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* Shawn's speech to the sickly baby Joshua in "Resurrection" doubles as this and a TearJerker.

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* Shawn's speech to the sickly baby Joshua in "Resurrection" doubles as this and a TearJerker. Even more so in hindsight after the events of ''Girl Meets World''' involving Shawn and Josh [[spoiler: Shawn ends up marrying Katy Hart, mother of Maya Hart, and adopting Maya as his own daughter. Maya, in turn, has feelings for Josh, and although she's younger, Josh has feelings for her as well, resulting in them playing the long game together, which thus would make Josh, Shawn's son-in-law. Care to re-watch that speech again?]]
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*** In the following episode, "You Can Go Home Again", Cory is complaining about how Eric it putting off going home, stating how he has a life waiting for him, which he then goes on to clarify that he didn't mean that as an insult to Eric, who assures Cory that he knows.

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*** In the following episode, "You Can Go Home Again", Cory is complaining about how Eric it is putting off going home, stating how he has a "a life waiting for him, [him]", which he then goes on to clarify that he didn't mean that as an insult to Eric, who assures Cory that he knows.
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* While doubling as a TearJerker (as it comes off the end of a rant about how he never got to really know him in 15 years of living together), in "Brother, Brother", Cory makes a point of sincerely wishing Eric good luck with his life.
** Similarly, after Eric learns that he didn't get into college, Cory tries cheering him up and saying he can try again if he takes summer classes. Instead, Eric decides to go on that two month long road trip he was talking about all episode... first thing tomorrow.
--->'''Cory''': Why wait?
--->'''Eric''': I gotta wait for you to go home and pack.
*** In the following episode, "You Can Go Home Again", Cory is complaining about how Eric it putting off going home, stating how he has a life waiting for him, which he then goes on to clarify that he didn't mean that as an insult to Eric, who assures Cory that he knows.
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* In ''Cult Fiction'', Mr Mack calls Alan judgemental. During his NoHoldsBarred verbal beatdown of Mr Mack, Alan declares "a judgement I made a long time ago, is that Shawn Hunter is the best friend that my kid ever had. And I will kill to protect Shawn Hunter from people like you." Other than telling Mr Mack to stick it where the sun doesn't shine, Alan is saying that, yes, he ''is'' judgemental - from a father's point of view. He judged that Shawn was a good person, someone to be protected and not taken advantage of, and he's ''damn well going to protect him.''
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** The fact that, as soon as Alan says it, Amy corrects him - not because he's ''wrong'', but because he hasn't included ''her'' in his words, so he changes "I" to "we" in the adoption request, something Amy ''wholeheartedly agrees with.''
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* In "Killer Bees", Cory enters a district-wide geography bee purely to win the prize at the end. Though he puts his all into preparing for it, he is soundly thrashed by the other competitors. When Cory apologizes to Mr. Feeny for losing the contest, Mr. Feeny assures Cory that watching him live up to his potential for once, and seeing him gain a genuine appreciation for a subject that he took no interest in before, was worth far more to him than another tournament win. To drive his point home, he tacks Cory's latest geography test (which earned an "A") on the board next to all the tournament certificates, proudly proclaiming "We won."

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* In "Killer Bees", Cory enters a district-wide geography bee purely to win the prize at the end. Though he puts his all into preparing for it, he is soundly thrashed by the other competitors. When Cory apologizes to Mr. Feeny for losing the contest, Mr. Feeny assures Cory that watching him live up to his potential for once, and seeing him gain a genuine appreciation for a subject that he took no interest in before, was worth far more to him than winning another tournament win.tournament. To drive his point home, he tacks Cory's latest geography test (which earned an "A") on the board next to all the tournament certificates, proudly proclaiming "We won."
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* In "Killer Bees", Cory enters a district-wide geography bee purely to win the prize at the end. Though he puts his all into preparing for it, he is soundly thrashed by the other competitors. When Cory apologizes to Mr. Feeny for losing the contest, Mr. Feeny assures Cory that watching him live up to his potential for once, and seeing him gain a love for a subject that he took no interest in before, was worth far more to him than another tournament win. To drive his point home, he tacks Cory's latest geography test (which earned an "A") on the board next to all the tournament certificates, proudly proclaiming "We won."

