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{{Character
|name       = Charles Montgomery Burns
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|name = Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns
|image     = [[File:Montgomery Burns.png|200px]]
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|image = [[File:Charles Montgomery Burns.png|250px]]
|gender     = {{Male}}
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|gender = {{Male}}
|hair      = Light Blue (in some episodes grey)
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|status = Alive
|age       = 104 to 129
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|alias = [[Fruit Bat Man]]
|job       = Owner And Boss Of The Power Plant
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|age = See [[#Childhood|age section]]
|relatives = '''Grandparents:''' [[Franklin Burns]] <br> '''Parents:''' [[Clifford Burns]] and [[Daphne Burns]] <br> '''Siblings:''' [[Cornelius Burns]]<br>[[Cornelia Hernandez]]<br>[[Zeph Burns]] <br>'''Son:''' [[Larry Burns]]<br>'''Neice:''' [[Pepita Hernandez]]<br>'''Aunt:''' [[Doreena Burns]]<br>'''Grandchildren:''' Unnamed
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|hair = Gray, balding<br>originally strawberry blonde
|appearance = [[Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire]]
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|job = Owner of [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] (not [[Canary M. Burns|legal owner]])<br>World War II veteran
|voiced by = [[Christopher Collins]] (First Episode) <br>[[Harry Shearer]]
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|relatives = '''Grandparents:''' [[Wainwright Montgomery Burns]] and [[Evelyn Graycomb]]<br>'''Parents:''' [[Clifford Burns]] and [[Daphne Burns]]<br>'''Adoptive father:''' [[Charles Montgomery Burns' adoptive father|Unnamed]]<br>'''Siblings:''' [[Cornelius Burns]], [[Cornelia Hernandez]], [[Zeph Burns]], [[Sarah Drew Linscott]], [[Dominique Burns]], [[Archibald Burns]], [[Clifford Burns Jr.]], [[Ernest Burns]] and [[George Burns]]<br>'''Great-Grandfather:''' [[Franklin Jefferson Burns]]<br>'''Son:''' [[Larry Burns]]<br>'''Nieces:''' [[Pepita Bernstein]] and [[Victoria Burns]]<br>'''Aunt:''' [[Doreena Burns]]<br>'''Grandchildren:''' Several, unnamed<br>'''Cousin:''' [[Lyla]]<br>'''Ex-wife:''' [[Persephone Odair]]
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|appearance = "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]"
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|voiced by = [[Christopher Collins]] ([[Season 1]])<br>[[Harry Shearer]] (regular)<br>[[Nancy Cartwright]] ([[Angry Dad]])
 
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'''Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns '''(better known as "'''Mr. Burns"''') is viewed as an antagonist to many, if not all, of the inhabitants of Springfield. He is an elderly, skinny, 104-year-old, who is shown as being cruel, bitter, cynical, heartless, greedy&nbsp;and selfish. Burns runs the [[100 Industrial Way|Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]].
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'''Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns'''<ref>"[[Flaming Moe]]"</ref> is the owner and operator of the [[100 Industrial Way|Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]].
  
Burns has light blue hair with three distinctive liver spots on his head. Montgomery usually wears a teal-coloured suit.
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Mr. Burns frequently orders his aide, [[Waylon Smithers, Jr.]], to "release the hounds," so as to let his vicious guard dogs attack any intruders, enemies or even invited guests. Mr. Burns is Springfield's richest and most powerful citizen. His net worth has been stated to be in the billion-dollar range, although at one point it slipped to "only" $996 million, which led to his being demoted from Billionaire Camp to Millionaire Camp.<ref name="The Burns and the Bees">"[[The Burns and the Bees]]"</ref> Burns uses his power and wealth to do whatever he wants, usually without regard for consequences and without interference from the authorities. His fortune was once estimated to be $3 billion.<ref>"[[Hard Times]]"</ref>
  
== Character ==
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== Biography ==
Mr. Burns embodies a number of stereotypes about Corporate America, as he has an unquenchable desire to increase his own wealth and power. Burns also embodies the stereotype of a manager by forgetting his employees' names (especially Homer's, despite it appearing that they interact more than Burns does with most of his employees), though this can be attributed to his senility. Burns is also unconcerned for their safety and well-being. His aspirations to apply obsolete technology to everyday life or references to Victorian era people or places provide a common source of humour on the show. Recently, he has become less evil and more eccentric.
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[[File:Mr. Burns Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
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=== Childhood ===
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[[File:Young Burns.png|thumb|Burns as a child]]
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Burns' birthday is September 15.<ref name="Rosebud">"[[Rosebud]]"</ref>
  
Mr. Burns seems to enjoy bossing his assistant, [[Waylon Smithers]], to do everything for him, from getting him dressed to driving him about.
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The Burns family has deep roots in the United States, with Montgomery Burns' great-grandfather [[Franklin Jefferson Burns]] throwing boxes of tea overboard in the Boston Tea Party.<ref name="trillions">"[[The Trouble with Trillions]]"</ref> His age and time of birth is contradictory. He said he was 81 in the 1990s<ref>"[[Simpson and Delilah]]"</ref> and said his age was a four-digit number in the 2000s<ref name="regina">"[[The Regina Monologues]]"</ref> and 2010s.<ref name="Them, Robot">"[[Them, Robot]]"</ref> Others in the 1990s and 2000s knew his age as 104.<ref>"[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)]]"</ref><ref name="Homer the Smithers">"[[Homer the Smithers]]"</ref><ref>"[[A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love]]"</ref> He once gave his place of birth as Pangaea.<ref name="The Seemingly Never-Ending Story">"[[The Seemingly Never-Ending Story]]</ref> Burns was either the youngest of his siblings which he outlived,<ref>"[[Double, Double, Boy in Trouble]]"</ref> or the older brother of [[George Burns]].<ref name="Rosebud"/> When the 108-year-old [[Cornelius Chapman]] died in 2000, Burns officially became Springfield's oldest living resident.<ref name="The Mansion Family">"[[The Mansion Family]]"</ref>
  
==Biography==
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Depending on the account, he was a child in 1909,<ref name="last exit">"[[Last Exit to Springfield]]"</ref> 1913,<ref name="circus">"[[Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus]]"</ref> or 1935,<ref name="bobby">"[[Bobby, It's Cold Outside]]"</ref> and was an adult in the 19th century,<ref>"[[My Mother the Carjacker]]"</ref> 1914 (with his 25-year college reunion taking place in 1939),<ref name="Baby Burns">"[[Burns, Baby Burns]]"</ref> between the wars,<ref name="Four Regrettings and a Funeral">"[[Four Regrettings and a Funeral]]"</ref> or in the 1920s.<ref>"[[The Great Phatsby: Part One]]"</ref> His parents were either affectionate<ref name="Rosebud"/> or cold and distant.<ref name="bobby"/><ref name="Dark Knight Court">"[[Dark Knight Court]]"</ref>
  
The Burns family has deep roots in the United States. Burns' date of birth is arguable. He's believed to be born on September 15, 1890, although he himself says he was born in 1881. As a child, Burns lived happily in a northern state with his natural parents, [[Clifford Burns|Clifford]] and [[Daphne Burns]], as one of 11 children, one being the comedian [[George Burns]], and his teddy bear [[Bobo]]. As a child, Burns was so cheery and amiable that his parents called him "Happy."<ref>[[Rosebud]]</ref>
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Burns used to have a penchant for reading comics as a child ("comical booklets"), but his father [[Clifford Burns|Clifford]] didn't like this. Clifford burned down the company that made the comics to teach his son a lesson.<ref name="Dark Knight Court"/>
  
At a young age he left his family to live with a twisted and heartless billionaire (who was actually his grandfather, a former slaveholder named Colonel [[Wainwright Montgomery Burns]]), who owned an "atom mill" in Springfield, where laborers split atoms by hitting anvils with sledgehammers. Burns lived a life of privilege and would amuse himself by injuring hapless immigrant laborers; it appears that Wainwright was directly responsible for turning Charles Montgomery from a pleasant child into a coldhearted man, much like himself. Charles Montgomery Burns later attended Yale University, where he studied science and business, played on the varsity football team, and was inducted into the Skull and Bones secret society. Burns graduated from Yale in 1932.<sup>[citation needed]</sup>
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Burns abandoned [[Bobo]], a teddy bear and the symbol of his lost youth, to live with a twisted billionaire,<ref name="Rosebud"/> who was his grandfather [[Wainwright Montgomery Burns]], who owned the [[Springfield Power Works]], where laborers split atoms by hitting anvils with sledgehammers.<ref name="last exit"/> Burns amused himself by injuring hapless immigrant laborers.<ref name="$pringfield">"[[$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)]]"</ref>
  
