Melissa Joan Hart Talks About “Melissa & Joey” 100th Episode!

Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence celebrate Melissa & Joey's big accomplishment with a HUGE cake!

Tomorrow night, ABC Family’s Melissa & Joey is celebrating big news! It’s the series’ 100th episode and to celebrate, Mel and Joe are trying to start a family!

Mel and Joe take selfies with a pregnancy test.  It's a selfie with a tinkle stick!
Mel and Joe take selfies with a pregnancy test. It’s a selfie with a tinkle stick!

In tomorrow’s episode, “You Say You Want an Ovulation,” Mel and Joe decide they’re ready to start a family so they seek the advice of their friends and get to work! I spoke with Melissa Joan Hart and she’s proud of the way the show’s writers created a hilariously honest look at trying to get pregnant. “I feel like they really touched on the fact that it’s not always easy to get pregnant. There are a lot of ups and downs emotionally.” She adds, “I feel like I held a pregnancy test in my hand for three episodes straight! There’s s lot of pregnancy sticks around the set. I thought about taking one home for April Fool’s, but then I thought, ‘That’s not very funny.’ That’s kind of mean to do my husband.”

Trying to get her TV character pregnant has led for some of Hart’s sexiest storylines ever. “The writers this season have been really racy. The writers have done some things that I’ve actually asked them to tone it down,” she revealed. “I tell them, “I am embarrassed; I can’t do some of these things you are writing!”

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Melissa Joan Hart celebrates Melissa & Joey‘s big accomplishment with toasts and a HUGE cake!

I asked Hart how she and the rest of the cast and crew celebrated the show’s major accomplishment (in addition to starring in the series, both Hart and Lawrence serve as Executive Producers in the series) and she revealed, “I feel like we celebrated so much. While we were shooting, we had a giant cake, we did toasts, even at the table read — some of the crew members made us glasses that said “100” on them, out our of paper — it was so cute! It was a week-long celebration on set.

Now that she’s taped over 100 episodes as Melanie Burke, I asked Hart which episodes stand out as favorites. She revealed:

“I loved our Dancing With The Stars episode the first season. That was fantastic when Joey was dancing with Mark Ballas, doing the ‘Mango,’ a male tango.

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Melissa Joan Hart really liked the December 2014 episode “A Melanie & Josiah Christmas”

“I loved our 2014 Christmas episode from this year, it was a Gone With the Wind flashback episode, it was so much fun.”

“We have an episode coming up in July, called Frozen. It’s a flash-forward to 100 years in the future, which was just a totally different experience to try and film.”

“But I have to say, the series finale, there’s a scene in that episode, that really resonated with me.”

Tomorrow’s episode is the show’s spring finale, but when the show returns in June, we’ll have the final 10 episodes of Melissa & Joey before the series finale this summer. I know, right?!? M&J can’t end! Hart revealed some extra juicy details about the series finale, (Which I’ll share closer to the series’ end) but for now, she says, “The writers did a fabulous job of tying up the loose ends of the series.”

When I asked Hart what she’ll do once the series ends, she admitted she’s looking forward to a little free time, and then the busy mom of three looks forward to getting back to work. “I have three kids and five jobs and I’m an Aires, so I’m always just in a hurry.” One of her newest projects involves working with a coalition of advertisers (including Walmart) to try to bring more family-friendly shows to television.

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King of Harts is a family business

Also, Melissa recently added “Fashion Mogul” to her multi-hyphenate title. “I’m working on my new clothing line, King of Harts. My husband and I created this line.  We just launched it in the last few weeks.  It’s online at kingofharts.com, and I started a blog there.  My husband [Mark Wilkerson] is going to do a family/ lifestyle blog.  It’s a little boy’s clothing line that’s made in America and we’re so proud of it.”

I checked out the brand’s website and the clothes are adorable! I especially like the Statue of Liberty t-shirt that Melissa & Mark’s oldest son is wearing. Here’s a better look on the website, it’d be perfect for the 4th of July!

 Melissa & Joey 100th Episode > ABC Family > Wednesday, March 18 at 8pm ET/PT

MELISSA & JOEY – “You Say You Want An Ovulation” – Mel and Joe decide to start a family-as soon as possible, on the 100th episode/Spring finale of “Melissa & Joey,” airing Wednesday, March 18 (8:00PM ET/PT) on ABC Family. The series returns in June for the final 10 episodes.

“A Melanie & Josiah Christmas” image: ABC Family/Adam Rose © 2014 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.

Other Melissa & Joes images : ABC Family/Eric McCandless © 2015 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.

Melissa Joan Hart, Mark Wilkerson and family image © KingofHarts.com

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  1. Celebrations like this deserves to have a Selfie Shot using a Selfie Stick Pro. 🙂

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