Girl Meets World

Graduation and awards night is coming up.

I am very proud of this class.

Several of you will be recognized

for your achievements throughout the year.

Awards are a scam! A girl like me never had a chance, Matthews.

Never had a chance.

All right, I'll do it, but it's ridiculous.

It's a scam, Matthews! She never had a chance!

Maya will be receiving

the griff Hawkins totally cool award.

Maya, you just found out you won the totally cool award, yet you just sit there?

Oh, you're being cool.

Why won't you rub off on me?

And our two finalists for the scholar athlete award are...

Lucas Friar...

And Billy Ross.

I hope you're ready for some competition, dude.

Oh, well, you know how I hate competition.

Hey, golden boys, you wanna hop down from your cloud of awesomeness?

You're making us normals feel bad.

Yeah. Right after our handshake of awesomeness.

Every day.

Girls should have their own handshake of awesomeness.

What would it be?

Stop it.

Farkle, you are being awarded

the Joseph T.R. Epstein confidence award.

Congratulations. Farkle?

Farkle can't come to his desk right now.

If you have a question for Farkle, say, "one;"

a comment, say, "two;" billing questions, "three."

- One. Where are you? - You have selected "three."

No, I said, "one."

Sorry, we are experiencing unusually high call volume.

Your call will be answered in approximately...

- 35... - Minutes.

Representative!

What is this? Farkle's never missed a class in his life.

Yes?

Everybody's getting an award but me.

What good is having you as my teacher if the fix ain't in?!

I'm sorry, Riley.

Riley, you don't need a trophy to make you feel good about yourself.

Yes, I do.

Sometimes I feel kind of invisible.

Sometimes you want to be invisible, Riley, believe me.

My congratulations on your confidence award.

Will you be leaving the luxury of my custodial suite now?

You think I'm hiding out, don't you?

Well, Farkle doesn't hide out from anyone...

Except my aunt Barbara.

She's a lip-kisser.

You're avoiding someone, Farkle.

What happened?

I don't really think it's something

you can relate to, janitor Harley.

Oh, right, because I would never understand

how cruel kids could be to each other, right?

You were like me as a kid?

I just know what you might be dealing with is all.

I'm not proud of how I know...

But I know.

I looked in the library. He's not there.

Hey, guys, I checked the ball field.

No Farkle.

You looked on the baseball field for Farkle?

Billy, are you even trying?

Not really.

Troubled lad, I now release you

to the hands of your caring friends,

'cause they... have time for this.

You wanna tell us what's going on here, buddy?

- Are you my buddy? - What?

- Spill it, Farkle. - Somebody made fun of my turtlenecks.

Your turtlenecks?

Yeah, somebody said they make me weird.

You are weird.

She doesn't mean that.

Sure, I do. He knows he is. He embraces it.

But you already know that, Farkle.

That's what makes you unique.

What good is being unique

if somebody knows you're really not?

Look at everything we've accomplished in our lives:

- A beautiful daughter... - I did that.

...who's spending the night at Maya's...

A wonderful son who's hanging with his grandparents.

I just love the kids so much, I don't even know what to do.

Me too.

Yay! We're alone!

Mmm! Oh good.

I still like it.

Guess who it is!

Yay!

How is this happening?

- How?! - Uh, Ava, Auggie isn't here right now.

My mother said you'd be happy to watch me

while she tells my daddy what he is doing wrong.

- How long does that take? - It's supposed to stop?

We have to do this, don't we?

We're stuck!

And tonight you can't pick me up and say, "whee!"

And put me outside. And I say, "but...!"

And then you slam the door in my face...

Even though I love that!

But I want to.

Maybe later. But right now, make room for...

Gandhi. What'd he do?

Freed Ireland.

Try again.

Freed Ireland.

Freed India.

Before or after he freed Ireland?

Jackie Robinson. What'd he do?

First Irish guy to play in the major leagues after Gandhi freed 'em.

I... I quit.

But you can't quit, sir!

And you need to be in my class, Farkle.

How long are you gonna be out sick?

Don't know.

Pretty bad cold, sir.

Okay. Feel better.

- What about her? - That's Malala.

The Taliban doesn't think that women should be educated.

She stood up to them and became the first teenager ever

to be nominated for a Nobel peace prize.

Sometimes the world presents you with opportunities

to show who you really are.

Will you have the courage to stand up to someone

who tries to take your spirit away?

- May I be excused? - For what?

The world has presented me with an opportunity.

Farkle.

Nobody in this school loves to learn more than you.

Get back into the classroom where you belong.

Nobody gets to crush your spirit.

My spirit's fine. I just don't want to be me anymore.

Why? Because somebody said something about what you wear?

Stupid reason. Stupid shirt.

Stupid, stupid, stupid shirt.

- It isn't you. - You can have these, janitor Harley.

I'm done with turtlenecks.

Aw, jeez. Thanks, kid.

They won't fit me.

Oh, it's a good thing... they're horrible.

Farkle, this isn't you.

This isn't the Farkle I know.

And I want to know why and I want to know now.

He said I was the biggest nothing in this school.

What?

He said I had no right

to walk around acting all confident

and pretending like people liked me.

He said I had no right to have friends like you,

because I was the biggest nothing in this school.

Farkle, it's not okay that somebody called you that.

Kids can be very cruel.

I know this from personal experience.

You were picked on as a kid?

No, I was the other one, the picker-on-er.

I'm so ashamed. Just... just look away.

Somebody told Farkle that he doesn't deserve us as friends.

- Who? - It's not important.

It's the most important thing in the world.

I'll find him myself and I'd hate to be him when I do.

Am I there yet?

Farkle, don't let what anybody says get to you.

That's what gives them power.

Why are you my friend?

What is it with that?

Farkle...

Would you just come back to class?

Pippi longstockings is right.

I, janitor Harley Keiner,

was in my youth a school meanie.

And someone you all know and love

was often the target of my shenanigans.

But his will was so strong,

it changed the nature of our relationship forever.

In fact, he even got me this job,

and now I hold him in the highest esteem.

Hey, Johnny Baboon!

Johnny Baboon?

- You promised me! - Oops.

Farkle, you're here.

- Are you okay? - I'm fine, sir.

Good. Then I'll see you in my class tomorrow morning.

Yes sir.

Hey, Baboon. You're a pretty scary dude.

I learned from the best.

Yeah, I was the best.

Now give me your lunch money.

I'm a teacher. I don't have any.

This is a very special place to us, Lucas.

This is where Riley and I figure out our most important stuff.

Do you ever talk about me here?

What do I do now?

I don't know what to do.

Start over and move on.

This is a very special place to us, Lucas.