Line #2 Awesome/BoyMeetsWorld


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2	* After making a bad start in "Teacher's Bet" by turning class into a thoroughly non-educational affair, Cory faces a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome when he realizes he'll lose the bet when the students fail the upcoming test on ''Literature/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''. He tries and fails to get them to pay attention, but it's not until he sees Eric's Asian girlfriend crying because someone called her a racial slur that he even gets the material himself. He makes another try and is roundly ignored, and he gives up. Then he shows his latent ability to connect the material to his students, which he uses on a daily basis when he becomes a teacher for real; Shawn earns a B instead of his usual C after the following exchange.
3	-->'''Cory:''' ''[stops just as he's about to leave]'' Hey, Shawn, before your mother got married, what was her name again?\
4	'''Shawn:''' Cordini.\
5	'''Cory:''' Cordini. So, that would make you a [[PrecisionFStrike wop]], right?\
6	''[class goes deadly quiet]''\
7	'''Shawn:''' What did you call me?\
8	'''Cory:''' You heard what I called you.\
9	'''Shawn:''' ''[to Feeny]'' Did ''you'' hear what he called me?\
10	'''Feeny:''' I heard what he called you.\
11	'''Shawn:''' What are you going to do about it?\
12	'''Feeny:''' He's the teacher. What are ''you'' going to do about it?\
13	'''Shawn:''' I'm gonna knock his head off!\
14	'''Cory:''' What if you couldn't? What if you couldn't do anything about it?\
15	'''Shawn:''' What?\
16	'''Cory:''' What if you lived in a country where I could kill you just because of your mom's last name?\
17	'''Shawn:''' Cory, what are you talking about?\
18	'''Cory:''' [[SuddenlyShouting A 15-year-old girl is dead!]] ...Doesn't anybody care?\
19	'''Shawn:''' Cory...\
20	'''Cory:''' She was really smart and totally cool. She wrote this book. Her name was Anne Frank. They say she died of typhus, but...they killed her, because her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a victim of anti-Se-MITE-tism.\
21	'''Feeny:''' Anti-Semitism.\
22	'''Cory:''' Thank you, Mr. Feeny. You have to read this book, and you have to pass this test, not because of me, but because when someone calls someone else a bad name, it's not good that just that one person jumps up. We ''all'' have to jump up. ''[reads from book]'' "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
23	* Mr. Feeny performing a dramatic monologue from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' after Cory doubts that there's any appeal in [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]'s work to people his age. He ''knocks it out of the park''.
24	* During "Wrong Side of the Tracks," Shawn is having a serious crisis over his upbringing and basically falls into ThenLetMeBeEvil, hanging out with Harley and his gang. It all comes to a head when [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten they try to get Shawn to wreck Mr. Turner's bike]] and Cory shows up.
25	-->'''Cory''': Listen, Keiner, this is between me and Shawn, so take your greasy head and your rat-faced thug and ''get away from my friend''!
26	* When Griffin arrives at John Adams High, he proceeds to immediately get dates with several of the hottest girls in school within minutes. Later, after rebuffing Frankie and Joey's offer of being his lackies as he has no need for them, he's confronted by several angry members of the football team. After Griffin is challenged to step outside, Frankie and Joey step up and say ''they'' would love to go outside and talk. When the jock states it's between him and Griffin, Frankie gets the absolutely badass line "No. '''We're''' between you and him."
27	* In "Life Lessons" (Season 3, Episode 18) some of the students, frustrated by Feeny's intense exam schedule, vandalize Feeny's home and later on the school. They attempt to break into the school when Cory, Shawn, and Topanga arrive and stop them. The others assume Shawn's there to join them, since he previously sided with the frustrated students, but when the vandals hand him the spray paint, Shawn knocks it out of the guy's hand, stands up to them, quotes the First Amendment (he [[BlatantLies accidentally]] read the chapter) proving he ''has'' actually learned some of the things Feeny taught in his classes, and credits Feeny as the reason he's not with the rest of them.
28	-->'''Denny''': What's Feeny ever done for you?
29	-->'''Shawn''': You see those bolt cutters in your hands?
30	-->'''Denny''': Yeah, so?
31	-->'''Shawn''': You see how I don't have any in mine?
32	-->'''Denny''': Yeah.
33	-->'''Shawn''': ''That's'' what he's done for me.
34	* In "By Hook or By Crook," Feeny puts Eric's tutor Miss Hart in her place after he finds out that she gave Eric the answers to the exam because she thought he wasn't smart enough on his own to pass. He goes further and insults her to show her how she absolutely dismissed Eric with no cause.
35	-->'''Feeny''':I think the question, Miss Hart, is how could you do this to him?
36	-->'''Miss Hart''': I didn't think he could pass the test.
37	-->'''Feeny''': Oh? Why not? You see no potential in him as a student?
38	-->'''Miss Hart''': I just don't think he's the student type.
39	-->'''Feeny''': I see. And are ''you'' the teacher type? Or the type that just writes people off?
40	-->'''Miss Hart''': ''(to Eric)'' It doesn't mean that I didn't like you.
41	-->'''Feeny''': Well, you certainly ''don't respect him.'' Well, this is what I get for selecting a pretty girl as a teaching assistant.
42	-->'''Miss Hart''': ''Excuse me?''
43	-->'''Feeny''': Oh, you ''resent'' that? Because growing up with a pretty face, you had to work twice as hard to be taken seriously? I should think ''you'', more than most, would want to help this young man have his chance at being taken seriously.
44	-->'''Miss Hart''': Mr. Feeny, are you firing me?
45	-->'''Feeny''': Did you learn something today, Miss Hart?
