- In "Girl Meets Flaws", Farkle stops coming to class after being told he's a nothing who doesn't deserve friends or have the right to be confident in himself. It shatters him so badly he even stops wearing his beloved turtlenecks and hides in the janitor's closet. When he tells Riley what the bully said, she can't even form words, just hugs him tight.
- This is revisited in "Girl Meets Rileytown", which is especially heartbreaking as the girl who won the Spirit Award has her spirit yanked away from her by endless bullying via text. She pushes her best friend Maya away, won't confide in anyone, and when she finally does she breaks down in tears.
- The end of "Girl Meets Gravity." Mrs. Svorski passed away and left the bakery to Topanga. Riley, who didn't know the old lady as well as Topanga or Auggie, is giving a speech at the funeral about how even if no one is in your direct orbit, they're still an important person who touches the lives of those around you.
- Ava Morgenstern's home life once the show reveals more about her parents. Her mother is verbally abusive to her father, Ava takes after her, and then in season three her parents split up. The normally vivacious and bratty girl is quite devastated by this.
- Maya's backstory and home life, especially in season one. Her father walked out on her and her mother, and her mother Katy is working nonstop at a diner with almost no time to spend with her daughter. Katy, on the other hand, is content to let her daughter low-key resent her and think she's simply neglectful all so she can work her ass off to pay for Maya's education and birthday presents. Luckily, things do get better when Katy takes a job at the newly-christened "Topanga's" bakery so she can spend more time near her daughter.
- In season 3, Maya gets in touch with her father so she can close that chapter of her life by forgiving him. In the end, though, Cory realizes she needed to forgive herself for thinking she drove him away.
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