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 Meyer and directed by director Mark Kirkland. It was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on October 3, 1999. After the season 5 episode "Bart's Inner Child", Meyer got "a little burned out on writing scripts", so he wrote "Brother's Little Helper" in order to "try [his] hand again". While writing the episode, Meyer was going through "some psychological problems" and found the episode very difficult to write. He was initially so dissatisfied with the first draft that he turned it in with a pseudonym; Vance Jericho. Co-producer Tim Long jokingly commented that the script was