46	-->'''Miss Hart''': Yes, sir.
47	-->'''Feeny''': Then you may go.
48	-->(''Miss Hart leaves'')
49	-->'''Eric''': Mr. Feeny, why didn't you fire her?
50	-->'''Feeny''': I don't write people off, Mr. Matthews.
51	-->'''Eric''': You're a good teacher, Mr. Feeny.
52	-->'''Feeny''': Yes, and [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre you are smarter than you look]]. And I look forward to working with you in summer school.
53	-->'''Eric''': [[SincerityMode Yeah, it'll be a great summer.]]
54	** And before that, Feeny [[WhatTheHellHero calling Eric out]] for [[BrilliantButLazy being lazy]], leading to this exchange:
55	--->'''Eric''': They're just grades.
56	--->'''Feeny''': Just grades? [[SarcasmMode Oh, well, it's just Europe! And they're just girls! And it's just a beach!]] Unless you happen to know that, in 1944, American troops landed on that beach and began the liberation of France, so that someday, fifty years later, girls could run and play on that beach in freedom!
57	* "And Then There Was Shawn" is a beautiful send-up of the {{slasher\|movie}} genre and ''Film/{{Scream\|1996}}''.
58	* Near the end of "Chick Like Me," after being constantly touched and felt up by Gary, "Veronica" [[WholesomeCrossdresser (actually Shawn)]] is accused of liking girls instead of boys because she won't let him touch her. She growls "As a matter of fact, I do," then repeats it before she punches him off his feet and comments "For every girl I've ever known" when asked why she punched him. Then she leaves with Topanga and Cory (Cora) to go write an article about the experience, therefore spreading the word about Gary's grabby hands to the whole school.
59	* Eric teaching a group of immigrants and earning Feeny's respect, despite disobeying him earlier that episode.
60	* In "Eric Hollywood," Creator/WillFriedle performing Shakespeare quite well, [[MoodWhiplash ending it as only Eric could with]] "Prepare to die, [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi Master]]!"
61	* [[PapaWolf Alan]] standing up to [[SmugSnake Mr. Mack]] in "Cult Fiction." Especially given the fact that if Amy hadn't noted that he would very much "love a lawsuit," Alan (''who was a Navy Seal'') would have very likely [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown turned Mack into a swath of blood on the wall]]. If you wish to survive in life, do ''not'' piss off a Navy Seal and then get in their way... unless you're their wife:
62	-->'''Alan''': (''to Mack'', who he has '''''just slammed into a wall''''') No, listen, you see! 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''.
63	** Feeny apparently ''agrees'', given his words to Mack afterwards.
64	* In "Learning to Fly", Eric's speech to Dean Bolander about how he needs to go to Pennbrook University, saying that he wants to live up to the potential everyone says he has and that if the college doesn't let him do that, then it's the one not living up to its potential. Especially when it turns out that it convinced her to grant him admission to the school. The studio audience outright ''cheered'' at that point.
65	** Really, the entire arc Eric goes through in Seasons 3 and 4. He doesn't put the work in during in high school, and finds himself rushing to get his grades high enough to get accepted into college, only to fail for that exact reason. Come Season 4, and after struggling with adjusting to life after high school, he then makes the effort to get into college, and that speech is the culmination of the arc and the pay-off to Eric being crushed when he reads his rejection letter the prior season.
66	*** There is one little thing that makes it better, and it's that, at the end of Season 3, Eric is rejected from a "safety school" (a college where almost anyone gets in and little is required of the students), only to get into the far more prestigious Pennbrook in Season 4.
67	* The show portraying the interracial relationship between Shawn and Angela as no different than any other relationship, with not a single mention of it being such a relationship.
68	* In "Everybody Loves Stuart," Cory shoving Stuart into the door after he finds out that Stuart had been hitting on Topanga (and that it had made Topanga extremely uncomfortable). The build-up to it is what really sells the moment.
69	** Feeny showing his BadassTeacher colors during the meeting to determine Cory's fate. Stuart, unfortunately, isn't too intimidated by the older teacher, who tops the moment with this line:
70	--->'''Stuart:''' Any more questions, George?
71	--->'''Feeny''': Just one. Is it okay if I rip off your head and roll it down the hallway?
72	** Dean Bolander's speech to Stuart after she suspends Cory for one day.
73	--->'''Stuart:''' Dean... he hit a teacher!\
74	'''Dean Bolander:''' A teacher must be someone a student can ''trust''. The second the teacher uses pressure on a student for any reason whatsoever, other than academic... that trust is destroyed.\
75	'''Stuart:''' Well then, there must be some sort of misunderstanding, because as a ''teacher'', I—\
76	'''Dean Bolander:''' Stuart. (''Points at Feeny'') ''This'' is a teacher, Stuart. I'm not sure what you are. But you can be certain I'm going to find out.
77	** For that matter, credit should be given to [[CloudCuckoolander Eric]] of all people for figuring out and sensing that Stuart was bad news long before anyone else did with his [[RunningGag "fifth sense"]], and standing by his brother without question and supporting his actions when he was being questioned by almost everyone.
78	* In "It's About Time," Eric hijacks an extremely glitzy wedding (said to be the social event of the year) from a disposable diaper mogul for Cory and Topanga.
79	* The escalating pranks in "The War." Shawn and Cory park Rachel's car in her dorm room, so Rachel, Angela, and Jack retaliate by planting super glue on the desk chairs of Shawn, Topanga, and Cory, dousing them in honey, and ''letting a bear into the classroom.'' The trio rip themselves free and jump out the windows. Feeny finds it hilarious - and misses the opportunity for an ExitPursuedByABear joke.

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