"Yokel Chords" is the fourteenth episode of the eighteenth season of "The Simpsons". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 4, 2007. It was written by Michael Price, and directed by Susie Dietter. Guest starring Meg Ryan as Dr. Swanson, Peter Bogdanovich as a psychiatrist and Andy Dick, James Patterson and Stephen Sondheim as themselves. This also marked the return of director Susie Dietter who had taken a hiatus to work on "Futurama" and the film "Open Season". This was her first episode in nearly nine years.