Clarissa Explains It All

Clarissa (Original Title: Clarissa Explains It All) is an American comedy series that is primarily intended for the audience in their teens. It was produced in the Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida. After 65 episodes, the series was discontinued in 1994.

Action

The main role of Clarissa Darling plays the young Melissa Joan Hart, who usually explains their viewers in a very vivid way their problems, such as pimples, annoying her little brother, her first infatuation and problems in school. Her family consists of her father Marshall, a fussy and adventurous architects, the topic-related plans ( dental practice in a giant tooth or shoe shops in sneakers ), her mother Janet, a caring mother in the tofu craze every building ( almost every meal consists of tofu) and her know-it- gifted brother Ferguson. In addition, often there is her best friend Sam, who comes in with a ladder through the window and Clarissa throughout the series leaves only once. Upon entering the house a characteristic sound when running gag is always played. This noise will also sound when Sam for once enters the house through the door.

Occupation

Criticism

• John J. O'Connor wrote in 1991 in the New York Times, the series is the Operating the basic recipe for sitcoms aimed at a young audience ( " Recipe for sitcom Aimed at young audiences" ). To that included hip pubescent, stupid parents and cool hip people ( "hip pubescents, dumb parents, cool fashions. "). He counted Clarissa one of the better recent examples of this group ( "Among the better recent examples is Clarissa Explains It All" ). Furthermore classified O'Connor series, unlike other critics who described it as a cultural revolution ( " cultural revolution " ), except for the credits as not revolutionary ( " But except for some fairly standard electronic graphics [ ... ] Clarissa Explains It All is not very revolutionary "). However, he called the series promising ( 'reasonably promising " ), as it components such as a female main character ( " Its central character is female " ) and a normal friendship without romantic feelings between boy and girl ( " Boys and girls can connect, It Seems, without having to entertain thoughts of romance. " ) included.

Awards

• Melissa Joan Hart won three Young Artist Awards in various categories and years: 1992: Best Young Actress Starring in to Off- Prime Time or Cable Series
• 1993: Best Young Actress Starring in a Cable Series
• 1995: Best Youth Comedienne in a TV Show

In 1994, she was also also nominated for the Young Artist Award in the category Youth Actress Leading Role in a Television Series.

• Even Sean O'Neal and Jason Zimbler were nominated two or three times for a Young Artist Award.
• The producers of the series ( Mitchell Kriegman ( executive producer ), Chris Gifford ( producer), Neena Beber ( co-producer ) ) 1994 were nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program.