will ever match those of her parents. This is a one-of-a-kind episode not only from the show itself but from any Disney Channel show I’ve ever seen. In fact, from any show I’ve ever seen, PERIOD. Not just from Disney. And that’s all because of the way they literally insert one show’s characters (Riley and Maya from GMW) into a scene with characters (Cory and Topanga) from a show (BMW) that was from a whole other generation and period of time. Yeah, sorry, I don’t know all the technical terms for that, but this episode is just phenomenal because of it. And the two scenes from BMW that they choose to insert Riley and Maya into in this episode, are two of the most ICONIC scenes in BMW history. 

Like I mentioned before, this is one of those episodes that has always stood out to me the most from any other episode from the show and from just any other show in general. It’s always this episode that comes to my mind FIRST whenever I think about this show. This is an episode I couldn’t wait to watch again before doing so for this post. I'm ALWAYS excited to see this episode, because it TRULY never gets old. I remembered everything about this episode before watching it again for this post, that I wasn’t at all curious to watch it again, just very excited. This is also one of those episodes where I still remember all the commercials on Disney Channel leading up to its premiere and when and where I was when I watched it for the first time in 2015. I mean, how could I forget? I was so excited to watch the episode then, and I was just as excited to re-watch it again this time around, as well. I knew my original opinion about this episode wouldn’t change one bit going back to watch this episode. In fact, I knew from the very beginning before even re-watching the episode that it would be included on this ranking and I never changed my mind once about it. And here it is, where it most definitely belongs, at #1. 

After Riley finishes telling Maya about how her parents help protect their city and shape their minds, Topanga being a great lawyer who uses her intelligence to help the powerless against the powerful and Cory being a teacher trying to teach Riley and her friends stuff, Riley then asks Maya, “ What will I ever do?” To which Maya tells Riley that she’ll do stuff, but that the great thing about being them is that they don’t have to worry about being like her (Riley’s) parents. But, it’s too late, because Riley has already started thinking about it. Maya goes on to tell Riley know that she doesn’t need to remind her how great her parents are, that she already knows how great they are and that she’s (Riley’s) very lucky to have them because not everybody has great parents like hers. But, after Maya says this Riley says, “Maybe they’re the lucky ones”, and when Maya asks why, Riley says, “They’re Cory and Topanga and…I’m just their little shadow living in the reflection of the sun”. Then she asks Maya, “What do you do when you know you’ll never be as good as your parents?” And that's the big question throughout this episode, which is greatly answered by the end.

The history lesson that Cory is teaching to Riley and her friends in this episode is all about Ferdinand Magellan, who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe. Everyone else thought the world was flat because they could only see to the horizon. They were too scared to go out, because they thought they’d fall off the world. And as Riley says in this episode, “I don’t blame ‘em.” So, Cory asks the students what their horizon line is and tells them to write down the one thing in life that they consider impossible. As he asks them, “Where do you fall off the Earth?” All the students start writing down something very quickly and easily and then Cory points this out and says to them, “That’s too bad. Because when you think you can’t do something, your world is as flat as a piece of paper.” So, Cory then tells the students to crumple up their papers that they had just written on and then he tells them to look at them now, and then he says, “You hold your world in your hands. Nothing’s impossible if you take a shot. So take a shot..” As he then holds up a recycling bin for the students to throw their crumpled up papers in. Everyone does it, but Farkle, because he thinks he’d only miss. When Cory asks to read what Farkle wrote inside his paper, it says the word, “Athlete”, something Farkle believes he could never be. Cory says to Farkle, “You don’t think you could be an athlete like Lucas if you tried?” and Farkle says, “I’m not sure you can be as good as someone just because you want to, sir.” And Cory says to Farkle, “You never know unless you take a shot”. So, Farkle tries to take another shot at trying to get the paper in the bin but he just ends up “accidentally” hitting Maya in the head with it. A great message/lesson in and of itself about never giving up.

This gives Cory a great idea for an assignment. He tells Farkle that he’s going to become an athlete and Lucas’s assignment is to help him get there. And that hopefully this will change what he once thought was impossible. When Cory asks Riley if there is anything that she considers to be impossible, Riley says, “There is no future to look forward to, to where I’m anywhere near as good as you guys.” When Cory has no idea what she is talking about, Riley clarifies her statement saying, “You and mom, Cory and Topanga - - you’re my impossible thing.” But when Cory still doesn’t understand, Riley says, “Maybe some people do just fall off the world, dad.” Maya tells Cory not to worry about what Riley is saying, that it’s just today’s thing, that it’ll be gone tomorrow. But, of course, Riley says the only thing going away is her and Cory says, “Now? You’re falling off the world now?!” and Riley tells him that she can’t compete with him, Cory says, “In what?” and Riley says, “Life. So, I have to go and create my own individual path. I must do it all alone by myself. Come on, Maya!”

There’s quite a few very funny moments in this episode, too. For example, when Riley and Maya go to this sanctuary of solitude and one of the nuns says to them, “Hello, is there something I can do for you young ladies?” and Riley says, “I’d like to renounce all of my worldly possessions, except for all my stuff!” 😂 Also, I just have to say, if I haven’t already by now, Riley is definitely my favorite character on this show. I still like Maya’s character and can relate more to Maya, but Riley is really funny. She is definitely underrated. May I say, she’s actually one of the best characters from a Disney Channel show ever. Definitely, one of the most funniest characters ever. Okay, anyways, back to this episode. 

 

Another funny moment in this episode is when the nun asks Riley and Maya what’s going on and Maya says that Riley is upset because her parents are perfect and she’ll never live up to them. The nun gives some great advice and a great message by saying to Riley that human perfection is unattainable. But then the nun also says,” in all my experiences with people there’s only one who even comes close and that’s when Topanga walks out and the nun thanks her for saving their orphanage from becoming a Super Cluck and the nun then says to the girls, “Now, if she were your mother, I’d understand why you’d wanna…” and Riley starts crying and then the nun realizes that that woman whom she just thanked was Riley’s mother. 

