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"Bart Star" is the sixth episode of the ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 9, 1997.

The episode was written by Donick Cary, who was inspired by his experience in high school with a football coach who had a son on the team. Similarly, show runner Mike Scully had been on a soccer team whose coach would give his son special treatment. George Meyer obtained inspiration for a scene where Rainier Wolfcastle taunts the children from an experience he had with Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was following Schwarzenegger during a hike, and overheard him taunting his children. Schwarzenegger's influence was seen in the same scene, as he was appointed to be the chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, on which he served from 1990 to 1993. Throughout the episode, Homer dresses in homage to Dallas Cowboys player Tom Landry. Homer previously bought Landry's hat in "You Only Move Twice". The final scene took a long time to write, as the writing staff found it difficult to come up with a resolution that would end on positive terms for Bart and Homer. In the USA Today interview, Scully remarked that they only had brief cameos since "I don't want to oversell it, because I don't want Mike Judge to think I'm exploiting him." Scully added in a separate July 1997 interview with the Orlando Sentinel that there was no rivalry between the two shows, stating "we're friends with a lot of people over there. The two shows have helped each other out a lot." Although "Bart Star" portrayed King of the Hill characters existing in the Simpsons' universe, the Simpsons only exist as fictional characters in King of the Hill, according to its producer Greg Daniels (a former Simpsons writer).

In its original broadcast, "Bart Star" finished 27th in ratings for the week of November 3–9, 1997, with a Nielsen rating of 10.8, equivalent to approximately 10.6 million viewing households. It was the third highest rated show on the Fox network that week, following The X Files and King of the Hill. Since airing, the episode has received positive reviews from critics. Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, called the episode "fun" and said "Homer is just too stupid for words, but that's excusable because we finally see Ned Flanders lose it, big time!" The director of "Bart Star", Dominic Polcino, calls it his favorite of the episodes he directed.