Boy Meets World actor Rider Robust recalled one explicit episode that made him “very uncomfortable” and “so depressing” to movie.
In a latest episode of Pod Meets World — the rewatch podcast devoted to the ’90s sitcom co-hosted by Robust, Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle — the trio mentioned an alcohol-themed episode that was ultimately banned from airing by Disney for its mature content material. Robust, specifically, discovered the episode to be a watered-down warning message about alcoholism that ended up being extra of a “disservice.”
“I’m simply half-assing it this complete episode,” he started. “I’m so depressing.”
Robust continued, “I used to be most likely 17 the primary time I attempted alcohol, so it was most likely proper earlier than this. However I keep in mind Ben [Savage] and I speaking about, like, ‘How do you play drunk?’ and having conversations about it. And he nails it. He’s so good at it.”
All through the podcast, Robust referred to as the fabric right here “not nice” or “well-written” given its unrealistic qualities, saying he didn’t wish to do the episode. In Season 5, Episode 18, titled “If You Can’t Be With the One You Love,” Cory (Savage) turns to alcohol to deal with his breakup from Topanga (Fishel), convincing Shawn (Robust) to drink with him. After a sequence of chaotic occasions makes the 2 friends vow to by no means drink once more, Shawn continues doing so, worrying his mates as a result of his father’s historical past of alcoholism. Within the episode, he additionally shoves his girlfriend Angela (Trina McGee), dealing with little penalties and making amends along with his family members by the tip.
Robust stated the episode itself appeared to be a tonal mish-mash, in that the primary half of the 22-minute installment reveals Shawn “having a superb time with Cory and doing handstands and peeing on cop automobiles and simply, like, ‘Woohoo, enjoyable loving,’ after which in that second half, it’s as if he’s a 45-year-old alcoholic who’s like, ‘I can’t cease, however I gotta hold doing this.’ I don’t assume that’s reasonable.”
He stated, “The true downside that I see is it’s truly a disservice to individuals. The true difficulty with ingesting is that usually it’s sneakier, it’s weirder, it’s slower. It slowly takes over individuals’s lives … to try to cram a complete alcoholic journey and sobriety journey into 22 minutes — that’s not ever what it truly is like. That’s by no means the way it occurs in actual life. So in a bizarre approach, it’s hurting the problem that it’s making an attempt to deal with.”
