It’s the holiday season, and what better way to get in the Christmas spirit than to watch the holiday-themed episodes of your favorite TV shows? Today, we’re taking a look back at Boy Meets World, which featured a number of Christmas episodes, though surprisingly it did not have one every single season. And one of these is technically a New Year’s Eve episode, but we’re still counting it because it’s around the same time of year. But enough preamble, let’s get to our ranking of all the Boy Meets World Christmas episodes!
Want more Christmas sitcom episodes? Check out Friends and Seinfeld!
6. 3x10 - Train of Fools
In the last spot, we have the episode that isn’t actually about Christmas, but is instead really about New Year’s Eve. In this somewhat goofy episode, Eric has a date with a supermodel, while Cory, Shawn, and Topanga plan to go out in Shawn’s uncle’s “limo” (it’s really a hearse). But, those plans are put to a halt when they have to take the subway and the power goes out. The episode also features a substantial B story involving Mr. Turner and his friend hanging out with a bunch of his exes which wasn’t related to anything else at all.
5. 2x12 - Turnaround
While this episode is pretty good as a whole, it’s only tangentially related to Christmas in that you can tell it takes place around that time of the year, but it isn’t explicitly about the holiday. So, we couldn’t give it a higher ranking because of that. In this one, the school is having a Sadie Hawkins-style dance where the girls ask the guys. Shawn, of course, has a date immediately, but when Topanga isn’t going to be around as a guaranteed date for Cory, he ends up saying yes to a nerdy girl. What happens next? Why, a bunch of makeover hijinks, of course!
4. 6x11 - Santa’s Little Helpers
Okay now we start to get into the actual episodes about Christmas. In the only college-era Christmas episode (there wasn’t one in season seven), Cory and Topanga both secretly know that Angela and Shawn still have feelings for each other. So, they invite them both over to the Matthews’ house to celebrate Christmas to try to get them back together. Meanwhile, Eric gets a job as the mall Santa Claus, with Jack and Rachel as an elf and Mrs. Claus, respectively, and goes a little overboard in trying to help all of the impoverished children get what they want for Christmas.
3. 1x10 - Santa’s Little Helper
This season one episode is all about Cory learning to be more aware of others and what they might have going on in their lives. While he’s going on about how he knows he’s going to get this fancy new basketball for Christmas, he doesn’t notice that Shawn clearly doesn’t even have five dollars to contribute to the group gift for Mr. Feeny. Once it’s pointed out to him, he overcompensates and Shawn feels like he’s a charity case. They work it out in the end, though based on how Cory acts in later seasons, you have to wonder if he really learned this lesson or not.
2. 4x12 - Easy Street
Remember the episode where Cory accidentally works for the mob? It’s a Christmas episode! Cory gets a job near the holidays to try to make some money to buy some gifts, but realizes it’s too good to be true when Shawn points out that the errands he runs are actually for guys in the mob. Instead of that being the end of that, though, Shawn decides he wants the easy money and takes Cory’s place. Meanwhile, Eric has his own storyline about driving a girl back home for the holidays, which is all pretty silly when compared to the main storyline that gets pretty emotional at times.
1. 5x11 - A Very Topanga Christmas
And in the number one spot, we had to go with the episode where Topanga spends Christmas with the Matthews’ for the first time while her family is out of town. She wants to bring some of her own family traditions to the mix, which of course flusters Cory because he wants to do everything as it always is. But, in the end, we get a little bit of a Christmas Carol situation where Cory sees a glimpse of the future (in a dream) where Topanga is happy and he’s a sad sack, basically. What’s also good about this episode is that Shawn and Jack are spending their first Christmas together and trying to find something in common, and wouldn’t you know that this mirrors the main storyline, which always makes an episode better.
What’s your favorite holiday episode of Boy Meets World? Let us know in the comments!
- Easy Street features classic comedians Soupy Sales and Buddy Hackett as the two mobsters, Mr. Martini and Mr. Fontaine.
- A Very Topanga Christmas features Mr. Feeny actually reading A Christmas Carol at the end of the episode, which he then also does at the end of the Santa’s Little Helpers episode. He also reads from it in the episode Santa’s Little Helper, though it’s in class, not at the Matthews’ house.
- According to IMDB, Will Friedle ad-libbed his Ho-Ho-Ho joke when he and Amy are trying to coax Morgan out of the bathroom in Santa’s Little Helper.
- The show does some generous time-jumping to age up Cory, Shawn, and Topanga over time. In season 1, they are in 6th grade. In season 2, they are in 7th grade. In season 3, they are in 8th grade and then graduate 10th grade. In season 4, they are in 11th grade; in season 5, they are in 12th grade; in season 6-7, they are in college.
- Ben Savage (Cory) and Rider Strong (Shawn) are the only actors to appear in all 158 episodes of the series.
- Easy Street features classic comedians Soupy Sales and Buddy Hackett as the two mobsters, Mr. Martini and Mr. Fontaine.
- A Very Topanga Christmas features Mr. Feeny actually reading A Christmas Carol at the end of the episode, which he then also does at the end of the Santa’s Little Helpers episode. He also reads from it in the episode Santa’s Little Helper, though it’s in class, not at the Matthews’ house.
- According to IMDB, Will Friedle ad-libbed his Ho-Ho-Ho joke when he and Amy are trying to coax Morgan out of the bathroom in Santa’s Little Helper.
- The show does some generous time-jumping to age up Cory, Shawn, and Topanga over time. In season 1, they are in 6th grade. In season 2, they are in 7th grade. In season 3, they are in 8th grade and then graduate 10th grade. In season 4, they are in 11th grade; in season 5, they are in 12th grade; in season 6-7, they are in college.
- Ben Savage (Cory) and Rider Strong (Shawn) are the only actors to appear in all 158 episodes of the series.
1 thought on “All Boy Meets World Christmas Episodes – Ranked”
Geez, the only Christmas-themed episode of BMW that I can remember is the one where Topanga spends Xmas with the Matthews family.
Hee hee