The Worst Episodes of Clarissa Explains It All

#1 Worst Episode
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7.5/10(72 votes)
#1 - Clarissa News Network
S1:E34/6/1991
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.
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7.6/10(69 votes)
#2 - School Picture
S1:E64/27/1991
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.
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7.6/10(41 votes)
#3 - Hero Worship
S4:E76/26/1993
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.
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7.7/10(94 votes)
#4 - Revenge
S1:E13/23/1991
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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Director:Ken Frankel
Writer:Mitchell Kriegman
7.7/10(77 votes)
#5 - No T.V.
S1:E23/30/1991
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.
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7.7/10(65 votes)
#6 - Bully
S1:E85/11/1991
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.
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7.7/10(62 votes)
#7 - Urge To Drive
S1:E75/4/1991
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.
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7.7/10(42 votes)
#8 - The Cycle
S5:E110/23/1993
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...
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7.7/10(41 votes)
#9 - Educating Janet
S4:E1310/16/1993
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.
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7.8/10(65 votes)
#10 - Brain Drain
S1:E95/18/1991
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".
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7.8/10(62 votes)
#11 - Clarissa Makes A Cake
S1:E105/25/1991
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.
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7.8/10(60 votes)
#12 - Sick Days
S1:E116/1/1991
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.
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7.8/10(47 votes)
#13 - Can't Buy Love
S2:E118/29/1992
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.
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7.8/10(41 votes)
#14 - Involunteering
S3:E712/12/1992
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.
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7.8/10(38 votes)
#15 - Ferguson Explains It All
S5:E104/23/1994
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.
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7.8/10(37 votes)
#16 - The Firm
S5:E71/15/1994
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.
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7.8/10(36 votes)
#17 - Clarissa Gets Arrested
S5:E127/23/1994
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.
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7.9/10(60 votes)
#18 - Cool Dad
S1:E126/8/1991
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.
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7.9/10(54 votes)
#19 - She Drives Me Crazy
S2:E22/23/1992
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.
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7.9/10(49 votes)
#20 - President Ferguson
S2:E43/8/1992
There's chaos in store when Ferguson runs for school President and turns the Darling household into his campaign headquarters.
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7.9/10(49 votes)
#21 - The Return of Mafalda
S2:E139/12/1992
Clarissa's plans for a slumber party are ruined when her parents go away and ask overbearing Aunt Mafalda to stay with the kids.
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7.9/10(49 votes)
#22 - Alter Ego
S5:E512/18/1993
Clarissa and Sam go to a party dressed as cool, hip, outrageous characters. Clarissa dons a wig, a tatoo, and a nose ring and decides to call herself Jade. At the party, she falls for a cute guy named Paulie. But Clarissa isn't sure if he's interested in her or the ficticious Jade. Meanwhile, Ferguson finds a stray cat who he names William F. Buckley and tries to hinder his parents from looking for the real owner.
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Writer:Neena Beber
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7.9/10(47 votes)
#23 - Blind Date
S3:E132/27/1993
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.
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7.9/10(44 votes)
#24 - The Flu
S4:E13/13/1993
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.
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7.9/10(43 votes)
#25 - Football Fever
S3:E101/23/1993
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.
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