Cory and Topanga are probably the most educated Disney parents, except Minkus who is Topanga's intellectual equal.
We already knew that Topanga went through law school so she holds a Juris Doctor degree from NYU. And of course, we know it's all but 100% certain that she graduated from NYU Law with honors and also probably was a member of the law review or moot court (or both!). From what happened in the parent series we know that Cory will get his ass into NYU just to be with Topanga, and since he is a teacher now he probably got a Master of Education. Minkus probably got a Ph. D somewhere just to stand up against Topanga's JD.- Even if Cory "only" has a bachelor's, he's in a field whose qualifications require a double major - Secondary Education and a subject area.
- Maybe Cory had more than two major, since he can get away teaching the class just about anything.
- Even if Cory "only" has a bachelor's, he's in a field whose qualifications require a double major - Secondary Education and a subject area.
After Girl Meets New Teacher...
Since Principal Yancy is given the boot by Superintendent Jonathan Turner for illegally dismissing (reversed of course) Harper (who is just like a female, younger version of Turner himself when Cory was a kid) and then Cory, Cory is the new principal at JQA. Summing up:- Riley is the new Cory,
- Maya is the new Shawn,
- Auggie is the new Morgan,
- Josh is the new (pre-Flanderization) Eric,
- Cory is the new Feeny with Alan mixed in,
- Topanga is the new Amy,
- Harper is the new Turner (as a teacher),
- Katy is the new (post Virna) Chet,
- Shawn is also the new Turner (as a father figure, or in Maya's case her stepfather)
Danny McNulty being replaced with actor Kenny Johnston as Harley Kiener in ''Wrong Side of The Tracks" will be lampshaded
This will happen when Cory brings up the events in that episode. Harley will reply that he doesn't recall those events and that Cory has him confused with somebody else- Sadly Jossed never found a way for that to be brought up
Both Lindsay Ridgeway and Lily Nicksay will appear as Morgan at some point.
Naturally the show will poke fun of her being played by two people in a somewhat similar manner to Roseanne.- Maybe they'll have one of them play a lifelong best friend or 'significant other' to Morgan, who also (strangely enough) has the same first name. Of course, that would make the Moral Guardians heads explode...
- Not that Disney Channel hasn't done something similar before...
- If Lily Nicksay reprises, there'll be a joke about how Morgan looks like a completely different person to when she was younger.
- Confirmed Both are coming back for the series finale, playing an pair of Morgans.
Maya will have a crush on Joshua Matthews
Which will naturally squick Riley, being that he's her Uncle.- Confirmed in "Girl Meets Home for the Holidays", where Maya declares herself Riley's future aunt. Fully evolved to dating status as of "Girl Meets the Ski Lodge Part 2".
Cory & Topanga will let Maya live with them
The two of them even noting that it's similar to the situation Shawn was in as a teenager.- Jossed
Alternately, Shawn will take Maya in
It'd be a neat way to bring Shawn full-circle, and a way to justify having Rider Strong reprise his role more frequently.- Would also mirror Shawn when he was taken in by Mr. Turner, which us original Boy Meets World fans would love
- A tweet from the official account of the writing staff said that an episode featuring Maya's mom will be important to Shawn come winter (the episode with Maya's mom already aired, but it will only become important to Shawn in the winter), so watch this space.
- Maybe Shawn won't take Maya in but will become involved with her family in some manner.
- This is probably the general direction the Shawn/Maya relationship is heading to. Shawn is getting involved with Katy and down the road he could be Maya's stepdad legally.
- It's also possible that if Shawn/Katy tie the knot there will be a entire season dedicated to the process of the wedding.
- Confirmed as of "Girl Meets I Do" where Shawn is now Maya's dad!
- As of Girl Meets Goodbye Shawn Plans to legally become Maya’s father by adopting her.
- Confirmed as of "Girl Meets I Do" where Shawn is now Maya's dad!
Minkus married one of Cory or Shawn's old girlfriends.
It'd be pretty funny, at least.- Per the second episode, he married Wendy, Cory's girlfriend from a season 2 episode. Farkle mentions his mother making him a big breakfast, and Wendy loved to cook for people.
