BuzzFeed - When Mitchell Kriegman pitched Clarissa in the early '90s, Nickelodeon considered the project risky. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, the creator explains how he made it all work ? and exploded kids' TV in the process. Melissa Joan Hart as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. Nickelodeon / Everett Collection For twentysomethings raised on a steady diet of Nickelodeon, few TV characters carry the clout of Clarissa Explains It All's eponymous lead. Clarissa Darling, played by '90s staple Melissa Joan Hart, was effortlessly cool, stylish, and opinionated â a relatable teenage girl who didn't talk down to her demographic but was still unequivocally a kid. Girls wanted to be her. And boys, whether they were willing to admit it or not, wanted her to be their hip older sister. Clarissa wore Keith Haring shirts and headbands with equal flair, and she never apologized for any of her choices â whether that meant defending her brother Ferguson (Jason Zimbler) from a bull
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