Boy Meets World: Why Mr. Turner Disappeared For 18 Years
With absentee parents, Shawn Hunter found an unlikely father figure in his teacher Mr. Turner, only for the Boy Meets World character to suddenly vanish. While Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) was the main focus of Boy Meets World, it was his best friend Shawn (Rider Strong) that became the favorite character of many viewers. Cory was generally a straight-laced kid who played by the rules, while Shawn grew into the resident bad boy heart throb of John Adams High School.
At the end of the day though, Shawn was usually a good person at heart, although his fractured home life did him no favors. During season 2, Shawn's mother Virna abandoned the family, followed shortly after by the departure of his dad Chet from Boy Meets World's cast of characters for an indefinite amount of time. Without adult guidance and a place to live, Shawn befriends and moves in with his English teacher Jonathan Turner (Anthony Tyler Quinn). The arrangement ends up working out pretty well. Sadly, Shawn's flaky parents returned and soon threw his life back into turmoil.
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In season 4's «Cult Fiction» episode, a despondent Shawn joins a cult, but he's snapped out of it when he learns that Mr. Turner has been in a serious motorcycle accident. Turner spends time in a coma, but is said to have survived. Not that this ultimately mattered, as Turner abruptly disappeared soon afterward. While he was referenced a few times later, he never appeared in person on Boy Meets World again prior to its cancellation. Fans were left puzzled by this for decades, although in more recent years Quinn has said that Turner's exit was a creative decision that he had no input in, suggesting he wasn't happy about leaving
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