Danielle Fishel didn’t love the changes in Topanga leading up to her wedding to Cory Matthews.
On the July 24 episode of Pod Meets World, the actress talked about how her character, Topanga Lawrence, exhibited some unflattering behavior that didn’t make sense as a bride-to-be.
Fans watched the couple go from puppy love to the real deal when Cory proposed during the show’s May 1998 season 5 finale. Fresh out of high school, the two characters spent the show’s sixth season engaged before tying the knot early in the seventh and final season.
In discussing the episode, Fishel said, “The wedding stuff, honestly, I’m… are there funny moments? Sure. But to me, they’re really masked by just more of, I think, grossness. There’s a few really gross jokes in the beginning, and then, I don’t know, I just was like, ‘Even if this is funny, I don’t want to find it funny.’ “
Elaborating, she says, “There’s a couple of lines that Stan, the plumber, says, sort of like, ‘They’re all lovely with the lights off.’ It’s just so gross.”
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Explaining that Cory spends the episode fantasizing about a honeymoon with another woman, she says, “Topanga, girl, you can do better!”
As they discuss Cory’s uncharacteristic response to having a million dollars dangled in front of him, Fishel says, “When did Topanga become this person? When did Topanga become the person who’s like, ‘Oh, I wish we could spend so much money on a one-day wedding. Our wedding will never be this beautiful because we don’t have millions of dollars.’ Like, what?”
Later in the episode, Cory and Topanga crash a wedding at a banquet hall, dreaming of a pricy wedding. Strong suggests the storyline should be “flipped,” with Cory pining after the wedding and Topanga deeming it as ridiculous.
In a 2024 episode of the podcast, Fishel opened up about how, looking back, she didn’t love the idea of Cory and Topanga getting married.
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Topanga and Cory’s wedding
“I think I might have her still do the proposal,” Fishel explained, “and maybe he still says yes, and we go through the whole planning, and then we end up deciding it’s maybe not the right choice for us right now. And we still stay together. We don’t have to be broken up, but maybe we just save the marriage aspect for the end of the show and not spend the last, like, full year of the show married.”
Fishel’s character did briefly call off the wedding early in the show’s final season, but the couple quickly reconciled and were married in the November 1999 episode “It’s About Time.”
“I know from my just my memories of it, after we were married, feeling like, well, now we’re married, and they had to come up with new, like, upping the stakes for us,” Fishel recalled. “And I remember not loving those stakes.”
Fishel added that she felt like the show “could have gotten more mileage out of them being together, but not yet married.”
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