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Clarissa Darling is a teen girl dealing with typical pre-adolescent concerns such as school, boys, pimples, wearing her first training bra and an annoying little brother Ferguson.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 3 - Clarissa News Network
    7.5/10(72 votes)

    #1 - Clarissa News Network

    S1:E3

    Clarissa decides that news is cool, and that she'd rather be Jane Pauley than anyone else in the world. Her first story is her mother's midlife crisis, which is triggered by a college pal showing up in town as a successful modern dancer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 6 - School Picture
    7.6/10(69 votes)

    #2 - School Picture

    S1:E6

    Clarissa is determined not to wear the same old blue cardigan and knee socks for her school picture and devises a scheme to outfit herself in the coolest clothes around.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Clarissa Explains It All Season 4 Episode 7 - Hero Worship
    7.6/10(41 votes)

    #3 - Hero Worship

    S4:E7

    Clarissa has a problem when Eve, the meek and mousy new girl in school, starts copying her style and taking over her life. Clarissa is annoyed but flattered until Eve steals her idea for a newspaper article. Then it becomes war.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 1 - Revenge
    7.7/10(95 votes)

    #4 - Revenge

    S1:E1

    When younger brother Ferguson displays her training bra in show and tell, Clarissa hatches a plan to send Ferg-face into outer space via helium balloons and a straight jacket.

    Director:Ken Frankel
    Writer:Mitchell Kriegman

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  5. Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 2 - No T.V.
    7.7/10(77 votes)

    #5 - No T.V.

    S1:E2

    In an attempt to get around her mother's mandate that there be no TV in the Darling home for a whole week, Clarissa connects her computer terminal to the cable converter and nearly blows up the house.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 7 - Urge To Drive
    7.7/10(62 votes)

    #6 - Urge To Drive

    S1:E7

    Although she's too young for a driver's license, Clarissa is consumed by the desire to aquire a 1976 Gremlin she finds in the want-ads.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 8 - Bully
    7.7/10(65 votes)

    #7 - Bully

    S1:E8

    When a greedy bully forces Ferguson to hand over his big sister's walkman, Clarissa decides to stand up and fight. It's not her fists but her spirit that KO's the bully, and he winds up falling for Clarissa.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Clarissa Explains It All Season 4 Episode 13 - Educating Janet
    7.7/10(41 votes)

    #8 - Educating Janet

    S4:E13

    Both Clarissa and Ferguson have issues when Janet starts teaching at their high school. Ferguson gets frustrated when she doesn't give him the grade he wants on an art project and Clarissa doesn't like having her mom be everywhere she goes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Clarissa Explains It All Season 5 Episode 1 - The Cycle
    7.7/10(42 votes)

    #9 - The Cycle

    S5:E1

    When Olvia's brother wants to sell his motorcycle, Clarissa stores it in the garage and plans to later buy it. Her parents have always told her she couldn't get a car but they never mentioned a motorcycle...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 9 - Brain Drain
    7.8/10(65 votes)

    #10 - Brain Drain

    S1:E9

    An I.Q. test result has Ferguson believing that he is really a genius. His dreams of creating a model society come crashing down when he goes head-to-head with Clarissa on a game show called "Brain Drain".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 10 - Clarissa Makes A Cake
    7.8/10(61 votes)

    #11 - Clarissa Makes A Cake

    S1:E10

    Clarissa pitches in to help celebrate her parents' anniversary. Unfortunately a couple of things get in the way of the party-- her parents stop talking to each other, and Clarissa's cake nearly explodes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 11 - Sick Days
    7.8/10(59 votes)

    #12 - Sick Days

    S1:E11

    When Clarissa is asked to play the part of a column in a pageant celebrating ancient Greece, she hatches a plan to get sick. The pageant turns out to be really cool, but it's too late-- Clarissa's plan has taken effect and she's grounded.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Clarissa Explains It All Season 3 Episode 7 - Involunteering
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #13 - Involunteering

    S3:E7

    After Janet asks the family to participate in Volunteer Day at the Chidren's museum, Clarissa tries to figure out a way to escape her duty of helping out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Clarissa Explains It All Season 5 Episode 7 - The Firm
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #14 - The Firm

