Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily

"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	131
Directed by	Susie Dietter
Written by	Jon Vitti
Showrunner(s)	Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein
Production code	3F01
Original air date	October 1, 1995
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
Guest appearance(s)
Joan Kenley as the telephone lady
Season 7 episodes September 17, 1995 – May 19, 1996 "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" "Radioactive Man" "Home Sweet Homediddly- Dum-Doodily" "Bart Sells His Soul" "Lisa the Vegetarian" "Treehouse of Horror VI" "King-Size Homer" "Mother Simpson" "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" "Marge Be Not Proud" "Team Homer" "Two Bad Neighbors" "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" "Bart the Fink" "Lisa the Iconoclast" "Homer the Smithers" "The Day the Violence Died" "A Fish Called Selma" "Bart on the Road" "22 Short Films About Springfield" "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" "Much Apu About Nothing" "Homerpalooza" "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
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Joan Kenley as the telephone lady

"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" is the third episode of The Simpsons' seventh season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 1, 1995. In the episode, the Simpson children are put in the custody of Ned and Maude Flanders after a series of misadventures. Homer and Marge are forced to attend a parenting class so they can get their children back. Learning that none of the children have been baptized, Flanders sets up a baptism, but Homer and Marge are able to stop him just in time.

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 on 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.

When Bart is sent home from school with head lice and Lisa without shoes, Marge and Homer are accused of being negligent parents. Two Child Protective Services agents arrive at their house and take Bart, Lisa, and Maggie to a foster home—right next door, at the house of Ned Flanders.

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