When I watch Glee, I sometimes get really ticked off when they say untrue things about Ohio. Pennsylvania residents probably feel the same way about Boy Meets World. The Matthews live in Philadelphia, a fact that is central to some of the plot (example: Corey loves the Phillies). Brianna can probably elaborate on this more, but I can tell you that I've been to Philly and it doesn't look like Corey's house. And there is no giant yogurt cup with a sprinkle parade in Pottstown.
Corey and friends attended the (fake) Pennbrook College, where one of the key sets was the Student Union. There's a really awesome pool table, a coffee shop, a couch, and the bookstore all in about a 20x20 ft. space. The gang hangs out there and there is constantly events like poetry readings and board games. The student union is where they laugh, cry, and throw creepy professors through glass windows. When I started my freshman year of college, the student union was one thing I was really excited about. It would be just like Corey and his friends. I'd hang out and create lasting memories. What a lie. Maybe it's because I went to college in kind of a crappy city, but the student union wasn't so welcoming. It takes you 25 minutes to get through the Starbucks line, the floor is a little sticky, and it's way to noisy to do something like play a board game. Oh, and sometimes you run into creepy, possibly homeless non-students. The biggest fallacy of the Pennbrook student union? Even though it's tiny, there's always a place to sit. College isn't really like that, kids. There is never a place to sit in the union, unless you want to sit next to a creeper, or join someone who is awkwardly taking up a 6 chair table by themselves.
The Eric-Jack-Shawn-Rachel apartment was my dream home. It was a trendy place with an elevator, cool staircase and balcony. It was so cool that you apparently didn't need to sign a lease to stay there (because people moved in and out so often). I moved into an apartment with my friends my junior year of college, and it was nothing like Boy Meets World. The only place we could afford came with upstairs neighbors who played the song "Birthday Sex" 24/7 and a homeless man who stole our trashcan to collect cans. The nicest part of our apartment was a painting of a boat we bought at Goodwill. How can former trailer park resident Shawn afford that apartment?
This fact doesn't really need an explanation. Little sister Morgan wasn't in a large amount of the early episodes. Did they think the viewers just wouldn't notice?
My college didn't have either of these things. I was lucky enough to have a private bathroom, but my friends in other dorms had to type a code into a keypad on the communal bathroom door. A co-ed bathroom would not be as clean as the one on Boy Meets World appeared. Also, I doubt that there exists a college which offers on campus apartments (that look like they need to be shut down by the health department) to married couples. If you are married, you should probably get a real apartment. If you do have to rent a scary apartment, I hope Corey is there to give you a ride to Cork City to spruce the place up.
-Patsy