In 1939, at Burns' 7-year college reunion, he became romantically involved with the daughter of an old flame. She would later bear his child, [[Larry Burns]], who was given up for adoption and would later enter Mr. Burns' life briefly.<ref>[[Burns, Baby Burns]]</ref>[[File:Wainwrightmontgomeryburns.png|thumb|Burns (right) with his paternal grandfather.]]
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Whether or not Burns' mother [[Daphne Burns|Daphne]] was alive by the 1990s<ref name="Homer the Smithers"/> or dead in the 1930s was unclear,<ref name="bobby"/> as was whether or not the cause of his parents' death was getting in his way<ref name="The Mansion Family"/> or if his mother died from a lack of indoor plumbing.<ref name="fraudcast">"[[Fraudcast News]]"</ref>
  
Burns served in the [[Flying Hellfish]] during World War II, holding the rank of private after being demoted for his involvement in a romantic scandal and attempting to block a probe from J. Edgar. Burns is proud of the fact that he manufactured shells for the Nazi's, seeing himself as being superior to [[wikipedia:Oskar Schindler|Oskar Schindler]] because "my shells worked, dammit!".<sup>[citation needed]</sup>
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He later attended [[Yale University]].<ref name="Baby Burns"/>
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[[File:Mr. Burns WW2.png|thumb|left|Burns with Abe Simpson during WWII]]
  
A member of Springfield's [[Flying Hellfish]] battalion, he saw action in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge, serving under Sergeant [[Abraham Simpson]]. He was later transferred to the South Pacific with part of his squad. During the closing years of the war, when his platoon was clearing out a German-occupied castle, Mr. Burns came across several valuable portraits. Since they couldn't decide on who they should go to, they decided to enter into a tontine, which Mr. Burns was removed from decades after the war, after being dishonorably discharged when he tried to kill Abe. The paintings were later handed back to a German whose relatives owned them.<ref>[[Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson
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=== Pre-World War 2 ===
in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish']]</ref>
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For a time Burns lived in [[Paris]], where he met and fell in love with his cousin [[Lyla]]. At one point, he proposed, but she rejected him because of his evil ways, and they didn't speak for decades.<ref name="Four Regrettings and a Funeral"/>
  
At the end of World War II he was personally hired by President Harry S Truman to transport a specially-printed trillion-dollar bill to Europe as the United States' contribution to the reconstruction of the continent. As the United States' richest citizen, Burns was thought to be also the most trustworthy. Burns absconded with the bill and kept it in his possession for many years until it was lost to Fidel Castro.<ref>[[The Trouble with Trillions]]</ref>
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In 1939, at Burns' 25-year college reunion, he became romantically involved with the daughter of an old flame. She would later bear his child, [[Larry Burns]], who was given up for adoption and would later enter Mr. Burns' life briefly.<ref name="Baby Burns"/>
  
During the 1960s, Burns operated a biological weapons laboratory until it was destroyed by peace activists - including [[Homer]]'s mother [[Mona Simpson]].
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=== World War II ===
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Burns served in the [[Flying Hellfish]] during [[World War II]], holding the rank of private after being demoted for his involvement in a romantic scandal and attempting to block a probe from J. Edgar. Burns is proud of the fact that he manufactured shells for the Nazis, seeing himself as being superior to {{W|Oskar Schindler}} because "my shells worked, dammit!"<ref>"[[A Star Is Burns]]"</ref>
  
In the 1970s, Burns built the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]]. Burns currently owns the plant, although he has parted with it several times, including when he sold it to German investors, when the bank foreclosed on it and put [[Lenny Leonard|Lenny]] in charge, when he lost all of his money in a bet with Colonel O'Hara, and when Homer and Bart staged a hostile takeover of it. In each of these instances, Burns regained ownership of the nuclear plant.
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A member of Springfield's Flying Hellfish battalion (even though it was later shown that Mr. Burns was in the SS, the special forces of the Nazi army), he saw action in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge, serving under Sergeant [[Abraham Simpson]]. He was later transferred to the South Pacific with part of his squad. During the closing years of the war, when his platoon was clearing out a German-occupied castle, Mr. Burns came across several valuable portraits. Since they couldn't decide on who they should go to, they decided to enter into a tontine, which Mr. Burns was removed from decades after the war, after being dishonorably discharged when he tried to kill Abe. The paintings were later handed back to a German whose relatives owned them.<ref>"[[Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"]]"</ref>
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[[File:MrBurnsVest.gif|thumb|Mr Burns showing off his expensive clothing]]
  
At the nuclear plant, Burns spends most of time in his office, monitoring his workers via closed circuit cameras. In his office he keeps a team of ten high-priced lawyers, a scale model of Springfield, a special microbe-resistant chamber, a two-seat escape pod, and the "League of Evil" - a sinister cabal whose members are long deceased but whose skeletons remain. The boobytraps in Burns' office include cricket poison, a secret trapdoor (though he sometimes forgets where it is), a catapult that fires 100&nbsp;gram weights, and a ceiling-mounted suction tube which he can use to transport dissident workers to Morocco. He is also a loan officer at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Employee's Credit Union.<ref>This happens in [[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]</ref>
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=== Post World War II ===
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At the end of World War II he was personally hired by President [[Harry S. Truman]] to transport a specially-printed trillion-dollar bill to Europe as the United States' contribution to the reconstruction of the continent. As the United States' richest citizen, Burns was thought to be also the most trustworthy. Burns absconded with the bill and kept it in his possession for many years until it was lost to [[Fidel Castro]].<ref name="trillions"/>
  
Kent Brockman also credits Burns with having stolen Christmas from 1981 to 1985.
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[[File:Burns SS Card.png|thumb|left|Montgomery Burns revealing he was a member of the SS]]
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Burns spent time as a biochemist and bioterrorist before owning the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]]. When Homer was six<ref>"[[Gone Abie Gone]]"</ref><ref name="to cur">"[[To Cur, with Love]]</ref> or nine,<ref>"[[Mothers and Other Strangers]]"</ref> Burns operated a biological weapons laboratory until it was destroyed by peace activists - including [[Homer]]'s mother, [[Mona Simpson]].<ref>"[[Mother Simpson]]"</ref>
  
In the episode [[Lisa's Wedding]], it was shown that he had 17 stab wounds in the back. When Smithers asked [[Professor Frink]] for the cure, he said, "Well, we're up to 15!", followed by a subsequent "Yay!" by the workers.
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Burns raised money to build the [[Springfield Power Plant]],<ref name="to cur"/> which opened when Homer was either 12<ref>"[[The Blunder Years]]"</ref> or a senior in high school.<ref>"[[The Way We Was]]"</ref> When he arrived in Springfield this time (for what [[Marge Simpson]], who was a child at the time, thought was the first time) he promised cheap electricity for all. He came into town riding an elephant and a young [[Moe Szyslak]] asked to touch the elephant, which Mr. Burns allowed him to do.<ref name="Them, Robot"/> However, other accounts showed Burns living in Springfield with his grandfather in the 1900s<ref name="last exit"/> and with his mother in the 1910s.<ref name="circus"/> Burns currently owns the plant, although he has parted with it several times, including when he sold it to German investors, when the bank foreclosed on it and put [[Lenny]] in charge, when he lost all of his money in a bet with [[The Rich Texan]], and when Homer and [[Bart]] staged a hostile takeover of it. In each of these instances, Burns regained ownership of the nuclear plant.
  
