Boy Meets World (TV Series)

A Long Walk to Pittsburgh: Part 2 (1997)

Ben Savage: Cory Matthews

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• Amy Matthews : Okay Cory, you educate me. You tell me what love means to you.

  Cory Matthews : Mom listen, I haven't been with Topanga for 22 years but we have been together for 16. Ok, that's a lot longer than most couples have been together. I mean, when we were born you told me that we used to take walks in our strollers together around the block. When we were 2 we were best friends. I mean I, I knew everything about this girl. I knew her favorite color, I knew her favorite food. Then we got to be 6 and Eric made fun of me because it wasn't cool to have a best friend that's a girl, or even know a girl.

  Eric Matthews : Yeah, and you listened to me. Idiot.

  Cory Matthews : So for the next 7 years I threw dirt at her. I like to call those years the lost years.

  Topanga Lawrence : You were the one who made him throw dirt me?

  Eric Matthews : You were a girl, noogie head.

  Cory Matthews : Then when I was 13 Mom, she put me up against my locker, she kissed me. I mean she, she gave me my first kiss. She taught me how to dance, she always was talking about these crazy things and I never understood a word she said, all I understood was that she was the girl I sat up every night thinking about. And when I'm with her I feel happy to be alive. Like I can do anything. Even talk to you like this. So that's, that's what I think is love Mom. When I'm better because she's here. And now she won't be. So I'm finished.

  Topanga Lawrence : I think it's a good thing that Cory is the only boy I've ever loved. And I was looking forward to doing all of the things that people do who are in love. With Cory. And not just with some guy in Pittsburgh because I'm there.

• Aunt Prudence Curtis : [steps forward]  Prudence Curtis, I'm Topanga's aunt.

  Mr. George Feeny : [steps forward as well]  George Feeny, I'm Topanga's teacher.

  Aunt Prudence 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.

  Mr. George 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?

  Mr. George Feeny : Stay out of this.

  Aunt Prudence Curtis : The only thing I presume, sir, is that you are as verbose as you are snappy.

  Mr. George Feeny : Well, then. There we are.

• Mr. George Feeny : Even though this isn't a classroom at the moment, would you mind if I taught you a lesson anyway?

  Topanga Lawrence : Please.

  Mr. George Feeny : Believe it or not, there was a time in my life when I cared for someone as deeply as you two care for each other now.

  Cory Matthews : You believe we love each other?

  Mr. George Feeny : And for no reason I understood, my wife was taken from me, and I haven't been so deeply in love since.

  Cory Matthews : [to Topanga]  Feeny believes we love each other!

  Mr. George Feeny : I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it, and cherish it! Because there is nothing finer, and may never come again. And that, my dears, is the most important thing I could teach you.

• Cory Matthews : Topanga I don't know what to do ok, everyone seems to want us apart. Except Dad, Dad listen you really haven't said anything during this whole time. Are you going to let her take her away?

  Alan Matthews : I don't think I'm going to have to.

  Cory Matthews : What?

  Alan Matthews : Well you know you may have known Topanga since you were born but I've known your mother like, forever, ok?

  Cory Matthews : So?

  Alan Matthews : So, what I know about your mother, besides her favorite food and color, spaghetti and red, and the thing that I respect in her the most is that she has always put her faith in love. When she sees it, when she recognizes it. Which is why she chose me when her parents told her not to.

  Cory Matthews : Yeah, but Dad she wants us to have other relationships.

  Alan Matthews : Love is faith Cory. Do you love your mother?

  Cory Matthews : Yeah of course I do.

  Alan Matthews : Then have faith.

• Amy Matthews : Topanga, your parents don't know you're here, do they?

  Eric Matthews : No. No, they don't.

  Alan Matthews : Topanga, your parents are gonna be very worried about you.

  Topanga Lawrence : Why would they be worried about me now? They weren't worried about me when they decided to move. I told them how much Cory meant to me and how I couldn't be away from him. I guess I was too young to say things like that, that I didn't know.

  Alan Matthews : So you ran away from them?

  Topanga Lawrence : I ran away to Cory.

  Alan Matthews : Okay... It just got serious now.

  Amy Matthews : Topanga, I'm gonna have to call them.

  Cory Matthews : No, Mom! Didn't you hear what she just said? Her parents don't understand her. Just like you two don't understand me. We want to be together, okay? That's what we want!

  Amy Matthews : Topanga, I know you miss Cory. But to come here, without your parent's permission, that's just wrong!

  Cory Matthews : How could it be wrong, Mom, if she loves me enough to do that? I mean, I'm sorry I didn't do it myself.

• Alan Matthews : I called your folks, Topanga, and let them know that you were here, and that you're all right.

  Amy Matthews : And later on...

  Cory Matthews : Later on what, Mom? She's going back to her house? Fine, I'm going with her. We can do this again there.

  Alan Matthews : Cory, you live here, Topanga lives in Pittsburgh. I didn't do it. Stop jumping on me!

  Cory Matthews : No, no, Mom, I'm not jumping on you because of where we live, all right? I'm jumping on you because you seem happy about this. I mean, why don't you want us to be together?

  Eric Matthews : [comes into the room]  I hear yellin'.