Na Na Na… Hey, cool! Our friends at The Daily What have dug up the pilot for Clarissa Now, which would have been a 1995 spin-off of classic TV show Clarissa Explains It All, had it actually been produced. Though the intro music still has some na-na-nas, in Clarissa Now, Miss Darling is 18 and interning at a newspaper in New York City, winning over her bosses (including the publisher, played by Tony Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Marian Seldes), pissing off the suspiciously cute reporter-in-training, playing with laughably outdated office equipment and riding the subway, which looks exactly the same as it does today. Unfortunately for us, CBS passed on the show, so the series was never filmed, but Clarissa fans can still click through to watch the pilot and have their minds blown. As Sam would say, what’s the worst that could happen?
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I would’ve watched. I’m a little upset it didn’t go past the pilot.
I want to make sexytime with her.
They should pick up Clarissa Now now. Nostalgia crazy 20somethings would love it.
[...] Late last year, the pilot for Clarissa Now, the coulda-been spinoff of Clarissa Explains It All was uploaded to YouTube and the interweb has finally taken notice. According to Flavorwire: [...]
[...] right, the dream of the 90s is alive again! Someone unearthed a pilot for a Clarissa Explains It All spinoff called Clarissa Now. Sometime in between letting her best friend climb in through her window all the time and [...]
I remember seeing it aired on Nick as a kid and I was super confused. But not as confused that Marshall Darling is also Trudy Campbell’s daddy on Mad Menses.
[...] 5. Remember Clarissa? Check out this video for a pilot for Clarissa Now, which sadly, was passed over by CBS. But, a great blast from the past. [FlavorWire] [...]
The Daily What didn’t actually dig that up. It was on The A.V. Club last week, as they cited.
I swear Nickelodeon actually aired this at least once — as an obsessive Clarissa viewer, I remember it very distinctly, and also wondering why they never showed another episode.,
Claire, it definitely aired it. I believe it may have run back-to-back with the Clarissa series finale… because I remember seeing it.
[...] been in the news a lot this past week. First, the pilot for the long-lost spin-off Clarissa Now surfaced. Then, TeenNick announced that it will begin rerunning old favorites, including Clarissa, in a new [...]
[...] been in the news a lot this past week. First, the pilot for the long-lost spin-off Clarissa Now surfaced. Then, TeenNick announced that it will begin rerunning old favorites, including Clarissa, in a new [...]
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