Mr. Burns had a strained relationship with his own mother, whom he apparently tried to kill at least once, for having had an affair with President Taft. [21] When he was asked the cause of his parents' deaths, he replied: "Got in my way". [23] Organizations [ ] a b c d Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "The Springfield Files". BBC . Retrieved March 27, 2007. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Burns joined the SS. [31] However, Burns defected and fled Germany. Because of his American heritage, he returned to the United States in 1941, just days after the US declared war on Germany, and enlisted in the U.S. Army. [ citation needed|date=] While returning from Moe’s Tavern, Homer Simpson comes across a strange creature with a big head and huge eyes. Unfortunately, no one in Springfield believes him when Homer tells the story until it reaches FBI headquarters. The best: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson lend their voices to Mulder and Scully from “The Simpsons.”

Snake Jailbird • Kang& Kodos • Herman • Sideshow Bob • Fat Tony • Frankie the Squealer • Johnny Tightlips • Legs and LouieThere are many possible occurrences that helped Burns gain his wealth. One is that he was raised by a billionaire and inherited his wealth. Another is that he amassed his fortune through his business ownership, from a germ warfare laboratory to a nuclear power plant providing a whole city with energy. It is also possible that the song, White Christmas, was the true reason for Burns's wealth. Compressed Vice: The fact that Mr. Burns glows in the dark thanks to decades of exposure to the plant's toxic wastes is never brought up again. For that matter, neither are his weekly treatments. Psycho" Strings: Homer hears the strings from Psycho while lost in the woods... but it turns out to be an orchestra driving by on a bus. The writers struggled to come up with an ending for the episode, which will need to include a satisfying explanation for the alien. Originally, they planned to just leave it a mystery, but ultimately decided to make the alien Mr Burns following longevity treatment. [2] Many of the gags from this 1997 episode are still remembered to this day, such as the lie detector gag: “Homer, do you understand how this works?”“Yes.”“Kaboom!” as the machine explodes.

Mr. Burns appears in The Simpsons: Bart & the Beanstalk as two characters. He first appears as "Monty the Miser", who provides Bart with both magic beans and a slingshot in exchange for the cow (the latter mostly because Bart refused the magic beans), thus having him set the plot forward. He later appears as the boss of the second level, as a cloud in Mr. Burns' likeness. By the time Homer Simpson was about six [36] [37] or nine, [38] Burns was the chairman of the Germ Warfare Laboratory at Springfield University. By that point, peace activists, including Homer's mother Mona, destroyed all of the germs in the laboratory with antibiotics. [39] He still had a chair on the university's board many years after Homer left high school. [40] Other jokes come from Marge, who thinks the FBI is coming for her because of a pencil she took from the Post Office; Moe and his dark history with a smuggled whale; Grandpa Abe with a turtle that steals his teeth; or the lineup with famous aliens like Alf, Chewbacca, and Kang.

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Spiteful Suicide: Kent reports, as a "lighter" aside in his news, the article of a man who spent several years in a coma. After the man wakes up, he asks if Cher and Sonny still have their show, and when Kent answers that they don't but Cher now has won an award and Sonny is a politician, the man simply says "good night" and dies.