Melissa Joan Hart Recalls Her Toothless and Bushy Eyebrow Days on "Clarissa Explains It All"
Jul 26, 2011
by Robyn Ross
Nickelodeon has brought back its '90s programming and "
Clarissa Explains It All" star Melissa Joan Hart is psyched to relive her awkward teen years.
My first show, "
Clarissa Explains It All" is back on television as well.
Yes it's on Nickelodeon, The 90's are All That, it is called.
Is that kind of funny to you? I mean your boys are really little, do they know that mommy was an actor when she was little?
No. (
laughs)
Actually there was picture in a newspaper recently and I showed them the picture of me when I was twelve years old. I had missing teeth and my eyebrows were all bushy. My mom wouldn't let them touch my face.
I showed them and was like 'Look, that's mommy when she was little' and they were like 'eh' (
laughs).
I'm really excited, I mean it hasn't been on the air in over a decade, right? Only 1 season is currently on DVD. The show hasn't been seen in a long time and I'm excited to see how it holds up.
It was kind of a ground-breaking show for Nickelodeon.
I believe it was one of the first sitcoms that Nickelodeon ever did. They were basically a variety and game show network and it was one of the shows that they took a risk on.
Also, it was the first time that girls would have boy viewers. You know before that people always said 'boys won't watch a girl show' and we broke ground by proving that boys will watch a girl.
And then I was able to do it three more times (
laughs).
Do you have a favorite memory from "Clarissa Explains It All"?
Oh gosh, there are so many because I went through so much on that set. I was in high school, I graduated, I learned how to drive a car.. I mean I did a lot of that set.. having my first boyfriend.
Probably my favorite memory was when they threw me a graduation. They did the same thing recently for my co-star Taylor Spreitler who just graduated. When you're being tutored and you're in school it becomes very confusing and I really didn't have a real graduation.
So what they did for me was the wardrobe got me a cap and gown, prop dept. made me a podium, they cleared off the set, they gave a speech, we had a foot-long banner.
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