Boy Meets World may have ended 26 years ago, but it’s still one of the best sitcoms of all time. So much so that it was revived in 2014 with the Disney Channel spinoff, Girl Meets World. A chunk of the original cast returned in guest or recurring roles, with Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel leading the new cast. While finding out about the spinoff was not fun for some of the original cast members, as they were fully moved on, the meeting for the pitch was apparently even more awful.Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle are officially diving into Girl Meets World for "Pod Meets World." To start, they recalled how the spinoff came to be, and how they were less than willing to participate. Strong revealed that co-creator Michael Jacobs, who was also behind Boy Meets World, got him and Friedle together for a meeting, even though the show was the last thing they wanted to do:Michael took us out to lunch, Will and I. I don’t even know why we agreed to go because at that point, neither of us wanted to do the show.I can definitely see where they were coming from. Strong explained he was just planning to propose to his now-wife, Alexandra Barreto, when he heard the news about Girl Meets World. Then, to hear the news through the press and not from an actual person was doubtless a bit of a slap in the face. Originally, Friedle explained they still took the meeting merely to just hear what happened from Jacobs and see what was what:I think we wanted to hear, like, how did we not even get the common courtesy of, ‘Hey, this is happening’? And, of course, we knew that we were going to get the Michael Jacobs run-around. Like, Michael can sell anything to anyone. So I’m sure by the end of the meeting, he thought that we would be apologizing to him for even wondering why we didn’t know about Girl Meets World.Unsurprisingly, Jacobs was pretty convincing during the lunch meeting. While Friedle didn’t share exactly what was discussed, it sounds like they talked about a lot, especially Girl Meets World. By the end of it, both Strong and Friedle were talked into going to a casting session. Unfortunately, this is where the meeting took a turn. The only way Jacobs convinced him was by putting quite a lot of pressure on them, and it does not sound pretty. Strong recalls "screaming." And he did convince us to go to the casting session. We were just supposed to have lunch. And he talked, and talked, and talked and yelled, and yelled, and yelled. And at one point, it was like, ‘Didn’t I let you go to college?!’ was the thing he was screaming at me.That meeting might have been well over a decade ago, but it is still firmly implanted in both Friedle and Strong’s minds. The moment was seemingly made worse by the fact that they were not in a private area and were in a very public restaurant:Friedle: In the middle of a restaurant!Strong: It was a lot.The fact that Friedle and Strong both still signed on for Girl Meets World, appearing in four and seven episodes respectively, is surprising after hearing about that meeting. Regardless, they said after going to the casting, seeing everyone again, and feeling like they were part of the team, it was much easier to agree. Ultimately, Girl Meets World had some creative issues, but it still went off without a hitch. It definitely wouldn’t have been a proper Boy Meets World revival without Eric and Shawn, and I am definitely grateful that they said yes, despite the circumstances getting them there.