Boy Meets World (TV Series)

Cory's Alternative Friends (1993)

Danielle Fishel: Topanga Lawrence

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• Topanga Lawrence : Because it would be interesting if all your life you remembered that your first kiss happened when you thought you looked weird. Wouldn't it?

• Topanga Lawrence : Why do you care so much what other people think? When people laugh at you, they're depleting their own karmic reservoir.

  Cory Matthews : [pauses]  You're gonna be one of those girls who doesn't shave her legs, aren't you?

• Topanga Lawrence : Cory, I got Jedediah to drive me to your house after school.

  Cory Matthews : Who's Jedediah?

  Topanga Lawrence : My father.

  Cory Matthews : Wait. You call your father Jedediah?

  Topanga Lawrence : That's his name. What do you call your father?

  Cory Matthews : Well, like a lot of normal people, I refer to him as Dad.

  Topanga Lawrence : Well, then how do you tell him apart from all the other dads?

• Cory Matthews : Shawn and I have another project we're working on.

  Topanga Lawrence : Really? What is it?

  Shawn Hunter : Well, you know how those dolphins get caught in the tuna nets?

  Topanga Lawrence : Yeah?

  Shawn Hunter : It's got nothin' to do with that.

• Topanga Lawrence : Give me your hand.

  Cory Matthews : Why?

  Topanga Lawrence : I want to see if our energies converge.

  [Cory reluctantly reaches out his hand. Topanga takes it and looks at it for a few seconds] 

  Shawn Hunter : [sarcastically]  Ooh-ooh!

  [Topanga lets go of Cory's hand and turns to Mr. Feeny] 

  Topanga Lawrence : He's vibrationally acceptable.

• Stuart Minkus : Are you proposing to help us?

  Cory Matthews : Yeah. I guess I am.

  Topanga Lawrence : Why?

  Cory Matthews : Because life is strange, and now, so am I.

• [the rest of the class is laughing at him for his hair] 

  Cory Matthews : [to Topanga]  Go ahead, laugh.

  Topanga Lawrence : [very seriously]  Your hair looks different. Why would I laugh?

• Cory Matthews : No one's gonna sign your petition.

  Topanga Lawrence : Why not?

  Cory Matthews : Because you're weird.

  [the others look at him] 

  Cory Matthews : However, I say that respectfully, since I am now one of you.

• Topanga Lawrence : [to Cory]  Why do you care so much what other people think? When people laugh at you, they're depleting their own karmic reservoir.

  Cory Matthews : You're going to be one of those girls who doesn't shave her legs, aren't you?