diff --git a/docs/guides/configs-reference.rst b/docs/guides/configs-reference.rst
index 19920d283..e96c70ded 100644
--- a/docs/guides/configs-reference.rst
+++ b/docs/guides/configs-reference.rst
@@ -49,13 +49,14 @@ See :py:meth:`mrjob.runner.MRJobRunner.__init__` for details.
 
 :py:class:`~mrjob.local.LocalMRJobRunner` takes no additional options, but:
 
+* *bootstrap_mrjob* is ``False`` by default
 * *cmdenv* is combined with :py:func:`~mrjob.conf.combine_local_envs`
 * *python_bin* defaults to the current Python interpreter
 
 In addition, it ignores *hadoop_input_format*, *hadoop_output_format*, *hadoop_streaming_jar*, and *jobconf*
 
-:py:class:`~mrjob.inline.InlineMRJobRunner` works like :py:class:`~mrjob.local.LocalMRJobRunner`, only it also ignores 
-*cmdenv*, *python_bin*, *setup_cmds*, *setup_scripts*, *steps_python_bin*, *upload_archives*, and *upload_files*.
+:py:class:`~mrjob.inline.InlineMRJobRunner` works like :py:class:`~mrjob.local.LocalMRJobRunner`, only it also ignores
+*bootstrap_mrjob*, *cmdenv*, *python_bin*, *setup_cmds*, *setup_scripts*, *steps_python_bin*, *upload_archives*, and *upload_files*.
 
 
 Additional options for :py:class:`~mrjob.emr.EMRJobRunner`
diff --git a/mrjob/inline.py b/mrjob/inline.py
index 9c030b89b..e103aa220 100644
--- a/mrjob/inline.py
+++ b/mrjob/inline.py
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ def __init__(self, mrjob_cls=None, **kwargs):
 
     # options that we ignore because they involve running subprocesses
     IGNORED_LOCAL_OPTS = [
+        'bootstrap_mrjob',
         'python_bin',
         'setup_cmds',
         'setup_scripts',