Bart Star

"**Bart Star**"
"Bart Star"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	Season 9; Episode 6
Directed by	Dominic Polcino
Written by	Donick Cary
Production code	5F03
Original air date	November 9, 1997
Guest appearances
	Joe Namath as himself; Roy Firestone as himself; Mike Judge as Hank Hill;
Episode features
Chalkboard gag	"I did not invent Irish dancing"
Couch gag	Everyone sits on the couch and is crushed into a cuboid block by a compactor.
Commentary	Mike Scully; George Meyer; Donick Cary; Nancy Cartwright; Dan Castellaneta; Dominic Polcino
Episode chronology
← Previous; "The Cartridge Family"	Next →; "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
	The Simpsons season 9
	List of episodes

"Bart Star" is the sixth episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on November 9, 1997.^[2] Written by Donick Cary and directed by Dominic Polcino, the episode guest starred Joe Namath, Roy Firestone, and Mike Judge.^[2] In the episode, Homer becomes the coach of a pee-wee football team and makes Bart the quarterback, to the displeasure of the rest of the team and Bart himself.

The episode was critically well received.

^ Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "Bart Star". BBC. Retrieved November 11, 2007.
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