Bart Star
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- This article is about an episode of The Simpsons. For the quarterback, see Bart Starr.
Bart Star is the sixth episode of the ninth season of The Simpsons.
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[edit] Synopsis
When the children of Springfield are deemed too fat, parents start enrolling their kids in pee-wee football, including Bart. The job of coach originally is given to Ned Flanders, and the team is undefeated, but after Homer pushes Ned to the breaking point, the job is given to Homer.
Homer proves to be an incompetent coach, who would rather cut his players then keep them. Despite the spectacular quarterback skills of Nelson Muntz, Homer favors Bart (who has little to no skill) as the quarterback for the team.
Bart causes the team to lose a game and, unable to stand his father's constant myopic view of him as a star quarterback, claims to be unable to play due to being hit by two cars. Homer wants to forfeit the game, but Bart tells him the truth about why he does not want to play. Nelson is brought back as quarterback, and Bart replaces Uter in the position of offensive tackle.
The team starts winning again. At the final game, the score is tied when Chief Wiggum comes looking to arrest Nelson. Bart decides to be a team player and falsely claims Nelson's identity. Bart thinks he is being arrested for a petty crime until Wiggum tells him he's being arrested for burglary and arson. The team wins, and the children unsuccessfully try to carry Homer off the field.
[edit] Cultural references
- The title of the episode is a reference to Bart Starr, the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers (an American football team) from 1956 to 1971. Bart wears uniform number 15, the same number that Starr wore.
- When Homer takes over as coach of the team he begins wearing Tom Landry's hat, which he previously bought in "You Only Move Twice". Tom Landry was head coach of the Dallas Cowboys from their inception in 1960 until 1988 and his hat is one of the most recognizable icons of the sport.
- There is a crossover in this episode from King of the Hill, a show that aired next to The Simpsons on FOX's Sunday lineup and was co-created by former Simpsons writer Greg Daniels. Characters from King of the Hill on in the episode include Mike Judge as Hank Hill. Also present are Peggy, Luanne, Bobby, along with Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer. Hank is the only character who has a speaking role. See also: King of the Hill cameo appearances
[edit] Trivia
- The King of the Hill characters are not drawn in the same way as traditional Simpsons characters (yellow). Rather they are drawn the same way as in their own series, although a scene in the promo for this episode showed the King of the Hill characters with yellow Simpsons skin.
- Homer mentions a lot of the real names of people who work or use to work on the show while he is making the cuts during the closing credits (see quotes below).
- In one scene, when Rod and Todd are standing next to each other, their jersey numbers show 66 and 6, respectively.
- In one of the plays before the snap, Nelson yells out, "5F03, hut!" 5F03 is the Production Code of this episode.
- This is the first of two episodes of the 9th season that features a joke about the shoulders being a "special area." The later one is "This Little Wiggy."
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