I’ve been going through the series of Boy Meets World, courtesy of the folks out at Lions Gate who sent me the Complete Third Season (not to mention the first and second seasons also) of same to take a look at yet another installment of the Boy Meets World series, and this is the most outlandish season yet.

The third season of Boy Meets World puts us through the strangest things yet with nervous everyboy Cory Matthews, along with his family, including Mom and Dad (don’t ask what happened to little sister Morgan–she’s been missing in action for several episodes and her brief reappearance will be punctuated by a joke) and older brother Eric, who has now gone full lunatic in a move that sees him so thoroughly idiotic that he actually, occasionally, gets cramps in his head, while thinking. They’re called thought cramps. It’s weird. And we’ll also continue on as Cory finds himself in a whole new relationship with former wackadoo and girl next door Topanga (who got her whole crunchy-granola-eco-girl thing dialed down just as Eric got his stupid meter cranked to eleven), spends time with his other idiot friend Shawn who’s actually living with his teacher for a while and…well…it’s weird. Just keep repeating that all through the third season of Boy Meets World and you should do all right.

Why, you wonder?  Well, simple–one episode will revolve around Shawn raising a pig, in an apartment. That’s the whole episode, Shawn’s raising a pig in an apartment. At the rate this series is falling apart logically, I figure by about season eight, it would’ve turned into that episode of Candle Cove you read about on the web, if you read creepy stories on the web.

But it’s still interesting–there are some good laughs here, as well as a lot of moments that can only be described as bizarre, and plenty more that can be described as awkward.  Cory’s attempt to hook up with Topanga, for one, is a wild spectacle of sheer blinding awkwardness that’s absolutely unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in the last few weeks.

And considering how it’s followed up, well, that’s the explanation for the headline. The third season of Boy Meets world has turned into a bizarre combination of weird and awkward.  It’s not without its weird and awkward charm, of course–that’s a good chunk of why it lasted seven seasons, I figure–but it’s still going to be heavy on the awkward, and with hefty doses of the weird thrown in.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives this bizarre and sometimes comic romp a six out of ten–be prepared for a weird, wild time if you go in for Boy Meets World: The Complete Third Season, probably the strangest such yet.