Riley and Maya even go to a circus where they meet a clown that relates to Riley in that he and all the clown folks there have ran away from something at one time or another, and for him it was his father he ran away from because he too felt like he couldn’t live up to his father who made keys. However, at the end of their conversation with the clown he says that he’s not gonna be a clown his whole life, that his “cruisin’ just got in the way of his formal education.” Now, I know this show is big on school and education and even with that comment the clown made, I  don’t believe that one has to have a great education or go to college in order to be successful or have a bright future and be a great leader in this world. So, that is just one thing from this episode that I didn’t necessarily agree with. But it’s still a funny moment, as when after the clown says that, he goes on to tell Riley and Maya that it’s okay because now they have a volunteer teacher who dedicates his free time to enriching their clown minds. And of course that volunteer teacher walks out and it’s Cory, and then the clown says to Riley, “Now, if he was your father, I could understand why you’d wanna - - (and then he realizes) oh, you poor kid.” 🤡🎪

After Riley and Maya get back from their little adventure and Riley learns that her mom is not only a successful lawyer but she also saves orphanages and bookstores and her dad not only teaches them stuff but he also dedicates his life to clowns, Riley tells Maya once again that she can’t compete with them (her parents), that she’s reached her personal horizon line, and that there’s no way for her to go. And when Maya tells Riley that she just has to get her parents out of her head, Riley says she can’t because she knows all their stories and they  just keep repeating over and over in her head. But when Maya asks the question of, “Were they always so perfect?” Riley says, “What?” and Maya says, “Sure, they’re great now, but how were they at our age? I bet they were just as messed up and confused as we are.” And that’s when Riley says to Maya, “Maybe we should see that for ourselves…They’ve told me their stories a million times. Maybe if we try and pick one and imagine them at our age, we’ll discover how they really were.” To which they then do, as Riley tells the story, and it shows the BMW scene of the day Topanga came over and played sock basketball with Cory. But, this time with Riley and Maya literally in the scene watching her parents at her age. Riley also tells Maya the story, and it shows the other ICONIC BMW scene (with Riley and Maya inserted into it), of when Topanga and Cory were working on a school assignment in the Matthews’ kitchen and Topanga does her ICONIC poem-reciting, interpretive lipstick dance. 💄 And when Riley and Maya start doing the Topanga dance…SO GOOD, SO NOSTALGIC. 

After Riley and Maya are basically transported back in time to when Cory and Topanga were their age, Riley learns that she is actually just like both of her parents. Like Shawn said in the ICONIC, unforgettable Christmas episode from Season 1 of GMW, she’s Cory with Topanga’s hair. But she’s actually more than that, because after walking back through those stories of her parents, Riley learns that her mother was even once weirder than Cory was. So, after finding out that both of her parents were once weird just like her, it makes her have hope again for her future and what she’ll become, because her “weird” parents became something great and she has hope that one day she will too. I like the moment in this episode when RIley and Maya are in the ICONIC BMW Cory and Topanga kitchen scene and when little Topanga says to little Cory, “I don’t think I’m weird. I think I’m unique.” Riley then says the same thing after her mother, “I don’t think I’m weird, Maya. I think I’m unique. He’s Cory, she’s Topanga. But I’m both.” 

Farkle ends up becoming an athlete but not as good as Lucas. And Riley says to him, “Oh, well, will you ever be?” and Lucas says he (Farkle) doesn’t have to be. Farkle learns that he doesn’t have to be a great athlete to like the game, that the fun of the game is running the bases, which he tells Cory and the class. And if you get home and realize that you’re not as good as the rest of them, as Riley asks him, you just keep playing because it’s a team sport. You just run the bases and the rest of your team will help you get home. After he says this Riley looks at her dad and smiles and Cory smiles back. 😊⚾

Another unforgettable, cute moment from this episode is when Riley says the next day in class, “I'm not going to fall off the face of the Earth. There is no end to my horizon. My parents are Cory and Topanga and they gave me the best parts of both of them. (and then she turns to say to Cory) I’m not going to be you or mom, dad…I’m going to have my own stories.” Cory being the great dad that he is says, “And I can’t wait to watch them.”  Then another ICONIC, nostalgic, sweet moment from this episode happens as Riley then takes out and puts on Cory’s old red baseball hat with the white letter “P” on it (Yes, as seen in Season 1 of BMW) and Cory asks Riley where she got the hat and Riley says,”Oh, you gave it to me a long time ago. Don’t you remember?” and Cory says,” No. It looks great on you.” and then Riley thanks him and says, “It’s going to help me run the bases. And I’m glad I’m on your team.” (Cue the AWWWs)

Overall, this is just a very NOSTALGIC and ICONIC episode. It’s also really funny, relatable, and quite emotional at times, too. It might also be a little cheesy at times, too, but I LOVE it. Give me all the cheesiness, please. I also love this episode for all the great messages/lessons, as well. The main one, I think, being that of following your own path and living life on your own terms. Not that of your parents or anyone else. Another great message/lesson from this episode is actually one that the clown tells Riley when she and Maya go to the circus. He basically tells Riley that she can’t just run away from her life problems, and that goes for anyone. Nobody’s perfect, even your parents is another great message/lesson from this episode. Something Riley learns in this episode when at first she thinks her mom is perfect and always was perfect, but soon finds out Topanga’s not, because nobody is. And there’s so many other great messages/lessons from this episode you just have to watch to find out. This episode was everything I remembered it to be and more. Again, this episode is just a must-watch for sure. I, for one, would most definitely watch it again and again and again. I mean, whenever we get to see GMW and BMW all in ONE episode, it’s a MAJOR PLUS. 

   

   

   

                 

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GIRL MEETS WORLD: SEASON 3

(from least to most favorite)...

 

 

#4 “Girl Meets Goodbye” S3E21 - Premiered January 20, 2017

Like I’ve mentioned before, usually the first and last episodes of a series are some of the better, more memorable and unforgettable ones, and that goes for this episode. As the title of this episode suggests, this is the LAST episode of GMW, and a pretty great one at that. I actually couldn’t wait to watch this episode again for this post, because I hadn’t seen it in a long time and therefore I was very curious to see it again just for that reason. Although I already knew pretty much the basis of this whole episode (Well, I actually forgot about the ending decision, but we’ll get into that later.), I was still very excited to watch it like it was the first time I had ever seen it. But, I was also very sad when I got done with this episode and this show again, because I really enjoyed my time watching GMW again, and it’s always sad when I get to the very end of a series I’ve been watching for a long time. :( This one being no different. Even though this episode made it onto this ranking as one of the best and one of my most favorites from Season 3, there are still a couple things that I don’t like about this episode. But, first let me tell you the things I do LOVE about it.

First of all, this episode is all about Topanga getting a job offer in London, and so she enlists the help of her family and close friends to help her make a big, difficult decision. And it begs the question, “Is this the end of Riley and Maya?” Although this is more of a sad and very emotional episode because it’s the last one of the series, it still has quite a few funny moments, too. One being at the very beginning when Riley and Maya are walking the halls talking about Topanga’s big decision and Riley says, “Riley and Maya are forever no matter where we are” to which Maya says, “Remember our third best friend Kerri Abelson (a character that was just mentioned in this episode as she was never mentioned before)?” and Riley says, “Oh, yeah. What happened to her?”and Maya says, “She moved across the street.” And then they both scream. Yeah, that’s kind of one you have to see to understand better, but it is funny. 

