Opinion: Was Mr. Feeny a Pedophile?

A remarkable observation circulating the Hollywood beat in the past few weeks has been up for intensely heated debate: Was Mr. Feeny, the beloved teacher of Boy Meets World fame, actually a kid-coveting pedophile?

Researchers have noted that "Mr. Feeny" was Corey Matthews next-door neighbor. He was also his fifth grade teacher. The argument beings: After Season One of the series, you'd think the supposed dilemma would subside and the show would get canned.

Not so, said ABC, the erstwhile prodigy of parent-friendly Friday night programming.

Instead, Mr. Feeny gets "promoted" to the sixth grade at the middle school--the very same middle school that the aforementioned Matthews would be attending come Season Two one year later.

According to reports, Mr. Feeny continues to pervade Matthews life, all the while acting as the omniscient mentor to the "confused" yet very stable-minded boy. Then comes the twist: Stuart Minkus, the beloved "brain", just disappears into thin air. Did Minkus, being the ever-loving genius he is, figure out some sick, sadistic plot Mr. Feeny had cooked aimed aimed at the young Matthews boy?

Without much of a word about the Minkus boy's veiled vanishing act, Mr. Feeny again climbs the career ladder to principal of the very same high school that Corey Matthews would be attending. Now, I don't know about how school districts choose their administrators, but I'm pretty sure that teachers don't go from being next-door neighbor/fifth grade teachers to high school principals in the span of four years without a doctorate. And a man of his "infinite wisdom" should at least have a doctorate.

Or was it all a cover-up? Was the Philadelphia Board of Education in on the entire scandal? Was Minkus actually exterminated by the Board of Ed. while they guiltlessly guarded all of Mr. Feeny's indelible attempts to stalk Cory Matthews to satiate his contemptible concupiscence?
Well, maybe that's where Topanga comes in. She's set up as the Board of Ed.'s "cover." She dates Matthews, soothes his heterosexual desires so he keeps his mouth shut about all of the sexual abuse Mr. Feeny places on him lest anyone find out. Mr. Feeny tries to advise "Mr. Matthews" on his relationship woes throughout his high school years nary saying a word about wanton lust.

Child Protection Services agents also noted the treatment Mr. Feeny gives Cory. Mr. Feeny, a man probably forty years Cory's senior, addresses him as "Mr. Matthews." Perhaps a lovey-dovey nickname bestowed on the boy by the pedophilic predator to cover-up any sort of extreme age difference? Even if there was a politeness/respect factor, don't you think Mr. Feeny would come to address the boy as "Cory," given that they are next-door neigbors and have known each for like twenty years? I mean, you have to drop the formality some time. And if you're getting my drift, I have a feeling they were very "close."

Then, comes college. Records state that Mr. Feeny suddenly becomes a professor at a college where his beloved "Mr. Matthews" is admitted--without once every being referred to as "doctor." I don't think you can magically become a history professor at a prestigious university without an entitlement that affords you that position.

Topanga and Corey end up getting married or something--I don't know, I didn't follow the series religiously or anything to the end, but I do remember that Fred Savage's Wonder Years dad guest-starred as a judge in one episode.

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