Clarissa Explains It All

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.

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

Using her deductive powers, Clarissa determines that her parents are having a baby. She orchestrates a series of demonstrations to try to dissuade them, only to discover theyre actually adding a new room on to the house.

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

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".

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 its too late-- Clarissas plan has taken effect and shes grounded.

In an effort to break free from the shackles of "kiddie" jobs like babysitting, Clarissa asks for permission to apply for a job at the Baxter Beach Carnival. Her parents say no, but Clarissa perseveres only to wind up running the day care center.

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.

Theres chaos in store when Ferguson runs for school President and turns the Darling household into his campaign headquarters.

Clarissa gets chosen as the understudy for the lead in the school play. She is extremely happy about this easy job until the lead comes down with sore throat on opening night. Ferguson tries to help Clarissa learn her lines in time, but secretly has her memorizing the lines to several other different plays.

Clarissa becomes worried about her parents marriage when a debate starts between the two of them. Marshall wants to follow his dream of building a brand new mall, while Janet is more concerned about saving the trees on the same piece of property.

After a commercial producer spots Marshall in line at the grocery store, she chooses him as the perfect face. However, Marshall starts taking his new role as a male model a bit too seriously.

Clarissas school guidance counselor, Ms. Cheesebrow, makes Clarissa try more normal activities, such as Home Ec and Cheerleading. But Clarissa soon learns that one persons normal is anothers abnormal.

Janets 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 dont 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 shes writing.

Clarissa is chosen to represent her school at a poetry banquet after her computer helps her write a strange but well-loved poem.

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.

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

As Marshalls birthday arrives, he loses interest in everything and decides to sell the house and move the entire family to Mango Island. Everyone goes along with the idea until Marshall has a couple interested in buying come look at the house and they realize just how serious he is.

After Clarissa accidentally walks out of a clothing shop while wearing a piece of lingerie that she didnt pay for, she has nightmares about being a hunted criminal. When Clarissa doesnt want to tell Sam whats bothering her, it causes tension in their friendship.

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.

Olivia believes that she has psychic powers, but Clarissa doesnt 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.

The annual family vacation to Lake Winnemucca is usually filled with doom and disaster. This year the family decides to give the Grand Canyon a try as a change of pace. Trouble ensues when all plans for the upcoming vacation start to go wrong.

Ferguson convinces Clarissas boyfriend Clifford to star in his cable access show called Boy Thoughts. But once the show is a hit, Clifford doesnt have time for Clarissa.

After one bad date too many, Sam realizes that the perfect girl for him is Clarissa. They agree to go out on a date, but it turns into a disaster and they both decide theyre better off as friends.

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.

After vowing to never babysit Elsie Soaperstein again, Clarissa lets herself get guilted into sitting for her on the Soapersteins anniversay. Elsies a big time troble maker with only one weakness- Ferguson.

When Olvias 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 couldnt get a car but they never mentioned a motorcycle...

Clarissa learns a few lessons about responsibility when she becomes the editor in chief for her school newspaper.

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 isnt sure if hes 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.

Marshall joins an architectual firm after receiving some very generous offers from the corporation. But the money doesnt 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.

Clarissa is given her own advice column in the school paper. She soon finds out that giving people good advice isnt as easy as she thought.

Clarissa discovers that real science can be really weird. After interviewing a woman who supposedly spotted a UFO, Clarissa decides to get to the bottom of the UFO phenomena herself.

Its a sad day as Clarissa complete her last assignment for the Dispatch - an article dedicated to the future.. where will everyone be in 20 years?