Girl Meets Tweets: Super Successful First Live Taping Edition

@rowblanchard great job tonight, sweetheart. Can't wait to do it all over again next week!
— Danielle Fishel (@daniellefishel) November 20, 2013

@daniellefishel awhh..thanks mom..love u!
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) November 20, 2013

Our kids were amazing tonight! Congrats to @BenSavage, @rowblanchard, @SabrinaAnnLynn, @coreyfogelmanis, @peytonmeyer9, & @AugustMaturo
— Danielle Fishel (@daniellefishel) November 20, 2013

@daniellefishel Thank you Danielle!! You were so great!! See you tomorrow!!😃
— Corey Fogelmanis (@coreyfogelmanis) November 20, 2013

@daniellefishel @BenSavage @rowblanchard @SabrinaAnnLynn @coreyfogelmanis @peytonmeyer9 I love my GMW family
— August Maturo (@AugustMaturo) November 20, 2013

@daniellefishel @BenSavage @rowblanchard @coreyfogelmanis @peytonmeyer9 @AugustMaturo love us!!!
— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) November 20, 2013

"@SabrinaAnnLynn: @daniellefishel @BenSavage @rowblanchard @coreyfogelmanis @peytonmeyer9 @AugustMaturo love us!!!" Yes! Yes!
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) November 20, 2013

@daniellefishel Thank you ! Congrats to you too 👌😄 You did great 😜👌
— peyton meyer (@peytonmeyer9) November 20, 2013

After a successful first taping, Danielle Fishel took to Twitter to congratulate the kids, and the congratulations just could not be stopped. Hopefully with all of the positive feedback, they'll add more tapings sooner than later and your friendly neighborhood Amanda will get to go. It sounds like it was a total blast.

Congrats to everyone on the Girl Meets World cast and crew, and congrats to the audience, too, for making this taping a success.

5 Things You May Or May Not Know About Boy Meets World

You could know all of these things, or maybe just some of them. You might not know any of them. These are just five trivia facts about Boy Meets World that I thought was fun.

1. Willie Garson Had Three Different Roles On Boy Meets World

Actually, if you read this blog at all, you knew that because it is literally the first sentence I wrote in The Legend of Leonard Spinelli. Most people catch on that Alan's first season assistant manager was the minister that married Cory and Topanga in the final season, but many miss out on the fact that Willie Garson was also in season 4 episode "Janitor Dad." He played Mervyn, a customer and job applicant at Alan's new store.

2. Mena Suvari Had Two Different Roles.

Mena Suvari would become well-known by the end of the 90s for her roles in American Pie and American Beauty. Before that, however, she was a guest star on Boy Meets World. Twice. Ms. Suvari played Laura in the season 2 episode "Danger Boy" and Hilary in the season 3 episode "The Grass Is Always Greener." Funnily enough, in both episodes, her character had an unsuccessful attempt to be with Cory.

3. Cory and Topanga's First Kiss Was Also Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel's First Kiss

In the season 1 episode "Cory's Alternative Friends," Topanga decides to give Cory his first kiss while he thought he looked weird, then admitted it was her first kiss, too. In real life, it just happened to also be the first kiss of then 13-year-old Ben Savage and 11-year-old Danielle Fishel. For those of you who are somehow sad that Cory and Topanga aren't married in real life, you can still take some weird comfort in knowing they will always be each other's first.

4. Cory and Shawn's Relationship Wasn't Defined Until the Episode That Introduced Topanga

If I may, I'd like to quote a famous Disney song. "Like a bolt out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you through." Now, you Riley Meets World readers already know this, but originally, Cory was supposed to have a "gang" and in early episodes he and Shawn had a revolving door third friend. In "Cory's Alternative Friends," the third friend got fired, leading to two things: Shawn has a phantom sister named Stacey, and Shawn and Cory became Shawn and Cory. The episode was also Topanga's first. She wasn't supposed to be a regular character, but she proved so popular that they brought her back. Amazing how the planets all aligned in this episode.

5. Mr. Feeny's Geranium From the Final Episode Is the One Cory Gave Him In Season One

In the season 1 finale "I Dream Of Feeny," Cory gives Mr. Feeny a geranium that he plants in his garden and uses as a metaphor for Cory's growth. In the series finale, Feeny uses a geranium in his garden as a metaphor for Topanga's growth. It's the same geranium. I choose to see this as a metaphor for how Cory and Topanga's path was the same, which is why they were destined to be together, but that's just me.

Whether or not you know those five things before, you know them now. You're pretty prepared for battle if an impromptu Boy Meets World trivia war broke out.

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.

Girl Meets Tweets!

More Tweets, this time from the lovely ladies.

@daniellefishel lol ily x bily luv ya werk and twerk ttyl miss u dawg u r like perf ugh I die
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) November 14, 2013

This spawned from Rowan originally apologizing for the words of her generation, but that junior Betty totally spazzed and tried to make amends for a phrase tossed around years before she was born. "Ugh as if" was famously uttered by Cher Horowitz in the 1995 teen classic Clueless and taught my generation such words as Barney, Baldwin, Betty, and Mamie. Whatever.

@SabrinaAnnLynn ubiquitous. We're just saying big words, right? :)
— Danielle Fishel (@daniellefishel) November 14, 2013

And that's what they continued to do until Danielle defined what a gas chromotograph mass spectrometer was and Sabrina wondered why she wasn't their teacher. I wonder the same thing. Danielle is freakishly smart.

