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''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' named it the second-best episode of ''The Simpsons'' in 2007.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=John |last=Orvted |title=Springfield's Best |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=2007-07-05 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/08/top10simpsons200708 |access-date=2022-01-16}}</ref>
"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".<ref name="Emmy">{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.org/awards/awardsearch.php |title=Academy of Television Arts &
===Reaction in Australia===
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[[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. Australia was a fantastic choice because it has lots of quirky visual things. And it's a country that is really very close to America, very in sync with America. We are so similar but yet there are all these fantastic differences, familiar yet twisted. It was intentional to make it very inaccurate. That was our evil side coming out: We'll take our knowledge of Australia and we'll twist it around to stimulate an audience and annoy them at the same time."<ref name="newscastle"/> Despite being criticized for mocking the country, the episode received positive reviews from Australians, too. Jim Schembri of the Australian newspaper ''[[The Age]]'' named it the funniest episode ever.<ref name="age">{{cite news |title=What a difference a D'oh! makes |last=Schembri |first=Jim |date=July 26, 2007 |newspaper=The Age |pages=15}}</ref>
In the episode, Tobias's father refers to [[Australian dollar]]s as "dollarydoos", leading to a petition on [[change.org]] to change the name of the Australian currency to dollarydoos. The petition claims that the name change will stimulate the struggling Australian economy. When the petition had closed, it had received 69,574 signatures.<ref name="Iyengar">{{cite
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