‘Boy Meets World’ star dishes on twisted reason hit ‘90s show had food fights: A ‘sexual thing’

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“Pod Meets World” podcast, which he co-hosts with Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter) and Danielle Fishel (Topanga Lawrence).The group brought up the season 6 episode “Hogs and Kisses,” in which Rachel McGuire (Maitland Ward) started a food fight with Eric and Jack (Matthew Lawrence).

In the episode, Rachel instigates a food fight to show Eric and Jack not to treat her differently because she’s a girl.Friedle claimed the whole scene was a “sexual thing.” “And then the feet in the marinara on my face, [that] was all a sexual thing,” he claimed.

Strong did not recall the producer’s food requests, but Friedle did.A post shared by Pod Meets World (@podmeetsworldshow)“Cory and Topanga have one, too,” Fishel chimed in. “I think there is a movie called ‘Nine and a Half Weeks,’ where they have sex in a food fight.

That movie was mentioned to me during that episode about 75 times,” she claimed.Strong noted that, at the time, the “food fight thing” was common on kids’ television shows.“Nothing about this episode said, ‘We are still a kids’ show,’” Fishel noted.