‘Boy Meets World’ cast says this makeout session is ‘the most passionate one of the show’

Boy Meets World features the many highs, lows, and hijinks of young romance — but its stars recently revealed what they think was the “most passionate” kiss of the series.

In the most recent episode of Pod Meets World, Will Friedle, Danielle Fisheland Rider Strong recapped episode 16 of season 6, “My Baby Valentine.” In the episode, Jack (Matthew Lawrence) and Rachel (Maitland Ward) share a steamy, secret kiss in their shared apartment. The pair has to keep their tryst secret from their roommate Eric (Friedle).

“Because they’re lying down on the couch, I would argue this is more intense than (Jennifer) Love (Hewitt) and I making out in the hallway because we were standing up,” Friedle said. “So they’re lying down. He’s on top of her. They’re really making out. He’s then going for her neck. I would say this could be the most passionate one of the show.”

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Friedle was referencing the kiss he shared with then-girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt when the I Know What You Did Last Summer actress made a cameo on the show. In season 5 episode 17 of Boy Meets Worldthe former couple shares a passionate kiss in the school hallway as the rest of the gang run from an unknown killer.

The plot ended up being a dream, but the stars reassessed the makeout scene as being oddly intense for the premise of the episode. Friedle previously said that this was the steamiest kiss of the show.

“It’s like full-on making out,” Friedle said on a different episode of Pod Meets World. “That is the most intense makeout we have on the seven years of the show, is right there in the hallway, then me kissing her neck while she’s trying to talk and all this. Like, we haven’t even said our names yet. It’s intense.”

Hewitt has talked about this scene in the past, saying that Friedle was the “best boyfriend” but that she was nervous about her daughters watching their kiss.

“We really went for it in that makeout, definitely,” she told Fox News Digital in 2024. “My daughter watches Girl Meets World right now, and I’m always afraid that she’s going to want to watch Boy Meets World and then see me as Jennifer Love Fefferman making out on the bookshelf, and she’s going to be like, ‘Mommy, this is cringe.'”

Listen to the full episode of Pod Meets World below.