 In its original American broadcast , " Bart the Daredevil " finished 20th in Nielsen ratings for the week of December 3 – 9 , 1990 , making The Simpsons the highest @-@ rated television series on the Fox television network that week . To promote The Simpsons Sing the Blues , the music video for the album 's lead single , " Do the Bartman " , premiered shortly after this episode 's first broadcast . In an interview conducted by Entertainment Weekly in 2000 celebrating the show 's tenth anniversary , Groening named " Bart the Daredevil " his favorite episode of the series , and chose the scene in which Homer is loaded into an ambulance and then falls out of it as the funniest moment in the series . 
