Boy Meets World (TV Series)

Wheels (1997)

William Russ: Alan Matthews

Quotes 

• Judge Lamb : Um, tell you what I'm gonna do, son. Gonna drop all the charges right now if you'll take this quarter and go to that phone there and call your dad and tell him you were wrong.

  Cory Matthews : No.

  Topanga Lawrence : Cory.

  Cory Matthews : I'm sorry. I don't believe I'm wrong.

  Alan Matthews : Well, I don't believe I'm wrong either, Cory.

  Cory Matthews : You didn't have to come here, Dad.

  Alan Matthews : George Feeny told me you called. You should have called me.

  Cory Matthews : Why? So you could come to the rescue again? Prove once again what a little helpless kid I am?

  Alan Matthews : Cory, you are my son. You'll always be my son, whether you're six or you're 60, and your problem is my problem. Now, I'm always gonna be there for you. Now, that is never gonna change.

  Cory Matthews : I just want you to treat me as someone who can handle his own problems, Dad. I want you to treat me like an adult.

  Judge Lamb : All right, I've heard enough. This court is ready to pronounce sentence. Cory Matthews and Cory Matthews' father, approach the bench. I hereby sentence you to, uh, two years.

  Cory Matthews : What?

  Judge Lamb : Today is your sixteenth birthday, son. That means you have two years more of being a kid. Now I know that seems like hard labor when you have a license in your hand, but from what I can surmise of your home life, you're luckier, Cory, than most who appear before me. And you, dad, I sentence you to take those two years and cherish them, because they go by too fast.

  Alan Matthews : Yes, they do, don't they?

  Judge Lamb : Mmm. It's a speed trap.

• George Feeny : Okay, uh, I've got one thing to tell you that's gonna make you feel real good, and then I've got another thing to tell you that's gonna scare the hell out of you. Which would you like first?

  Alan Matthews : Feel good.

  George Feeny : Ultimately, the reason that I never had a son is because of the sheer weight of responsibility for another human life is so enormous, so daunting, that I genuinely didn't know if I was up to it.

  Alan Matthews : Oh, come on. You're a teacher. Your whole life's about kids.

  George Feeny : No, no, no. My job is about kids. My life is my own, unlike yours, which hasn't been your own since the day Eric was born.

  Alan Matthews : What are you saying? I'm a hostage?

  George Feeny : Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. You are a hostage to extreme emotional joys and disappointments, which your children will bring you for as long as you live.

  Alan Matthews : One day you're putting on training wheels. The next day you're teaching them how to drive. Of course, the first thing they want to do is drive away from you.

  George Feeny : Mmm-hmm.

  Alan Matthews : You're right. It scares the hell out of me. So, now tell me the part that makes me feel good.

  George Feeny : [sighs]  Mmm.

  Alan Matthews : What?

  George Feeny : That was the good part.

  Alan Matthews : Where?

  George Feeny : You know, the emotional joys, you had children and I didn't, and how lucky you are, and emotional joys, and, uh, joys.

  Alan Matthews : How bad is it, George?

  George Feeny : Well, I just had a phone call from Cory.

  Alan Matthews : Is he all right?

  George Feeny : No, he's fine. It's nothing like that.

  Alan Matthews : Good, good.

  George Feeny : He's on trial.

• Morgan Matthews : Hey, Mom, you gonna help me do my hair, or what?

  Alan Matthews : [standing up from the couch excitedly]  Hey, Morgan, how about I help you do your hair?

  Morgan Matthews : Are you kidding me?

  Alan Matthews : [sits back down, dejected]  Yes, I am kidding you.