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The Worst Episodes of Clarissa Explains It All

Every episode of Clarissa Explains It All ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Clarissa Explains It All!

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...
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Network:Nickelodeon

Worst Episodes Summary

"Hero Worship" is the worst rated episode of "Clarissa Explains It All". It scored 7/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/26/1993. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Educating Janet".

  • Hero Worship
    7.0/1031 votes
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    #1 - Hero Worship

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 6/26/1993

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Educating Janet
    7.1/1030 votes
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    #2 - Educating Janet

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 10/16/1993

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • School Picture
    7.2/1059 votes
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    #3 - School Picture

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/27/1991

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Involunteering
    7.2/1030 votes
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    #4 - Involunteering

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/1992

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Take My Advice...Please
    7.2/1031 votes
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    #5 - Take My Advice...Please

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/19/1992

    Clarissa tries to ruin Ferguson's new romance with Fiona by giving him lots of bad advice. But her plan backfires when numerous girls from school start to go crazy for him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Blind Date
    7.2/1033 votes
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    #6 - Blind Date

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/27/1993

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cycle
    7.2/1031 votes
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    #7 - The Cycle

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/1993

    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...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Clarissa News Network
    7.3/1062 votes
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    #8 - Clarissa News Network

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/6/1991

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Clarissa Makes A Cake
    7.3/1050 votes
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    #9 - Clarissa Makes A Cake

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/25/1991

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sick Days
    7.3/1048 votes
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    #10 - Sick Days

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/1/1991

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • ME 101
    7.3/1037 votes
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    #11 - ME 101

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 6/7/1992

    After failing a magazine quiz on 'How Well Do You Know Your Daughter?', Janet attempts to get to know Clarissa better. But Clarissa gets fed up when her mom plans to take her to a concert and even dresses like her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Punch the Clock
    7.3/1030 votes
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    #12 - Punch the Clock

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/1992

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Football Fever
    7.3/1031 votes
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    #13 - Football Fever

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/23/1993

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Flu
    7.3/1032 votes
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    #14 - The Flu

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 3/13/1993

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • ESP R Us
    7.3/1030 votes
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    #15 - ESP R Us

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 3/27/1993

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Commitment
    7.3/1029 votes
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    #16 - Commitment

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 4/17/1993

    Clarissa starts to have commitment fears in her relationship with Clifford. Meanwhile, Ferguson tries to get into the Guinness Book Of Records by making the world's largest rubber band ball.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tale of Two Moms
    7.3/1030 votes
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    #17 - Tale of Two Moms

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 8/28/1993

    Sam's mom Debbie is back in town for the roller derby playoffs. But there's trouble in store when Clarissa invites Debbie to stay at her house. Debbie's a little too messy for the Darlings and the Darlings are just a little too neat for Debbie.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Zone
    7.3/1030 votes
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    #18 - The Zone

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 9/10/1993

    Clarissa gets stage fright when her music teacher picks her to play a flute solo at the school music recital. Suddenly she finds herself not being able to play her flute like usual and has to figure out how to get back in 'the zone.'

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Don't I Know You?
    7.3/1029 votes
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    #19 - Don't I Know You?

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 9/11/1993

    When Clarissa has to compete against winner Cindy Sparkle in the talent show, she turns to the journal of her great great aunt once removed hoping for some helpful show stopping hints.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Firm
    7.3/1029 votes
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    #20 - The Firm

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 1/15/1994

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Urge To Drive
    7.4/1049 votes
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    #21 - Urge To Drive

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/4/1991

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bully
    7.4/1051 votes
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    #22 - Bully

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/11/1991

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Brain Drain
    7.4/1053 votes
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    #23 - Brain Drain

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/18/1991

    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".

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • She Drives Me Crazy
    7.4/1042 votes
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    #24 - She Drives Me Crazy

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/23/1992

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Janet's Old Boyfriend
    7.4/1032 votes
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    #25 - Janet's Old Boyfriend

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1992

    Janet's old high school boyfriend Joey Russo, a famous writer, comes back to town and Janet invites him over to have dinner with the family. However, things don't go well when tension builds between Marshall and Joey and Joey proves to not be too helpful when he offers Clarissa advice on a paper she's writing.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A