History YMMV / GirlMeetsWorld

* BrokenAesop: "Girl Meets Rah-Rah": The episode insists that Riley's refusal to give up on becoming a cheerleader is supportive of the idea that never giving up is the appropriate moral, but Riley never improving in skill whatsoever would insist the better lesson for the episode would be to know where your natural gifts actually lie and focus on that instead.

* BizarroEpisode: The Halloween episodes include monsters and ghosts, [[UnreliableNarrator framed as]] Auggie [[BreakingTheFourthWall telling the audience a collection of Halloween stories]].

* CounterpartComparison: Riley and Maya for Cory and Shawn, respectively.
** And Riley and Maya for Cory and Topanga.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Invoked, but unintentionally by the science teacher. The gender equality message of "Girl Meets STEM" tends to come off as this, to the point that it over-exaggerates the issue, and based itself around poor assumptions about the boys' behavior. While the episode does reveal a well-known fact that women and girls are underrepresented in the STEM field, and the girls choose not to. Yet, Riley blaming the boys for that, even making a claim for their sexism when there wasn't any evidence of such. As a result, Riley ends up coming off badly. The irony comes when we find out the science experiment was a social experiment to test their interactions and emphasize the importance of girls and boys working as equals.

* FanPreferredCouple: While Riley/Lucas are the RelationshipRevolvingDoor OfficalCouple, most fans prefer Maya/Lucas instead, especially following recent Season 2 episodes.

* FanPreferredCouple: While Riley/Lucas are supposed to be the "next Cory and Topanga", many fans prefer Maya/Lucas instead, especially following recent Season 2 episodes.
** There's also support for Maya/Joshua and even Maya/Farkle, leading to some DieForOurShip.

** Some fans wash their hands of all the het shipping arguments in favor of praying Disney will allow Riley/Maya to become canon.

* CluelessAesop: "Girl Meets STEM" is this for two reasons. First, the aesop about how girls shouldn't be afraid to go into STEM field doesn't work too well since the target audience 8-14 isn't really deciding what career they should be going for yet. Second of all, the gender differences in STEM fields have been proving to be because girls just choose not to go into them, also the demand for women in STEM [[http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract is]] [[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/04/women-preferred-21-over-men-stem-faculty-positions higher]] [[http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2015/11/women-favored-2-to-1-in-stem-hiring/ than]] [[https://www.nsf.gov/attachments/134059/public/PNAS-2015-Williams-1418878112.pdf for]] [[http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-preferred-stem-professorships-long-they-re-equal-or-better-male-candidates/ men]]
** "Girl Meets Commonism" talks about how Communism is bad because it negates the individuality of others. Maybe that's their way of putting in a perspective of the viewing audience, but there are dozens of reasons communism is terrible that are way worse than not recognizing individuality. In general, the whole concept of communism seems overly simplified for the target audience.
** In "Girl Meets Texas Part 1" Pappy Joe makes a whole speech about how riding the bull is about facing your fears. Except here, Lucas' fear is very well-justified because he could have VERY EASILY died from riding the bull, and besides that, he had no real REASON to face this rational fear beyond gaining Pappy Joe's approval. There's a big difference between courage and outright pointless stupidity.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Joshua Matthews became popular with fans after his appearance in "Girl Meets Home for the Holidays".

* AdoredByTheNetwork: When the series first launched, it received more attention than any other Disney Channel series in years, even getting attention from mainstream media outlets such as ''AccessHollywood'' and ''IGN'' and consequently started to overshadow other shows on the network, including the prior biggest shows on the network, ''{{JESSIE}}'' and ''AustinAndAlly'' (resulting in a ScrewedByTheNetwork situation for other shows). Lately, however, the fortunes of ''Girl Meets World'' have reversed and entered into a similar situation as those other shows (see Screwed By The Network below).

* RecycledScript: Some of the plots are recycled from ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'', but this is both a given and a justified case since both shows are [[ComingOfAgeStory coming of age stories]].

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Compared to when the series first premiered (see Adored By The Network above), the series has significantly fallen off the network radar after ratings started to decline and the Periphery Demographic started to slowly abandon the show when many of them saw it as less a proper sequel or even Spiritual Successor and just another Disney Channel KidCom with Boy Meets World characters in it. Spreading out the episodes with long breaks in between, and grouping (sometimes randomly) episodes tightly together to spill across non-prime nights (such as across an entire week) hasn't helped out either and may have contributed significantly to the audience drop-off.
** To further build on this, the show was doing solid ratings of around 2.20 million viewers but fell dramatically to the 1.6/1.7 range after the holiday hiatus in Season 2, finally returning in January with episodes that were noticeably aired out of order (including Girl Meets STEM, the 19th produced that season but the 26th aired and Girl Meets Commonism, the 6th produced that season but 28th aired) due to differing hair styles, characterizations, and relationship moments. The final season was hampered by multiple week hiatuses in October, November, and December, making it hard as a viewer to know when episodes were even airing. By the time the series was announced as canceled, the show changed the final episodes to air at 6:30 PM ET/3:30 PM PT from its traditional 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT time slot.

