Did Ya Notice?
This document contains many of the amusing or surprising little things
that we've noticed while watching Clarissa Explains It All over the
years.
They're divided in to several different sections (suggested by Donald
Lancon).
- While Clarissa is talking about disappearing elephants at the start of
Don't I Know You there's a large grey elephant
soft toy wearing dark glasses behind her, just to the right of the window.
It remains there for the next few episodes.
- While Clarissa is talking about being normal and Home Economics in
Misguidance Counselor, there is a plastic
hamburger visible in the background next to her TV set.
- Clarissa uses the expression, "burr in my butt" to describe Ferguson in
Revenge and Mrs. Engleberger's school pageants
in Sick Days.
- In Hero Worship, when Eve Biderberg starts
to talk like Clarissa, she says, "What's the 411?"--which is what Clarissa
asked us in the opening scene of School Picture
and what she asked Sam in ME 101.
- In the episode Alter Ego, Clarissa goes
to a party using the name "Jade". This is the name Clarissa said she would
have preferred in the very first episode,
Revenge
- In The Bicycle Thief, Clarissa says she
outgrew gum wrapper chains. In Urge to Drive,
she wonders how much she could get for her gum wrapper chain.
- Two episodes had fathers making a bet that their children could make the
football team: Revenge and
Football Fever. The infamous
Wally Butterman is mentioned in both episodes.
- Clarissa's face in the mirror becomes Eve Biderberg's in
Hero Worship.
- Clarissa talks to her alter ego in
The Great Debate.
- Two Clarissas are visible in the 'Mission Impossible' scene of
The Great Debate, when Clarissa is walking toward her parents'
bedroom door.
- We again see two Clarissas in The Cycle
when Clarissa is 'revving' the bike.
- In Marshall's Mid-Life Crisis when the
prospective purchaser is looking around Clarissa's bedroom, he says that
they'd have to extend the Wardrobe as their daughter is such a clothes
horse.
With the frequency that Clarissa changes her clothing, this has to be a dig.
- In Alter Ego, Jade supposedly comes from
Long Island, NY but Clarissa admits she's never been to Long Island.
Bevis King <B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
4th September 1995