Line #1 Trivia/ClarissaExplainsItAll


1	* ActorInspiredElement: During her audition for the show, creator Mitchell Kriegman asked Melissa Joan Hart whether she liked Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock. She responded that she hated them and preferred quirky alt rock bands like Music/TheyMightBeGiants instead, and Kriegman decided to utilize several of Hart's own personal tastes to inform the character.
2	* DuelingDubs: The series was dubbed into Italian twice. The first aired on Junior TV in the early '90s, while the second ran on Creator/{{RAI}}'s [=RaiSat=] subsidiary towards the end of the decade.
3	* DuelingShows: Both this show and ''Series/{{Blossom}}'' have often been compared. Both shows began in 1991, and both shows had a young teenage actress in the lead role.
4	* EditedForSyndication: After the first season's initial broadcast, its opening was replaced with the second season's for all subsequent releases.
5	* FakeAmerican: Though the show is set in America, Janet Darling is played by Canadian-born Elizabeth Hess.
6	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
7	** The first season got a DVD release and is even popular enough that 7 episodes of it are on Platform/PlaystationNetwork's Playstation Store. Though 35 episodes from the first four seasons did appear on [=iTunes=], no DVD set was ever released for the fifth season.
8	** ''This Is What "Na-Na" Means'', credited to [[FakeBand Clarissa and the Straightjackets]], was a 1994 tie-in album with the premise of Clarissa Darling fronting a teenage garage band, and featured a mix of original AlternativeRock style {{Image Song}}s for Clarissa sung by Melissa Joan Hart and short skits (presented as phone calls to the listener and/or StudioChatter between Clarissa and her fictional bandmates). It was released on CD and cassette but never reached streaming outside of a fan upload to youtube.
9	* LateExportForYou: The show didn't reach Japan until 1998, when it aired on Nickelodeon.
10	* MissingEpisode: The second season episodes "Sam in Love" and "Total TV" are missing from Creator/ParamountPlus.
11	* TheOtherMarty: In the original pilot, Marshall & Janet Darling were respectively played by Terry Layman and Nancy Youngblut[[note]]who would later appear as guidance counselor Mrs. Cheesebrow[[/note]], while Sam was played by Daren E. Higgins. For the series, the roles were respectively recast with Joe O'Connor, Elizabeth Hess and Sean O'Neil.
12	* RecycledSet: The show was recorded on the same set as ''Series/GullahGullahIsland''.
13	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
14	** In 1995, a spin-off called ''Clarissa Now'' was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6is-eKWSRgg pitched]] to Creator/{{CBS}}. It would have shown Clarissa as a college student in New York, working as an intern for a newspaper. A pilot was filmed and later aired, but it was never picked up by the network.
15	** Interestingly, that was almost the exact same career path that Creator/MelissaJoanHart's next character, [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Sabrina]], did follow after high school. This has led to more than a few people joking that they didn't know it was two separate shows, and just assumed that ''Clarissa'' woke up and discovered she was a witch.
16	** Nickelodeon announced a reboot of the series in 2018 with Hart reprising her role as the title character, but the project was scrapped before production began.

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