Clarissa Explains It All

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.

Ferguson's new friend, J. Elliot Fundsworth III befriends Ferguson to get to Clarissa's diary which he sees as his ticket into the Junior Yacht Club.

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.

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.