"I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn't Love to Howl" is an original song introduced in the fourth episode of the musical TV series Smash, entitled "The Cost of Art".
Ken Tucker's TV described it as "a fine performance, a boop-boop-a-doopin [song, which was sung in] a manner that would indeed make at the least a cartoon wolf as designed by Tex Avery howl".
[9] Emily Gagne of TV Guide said that Megan Hilty "both cooed and killed [her] new favourite Smash song" which she described as a "bombastic big bang track".
[10] In a discussion of how the setups surrounding such Smash numbers seem very unrealistic, Crushable questions whether "the writers and assistants [would] really be acting as Ivy’s backup when she wooed Nick Jonas['s character] with "I Never Met a Wolf Who Didn't Love to Howl".
[11] Metro also comments on the absurdity of inviting Ellis (who is just an assistant) to join in on the song, and questions whether the fact that they did not cut away to a fully staged version was due to "[director] Mr. [Michael] Grant [or writer] Mr. [David Marshall] Morris [wanting to] switch things up".