- Confirmed. As of Girl Meets I am Farkle, it turns out Minkus married Jennifer, Shawn's ex from Season 4.
The 2nd half of the show will continue on Freeform once the 4 seasons are up.
Because of course, the most grown-up issues are a Big "NO!" for Disney Channel, so what better way to resume the show is through it's sibling channel where such things are allowed? (Well, at least up to a TV-14 rating.)- I suspect it might make the channel hop earlier than that. Since the main characters are in seventh grade at the start, Season 3 would be the jump to high school.
- The fourth episode "Girl Meets Father" shows a ninth-grader attending the main characters' middle school — and lampshades it with Maya's comment, "This thing goes to ninth grade?!" — so the jump to high school would actually happen after three seasons, not two. Although four seasons is the apparent upper limit for Disney Channel shows, it's not uncommon for successful Disney shows to run for three seasons (just two seasons, however, may not be enough). So perhaps the show's creators deliberately planned for a three-season run on Disney Channel, followed by a Channel Hop to Freeform for the fourth season onwards.
- That causes problems in and of itself as NYC does middle school in grades 6-8 and high school 9-12.
- Considering that due to spoiler leaks and the high risk that the show could get canceled, a channel hop to Freeform would be the best option since ABC's TGIF doesn't exist anymore and there is no modern-day equivalent of the block running on the channel at the moment.
- Everyone from the show moved onto different projects after the finale.
- The fourth episode "Girl Meets Father" shows a ninth-grader attending the main characters' middle school — and lampshades it with Maya's comment, "This thing goes to ninth grade?!" — so the jump to high school would actually happen after three seasons, not two. Although four seasons is the apparent upper limit for Disney Channel shows, it's not uncommon for successful Disney shows to run for three seasons (just two seasons, however, may not be enough). So perhaps the show's creators deliberately planned for a three-season run on Disney Channel, followed by a Channel Hop to Freeform for the fourth season onwards.
Harley Kiener is Maya's father.
- It would fit with Maya's implied bad homelife. Her parents are divorced and she goes by her mother's last name.
- Not likely, since Maya's father left & Harley's the janitor at the school.
- Completely jossed - she has no more of a reaction to Harley than any of the other kids when he's first introduced.
Uncle Eric will eventually appear in the series
- It turns out after the previous series he went to Hollywood and eventually got a role playing a good-looking detective on daytime TV.
- Or he did, in fact, marry a moose & change his name to Plays With Squirrels.
- Confirmed. He appeared in the season 2 episode "Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels" and has become a Mayor. What town would elect Eric to be Mayor, you ask? The town known as St. Upidtown.
- Or he did, in fact, marry a moose & change his name to Plays With Squirrels.
Lucas is a Romantic False Lead, Farkle is the actual "Topanga" to Riley's "Cory"
- For all of the show's building to Lucas being Riley's first love, he seems a little... bland, especially with the repeated allusions to Corey & Topanga's beginnings - when she was an eccentric hippy. Farkle fits that role a lot more, due to his own eccentricities.
- Jossed, he's dating Smackle currently.
- Both being Disney shows set in Manhattan. That would officially put it (and its' predecessor series) in the DCLAU.
- I would say that this would pull DCLAU into a bigger universe its parent series is part of.
- Debby Ryan appeared in "Girl Meets Demolition/Girl Meets What The What" as a new character.
- Jossed. Jessie has ended so the crossover is impossible unless Bunk'd would fill the role as the Jessie representative.
Like Maya, Farkle's parents are also divorced.
