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Riley turned 13 in 7th grade, so they had to have skipped over to 10th grade now. Between seasons 2 and 3, David Jacobs said he wanted to compress the 4 high school years so that the kids could graduate by the end of the show. BMW had grades 9/10 one year and 11/12 the next; it looks like they were in the process of doing the same here - unfortunately they didn't make it. It's also obvious that the producers thought there were a good chance of cancellation when putting together these last two shows, with the high schoolers looking ahead to the future in this episode, and then bringing back so many of the BMW actors for the last episode. POST-SHOW EDIT: Well, I was completely wrong about all this, sorry!

Yes, more info is out than it was when I made that post back in October. Yes, questions answered and bloopers.

The above is from The Futon Critic. Apparently the show has skipped a year to have her birthday on December 8 of the gang's sophomore year. (Until this, I had though it would be Maya's 16th, since she is about 11 months older than Riley.) This would be consistent with David Jacobs' stated desire to speed things up so that the kids get through high school before the end of the series (if in fact, it is renewed for one more year). This would match what BMW did in its 4th and 5th seasons. Read more:Listings - GIRL MEETS WORLD on DISNEY | TheFutonCritic.comhttp://thefutoncritic.com/listings/20161222disney05/#ixzz4UMfwptz0

So I'm wondering about "Girl Meets Goodbye" and "World Meets Girl". Goodbye (labeled 3.20) seems to be the Season 3 ender, the one with all the guest stars, and was taped on July 26. "World Meets Girl" (3.21) was taped on August 2, and seems to be added on to the original order. This sound like the episode "between" seasons 1 and 2, the one where Debbie Ryan guest-starred, which was part of a Disney event which had guest stars (but as new characters so they weren't show crossovers). I wonder if this is for another Disney event.

And of course in real life, William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett have been married for an astounding 65 years. Bartlett herself is still occasionally acting at the age of 87 (hint, hint, producers!)

Well, I just saw the amazing spoof of TGIF shows shown at the beginning of this week's Mr. Robot and now it's time for me to post on the latest episode of the closest thing to a TGIF show that still exists. So they only had an hour to put together the wedding - which explains why there were none of the teen boys, no Eric, no Jack etc. but just enough time for Shawn to give Feeny the go-ahead to drive or take the train up from Philly...but doesn't explain where the perfectly-fitting tuxes and bridal dresses came from! At 89 years old, William Daniels is still great :)

The whole episode is now up. Lucas, Farkle and Zay still don't appear.

About half of Girl Meets I Do is up, as a set of individual scenes. The boys (Lucas, Farkle and Zay) are not in any of those scenes but are at the curtain call.

The first thing that struck me about the large-group shot is that it is not some perfect Christmas-card picture (Auggie is distracted, Josh is not paying attention, Mr. Turner's face is partially hidden behind Josh's). Seems right for this bunch LOL This episode gives the chance for characters that have not met on-screen since BMW to do so, such as Eric and Feeny (of course), Shawn and his mentor/father-figure Mr. Turner, Stuart Minkus and both Shawn and Feeny, and the Morgan(s) with everyone else! How about this for trivia: when Minkus guest-starred in the Season 5 graduation episode after being gone for 4 years, when leaving one scene they had him calling out to an unseen Mr. Turner, who had not been seen since the end Season 4 (and would not be seen until GMW). Minkus may finally catch up to him, and meet Turner on-screen for the first time! LOL

What do you think Eric will say? ;-)

So about Evan...note that he didn't actually say that Lauren was his mom. Maybe that was is they wanted to use the character somewhere else, they had more flexibility? :) Seriously, I could just imagine Evan's phone conversation with his mom: Evan: Mom, someone says that he's the falcon in that relationship game with the book. Lauren: Really? Is his name Cory Matthews? Curly-haired guy? Evan: Yeah... Lauren: *looks at tan lines where her wedding ring once was* Tell him I said "hi"! LOL!! P.S. I did like that instead of Evan trying to take Riley from Lucas, he was actually trying to help them get together.

Yes, very strange. Maybe they couldn't afford the three of them with all of these guest stars LOL By the way, in the picture they had the Morgans next to Uriah, who had two other people playing the role of Josh - babies Cameron and Corbin Ur, according to IMDB :)

I don't know what the cutoff date for what grade you attend in the NYC public school system is in real life, but it appears that in the GMW universe, it is January 1. That's how Riley's 15th will be on December 8, 2016 and Maya's 16th birthday will be in early January 2017 and they are in the same grade (9th) without anything else involved. (Yes, either the show is in the future or they need to push back the start date of the series - see my post above about covering two grades both this year and - if renewed - next to get to graduation.)

