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"Clarissa Explains It All star Melissa Joan Hart has insisted that Sam (Sean O&amp;#039;Neal) was not a &amp;quot;threat&amp;quot; to her character Clarissa. On the &amp;#039;90s Nickelodeon sitcom, Sam would frequently enter Clarissa&amp;#039;s bedroom via a ladder attached to her bedroom window. &amp;quot;I think they were trying to show that a girl and boy could be friends,&amp;quot; Hart told Entertainment Weekly. &amp;quot;They could be platonic.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;I think it was just that Clarissa was a good kid and was trusted by her parents to do the right thing. They knew [Sam] was her best friend, and he was not a threat.&amp;quot; However, Hart admitted that the cast and crew of Clarissa were &amp;quot;aware&amp;quot; of the implications of Sam and Clarissa&amp;#039;s relationship. She revealed: &amp;quot;There was a blooper reel where Joe [O&amp;#039;Connor], the guy who played my father, said, &amp;#039;Sam comes in here, every day, unannounced, into my daughter&amp;#039;s room&amp;#039;. So we were aware of it on set, but on the show we never addressed it.&amp;quot; Hart&amp;#039;s new show Melissa &amp;amp; Joey was recently picked up for a second season by ABC Family. Watch Melissa Joan Hart discuss Clarissa and Sabrina the Teenage Witch with Digital Spy below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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