When Riley and Maya walk into the classroom and see everyone else looking all down and sad, Riley says, “Why is everybody so emotional when nothing’s happening?” and Farkle tells her it is happening and then she says, “Why are you so sure?” and he tells her to look at the board that reads, “Belgium 1831”. And then Cory, of course, goes into the lesson about Belgium 1831. The history lesson that ties into the life lesson in this episode, is of course the lesson that Cory held off from teaching since the very FIRST episode of the show. And, if you have no idea what I am talking about, basically in the very FIRST episode of this show, the word on the chalkboard in Cory’s classroom had “Belgium 1831” written on it, but it was never talked about then or even during the few other times it was seen on the board throughout the series. So, everything about Belgium 1831 is finally taught in this episode by Cory, which I just love a full-circle moment like that. 

 

Cory describes Belgium in 1831 as a group of friendly states who thought they’d stay together forever until Belgium made the decision it was time to go. He says that Belgium 1831 is them. Cory goes on to explain that it was decided that Belgium would no longer be part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, but its own independent country, Belgium was free. Riley then asks if people visited Belgium after it became independent or if they forgot about it like Kerri Abelson, and Cory says to her that at that point Belgium was no longer part of a group but its own sovereign nation, ready to meet the world on its own terms. To which Riley then says, “What if it wasn’t ready yet?” and Lucas says, “What if none of us are ready for this?” because as he then tells Riley, he’s not ready for this (her moving away that is). After Farkle asks Cory if Belgium 1831 was going to be about their freedom when they left this place, Cory answers yes. That that was his plan, but that sometimes things happen in life earlier than they’re supposed to. (Like this show ending earlier than it should have.) Then when Zay asks, “So, what do we do?” Cory says, “We do our best. Like we’ve always done. We leave our good mark and we hope that people remember us fondly.” (Which also just goes perfectly to the whole question of why the show is ending so soon and the legacy it hopefully leaves behind.) And then that’s when Riley turns back to the class and her friends and says, “I did my best. I hope that you will remember me fondly.” (Again, kind of breaking the fourth wall there.)

 

Then Farkle asks the question of what happened next after Belgium left the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and when Riley says, “Everybody was happy forever, The end”,  Maya for the first time actually gives the real facts. And not because she actually studied it, but like she says to Cory, “You don’t really have to be smart to know what’s coming.” And the facts are, in the case of Belgium 1831, that the United Kingdom of the Netherlands fell completely apart. But Cory tries to make Riley feel better about the whole thing by saying that her mother (Topanga) will make the right decision because she’ll seek out the advice of everyone close to her, and he adds that no matter what Topanga’s decision is, they go with her. I have to say, I do love how supportive Cory actually was of Topanga making the decision for their family in this episode (A little redemption for his character story arc for sure.). Especially after how he did Topanga in BMW. Don’t even get me started on that one. 🙄

The people Topanga ends up asking for advice from are most of all the great characters from BMW, as this was the much anticipated BWM reunion episode. Again, mostly every main character from BMW comes back in this episode: Mr. Feeny, Eric, Shawn, Mr. Turner, Harley, Minkus, Amy, Alan, the original Josh, and even the two Morgans (iykyk). The only BMW characters missing from this episode are Jack, Rachel, Angela, and Shawn and Jack’s dad, Chet Hunter (Which, I know he couldn’t really be in it because he died. But still, they could have found a way, like they did many other times before). I was definitely a little bummed about those other characters not making an appearance in this episode then, and I still was this time around watching it back, but it is what it is. At least we still got to see those characters from BMW, be all together with the cast of GMW in this episode. 

There’s a great message/lesson in this episode about knowing that whatever happens in your life, you’re gonna be okay in the end. Something that Topanga basically tells Auggie in this episode when he’s upset that he and his family might be moving away and he says that this is the worst thing that could ever happen to him in his young life, Topanga says, “Oh, Auggie. No matter what happens, you’re gonna be okay.” The first Morgan also tells Auggie this when she says to him, “Because life knows that in order to be the best person you can be, sometimes it’s good to stay, sometimes you gotta go.” And to also remember that it doesn’t hurt to get advice from the people who have loved you forever, like Topanga does in this episode. Plus, if it’s your parents making the decision for you, trust them because they always have your best interest at heart. Something that second Morgan basically tells Auggie in this episode, as well. There’s also that message and reminder that you can’t just make life how you want it, as it’s not always up to you or in your control. I, for one, believe that a lot of things are in God’s control. 

And if you’re ever having a difficult, life-changing decision to make like Topanga in this episode then just try to ask yourself one question that Cory also tells the class at one point during this episode, “Is it tougher to leave something you love or stay when you could be missing an opportunity?”, which as the students learn, that all depends on what you’re leaving behind. But, as the students also learn in this episode, just know that it’s important to know what’s waiting for you wherever you’re going. And they discuss the example of how Lucas and Zay left a place they loved (Texas) to go where they are now (in New York) and it clearly was the best decision they could have made because they’ve had the best time. 

In this episode, Mr. Feeny just says to Topanga that she’s smart and he knows she’ll choose wisely because of that. He also mentions that she was a good test taker. Yeah, I think Mr. Feeny could have given a little bit better advice to Topanga than just that she's smart because she was a good test taker, but it was still something. I mean, Eric’s advice was a little better than that, as he tells Topanga to just listen to her heart because her heart is what’s gonna tell her what she should do. He also tells her to then go and find her favorite quiet place. His, as he says, is under the ocean. 🤣🌊 So, Topanga ends up going to her quiet place, in the dark at the bakery (Topanga’s), where she makes her final decision. She says that the bakery (Topanga’) is her bay window and she’s not leaving it. So, they don’t end up moving to London, and they stay in New York. And like I mentioned before, because I hadn’t seen this episode in so long before doing this, I was actually quite surprised at her decision. ‘Cause I actually thought that they did end up leaving, which probably would have made more sense, since the show was ending anyways. But them deciding to stay is fine, too, I guess. I just totally forgot that part of this episode for some reason, but now I could never forget it. 

After they learn Topanga’s final decision not to move, it shows Cory, Riley, Maya, Farkle, Zay, Lucas, and Smackle back in the classroom, and Cory asks them what they have learned about Belgium 1831. To which Farkle says that “there comes a time when the right thing to do is to leave the friends you know, see what’s out there, and face a new world”, and then Cory says, “Yeah? What do you have to say about that?”, then Farkle goes over to the chalkboard and erases what says “Belgium 1831” and he says, “Not yet.” (And the crowd cheers.😊📣). 