- Two episodes - Girl Meets Sneak Attack and Girl Meets Maya's Mother strongly imply this - with the former episode having Farkle's mother mentioned (along with the plot point that Farkle lives in the same building as the Matthews family), and the latter having a visit by Stuart Minkus. The way the meeting goes (during 'Career Day' at school) makes it clear that Cory and Topanga haven't seen him in quite some time, and has a very distinct Visit by Divorced Dad flavor to the way that Minkus and Farkle interact (they obviously care deeply for one another). Also, Minkus has never met Riley or Maya before (by what he says when Farkle introduces them to his dad). It's not a stretch to think that Minkus married, Farkle was born but Minkus and the mom couldn't make it work (In Minkus' mind, no woman could ever take the place of Topanga in his mind) - yet still, he loves his son very much and makes sure that his wife and son are well taken care of, even though he's never nor rarely visited his son at his mother's home. That would explain how Farkle and his mom can live in the same building that the Matthews live in.
- This might also explain why Maya's "You just got to be protected" line makes a bit of sense and why Maya exaggerated her answer to his dad, because she knows deep inside Farkle is just like her except he's more of a Pollyanna-type person, and she wants to ensure the same problems will never happen to Farkle.
- As alluded to in the Jessie thread, for someone as rich as Minkus to send his kid to a New York City public school is a deliberate act of conscious choice. That adds extra complication to this theory.
- In "Girl Meets The New World", Farkle gives Maya the diamond ring his mother is always throwing in his father's face. It sounds more like Minkus and whoever his wife is have a troubled marriage that's on the verge of breaking apart at most.
- When Farkle's parents are finally shown together nothing implicates a divorce.
Stuart will return (A.K.A. "Girl Meets Stuart").
- He will return, most likely as the Knight of Cerebus of this series, still lusting after Topanga. Even going as far as to claim that Auggie is really his son (and Riley his daughter to really twist the knife).
- That's really, really unlikely. It's a Disney Channel sitcom, not a teen drama airing on The CW.
- Maybe not the described formula but recent Disney programming isn't afraid to address somewhat darker material.
- That's really, really unlikely. It's a Disney Channel sitcom, not a teen drama airing on The CW.
Stuart return ideas
- He will come back in a position where he can get revenge on Cory, who will be unable to fight back because of his position. Topanga's law firm will get involved and give him a huge dose of Laser-Guided Karma.
- He will return as a substitute teacher who goes out his way to torment Riley. She and her friends will have to figure out how to deal with him. Cory will have another confrontation with him but this time will only resort to Break Them by Talking. Harley will get a moment where he goes Papa Wolf over the guy for messing with "his kids". Shawn will appear to help Riley. Feeny puts in an appearance to resolve everything.
- He will be a political opponent to Eric, not really caring about winning but using every dirty trick he can think of to smear Cory's reputation to make Eric look bad. He will even bring back Lauren to support his claims, which will cause some tension in the home between Cory and Topanga.
- He'll come back as a different man, having reformed himself and given up his sleazy ways and delivering a formal apology to Cory and Topanga. This puts Cory's beliefs of "people change", "people change people" and the one from "Girl Meets The Rules" to the test as he decides to trust Stuart, and in the end this helps to prove his reformation is genuine.
- Stuart will return as a Future Loser, either homeless and unemployed or serving a jail sentence for another crime he committed. When the kids try to reach out to him he brushes it off and Cory's forced to teach the lesson that not everyone changes and that sometimes you have to let people lie in the bed they've made.
- Kinda confirmed- "Girl Meets Money" almost has this plot, but it hits more on losing the money from investing on something that's not yet been tested on Minkus' side.
Riley will get over crush on Lucas and Lucas will get with Maya
- Teaching Cory not everything can go as planned and a twist on the Cory, Topanga, and Shawn relationship.
- Unlikely, the creators have already set the pairs in stone, so trying to destroy the plan would go against the show's original plans.
- They aren't "set in stone" - it's season one, none of the kids have paired off yet, beyond Riley having a crush on Lucas.
- It's Season 1; nothing's set in stone during Season 1. Seeing as how aware the writers are of fan response, anything can happen.
- Unlikely, the creators have already set the pairs in stone, so trying to destroy the plan would go against the show's original plans.
- Jossed. Riley ended up with Lucas and Maya is dating Josh as of "Girl Meets the Ski Lodge part 2".
Gammy Hart is May Clutterbucket.
- Jossed That's Maya's parental grandmother who we only see in the past.
