Clarissa Explains It

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 strep throat on opening night.

Clarissa discovers that her secret admirer and Ferguson's new friend are one in the same.

Clarissa's school guidance counselor makes Clarissa take Home Ec in an effort to make her more "normal." After a week of forsaking the true Clarissa in the name of normal, Clarissa concludes that one person's normal is another's abnormal.

Clarissa helps Sam win the affections of Elise Quackenbush as any good friend would. But when Sam cancels plans he made with her to go out with his new girlfriend, Clarissa no longer sure how she feels about this new woman in Sam's life.

A commercial producer spots Marshall in the mall and chooses him as "the perfect face" Marshall fully embraces his role as male model and engages in body building and calorie counting until he finds out he's been chosen for a dogfood commercial.

Clarissa attempts to watch television continuously for 24 full hours for a science project, but she finds the task more difficult than she imagined.