Anna Daniels
At least from Quinn’s perspective, it sounds like Mr. Turner was possibly the victim of Boy Meets World‘s creative team simply not knowing where to take Mr. Turner after his near-death experience. As you’ll recall, the emotional episode found Shawn falling into the clutches of a youth cult, and found Mr. Turner and the gang trying desperately to pull him out. In the end, it was Mr. Turner’s accident that finally brought Shawn back from the brink. That is, of course, why it seemed such an odd time for Mr. Turner to go M.I.A.
Still, that episode also came as Shawn, Cory, and Topanga were eyeing their own exit from the school in which Mr. Turner taught them (via graduation, of course). So it’s possible that the series’ writers just opted to take the character out of the picture before the gang trotted off to college. It’s also possible they were running out of interesting things to do with Mr. Turner who, by that point, had really gone above and beyond what any teacher could’ve been expected to for his students — even in the magical realm of TV Land.
As it happens, Quinn’s own work schedule may have contributed to his Boy Meets World exit, with the actor landing the lead role in Fox’s short-lived comedy Ask Harriett at around the same time. Quinn has continued to keep himself more than busy in the years since leaving Boy Meets World, appearing in dozens of small screen programs from Melrose Place to Dexter. Also, Quinn was able to clear his schedule and reprise his role as Mr. Turner (sans mullet) for a three-episode arc when the Boy Meets World revival series Girl Meets World made its way to the Disney Channel.
Written by: Looper
