We’ve been following the manic adventures of the Boy Meets World crew for since disc one, and the folks at Lions Gate got us out a copy of the next step in the series by sending out a copy of Boy Meets World Season Five. We’ve seen a lot of ups and downs in the series, and some downright insanity come out of this, but what will this season give us?

Boy Meets World Season Five represents the last year of high school for our familiar gang–best friends Cory and Shawn, Cory’s girlfriend Topanga, Cory’s and the rest–and of course, this year will be packed full of strange things and bizarre occurrences, leading up to the strangest of all as Cory proposes marriage to Topanga, despite the fact that neither has actually voted in a free election.

This year is going to be unusually heavy on the drama, for some reason, especially considering how previous seasons stacked up. And when you couple that with the fact that the characters are still bizarre and full of comedy in its own right.

How best to describe this? Well…okay. Anyone remember those old high school, or maybe college, chemistry classes where they tossed sodium into water and things burst into flame? Yeah, that’s exactly what this is. The sodium is the comedy. The water is the drama. And putting these two together is an unnerving combination. I never thought I’d use the word “unnerving” in connection with anything about Boy Meets World–I’ve seen like three seasons of this show now and I’ve never been able to connect the word “unnerving” to it. This combination is too weird for words.

In fact, there’s a line from the show itself that’s the perfect descriptor, in which Mr. Feeny looks squarely at the camera and declares in no uncertain terms: “It just gets weirder.” And this show’s been getting progressively weirder since its first season, but this one is a whole new level of weird. This is weird I would not have thought would be possible from this series. Boy Meets World was never supposed to be weird on par with X-Files, or worse. This is the kind of weird you might find in some YouTube videos. I haven’t seen this kind of weird since I saw the Candle Cove video.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives Boy Meets World Season Five a seven out of ten for being bizarre in most every respect, and for being downright compelling due to its sheer unpredictability. This should not be this weird. This is a sitcom, from ABC. And yet, it’s entirely too lunatic to be anything but. How the last seasons will end leaves me baffled just to think about.