Girl Meets World Is Back and Fans Are Excited for High School

Disney Channel's Girl Meets World, a sequel to the hit '90s sitcom Boy Meets World, returned June 3 for season 3 and Canvs, the language analytics company that measures emotions around content, took a closer look at the premiere to see how viewers reacted.

Canvs detected 4,546 Emotional Reactions (ERs) out of 15,139 tweets captured by Nielsen, with 30% of tweets expressing some sort of emotion. The main ERs fell into the excited (16.5%), dislike, love (16.5%), good (9.2%), crazy (8.1%) and dislike (7.5%) categories, with love dominating at 35.6%.

The series, a sequel to the hit '90s sitcom Boy Meets World, which centered on the relationship and eventual marriage of Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) and Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel), returns with their daughter Riley Matthews (Rowan Blanchard) beginning high school.

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There was a spike in ERs expressing excitement in the opening moments of the show, with viewers commenting on the show's new intro and sharing their anticipation for Riley's new adventure. During the first five-minute span, 33.3% of tweets fell into the excited bucket.

I am in love with the new opening. Im feeling nostalgic already. #GirlMeetsWorld #GirlMeetsHighSchool

- Sean Patterson (@seanpware) June 4, 2016

During the night there were 1,960 unique reacting authors, with 10.9% returning to tweet from the season 2 finale.

At the end of the premiere, viewers tweeted about an emotional moment when Maya reassures Ava about her parents' divorce and how to get through it. There were 140 ERs in a five-minute span as the episode ended, with some fans moved to tears.

The moment between Ava and Maya was so unexpected and beautiful! @RealAvaKolker @SabrinaAnnLynn #GirlMeetsHighSchool #GirlMeetsWorldSeason3

- GMW Buzz (@GMWBuzz) June 4, 2016

oh my god Girl Meets World has me CRYING Im actually in tears

- leo (@camiIascunt) June 4, 2016

Interestingly, during the West Coast airing there was a noticeable spike in viewer activity, which resulted in more Emotional Reactions during some five-minute periods than the East Coast airing. For example, there were 141 ERs during the first five minutes of the East Coast broadcast compared to 227 ERs during the same time period of the West Coast broadcast.

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