- Shawn Hunter: Look, Mr. Feeny, let's not waste anyone's time. Cory and I broke up.
- Cory Matthews: It should've happened sooner!
- Shawn Hunter: But we stayed together for the kids.
- [Mr. Feeny gives them both an incredulous look]
- Cory Matthews: In the class.
- Jack Hunter: Come on, Eric, you've had three weeks to write this paper.
- Eric Matthews: You don't make fun of my learning disability!
- Jack Hunter: You have a learning disability?
- Eric Matthews: I would think so!
- Amy Matthews: Cor, it's six o'clock. You're in your pajamas. Is everything okay?
- Cory Matthews: I don't wanna talk about it.
- Morgan Matthews: Cory and Shawn had a fight. Shawn dumped him.
- Cory Matthews: Now, nobody got dumped. We just agreed not to see each other for awhile.
- Morgan Matthews: You believed that?
- [flashback scene, at the zoo where Cory and Shawn first met. Cory and Topanga, then age 8, with others comes running and pass Shawn on their way]
- Young Shawn Hunter: [to Cory] Hey! Wanna have lunch with me?
- Young Cory Matthews: I don't think I should. Those guys says you live in the trailer park and I shouldn't like you.
- Young Shawn Hunter: Oh, well, if you wanna have lunch with me, I'll be right here.
- Young Cory Matthews: [climbs up on a fence] Hey, Topanga, look, I'm a llama! I'm a lla-aah!
- [falls over to the llama side of the fence]
- Young Topanga Lawrence: Cory, I told you not to play with the llamas!
- Young Cory Matthews: [off screen] Help! Help!
- Young Topanga Lawrence: Somebody, help! Help! Help!
- [everyone else runs away. Shawn comes running around the corner, climbs into the llama side, helps Cory up and they climb over again]
- Young Cory Matthews: Hey, thanks for pulling me over the llama fence. You're fun. My name is Cory.
- Young Shawn Hunter: I'm Shawn.
- [they shake hands]
- Young Topanga Lawrence: Hi, I'm Topanga.
- Young Cory Matthews: The wife. I'm sorry I didn't have lunch with you. My friends were wrong. They're not even my friends.
- Young Shawn Hunter: I'll be your friend.
- Young Cory Matthews: Really?
- Young Shawn Hunter: Just promise me, when we grow up you won't go to college and leave me.
- Young Cory Matthews: Okay. Friends forever?
- Young Shawn Hunter: Forever.
- [they move in for a hug]
- Young Topanga Lawrence: [from behind them] Stop it. You're boys!
- [flashback ends, and back in Mr. Feeny's office in present time, Cory and Shawn are also hugging, with Topanga standing behind them, just like in the flashback]
- Topanga Lawrence: Stop it. You're boys!
- Cory Matthews: Who are you, and what are you doing in my seat?
- Shawn Hunter: His name is Andy.
- Cory Matthews: Who's Andy?
- Shawn Hunter: He's my new...
- Cory Matthews: [anxiously] Best friend?
- Shawn Hunter: [reluctantly] Friend. Cory, we agreed that were gonna go out and meet new people.
- Cory Matthews: [on the verge of crying] Am I not making you happy?
- Shawn Hunter: [heartfelt] No, Cory, it's... it's not you. Okay? It's me. And right now, I just need my space.
- Cory Matthews: [panicking] But we're still friends?
- Shawn Hunter: [gravely] Right now, I don't know what we are. Give me my space.
- Cory Matthews: Uh, Mr. Feeny? I got a message you wanted to see me? You have two extra tickets to Sunday's Eagles game.
- Shawn Hunter: Hey, Mr. Feeny. I heard you had an academic achievement award for me?
- [Cory and Shawn notice they are in the same room]
- Cory Matthews, Shawn Hunter: You!
- [They turn to Feeny]
- Cory Matthews, Shawn Hunter: Sting!
- George Feeny: Oh, sit down!
- Topanga Lawrence: You won't listen to me. You won't listen to each other. Maybe you'll listen to Mr. Feeny.
- George Feeny: Well, it hasn't happened yet, but I'll take a shot at it. Okay, who wants to start?
- Cory Matthews: I have nothing to say.
- Shawn Hunter: Me neither.
- George Feeny: Okay! That was my best shot.
- Topanga Lawrence: What? Mr. Feeny, these people are about to throw away ten years of friendship and you call *that* your best shot? Shame on you! Shame!
- George Feeny: I show up. I teach. Why isn't that enough? Why?
- Shawn Hunter: Cory, we agreed we were going to make new friends.
- Cory Matthews: No, you agreed. I was perfectly happy with the way things were.
- Shawn Hunter: [indicates Lionel] Then explain him!
- Cory Matthews: His name is Lionel. We met today and we are getting along just famously. Because I'm young, Hunter. I'm vital and I have a lot to offer.
- Shawn Hunter: Yeah, well so do I!
- Cory Matthews: The difference is I have the dignity to keep my friendships personal and private. Not parade them around in public for your twisted amusement!
- Shawn Hunter: You little punk!
- Cory Matthews: You dirty man!
- Chubbie: Catfight!
- Amy Matthews: Someone from school called. A Lionel.
- Morgan Matthews: [to Cory] Is that your new boyfriend?
- Cory Matthews: He-he's just this guy from school. If he calls again, just tell him I'm not home.
- Morgan Matthews: That's no way to treat him! He'll dump you too!
- Lionel: Cory, why do I have to be here?
- Cory Matthews: Lionel, it's no secret that Shawn and I went through a pretty brutal breakup. Now, things could get ugly and if a punch gets thrown, well, I need you to take it.
- [a beat]
- Lionel: I will do that for you.
- Shawn Hunter: Lionel, if you guys ever play basketball make sure there's plenty of water around because Cory tends to dehydrate.
- Cory Matthews: [calling from the elevator] Lionel!
- Shawn Hunter: And let him once in awhile. He likes that. And Lionel, *never* eat cake in Paramus. That's ours!
- Jack Hunter: Let's just go home and write our papers man.
- Eric Matthews: No, no, no. We're not gonna have to. You see, the beauty of defending the dean is that he's gonna give us an extension on the paper. We're never gonna have to do it or any paper thereafter. We're actually never gonna have to do any real work until we graduate, get jobs, befriend our bosses, get married, befriend our wives.
- Jack Hunter: I just want to go to college. I just want to do the work.
- Eric Matthews: Hey! I like you too much to let you do that.