Talk:Clarissa Explains It All

In Popular Culture
Do we really need the "The band The Number Twelve Looks Like You has a song titled "Clarissa Explains Cuntainment," based on the title of the program." I don't think it's appropriate to say Cuntainment on a page about Clarissa Explains It All, especially when the song is by an obscure band.

I'm going to delete it. If anyone wants to revert, be my guest, but explain why, please.--Gkarber (talk) 08:14, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I just added it again because Wikipedia is not censored, please follow the rules and don't censor because you think is not appropiate, also I should add that what you call a "obscure band" is notable enough to be part of wikipedia. --200.7.20.163 (talk) 07:47, 29 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia also has a policy of verifiable sources: WP:IRS. --Ysangkok (talk) 23:33, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

'Adult' humor in Clarissa Explains It All
The article says the show 'pushed boundaries' with jokes regarding sex. Any examples? In particular-- I have a vague memory of some childrens show one time mentioning the novel "Of Human Bondage" and saying "But not what you're thinking" or something to that extent. Was that Clarissa? or some other show? or just a false memory? Alecmconroy 09:18, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Wasn't there another spin-off with her Fergusen?


 * No, one episode was called "Ferguson Explains it all", and was primarily about him.Dshibshm (talk) 01:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Trivia Section: Yugoslavian
I removed the line: ''On the episode where Ferguson is learning a new language, one of them is "Yugoslavian." While Yugoslavia was a European country, it was made up of six nations. Each nation had its own language (Bosnia-Bosnian, Croatia-Croatian, Republic of Macedonia-Macedonian, Serbia & Montenegro-Serbian, Slovenia-Slovenian), therefore "Yugoslavian" is technically not a language. '' Yes, technically it wasn't a language, but there were a number of books and dictionaries printed in refernce to learning Yugoslavian. Ferguson probably was using one of these. 216.39.129.66 23:11, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Learning 'Yugoslavian' is like learning 'Scandinavian', neither are languages per se, however due to the great similarities between them, some people (often travelers) will learn the basics of a language group which can then be studied in more depth for each indervidual language. A freind of mine learnt Polish and Russian in college and has so far found themselfs quite understanable across both east and west slavic countries in this way. Elcaballooscuro (talk) 08:23, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Plot Revision
I deleted the following from the article due to the fact that this information has nothing to do with the show itself.

In 1994, Melissa Joan Hart recorded a narration piece in-character to Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Carnival of the Animals and The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra were also recorded with Melissa Joan Hart's narration. It was released on CD in 1994 by Sony Wonder and Nickelodeon.

