History Series / MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt

* ShortRunners: Despite receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews, the show drew only moderately good viewership numbers and was cancelled after one season. It went on to win the UsefulNotes/EmmyAward for Outstanding Comedy Series for the 1969-70 season.

The show received positive reviews for its polished scripts, clever format that neatly integrated live action and animated sequences (the latter derived from Thurber’s cartoons and produced by Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises), and deftly-mixed elements of fantasy and reality. Despite this, the half-hour sitcom only managed to muster moderately good viewership numbers (in part because it was slotted against ratings juggernaut ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'') and was cancelled after only 26 episodes. It subsequently won the UsefulNotes/EmmyAward for Outstanding Comedy Series, and Windom took the Emmy for best actor in a comedy series.

* BatScare: John and the new housekeeper Mrs. Simkins are frightened by a frantic bat that gets trapped in the house in "Maid in Connecticut."

* BatOutOfHell: John and the new housekeeper Mrs. Simkins are frightened by a frantic bat that gets trapped in the house in "Maid in Connecticut."

** The episode "Dear Is a Four-Letter Word" sees John daydreaming that school principal Otto Shultz, who called him into his office to discuss Lydia, gradually morphs into a blustering UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. Subverted in that once John begins to actually listen to what the principal has to say, he realizes the man is very reasonable and sympathetic to John’s viewpoint (unlike [[SternTeacher Lydia’s teacher, Miss Skidmore]], who initiated the complaint).

** The episode "Dear Is a Four-Letter Word" sees John daydreaming that school principal Otto Shultz, who called him into his office to discuss Lydia, gradually morphs into a blustering UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. Subverted in that once John begins to actually listen to what the principal has to say, he realizes the man is very reasonable and sympathetic to John’s viewpoint (unlike Lydia’s teacher, Miss Skidmore, who initiated the complaint).

* AdolfHitlarious: A BlackComedy example. The episode "Dear Is a Four-Letter Word" sees John daydreaming that school principal Otto Shultz, who called him into his office to discuss Lydia, gradually morphs into a blustering UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. Subverted in that once John begins to actually listen to what the principal has to say, he realizes the man is very reasonable and sympathetic to John’s viewpoint (unlike Lydia’s teacher, Miss Skidmore, who initiated the complaint).

''My World... and Welcome to It'' was an American sitcom that aired on Creator/{{NBC}} during the 1969-70 season. The cartoons and short stories of Creator/JamesThurber served as the basis for the program’s material, with the show’s title being lifted from one of the author’s books. Creator/WilliamWindom played Thurber {{Expy}} John Monroe, a crotchety DeadpanSnarker cartoonist and writer who works for the fictional New York-based magazine ''The Manhattanite'' (clearly modeled after ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'') and lives in the Connecticut suburb of Westbury with his patiently indulgent wife, Ellen (Creator/JoanHotchkis) and precocious pre-teen daughter, Lydia (Creator/LisaGerritsen). John’s managing editor Hamilton Greeley (Harold J. Stone) and fellow magazine writer Phil Jensen (Creator/HenryMorgan) are the show’s most often seen [[RecurringCharacter recurring characters]].

''My World... and Welcome to It'' was an American sitcom that aired on Creator/{{NBC}} during the 1969-70 season. The cartoons and short stories of Creator/JamesThurber served as the basis for the program’s material, with the show’s title being lifted from one of the author’s books. Creator/WilliamWindom played Thurber {{Expy}} John Monroe, a cantankerous DeadpanSnarker cartoonist and writer who works for the fictional New York-based magazine ''The Manhattanite'' (clearly modeled after ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'') and lives in the Connecticut suburb of Westbury with his patiently indulgent wife, Ellen (Creator/JoanHotchkis) and precocious pre-teen daughter, Lydia (Creator/LisaGerritsen). John’s managing editor Hamilton Greeley (Harold J. Stone) and fellow magazine writer Phil Jensen (Creator/HenryMorgan) are the show’s most often seen [[RecurringCharacter recurring characters]].

* BlowingARaspberry: At the conclusion of "The Middle Years," a cartoon version of comely widow neighbor Mrs. Bessenger walks away from John's cartoon house. An animated representation of Ellen from the chest up morphs from the back of the house and blows a raspberry at her "rival."

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Much of "Seal in the Bedroom" sees Hamilton Greeley and John's wife Ellen failing to see the humor in John's cartoon in which a seal is shown looming over a married couple's bed. Both come around to the cartoon during the course of the episode, though -- and when Hamilton brings a live seal to John's house as a comical peace offering at the end of the show, the three characters share a hearty laugh.

** Later, John is shown at his drawing desk looking at an unflattering cartoon drawing of his wife. He imagines a FantasySequence where the woman in the picture scolds him for ogling Mrs. Bessenger. She shakes her bottom in exaggerated fashion, making fun of him for finding the same thing attractive about the new neighbor.

The idea for a TV show based on Thurber's work was formulated more than a decade earlier by Creator/MelvilleShavelson, with two failed pilot episodes being aired in 1959 and 1961 before the series was finally picked up several years later. Shavelson was heavily involved in the series in several off-screen roles, as were Creator/SheldonLeonard (best known for ''Make Room for Daddy,'' ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow,'' and ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'') and Creator/DannyArnold (best known for ''Series/ThatGirl'' and ''Series/BarneyMiller'').

''My World... and Welcome to It'' was an American sitcom that aired on Creator/{{NBC}} during the 1969-70 season. The cartoons and short stories of Creator/JamesThurber served as the basis for the program’s material, with the show’s title being lifted from one of the author’s books. Creator/WilliamWindom played Thurber {{Expy}} John Monroe, a cantankerous DeadpanSnarker cartoonist and writer who works for the fictional New York-based magazine ''The Manhattanite'' (clearly modeled after ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'') and lives in the Connecticut suburb of Westbury with his patiently indulgent wife, Ellen (Creator/JoanHotchkis) and precocious pre-teen daughter, Lydia (Creator/LisaGerritsen).

* GilliganCut: The episode "Child's Play" opens with John insisting at length that Hamilton Greeley will never agree to let him collaborate with Phil Jensen on an proposed article for ''The Manhattanite''. As soon as he finishes his monologue, Hamilton enters John's office and says he thinks it's a great idea.

** PhilJensen, John's writer friend from ''The Manhattanite'', is seen drinking in Cochran's Bar (the magazine's nearby watering hole) as often as he's seen at work. When he says "I'll drink to that" in the episode "Rules for a Happy Marriage," one of his magazine colleagues replies that he'll drink to anything. And in "The War between Men and Women," his wife accuses him of having drunk twelve martinis at John's party the previous evening -- Phil corrects her, saying he only had nine!

** One of John's dogs (a bloodhound named Irving) is depicted on a few occasions to be attacking his master's pants leg, in episodes such as "Man Against the World," "The Shrike and the Chipmunks," "Dear Is a Four-Letter Word," and "Monroe the Misogynist." The act is never shown overtly, though -- normally, John is seen from chest-up, looking down at his right leg and making motions to shake the pooch off while canine growling and snarling is heard.

** One of John's dogs (a bloodhound named Irving) is depicted on a few occasions to be attacking his master's pants leg, in episodes such as "Man Against the World," "The Shrike and the Chipmunks," and "Dear Is a Four-Letter Word." The act is never shown overtly, though -- normally, John is seen from chest-up, looking down at his right leg and making motions to shake the pooch off while canine growling and snarling is heard.

''John''': Impossible -- not Ellen! Besides, he's a very honest, straightforward neighbor -- a member of the PTA.\\