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The show revolves around Cory Matthews; the other characters often serve to help him cope with his difficulties in achievement in school, his moral conflicts with his best friend, Shawn Hunter, and his trouble understanding his girlfriend Topanga Lawrence. Shawn is dissimilar to Cory; he is a social rebel, he has an unsupportive family, and he has success with women, something which Cory envies at times. Cory's mother and father (Amy and Alan Matthews) are hard-working people trying to make a decent living in order to raise their three children (by the end of the series, a fourth child, Joshua Matthews, is born). Their other two children are Eric Matthews, the funny, handsome, half-witted older brother who tries to distance himself from Cory at all possible times; and Morgan Matthews, the younger sister, who sometimes uses her position as means of getting what she wants. Cory, with his stubbornness and laziness, struggles with his friends to get through school. To help them, there is Mr. George Feeny, Cory's teacher and neighbor. He tries as hard as possible to get them through school and he eventually does. Finally, there is Topanga Lawrence, Cory's first love, and in the later seasons, his fiancée, then wife. Topanga and Cory's relationship is the main focus of the later part of the series, and at the end of the series, Topanga, Cory, Shawn, and Eric leave suburban Philadelphia for New York City while later new-comers to the cast, Jack and Rachel join the Peace Corps and Angela goes to Europe with her father.

The age difference between Eric and Cory shortens from four years to three over the course of the series. In college, they become two school years apart because Eric had taken a year off before going to college.

Morgan Matthews, played by Lily Nicksay, disappears from the show at the end of season 2. Midway through season 3, the role of Morgan Matthews was played by Lindsay Ridgeway. She came out and said "I had the longest timeout ever." ^[2]

In early episodes, Shawn and Topanga each have siblings, but are eventually depicted as only children by their respective parents. Shawn's half-brother, Jack, is eventually introduced as a main character.

In the later episodes of the series, the characters referred as Cory and Topanga having a romance "from the sandbox", but they don't actually get together until season 3. The error was retconned with the explanation that Cory and Topanga had a falling out after Eric told Cory that girls were "icky".

Cory and Topanga's first kiss is featured in season one's "Cory's Alternative Friends," but later episodes indicate that it occurs when Cory was 13. A season five episode indicates that the kiss occurred when they were children in a sandbox.

The school colors of John Adams High change from blue and white to maroon and yellow between seasons 1 and 2.

A door on the right side of the John Adams hallway set, next to the phone, serves as the entrance to the boys' bathroom, Feeny's office, the janitor's closet, the guidance counselor's office, AV room and the girls' bathroom during seasons 2-4.

Cory and Topanga didn't officially begin going out until the 3rd season, however in an episode in season five Mr. Feeny states that when the couple were in first grade they wouldn't even let him move their desks apart. He also states that Shawn believed that they should get married someday.

In the first season finale, Mr. Feeny gets ill after Cory wishes Feeny could be sick for one day. However it turns out to be more serious when he finds out Feeny is in the hospital, and Cory is haunted by Mr. Feeny's "ghost." (1994)
In the second season finale, Shawn can't handle living in a different home after his father runs away to find his mother again. (1995)
Shawn learns that his friend is getting abused by her dad, but doesn't tell anyone. (1996)
Shawn joins a cult and the rest of the cast try to get him out of it. Only a motorcycle accident involving Jonathan causes Shawn to rethink his actions. (1997)
Cory and Shawn get drunk after Topanga breaks up with Cory. (1997)
One of Cory's professors (with Ben Savage's brother, Fred Savage, guest starring as this professor) sexually harasses Topanga. Cory pushes him and is then threatened with expulsion.
Shawn's father suffers a heart attack and is taken to the hospital. While there, Shawn is still mad at his father but when the two finally reconcile, Chet suffers another heart attack and dies at the end of the episode. Chet's death was so serious the issue continues on until the episode "Road Trip." (1999)
When the Matthews' new baby is born very prematurely, everyone waits to see whether or not he will survive. Shawn returns to Philadelphia from the road trip he took after Chet's death, when he accepts that he is part of the family. (1999)
Shawn finds out that Virna (his mother) wasn't his real mother, so he sets out to find out who she is. When she doesn't want to be found, he drinks and shows up drunk to Alan's party. Then Cory goes with him to a cemetery where he has a talk with Chet's spirit. When he returns to the Matthews household he has a talk with Alan and turns down Alan's offer to be adopted by the Matthews, but appreciates Alan's offer to be his father. (1999)
In the final season of the show, Cory, Shawn and Topanga get into a heated argument with Rachel, Jack, and Angela. Both sides question the validity of their friendship with the other. Eric, claiming to be a spy on both sides, attempts to resolve the conflict with Mr. Feeny's help. This double episode was meant to serve as the series finale in the event of early cancellation. (2000)
Eric plans on adopting a child.
Topanga's parents get a divorce and Topanga cancels the wedding.

On the commentary of the Season 3 DVD, Michael Jacobs, reveals that ABC asked that the show return for an eighth season. He declined, saying, they simply did not have anymore ideas.