Reception
In its original broadcast, "Bart After Dark" finished 57th in ratings for the week of November 18-24, 1996, with a Nielsen rating of 8.5, equivalent to approximately 8.2 million viewing households. It was the fourth highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, following The X-Files, Melrose Place and Beverly Hills, 90210.
Ken Keeler and Alf Clausen won an Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Music and Lyrics" for "We Put the Spring in Springfield". The song was also a part of the album Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons.
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