    S5:E7

    Marshall joins an architectual firm after receiving some very generous offers from the corporation. But the money doesn't seem to make up for how the entire family feels about the firm. Meanwhile, Clarissa tries to write an essay to win a scholarship for college.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Clarissa Explains It All Season 5 Episode 10 - Ferguson Explains It All
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #15 - Ferguson Explains It All

    S5:E10

    Ferguson orders a pair of new mind control glasses and decides to try them out on the family. However, Clarissa decides to fight back too as she has the same mind control glasses.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Clarissa Explains It All Season 5 Episode 12 - Clarissa Gets Arrested
    7.8/10(36 votes)

    #16 - Clarissa Gets Arrested

    S5:E12

    When Clarissa decides to protest against animal testing at Woolcott Industries, she and Sam end up getting arrested! But afterward they can't decide whose parents they should call from the police station.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Clarissa Explains It All Season 1 Episode 12 - Cool Dad
    7.9/10(59 votes)

    #17 - Cool Dad

    S1:E12

    Clarissa is mortified by the prospect of her dad speaking at her school's career night. To no avail, he tries to get hip quick. His speech winds up making her proud even if he does hug his T-square during it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Clarissa Explains It All Season 2 Episode 2 - She Drives Me Crazy
    7.9/10(53 votes)

    #18 - She Drives Me Crazy

    S2:E2

    In order to win a brand new car, Clarissa enters herself and Ferguson in a contest for siblings that have extraordinary relationships. When the editor for the magazine comes to interview the close siblings, it becomes a struggle for them to pretend to be friends.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Clarissa Explains It All Season 2 Episode 11 - Can't Buy Love
    7.9/10(46 votes)

    #19 - Can't Buy Love

    S2:E11

    Ferguson's new friend, J. Elliot Fundsworth III is the founder of the Junior Yacht Club and Ferguson will do anything to join. However, trouble ensues when Ferguson realized that J. Elliot is really only interested in Clarissa.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Clarissa Explains It All Season 3 Episode 5 - Punch the Clock
    7.9/10(42 votes)

    #20 - Punch the Clock

    S3:E5

    Clarissa learns a thing or two about money and responsibility when she lands several part-time jobs and tries to keep up with all of them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Clarissa Explains It All Season 3 Episode 10 - Football Fever
    7.9/10(43 votes)

    #21 - Football Fever

    S3:E10

    Marshall bets his neighbour that a Darling can make the varsity football team. But Ferguson realizes that the only way he's going to make it is by marketing himself as the Smallest Student Football Player. Clarissa runs Ferguson ragged during special 'training' for football try-outs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Clarissa Explains It All Season 3 Episode 12 - Marshall's Parents Visit
    7.9/10(43 votes)

    #22 - Marshall's Parents Visit

    S3:E12

    The Darling's are in for a surprise when Marshall's parents come to visit and have completely changed. Clarissa also must figure out how to be the DJ at her grandparent's anniversary party and go to a Pearl Jam concert with Sam in the same night.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Clarissa Explains It All Season 3 Episode 13 - Blind Date
    7.9/10(47 votes)

    #23 - Blind Date

    S3:E13

    After Sam sets up himself and Clarissa up on a double blind date, Clarissa starts to contemplate all the ways that the date could go bad and what her blind date Milton might be like. Meanwhile, Ferguson takes an interest in law and starts filing suits for his parents without their knowledge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Clarissa Explains It All Season 4 Episode 1 - The Flu
    7.9/10(44 votes)

    #24 - The Flu

    S4:E1

    When Marshall and Janet come down with the flu, it's up to Clarissa and Ferguson to take care of the household chores. But trouble ensues when Ferguson buys nothing but chocolate from the grocery store and a big snowstorm leaves them snowed in the house without any water or real food.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Clarissa Explains It All Season 4 Episode 2 - ESP R Us
    7.9/10(42 votes)

    #25 - ESP R Us

    S4:E2

    Olivia believes that she has psychic powers, but Clarissa doesn't believe it. After Olivia takes an ESP test and unknowningly committs herself and Clarissa to receiving psychic-related items in the mail, they have to figure out how to pay for the merchandise.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Clarissa News Network" is the worst rated episode of "Clarissa Explains It All". It scored 7.5/10 based on 72 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/6/1991. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "School Picture".