* FanPreferredCouple: While Riley/Lucas are suppose to be the "next Cory and Topanga", many fans prefer Maya/Lucas instead, especially following recent Season 2 episodes.

** To further build on this, the show was doing solid ratings of around 2.20 Million viewers but fell dramatically to the 1.6/1.7 range after the Holiday hiatus in Season 2, finally returning in January with episodes that were noticeable aired out of order (including Girl Meets STEM, the 19th produced that season but the 26th aired and Girl Meets Commonism, the 6th produced that season but 28th aired) due to differing hair styles, characterizations, and relationship moments. The final season was hampered by multiple week hiatus' in October, November, and December, making it hard as a viewer to know when episodes were even airing. By the time the series was announced as cancelled, the show changed the final episodes to air at 6:30 PM ET/3:30 PM PT from its traditional 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT time slot.
* TheScrappy: Charlie Gardener. He's a NiceGuy but he seems a bit ''entitled'' to go on a date with Riley - especially since his whole shtick amounts to "if you're not dating Lucas, you should date me". It doesn't help they're not really friends, and he doesn't even want to take the time to know her first, nor that's it's painfully obvious that Riley isn't interested him - something he choses to ignore.
* ShipToShipCombat: There were seeds of it during the first season, but now it's gotten ''quite'' ugly. At the forefront of everything is Lucas/Riley vs Lucas/Maya ans Lucas/Maya vs Josh/Maya, combined with DieForOurShip towards Farkle in general. The episode "Girl Meets Yearbook" was most likely taking potshots at this phenomenon, but this fact seems to have gone over the fandom's head as it's only fanned the flames more.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: In "Girl Meets Rah Rah" the cheerleading coach points out, correctly, that Riley not only lacks the requisite athleticism for the school's cheerleading team but also has not dedicated herself to the sport like the rest of the squad has. The audience is supposed to side with Riley's never-say-die attitude. But it really feels like the episode is advising kids to chase futilely after unattainable goals and expect time and attention to be taken away from those who ''can'' attain those goals.
* TakeThatAudience: Implied in "Girl Meets Rileytown", towards the viewers who criticized about Riley's character in season 1. Here's a hint: [[spoiler:The unseen bully actually is a metaphor for the said viewers who criticized her behavior and personality.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Joshua Matthews became popular with fans after his appearance in "Girl Meets Home for the Holidays".
* DesignatedVillain: While "Villain" might be too strong a word, Maya is treated as being wrong in "Girl Meets Texas Part 1" because she didn't believe Lucas could ride the bull, even though A. Bull riding is insanely dangerous, even for highly trained adults, much less Lucas, who has NEVER ridden a bull and B. Lucas is only doing it to gain his grandfather's approval.

* UnfortunateImplications: The message of "Girl Meets Texas Part 1" seems to be "You should support and believe in your friends all the time, even if what they're doing has a high chance of injuring or killing them".

** "Girl Meets Commonism" talks about how Communism is bad because it negates the individuality of others. Maybe that's their way of putting in a perspective of the viewing audience, but there are dozens of reasons communism is terrible that are way worse than not recognizing individuality..

** The "Academic Halves" are Nathaniel Potvin and Kamran Lucas, who are two of the main characters from Disney XD's ''Mech-X4''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: So it turns out [[Series/DogWithABlog Wes]] moved to New York City.

* CluelessAesop: "Girl Meets STEM" is this for two reasons. First, the aesop about how girls shouldn't be afraid to go into STEM field doesn't work too well since the target audience 8-14 isn't really deciding what career they should be going for yet. Second of all, the gender differences in STEM fields have been proving to be because girls just choose not to go into them, also the demand for women in STEM [[http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract is]] [[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/04/women-preferred-21-over-men-stem-faculty-positions higher]] [[http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2015/11/women-favored-2-to-1-in-stem-hiring/ than]] [[https://www.nsf.gov/attachments/134059/public/PNAS-2015-Williams-1418878112.pdf for]] [[http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-preferred-stem-professorships-long-they-re-equal-or-better-male-candidates/men]]

* TheScrappy: Charlie Gardener. He's a NiceGuy but he seems a bit ''entitled'' to go on a date with Riley - especially since his whole shtick amounts to "if you're not dating Lucas, you should date me". It doesn't help they're not really friends, and he doesn't even want to take the time to know her first, nor that's it's painfully obvious that Riley isn't interested him - something he choses to ignore.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: In "Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels" we're supposed to feel bad Riley didn't defend Maya after Lucas insulted her. Considering all the insults she's given to Lucas, and the fact this insult was in retaliation for what she's said, it makes Maya look like [[{{Hypocrite}} she can't deal with what she dishes out.]]