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* In "Killer Bees", Cory enters a district-wide geography bee purely to win the prize at the end. Though he puts his all into preparing for it, he is soundly thrashed by the other competitors. When Cory apologizes to Mr. Feeny for losing the contest, Mr. Feeny assures Cory that watching him live up to his potential for once, and seeing him gain a love genuine appreciation for a subject that he took no interest in before, was worth far more to him than another tournament win. To drive his point home, he tacks Cory's latest geography test (which earned an "A") on the board next to all the tournament certificates, proudly proclaiming "We won."
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* In "Killer Bees", Cory enters a district-wide geography bee purely to win the prize at the end. Though he puts his all into preparing for it, he is soundly thrashed by the other competitors. When Cory apologizes to Mr. Feeny for losing the contest, Mr. Feeny assures Cory that watching him live up to his potential for once, and seeing him gain a love for a subject that he took no interest in before, was worth far more to him than another tournament win. To drive his point home, he tacks Cory's latest geography test (which earned an "A") on the board next to all the tournament certificates, proudly proclaiming "We won."
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* Despite being a thorn in his side for the whole series, whenever Feeny is talking about Eric, when he's not in earshot, he's always had nothing but nice things to say about him like being one of the smartest people he's met or that while he's eccentric, most creative people are.
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-->'''Eric''': "Mr. Feeny? If I'm really quiet... will you stay?"

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-->'''Eric''': "Mr. Feeny? If I'm really really quiet... will you stay?"
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* Eric and Mr. Feeny talking about his retiring.

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* Eric and When Mr. Feeny talking about decides to retire and move to Wyoming, Eric assumes he's going to Hawaii and shows up with a surfboard to tag along. After a moment's annoyance, Feeny gently explains to Eric where Wyoming is and how he is looking forward to retiring to life in a peaceful, quiet place. Eric nods appreciatively, then clears his retiring.throat nervously and asks with heartbreaking candor:
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** From the same episode, when Cory gets attacked by a guy whose wife he insult, Eric immediately jumps to his defense and attacks the guy. Even the guy being completely unaffected and sending Eric to the hospital doesn't ruin it.
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--> In the season 7 episode ''Family Trees'', after Shawn finds out the women he grew up with isn't his real mother, Alan without even thinking about it, offers to adopt him right out. He ends up not taking the offer, but the fact that Alan would make this offer in a flash is heartwarming.

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--> * In the season 7 episode ''Family Trees'', after Shawn finds out the women he grew up with isn't his real mother, Alan without even thinking about it, offers to adopt him right out. He ends up not taking the offer, but the fact that Alan would make this offer in a flash is heartwarming.
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---> In the season 7 episode ''Family Trees'', after Shawn finds out the women he grew up with isn't his real mother, Alan without even thinking about it, offers to adopt him right out. He ends up not taking the offer, but the fact that Alan would make this offer in a flash is heartwarming.

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--> In the season 7 episode ''Family Trees'', after Shawn finds out the women he grew up with isn't his real mother, Alan without even thinking about it, offers to adopt him right out. He ends up not taking the offer, but the fact that Alan would make this offer in a flash is heartwarming.heartwarming.
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---> In the season 7 episode ''Family Trees'', after Shawn finds out the women he grew up with isn't his real mother, Alan without even thinking about it, offers to adopt him right out. He ends up not taking the offer, but the fact that Alan would make this offer in a flash is heartwarming.

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* In "Teacher's Bet", Cory is trying to teach the class and failing. He then shocks Shawn with the idea that in another time and place, he might be killed just for being part Italian. Shawn subsequently gets a B instead of his usual C on the test on ''Literature/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''.



-->'''Feeny''': Madam, if you choose to question my opinions, then you disregard 38 years in the public school system, where I have born the responsibility of those opinions for 30,000 students. None held in higher regard than Mr. Matthews and Ms. Lawrence.

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-->'''Feeny''': Madam, if you choose to question my opinions, then you disregard 38 years in the public school system, where I have born borne the responsibility of those opinions for 30,000 students. None held in higher regard than Mr. Matthews and Ms. Lawrence.



--> '''Nurse:''' ''[Stopping Shawn as he, Cory & Topanga head into the ICU to see Joshua]'' Oh I'm sorry, it's family only.

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--> '''Nurse:''' ''[Stopping Shawn as he, Cory & Topanga head into the ICU to see Joshua]'' Oh Oh, I'm sorry, it's family only.



* Eric and Mr. Feeny talking about his retiring

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* Eric and Mr. Feeny talking about his retiringretiring.



* Cory and Morgan rarely interacted, but there is the first season episode "Risky Business" where Cory leaves Morgan alone and panics when he comes home to find the window broken and Morgan gone, thinking she's been kidnapped. Then he and Morgan have a nice little talk in the tree house.

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* Cory and Morgan rarely interacted, but there is the first season episode "Risky Business" where Cory leaves Morgan alone and panics when he comes home to find the window broken and Morgan gone, thinking she's been kidnapped. Then he and Morgan have a nice little talk in the tree house.treehouse.