Although it doesn’t end there, because the very ending scene shows Riley, Maya, Farkle, Zay, Lucas, Smackle, Shawn, Katy, Cory, Topanga, Josh, Auggie, and Ava at the bakery, where Cory, Topanga, Shawn, and Katy are talking to the kids about meeting the world. It’s during that scene where it shows a couple of clips from the unforgettable, very emotional, and ICONIC finale of BMW, where Cory is talking to little Josh about meeting the world and when Cory says the ICONIC line in that clip, “You’re gonna come to believe that the world is gonna protect you, too. Boy Meets World. Now I get it.” it switches back to the present day of Riley and Maya saying that ICONIC line. Riley says, “Girl Meets World” and then Maya says, “Now I get it.” I do LOVE that they included that line part in this episode, but does anyone think that it should have just been Riley saying it like it was just Cory who said it at the end of BMW? I don’t know why but it kind of bothered me that they didn’t just let Riley say the whole line herself. But I get it, this show wasn’t just about Riley but Maya, too. 

There are so many ICONIC, emotional, cute, and sweet moments in this episode. One major big moment being when Shawn gives Maya the papers he signed to officially adopt her. Of course, he asks Maya first if it’s what she wants and she of course says, “yes”. A moment that I saw coming from the first time I ever watched the episode of this show that Shawn first appeared on, which was the Season 1 Christmas episode. And that’s not the only very sweet and cute moment in this episode, as there is also one between Mr. Turner and Shawn. First of all, we all know that Mr. Turner was done terribly wrong in BMW, so it’s nice that they brought him back for a few episodes in GMW, this being one of them. And in this episode Mr. Turner tells Shawn that he regrets not adopting him (Shawn) when he was younger. (Cue the awwwws and the tears). Again, that’s just a very ICONIC, sweet, and nostalgic moment that I’m glad they added in. Farkle also finally gets his kiss from Maya in this episode. 💋 Okay, not a kiss like that, but a kiss on the cheek.😊There’s also a very emotional and sad moment in this episode when Riley and Maya are at the bay window for the last time saying goodbye to each other, before they know Topanga’s final decision, and they hug each other and both start crying. That scene literally almost had me crying, too. 😭

The actual very ending of this episode is very emotional, as well, but thankfully I didn’t full on cry watching it. As this episode ends with Riley and Maya sitting alone on the couch at Topanga’s after everyone else has left, and they say the ICONIC lines that they said at the very end of the very FIRST episode of the show. Riley says, “Big world” and Maya says, “Ours now”. They also add some dialogue after that with Riley then talking about time and distance having no power over them and them promising to be friends for as long as they live, and then they officially end it by saying, “Thunder (as said by Maya)…Lightning (as said by Riley)…Done (as said by Maya).”⛈🗲😭

Now, this episode has quite a lot of BMW moments and nostalgia which, don’t get me wrong, I LOVE. But not really for this episode, as I feel like for this episode, it was just too much. In other words, I feel like them adding in all the BMW stuff that they did just took away from the GMW characters and storylines. For this episode being the last episode of GMW, I don’t think they should have focused so much on the predecessor of the show and let it stand on its own for once. Again, I love all the flashback BWM moments in this episode and the BMW characters themselves being featured in it, but I feel like they just should have only included the living room scene with all the BMW and GMW cast and then that’s it. That living room reunion scene should have been all the BMW content and nostalgia we got from this episode. But it wasn’t. I mean, if they would have made this episode longer than just 27 minutes then maybe all of that would have been fine, but I felt like they just tried to squeeze in too much BMW stuff in a tiny amount of time and it definitely took away from the GMW story arcs and characters. And maybe that’s why they did the “World Meets Girl” 50 minute long episode, which was just all about GMW. But, honestly that seemed like a better finale for this show than this finale episode. However, of course, I still like this episode better than “World Meets Girl”. Hence, why I added it onto this ranking. But I do have a love/hate relationship with this episode for those exact reasons I mentioned above. Just, part of me wanted more from this finale episode and I don’t really know what exactly, but it wasn’t more BMW content. 

All in all, I love this episode for all the nostalgia that it brings, the sad moments, the funny moments, the family moments, the friendship moments, the relationship moments, just all the moments. And, of course, I just love this episode for the overall message about knowing that whatever changes you may go through or whatever life throws at you, you’re gonna be fine as long as you have good friends and good family by your side. But I would also add to that by saying, if you don’t have any friends or family, know that you always have God by your side. 🞦 Even though this is one of the more emotional and sad episodes from the show, I would still choose to watch this episode again. Just not all the time, which is also one reason why it ranks the lowest from the four on this ranking for Season 3. 

    

      

   

#3 “Girl Meets Upstate” S3E6 - Premiered July 8, 2016

 

This is another really great episode from Season 3 and from the whole show in general. In fact, this episode has always been one that has stood out to me among many of the other episodes from GMW. And that may or may not mostly be because of the paint fight scene between Riley and Maya in this episode.🖌🎨 However, don’t get me wrong, because I do love this episode for more reasons than just that. I had actually just rewatched this episode last year with my sister (celebrategoodtimesblog.blogspot.com), so it was still pretty fresh in my mind before going back to watch it again for this post. In other words, I was more excited than curious to rewatch this episode. 

In this episode, when Maya has lost her artistic voice and therefore herself, she and Riley travel upstate (where Shawn lives) to help her find it. And they don’t tell Cory and Topanga, where they’ve gone. In the end, (SPOILER ALERT) an angry paint fight between the girls is what unleashes Maya’s artistic talent and her true self. And someone gets proposed to, but I won’t say who, just yet. 👰 So, YES, we get ART and Shawn in this episode, which is a major PLUS. 

This episode starts out with Riley and Maya back at the subway station, which is a set from the show that wasn’t actually shown a lot after Season 1 and is one of my favorite settings from the show that I liked watching the characters in and wished they would have shown a little more of. So, that’s a pretty unique and fun thing about this episode. This episode is actually sort of a continuation from the episode that premiered before it, because it starts off where “Girl Meets Triangle” (which was the episode that came before this one) ended. As “Girl Meets Triangle” was the start of Maya spiraling into this identity crisis after their art teacher points out how much her (Maya’s) relationship with Riley has influenced her artwork. And in this episode Maya finds her real self again. Also, although the episode that came before this one teased at the end that Lucas was going to actually reveal who he picked to go out with, Riley or Maya, he actually doesn’t say his answer in this episode. But, it’s not that much of a bummer because I didn’t really care for that storyline anyway. Sorry, but not sorry, Lucas.😊If I haven’t already said before, I just don’t like the whole love triangle storyline with Riley, Maya, and Lucas. They could have done without that on the show.   

