BoyMeetsWorld's horror parody episode is an untouchable masterpiece.
On paper, it sounds like it could belong in a cult-favorite horror flick from the 90s: while stuck in detention and abandoned by their teacher, a group of teenagers wander about their eerily quiet high school after hours and get picked off one-by-one by a mysterious masked killer. It isn’t an underappreciated horror gem, though—it’s an episode of a sitcom. To me, Halloween specials are as integral a part of the season as horror films themselves.
When This Boy Meets...DEATH It begins like any other episode of the series: after a classroom disturbance, the gang finds itself in detention under the wrath of Mr. Feeny . This is season five, remember, so a major plotline revolves around Corey and Topanga having broken up, much to Shawn’s dismay. Just a few minutes into the episode, things start to shift gears and swerve into slasher territory. Feeny leaves the classroom, locking the doors behind him.
Throughout its entire run, Boy Meets World provided sharply written scripts and a particularly talented cast, and few episodes prove this as much as “And Then There Was Shawn." The episode was written by Jeff Menell, a horror film addict who spent time as a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter before writing for Boy Meets World. Menell used his passion for slashers by making a smart, faithful homage to the films that pulls from a pool of knowledge of the genre.
Boy Meets World is no stranger to taking some bold steps in disrupting its safe but dependable formula with some off-center episodes. Season 3’s “I Was a Teenage Spy and “As Time Goes By” from Season 7 toyed with experimenting on the show’s formula, featuring outlandish time travel scenarios, and paid reference to ’50s culture and film noir respectively. Still, the series' slasher episode, though brilliant, never feels too out of character for what viewers could expect from the show.
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