Boy Meets World (TV Series)

Notorious (1994)

Ben Savage: Cory Matthews

Quotes 

• Alan Matthews : I don't care who it is. A friend does not rat out a friend.

  Amy Matthews : What are you? In a prison movie? There are consequences!

  Alan Matthews : Oh, what's the worst that Feeny can do?

  Cory Matthews : Well, he's threatening to suspend me.

  Amy Matthews : Oh, great. A big red S on his permanent record.

  Alan Matthews : Oh, nobody looks at that. Who looks at that?

  Amy Matthews : Some colleges that he applies to.

  Alan Matthews : Any college would let you in as long as you have enough money.

  Amy Matthews : Do we have enough money?

  Alan Matthews : No.

  [to Cory, dejectedly] 

  Alan Matthews : You have to rat out your friend because we're poor.

• Cory Matthews : How ya both doing?

  Alan Matthews : Better than you.

  Amy Matthews : Mr. Feeny called. He told us he's meeting with you in his office tomorrow. He also said to ask you what it's about.

  Cory Matthews : [sighs]  Okay, look. I'm in this sort of a situation and I don't exactly know what to do.

  Amy Matthews : Well, if you want you could talk to us.

  Alan Matthews : Because we're gonna make you.

  Cory Matthews : Alright. I've got this friend who's pulled this major scam at school.

  Amy Matthews : Shawn.

  Cory Matthews : Not Shawn.

  Amy Matthews : Shawn!

  Cory Matthews : Fine, Mom. Think it's Shawn. Because that protects the kid who it really is. Anyway this kid did something...

  Amy Matthews : With the newspaper headline.

  Cory Matthews : Yeah, could be. Now, Mr. Feeny, he knows I didn't do it, but he also thinks he knows I know who did do it.

  Amy Matthews : Shawn.

  Cory Matthews : Not Shawn.

  Amy Matthews : Shawn!

  Alan Matthews : Amy, he says it's not Shawn. I believe him.

  Cory Matthews : Obviously it's Shawn!

• Shawn Hunter : Who are we?

  Cory Matthews : We are lowly seventh-grade sewer scum who name rats after ourselves to feel important

  Shawn Hunter : And how do we feel about that?

  Cory Matthews : Better than the guys with no rats.

• George Feeny : As Principal of this high school, I'm expected to keep order. Unchecked, these pranks undermine my authority and breed disrespect.

  Cory Matthews : So I guess I get punished for something I didn't do.

  George Feeny : Name the person who did, and you walk out of here scot-free.

  Cory Matthews : I'm sorry. I can't do that.

• Cory Matthews : So how long am I suspended for?

  George Feeny : You're not. Detention for five days. One for each letter in Weeny. Which in this instance, should properly be spelled W-E-E-N-I-E, shouldn't it, Mr. Hunter?

  Shawn Hunter : [to Cory]  You told him?

  Cory Matthews : What do you think?

  Shawn Hunter : I think you wouldn't. I'm an idiot.

  George Feeny : He refused to rat you out, Mr. Hunter, and he now faces a week of detention in your honor, but the punishment for not being caught, Mr. Hunter, is far, far worse

  Shawn Hunter : I did it, Mr. Feeny. I confess.

  George Feeny : I will be watching you every day of your high school career, which in your case could be decades.

  Shawn Hunter : But I just confessed!

  George Feeny : Too late, Mr. Hunter! You are my new special friend

  [Mr. Feeny leaves and Shawn turns to Cory] 

  Shawn Hunter : Why didn't you turn me in?

• Cory Matthews : [about the rats that he and Shawn named after themselves]  Shawn's the one chewing on the lock. I'm the one with the skin disease.

• Amy Matthews : Maybe when you get a little older, you'll realize that stunts and gimmicks are not what make you special.

  [Eric comes in] 

  Eric Matthews : I'm dating a senior! I'm special! I am fabulous. I have a tremendous new found sense of self worth. Nothing bad can happen right?

  Amy Matthews , Alan Matthews , Cory Matthews : No. No.

• George Feeny : To be somebody special, is a quality from within, Mr. Matthews. To give you an example, I think it's a very rare quality for you to put a friend's welfare before your own.

  Cory Matthews : But just a second ago, you wanted me to rat on him.

  George Feeny : As the new principal, yes, but as your teacher, as someone who lived next door and watched you grow up, I never expected it for a moment.