He was once forced to work in a [[Sweatshop]], along with other billionaires such as [[Artie Ziff]], [[Aristotle Amadopolis]] and [[Rich Texan]].
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His plant was almost destroyed, but Waylon Smithers Sr. sacrificed himself to save the plant. His young son, Waylon Smithers Jr., would grow up to work for him and be his second in command. He is unaware that Smithers is gay and has had a crush on him for years. Their relationship has had its rough spots, as Smithers was one of the prime suspects in the shooting of Mr. Burns in 1995. Mr. Burns has grown to be the oldest man in Springfield.
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[[File:Evil Burns.png|thumb|Mr. Burns in his typical evil mood]]
  
He also claims to have participated in the Boston Tea Party.
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== Character ==
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=== Personality ===
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Burns embodies a number of stereotypes about Corporate America, as he has an unquenchable desire to increase his own wealth and power. Burns also embodies the stereotype of a manager by forgetting his employees' names (especially Homer's, despite it appearing that they interact more than Burns does with most of his employees), though this can be attributed to his senility. Burns is also unconcerned for their safety and well-being. His aspirations to apply obsolete technology to everyday life or references to Victorian-era people or places provide a common source of humor on the show. Recently, he has become less evil and more eccentric.
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Burns has a vast amount of money, he doesn't do charity, and simply releases "The Hounds" at any charity collectors coming to his mansion. He seems to enjoy bossing his assistant, Waylon Smithers, Jr., to do everything for him, from getting him dressed to driving him about.
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[[File:Ketchup catsup.png|thumb|Mr Burns struggles to understand Ketchup and Catsup]]
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At times, Burns appears to be completely removed from modern conventions and, sometimes, reality. He continually fails to recognize Homer Simpson or remember his name despite all the major events in Burns' life on the series have revolved around him in some way, similar to [[Krusty]] not remembering Bart's name. Burns is also for the most part unaware of the townspeople's general dislike of him. Burns uses archaic phrases and antiquated expressions that have either changed meanings or fallen out of common usage in American English, including score (meaning 20), twain (two), post-haste (quickly), petroleum distillate (gasoline), gay (jolly), dean (principal), velocitator and deceleratrix (a car's accelerator and brake), aeromail (post by air), lollygagger (slacker), fourth form (fourth grade), ahoy-hoy (hello), jumping box and picto-tube (television), Autogyro (helicopter), DictaBelt (dictation machine), the New York Nine (New York Yankees), horseless sleigh (snowmobile, although it could just mean that he was trying to be a mysterious character), crackleberries (peanuts), talkie (movies with sound), thrice (three times), and mater (mother). He also answers the telephone in the same way that the man widely credited for the ''Invention'' of the Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, is purported to have answered it ('Ahoy, Hoy?'). In one episode he also rings Smithers and says "Smithers, come here, I want you.", a take on what are reputedly the first words spoken by Alexander Graham Bell on his telephone ("Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you").
  
Burns has also owned or co-owned a number of business ventures in Springfield, including the [[Monty Burns Casino]] (later demolished)<ref>[[$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)]]</ref>, Li'l Lisa" recycling (an ocean slurry manufacturing plant)<ref>[[The Old Man and the Lisa]]</ref>, and [[Burns Slant Drilling Co.]] <ref>. Burns owned this in [[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)]]</ref>, [[Burns Media]], the electric company, the water works and even a hotel on Baltic Avenue.
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He also displays mannerisms which are considered outdated, such as practicing phrenology, writing with a quill pen, driving a [[1936 Stutz Bearcat]] while wearing a Edwardian motorist's outfit which includes hat, driving gloves and goggles, carrying a mace for self defense (though the weapon actually shown was a flail), driving without regard to traffic laws in the manner of early 20th century motorists, and using an antique view camera to take photographs.
  
Burns has used his power and wealth to blackmail and bribe various members of Springfield, including [[Mayor Quimby]], as well as safety inspectors. He once attempted to block out the sun to force Springfield residents to increase their use of electricity produced by the Nuclear Plant and was subsequently shot by [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]];. The town routinely is subject to Burns' abuse, such as Burns' stealing of Christmas from 1981 to 1985 and there is a general dislike of him throughout the town.
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Burns appears unaware of 20th century political and social developments, such as Fidel Castro replacing Fulgencio Batista as the President of [[Cuba]], Siam changing its name to Thailand, the [[Belgian Congo]] changing its name to the Congo-Kinshasa, Prussia being absorbed into the [[Germany|German]] Empire, [[India]] gaining its independence from the British Empire, New Mexico entering the [[United States]], the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Idlewild Airport changing its name to JFK Airport, the disbanding of the Negro Leagues, the desegregation of the Major Leagues, [[Joe DiMaggio]] no longer being a rookie, the extinction of the dodo, the demolition of the Polo Grounds, the ceasing of publication of Collier's Weekly, the demise of the DuMont Television Network, believing tires need to be revulcanized, confusing {{Chs|Ramones}} with [[The Rolling Stones]] ("have the Rolling Stones killed"), thinking cars are still operated by levers, believing mail may still be delivered by autogyro (once asking for a package to be delivered by autogyro to the Prussian Embassy in Siam), and the 1939 World's Fair.
  
Burns resides in a vast, ornate mansion on an immense estate called ''[[Burns Manor]]'', located at 1000 Mammon Lane, on the corner of Croesus and Mammon streets in the '[[Springfield Heights]]' district. It is protected by a high wall, an electrified fence and a pack of vicious attack dogs known as "The Hounds", one of whom is named Winston. He usually releases the whole lot of hounds towards guests, but if the guest manages to make Mr. Burns feel extremely gratified (such as when Homer interviewed him for an opium war), he will reduce the hounds released to the extent of only one hound actually being employed. In addition he has at least one 30+ yr old dog named Crippler, who is so old he has trouble walking. Crippler is known for bagging hippies - something they don't find too groovy at all. At times he has employed for protecting a force of ''Wizard of Oz'' - style guards, a personal paramilitary force, a riot police squad and a robotic Richard Simmons.
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Burns' investment portfolio includes long-defunct shares in "Confederated Slaveholdings, Transatlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congreve's Inflammable Powder, U.S. Hay", and an "up-and-coming Baltimore Opera Hat Company". Burns commonly refers to deceased persons as if they were alive, including Al Jolson, Tallulah Bankhead, Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo, Honus Wagner, Cap Anson, and Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown. He believes some social institutions and inventions are novel or nonexistent, such as musicals about "the common cat" and "the King of Siam", the Packard automobile, the Fire Department, ice cream (or "iced cream"), vending machines, recycling, strip clubs, hamburgers, the DuMont, the word "into", silent films like the 1929 ''Lulu'', and the synonymity of ketchup and catsup. While trying to chat up a young woman, Burns offers to play the clavichord and show stereopticon images of the Crimean War.
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[[File:Springfield Nuclear Power Plant 3.png|thumb|right|Mr Burns' office]]
  
The inside of the mansion includes a room containing a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, a bottomless pit, a human chess board, the largest television in the free world, a 'Hall of Patriots' commemorating his ancestors, a laboratory, a botanical garden of vultures bearing his likeness, a safe containing a Beefeater guard and a theater that is showing round-the-clock which plays regardless whether there is an audience or not. There also is a TV studio and a CCTV room.
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=== Health ===
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[[File:Mr burns hurts homer.jpg|thumb|left|Mr. Burns strangling Homer, in a menacing fashion]]
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Burns has numerous physical ailments and health problems, or more accurately he has nearly 'every' physical ailment and health problem. He is often to the point where he seems to straddle the line between life and death. On prior occasions, Burns may have died. Presently, Burns has a condition known as "Three Stooges Syndrome" where a delicate state of homeostasis is created by the presence in his body of every disease known to man and other newly-discovered diseases unique to him, which, when all trying to invade his body simultaneously, cancel out each other. Mr. Burns took this as being invincible, although the doctor who told him this implied that the slightest breeze could kill him.<ref name="The Mansion Family">"[[The Mansion Family]]"</ref>
  
