Boy Meets World (TV Series)

The Play's the Thing (1994)

Ben Savage: Cory Matthews

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Quotes 

• [rehearsing Hamlet] 

  Stuart Minkus : [as Hamlet, over-emphasizing and facing upstage]  Whaaaaat is heeeeee... who's grief bears such an eeeeemphasiiiiisss...

  [Mr. Feeny groans] 

  George Feeny : Stop, Mr. Minkus.

  Stuart Minkus : I answer only to 'Hamlet.'

  George Feeny : Stop Mr. Hamlet! You're supposed to be facing the audience!

  Stuart Minkus : Aren't I?

  [he turns and almost falls off the stage before Feeny catches him] 

  George Feeny : Hamlet, where are your glasses?

  Stuart Minkus : Mr. Feeny, they didn't have glasses in the Middle Ages.

  George Feeny : Put on your glasses and climb into Ophelia's grave!

  Stuart Minkus : You know, I read an article that Elizabethan English is a lot like American southern. So let me show you a little something I've been playing around with.

  [Southern accent] 

  Stuart Minkus : Shazam! Show me what thou't do! Woo't weep? Woo't fight? Woo't tear thyself?

  Cory Matthews : Oh great. "Ernest goes to Denmark."

• Cory Matthews : You know Mr. Feeny, maybe I wouldn't have bailed on this play if you'd picked something a little cooler. I mean couldn't we do 'Selected Scenes From the Terminator?' Or how about 'A Steven Seagal Soliloquy?'

  George Feeny : You know Mr. Matthews, you're right. Shakespeare is dry, tedious, and there's no way for a person your age to be affected by it.

  [Cory turns to go when Feeny suddenly hits himself with a blue spotlight and picks up a spear] 

  George Feeny : [reciting]  "Behold- I am thy Father's spirit, doomed for a certain time to walk the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires, until the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burned and purged away. But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison house I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood! But this eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood. List. List! Oh, list. If thou didst ever thy dear father love..."

  Cory Matthews : Oh, God...

  George Feeny : "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."

  Cory Matthews : Murder?

  George Feeny : Of course, I'm no Steven Seagal.

• Stuart Minkus : Melancholy Dane. He was Danish. You know, maybe I should try this with a Scandinavian accent.

  [Thick Scandinavian accent] 

  Stuart Minkus : Soft you now, the fair ophelia. Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered.

  Cory Matthews : Wait till Feeny sees our Prince Haagen Dazs over there.

• George Feeny : [Mr Feeny makes clear, without naming names, his choice to play Hamlet in the school play]  Now, this is a tricky part to cast, because Hamlet gets on a lot of people's nerves. He makes one stupid mistake after another, and for five acts, he never shuts up.

  Cory Matthews : [Cory slowly realizes that everyone is looking at him]  What, do I have a booger?

• Cory Matthews : All this guy Hamlet does is talk. He even talks when nobody's there.