Cory and Topanga will have another baby before the series ends
- This most likely depends on if Danielle Fishel gets pregnant and when Auggie starts aging up. They'll totally pull an Amy and Alan at some point.
- Jossed. They never had a third kid.
Lucas doesn't live with his parents.
- His parents remain in Austin, Texas, while he lives in New York with another family member. Scenes in "Girl Meets 1961" and "Girl Meets Friendship" imply that his father still resides in Texas. "Girl Meets Crazy Hat" seems to confirm that Lucas's mother lives with him in New York. However, the writers have tweeted that Maya hasn't met Lucas's mother yet, despite how she said in "Crazy Hat" that she had to listen to Lucas and his mother talk about "healthy living" and "good eating" while they were making their muffins for Cory's class. Could be a continuity error, but it could also mean that Maya only overheard a phone or Skype conversation between Lucas and his mom without having actually met her.
There will be a reference to a show called Girl Gets Acquainted with Universe
- Someone at John Quincy Addams will be a fan, Cory will say he preferred the original show.
- And perhaps the clone class from "Girl Meets Gravity" stars in that one. Which would be weird, since the Cory analog in that class is played by a woman.
- Sadly Jossed
All major members of the parent show and some of this show would end up as a big family through various pairings.
The pairings worked are: Maya/Josh (tying the Harts to the Matthews), Shawn/Katy (tying the Hunters by proxy into the Matthews) and Farkle/Riley (tying the Minkii into the Matthews).- Confirmed on the first two, Jossed with the last one (Farkle ended up with Smackle and Riley chose Lucas).
- Going on with this gist, Lucas is Rachel's son (noticed his height? Rachel was known to be a Statuesque Stunner.)
- Possibly Jossed; "Girl Meets the Secret of Life" notes that Lucas is a year older after being expelled for a year from his old school.
- Jossed with Eric. He's mayor of a small town and dons the Mr. Squirrels persona and outfit as part of his job.
- Shawn and Jack are the closest. Shawn and Angela aren't together and Shawn did become a writer, though for a photography blog he publishes not a freelance writer. Jack did end up in a Corporate Job though he more drifted apart from everybody as opposed pushing them away and is more remorseful about it.
"Girl Meets World of Terror 3" is a what if extension of Bad Future shown in "Seven The Hard Way".
The episode still has Cory and Topanga as Riley's parents, but a deleted scene states that they did divorce and Riley lives with Topanga... But also never got a chance to make Auggie born as a result, so Ava ended up instead with Dewey.As Angela returns to Girl Meets World, she either...
- reunites with Shawn again and renew their relationship just like in Boys Meets World
- reunites with Shawn again, but (maybe already) found out he's dating Maya's mother , Katy, and decided to accept this and move on without him again as he grew closer to Katy romantically (just like what Maya and Riley wanted).
- I mean, even as a veteran fan of Boy Meets World, it's obvious what the producers are trying to do with Shawn's relationship with Katy and Maya in Girl Meets World. Remember the past episode when Riley wants Shawn to be Maya's father, so it's obvious that Riley and Maya will be against Shawn renewing his relationship with Angela once she returns and still wants Shawn to hook up with Katy. I'm afraid what will happen when Riley and Maya will meet Angela, but I really hope that they won't antagonize her or something negative.
- It is heavily hinted by the writers that Angela is married to someone else in this visit - the Shawngela ship will be sunk to make way for the new Shawn/Katy relationship that will become more and more important in the future.
- Confirmed in "Girl Meets Hurricane".
- I mean, even as a veteran fan of Boy Meets World, it's obvious what the producers are trying to do with Shawn's relationship with Katy and Maya in Girl Meets World. Remember the past episode when Riley wants Shawn to be Maya's father, so it's obvious that Riley and Maya will be against Shawn renewing his relationship with Angela once she returns and still wants Shawn to hook up with Katy. I'm afraid what will happen when Riley and Maya will meet Angela, but I really hope that they won't antagonize her or something negative.
The political adviser who set Eric up will be a recurring villain
He is just too ominous to be given a single appearance on the show and could be an interesting part of Eric's subplot.- Jossed. Said adviser never came back.
