Boy Meets World (TV Series)

On the Fence (1993)

Ben Savage: Cory Matthews

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• Cory Matthews : Hi, Mom. Wow, dinner smells terrific, and that thing you're wearing is really lovely. What is that, a dress?

  Amy Matthews : Oh, Cory, what a lovely and sincere compliment, and I know that you wouldn't spoil it by asking me for something.

  Eric Matthews : Eerie how she always knows, huh?

  Cory Matthews : What, do all women have antennas hidden somewhere on their bodies?

  Eric Matthews : I don't know. None of them will let me look.

• Cory Matthews : [Cory has unintentionally painted green stripes on the white fence]  You've been saying you wanna re-do the backyard.

  Amy Matthews : Yeah, but now that I see it I'm not sure I want to go with this Zebra motif.

  Cory Matthews : Well, nobody told me the paint was gonna go *through* the shutters.

  Amy Matthews : Cory, when you open up the shutters in your room, does the sunlight go through?

  Cory Matthews : Ya got me. I'm an idiot.

  Alan Matthews : No, you're not an idiot. You're a kid.

  Cory Matthews : I'm a kidiot.

• Cory Matthews : [Trying to convince his mother to buy him an expensive water gun]  Say the living room bursts into flames.

  Morgan Matthews : Why?

  Cory Matthews : I don't know. Maybe lightning hit it.

  Morgan Matthews : Why?

  Cory Matthews : Because it was attracted by the metal plate in your head.

  Cory Matthews : [to Amy]  and you can't get out because your legs are broken. What will you do?

  Morgan Matthews : Why are her legs broken?

  Cory Matthews : Because she tripped over your dead body.

• Cory Matthews : So, are you cutting your flowers?

  Mr. George Feeny : I am pruning my prized eglanteria floribundas - a fragile hybrid that I have meticulously cultivated over the past few seasons.

  Cory Matthews : Well, for a small fee, I can hack off the rest of that dead stuff.

  Mr. George Feeny : You stay away from my roses!

  Cory Matthews : Uh, you know, Mr. Feeny, I was thinking. Autumn's here, and winter's just around the corner.

  Mr. George Feeny : That's typically the pattern.

  Cory Matthews : And if you give me fifty bucks now, I'll shovel your snow all winter.

  Mr. George Feeny : Payment in advance? For a task linked to factors as unpredictable as the weather? Hardly seems fair.

  Cory Matthews : Come on, Mr. Feeny, have some pity. I've been out of work for eleven years.

  Mr. George Feeny : Well, I do have some shutters that are in dire need of paint.

  Cory Matthews : Cool. What's it pay?

  Mr. George Feeny : Well, I could go as high as, oh, five.

  Cory Matthews : Dollars? Get a pulse! Five bucks to paint all those?

  Mr. George Feeny : Five dollars apiece, Mr. Matthews. That's five times two shutters times eight windows.

  Cory Matthews : Five times two... times eight. What's that, like, Fifty-eight bucks?

  Mr. George Feeny : Fifty-eight dollars it is.

  [He shakes Cory's hand] 

  Mr. George Feeny : You are worth every inch of that C-plus I gave you in math.

• Cory Matthews : Say you could pick any superhero to be your dad. Who would you choose?

  Ellis : Batman, no question. Live in a cool cave, borrow the Batmobile.

  Shawn Hunter : He lets Robin hang out with him and play with all his stuff. And Robin's not even his real kid. He's his ward.

  Ellis : How do you get to be a ward?

  Cory Matthews : Batman? Is he faster than a speeding bullet? I don't think so. Is he more powerful than a locomotive?

  [wiggles his finger] 

  Cory Matthews : Uh-uh. I'd want Superman.

  Shawn Hunter : Sees through walls. You'd never get away with anything.

  Ellis : Because I'd make somebody a very cool ward.

  Cory Matthews : I'd like to have Superman for a dad.

• Cory Matthews : You kids and your water wars. I'd love to join you, but I'm having way too much fun here.

  Shawn Hunter : You're bailing on the water war?

  Ellis : To paint a fence?

  Cory Matthews : You say paint a fence, I say par-ty. And by the way, even if you wanted to, I wouldn't cut you in on this action.

  Shawn Hunter : Why not? I thought we were friends.

  Ellis : Yeah, how come you're cutting us out?

  Stuart Minkus : People, people, am I the only one who read the summer reading list?

  [pauses when nobody answers] 

  Stuart Minkus : Tom Sawyer?

  [pauses again] 

  Stuart Minkus : He's sucking you in to do the work for him.

  [Ellis points his water gun at Cory] 

  Cory Matthews : [referring to Minkus' yellow Paddington Bear rainsuit]  Guys, who are you gonna listen to, me or the banana?

  Shawn Hunter : Well, let's see. The banana says play. You say work. We're gonna hang with the big yellow guy.