The mansion is also home to many rare historical artifacts including the only existing nude photo of Mark Twain, the suit Charlie Chaplin was buried in, King Arthur's mythical sword Excalibur, and a rare first draft of the Constitution with the word "suckers" in it.
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Physically weak, he often has great difficulty performing the most basic physical tasks, such as giving a thumbs-up, receiving a hug, crushing a paper cup, or stepping on an insect. He is weak enough to be pushed over by an ant or a high-five, or pushed down by a sponge scrub on his head (although he was able to eventually get up in the latter case). Bunting a baseball sends him flying to the backstop. The weight of Toothpaste on his Toothbrush is enough to pull him over.<ref>This is shown in [[The Simpsons Movie]].</ref> He has a hunched back and his vertebral column is visible when he is viewed from the side. His exposure to radiation has given his skin a green glow (though seen in only one episode) and left him infertile. Once a 1000 dollar bill bruised him leaving a reverse imprint of Grover Cleveland on his chest.<ref name="regina"/> When Burns was incarcerated at Springfield's penitentiary, when he was getting a mug shot, the camera flash was able to slam him against a wall and knock him out.
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[[File:Burns Alien.png|thumb|Burns was once mistaken for an alien after his weekly medical treatments.]]
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His organs have grown immensely weak over the years. His heart is black, desiccated, and barely beats or does not beat at all. It is shrunken to the size of a cherry. Burns' blood type is double-O negative.<ref>"[[Blood Feud]]"</ref> When his finger is pricked, he bleeds dust, and when his arm is poked with a needle, the needle passes through his arm like Meringue as his doctor described it. On one occasion, a chunk of Burns' brain fell out through his ear. Another time, his lungs came out through his mouth and acted like an airbag. On another occasion, he indicated in an off-hand manner that he only has a single lung. If he is not careful, fluid can build up in his hands, causing them to swell to enormous proportions, and his fingers have been shown to flap in the breeze released from a bowling ball dispenser. It has been revealed that if Burns sweats even one drop, he could die of dehydration unless he takes a bath immediately. He has lost body parts due to leprosy (one example is when he lost an entire fingernail in a cup). Both his legs have a crease in them, down the entire length. When he learnt he had the [[House Cat Flu]] and he had only 6 months to live, he decided to announce all Springfieldians. However, after seeing nobody cared about him, he tried to jump from a cliff to kill himself. He didn't die, but did lose his memory and people then tried to take revenge on him.  
  
Burns has been engaged at least three times: a woman named Gertrude who died of loneliness and rabies, to [[Jacqueline Bouvier]], and to a policewoman named [[Gloria]]. He once had an affair with Countess von Zeppelin.
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==== Medical treatment ====
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[[File:Burns in The Fool Monty.png|right|thumb|Mr. Burns when Bart brought him to his home after he tried to kill himself]]
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Burns' medical treatment includes a weekly procedure which includes chiropractics, a painful vocal cord scraping, and an injection of pain-killers; its purpose is to postpone his death for one week. This makes his eyeballs grow to an unnatural size, and he becomes temporarily "nice". He also glows green, a result of working in a nuclear plant for ages. This once caused Homer to mistake him for an alien, though no one believed him, thinking him to have been drunk (he drank about ten bottles of a new type of beer, '[[Red Tick Beer]]' made out of beer and dog fleas). [[Lisa]] tried to prove that Burns was not an alien, by pointing a flashlight at him, which revealed him in his "nice" form.  
  
What is not widely known is that Charles Montgomery Burns and [[Homer Simpson]] are related by marriage (Which makes his making Bart his heir in one episode extremely ironic, as Bart would be related to Mr.&nbsp;Burns anyways). According to a family tree:
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The townspeople still believed he was a monster and wanted to kill him anyway, but Smithers rushed in and stopped them, explaining that it was really Burns. He has his brain flushed out with vinegar and his eyes "re-balled". His knees are also sent out to be repaired at a "shop." His dentures replace themselves.<ref>"[[The Springfield Files]]"</ref> In the future, Burns may be kept alive by cryonics.
  
Charles Montgomery Burns was born to [[Clifford Burns]] and Daphne Charle (hence the name ''Charles''),
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Burns once broke all his bones (though this was understandable, as he was knocked down onto the street below his main office, and besides which, he also had his stuffed Polar bear statue fall on top of him due to a fight between Smithers and Homer).
[[Clifford Burns]] was born to [[Wainwright Montgomery Burns]] and [[Evelyn Graycomb]].<br />
 
[[Evelyn Graycomb]] was born to [[Otto Graycomb]] and Lolly Dubois.<br />
 
Lolly Dubois was born to Lance Dubois and [[Clarice Stemple]].<br />
 
[[Clarice Stemple]] is the sister of [[Gaylord Stemple]].<br />
 
[[Gaylord Stemple]] married [[Trixie Simpson]].<br />
 
[[Trixie Simpson]] is the Granddaughter of [[Sven Simpson]].<br />
 
[[Sven Simpson]] is the great, great, great, great, great Grandfather of [[Homer Simpson]].
 
  
Mr. Burns' great-great-grandmother's sister-in-law's 4th great-grandson is Homer Simpson.
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On rare occasions he has displayed great strength and skill, such as when he managed to single-handedly capture the Loch Ness monster "Nessie" (though it was never explained exactly how he did so) and when he rescued his girlfriend Gloria from a burning building (although she wound up carrying him out of the blaze).
  
Mr. Burns had a strained relationship with his own mother, whom he's apparently tried to kill at least once, who had an affair with President Taft and lives in her 120's.He is Lisa's opposite, with no conscience or care for the environment in many episodes, and Lisa often opposes him. Occasionally, she agrees to work with him, but with great reluctance.
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=== Career ===
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At the nuclear plant, Burns spends most of time in his office, monitoring his workers via closed circuit cameras. In his office he keeps a team of ten high-priced lawyers, a scale model of Springfield, a special microbe-resistant chamber, a two-seat escape pod, and the "League of Evil" - a sinister cabal whose members are long deceased but whose skeletons remain. The boobytraps in Burns' office include cricket poison, a secret trapdoor (though he sometimes forgets where it is), a catapult that fires 100&nbsp;gram weights, and a ceiling-mounted suction tube which he can use to transport dissident workers to [[Morocco]]. He is also a loan officer at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Employee's Credit Union.<ref>"[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]"</ref>
  
When he was asked the cause of his parents' deaths, he replied: "Got in my way" <ref>[[The Mansion Family]]</ref>. His mother was seen at least once <ref>[[Homer the Smithers]]</ref>.
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[[Kent Brockman]] also credits Burns with having stolen Christmas from 1981 to 1985.
  
== Organizations ==
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He was once forced to work in a Sweatshop, along with other billionaires such as [[Artie Ziff]], [[Aristotle Amadopolis]] and [[The Rich Texan]].
Mr. Burns is a member of various organizations. In his younger years, while a student at Yale University, he was a member of Skull and Bones. During World War II, Burns became a member of the Flying Hellfish squad, a group of soldiers who entered into a tontine regarding the ownership of German artwork. Burns was a member of the [[Stonecutters]] until it disbanded, at which time he joined the secret society that succeeded it: [[The Ancient Mystic Order of No-Homers]]. (One source of dislike of Burns for the "Stonecutters' is that despite his wealth and greed, he is outranked by Lenny.). He is currently the head of the [[Springfield Republican Party]] and the [[Burns Religion]]. He is also a member of the "[[Excluders Club]]", the Springfield Golf and Country Club, and the [[National Rifle Association]]. He holds a chair (a demonic throne with snarling dogs chained to it) at [[Springfield University]] and controls an anti-democratic paramilitary force in Latin America. In ''The Burns and the Bees'', Burns attends the annual Billionaire's Retreat, where he won the Austin Celtics basketball team from the Rich Texan in a poker game.&nbsp; After severely mismanaging the team, he lost nearly half his net worth.&nbsp; At the following year's retreat,&nbsp; it was discovered he was no longer a billionaire.&nbsp; He was ejected from the camp, and thrown over a wall into the slack-jawed millionaire's camp.&nbsp; In a spoof of ''Citizen Kane'', he once tried to run for Governor - until [[Marge Simpson]] forever ruined his chances with a [[Blinky|three-eyed fish]]. At the end he echoes Kane by crying out his name in rage—and vows for the rest of his life to make [[Homer Simpson]]'s life miserable.<ref>This happens in [[Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish]]</ref>
 
  
== State of mind ==
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He also claims to have participated in the Boston Tea Party.
Burns' state of mind is the subject of frequent jokes on the show. At times, he appears to be completely removed from modern conventions and, sometimes, reality. He continually fails to recognize Homer Simpson or remember his name despite all the major events in Burns' life on the series have revolved around him in some way, similar to Krusty not remembering Bart's name. Burns is also for the most part unaware of the townspeople's general dislike of him.
 
