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Will Friedle has a new interview out that he did while in Australia. In it he talks about his anxiety, getting married, Boy Meets World and my personal favorite an Eric Matthews spin off! I have posted the part where he talks about Boy Meets World and the spin off. If you would like to read the rest of the interview you can do so at this link:
Boy Meets World was such a ’90s cultural phenomenon. Was it as much fun for you to make as it was for us all to watch?
Probably more so. While it was a big part of people’s lives during the ’90s, it was still just a half hour a week for the fans. For us, it was 24/7 for seven years. This was a show that was at a certain port in our lives that was so important to all of us. I was 16 when it started. Ben [Savage, who played Cory] was 11 when I met him. Danielle [Fishel, who played Topanga] was 11 when I met her. We really were like a family. It was an absolutely formidable part of growing up, and we did it together and we did it in front of a camera.
Any on-set mischief?
The guys – Ben, Rider [Strong, who played Shawn], Matthew [Lawrence, who played Jack], and myself – put together this ridiculous dance to the Backstreet Boys that we’d do in front of the audience every week. They’d push the cameras back and we’d do this lip-sync dance. We had an absolute blast.
Please tell me you all have a Boy Meets World cast group text.
We have two group texts going! Rider, Ben, Danielle, and I text pretty regularly. And I see or speak to Rider and Ben all the time. It’s a ton of fun.
And I saw William Daniels [Mr. Feeny] about a month or two ago. When he was working on his book, we went out to lunch, and he was asking me all kinds of Boy Meets World questions. And, of course, we were all in the final episode of [Disney Channel’s reboot series] Girl Meets World.
Do strangers ever do the Feeny call – FE-E-E-ENY! – when they see you in public?
I hear it all the time. It happens at least once a week where I’ll be somewhere, and I’ll hear the Feeny call. I’m not sick of it. It’s how they get my attention, and it’s usually from behind me and far away. I just hear it over my shoulder. Rarely does it ever come from someone standing in front of me in close range.
Did you keep any mementos from set?
I have a John Adams High Athletic Dept. sweatshirt! Also, you weren’t allowed to have brand names on TV back in the day, so our prop guy, whose name was Mark Papson, would put his name on things. So, I have a can of Dr. Papson because we couldn’t have Dr. Pepper. It was little things like that that I saved. I didn’t take anything big, though I wanted to take the red couch.
Girl Meets World was so well-received. Any chance of an Eric Matthews spin-off next?
There’s been talks for a while of doing something with Eric. Whether it’s an Eric Meets World kind of show, who knows. But I can almost guarantee you that you haven’t seen the last of Eric Matthews. You’ll be able to see him again… sometime soon.
Rider and Will attended Comic Con Philly this past weekend and were asked about why Girl Meets World was cancelled. I have transcribed the part where they were asked about Girl Meets World. It’s very interesting what they have to say! They both gave some new info and spilled the beans a little bit. If you would like to watch the panel in full I have embedded the video at the bottom of the post. Also the Girl Meets World question starts at 26:24.
Fan: I’m just wondering was there a reason why Girl Meets World was cancelled?
Rider: That’s a really good question. Um no I mean I think. So the company line is that Disney it had sort of flat lined as far as the ratings are concerned. That being said we were still the highest rated show on Disney. I’m not sure. We don’t know exactly.
Will: Disney is famous for having something called the 65 and out rule. Which is no matter where your show is no matter what happens you have 65 episodes and you’re done.
Fan: *hollers in background* stupid rule.
Will: Very. Um the first show a little trivia. The first show that ever went passed the 65 rule was Kim Possible and it did that because of the fans. It was completely and totally brought back because of the fans. But before that it did not matter what your show was, what your ratings were, that was it 65 and you’re done. Then they started to do things like the show with Miley Cyrus which was making them a tragillion dollars a day and they go “Oh why would we cancel this?” but still for the most part they are kind of hard fast. There’s been different shows that have kind of gone four.
Rider: Four seasons is definitely their max and part of that has to do with union. Its really boring but labor union issues with crew. Disney is notorious they keep their Disney Channel shows very cheap and they make them very cheaply and so they have agreements with different contracts so they never want to go over 100 episodes. Um but also I think Girl Meets World started to get older for them. Their goal is to really keep an audience until they want 6 year olds to be able to watch their stuff and stay with them until their 12 when they get over 12 they start phasing out you know the audience so I think they were worried Girl Meets World would get into High School years, and dating, and things that Boy Meets World was able to do because we were on a network. We were on ABC and Disney was worried about the letters they would get and another thing to consider is a lot of the Disney Channel shows could sell ancillary products you know toys, if its a magic based show or someone on the show is a singer they can make concerts. Girl Meets World didn’t have any of those components so I think Disney was kind of like eh it did its thing.
Great news for those of you are a fan of Will! He is going to be at the Dallas Comic Con for both days, February 13 and February 14th. We quoted the fees and disclaimer from their website:
FEES:
AUTOGRAPH PRICE: $40
PHOTO OP PRICE: $40
PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
DISCLAIMER:
Guests subject to cancellation or schedule change, due to professional commitments.
Although most guests are available for the duration of the event, due to limited availability some guests are only available for a portion of the event, i.e. a single day.
Appearance day(s) will be posted on the website as soon as we know.
All events have limited seating capacities and are offered on a first come, first served basis.
A fan on Twitter posted a video of Will at Wizard World Comic Con’s panel. He talked about how the Thundercats Ho! was handed down to him by Larry Kenney and then went onto say that he did the same thing with the Feeny Call by passing the torch to Rowan and Sabrina. We quoted what he said below:
[To Rowan and Sabrina] The Feeny Call is yours now. Treat it well because it was important to me but it’s yours now so now you’re the only ones that can do it, so out of respect for them, they’ll be handling the Feeny Call.
Will Friedle will be signing autographs at the Edmonton Expo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in Hall C on Friday, Saturday and Sunday September 25th-27th at the following times:
Friday, September 25th:
5PM (autographs – Hall C)
8PM (autographs – Hall C )
9 PM (Solo Photo OP – Booth 1)
9:30PM (autographs – Hall C)
Saturday, September 26th:
12PM (autographs – Hall C)
2:45PM (Solo Photo OP – Booth 1)
4:30PM (autographs – Hall C)
6:15PM – (Panel with Will Friedle and Mark Meer in room 105-106)
Lucky fan and friend of ours Jona got to visit the set of Girl Meets World today Sept 9. We thought we would the pictures she posted on Twitter of today’s visit.
Will tweeted Cree Summer on Twitter today thanking them for the congratulations on his engagement. Congratulations Will Friedle on being engaged! We don’t know her name, but she’s certainly a very lucky lady.
TVInsider.com shared an exclusive clip of Jack’s return. There’s quite a bit of Boy Meets World references here. One hilarious one as well. Check out the clip below.
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