# Topanga’s Boy Meets World Contract and Merchandise Rights

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120754812505481620
- Source account: [@JOKAQARMY1](https://x.com/JOKAQARMY1)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:29
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights) My actual contract from the '90s says that they own my likeness on any planet, in any universe- ... forever, in perpetuity.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=11) Wow. What? And so, the fact that I'm able to have a face- ... and use it on anything- The fact- ... is a little shocking.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=19) The fact that you're able to sit here right now- And talk to you. Yeah. Yeah. You just couldn't...

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=23) Anything that says, like, Topanga associated with it, "We own that."

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=27) Wow. So, yeah. Interesting. Mm-hmm. Wow. Okay.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=29) And so- Even if the aliens take over and It doesn't matter. On any planet. On any planet.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=35) In any universe. Yeah. And what does that mean when you say, like, for people listening, like, your likeness?

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=40) Mm-hmm. Like, e- expand on that a little bit.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=42) So, our contracts did not include any sort of percentage carve-out for us to make any money on anything they made.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=51) Now, when you do a movie or something, in the contract, it's like, "Okay, and we might use your likeness, your face-" Yeah.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=57) "... your physical face and representation in the movie or the show.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=61) We might use it to sell merch. And because of that, we're gonna give you, say, 2%-" Right. "... 5%."

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=69) I get 0%. Yeah. So, anything they've ever sold, any Topanga T-shirt you've ever seen- Oh, my- ... that's officially licensed- Lunchboxes ... whatever was made. Everything. Yeah.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CFwrxRm3Vy6m/en/topanga-s-boy-meets-world-contract-and-merchandise-rights?t=77) Everything that's especially, you know, officially licensed, ABC or someone owns that license and keeps and makes, you know, makes and keeps whatever they sell.