Personal thoughts on Topanga’s “Pudding Shop” Job
This has literally been all over the internet since the synopsis and GMW series pick up broke.
At first, when I read that Topanga owned a pudding hang-out spot, I was a little surprised and dismayed, if you will, about it. Obviously they moved to NYC at the end of BMW because Topanga got an internship with the “most prestigious law firm”, and it was shocking, none the less, not to read that she was a famous attorney being successful at life because she “never fails at anything”. But then I really started thinking about it, and I feel like the only reason why she isn’t a lawyer AT THIS POINT IN TIME during the show is because she got pregnant with Elliot either before they left for NY or after. Either way, with a newborn baby and whoopsie (too much action for C&T) she gets pregnant again with Riley.
So there Topanga and Cory are, in a New York City apartment with two kids. Cory is trying to get his teaching degree, while Topanga is doing the Brown-Elliott internship (probably while also going to school), and both are raising two babies. I think it got too much for them, therefore I believe one night they were sitting down after putting the two kiddies to sleep and discussed that only one could follow their dream right now because of how difficult it is to balance school, internships, and the babies.
Because Topanga knows that in the past she has not made Cory “think highly of himself” and he has always felt “average”, she insists that she should let Cory get his teaching degree while she stays home with the kids, and she will go to law school after or when the time is right.
Topanga is Topanga and she will always be Topanga, so because she couldn’t just be doing one thing, she decides to open up an after school hang out place (kind of like Karen’s Cafe if any of you have ever seen One Tree Hill). And after years of running the place, she feels like she can’t just leave to go to law school, right now.
But, I personally believe that at some point in the series, Cory will encourage Topanga to try going back to school and get that law degree that she has always wanted.
But that’s just what I think. How about you?
TOP TEN BOY MEETS WORLD EPISODES:
Number 7.
4x02: Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow
TOP TEN BOY MEETS WORLD EPISODES:
Number 8.
1x04: Cory’s Alternative Friends
TOP TEN BOY MEETS WORLD EPISODES:
Number 10.
4x16: A Long Walk to Pittsburgh Part I
