10 Times Wrestlers Hit Their Finisher In A TV Show

Boy Meets World was the kind of American sitcom where sometimes random things just randomly happen, the characters explaining it by mugging at each other before shrugging and moving on.

Season seven’s ‘For Love And Apartments’ is a case in point. For some reason, two furiously overacting schmoes have an issue with three of their female friends which has inexplicably escalated to violence, and the women have demanded satisfaction inside of a steel cage.

There should be a number of potential concerns here: the necessity for fisticuffs with women; the lack of a wrestling ring; indeed, the lack of anything resembling a steel cage. Instead, the schmoes claim there’s no referee - at which point Mankind literally knocks the apartment door down, claims amnesia and the ‘match’ is on.

The schmoes are trounced, and Mankind applies the Mr Socko mandible claw to one of the schmoes. It doesn’t matter which one, or indeed what any of their names are. Nothing about this episode or this show matters, and we are all the poorer for its existence. Shrug. Let’s move on.

An interesting historical footnote to this is that when this show aired in late 1999, earlier in the week RAW had presented Mankind and The Rock in the legendary This Is Your Life segment, which ran to around the same length as a Boy Meets World episode, garnered approximately the same ratings, had better writing and performances and made more sense as a situation comedy.