Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow not only looks like Bart Simpson, he’s also starting to do some Bart Simpson-esque things. Specifically, Burrow just spent $3 million on a Batmobile from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy.

“This is a real Bart move to get a lot of money and buy the Batmobile,” said Matt Selman, executive producer of “The Simpsons.” “Bart is the bad boy who is almost like Joe Burrow. They both also have spiky blonde hair. It’s almost too good to be true.”

He’s the reason why it’s a bit coincidental: Bart Simpson will serve as Burrow’s Bengals coach on tonight’s NFL edition.” Well, sort of. In the latest unique NFL alternate lineup specifically for kids and families, Disney+, ESPN and “The Simpsons” producers collaborated to create “Simpsons” Monday night’s matchup between the Bengals and the Dallas Cowboys. While the game will air as usual on ABC and ESPN (and via the “Manningcast” on ESPN2), it will be streamed in “Simpsons” style as “The Simpsons Funday Football” live stream on December 9th at 8:00 p.m. ET on Disney+ and ESPN+ animated.

“The whole thing is what I call an irresistible challenge because we in the writers room of ‘The Simpsons’ are big NFL fans and love ESPN and all of its big personalities,” Selman said. “How can we do a ‘Simpsons’ version of a live football game that feels ‘Simpsons’ and also footbally? You want to balance football with The Simpsons and that’s where the fun and challenge lies.”

The three-hour event includes the actual face-off with a “Simpsons” storyline and unfolds in real time as the game takes place. After its first live broadcast on Disney+ and ESPN+, The Simpsons Funday Football will be available on-demand 12 hours later (for 30 days, only on Disney+). And if you’re pressed for time, an edited highlights segment of The Simpsons Funday Football running just under 40 minutes will be available soon on Disney Channel, Disney XD, FX and FXX.

The ambitious takeover begins with a regular 2-D “Simpsons” storyline led by “Simpsons” writer Joel Cohen, in which Homer has a “hot dog fever dream” in which he imagines he’s training the Cowboys and faces off against Bart on the Bengals side.

“Homer is mad at Bart and wants to hit Bart,” Selman said. “That’s the story, but you don’t need much more than that.”

From this wrap-around, which also includes a cartoon halftime segment, the ESPN production team created thousands of different computer-generated moments featuring the citizens of Springfield, all of which will be featured throughout the broadcast.

Thanks to motion-activated tracking technology from NFL’s Next Gen Stats, Sony’s Beyond Sports and optical tracking from Sony’s Hawk-Eye Innovations, gameplay is presented in “Simpsons”-style animations. The technology even allows “Simpsons” characters to temporarily take on the roles of Bengals and Cowboys players.

Michael “Spike” Szykowny, ESPN vice president of editing and animation, and ESPN senior creative director David “Sparky” Sparrgrove will be at the helm Monday night, adding all of those “Simpsons” elements to the live game. They’ve been working on this for months.

“The ESPN producers really have a mindset of, ‘We’re going to work 24 hours a day,’ to put as much ‘Simpsons’ content as possible into this CGI football game,” Selman said. “Spike and Sparky will sit there like the Phantom of the Opera and add all these visual gags, references, Easter eggs, predictions, jokes and visuals as the game progresses in real time.

“There are all these fun, surprising pre-tapes, and it’s up to the experienced NFL-ESPN producers to know when to insert them into the game during commercial breaks and timeouts and things like that,” he added. “I trust Spike and Sparky. This is their time. You stand in the booth at the control panel and think, ‘If I press this button, ten different Ralph Wiggum things will happen.’ If I press this button, Krusty will do something.’”

Spectators will watch the game at the Springfield Atoms stadium. “Moe’s Juice Bar” (family-friendly after all) has set up shop on Homer’s side. On Bart’s side, it’s a version of Kamp Krusty, complete with video games and skateboard ramps.

Other pre-produced pieces include inspirational halftime speeches from “Simpsons” characters like Moe, Krusty and Lisa. An animated version from ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith has some funny rants. Expect a reference to The Simpsons’ now infamous ability to predict the future. And Selman promised a surprise guest from the world of sports.

Marge and Lisa also conducted interviews with actual Cowboys and Bengals players — and “the answers from the football players were adorable,” Selman said. “They were very sweet.”

There’s still one game in progress, but analysts Mina Kimes and Dan Orlovsky and play-by-pay announcer Drew Carter will also be animated and call the game in the spirit of “The Simpsons.”

“We gave them a cheat sheet of ‘Simpsons’ references and peppered them with ‘Simpsons’ references for the game,” Selman said. “If I had to give the biggest ‘Simpsons’ nerd award, it would have to go to Mina. We’ve been emailing all week with ideas for deep Simpsons references she can incorporate into the game. Hopefully it’ll be a fun challenge for them to create a ‘Simpsons’ version of play-by-play and color commentary.”

Selman said that at this point in the season, ESPN originally expected the Cowboys-Bengals matchup to be more at stake. But with Cincinnati currently at 4-8 and Dallas at 5-7, the pressure is a little off. But in some ways, Selman said he expects the “Simpsons” version to get more listeners as a result.

“Now it’s just a fun, great game with two teams that haven’t really reached their limits,” he said. And if Bart is like Burrow, then Homer bears some resemblance to Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy, he added.

The “Simpsons” writers plan to watch the game on Monday from their offices, with a taco truck in tow. It’s a big week for the series and Disney+: On Friday, “The Simpsons” hosts a red carpet premiere for “O C’mon All Ye Faithful,” a new holiday special that follows the first of several new exclusive episodes of “O “C’mon All Ye Faithful”. The Simpsons for Disney+.

In this special, premiering December 17, British mentalist Derren Brown hypnotizes Homer, who then believes he is Santa Claus. The two-part episode features music by Patti LaBelle and Pentatonix – and will premiere exactly 35 years after the very first “Simpsons” episode, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” premiered in 1989.

“We have never written a single 40-minute Christmas story with so much emotional intensity,” Selman said. “It really feels like a movie. It has the deep emotion of cinema and is also very funny. It’s almost Capra-esque. It’s a pretty sweet special.”