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Alan was uneven with his kids...

posted 9 years ago by deem_bastille
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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.

[–] willkins-jason 9 years ago

Boy Meets World always had abysmal continuity.

[–] bergie15 9 years ago

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

[–] Owlnut73 9 years ago

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.

[–] Wreckingcrew87 9 years ago

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.

[–] willkins-jason 9 years ago

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.

[–] deem_bastille 9 years ago

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

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

[–] VirtualSide 8 years ago

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.

[–] deem_bastille 8 years ago

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.