"Bart vs. Australia" is the sixteenth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

[a] Bart makes phone calls to various places in the Southern Hemisphere to confirm this, such as Buenos Aires, Santiago, Burkina Faso, and a research station in Antarctica.

When Bart sees a sign prohibiting foreign visitors from bringing in invasive species, he leaves his pet bullfrog at the airport.

Desperate, Bart and Homer escape and the family flees to the embassy, chased by a large, angry mob, which includes Conover.

After a stand-off, the two governments propose a compromise: one kick from the Prime Minister, through the gate of the embassy, with a regular wing-tip shoe.

However, Bart dodges the kick, moons the Australians with the words "Don't tread on me" written on his buttocks, and hums "The Star-Spangled Banner".

The Simpsons notice that Bart's bullfrog has reproduced, and its offspring are wreaking havoc on Australia's ecosystem and farms.

[3] Lisa's explanation of the effect is incorrect; it affects global weather patterns and is caused by the spinning of the globe on its axis.

[5] The attraction featured motion capture technology, allowing audience members' faces and expressions to be transformed into moving cartoon characters.

[7][8] The plot of the episode is based on the story of Michael Fay, an American teenager who was caned in Singapore in 1994 for vandalizing cars.

[3][9] This episode perpetuated a popular myth that the Coriolis effect affects the motion of drains in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

[10] During the scene in which Bart calls various locations in the Southern Hemisphere, he calls a car phone belonging to a man who appears to be an elderly version of Adolf Hitler alive in Buenos Aires, referencing the conspiracy theory that Hitler faked his death and fled to Argentina at the end of World War II.

[3] When the Simpson family go to an Australian pub, Bart plays with a pocketknife at the table and a man asks him, "You call that a knife?

[1][12] Wez, one of the characters from the 1981 film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, is seen in the Australian mob that chases Bart and Homer to the US Embassy.

[16] "Bart vs. Australia" was also nominated for an Emmy Award in 1995 in the category "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special".

[12] Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, advised that the episode is "best if watched with Australians who will be, perhaps understandably, aggrieved at their portrayal.

After the attack on the French, this is a vicious, unkind, offensive and wonderfully amusing slaughter of Australian culture by the makers of The Simpsons.

"[1] David Mirkin, who produced the episode, responded to the criticism in an interview with The Newcastle Herald by saying: "We like to have the Simpsons, the entire family, travel and this was the beginning of that.