Boy Meets World : Alan was uneven with his kids…

Alan was uneven with his kids…

So I am watching the episode where Eric takes [and fails] his driving test on the same day he has this 'once in a lifetime' type of date. So he comes home and into the living room comes his father who congratulates him for passing. [and like the License to Drive movie, doesn't fess the truth]

So here is where I am thinking Alan was with parenting.


When Cory is set to get his driver's license, Alan is kind of butthurt when Cory says he wanted to go with his friends.

Why is Alan so crushed at this? he didn't go with Eric. Or if Eric said he wanted to go with his friend he wasn't so butthurt over it.


Alan has countless times been wary of Eric's abilities [before he went all strange/kooky on us] so why wasn't he that nervous about Eric on the road?

It's just weird.

Reading the paper can really be depressing. Mr. Dithers fired Dagwood again.

Re: Alan was uneven with his kids…

Boy Meets World always had abysmal continuity.

Re: Alan was uneven with his kids…

Yeah, that was strange. I think he might have trusted Cory more than Eric.

Re: Alan was uneven with his kids…

The episode Raging Cory kind of addressed this. Alan had life conversations with Cory, but didn't play basketball with him. He played basketball with Eric, but didn't really talk to him. Both boys and Amy called him on it.

Re: Alan was uneven with his kids…

I'm pretty sure they explained it in the episode where Cory gets his license. Eric said that Alan was more nervous about Cory growing up because Cory was his last son so it meant more to him.

Re: Alan was uneven with his kids…

The only problem is that in that same episode, Alan mentions this "license day tradition" he did with Eric and wanted to do with Cory, even though we know he never did that with Eric. It just came off as a plot point invented solely to tell the story.

Re: Alan was uneven with his kids…

right. how can it be a tradition when apparently it wasn't done with eric?



Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

Re: Alan was uneven with his kids…

This is one of those shows where the writers apparently forgot the earlier seasons, or wanted to pretend they never existed. BMW is really bad in that regard.

Re: Alan was uneven with his kids…

I will never understand why/how actors who plays these roles will not stop an say: 'what the hell? this isn't what my character's backstory is about...'



Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
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