When they get upstate to Shawn’s cabin, Shawn talks to the girls and tells Maya how he relates to being “an incomplete” and because Cory was always a good influence in his life he wanted to be just like him and still does. That he’s always wanted what Cory had: a great family, parents who were always there for him, and a relationship like him (Cory) and Topanga’s. Shawn goes on to say that’s why he loved Angela, because he thought he was supposed to. ‘Cause Cory and Topanga had influenced him. But then when his relationship with Angela didn’t work out for him, he then questioned, “Why?”. And then he says when Cory and Topanga had Riley, he just couldn’t catch up and as he then says, “So, I don’t have any of that. I’ve got trees…and that squirrel I talk to. Cory Matthews messed up my life.” 🤣🌳🌲 And Shawn tells Maya that he’s not going to let that happen to her because of some second-generation Cory Matthews (referring to Riley). And that’s when Riley realizes that Shawn is not going to be able to help Maya because they are in the same boat. So, of course, she calls in her dad (Cory) for help with the situation. 

There’s a couple of really sweet moments in this episode. One being when Riley, Maya, and Shawn are at the cabin and Maya ask Shawn, “You’re going to protect me from her (Riley)?” and he (Shawn) says to Maya. “Didn’t I say I’d always be there for you?...I didn’t meet you ‘till I was 32, but…you’re the reason, Maya, that I believe I could be a father someday. And that’s not because of Cory Matthews…” Katy (Maya’s mom) also reveals to Topanga that she loves Shawn in this episode, and it’s obvious that they both feel the same way about each other as when Maya and Riley are at Shawn’s cabin Maya sees pictures of her and her mom hung up on the walls. And of course, the cutest and sweetest moment of all in this episode is the big proposal at the end. Yeah, that’s right. Shawn (and his reckless spontaneity) proposes to Katy at the end of this episode and she says “yes”, which I had totally forgotten that this was THE episode where this proposal goes down until I saw it again. And I thought that what Shawn says to Katy in his proposal is so real, cute, and sweet. Take a look:

There’s a great message/lesson in this episode about the importance of being yourself. Something that Maya learns by the end of the episode. As Riley tells her (in Topanganese as Shawn calls it in this episode) that there can’t be two Riley’s, just like there can’t be two Maya’s, that there can only be one Riley and one Maya for the world to work. And that goes for anyone in real life, too. There’s also a great message/lesson about finding your own voice, listening to that voice, and not letting someone else speak for you. Something that Maya tells Shawn after he tells her that she’s the reason that he believes that he can be a father someday, as Maya says to him after he tells her that, “That’s your own unique voice saying you care about me. You should listen to it more often.” Some other great messages/lessons that are prominent in this episode are that you can always depend on your best friend(s) (or family) to know who you are if you don’t; the importance of not changing who you are just to try and be like somebody else; don’t chase after what other people have, chase after your own life, dreams, and goals; and a very random one, but to remember that clothes and hair don’t make the man, the man makes the clothes and hair. Just so many great, positive, relatable messages in this episode. 

All is well in the end, as Maya turns back into her old self and admits to Riley that she only tried to be like her because she wanted the life that Riley has, just like Shawn did when it came to him and Cory. Maya becomes complete again, because after her and Riley’s big paint fight argument she creates a painting showing a unique voice of hope, and their art teacher tells her to appreciate the influence of hope and to not lose that hope. A great message/lesson in and of itself. Do not lose hope in anything. 

We also get some great BMW content in this episode. From not only Shawn being a prominent character in this episode, but at one point during this episode Cory and Shawn do their ICONIC handshake and it even shows a little compilation of some of the times that they did it on BMW. Definitely one of the funniest moments and one of my favorite parts from this whole episode. They even mention Mr. Feeny and Angela. Even Riley and Maya mention moments from past GMW episodes. And they also say another ICONIC line from BMW, as at the end after Riley wants Maya to know that she’s been a good influence on her, as well, she then asks Maya if she thinks of her as a geek to which Maya says sarcastically, “Of course not” and then Riley asks Maya if she thinks she’s cool, and Maya again says the same, “Of course not.” So, then when Riley says, “Then what am I?” to Maya, Maya says the line that Shawn says to Cory in BMW (But, of course, replacing Shawn and Cory’s name with her and Riley’s name), “You’re Riley. And I’m Maya, just like it’s always been.” 

Overall, this is just a really great episode because quite a lot happens in it and it has all the nostalgia. It’s relatable, it’s funny, it’s sweet, it’s emotional, it’s just all the things you would want from a great episode. And I love the overall message that this episode gives to viewers. This is an episode that I could watch at any time. In fact, I could watch this episode over and over and never get tired of it. Yes, it’s that great. The only reason why I ranked it lower than the next two I will be mentioning is because I think the next two episodes are much funnier and they also have great messages to go along with them. But, it certainly doesn’t take away from how great this episode is, as every time I watch this episode it just makes me smile and just so happy. It’s just one of those feel-good, comforting episodes to watch. 

   

   

   

    

 

#2 “Girl Meets Bear” S3E12 - Premiered August 26, 2016

 

This is another one of the most unforgettable and just great episodes from not only Season 3 of GMW but from the whole series in general. And it always has been to me ever since the first time I ever watched it. In fact, this is an episode of the show that I used to watch over and over again all the time. So, this is an episode that I couldn’t wait to watch again for this post. I was also a little curious to rewatch this episode just because it had been a long time since I had last seen it and I didn’t remember every little thing about it, but once I saw it again, it all came back to me. 

Basically, if you don’t already know, this episode is all about Riley and her teddy bear.🧸 As in the morning, when Riley and Maya are getting ready for Paco’s Tacos Tacopalooza, Riley realizes that her childhood teddy bear (Barry-the-Bear Bear) has gone missing (Oh, the horror. 😮Seriously.😊🤣). So, she enlists the help of her friends and family to find him. As the bear becomes a symbol of her fleeting childhood. 

This episode is really funny and random. I mean, the title of this episode alone, let’s you know that. And it’s really funny and random right from the very beginning. ‘Cause at the very beginning of this episode it shows Riley and Maya just talking about tacos, which YUM. I mean, who doesn’t LOVE tacos? 🌮😋

This is also one of the few episodes where it shows younger Riley and Maya, and younger Farkle. And even younger, younger Auggie, which fun fact, the kid who plays younger, younger Auggie is August Maturo’s (the kid who plays Auggie in every episode of the show) real life little brother Ocean Maturo. These characters show up when Riley is telling her family and friends the history of when and why she got Barry-the-Bear Bear. 🧸To which we learn that Cory and Topanga gave Riley Barry-the-Bear Bear when she was a little kid, to help her feel better and feel comfort whenever they would have to leave for work. 