  
Mr. Burns uses archaic phrases and antiquated expressions that have either changed meanings or fallen out of common usage in American English, including score (meaning 20), twain (two), post-haste (quickly), petroleum distillate (gasoline), gay (jolly), dean (principal), velocitator and deceleratrix (a car's accelerator and brake), aeromail (post by air), lollygagger (slacker), fourth form (fourth grade), ahoy-hoy (hello), jumping box and picto-tube (television), Autogyro (helicopter), DictaBelt (dictation machine), the New York Nine (New York Yankees), horseless sleigh (snowmobile, although it could just mean that he was trying to be a mysterious character), crackleberries (peanuts), talkie (movies with sound), thrice (three times), and mater (mother). He also answers the telephone in the same way that the man widely credited for the ''Invention'' of the Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, is purported to have answered it ('Ahoy, Hoy?'). In one episode he also rings Smithers and says "Smithers, come here, I want you.", a take on what are reputedly the first words spoken by Alexander Graham Bell on his telephone ("Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you").
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Burns has also owned or co-owned a number of business ventures in Springfield, including the [[Monty Burns Casino]] (later demolished),<ref name="$pringfield"/> Li'l Lisa" recycling (an ocean slurry manufacturing plant),<ref>"[[The Old Man and the Lisa]]"</ref> and [[Burns Slant Drilling Co.]],<ref>. Burns owned this in "[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)]]"</ref> Burns Media, the electric company, the water works and even a hotel on Baltic Avenue.
  
He also displays mannerisms which are considered outdated, such as practicing phrenology, writing with a quill pen, driving a [[1936 Stutz Bearcat]] while wearing a Edwardian motorist's outfit which includes hat, driving gloves and goggles, carrying a mace for self defense (though the weapon actually shown was a flail), driving without regard to traffic laws in the manner of early 20th century motorists, and using an antique view camera to take photographs.
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Burns has used his power and wealth to blackmail and bribe various members of Springfield, including [[Mayor Quimby]], as well as safety inspectors. He once attempted to block out the sun to force Springfield residents to increase their use of electricity produced by the Nuclear Plant and was subsequently shot by [[Maggie]];. The town routinely is subject to Burns' abuse, such as Burns' stealing of Christmas from 1981 to 1985 and there is a general dislike of him throughout the town.
  
Burns appears unaware of 20th century political and social developments, such as Fidel Castro replacing Fulgencio Batista as the President of Cuba, Siam changing its name to Thailand, the Belgian Congo changing its name to the Congo-Kinshasa, Prussia being absorbed into the German Empire, India gaining its independence from the British Empire, New Mexico entering the United States, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Idlewild Airport changing its name to JFK Airport, the disbanding of the Negro Leagues, the desegregation of the Major Leagues, Joe DiMaggio no longer being a rookie, the extinction of the dodo, the demolition of the Polo Grounds, the ceasing of publication of Collier's Weekly, the demise of the DuMont Television Network, believing tires need to be revulcanized, confusing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ramones The Ramones] with The Rolling Stones ("have the Rolling Stones killed"), thinking cars are still operated by levers, believing mail may still be delivered by autogyro (once asking for a package to be delivered by autogyro to the Prussian Embassy in Siam) and the occurrence of the 1939 World's Fair.
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In ''The Simpsons: Hit & Run, ''it is implied that he had a business partner that he killed. He stated this in level 7, mission 4, when Homer goes to his office, Mr. Burns mistakes him for the ghost of his former partner, and is relieved when Homer tells him that it is just him.
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[[File:Homer the Smithers promo.png|thumb|right|Burns' bedroom in Burns Manor]]
  
Mr. Burns' investment portfolio includes long-defunct shares in "Confederated Slaveholdings, Transatlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congreve's Inflammable Powder, U.S. Hay", and an "up-and-coming Baltimore Opera Hat Company".
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=== Residence ===
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{{main|Burns Manor}}
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Burns resides in a vast, ornate mansion on an immense estate called ''[[Burns' manor]]'', located at 1000 Mammon Lane, on the corner of Croesus and Mammon streets in the '[[Springfield Heights]]' district. It is protected by a high wall, an electrified fence and a pack of vicious attack dogs known as "The Hounds", one of whom is named [[Winston]].  
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[[File:Burns' manor.png|thumb|left|Burns Manor]]
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He usually releases his vicious hounds on guests once he decides they have overstayed<ref>The Simpsons Movie</ref> He has at least one 30+ yr old dog named Crippler, who is so old he has trouble walking. Crippler is known for bagging hippies - something they don't find too groovy at all. At times he has employed for protecting a force of ''Wizard of Oz'' - style guards, a personal paramilitary force, a riot police squad and a [[robotic Richard Simmons]].
  
Burns commonly refers to deceased persons as if they were alive, including Al Jolson, Tallulah Bankhead, Louise Brooks, Honus Wagner, Cap Anson, and Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown.
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The inside of the mansion includes a room containing a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, a bottomless pit, a human chess board, the largest television in the free world, a 'Hall of Patriots' commemorating his ancestors, a laboratory, a botanical garden of vultures bearing his likeness, a safe containing a Beefeater guard and a theater that is showing round-the-clock which plays regardless whether there is an audience or not. There also is a TV studio and a CCTV room. His residence also contains a closet full of clothes made from many different types of animals, such as a vest made from Gorilla chest and loafers made from gophers. The mansion is also home to many rare historical artifacts including the only existing nude photo of [[Mark Twain]], the suit [[Charlie Chaplin]] was buried in, [[King Arthur]]'s mythical sword Excalibur, and a rare first draft of the Constitution with the word "suckers" in it.
  
He also believes some social institutions and inventions are novel or nonexistent, such as musicals about "the common cat" and "the King of Siam", the Packard automobile, the Fire Department, ice cream (or "iced cream"), vending machines, recycling, strip clubs, the DuMont, the word "into", silent films like the 1929 ''Lulu'', and the synonymity of ketchup and catsup. While trying to chat up a young woman, Burns offers to play the clavichord and show stereopticon images of the Crimean War.
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=== Relationships ===
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Burns has been engaged at least three times: a woman named Gertrude who died of loneliness and rabies, to [[Jacqueline Bouvier]], and to a policewoman named {{ap|Gloria|Snake's wife}}. He once had an affair with Countess von Zeppelin. [[Agnes Skinner]] let Burns "feel her up" during the Depression.<ref>"[[The Last of the Red Hat Mamas]]"</ref> Burns caught the attention of [[Selma Bouvier]] when she discovered he's single.<ref>"[[Monty Can't Buy Me Love]]"</ref>
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[[File:Burns and Gloria.PNG|thumb|Burns and Gloria]]
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What is not widely known is that Charles Montgomery Burns and Homer Simpson are related by marriage (Which makes his making Bart his heir in one episode extremely ironic, as Bart would be related to Mr.&nbsp;Burns anyway). According to a family tree:
  
Nonetheless, there are many instances where Burns also displays a clear knowledge of recent events: Citing the films ''Bugsy'' and ''Working Girl'' as examples when making a movie to gloss over his evil rise to power; being inspired by the movie ''Sliver'' to have hidden cameras installed in every home in Springfield; meeting Elvis Presley and regaling Smithers with his impression of the famous singer; enjoying ''Ziggy'' comics; playing golf with Richard Nixon, who fretted to Burns about going to prison over the exposure of the Watergate scandal; recalling the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib in a "we-can-do-it-better" context; personally knowing Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, who along with George H. W. Bush tried to attend Burns' birthday party (Carter and Bush were denied admittance for being "one-termers"); and recalling watching the Beatles breakthrough performance on the ''Ed Sullivan Show'', dismissing it as "off-key caterwauling". He also has a dislike for Elvis Presley and claims Tallulah Brockman Bankhead has more sex appeal with one raised eyebrow than "Modern movies".
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:Charles Montgomery Burns was born to Clifford Burns and Daphne Charle (hence the name ''Charles''),
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:Clifford Burns was born to Wainwright Montgomery Burns and [[Evelyn Graycomb]].
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:Evelyn Graycomb was born to [[Otto Graycomb]] and Lolly Dubois.
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:Lolly Dubois was born to Lance Dubois and [[Clarice Stemple]].
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:Clarice Stemple is the sister of [[Gaylord Stemple]].
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:Gaylord Stemple married [[Trixie Simpson]].
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:Trixie Simpson is the Granddaughter of [[Sven Simpson]].
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:Sven Simpson is the great, great, great, great, great Grandfather of Homer Simpson.
  
