Rider Sturdy voiced issues about not mentioning secure intercourse on "Boy Meets World."
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Let’s speak about intercourse.
“Boy Meets World” star Rider Sturdy revealed on his “Pod Meets World” podcast that he was not pleased when showrunner Michael Jacobs allegedly dismissed his push to incorporate dialogue about secure intercourse on a pivotal episode.
Sturdy, together with co-stars Will Friedle and Danielle Fishel, answered listener-submitted questions on Thursday’s present. One fan requested concerning the three sequence episodes — which all associated to both intercourse or alcohol — that didn’t air in re-runs on the Disney Channel.
The sitcom ran for seven seasons on ABC, between September 1993 and Could 2000, earlier than syndication on the mouse home’s channel.
Sturdy mentioned he took explicit challenge with the Season 5 episode titled “Promenade-ises, Promenade-ises,” throughout which Topanga (Fishel) and Cory (Ben Savage) contemplate dropping their virginity to one another on their promenade night time with none point out of secure intercourse or contraception.
“The truth that we might not convey up Cory and Topanga utilizing condoms or having a dialogue about contraception in any respect, and but your complete episode was about ‘will they’ or ‘will they not’… I bear in mind simply being so upset and I introduced it up, I bear in mind speaking to Michael about it and saying: ‘Can we speak about this?'” Sturdy recalled.
“‘Perhaps you generationally don’t perceive that, however we had been rising up within the period of AIDS. That is one thing that we've to speak about. When you find yourself discussing dropping your virginity, you talk about the way you’re going to do it and methods to be secure about it.”
Sturdy mentioned Jacobs dismissed his issues.
“He fully blew me off and advised me it was a ridiculous factor to fret about, and that we don’t even want to debate it. I felt, on the time, that that was extremely irresponsible,” Sturdy mentioned concerning the episode, which aired in 1998.
Fishel agreed with the recollection, saying, “I bear in mind additionally feeling very uncomfortable the entire week for related causes, however I don’t have particular reminiscences different than simply, form of, ickiness concerning the week.”
The Put up has contacted a rep for Jacobs for remark.
On a September episode of the podcast, the solid mentioned Friedle’s on-set joke, the place he likened his black co-star Trina McGee to Aunt Jemima.
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