JoyaOscura (talk) 03:51, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Link
I have a simple question. The link to the DJ Sean O`Neal isn`t the link to the meant actor from Clarissa explains it all, or may i be wrong?KrizTischasa (talk) 08:38, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Confused by line "first television series to identify the preteen audience"
What the heck does that mean? I remember watching this show during the 1990s, but I'm not quite clear what that line means. I always thought the first show aimed at preteens was Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Retro Agnostic (talk) 07:00, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose this is open to a bit of debate, maybe a re-wording is in order? Elcaballooscuro (talk) 08:23, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Dates of original run
I have changed the first and last episode dates to March 23, 1991, and October 1, 1994, respectively. I understand that a lot of online sources nowadays seem to have March 1, 1991 – December 3, 1994 (the IMDb and epguides.com, for example), but I can assure you, as someone who actually watched the final episode as it was broadcast on October 1, 1994, that that's the correct final-episode date. As for the March 1991 date, I can't vouch for that one personally, but I spent a lot of time in the mid 1990s looking up TV listings at libraries trying to flesh out exactly when the first-season episodes were aired, and I can say with a great deal of confidence that the show's premiere was on March 23, not March 1. The exact sources I have cited for these dates are most likely not available anywhere online, but can be verified by looking them up in a major library. - dcljr (talk) 04:25, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, so it turns out the source we are currently citing for the opening sentence also works to cite the date of the premiere airing ("this week" and "Saturday" in an article published on Sunday, 17 March 1991, means the first airing was Saturday, 23 March 1991). I hope this finally puts the premiere-date issue to rest. - dcljr (talk) 01:35, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Number of seasons
Okay, we have a problem here. List of Clarissa Explains It All episodes shows five seasons, same as tv.com which is where I presume the info came from. However, Melissa herself has confirmed there are only four seasons. The show only ran for four years! See dcljr's episode guide for a breakdown of the episodes into four seasons. Now neither of these sit well with me. The five-season count shows each made up of exactly 13 episodes which is a tidy number. But if MJH herself said it was only four seasons... who do we believe here? Elizium23 (talk) 00:18, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * As the dates in my CEIA Episode Guide can attest, the "seasons" of CEIA were not well-defined in terms of airing dates. The season breaks in my guide are based on production dates, which, along with episode titles, were posted to a mailing list devoted to CEIA in March 1993, by a self-identified "editor" of the series just after they wrapped production (the last show having been taped in December 1993). For further info, see my CEIA FAQ, questions 3 and 15. But starting in 1996, Nickelodeon started claiming five seasons in their online guides for the show. Obviously, 65 episodes split into 5 seasons of 13 shows each has a nice ring to it, as far as a cable network is concerned, especially for a show in reruns. Personally, I don't have a big problem with using their 5-season scheme and most of their versions of the episode titles (again, see my FAQ question 15). It should be noted, however, that this is not necessarily how the show was handled in its original run (also note that the 2005 DVD release of the show introduced yet more versions of some of the first-season titles). - dcljr (talk) 08:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, and see also my U.S. airings of CEIA. Now, I'm not saying these links I'm giving should be used as cited sources for the article, but if you're interested in the best information I know of before "Nick On-Line", epguides.com, tv.com, IMDb, etc., got involved and started spreading unreliable (and at worst, verifiably wrong) information.... - dcljr (talk) 09:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

So the number of seasons has come up as an issue again. Does anyone want to work on List of Clarissa Explains It All episodes to have it reflect the truth, that there were four seasons of episodes? I don't know who else to cite on this but dcljr's website and Melissa herself who claims there were four seasons. But if she's right, and I hope that she is because she was there... it seems the articles should reflect this numbering. That's just me, anyway. Elizium23 (talk) 02:12, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Merge templates
Very few things on Wikipedia are more irritating than the too-prevalent assumption that every character in every TV series is entitled to their own independent article. Unless you can add some genuine sources to demonstrate Clarissa Darling's real world notability — "lead character in a TV series" does not cut it, but "first television character ever to do X" might — then she's not entitled to anything more than a brief biographical sketch either in this article or in a single merged character list. Bearcat (talk) 21:14, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree, and since no one opposed the merger and there was no improvement of the article to establish notability outside the series, then I performed the merger. -- LoЯd  ۞pεth  22:24, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Nick shows with a female lead
I do not think that it is necessary to list every single show Nickelodeon has created since Clarissa that features a female lead. I also do not think it is necessary to include the year each one started, because this is information accessible by following the wikilinks. I have cut down the list to a representative sample; I feel that the shows now listed are the most notable and comparable to Clarissa. Melissa Joan Hart has said herself that iCarly is the successor to the show. Changes to this section without adequate discussion, and particularly those without an edit summary, are subject to revert. Elizium23 (talk) 14:01, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Running time
30 minutes? I saw only episodes with about 17-22 minutes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.138.239.137 (talk) 15:55, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Clarissa Now
Before the 2015 book and the news of a sequel series at Paramount+, we had the unsold pilot of Clarissa Now, which was a direct continuation of the original series. Why has Wikipedia seen it fit to remove all existence of this pilot? -- 82.37.1.216 (talk) 01:38, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * See the last paragraph of the "Production" section. - dcljr (talk) 23:02, 20 April 2021 (UTC)