‘Boy Meets World’ Cast Denies They Asked for Trina McGee to be Excluded from Series Finale

Trina McGee, the fan-favorite Angela Moore in ABC’s Boy Meets World, has opened up about her time on set and why she wasn’t in the series finale.

Premiering in September 1993, the sitcom ran for seven seasons and followed its protagonist, Cory Matthews (Ben Savage), from middle school to college, and all the cringey moments in between. In addition to Savage and McGee, the series starred Danielle Fishel as Topanga Lawrence, Rider Strong as Shawn Hunter, and Will Friedle as Eric Matthews.

McGee joined the predominately white sitcom in season five as a recurring character, and was later added as a series regular. Despite her time on Boy Meets World ending early, she reprised her role in the Disney Channel spinoff, Girl Meets World. 

In an episode of Pod Meets World, hosted by Fishel, Strong, and Friedle, McGee was questioned about her absence from the series finale. “I was told, in a weird, offhanded way, by a very important person, that you all went to Michael Jacobs [showrunner] and you said, ‘We don’t want her in the last episode,'” explained the actor.

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She went on to say her character-centric episode, “Angela’s Ashes,” which premiered directly before the two-parter finale, was put on her radar before she discovered that she wasn’t going to be in the finale. “That was very hurtful to me, for a long time. And to make it worse, people of color tend to look into things a little harder, so I had cousins calling me saying, ‘How come you weren’t in the last episode?’”

The three hosts reacted in shock and denied that happened (much to McGee’s appreciation). “I swear on my marriage and my wife that never, ever happened,” said Friedle. “You say that’s competitiveness. That’s not competitiveness to me, that’s sociopathy.”

“I believe you, I can tell by your reactions,” said McGee.

Fishel added, “Someone told you something that’s very untrue, and hurt you, and people know that they can get you to feel a certain way by playing to the competitiveness and knowing, ‘Oh, Danielle is so checked out, they’re not going to have this conversation.'”

Earlier in the podcast, McGee said the show left her “frustrated” and the “powers that be” would pit them against one another. “I felt that my respect level was not appreciated.”

During her time on the show, McGee asked the showrunner for her first character-centric episode, “Angela’s Man.” She claims the episode made the Nielsen ratings jump from 17 to 52, yet she wasn’t given proper credit for the success. Additionally, she dealt with microagressions and racist comments on set which made her feel “small.”