Clarissa Explains It All (Seasons 1–5)

Clarissa Explains It All (1991) is the Nickelodeon teen sitcom you can watch online on iFILM — the show that made Melissa Joan Hart a star. Her character, Clarissa Darling, lives an ordinary suburban kid's life and keeps turning to the camera to walk you through exactly what's going on in her head.

And what's going on is everything that torments a thirteen-year-old: her first training bra, pimples, boys, dull homework and Ferguson, her smug little brother who lives to suck up to their parents. Clarissa narrates each crisis straight down the lens, sometimes with charts and goofy computer graphics, then handles it her own way. Watch closely in the early run and you'll spot a very young James Van Der Beek.

Airing on Nickelodeon in the early nineties, it was one of the first kids' sitcoms built entirely around a teenage girl — no preachy lessons, just that signature direct address to the audience. It's warm, breezy nostalgia for anyone who grew up on cable TV back then. Stream every episode of Clarissa Explains It All online on iFILM.