During the many, many hours that I spend on public transport, one of the ways that I pass the time (apart from wondering what the boy who never doesn't wear a hat's hair might be like) is over at the AV Club, the brilliant culture spin-off of The Onion. Being, as I am, a person who wrote their undergraduate dissertation on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek, it's the TV pages that I usually gravitate towards, which feature some of the best writing about television that I've seen in any medium.

This is a recent highlight. It's about Boy Meets World, the US comedy/drama thing that ran on Channel 4 for most of the 1990s, back before TV execs had invented – sigh – Hollyoaks. (Other things that they ran on schoolnights: Blossom, Desmond's... and I've forgotten the others.) And so it was one of those things that I'm disproportionately fond of, because it happened right at the start of my adolescence (see also: REM and Ren and Stimpy).

It's great to see something as otherwise overlooked as Boy Meets World get proper, in-depth coverage, not least because I'd forgotten it was where Rider Strong, he of the excellent name, first became a thing that exists. And anything that reminds me of the phenomenon of '1990s hair' is a good thing with me.




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During the many, many hours that I spend on public transport, one of the ways that I pass the time (apart from wondering what the boy who never doesn't wear a hat's hair might be like) is over at the AV Club, the brilliant culture spin-off...
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