There are also a couple of BMW references in this episode, as well. Such as when everyone is looking for Riley’s bear, Auggie comes across a necklace with a pair of silver boxing gloves attached to it. If you remember from BMW, that silver boxing glove necklace was the necklace that Cory’s dad (Alan) gave to him in a Season 1 episode. So, full circle moment there. When Auggie shows Cory what he found, at first Cory is all surprised to find out he didn’t lose them again, and then he tells Auggie the story of his dad giving him the necklace and the importance of it to him. He tells Auggie that his dad won them (the silver mittens) in the Navy and then wanted to pass it on to his son (him, Cory), something that was very important to him. And when Auggie tells Cory that it’s now time to pass it on to him, Cory says to Auggie, “Believe me, Auggie, you do not want this kind of responsibility”, which at first I felt a little sad for Auggie because I was like, “Why won’t Cory pass the necklace on to him, like his dad did for him?” but then Cory does end up giving the silver boxing gloves necklace to Auggie in the end. 

The whole message/lesson of this episode is just so great and relatable, as it’s about coming to terms with growing up and letting your childhood go. But also knowing the importance of keeping that little child in you, wherever you go. Something that not only Riley learns from losing her teddy bear in this episode but it is also some advice that Topanga tells Farkle in this episode. Yes, this episode features the first and only Topanga and Farkle deep conversation moment.👏Something we definitely should have seen more of throughout the series, because Farkle was like the BMW Season 1 Topanga (and like Minkus of course, too), and this scene in the episode was quite refreshing to see. In other words, it was just a nice moment between the two characters, Topanga and Farkle.

As when Topanga and Farkle are looking through the bookshelves for Riley’s teddy bear, Farkle finds a scrapbook with an old picture of Topanga in it. And when he shows her, they begin to talk about why she’s (Topanga’s) not like who she once was when she was a kid, a wacko (Farkle’s words, not mine), hippie-dippie, child of the universe. To which Topanga says, “Well, she’s definitely still a part of me but I just think that as we grow, whoever it is we used to be, just become a part of our…scrapbook.” Farkle then asks Topanga the question of, “How can you be sure you’re growing in the right way?” and she says she doesn’t know as she then goes on to list out names and characteristics of who Farkle used to be, “Mr. Turtleneck, Mop Top, Farkle Time, Donnie Barnes” and she throws it back at him and asks him the question, “Do you miss any of those people?” And Farkle says “no”, because those people got him to where he is now, that they’re all a part of his scrapbook. And then Topanga questions even why they are all looking so hard for the last ripped up, raggedy piece of Riley’s childhood, and she answers her own question by saying that she’s just not quite ready for it to be gone.  

I also like what Cory says to Auggie in this episode after he explains the history behind the silver boxing gloves necklace to Auggie and then Auggie asks Cory, “Shouldn’t they be important to you?” when Cory clearly keeps losing them, but Cory says, “They were. But you know what? Kids lose stuff. But he wanted me to have something that meant so much to him. That’s what was important. Not the thing itself, but that he gave them to me.” So, I love that message of basically knowing that the person or memories behind a thing you cherish are what’s really important, not the tangible, materialistic thing itself. Which is also why Riley was really sad and upset when her bear went missing in this episode, because it wasn’t necessarily the thing itself that was important to her, but the fact that it was given to her by her parents (Cory and Topanga) which was important. 

Another moment and message that stood out to me from this episode is when Riley and Lucas are in Riley’s bedroom searching for her bear and Riley asks Lucas if there is anything from when he was a kid that he still holds onto and Lucas goes into detail about what that one thing is for him, which is a sack (a canvas bag with drawstrings) of gold (bubblegum) that his Pappy Joe gave him when he was four years old. He goes on to explain how he’s kept that sack of “gold” for years because he believed, and still does, that it actually contains real gold. That even after he saw his best friend Zay pour out what was in his sack of “gold”, it being just bubblegum of course, he never wanted to open his sack of “gold” to find out that it was any different. Then when Riley says to Lucas, “It’s funny about these things we hold on to. And how life lets us know when it’s time to let it go”, and Lucas says, “Yeah. Sometimes it’s just a little bag of bubblegum. But if the right person gives it to you, then it’s gold.” So deep and so true. 

 

Him telling that story also reminded me of those sacks of black coal bubblegum my parents would put in me and my sisters stocking sometimes on Christmas as a joke. Does anyone remember these? 

Josh also appears in this episode and he gives some words of wisdom to Riley and her friends about the importance of not trying to grow up too fast. As when he comes to visit from college and finds out that Riley has lost her childhood bear,and Riley is ready to just call him officially lost and head out for tacos, Josh tells her that it’s too important and to never give up on finding that bear. As he also tells his story about his current college experience and tells Riley and her friends not to miss the here and now, to enjoy their time in high school, because it’s the last stop before they have to grow up. And that’s when Riley remembers what’s important and they all go back to finding her bear.🧸 I love what Josh said there, because it’s so important and so relatable and true. 

The message about the importance of not thinking so much ahead into the future or in the past that you miss what is happening in the here and now, which is basically what Josh says to Riley and her friends in this episode, but it’s also something that Zay says to Josh. And it’s something that Riley learns by the end of this episode as after it’s been a while of them searching and searching for her bear, Riley finally comes to terms with her bear being officially gone. She surprises Maya with the tacos she had been wanting that whole day and apologizes to Maya for not realizing what was important (hanging out with her best friend) and she gives Maya a bobblehead of Bobby from the taco place.🌮To which Maya gets all excited about and says to the bobblehead, “Oh! Bobby, I will hold you tight and never let you go” and Riley says, “Yes, you will, and that’ll be okay”, and then Maya thanks RIley, they hug, and Riley says, “This is what’s important.” 

 

I also love the message about the importance of choosing to grow up and get rid of childhood things at your own time, whenever you feel that you’re ready to, not when others think you are or should. Something that Riley and Maya basically tell Auggie in this episode. As well as the importance of knowing that what might not be valuable or important to you, may still be valuable and most important to someone else. So, respect that and don’t judge someone for that. As when Riley finds out her bear is missing Cory tells Riley that her bear will show back up and that it’s no big deal. To which Riley (offended by that statement) then says, “No big deal?... A teddy bear is a source of joy and comfort and security and love. Barry was my childhood. Everything I went through, he went through. My childhood is missing.” 

