9.21.2004

Boy Meets World

I hate being poor (poor in the sense of I'm-an-American-who-has-no-real-perspective-on-poverty). You see, Buena Vista Home Video has released the complete first season of Boy Meets World on DVD. I desperately wanted to purchase this when it came out some time in August, but I had no money to spend then, and I have no money to spend now.

*Sigh*

I was doing a little poking around Amazon.com, and apparently, the torture continues: coming out on November 23, 2004 is the complete second season of Boy Meets World.

This probably wouldn't be a big deal to me if it were any other TV show, but it's Boy Meets World. Boy Meets World practically taught me what it meant to be a high school adolescent. Furthermore, I was a big proponent of its being put on DVD before there was ever even a whisper on the internet that this would happen: I signed a petition on TVShowsOnDVD.com a long time ago, and was an active recruiter to get other people to demand that the most profound (and yet, so darn funny) television series of the modern world be put on DVD.

But when the time comes, I have no money with which to purchase it.

On that note, I would like to make an official announcement that I have joined into affiliation with Amazon.com and with Google's AdSense. If you buy books or DVDs or whatever through links on my site, or if you follow links to advertisers from this site, I will be that much closer to my dream of owning the DVD set of the seven seasons of Boy Meets World. Please do not just click links for the heck of it, but if you see something in which you are interested, use your best judgment. And by the way, if corporate sponsorship really bothers you, just do what I do on the vast majority of web sites I visit: ignore it.

But whatever you do, think of me laughing with Cory, Topanga, Shawn, Eric, and everybody else. Do you see me smiling? Now think of me sad and without my copies of the series. Am I still smiling? So just follow your heart on this.

Does this count as selling out?

2 comments:

Jacob said...

I had to delete a comment just now, which I wasn't extremely thrilled about doing. It was a link to some quiz, that, even though it perhaps served a worthy evangelistic purpose, had nothing to do with this post or the blog in general. I just wanted you to know that I wasn't completely being a tyrant, but that I want the comments on this site to be related to its material. Thanks!

Karen said...

Ah, Boy Meets World. I miss the good days of TGIF when the whole fam gathered around the tv to watch Boy Meets World because no one else had anything better to do on a friday night.

Maybe Bethany won't want me saying this, but we were able to enjoy a few episodes of Boy Meets World in our dorm room last year courtesy of the Disney Chanel.