Tuesday, March 24, 2009

PSA: Winning Winnie, aka, "Wonder Years stars go on to be normal people, except Fred Savage"

Winnie Cooper (Danica McKellar) has gotten married. She is also an author and mathematician. She married a composer.

The guy who played Kevin's best friend Paul is now a lawyer.

Fred Savage was on that sitcom nobody seemed to watch, as an adult, became what Yahoo Buzz calls "a director of dubious talents," and his younger brother Ben had the same kind of on-screen relationship with his gal-pal, Topanga, on Boy Meets Girl, that Fred/Kevin had with Danica/Winnie.

Thus we may conclude that the obscene amounts of nostalgia drenching each voiced-over script of The Wonder Years* seems to only have affected its star.


*Don't get me wrong. I love the show.

6 comments:

Beth said...

What happened to Ben? Has he gone the way of his brother? (also, Ben's show was Boy Meets World)

jenny d said...

Boy Meets World (although your title works too. It just scares me because of it's JH connotations.)

jenny d said...

Eek. Its. No apostrophe.

Alicia said...

Haha -- true. The show WAS "Boy Meets World."

I was distracted by thoughts of how everyone just watched the show for Eric the older, cuter brother anyway -- unless you were a Rider Strong fan.

Now that I think about it, "Rider Strong" is as close as a real name can get to a porn name. Or at least I hope it is.

I'll carte blanche you an answer to all your questions of whatever happened to BMW (huh. Interesting acronymical affiliation, there) cast members, asifli.

("as soon as I feel like it"),
A.

Curious Monk said...

Eric, bah! I watched for Topenga. I don't care what she's doing, really. I just wanna know if she's single!

jenny d said...

Last I heard, she was hosting some show on the Style network (or something like it.)