The entire music video was storyboarded in only two days in the United States . Bird then got on a plane to Budapest , Hungary , where the video was animated by Varga Studio . They thought the video was going to be animated as simply as the original '' The Simpsons '' shorts , shown on '' The Tracey Ullman Show '' , so when Bird told them that it was going to be done in full animation with no repeated scenes , they " went into deep shock " . The animators added the wraparound at the beginning to set Bart against the crowd and put the video in " some sort of context . " The video was nominated for Best Special Effects at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards . It originally premiered on Fox after the episode " Bart the Daredevil " on December 6 , 1990 , and was the number one music video on rotation on MTV between January and March 1991 . Along with the music video for " Deep , Deep Trouble " , the video was included on '' The Simpsons : The Complete Second Season '' DVD boxset in 2002 . Following the death of Michael Jackson on June 25 , 2009 , the music video was broadcast by Fox on June 28 , 2009 — ahead of a rerun of the episode " Wedding for Disaster " — and featured a title card paying tribute to Jackson
1991 MTV Video Music Awards
1991 MTV Video Music Awards
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