Boy Meets World (TV Series)
On the Fence (1993)
Ben Savage: Cory Matthews
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Quotes
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Cory Matthews : Hi, Mom. Wow, dinner smells terrific, and that thing you're wearing is really lovely. What is that, a dress?
Amy Matthews : Oh, Cory, what a lovely and sincere compliment, and I know that you wouldn't spoil it by asking me for something.
Eric Matthews : Eerie how she always knows, huh?
Cory Matthews : What, do all women have antennas hidden somewhere on their bodies?
Eric Matthews : I don't know. None of them will let me look.
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Cory Matthews : [Cory has unintentionally painted green stripes on the white fence] You've been saying you wanna re-do the backyard.
Amy Matthews : Yeah, but now that I see it I'm not sure I want to go with this Zebra motif.
Cory Matthews : Well, nobody told me the paint was gonna go *through* the shutters.
Amy Matthews : Cory, when you open up the shutters in your room, does the sunlight go through?
Cory Matthews : Ya got me. I'm an idiot.
Alan Matthews : No, you're not an idiot. You're a kid.
Cory Matthews : I'm a kidiot.
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Cory Matthews : [Trying to convince his mother to buy him an expensive water gun] Say the living room bursts into flames.
Morgan Matthews : Why?
Cory Matthews : I don't know. Maybe lightning hit it.
Morgan Matthews : Why?
Cory Matthews : Because it was attracted by the metal plate in your head.
Cory Matthews : [to Amy] and you can't get out because your legs are broken. What will you do?
Morgan Matthews : Why are her legs broken?
Cory Matthews : Because she tripped over your dead body.
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Cory Matthews : So, are you cutting your flowers?
Mr. George Feeny : I am pruning my prized eglanteria floribundas - a fragile hybrid that I have meticulously cultivated over the past few seasons.
Cory Matthews : Well, for a small fee, I can hack off the rest of that dead stuff.
Mr. George Feeny : You stay away from my roses!
Cory Matthews : Uh, you know, Mr. Feeny, I was thinking. Autumn's here, and winter's just around the corner.
Mr. George Feeny : That's typically the pattern.
Cory Matthews : And if you give me fifty bucks now, I'll shovel your snow all winter.
Mr. George Feeny : Payment in advance? For a task linked to factors as unpredictable as the weather? Hardly seems fair.
Cory Matthews : Come on, Mr. Feeny, have some pity. I've been out of work for eleven years.
Mr. George Feeny : Well, I do have some shutters that are in dire need of paint.
Cory Matthews : Cool. What's it pay?
Mr. George Feeny : Well, I could go as high as, oh, five.
Cory Matthews : Dollars? Get a pulse! Five bucks to paint all those?
Mr. George Feeny : Five dollars apiece, Mr. Matthews. That's five times two shutters times eight windows.
Cory Matthews : Five times two... times eight. What's that, like, Fifty-eight bucks?
Mr. George Feeny : Fifty-eight dollars it is.
[He shakes Cory's hand]
Mr. George Feeny : You are worth every inch of that C-plus I gave you in math.
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Cory Matthews : Say you could pick any superhero to be your dad. Who would you choose?
Ellis : Batman, no question. Live in a cool cave, borrow the Batmobile.
Shawn Hunter : He lets Robin hang out with him and play with all his stuff. And Robin's not even his real kid. He's his ward.
Ellis : How do you get to be a ward?
Cory Matthews : Batman? Is he faster than a speeding bullet? I don't think so. Is he more powerful than a locomotive?
[wiggles his finger]
Cory Matthews : Uh-uh. I'd want Superman.
Shawn Hunter : Sees through walls. You'd never get away with anything.
Ellis : Because I'd make somebody a very cool ward.
Cory Matthews : I'd like to have Superman for a dad.
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Cory Matthews : You kids and your water wars. I'd love to join you, but I'm having way too much fun here.
Shawn Hunter : You're bailing on the water war?
Ellis : To paint a fence?
Cory Matthews : You say paint a fence, I say par-ty. And by the way, even if you wanted to, I wouldn't cut you in on this action.
Shawn Hunter : Why not? I thought we were friends.
Ellis : Yeah, how come you're cutting us out?
Stuart Minkus : People, people, am I the only one who read the summer reading list?
[pauses when nobody answers]
Stuart Minkus : Tom Sawyer?
[pauses again]
Stuart Minkus : He's sucking you in to do the work for him.
[Ellis points his water gun at Cory]
Cory Matthews : [referring to Minkus' yellow Paddington Bear rainsuit] Guys, who are you gonna listen to, me or the banana?
Shawn Hunter : Well, let's see. The banana says play. You say work. We're gonna hang with the big yellow guy.