<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Jumped The Snark]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://jumpedthesnark.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[skeim01]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://jumpedthesnark.com/author/skeim01/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[What About That One Episode Of &#8216;Veronica Mars&#8217;,&nbsp;TMZ?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Today in their &#8220;Where are they now?&#8221; posting, <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2010/08/30/rider-on-the-storm/" target="_blank">TMZ featured Rider Strong</a>, AKA <em>Boy Meet&#8217;s World</em>&#8216;s resident <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11olsrvl1Y" target="_blank">bad boy</a>/<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7vKqcxXCuY" target="_blank">sensitive poet</a> Shawn Hunter.  However, we take an exception to their ostensibly derogatory summary of his post-<em>World </em>career, as they write:</p>
<blockquote><p>In 2004, Rider graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University.</p>
<p>In 2009, Strong appeared in one episode of &#8220;Castle.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That feels like a dig to me, no?  How does it feel to you?</p>
<p>I think we all remember his role in the season 3 episode of <em>Veronica Mars</em> &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208OQeD1NZ0" target="_blank">My Big Fat Greek Rush Week</a>&#8221; as Wallace &amp; Logan&#8217;s classmate and fellow participant in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment" target="_blank">Stanford prison experiment</a>.  Strong, you may recall, played a guard in the exercise who bullied concurrent guest star <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYM8IL_0tXk" target="_blank"></a>and captive <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYM8IL_0tXk" target="_blank">Samm Levine</a> into pissing his pants (it was quite the guest star-studded episode, as Dan Castellaneta, the<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4SSwFxPQY&amp;p=8F6442AA45948D44&amp;playnext=1&amp;index=94" target="_blank"> voice of Homer Simpson</a>, appears as the professor conducting the experiment.  What Veronica was doing this whole time I don&#8217;t recall).</p>
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<p>So to say that in the intervening years since the end of <em>Boy Meets World</em> that Strong has only gone to college and appeared on one episode of a somewhat popular ABC show is unfair, and plain wrong.  And, in addition to his spot on <em>Veronica Mars</em>, he also keeps up a pretty strong <a href="http://twitter.com/onthestorm" target="_blank">twitter presence</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re kidding here, of course.  But Strong, according to his twitter, has been working on his own films and even doing some theater.  And, more importantly, one time about 6 years ago we ran into him on the N train.  And he was gracious and kind, even as we completely geeked out, and no doubt made him feel uncomfortable from across the train car.  He was the first (but not <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBu2enJq-Ik" target="_blank">the last</a>) cast member of <em>Boy Meets World</em> that we have had the good fortune to meet, and for that he&#8217;ll always have a place in our heart.</p>
<p>And that, TMZ, is the kind of fact you can&#8217;t find on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0835045/bio" target="_blank">IMDB</a>.</p>
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