Cory Matthews Is Going To Be The Coolest Dad Ever?

Coolest dad ever RT @Britt_Law_: @BenSavage I'm so ready for Girl Meets World to be on tv. I wonder how Cory will be as a father haha
— Ben Savage (@BenSavage) November 25, 2013

According to Ben Savage, Cory is going to be the coolest dad ever. Obviously, you can see it right there in the tweet. But I don't know if I'm ready to accept that right now. I mean, I just rewatched the episode of Boy Meets World where Alan finished painting the fence for Cory and they started a water war in the kitchen. Cory's going to have stiff competition from his own dad, who I already know is coolest grandpa ever.

Either way, I'm super excited for Girl Meets World to come out in 2014.

Girl Meets World: I Will Love This Cast?

Episode #2 of GMW begins this week. First is in the can. U will love this cast.
— Mark Blutman (@BlutmanMark) November 14, 2013

Exciting! And I will love this cast? It's time for a breakdown of awesome.

Ben Savage as Cory Matthews

I do believe I was introduced to Cory when I was 9 years old. I'm 30 now. I wouldn't exactly be excited for Girl Meets World if I hated his cootie carrying behind. Love status: love

Danielle Fishel as Topanga Matthews

I wanted to be Topanga Lawrence as a kid. No, I don't mean 16 year old me wanted to be an overachiever and a lawyer.  I mean 10 year old me learned to love my fro-y hair and started meditating to see if I could achieve nirvana and float. I'm a much more vapid and shallow shadow of that pre-teen, but Topanga taught me to always follow the beat of my own drum. Love status: tried to be her

Rowan Blanchard as Riley Matthews

I have a sickness. That sickness is I will watch anything Joel McHale is in because he's wildly talented and what if he takes his shirt off? So I may have seen Spy Kids 4. It doesn't matter how many times. I came for the McHale and stayed because of how amazing Rowan and Mason Cook were. I was also very supportive of Mockingbird Lane and NBC are fools for letting that slip out of their grasp. Disney has some intelligence. Love status: how can anyone born while I was in college be so talented?

Sabrina Carpenter as Maya Hart

Sabrina impressed me greatly this past summer. Like everyone else who has Netflix, I super got into Orange Is The New Black. Amazing show, I saw it three times in two months. One episode features the background of a character named Alex, and she had a very prominent tormentor in her childhood - Sabrina Carpenter. She played a pint-sized rich witch (blogs based on family shows should have family friendly language) so well, I'm really excited to see her play the opposite. Love status: amazing

August Maturo as Louis Matthews

I know August from Weeds. I didn't know I did until it was mentioned he was on Weeds, but then I remembered the character instantly. He is super adorable, which is a selling point for me because I rarely like little brother characters (Cory was simultaneously a big brother). It could be because I have two real life ones and TV really downplays how awful they are, but I digress. August is so sweet on Twitter that  despite loving my jerk brothers more than anything, if there was a brothers draft, I would have delayed my picks about 21 years to recruit August. Sorry Rich and Rob - I just can't imagine August making up stories just to see how much trouble I'd get in for the giggles. Love status: want him to give my brothers good brother lessons

Corey Fogelmanis as Shamus Farkel and Peyton Meyer as Tristan Friar

I don't know these boys that well. That's okay. I know they already have amazing chemistry with everyone else, and that's good enough for me. Love status: free pass

So I'm not going to love this cast because I already do. Girl Meets World is going to be amazing.

Matthews Family Pictures!

Family Love ♡:-) @AugustMaturo @BenSavage @daniellefishel pic.twitter.com/KhlH2iKFTq
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) November 6, 2013

How are we supposed to stand this wait?  Cory, Topanga, Riley, and Louis Matthews just look like the awesomest family.  They had the table read today - production soon and then actual episodes on the air!  It's all so close and yet so far away.

Boy Meets World: The Bromance That Almost Wasn't

Rider Strong, in this CNN article (yeah, I know), discusses how Cory, Shawn, and Topanga clicked after many attempts to force Cory to have a gang.  It all started when a kid got fired, which is just an awkward sentence to start a story with a happy ending with, but it all worked out - especially since it was the first episode with Topanga.

Sometimes I wonder about alternate universe Boy Meets World - the one where Cory had a group of friends, Topanga was a background character, and also Minkus was there.  That would be one bizarre universe.  Even though I always liked Minkus and hippie Topanga, I'm happy with the Boy Meets World we got.  Plus, if we were in the alternate universe, there'd be no Girl Meets World, and that has the potential to be the darkest timeline.

Unless Cory hooked up with TK and they had a GMW of their own... but then I'm thinking, neurotic thugs with mob-like connections, and that show would never fly.

Ben Savage and Cory Matthews Are Pretty Much The Same

In this Buzzfeed article, Ben Savage talks about being Cory Matthews on Boy Meets World, returning to the role on Girl Meets World, how weird it is that Cory has kids, and where he thought Cory would be at this point in time.  There are some differences between Monsieur Savage and Señor Matthews, like their feelings on curly hair - spoiler alert, Ben Savage likes his.  I have a love hate relationship with my curls, so I'm somewhere in the middle of the Cory/Ben spectrum on that one.  I love them - until I remember maintaining them is work and out comes the straightening iron.

They even mention that Cory's kids are not named Chewbacca and Plankton.  You know, after the mention of Beverly Glen, I actually am kind of disappointed that the kids aren't named like, Beverly Glen and West Pasadena.  Fits so nicely with Topanga's own name (for you non-Californians, and people who never read interviews, she was named after Topanga Canyon).

I really like where Ben thinks Cory would have been at this point in his life.  Like, I can see it.  That's so Cory.  The whole article is a fun read, so you should check it out.

Cory and Topanga Forever, Y'all

While I still have time I'd like to wish my TV husband of 14 years, @BenSavage, a happy anniversary. Thanks for lunch today, handsome. :)
— Danielle Fishel (@daniellefishel) November 6, 2013

Yesterday, November 5 - yes, the same day the complete series came out on DVD - was the 14th anniversary of Cory and Topanga Matthews, who got married way back in 1999.  How super sweet is it that they spent it together?  I love how close these two are in real life, and how even if they marry other people, they'll always be husband and wife.  They'll always be Cory and Topanga.  Again, I think of the Boy Meets World characters as the kids I went to high school with because I was close in age to the characters and often going through the same stuff in real life - I even started sixth grade at a new middle school the year they started seventh grade at a new high school - so I'm really happy that Cory and Topanga made it.  They say high school romances never last, but, you know, I always had a feeling about those two crazy kids.

Here's to another fourteen years!  And then fourteen more.

Oh My Gosh, The Cute... It Kills

@bensavage & I at the Girl Meets World @Disney mixer! http://t.co/i8PIDi1wAI
— August Maturo (@AugustMaturo) November 6, 2013

Click that link in the tweet.  You do it.  You will not regret it.  It's like gelling that Cory Matthews, the Cory Matthews I grew up with, is a dad.  I am starting to accept it.  And how cute are Ben Savage and August Maturo?  August Maturo is going to steal the hearts of a generation, man.  He's so cute and sweet - you know who else was once super cute and sweet?  Matthew Lawrence.  And oh my gosh, you thought I loved Shawn Hunter...

I'm digressing.  This is so super exciting!  It's really, really happening you guys!

Are Boy Meets World's Cory and Shawn TVs Best Bromance?

They're definitely top five, but this behind-the-scenes video on people.com really explores the question.  I almost wrote a paper on Boy Meets World in college, and somehow that was not a question I had to even think about exploring.  Maybe that's the angle I needed to make that paper pop.  Oh, well.  You should still check out the video.