== Health ==
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Mr. Burns' great-great-grandmother's sister-in-law's 4th great-grandson is Homer Simpson.
Burns has numerous physical ailments and health problems, or more accuratly he has nearly 'every' physical ailment and health problem.&nbsp;Often to the point where he seems to straddle the line between life and death. On prior occasions, Burns may have died. Presently, Burns has a condition known as "Three Stooges Syndrome" where a delicate state of homeostasis is created by the presence in his body of every disease known to man and other newly-discovered diseases unique to him, which, when all trying to invade his body simultaneously, cancel out each other. Mr. Burns took this as being invincible, although the doctor who told him this suggested that the slightest breeze could kill him.<ref>This is stated in [[The Mansion Family]]</ref>
 
  
Physically weak, he often has great difficulty performing the most basic physical tasks, such as giving a thumbs-up, receiving a hug, crushing a paper cup, or stepping on an insect. He is weak enough to be pushed over by an ant or a high-five, or pushed down by a sponge scrub on his head. Bunting a baseball sends him flying to the backstop. The weight of Toothpaste on his Toothbrush is enough to pull him over.<ref>This is shown in [[The Simpsons Movie]].</ref> He has a hunched back and his vertebral column is visible when he is viewed from the side. His exposure to radiation has given his skin a green glow (though seen in only one episode) and left him infertile. Once a 1000 dollar bill bruised him leaving a reverse imprint of Grover Cleveland on his chest.
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Mr. Burns had a strained relationship with his own mother—whom he has apparently tried to kill at least once—who had an affair with President Taft and lives in her 120's. He is Lisa's opposite, with no conscience or care for the environment in many episodes, and Lisa often opposes him. Occasionally, she agrees to work with him, but with great reluctance.  
  
His organs have grown immensely weak over the years. His heart is black, desiccated, and barely beats or does not beat at all. It is shrunken to the size of a cherry. Burns' blood type is double-O negative. When his finger is pricked, he bleeds dust, and when his arm is poked with a needle, the needle passes through his arm like Meringue as his doctor described it. On one occasion, a chunk of Burns' brain fell out through his ear. Another time, his lungs came out through his mouth and acted like an airbag. On another occasion, he indicated in an off-hand manner that he only has a single lung. If he is not careful, fluid can build up in his hands, causing them to swell to enormous proportions, and his fingers have been shown to flap in the breeze released from a bowling ball dispenser. It has been revealed that if Burns sweats even one drop, he could die of dehydration unless he takes a bath immediately. Burns has also lost body parts due to leprosy (one example is when he lost an entire fingernail in a cup). Both his legs have a crease in them, down the entire length.
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Once, when asked the cause of his parents' deaths, he replied: "Got in my way".<ref name="The Mansion Family"/> He also said the lack of indoor plumbing killed his mother.<ref name="fraudcast"/> However, his mother was seen alive at least once.<ref name="Homer the Smithers"/>
  
Mr. Burns' medical treatment includes a weekly procedure which includes chiropractics, a painful vocal cord scraping, and an injection of pain-killers; its purpose is to postpone his death for one week. This makes his eyeballs grow to an unnatural size, and he becomes temporarily 'nice'. He also glows green, a result of working in a nuclear plant for ages. This causes Homer to mistake him for an alien in one episode, though no one believes him, thinking him to have been drunk (he drank about ten bottles of a new type of beer, '[[Red Tick Beer]]' made out of beer and dog fleas). At the end of the episode, Lisa tries to prove that Burns is not an alien, pointing a flashlight at him. This reveals him in his 'nice' form leading the townspeople to believe that he is a monster, but before they can kill him, Smithers rushes in and explains that it is really Mr Burns. He also has his brain flushed out with vinegar and his eyes "re-balled". Burns' knees are also sent out to be repaired at a "shop." His dentures replace themselves.<ref>this happens in [[The Springfield Files]]</ref> In the future, Burns may be kept alive by cryonics.
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=== Organizations ===
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[[File:Two Cars.png|thumb|right|Mr Burns is served a three eyed fish while running for governor]]
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Mr. Burns is a member of various organizations. In his younger years, while a student at Yale University, he was a member of Skull and Bones. During World War II, Burns became a member of the Flying Hellfish squad, a group of soldiers who entered into a tontine regarding the ownership of German artwork. Burns was a member of the [[Stonecutters]] until it disbanded, at which time he joined the secret society that succeeded it: The Ancient Mystic Order of No-Homers. (One source of dislike of Burns for the "Stonecutters' is that despite his wealth and greed, he is outranked by Lenny.). He is currently the head of the [[Springfield Republican Party]] and once headed a short lived religion. He is also a member of the "Excluders Club", the Springfield Golf and Country Club, and the National Rifle Association. He holds a chair (a demonic throne with snarling dogs chained to it) at [[Springfield University]] and controls an anti-democratic paramilitary force in Latin America.
  
He once broke all his bones (Though this was understandable, as he was knocked down onto the street below his main office, and besides which, he also had his stuffed Polar bear statue fall on top of him due to a fight between Smithers and Homer).
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Burns once attended the annual Billionaire's Retreat, where he won the Austin Celtics basketball team from The Rich Texan in a poker game. After severely mismanaging the team, he lost nearly half his net worth. At the following year's retreat,&nbsp; it was discovered he was no longer a billionaire.&nbsp; He was ejected from the camp, and thrown over a wall into the slack-jawed millionaire's camp.<ref name="The Burns and the Bees"/>
  
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He once tried to run for Governor – until Marge Simpson forever ruined his chances with a [[Blinky|three-eyed fish]]. At the end he echoes Charles Foster Kane ({{W|Citizen Kane}}) by crying out his name in rage—and vows for the rest of his life to make Homer Simpson's life miserable.<ref>This happens in "[[Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish]]"</ref>
  
On rare occasions he has displayed great strength and skill, such as when he managed to singlehandly capture Loch Ness monster Nessie (though it was never explained how he did so bar that it swallowed him) and when he rescued his girlfriend Gloria from a burning building (although she wound up carrying him out of the blaze).
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Burns was a Freemason "before it was trendy."<ref>"[[Gone Maggie Gone]]"</ref>
  
== Non Canon Appearance ==
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== Non-canon ==
 
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[[File:Young_Burns.gif|thumb|left|A youger Burns and Bobo, his teddy bear]]
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[[File:Treehouse of Horror IV promo.gif|thumb|right|"Count" Burns in "[[Treehouse of Horror IV]]"]]
===The Future===
 
At the age of 119, Mr. Burns is cryogenically frozen. Scientists work to find a cure for 17 stab wounds to the back so that he can be thawed out and cured. He was cured in time to attend [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa Simpson's]] wedding. He isn't completely thawed, and when he tries to sit down, he snaps in half, which is also cured. At age 122, he is a shut-in who sponsors a Yale scholarship as punishment for stealing Christmas. He keeps diamonds to have them changed into Earth's most precious mineral of the age: coal. His home is also guarded by a large group of unicorn-clam creatures (uni-clams). At age 1,104, he is a robot and earth is ruled by apes. He finds his teddy bear [[Bobo]], which he loses and finds every century. A long time later, he dies and goes to Dog Heaven, which was caused by offering to give the [[First Church of Springfield|church]] back to [[Reverend Lovejoy]] in exchange for admittance into [[Heaven]]. He was tricked and got admittance into Dog Heaven.
 