She also seems wonderfully fun. What better way to pass the time than Tweet with your TV daughter and her best friend. Why do people not understand how amazing Girl Meets World is going to be?

Aww! Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel, Together Again

Together again http://t.co/dNTYIuFeCr
— Ben Savage (@BenSavage) November 11, 2013

Aww!  Okay, yes, it's only their chairs, but they sit in them.  Plus, @AugustMaturo tweeted this earlier:

@BMWSequelDotCom sorry, no pics allowed, but I will tell you that seeing Cory & Topanga together is making us all emotional #GirlMeetsWorld
— August Maturo (@AugustMaturo) November 11, 2013

To be a fly on that wall!  I can't wait until they start filming in front of a live studio audience, and I definitely can't wait for Girl Meets World to premiere on Disney Channel!

What's More Real Than Cake, Cupcakes, and Script Covers?

On set with my favorites. Mommy and my lil' bro. @daniellefishel @AugustMaturo :) pic.twitter.com/E9uNxmDq6N
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) November 7, 2013

Topanga and Louis!  On the set!  They are actually on set, guys!  The only way it gets any more real than that is the episodes start airing on Disney Channel!  It's really really really happening!  I can't wait!  January or February 2014 can't come soon enough.

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.

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.

Danielle Fishel On Topanga, Linda Cardellini And Growing Up Onscreen

Rider Strong isn't the only one opening up about growing up on Boy Meets World.  In this Huffington Post interview, Danielle Fishel talks about growing up onscreen, working with Ben Savage again, Linda Cardellini, and more.  She also talks about what it is like for her to be Topanga.  You should go check it out.

Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel Open Up About Mr. Feeny

In an exclusive Zap2It video, Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel open up on what a great teacher Mr. Feeny was.  Savage talks about Feeny's lessons and how they impacted him, and Danielle Fishel praises William Daniels' portrayal of the beloved teacher.  The video can be found here.

As you know, William Daniels reprised his role of Mr. Feeny in the Girl Meets World pilot shot earlier this year, but with Teo Halm out as Riley's older brother, it's easy to wonder if Feeny will make an appearance in the series.  Hopefully they will only re-shoot the appropriate parts and we can get in at least one more lesson before Cory becomes the teacher a generation looks up to.

Does Anybody In the World Love More Than Danielle Fishel?

@rowblanchard girl, you are my daughter now. Even after I have a real daughter she might have to compete with my love for you. ;)
— Danielle Fishel (@daniellefishel) October 29, 2013

That is so epically sweet!  Is epically a word?  I don't even care!  As you may remember, Danielle's nickname for Ben Savage is her "first husband".  She genuinely cares for her cast members and I love it.  Of all the girls I could have looked up to as a teen, I picked well.

Rider and Danielle Are Back Home!

Honeymoon officially over and while I don't weigh 299, I did gain 7 pounds. Well worth it. Almost time to start work on GMW! Can't wait. xo
— Danielle Fishel (@daniellefishel) October 28, 2013

Married and back home now after a series of epic campsites from Oregon to LA. Thanks for all the well wishes everyone.
— Rider Strong (@RiderStrong) October 28, 2013

Welcome back, guys!  I like how different their entire wedding experience was.  Danielle had a big wedding and went to Hawaii for her honeymoon, and Rider had a small wedding and went camping from Oregon to LA.  Both sound epic.

And as Danielle points out, it's almost time to start production on GMW!  She can't wait - neither can we!

Rowan Blanchard Is the Sweetest Girl Ever

And Danielle Fishel is the sweetest woman.

@rowblanchard I love you.
— Danielle Fishel (@daniellefishel) October 23, 2013

If everyone in the world were as sweet as these two, the world would be a better place. Plus, this bodes well for Girl Meets World because this is their off-set chemistry. They're going to be an amazing mother/daughter on TV.

Danielle Fishel Sneak Got Married Today, Rider Strong Not Getting Married Until Tomorrow

One, I swear Boy Meets World stars are messing with me. Danielle Fishel got married today while it turns out Mr. Strong isn't getting married until tomorrow.

Two, do you think they're competing against each other? I would expect it from Shawn and Topanga, I really would.

Congrats, Danielle and Rider! May you have many years of happiness.

Production Definitely Starts in November

Danielle Fishel herself confirmed that Girl Meets World starts production in November in an Us Weekly article.  She also discusses her upcoming wedding - congratulations Danielle!  She also discusses how Ben Savage will always be her first husband and that is so super cute.  Cory and Topanga will always be that older couple in high school that had that relationship I wanted, Cory is that dumbass friend I grew up with that I can't believe is a parent now.  I mean, remember that he was babysitting his sister, abandoned her, and she broke a door and then ran away to the backyard and he thought she was kidnapped?  That kid is responsible for human life.

Oh, and because it's just as perfect, remember that time he led the seventh grade class on strike because he didn't want to take a test?  That kid is a teacher now.

I can't wait to be reunited with my old friends and even meet their kids.  I'm sure once I meet Riley and Louis, I'll be reassured.  Then again, in the back of my mind, I'll always know there was an Elliot and I'll wonder.  Oh, man, will I wonder.