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
The Call of the Simpsons DVD review of the first season, David B. Grelck gave the episode a rating of 1.5/5, adding "the surrealism of Homer as bigfoot is a major misstep. This type of gag would be very different today, if done at all." Jon Bonné at MSNBC called the episode "a perfect example of the first season’s bizarre and fruitful balance between edgy humor and softly-drawn neuroses" and stated that "it was this combination that made Groening’s shorts for the Ullman show so compelling, and ultimately what made it possible for "The Simpsons" to break the molds of network television." Colin Jacobson at