  
===Video Games===
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=== The Future ===
==== The Simpsons Road Rage ====
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[[File:Robo Burns.png|thumb|Burns as a head on legs]]
In [[The Simpsons Road Rage]], Mr. Burns buys out the Springfield transit system and turns them into nuclear buses. In one of the missions it is also said that he buys out the Springfield Shopper. Also if you drive in the Springfield Mountains you can drive into [[Burns Manor]]. In the last mission you have to battle Mr. Burns as Homer, where Homer has smash the statues in Burns' garden. Also in the second mission you have to dodge him. In every single road rage or Sunday drive he tries and hit you with his car. If you use a cheat you can drive his car, a nuclear bus or even Mr. Burns driving a brick. In the downtown location you can see his bus depot. One of the other locations is his nuclear power plant.
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Mr. Burns is later cryogenically frozen. Scientists work to find a cure for 17 stab wounds to the back so that he can be thawed out and cured. He was cured in time to attend Lisa Simpson's wedding. He isn't completely thawed, and when he tries to sit down, he snaps in half, which is also cured.<ref>"[[Lisa's Wedding]]"</ref> Later he is a shut-in who sponsors a Yale scholarship as punishment for stealing Christmas. He keeps diamonds to have them changed into Earth's most precious mineral of the age: coal. His home is also guarded by a large group of unicorn-clam creatures (uni-clams).<ref>"[[Holidays of Future Passed]]"</ref> Billions of years into the future, Burns lives in the form of a partial android with his robot dog sidekick Smithers. Burns' head misplaces his teddy, [[Bobo]] every century.<ref name="Rosebud"/>
  
==== The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown ====
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=== Treehouse of Horror ===
In [[The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown]], Mr. Burns is shown telling [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] where [[Plopper|Spider Pig]] went.
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==== Count Burns ====
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Burns is a vampire but no one believes Lisa. She and Bart find Mr. Burns's secret lair which can be accessed by a staircase that has a lever which doubles as a fun slide and Bart (while fleeing from a horde of vampires) says "I shouldn't... But when am I going to be back here?" is turned into a vampire after pulling the lever. The Simpsons are then worried that Bart could get worse and The Simpsons have to kill the head vampire. Homer kills Burns but gets fired in the process. It turns out, however, that Burns is NOT the head vampire, which leads to an unexpected conclusion.
  
==== The Simpsons: Hit and Run ====
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==== Lord Montymort ====
In [[The Simpsons: Hit and Run]], you can drive to the nuclear power plant in the first level. In the last level, you can climb up to Mr. Burns' office. You also see him in one level and can eventually drive his car.
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:''See [[Lord Montymort|here]]''
  
==== The Simpsons Game ====
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=== Video games ===
In the level [[Lisa the Tree Hugger (The Simpsons Game)|Lisa the Tree Hugger]], the player stops Mr Burns from destroying the ecosystem.
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==== The Simpsons: The Arcade Game ====
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Mr. Burns appears as the final boss in this game, operating a giant mechanical robot from within that changes form with the damage it receives from the Simpsons characters. He also was the one who orchestrated Smither's theft of a diamond, which also indirectly made him responsible for Maggie's kidnapping as well, as Smithers ended up kidnapping Maggie because the diamond was knocked towards Maggie and she started using it as a Pacifier. After managing to defeat Burns, the Simpsons rescue Maggie and head back home, while Homer breaks the fourth wall by throwing the diamond right to the player. After Burns was knocked unconscious Maggie places her old pacifier into his mouth.
  
==Behind the Scenes==
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==== The Simpsons Road Rage ====
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In [[The Simpsons Road Rage]], Mr. Burns buys out the Springfield transit system and turns them into nuclear buses. In one of the missions it is also said that he buys out the Springfield Shopper. Also if you drive in the Springfield Mountains you can drive into Burns' manor. In the last mission you have to battle Mr. Burns as Homer, where Homer has smash the statues in Burns' garden. Also in the second mission you have to dodge him. In every single road rage or Sunday drive he tries and hit you with his car. If you use a cheat you can drive his car, a nuclear bus or even Mr. Burns driving a brick. In the downtown location you can see his bus depot. One of the other locations is his nuclear power plant.
  
=== Creation ===
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==== The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown ====
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In ''[[The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown]]'', Mr. Burns is shown telling [[Homer]] where [[Plopper|Spider Pig]] went.
  
[[Matt Groening]] principally based Burns on Fredrik Olsen, a reclusive Norwegian shipping magnate and owner of Timex.Groening made Burns an "embodiment of corporate greed" and drew further inspiration for the character from oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and Henry Potter from ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]] ''.Burns's appearance was modeled on Fox founder Barry Diller, and his physical movement style came from a praying mantis. His name came from the Montgomery Park sign atop a former Montgomery Ward high-rise department store in Portland, Oregon's Northwest Industrial district. Near it, there was a famous log cabin that burned down during Groening's childhood, giving the name "Montgomery Burns". Burns's first name being Charles was a reference to ''[[Citizen Kane]] ''character Charles Foster Kane. After the episode were Flanders opened the Leftorium, it is revealed that Mr Burns, along with many other characters, is left-handed.
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==== The Simpsons: Hit & Run ====
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In ''[[The Simpsons: Hit & Run]]'', you can drive to the nuclear power plant in the first level. In the last level, you can climb up to Mr. Burns' office. You also see him in one level and can eventually drive his car if you complete the bonus mission in Level 7.
  
Although originally designed as a one-dimensional recurring villain, who might occasionally enter the Simpsons' lives and create some sort of havoc.<sup>[citation needed]</sup> Mr. Burns' popularity has led to his repeated inclusion on the show. However, Mr. Burns has become less evil and more eccentric in recent series.
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==== The Simpsons Game ====
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In the level {{ap|Lisa the Tree Hugger|The Simpsons Game}}, the player stops Mr. Burns from destroying the ecosystem. Burns plans to cut down every tree in Springfield and turn each one into a single luxury toothpick. When the logging facility is destroyed, Mr. Burns has Smithers phone in some goons to rough up [[Al Gore]] to make himself feel better. In [[Medal of Homer]], a younger version of Burns steals paintings from the village of St. Capitulons and protects them on board his personal naval carrier with a squad of sailors resembling Smithers.
  
A running gag on the Show is Mr Burns dealing with Satan; one cameo has Burns selling his soul for a fortune and eternal life (but not eternal youth). Another cameo has Smithers remarking how the "Prince of Darkness" has an appointment with Burns, and in a final cameo in a Treehouse of Horror episode, Mr Burns turns down Smithers' idea to ask Satan for help, as his wife had a screenplay. However, it should be noted that it's implied in Lady Bouvier's Lover that Mr. Burns may actually be Satan himself, as Jackie Bouvier flirtingly said that he was the devil himself, thus causing him to nearly panic and shout "Who told you that" before realizing that she meant it in a flirting way.
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==== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ====
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{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Villains|Burns}}
  
=== Age ===
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===== Costumes =====
Mr. Burns' age has fluctuated during the course of the show, being explicitly stated he was 81 in ''[[Simpson and Delilah]]'' and as old as 104 in ''[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)]]'', ''[[Homer the Smithers]]'' and ''[[A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love]]''. In the episode ''[[Fraudcast News]]'', Burns claims that he was born in 1881, making him 123 years old (when the episode aired in 2004). He has been referred to as "Springfield's oldest resident" with a Social Security number of 000-00-0002 (cursing [[Franklin Roosevelt]] for having 0001).
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File:Fruit Bat Man.png|[[Fruit-Bat-Man]]
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File:Count Burns.png|[[Count Burns]]
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File:Tapped Out Ebenezer Burns.png|[[Ebenezer Burns]]
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File:Number 29.png|[[Number 29]]
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File:Tapped Out U.B.O..png|[[U. B. O.]]
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File:Tapped Out Monty Moneybags.png|[[Monty Moneybags]]
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File:Softball Mr Burns.png|[[Softball Mr Burns]]
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File:Tapped Out White Witch Burns.png|[[White Witch Burns]]
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File:Tapped Out Reclusive Mr. Burns.png|[[Reclusive Mr. Burns]]
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File:New God Mr. Burns.png|[[New God Mr. Burns]]
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File:Hellfish Burns.png|[[Hellfish Burns]]
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File:Pin Pal Burns.png|[[Pin Pal Burns]]
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File:Water Baron Burns.png|[[Water Baron Burns]]
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File:Geriatric Park Burns.png|[[Geriatric Park Burns]]
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File:Hunter Mr. Burns.png|[[Hunter Mr. Burns]]
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</gallery>
  
In an Issue of [[Simpsons Comics]], Mr Smithers states Mr Burns is 118 years old
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===== Standalone =====
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<gallery>
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File:Robo Burns.png|[[Robo Burns]]
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File:Young Burns.png|[[Young Burns]]
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File:Evil Godmother Burns.png|[[Evil Godmother Burns]]
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File:Mr. Burnsum.png|[[Burnsum]]
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File:Lord Montgomery.png|[[Lord Montgomery]]
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File:Mirror Burns.png|[[Mirror Mr. Burns]]
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</gallery>
  
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== Trivia ==
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*Mr. Burns signs his will as "Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns" in the [[season 22]] episode, "[[Flaming Moe]]", which implies that he is related to [[Adolf Hitler]] and a descendant of the {{W|House of Plantagenet}}.
  
