Before [Girl Meets World]

Santa's Little Helper (1x10)

"And it was always said of Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us. And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, everyone," Mr. Feeny read from his book as Cory and Shawn were goofing around in their seats.

Riley shook her head at the screen. "I'm starting to think you never paid attention in class."

"That's not true, Miss Matthews," George told her. Cory smiled thankfully before George continued, "He paid attention once or twice."

"And so ends Dickens' masterpiece, A Christmas Carol."

"Wait a minute," Shawn spoke up. "That's not the end. Where's the Grinch?"

"That's another one of your jokes, right, Hunter?" Jonathan turned to see Shawn looking back at him sheepishly. The man sighed as kid Cory agreed with kid Shawn.

"How come it's called A Christmas Carol, anyway?" Shawn queried.

Cory added, "Yeah, there was nobody in this story named Carol."

George ignored the two boys. "Miss Lawrence, would you please trade places with Mr. Matthews?"

"All right. I'm a hyperactive, under-achieving, 11-year-old boy," Topanga said with her eyes closed.

Lucas put on a playful smirk. "True love right there."

"I meant physically," George clarified.

"Oh, well, that takes less of a psychic toll."

"Why do I have to move?" Cory asked.

"We were just giving our view of the book," Shawn defended.

"Yeah, I mean you say literary masterpiece, we say ehhh!" They put their thumbs down.

"Mr. Matthews, I'm less interested in your review than I am that you understand the material. What, in your opinion, was Mr. Dickens trying to express in his Christmas story?"

"That if you're a real butthead, then neat ghosts will take you to cool places."

George put his thumb down a made a buzzer-like noise as Cory and Shawn did earlier.

"Ok, but were you really wrong?" Maya questioned.

"Yes," Jonathan informed her adamantly.

...

Cory held his lunch in his hand. "Fish and sticks. Two things nature never would've put together. What'd you get?"

"Peanut butter and jelly. Two things nature couldn't keep apart," Shawn responded

"Since when did your mom pack you lunch? I thought you liked fish sticks."

Shawn's eyes widened as he remembered what would happen in this "episode." At least this won't be nearly as hard of a memory to watch as other memories dealing with his home life are.

"I do, but I think it's cruel how the little fish scream when they rip their sticks off," Shawn answered as Cory looked at his fish stick in disgust.

"I know you weren't the brightest kid, but how did you think fish sticks were an actual part of a fish?" Jack questioned his younger brother.

"It's probably just an excuse to hide something deeper," Maya predicted and looked to her right for confirmation from her dad. He slowly nodded.