* The finale has Jack & Shawn sharing a moment, after Jack remarks that he doesn't care that his step-father's cutting him off ([[spoiler:Jack decided to go into the Peace Corp rather work for his step-father]]) because "Money doesn't make you rich, life does. Our father taught us that."

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* The finale has Jack & Shawn sharing a moment, after Jack remarks that he doesn't care that his step-father's cutting him off ([[spoiler:Jack decided to go into the Peace Corp Corps rather than work for his step-father]]) because "Money doesn't make you rich, life does. Our father taught us that."



* The romance between Mr. Feeney and Dean Bolander. Watching William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett (one of Hollywood's most successful marriages in RealLife) blush and fumble around each other like high schoolers is unbelievably sweet.
** And [[ShipperOnDeck the very apparant shipping of the couple by Cory & the rest of the group]].

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* The romance between Mr. Feeney Feeny and Dean Bolander. Watching William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett (one of Hollywood's most successful marriages in RealLife) blush and fumble around each other like high schoolers is unbelievably sweet.
** And [[ShipperOnDeck the very apparant apparent shipping of the couple by Cory & the rest of the group]].



* The finale, when the class sits in Mr. Feeney's room and asks him to teach them one more time
-->'''Mr. Feeney''': Do good.\\

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* The finale, when the class sits in Mr. Feeney's Feeny's room and asks him to teach them one more time
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-->'''Mr. Feeney''': Feeny''': Do good.\\



'''Mr. Feeney''': No.
* The very last line of the series. [[spoiler: "I love you all. Class dismissed."]]

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'''Mr. Feeney''': Feeny''': No.
* The very last line of the series. [[spoiler: "I [[spoiler:"I love you all. Class dismissed."]]



* Cory telling Topanga "I remember everything you say. It's important to me." after he mentions something she said years ago.

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* Cory telling Topanga "I remember everything you say. It's important to me." me," after he mentions something she said years ago.
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* In "The Fugitive," Corey finds a soaking wet and scared Shawn in his room.

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* In "The Fugitive," Corey Cory finds a soaking wet and scared Shawn in his room.



-->'''Corey''': ''[{{beat}}]'' [[TrueCompanions I'm in!]]

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-->'''Corey''': -->'''Cory''': ''[{{beat}}]'' [[TrueCompanions I'm in!]]



* Eric hijacking a wedding described as the social event of the year to give Corey and Topanga an amazing wedding.

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* Eric hijacking a wedding described as the social event of the year to give Corey Cory and Topanga an amazing wedding.
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* In "The Fugitive," Corey finds a soaking wet and scared Shawn in his room.
-->'''Shawn''': The cops are after me. Maybe even the FBI. You're not involved...unless you want to be.
-->'''Corey''': ''[{{beat}}]'' [[TrueCompanions I'm in!]]

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-->'''George Feeny''': "I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer, and it may never come again."
-->'''Prudence Curtis''': [steps forward] "Prudence Curtis, I'm Topanga's aunt."
-->'''Feeny''': [steps forward as well] "George Feeny, I'm Topanga's teacher."
-->'''Curtis''': "Well, I don't know that I appreciate what you are teaching these children, sir. To plant wild ideas about true love in young undeveloped minds is as irresponsible as my sister and brother-in-law ripping her from the only environment she's ever known. At this... delicate time."
-->'''Feeny''': "Madam, if you choose to question my opinions, then you disregard 38 years in the public school system, where I have born the responsibility of those opinions for 30,000 students. None held in higher regard than Mr. Matthews and Ms. Lawrence."
-->'''Cory Matthews''': [sits up excitedly] "You like me?"
-->'''Feeny''': "Stay out of this."

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-->'''George Feeny''': "I I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer, and it may never come again."
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-->'''Prudence Curtis''': [steps forward] "Prudence ''[steps forward]'' Prudence Curtis, I'm Topanga's aunt."
aunt.
-->'''Feeny''': [steps ''[steps forward as well] "George well]'' George Feeny, I'm Topanga's teacher."
teacher.
-->'''Curtis''': "Well, Well, I don't know that I appreciate what you are teaching these children, sir. To plant wild ideas about true love in young undeveloped minds is as irresponsible as my sister and brother-in-law ripping her from the only environment she's ever known. At this... delicate time."
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-->'''Feeny''': "Madam, Madam, if you choose to question my opinions, then you disregard 38 years in the public school system, where I have born the responsibility of those opinions for 30,000 students. None held in higher regard than Mr. Matthews and Ms. Lawrence."
Lawrence.
-->'''Cory Matthews''': [sits ''[sits up excitedly] "You excitedly]'' You like me?"
me?
-->'''Feeny''': "Stay Stay out of this."



