When Lydia complains to her father about the dullness of her history lesson at school, John tells her his own version...

When the noise from the freight elevator beside his office becomes intolerable, John decides to try working at home, ...

In order to get closer to her father, with whom she seems to share little in common, Lydia learns how to play chess f...

John has dog problems with just about everyone: Greeley, over a magazine piece about his childhood family pet who bit...

When Lydia comes down with a bad cold, John takes the opportunity to try to show her that people with vivid imaginati...

After Greeley once again fails to understand the humor in one of John's cartoons, John quits his job with The Manhatt...

John, finding himself bothered by the ordinariness of his life, fantasizes about being involved in a tale of espionag...

Greeley rejects yet another of John's cartoons which he doesn't understand, one involving a seal in the bedroom of a ...

After being bitten by the family cat, Dimity Ann, John takes her away and leaves her in a new housing developement. ...

The Monroe's new neighbor, Paul Morton, who is also a cartoonist, challenges John's more sophisticated humor by pitti...

The Monroes have a new maid who for some reason has a phobia about modern appliances, and Ellen tells John to be kind...

John finally manages to get his revenge on Zeph Leggin by studying old jokes and using them to defeat the local humor...

When Greeley decides to dedicate an entire issue of The Manhattanite to children's book author George Lindsay Lockhar...

Frustrated while trying to buy a Christmas present for Lydia, John makes the unfortunate choice of an American flag a...

During a sixteenth anniversary party for the Jensens at the Monroe's house, Phil loses his temper when his wife Ruth ...

Lydia is supposed to go to a dance with a boy named Elbert, but when a bully beats him up and insists that Lydia go t...

Lydia is concerned about nightmares, so John tells stories about his family during his childhood in Columbus, Ohio. ...

When a neighborhood boy tries to tell Lydia about the facts of life, she responds by punching him in the mouth. Whil...

When both Ellen and Lydia's teacher Miss Skidmore agree that John's cartoons are causing his daughter acute embarrass...

When Ellen and Lydia go on an overnight trip, leaving John home alone, he finds himself interrupted in his work by a ...

John suggests The Manhattanite use marriage as the theme of its anniversary issue, and he has his own ideas on the su...

When John begins collaborating on a book with a female writer, Ellen suspects he may really be having an affair instead.

John is suffering from cartoonist's block, making him irritable at work and then later at home. In his frustration h...

John once again has to deal with rejection, not only by Greeley, who can't find the humor in one of John's cartoons, ...

After both Ellen and Greeley accuse John of hating women, John becomes unable to think of any other kinds of cartoons...

When Phil gives in to his son's wishes because of feelings of guilt, John chastises him for being weak, but when John...