The moment at the very end when it shows young Riley holding her bear with no face (because Auggie chewed it off) at her family’s front door, and then her and young Maya walk out the door together, was a very cute and sweet way to end this episode. I just love the symbolism of that. If you’re confused of what I’m talking about, take a look:

    

We also get another short but sweet Maya and Josh moment in this episode. So, if you ship them, then you will love this episode for that, too. But also towards the end of this episode, Zay seems to ask Maya out, which was very interesting and a moment that I had actually forgotten about until I had watched this episode again for this post. I’ve always shipped Maya and Josh but then when Zay came into the picture I did think it would have been cool and interesting to see him and Maya as a couple. It could have been like Shawn and Angela, but without them breaking up. 

Overall, this episode was everything I remembered it to be and more. As some things I had completely forgotten about and some things I already knew about, but were even better this time around watching it back. I also understood some things from this episode way more now than I ever did before, just because I’m older now than I was before. In other words, I remember always liking this episode when and after it came out on Disney Channel, but I never really understood the message of it until now. This time around watching this episode again, I understood the message and it made way more sense to me. But anyways, I chose to rank this episode higher than the others because it’s much funnier and the message is great and very relatable. It’s also much more nostalgic to me and it’s actually very deep and thought-provoking, even when there is no class lesson in this episode, just a life lesson. This episode truly never gets old and is one I would most definitely watch again. Also, watching this episode just made me want tacos and now typing about it makes me want some tacos. So, if not anything else, this episode will do that for you. Make you want tacos, tacos, and MORE TACOS. 🌮🌮🌮(Which, the day that I did watch this episode I actually did have tacos that night. Ha ha. Pretty cool.)

Before we move on to the next episode, in regards to this episode, do you have a favorite thing(s) from your childhood that you still hold onto? Or is there something that you just can’t seem to let go of from your childhood? Maybe something that you did let go of, but that you miss? I’ll go first. Mine would be home videos that I have of my childhood or old pictures of my childhood.📹📼🖼 If that counts. If not, I would say my baby blanket that I still have in storage in my bedroom, because that’s one thing that I would be really sad if it ever went missing. But, to be honest, I’m a bit of a hoarder when it comes to things like that, that hold such special memories that you just can’t replace. So, there is more than one thing from my childhood that I would be sad to see gone. Anyone else? Let me know in the comments below.😊

   

   

   

#1 “Girl Meets Ski Lodge: Part One” S3E8 - Premiered July 22, 2016 

This is the BEST and my MOST FAVORITE episode from not only Season 3 but from the whole show. And that is just for the fact alone, that it is the most RANDOM and FUNNIEST episode EVER from GMW. This episode literally makes me smile and laugh out loud all the way throughout, and you just can’t beat an episode like this one. But, I have to be honest (not that I’m never honest), you should be very, VERY surprised that I even included this episode onto this ranking because I’m even VERY surprised at myself for not only including it on here, but including it as #1 on here. LIke, what?!😮 ‘Cause younger me used to not be the biggest fan of this episode at all. I mean I used to like a couple of things about it, but NOW I really LOVE everything about it. It’s TRULY a great episode, and it’s so UNIQUE and just very ENTERTAINING and FUN. I was actually anticipating watching this episode again, because I was very curious to see if my opinion of it had changed at all, which it clearly did. 

As in this episode, Cory becomes the head of the Nature Club (because he didn’t want to run the Ski Club🤣🎿) and he (and Topanga) takes the students on a trip to a familiar ski lodge that he and Topanga and their friends went to when they were younger, Mount Sun Lodge. While there, Cory teaches the kids an important lesson about nature and Riley sprains her foot, blaming the karma of the love triangle with Lucas and Maya. And then there’s lots of PURPLE…and CATS, which are both two things I LOVE. (Well, I’m more of a dog person, but I like cats, too. And purple is my favorite color.) 😊💜🐈

This is Part One of a two-part special episode, and younger me used to love Part Two way more than Part One, so for me to have included this episode and NOT Part Two anywhere on this ranking is pretty shocking to me.😮 And even though I never used to be the biggest fan of this episode, it has always been one of the more memorable episodes to me from the show, just because this episode and the episode that came after it (Part Two) were a package deal and a big moment for the show. Especially, for the whole love triangle storyline between Riley, Maya, and Lucas. In fact, I still remember the commercials leading up to the premiere of this episode and I remember when and where I was when I watched this episode for the first time when it premiered on Disney Channel in 2016. I remember being so excited to see this episode because of the fact that it was supposed to be very similar to the BMW episode when they went to the same ski lodge and big things happened that changed the course of the show (well, Cory and Topanga’s relationship that is), and that’s exactly what also happens in this episode. Not the cheating part, but long-awaited questions are finally answered and therefore major changes start to happen. 

This episode starts out with Cory talking to the class about nature, the outside kind and the human kind. All the bad things about it. He goes on to explain how the ski lodge was almost the end of Cory and Topanga and that he knows something like that could happen to them while they’re there, too, so that’s what he’s preparing them for. When it comes to human nature he tells the kids that whatever little plans they have for when they are at the ski lodge are gonna go out the window because he’s their chaperone (as well as Topanga). The only thing he’s concerned about is the “three-headed creeping triangle that won’t die”  (meaning, the still unresolved triangle between Riley, Maya, and Lucas). Maya’s confident that she’s got her human nature under control, that is until Josh walks into the classroom announcing that he’s going to be chaperoning the class trip, too. And Maya, of course, loses her cool. 

The gang barely arrives at Mount Sun Lodge when Riley sprains her foot falling off the bus. When at the ski lodge Riley, Lucas, and Maya are sitting at the lobby bay window and Lucas observes that Cory’s class lesson about nature was directed at them. Then a few minutes later when Riley is just sitting there alone at the bay window, Lucas and Maya (after getting back from the class trail hike) come to talk and sit with her, and she (Riley) starts to talk about this orange leaf that blew in from the open window.🍁To which she shows Lucas the leaf and asks him if he’s ever seen a color like the color that the leaf is. She says how the leaf knew that it had to leave the tree and become something else, and then that’s when she tells Lucas and Maya that their love triangle has to end now. Well, she actually says that it has to “die right now”, but same thing. Neither Maya nor Lucas see how it will happen, but Riley tells them that nature is stronger and knows that the time has come for their situation to be resolved one way or another due to the changing seasons. Riley reminds Lucas that he already has his choice between the two of them, but Lucas says it’s a decision they all must agree on.🙄

Then when it’s movie time and they can’t agree on what kind of movie to watch, Lucas says to Riley and Maya that they should imagine what their lives will be like going either way, if they’re going to end the triangle. So, Riley and Maya do exactly that. Maya goes first, visualizing her (aka “The Bomb”) and Lucas (aka “Huckleberry Bond”) starring in a movie about a super-spy couple, but they are constantly bickering at one another in the story. Riley goes next, visualizing her and Lucas starring in a cheesy “chick-flick”, where they have an on-again off-again relationship until “Gooey Sap Disease” kills Riley and all her friends, leaving Lucas, Maya, and Josh being the only three survivors. 