--> '''Nurse:''' * Stopping Shawn as he, Cory & Topanga head into the ICU to see Joshua* Oh I'm sorry, it's family only.

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--> '''Nurse:''' * Stopping ''[Stopping Shawn as he, Cory & Topanga head into the ICU to see Joshua* Joshua]'' Oh I'm sorry, it's family only.



** "Pickett Fences" follows up the downer "The Honeymoon is Over" with Cory and Topanga still living in the nightmarish married couples dorm. When Cory and Topanga finally get smart and decide to fix the place up, Alan and Amy are of course very proud of them for realizing that the point of marriage is to make their own life instead of relying on others, Alan even saying he would never take that away from them by letting them take an easy way out.

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** * "Pickett Fences" follows up the downer "The Honeymoon is Over" with Cory and Topanga still living in the nightmarish married couples dorm. When Cory and Topanga finally get smart and decide to fix the place up, Alan and Amy are of course very proud of them for realizing that the point of marriage is to make their own life instead of relying on others, Alan even saying he would never take that away from them by letting them take an easy way out.



* Eric throughout "Seven the Hard Way." The rest of the group is letting current, very bitter disagreements drive them apart, but Eric remains resolute in forcing everyone to work things out and stay together. This is brought to the fore by him imagining what things would be like if he fails, where his future-self has one philosophy: "Lose one friend. Lose all friends. Lose yourself." When asked why he didn't write any more than that, Eric replies, "Nothing else seemed important.

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* Eric throughout "Seven the Hard Way." The rest of the group is letting current, very bitter disagreements drive them apart, but Eric remains resolute in forcing everyone to work things out and stay together. This is brought to the fore by him imagining what things would be like if he fails, where his future-self has one philosophy: "Lose one friend. Lose all friends. Lose yourself." When asked why he didn't write any more than that, Eric replies, "Nothing else seemed important."


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** And after his flash-forward ImagineSpot, he manages to help settle everyone's issues when [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Rachel tries to leave]] by running after her, throwing her over his shoulder and carrying her back, and then ''sitting on her'' until everyone makes up.

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-->George Feeny: "I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer, and it may never come again."
-->Prudence Curtis: [steps forward] "Prudence Curtis, I'm Topanga's aunt."
-->Feeny: [steps forward as well] "George Feeny, I'm Topanga's teacher."
-->Curtis: "Well, I don't know that I appreciate what you are teaching these children, sir. To plant wild ideas about true love in young undeveloped minds is as irresponsible as my sister and brother-in-law ripping her from the only environment she's ever known. At this... delicate time."
-->Feeny: "Madam, if you choose to question my opinions, then you disregard 38 years in the public school system, where I have born the responsibility of those opinions for 30,000 students. None held in higher regard than Mr. Matthews and Ms. Lawrence."
-->Cory Matthews: [sits up excitedly] "You like me?"
-->Feeny: "Stay out of this."

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-->George Feeny: -->'''George Feeny''': "I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer, and it may never come again."
-->Prudence Curtis: -->'''Prudence Curtis''': [steps forward] "Prudence Curtis, I'm Topanga's aunt."
-->Feeny: -->'''Feeny''': [steps forward as well] "George Feeny, I'm Topanga's teacher."
-->Curtis: -->'''Curtis''': "Well, I don't know that I appreciate what you are teaching these children, sir. To plant wild ideas about true love in young undeveloped minds is as irresponsible as my sister and brother-in-law ripping her from the only environment she's ever known. At this... delicate time."
-->Feeny: -->'''Feeny''': "Madam, if you choose to question my opinions, then you disregard 38 years in the public school system, where I have born the responsibility of those opinions for 30,000 students. None held in higher regard than Mr. Matthews and Ms. Lawrence."
-->Cory Matthews: -->'''Cory Matthews''': [sits up excitedly] "You like me?"
-->Feeny: -->'''Feeny''': "Stay out of this."


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* Eric hijacking a wedding described as the social event of the year to give Corey and Topanga an amazing wedding.
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* In "Brotherly Shove", which is about Cory and Eric's destroyed relationship, Cory brings up how Eric got him and Topanga arrested on their wedding night. Topanga on the other hand tells Cory all she remembers is Eric giving them the best wedding ever. It's really sweet to see that rather than the royal screw-up Cory sees him as, Topanga sees Eric as someone who will always come through for people he cares about, even if he and his methods are crazy.
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** And the very apparant shipping of the couple by Cory & the rest of the group.