Dream sequence during the closing credits! LOL

Zay has already accidentally admitted that he loves both Riley and Maya (when Lucas was asking Farkle about it and not him). I think Zaya would be interesting.

Disney shows that have taken their lead(s) through to high school graduation (in alphabetical order): Austin and Ally Good Luck Charlie Hannah Montana Kim Possible Suite Life on Deck That's So Raven Wizards of Waverly Place Also, Liv and Maddie's title characters are set to graduate high school, yet is renewed for Season 4 and they are apparently going off to college for their final season. EDIT: Sorry I missed that KerleyQ had most of these listed in an above post.

I don't think so. If Lucas had to repeat a grade, originally they must have been in different grades. This is what I understand it to be: in their last year in Texas, Lucas was in 7th grade and Zay in 6th grade; Lucas got into a fight protecting Zay, he was suspended for a year. Lucas and his family then moved when his dad was transferred to New York, Lucas saw attending (7th grade) at JQA would be a new start for him. In the middle of the school year, Zay's father was transferred (perhaps from the same company?); Zay was now in 7th grade. One might ask why Lucas and Zay were best friends in Texas if they were in different grades. Well, it's been assumed that they played on sports teams together at their previous middle school, and also they may have been in some of the same activities like 4-H, or attended the same church and been in their youth group together. Now why and how Zay kept from Lucas the fact his family was moving close by was just an oversight by the writers.

No, I think that since Maya has already had her freshman year birthday, she will 16 at the end of her freshman year, 17 at the end of her junior year, 18 at the end of her junior year, and 19 at the end of her senior year. BTW, since Lucas had to repeat a year in Texas, I presume he will be 19 at the end of his senior year as well. Riley has had her freshman birthday (15) and will be 18 at the end of her senior year, and as far as we know, so will Zay, Farkle and Smackle. Josh is 18 but has not yet had hid college freshman birthday, so he will get his undergraduate degree at 22 if he graduates on schedule. The episode could be about Maya's 16th birthday out of order, but I have another theory. GMW has a 30-episode order this year. The Ski Lodge episodes were 3.8 and 3.9, and, as stated above, had to have happened somewhere between January 6 and February 13. My theory is that Season 3 will contain both freshman and sophomore years, and Season 4 (if they are picked up) their junior and senior years to end of the series. Why? 1) Michael Jacobs said he wanted them to finish high school by the end of the series, 2) he did precisely this same thing for Seasons 4 and 5 of BMW. (Remember BMW started in 6th grade, so it took 5 years to finish HS under this strategy.)

Okay, so (spoiler) in Ski Lodge Part 2, Maya says 1) that her birthday is six weeks earlier in the year than Josh's and 2) it's already occurred for this year but Josh's hasn't yet. Now we know from BMW that Josh's birthday is Valentine's Day, February 14. Six weeks (42 days) before that is January 3; if you want to count five weeks, four days as "rounding up" to 6 weeks, it is as late as January 6. Now Season 1 established that between the holiday episode where Shawn and Maya met and Maya's birthday episode, the Matthews, Shawn and Maya took a trip upstate - not a lot of time for it, is there? Now Ski Lodge's time frame of between Maya's and Josh's birthdays of the 9th grade year of Maya and her classmates means that while we weren't looking, Riley turned 15 (December 8), Maya turned 16, and Josh is still 18. Maya's point is that Josh is only two years older for those six weeks; however, no one makes the point that Josh, a freshman in college, and Maya, a freshman in high school, are still four years apart in their peer groups!

Ski Lodge Part 2 is now YouTube as a collection of all the scenes. Lucas chooses, Evan's background is revealed, and Josh...

Anyone want to speculate on who Evan (name of the teen at the end, according to the closing credits) might be? :)

Yes, I just saw it also. The young man who appears to be Riley's possible love interest in Part 2 is named Evan and is working as the desk manager, which is another strong hint about what is his connection to the BMW ski lodge episodes. (Hint: Earlier, Topanga made a comment that effectively stated that Lauren worked at that same desk on BMW.)

A story about how this episode portrayed police in a positive light: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/07/19/disneys-girl-meets-world-celebrates-police-officer-viewers-take-notice.html (This is also posted on the media thread.)

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/07/19/disneys-girl-meets-world-celebrates-police-officer-viewers-take-notice.html A story on Girl Meets the True Maya and how it portrayed policemen in a positive light.

Well, he's in both parts (You Tube videos of the studio audience cheering the actors at the end of Part 2 included the new love interest) but I know that's not what you meant, and I don't know if he will appear later.