Eric's "Mayor of St. Upidtown" and his increased Obfuscating Stupidity is a cover
- C'mon he wasn't this dumb in Boy Meets World, so obviously he's hiding something, like say, a secret identity? Add to it the fact that one of New York City's nicknames is "Gotham" and the truth is clear. Not long after Cory, Topanga, Eric, and Shawn moved to New York in the finale of "Boy Meets World" Eric defended an elderly, reclusive billionaire against a bunch of hooligans. The billionaire tried to reward Eric, but he absolutely refused. So the Billionaire offered Eric a job. He found that in his old age, he could use a part time assistant.You know, a gofer.Go for this, go for that.An ally, as it were. Eric accepted but not before the old man could warn him. He could be a difficult task master. He accepted nothing short of excellence, from all who worked for him. Eric felt he could handle it, and the old man shook his hand and said, "Mr. Matthews, welcome to my world."
- "Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels Goes to Washington" confirms that some of Eric's "stupidity" is put on because it's funny and disarming. When he is depressed over being set up as an easy win for a corrupt senator he drops much of his schtick including his bit about not remembering Maya's name.
Eric: Of course I know your name, I like you very much.
Feeny's going to end up as the principal of John Quincy Adams Middle School
- It's strongly implied at the ending of "Girl Meets the New Teacher" that the old principal was fired by the superintendent. So now they need a new principal... and Cory knows just the guy. He just needs to be (somewhat reluctantly) persuaded to come out of retirement, but who better to do so than the consummate schemers, Cory and Shawn.
- Well, if that first part is the case, we don't find out, as the story now shifts to Abigail Adams High School.
- Fenny is still living next door to Cory's parents plus he's retired so hard jossed on that one!
Cory is going to end up as the next principal of John Quincy Adams Middle School
- It's strongly implied at the ending of "Girl Meets the New Teacher" that the old principal was fired by the superintendent. Similar to the original with Feeny being the teacher first season and then principal the next season, Cory could follow in his mentor's footsteps. It was even foreshadowed, during the same episode, Auggie asked if it was possible for this to happen and Cory's response was yes.
- Jossed, he did get promoted to High School History/Social Studies teacher at Abigail Adams High School.
Farkle is a robot created by Minkus to satisfy his needs for love.
- Just think about it. It's alluded to when Shawn first meets him, questioning the fact that Minkus reproduced, and Farkle hasn't seen his birth certificate. It is then reinforced when Eric continues to call him "robot". When asked about his birth certificate at this point, Farkle still cannot locate it.
- You might want to rephrase the WMG.
- Jossed. Farkle is a real live boy and we've finally met his mother.
Farkle's new look is the result of Executive Meddling to positive effect.
- Between it and Barry from Best Friends Whenever's appearance straight out of the gate, Disney seems to want to move away from the nerd stereotype, at least in girls-as-target-demo shows, so as not to limit their actors' Teen Idol potential. This gave Jacobs and crew the opportunity to tell a realistic story about a middle-schooler changing an aspect of himself while still being himself, freaking out the adult Periphery Demographic with the possibility that "Donnie Barnes, Regular Guy" could become Stefon Urquelle v2.0 along the way. Well played.
- Alternately, Farkle's Season 2 arc is what Michael Jacobs had wanted to do with Minkus but couldn't because ABC executives in The '90s would've seen Urkel as a successful template for turning an ordinary show into an iconic moneyspinner, not a cliched joke character that long overstayed his welcome.
Lucas and Smackle will date at one point
- Smackle is constantly under the impression he's trying to flirt with her, and openly finds him attractive. Lucas will end up realizing that subconsciously, he was flirting with her.
- Jossed. She ends up with Farkle.
There's some sort of conservation-of-character realism going on here.
There's only a given amount of three-dimensionality available among the main characters. Thus as first Lucas became more fleshed out and now Farkle morphs from a one-note quirk to a realistic dorky-but-self-aware teenager, Riley turns into more and more of a cloudcoockoolander. Riley's special talent is writing, specifically poetry.
