He was born in Ohio and lived in Oklahoma for a while as a child. He had been in five different schools before he was 12. Shawn has always been the best friend of Cory Matthews. The two met when Cory fell into an animal pen at a zoo and Shawn came to his rescue. Shawn has a personality almost opposite of Cory's. Shawn takes more risks and has more of a bad boy image. Their personality differences do cause problems between the two a few times, but these problems can never destroy the friendship between Cory and Shawn. Later seasons depict the relationship between Cory and Shawn as being so intimate that Topanga is jealous of it. Several innuendos are made as to the subconscious homoerotic nature of their friendship.
In the first season of Boy Meets World, not much is known about Shawn Hunter except that he is Cory's best friend. In season two and thereafter, the show began to focus on Shawn's life as well. In the beginning, Shawn lives with both his parents, Chet and Verna Hunter. One day, Verna runs off with the trailer and Shawn is left under the care of the Matthews family when Chet chases after his wife. When the Matthews find that Chet will not be returning for a while, Jonathan Turner, a teacher at John Adams High School, offers to be Shawn's legal guardian. About a year later, Chet comes back and eventually Verna rejoins her family temporarily before taking off again. Shawn goes through many issues, including joining a cult briefly. In a later season, Shawn's half-brother Jack arrives in town for college. Shawn moves in with him and Eric Matthews, Cory's older brother, which leaves Chet free to take off again. However, on a trip back to town, Chet dies of a heart attack. Towards the final episodes of the series, Shawn discovers that Verna wasn't his biological mother when she sends him a letter after Chet's death. Apparently, Chet was left to take care of Shawn after his biological mother, who was actually a stripper, left shortly after his birth.
Shawn is a ladies' man, something Cory sometimes is envious of. Conversely, however, Shawn is jealous of Cory's close, long-term relationship with Topanga. Later in the series, Shawn falls in love with a girl named Angela. They have a tempestuous relationship, but genuinely care for each other. Things get rocky when his best friend Cory breaks up with Topanga. At the end of the series, Shawn moves to New York with Cory, Topanga, and Eric.
Eric: How great is this.
Jack: Do you know how great this is?
Shawn Hunter: This is great.
Shawn Hunter: How far are the slopes from here?
Ranger Mark: Two miles.
Shawn Hunter: How far walking?
Ranger Mark: Two miles.
Shawn Hunter: [to Cory] Well, that's only one mile each.
Shawn Hunter: Today in class, I did something I don't normally do. A lot of thinking. And not about that whole war part two.
Shawn Hunter: She's got style. She's got elegance. She's got parents.
Shawn Hunter: Pittsburgh: The Big Apple, City of Angels.
Shawn Hunter: Morgan, how do we really know the light bulb goes off when you
close the refrigerator?
Morgan Matthews: Why don't you get in there and find out?
[Topanga is interviewing Shawn about love]
Shawn Hunter: Well, love is the most rare and precious thing in the whole world.
Topanga: Have you ever fallen in love?
Shawn Hunter: About five times a day.
Mr. George Feeny: [finishing a speech] And that, Mr. Hunter, is how babies
are made.
Shawn Hunter: I still don't believe it.
Shawn Hunter: He says one thing, and does another. He's a hypochondriac.
Shawn Hunter: If I was only going to be alive for one more minute, I'd spend
it looking in your eyes.
Angela Moore: And if you were only going to be alive for one more minute, I'd
tell you to stop lookin'... and start kissin'.
Shawn Hunter: And I guess I've been taking it pretty hard, and I'm sorry I disrupted the class and killed everyone.
[after Feeny separates Topanga and Cory]
Shawn Hunter: Mr. Feeny, you can't do that! You're contributing to the furtherance
of their apartness.
Mr. George Feeny: I'm trying to teach a class here. Now Mr. Hunter, Nebraska?
Shawn Hunter: Oh, don't try to change the subject.
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