Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily

"**Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily**"
"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	Season 7; Episode 3
Directed by	Susie Dietter
Written by	Jon Vitti
Production code	3F01
Original air date	October 1, 1995
Guest appearance
	Joan Kenley as the telephone lady
Episode features
Chalkboard gag	"No one wants to hear from my armpits"
Couch gag	Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Grampa, Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II are in a nine-square grid as seen in the opening credits of The Brady Bunch.
Commentary	Matt Groening; Bill Oakley; Josh Weinstein; Jon Vitti; Susie Dietter
Episode chronology
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	The Simpsons season 7
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"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" is the third episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on October 1, 1995. In the episode, the Simpson children are put in foster care at Ned and Maude Flanders' house. Homer and Marge are forced to attend a parenting class to get their children back.

The episode was written by Jon Vitti and directed by Susie Dietter. The story was pitched by another writer on the show, George Meyer. It was the first episode in which writers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein served as show runners. The episode features cultural references to the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Sonny & Cher's song "I Got You Babe".

Since airing, the episode has received positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 9.0, and was the fourth highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired.

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