But for a forward thinking girl, boy does she have real bad dress sense. It looks like she has been to a jumble sale (yard sale in the US?) and bought the worst clothes possible. I'm surprised her parents didn't point this out to her (but maybe they were scared that she would rip their heads off?).

Not only that, but she is way into hats (normally bad ones), maybe she knows that she's going to be bald in the future?

One of the things she doesn't like is her name and would have rather been called Jade, but she's stuck with Clarissa, so it will have to do!

But she does likes to spends an awful long time in her bedroom, where she plots the downfall of her brother and plans other covert operations, which includes doing the opposite of what her parents want her to do. So that means eating Junk Food and avoiding hair cuts that mom's gives you.

She seems to have a knack with computers and can knock up a game in a few hours. Mostly these games have a theme of splatting Ferguson or illustrating one of her many schemes. I'm surprised EA haven't signed her up on a contract to make a game a day. Normally games take years to write, so she should save/make them a fortune!!

Two of her best friends are Sam and Jody and she keeps a pet alligator called Elvis. I'm surprised that the Animal Rescue team haven't been round and confiscated him, as I'm sure its one of the pets that they tell you not to have (shame on you!).

He has planned his whole future out in front of himself and thinks he is a genius and everyone else is beneath him.

Not only that, but he has a great knack of sucking up to his parents. When you witness this, then you suddenly start to feel sick - he's that good at it!

If a couple of words could describe things then Ferguson will use a 100 instead. Maybe this is so he confuses everyone else so that they will agree to his demands? Therefore I can only surmise that his bedtime read is a dictionary!

Janet Darling is into health food in a big way and tofu isn't far away from the menu. Amazingly her family aren't that keen to eat it, but she is educating them slowly.

Everything has to be prim and proper, and nothing out of place. This was especially true concerning one of her ex college boyfriends - Joey Russo. He had perfect eyes, teeth, tan etc. but for some reason he was known as Joey the Jerk by Marshall, due to Joey picking on him and running his gym shorts up the flag pole.

Once in a while she goes on other crusades and inflicts the torture on the rest of the family, like the time she decided TV was bad for them, so the whole house was banned from watching TV.

When he was younger, he was a hippy and non conformist. They banned his school photo because his hair was too long. Clarissa thought this was great, as she seems to be following in his footsteps.

Even though he is a loving father, Clarissa and especially Ferguson are always waiting for him to show his vulnerable side. Like the time Ferguson convinced him that he was learning another language and he needed 15 bucks to buy an audio tape to help him. For some reason Ferguson didn't want his dad to buy the tape for him, and instead wanted the pleasure in buying it himself (sucker!!).

One of his hobbies is being a scout leader and he keeps trying to get Clarissa to go along to their events. She does eventually join in, but only to sell a mountain of Christmas Cards to the troop!

He lives with his dad, who got divorced from Sam's mother, who is a sports writer, and Sam is always trying to get close to him. But his father seems to have sport on the brain and shares his quality time with his son by talking about sport, watching sport and playing sport.