10 Banned Episodes Of Beloved TV Sitcoms

It might seem quaint now, but around its highest points, Boy Meets World was a cutting-edge sitcom that navigated teenage life, relationships, and self-identity. It was created by Disney for ABC but, due to its strong viewership and name value, was picked up for syndication on The Disney Channel.

Here, the House of Mouse rifled through the stories and took issue with a handful. One of these was If You Can’t Be With the One You Love.

It kicks off following the ongoing story, where Cory has been dumped by love interest Topanga and is pretty miserable about the whole affair. In order to try and perk himself back up, he attends a house party and sneaks away some whiskey. He even drags his friend Shawn into things but, after the pair are picked up by the police, they agree to never drink again.

However, Shawn gets a taste for things and drinks the entire next week. Jack, his half-brother, discovers this and scolds him - revealing that abuse of alcohol runs in the family.

With a synopsis like that, it’s not surprising that Disney wanted to stay away from it. It was perfectly viable on ABC, where its target demographic understood and empathised with it properly, but the Disney Channel had a wider spread of viewer ages, and refused to air it.

Surely a case of “better safe than sorry”.