After all the daydreaming sequences are over, Riley, Lucas and Maya, are still afraid to end the triangle, because each one cares too much about the other two to be the one to make the first move. And Riley realizes that maybe her dad (Cory) was right, that maybe they aren’t the ones who can decide this, that maybe only nature can because nature is “stronger than us.” And Lucas just says that no matter what they end up deciding, it will only be the right decision if the three of them still remain friends after it.

This episode ends with a cliffhanger (Although, of course, if you’ve already seen this show many times before like I have, then you already know what happens next.) , as Topanga sends everyone off to bed, except for Riley who asks to stay up for a little while longer. Topanga says that she can, but Maya says to Riley, “Come on, Riles. You really think nature is just gonna have an answer blow in with the wind?”. To which Riley says she just wants to look at the sky for a while. Then, moments after Riley has just been sitting there at the lobby bay window, the night clerk (Evan) comes in through the windy door to begin his shift. A few minutes later, he goes over to Riley at the bay window and offers her a cup of hot chocolate, sits down next to her, and then they get to talking and the episode ends there. And honestly after seeing how Evan is with Riley in this episode (and the next), I kind of started to ship them. That would have been another very interesting couple to see going forward. But, sadly there was no Season 4. Because, SPOILER ALERT, Riley and Lucas do officially become a couple in Part Two of this episode, and I do not think Lucas deserved Riley or Maya. Sorry, but not sorry. I mean, forget Rucas. I’m TEAM REVAN. 

Like I said before, I mainly ranked this episode just because of it being VERY FUNNY. The dream sequences being the FUNNIEST of the whole episode. But, there’s a very funny moment at the beginning when Cory is talking to the class about nature (negatively) and Riley’s friends are asking what it is that her dad has against nature, and Riley tells them it’s because of when he and Topanga went to Mount Sun Lodge when they were their age and a girl kissed Cory (Well, that’s how Cory sees it, that it was the girl’s fault for kissing him. But hello, Cory… it takes two to tango.💃) and then Riley says, “Those were very bad times for Cory and Topanga, but everything’s fine now, except we can’t ski ever or say “ski” or walk downhill.” 🤣🎿Another funny thing about this episode is that, if you look closely near the entrance door of the ski lodge there’s a sign that reads, “1. Nature Sez: Tree’s A Crowd; 2. Moonlight Walk: Triangle Trail (and, in magic marker added by Farkle) RILEY, MAYA AND LUCAS ENOUGH ALREADY!” That’s something that I just thought was really funny and actually something that I had just noticed for the first time ever while watching this episode. There are just so many funny moments and things in this episode that you just have to watch in order to see and understand them all. 

Again, this is just an episode that you have to watch yourself to understand and see all the funny things. This episode will have you smiling and laughing out loud a lot, and I mean A LOT.😂At least, it did for me. I don’t really get the whole nature message/lesson of this episode, but I don’t even care. I just LOVE it for the comedy and all the NOSTALGIA. But this episode also has so many other great things about it, too. Such as dream sequences, singing, mystery, super-spy movie scenes, chick flick romance scenes, rainbows, unicorns, butterflies, purple hearts, purple cats, purple, purple, and MORE PURPLE, and even Auggie as Cupid because they had to get him in (LOL.🤣 iykyk).💜🐈💜🐈💜🐈 I also just LOVE a good mountain-themed vacation episode, as this episode just reminds me a little of when my family and I used to go to the mountains when I was younger for Spring Break. It definitely has those vibes. And it also gives off all the warm, cozy, comfortable fall vibes, as well, which I also just LOVE. 🍂🧡🍁🤎This episode truly never gets old and is one that I could watch literally again and again and again and never get tired of it. 

 

   

  

                      

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                      SEASON 3 HONORABLE MENTIONS (in no particular order):

                          - Girl Meets The Great Lady of New York 

                          - World Meets Girl 

                          - Girl Meets She Don't Like Me 

                          - Girl Meets the Real World

                          - Girl Meets Jexica

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Well, that concludes my ranking of the Top 12 Best Episodes from Girl Meets World! Sorry, if this post was really long. It’s just that this show has a lot of dialogue and therefore I have A LOT of thoughts and opinions about it, and sometimes it’s just hard for me to summarize them all. But, I really enjoyed getting to go back and rewatch this show from the very beginning to the very end and getting to share my thoughts and opinions about it here with you. ‘Cause for me, I remember loving this show when it was originally airing and premiering on Disney Channel, but I feel like I LOVE and APPRECIATE it even more now after rewatching it for this post. 

 

At first, though, I will admit that it was hard to transition from watching Lizzie McGuire (an ICONIC early 2000’s Disney Channel show) to watching Girl Meets World (a 2010s Disney Channel show). Just because they each give off a whole different vibe. Good vibes, but DIFFERENT vibes. And it was just quite a jump and change of pace to see. But, after watching the first couple of episodes of this show (GMW), I got right back into the whole vibe of the show, and now I’m kind of sad that my time of watching it is over and that this post is over. :( I mean, that doesn’t mean that I’m done watching it forever, just for now I am, because I have to continue with this fun, nostalgia-filled series of posts on the Top 10 greatest Disney Channel shows ever. But I have to say, once again, that once you watch one episode of this show it just sucks you in and you just can’t stop watching it. At least it does that for me everytime I watch this show, which could be a good thing and a bad thing, but it’s mostly a GOOD thing.😊👍Anyways, I’m out for now.✌ I hope you enjoyed reading this post as much as I enjoyed creating it. Is Girl Meets World one of your favorite Disney Channel shows? What’s your favorite episode or season of the show? Let me know in the comments below and come Back to Disney soon for more!

Oh, and speaking of episodes and seasons, I know I mentioned at the beginning of this post that I would let you know my favorite seasons of GMW from most favorite to least favorite, so I will do that now, before I sign off. The seasons of Girl Meets World go like this for me (again, from most to least favorite): Season 1, Season 2, then Season 3. Now, if you’ve never seen Girl Meets World before, I highly suggest that you go watch it right now. Run. Don’t walk.😂🏃 No, but seriously. I would suggest that you start with any of these 12 episodes I mentioned here, but it’s up to you. Now, for real this time, Girl (Back to Disney) Meets Goodbye! ✌💓