How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window? supposedly tries to get Bart and Santa's Little Helper to like each other again." How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window? "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" is the seventh episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> twenty-second season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 28, 2010. The title of the episode is a reference to the 1952 song "How Much is that Doggie in the Window". During a thunderstorm (literally caused by angels bowling), Homer tells a scary story to his children, and a homing pigeon named Raymond Bird by his owner
Brother's Little Helper of IGN posted a "flashback review" of "Brother's Little Helper". Canning, calling the episode "funny" and "a standout episode in this later season", was particularly fond of the episode's opening. However, he was less impressed with the third act of the episode, calling it "lackluster". He felt that the part involving Mark McGwire was "a silly cop out" and that it wasn't as funny as what was leading up to it. He also stated that he was put off by the writers wanting to come across a message. "It's not that I necessarily disagreed with this sentiment", Canning wrote, "but