Line #15 YMMV/ClarissaExplainsItAll


1	* HilariousInHindsight:
2	** In [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/30/clarissa-explains-it-all-predicts-cowboys-and-aliens_n_914114.html this clip]], Ferguson watches ''Film/CowboysAndAliens''.
3	** Clarissa making Ferguson and then herself disappear in the intro can come off as this considering how much magic Melissa Joan Hart would practice in [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch her following show]].
4	** The series ended and ''Clarissa Now'', its attempted CBS spinoff, would've begun with Clarissa becoming a journalist, a career path Sabrina would also take.
5	** There was one time when Ferguson told Clarissa that he played ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' in this episode.
6	** One episode has Clarissa and Ferguson dueling with a twin brother and sister genius duo on a game show called “Brain drain” the name of the twin genius brother? [[Series/TheBigBangTheory ‘’Sheldon’’]].
7	** One episode reveals that Janet's ex-boyfriend was called Joey Russo, like in {{Series/Blossom}}. Many years later, Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence would star together in ''Series/MelissaAndJoey''.
8	* MemeticMutation: Almost no one remembers much about the show anymore besides the title. Probably because to this day, TV shows ''still'' make shout outs like "Yeah, Clarissa, explain it all!" frequently.
9	** Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence has a song called "Clarissa," which includes the classic line "If you're so smart, [[VerbThis explain this]], Clarissa!"
10	** Another band called The Paramedic has a song called "Clarissa Didn't Explain This," which in all actuality has absolutely nothing to do with the show.
11	** Even Melissa Joan Hart herself makes a play on the show's title in the title of her autobiography, "Melissa Explains It All."
12	** Sam's {{Leitmotif}}. ''brrrrriiiiiiing''
13	** "Hi, Sam!" Clarissa says this OncePerEpisode whenever Sam comes in through the window.
14	** "[[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjXilgN9QZx45wcZ7FAlAqbrreiOEsD91PYw&usqp=CAU Clarissa did not mention this]]"[[note]]A popular reaction image typically used in response to particularly bizarre and/or disturbing scenarios, or any shocking & major world event (like the [[https://www.facebook.com/MelissaJoanHart/photos/i-apologize-for-not-covering-pandemics-in-my-teen-years-clarissaexplainsitall/10156871316056541/ COVID-19 pandemic]]). Variations like "Clarissa didn't explain it all" or "Clarissa didn't explain any of this" are also common.[[/note]]
15	* OutOfTheGhetto: One of the first childrens' TV shows to break out of the GirlsShowGhetto.
16	* RetroactiveRecognition: Michelle Trachtenberg as the little girl Clarissa babysits in "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Babysitting]]".
17	** The show's creator, Mitchell Kriegman, would go on to make ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' for Disney Channel.
18	** Wayne Brady, back when he was still a park performer for Universal Studios Florida, plays a pizza delivery man in the Season 5 episode "Editor in Chief."
19	* TearJerker: The song "P.E.A.C.E." from the tie-in album ''Clarissa & The Straightjackets: This is What Na-Na Means'', which in-universe Clarissa wrote for a friend of hers who had to deal with her parents constantly fighting.
20	-->''Tonight her house is a battle zone''\
21	''Of hearts and bones and sticks and stones''\
22	''She calls me on the telephone,''\
23	''"Hey you- you don't want to be alone, do you?''
24	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Good God. The intro alone could easily date the series to the early-90s and ''that'' isn't even getting into the characters' clothes, the style of the house, Clarissa's very 90s-looking computer, and her taste in music. She's mentioned wanting to see Music/PearlJam and Music/{{Nirvana}} live, and has stated to having a slight crush on [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants John Linnell]].
25	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
26	** While most of her problems with Ferguson were pretty valid, there were a couple instances where ''she'' seemed like a bully. For example, in one episode, Ferguson seeks her for advice on how to properly date a girl he has a crush on. She deliberately gives him the most outlandish suggestions she can think of to sabotage his relationship with her. Granted, this backfires, but it's still a pretty mean and bullish thing to do.
27	** There's also a dream sequence in one of the final episodes in which Clarissa kills Ferguson (really!), and he comes back as an angel and/or devil. They only hint at it ("the man upstairs" and "the great beyond"), but in the dream, he is dead, their parents fall apart (her father becomes a hippie who constantly mourns for his dead son and her mother takes up smoking) and Clarissa seems like she is barely concerned. This might be somewhat justified by it being AllJustADream, but she acts nicer when she wakes up.

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