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** And [[ShipperOnDeck the very apparant shipping of the couple by Cory & the rest of the group.group]].
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* Eric again in "Can I Help to Cheer You?" Eric's young orphan friend Tommy has been adopted, but will have to move to California. Tommy would rather stay with Eric and vice-versa. However, Eric realizes Tommy would be better off in California. When Tommy begs to stay with him, Eric lies about not wanting Tommy. It's a TearJerker for Eric, but also a CMOH, as it shows how much he has grown up and how willing he is to put his own happiness aside for someone else.

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* Eric again in "Can I Help to Cheer You?" Eric's young orphan friend Tommy has been adopted, but will have to move to California. Tommy would rather stay with Eric and vice-versa. However, Eric realizes Tommy would be better off in California. When Tommy begs to stay with him, [[CruelToBeKind Eric lies about not wanting Tommy.Tommy]]. It's a TearJerker for Eric, but also a CMOH, as it shows how much he has grown up and how willing he is to put his own happiness aside for someone else.
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** "Pickett Fences" follows up the downer "The Honeymoon is Over" with Cory and Topanga still living in the nightmarish married couples dorm. When Cory and Topanga finally get smart and decide to fix the place up, Alan and Amy are of course very proud of them for realizing that the point of marriage is to make their own life instead of relying on others, Alan even saying he would never take that away from them by letting them take an easy way out.
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-->"A judgment I made a long time ago is that Shawn Hunter is the best friend that my kid ever had, and I will kill to protect Shawn Hunter from people like you."

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-->"A judgment I made a long time ago is that Shawn Hunter is the best friend that my kid ever had, and I will kill ''kill'' to protect Shawn Hunter from people like you.''you''."
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** That episode also has multiple instances of people rallying to protect Shawn and convince him to leave the cult. Amy tells Shawn they love him, Feeny tells the cult leader he can't have Shawn, and Alan has this heartwarmingly badass line:

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** That episode also has multiple instances of people rallying to protect Shawn and convince him to leave the cult. Amy tells Shawn they love him, Feeny tells the cult leader he can't have Shawn, and Alan [[PapaWolf Alan]] has this heartwarmingly badass line:
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* The very last line of the series. [[spoiler: I love you all. Class dismissed.]]

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* The very last line of the series. [[spoiler: I "I love you all. Class dismissed.]]"]]

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-->'''Feeny:''' Oh, well, now For as long as I've known you, whenever you've been faced with adversity, you have always risen to the occasion.
Now, I have no reason to believe that you won't again.

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-->'''Feeny:''' Oh, well, now For as long as I've known you, whenever you've been faced with adversity, you have always risen to the occasion.
occasion. Now, I have no reason to believe that you won't again.


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* When Cory and Topanga get back together at Epcot in the end of "Happiest Show on Earth":
--> '''Topanga:''' It was like you were not gonna give up no matter what.
--> '''Cory:''' Look, how many times do I have to tell you I'm sorry?
--> '''Topanga:''' No. No. Now it's my turn to tell you I'm sorry. I mean, I never realized these things came from your heart. Until now.
--> (she kisses him)
--> '''Cory:''' Wait, wait. I'm really confused.
--> '''Topanga:''' So am I.
--> '''Cory:''' So what's going on? I mean, are we friends or what?
--> '''Topanga:''' Or what.
--> (They kiss then, Cory stops)
--> '''Cory:''' What are we doing?
--> '''Topanga:''' I don't know. I mean, we did break up for a reason, right?
--> '''Cory:''' Yeah, we did.
--> '''Topanga:''' And that reason was?
--> '''Cory:''' So we could get back together.
--> (They kiss again as the Fountain of Nations goes up)
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* After Cory & Topanga run away to elope, Shawn is the only one to support the idea whilst Cory's parents & Angela expresses their displeasure at the idea, until Eric outright states that he thinks they should get married because Cory's never going to find another woman like Topanga. Later, after everyone has calmed down, Eric says that they need to support Cory & Topanga & accept their marriage, otherwise they'll just wind up pushing them out of their lives in the same way they've just pushed them to elope. Whilst both moments are tinged with the goofiness that had become Eric's trademark by that point in the show, it's effective display of how much he loves his brother.
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** From the first part of the episode:
-->'''Cory:''' (regarding he and Topanga having a long distance relationship) Maybe I'm just kidding myself.
-->'''Feeny:''' Oh, well, now For as long as I've known you, whenever you've been faced with adversity, you have always risen to the occasion.
Now, I have no reason to believe that you won't again.

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