Rider Strong wasn’t feeling Boy Meets World’s alcoholic episode.

Boy Meets World actor Rider Strong recalled one particular episode that made him “very uncomfortable” and “so miserable” to film. In a recent episode of Pod Meets World - the rewatch podcast dedicated to the ’90s sitcom co-hosted by Strong,

However, Strong revealed that he was “miserable” filming the episode, which was banned by Disney Channel because of its mature tone, and “half-assed” his performance. “This was hard for me to watch. I didn’t love this episode,” Strong said.

On the latest episode of his rewatch podcast with Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle, the actor reflects on the episode that did not air on Disney Channel due to its mature subject matter.

Rider Strong opened up about why he was not a fan of Boy Meets World's alcohol-themed episode and its representation of alcoholism

But one episode that still sticks with Rider Strong is “If You Can’t Be With the One You Love”, which focused on Shawn Hunter developing an alcohol dependency, something he doesn’t think the show handled well at all. As Rider Strong remembered of ...

Seeing what was happening on Diff’rent Strokes made it feel more real and I’ve only seen the episode once! I assumed I may have misremembered things, but reading the Wikipedia description made it clear that the episode lived rent-free in my head for over twenty years.