She'll enter a poetry contest at someone else's insistence or just for kicks, and be shocked when her poem wins first place. She'll go through something like Darlene did on Roseanne, where she was too embarrassed to read her poem on stage, but someone will have a heart to heart talk with her. Maybe this will even be an excuse to bring back Ethan Suplee in a surprise guest shot as Frankie Stecchino, the poetry-loving tough. Or Harley will tell Riley about Frankie. The girl who was bullying Riley in "Girl Meets Rileytown" is Missy, who is just in a different class than the main cast in season 2.
Think about it; she has a perfectly good reason to be going after Riley, to discredit her so that "Lucas will realize what a loser she is and come crawling back to me." We never see her face, but I just feel like this is the most likely candidate; it seems highly unlikely that it's one of the girls that we see in her class every episode, as they all seem to like or at least accept Riley for who she is, so it must be somebody outside the class. Zay and Smackle will join the main gang in season 3.
Much as the core group expanded in Boy Meets World with the introductions of Angela, Jack and Rachel, Zay and Smackle will be seen more frequently with Riley and her friends, and eventually become regulars. Zay is gay.
Not because it rhymes. The writers made a veiled hint on Twitter that sexuality may be explored, as far as Disney Channel can, in a future episode. Zay is the only one of the main kids whose romantic interests hasn't been discussed yet.- Possibly Jossed - Vanessa
In Topanga's law office DUI is pronounced "doy".
And this is why Dewey's insistence that his name is pronounced "Doy" drives her so crazy when she should know that either he has a speech impediment or his parents intentionally named him that way and now that he's learning to read and spell he's over-applying it. The association bothers her and borders on Troubling Unchildlike Behavior. The kids' religious views
- Riley: Christianity
- Maya: Atheism at first, but possibly Christian at the end of the show.
- Farkle: Atheism at the start of the series. Possibly agnostic after"Girl Meets Belief". Possibly exploring (or already believing) Christianity by "Girl Meets New Year" as he mentions Archangel Gabriel blowing his horn at the end. Which is in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. Seemingly Christian by "Girl Meets Christmas Maya"
- Lucas:Christianity.
Cory's forgiveness letters from Topanga
We're never told what was in those three letters, but it's quite likely one of those letters was Topanga forgiving Cory about the whole Lauren incident in Boy Meets World, specifically Cory needing to test his love for her, which she couldn't forgive him for in Torn Between Two Lovers (Acting Like A Fool)- He does say when she hands him the last one "Ok, I know what that one is". So most likely it's about Lauren.
Cory is really a social studies teacher rather then a history teacher.
It's well stated in the show that Cory is their history teacher. You could spin this to that Cory is really a social studies teacher. Social studies is a class that supposedly "to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world." Which is basically teaching life lessons and gets related back to history, geography, and so forth. Cory is doing his job teaching them social studies rather then a full blown out history course. "Farkle" is not Farkle Minkus' real name
"Farkle" is a name he started calling himself when he was younger and he never stopped. His parents saw no harm in this and just kept calling him Farkle. His real name is probably Shamus, his name before he was retconned into being Stuart Minkus' son. Riley is the one who actually has Aspergers.
Sometimes a bit awkward in some things? A bit childish and naive? Having trouble expressing feelings to Lucas? Her being intelligent on some subjects (Like the one time she ranted about the Knicks to Lucas)? Some of the traits that Lucas mentioned in "Girl Meets Farkle" might point out that Riley may have some traces of Aspergers but doesn't know about it. This also goes back from her childhood as seen in "Girl Meets the Bay Window."- Jossed Smackle is the one on the spectrum while Riley doesn't have it. If the roles were the reversed then we would heard it back in the show early episodes and Cory is a teacher so he would know if his kids had a learning disability or be on the spectrum simliar to Smackle since a parent who's a teacher knows the signs before a official diagnosis!
Lucas is going to get contacts/glasses.
That would explain why, during tryouts for baseball, he could never see the ball coming. At some point he'll get a prescription and start wearing contacts or glasses.