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 by director Mark Kirkland and was the first episode staff writer George Meyer received a sole writing credit for since the season 5 episode "Bart's Inner Child". Meyer, who was facing some psychological difficulties while writing the episode, felt so dissatisfied with the episode's first draft that he turned it in with a pseudonym. The episode satirizes the perceived misdiagnosis of behavioral disorders in children, which was a controversial topic at the time the episode was written. The episode's title is a parody of The Rolling Stones song "Mother's Little Helper", which was also written on the topic of psychological