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My Best Friend's Girl · The Double Lie · What I Meant to Say · He Said, She Said · Hometown Hero · This Little Piggy · Truth and Consequences · Rave On · The Last Temptation of Cory · Train of Fools · City Slackers · The Grass is Always Greener · New Friends and Old · A Kiss is More Than a Kiss · The Heart is a Lonely Hunter · Stormy Weather · The Pink Flamingo Kid · Life Lessons · I Was A Teenage Spy · I Never Sang for My Legal Guardian · The Happiest Show on Earth · Brother, Brother


Shawn: Mr. Feeny. Why do you hate me so much?
Feeny: I beg your pardon?
Shawn: I want to know why you hate me so much.
Feeny: Is that what you think?
Shawn: Yeah. I mean, you're always getting on my case.
Feeny: Well, if by that you mean I'm always trying to get the best out of you, then, yes, I'm always on your case. But I certainly don't hate you.
Cory: You see, Shawn?
Feeny: It frustrates me to see such a charismatic young man, with so much unfulfilled potential.
Shawn: Yeah, I got you. So I'm just another one of your hopeless students.
Feeny: And I suppose I'm just another stodgy old principal.
Shawn: The stodgiest.
Feeny: What do you know about me, Mr. Hunter?
Shawn: Oh, like you know anything about me.
Feeny: Well, let's see. Shawn Patrick Hunter. Son of Chet and Virna, born in Ohio, lived in Oklahoma. In and out of five schools before he was 12.
Shawn: You memorized my transcript.
Feeny: Oh, and you love a musical group named Counting Crows.
Shawn: That's not in my transcript.
Cory: Do you know that much about all your students?
Feeny: No. I don't.


"City Slackers" is the eleventh episode of season three of Boy Meets World, and the 56th episode overall. It first aired on January 5, 1996. The episode was written by Michael Jacobs and directed by Jeff McCracken.

Plot

Mr. Feeny announces to the Matthews family that he intends to give up ownership of his cabin in the Poconos Mountains after realizing that he has no use keeping it any longer. His public announcement may work against him when Shawn and Cory plan to secretly sneak up to the cabin without their parents' knowledge for some skiing and "snow bunnies".

Once the boys get there, they soon learn that there is no running water or electricity. Mr. Feeny shows up in the middle of the night to pack his belongings in order to sell the place. Shawn bluntly asks him why he hates him, to Feeny's shock, although Feeny tells him he doesn't hate him, but is only on his case because he doesn't like a charming and charismatic individual like Shawn is wasting his potential. Shawn takes this as Feeny calling him a hopeless student, and tells Feeny that he doesn't even know anything about him. Feeny, however, knows more about Shawn than any of his other students, having memorized Shawn's transcript as well as knowing his favorite band, a tidbit not on his transcript. After dinner, Cory accidentally drops Mr. Feeny's watch down the drain. Feeny goes to bed, dismayed, while Shawn stays up reading Feeny's diary, in which they discover that the watch was an anniversary gift from Lillian, Feeny's late wife. They spend the whole night digging through the septic tank to retrieve the watch.

In the end, Amy and Alan are very angry about Cory and Shawn's hide-out plans. But, ultimately, it is Mr. Feeny who bails them out of trouble after he comes to realize that he and Shawn have much more in common than they would have thought.

Starring

Main Cast

Recurring Cast

Guest Cast

  • Troy Evans as Ranger Mark
  • Julie Benz as Bianca
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