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== Behind the Laughter ==
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[[File:Homer's Odyssey (Mr. Burns Looking Out the Window).png|thumb|Mr Burns' appearance in "[[Homer's Odyssey]]"]]
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=== Creation ===
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Burns' character, appearance, and mannerisms are based on several different people. The show's creator [[Matt Groening]] principally based Burns on Fredrik Olsen, a reclusive Norwegian shipping magnate and the owner of Timex. Drawing further inspiration from oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, David Rockefeller and fictional character Henry Potter from ''It's a Wonderful Life'', Groening made Burns the "embodiment of corporate greed".
  
Frequent allusions to Mr. Burns' age place his date of birth in the late 19th century, which would make him at the least more than 100 years old. He says he had a driver's license that expired in 1909, graduated from Yale University in 1914, was depicted in a 19th century woodcut terrorizing children (which, surprisingly, features him as an old man). Mr. Burns has also claimed that he has survived through 12 economic recessions and 8 panics.
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Animator [[David Silverman]] parodied Burns's appearance on Fox founder Barry Diller, and modeled his body on a praying mantis. The idea of Burns reading employee names off cards in "There's No Disgrace Like Home" came from an article about Ronald Reagan that writer [[Al Jean]] had read. In some episodes, parallels have been drawn between Burns and moguls such as Howard Hughes and, more frequently, fictional character Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane. Writer George Meyer lifted Burns' "Excellent!" hand gesture from his former ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' colleague Jim Downey.
  
Other references to Mr. Burns' age place him at thousands of years old. His ATM password, which is the same as his age, is four digits long (although it is possible the first and/or second digits are 0). Mr. Burns' birthplace has also been named as Pangaea.<ref>[[The Seemingly Never-Ending Story]]</ref>
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Matt Groening got Burns's middle name from a Montgomery Ward department store in Portland, Oregon's Northwest Industrial district and his surname from Burnside Street, a main thoroughfare in Portland. Burns's first name being Charles is a reference to Charles Foster Kane. In the script for "[[There's No Disgrace Like Home]]", Al Jean and [[Mike Reiss]] referred to him as "Mr. Meany".<ref>''[[Springfield Confidential]]'' Chapter 6</ref> Another version is [[Sam Simon]] named him for his father Monty.<ref>{{Com|Jean, Al|Midnight Rx|Sixteenth|(2013).|link=Al Jean}}</ref>  
  
Burns's wine cellar also has trophy heads of a dodo, a saber-toothed tiger, and a T-rex.
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In the second season, the writers started to enjoy writing about Smithers and Burns's relationship, and they often pitched episodes with them as the focus, but many never came to fruition.
  
However, because his mother, who is currently alive, is in her 120s, Burns would have to be younger.
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=== Voice ===
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Burns was originally voiced by actor Christopher Collins in the episode "[[Homer's Odyssey]]". He was soon replaced by Harry Shearer, who has voiced the character ever since. He modeled the voice on Lionel Barrymore and Ronald Reagan. Shearer is also the voice of Smithers and is able to perform dialogue between the two characters in one take. Shearer said that Burns is the most difficult character for him to voice because it is rough on his vocal cords and he often needs to drink tea and honey to soothe his voice. He describes Burns as his favorite character, saying he "like[s] Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil."
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[[File:Mr burns action figure.jpg|thumb|A Mr. Burns action figure]]
  
Burns' age provides the writers a character with which they can express dated humor and references to popular culture before the 1950s.
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=== Foreign dubs ===
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{{Dub voices
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|daVoice={{W|da:Søren Ulrichs|Søren Ulrichs}} (movie)
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|esVoice=Pedro Sempson (seasons 1-11)<br>Javier Franquelo (since season 12)
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|esLAVoice=Miguel Ángel Botello (Seasons [[Season 16|16]]-[[Season 31|31]])<br>{{W|Gabriel Chávez}} (Seasons [[Season 1|1]]-[[Season 15|15]], since [[Season 32|32]])
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|itVoice={{W|Sandro Iovino}}
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|poVoice={{W|pl:Mirosław Konarowski|Mirosław Konarowski}}
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|svVoice={{W|sv:Anders Öjebo|Anders Öjebo}} (''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'')
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|huVoice={{W|hu:Balázs Szuhay|Balázs Szuhay}}† (Season 1–8)<br>István Rudas (Season 8–)
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|ukVoice={{W|uk:Легін Валерій Петрович|Valerii Lehin}} (Season 1, ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'')<br>{{W|uk:Коваленко Юрій Миколайович|Yurii Kovalenko}} (since season 2)
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== Appearances ==
 
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|E3=yes
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|E4=yes
*{{Ep|Simpson and Delilah}}
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|E8=yes
*{{Ep|Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish}}
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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*{{Ep|One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish}}
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*{{Ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment}}
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*{{Ep|Old Money}}
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*{{Ep|Brush With Greatness}}
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*{{Ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|The War of the Simpsons}}
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|E10=yes
*{{Ep|Blood Feud}}
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|E11=yes
*{{Ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
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|E13=yes
*{{Ep|Bart the Murderer}}
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|E17=yes
*{{Ep|Homer Defined}}
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|E18=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror II}}
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|E22=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa's Pony}}
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*{{Ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
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*{{Ep|I Married Marge}}
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|E1=yes
*{{Ep|Radio Bart}}
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|E2=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa the Greek}}
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|E3=yes
*{{Ep|Homer Alone}}
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|E4=yes
*{{Ep|Homer at the Bat}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|Kamp Krusty (Episode)}}
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|E7n=Homer's nightmare
*{{Ep|A Streetcar Named Marge}}
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|E8=yes
*{{Ep|Homer the Heretic}}
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|E11=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa the Beauty Queen}}
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|E12=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror III}}
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|E12n=flashback
*{{Ep|Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie}}
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|E17=yes
*{{Ep|Marge Gets a Job}}
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|E19=yes
*{{Ep|New Kid on the Block}}
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|E24=yes
*{{Ep|Mr. Plow}}
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*{{Ep|Homer's Triple Bypass}}
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*{{Ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|Selma's Choice}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|Brother from the Same Planet}}
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|E11=yes
*{{Ep|I Love Lisa}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|Last Exit to Springfield}}
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|E17=yes
*{{Ep|So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show}}
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|E18=yes
*{{Ep|The Front}}
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|E20=yes
*{{Ep|Whacking Day}}
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|E21=yes
*{{Ep|Marge in Chains}}
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|E22=yes
*{{Ep|Krusty Gets Kancelled}}
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*{{Ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet}}
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*{{Ep|Cape Feare}}
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|E1=yes
*{{Ep|Rosebud}}
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|E1n=picture
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IV}}
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|E3=yes
*{{Ep|Marge on the Lam}}
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|E4=yes
*{{Ep|Bart's Inner Child}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|Boy-Scoutz N the Hood}}
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|E5n=The Devil and Homer Simpson; Bart Simpson's Dracula
*{{Ep|The Last Temptation of Homer}}
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|E6=yes
*{{Ep|$pringfield}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|Homer the Vigilante}}
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|E8=yes
*{{Ep|Bart Gets Famous}}
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|E9=yes
*{{Ep|Homer and Apu}}
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|E10=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|Deep Space Homer}}
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|E14=yes
*{{Ep|Homer Loves Flanders}}
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|E15=yes
*{{Ep|Bart Gets an Elephant}}
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|E16=yes
*{{Ep|Burns' Heir}}
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|E17=yes
*{{Ep|Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song}}
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|E18=yes
*{{Ep|The Boy Who Knew Too Much}}
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|E21=yes
*{{Ep|Lady Bouvier's Lover}}
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|E22=yes
*{{Ep|Secrets of a Successful Marriage}}
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*{{Ep|Bart of Darkness}}
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{{Season6A
*{{Ep|Another Simpsons Clip Show}}
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|E3=yes
*{{Ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
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|E5=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror V}}
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|E6=yes
*{{Ep|Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy}}
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|E6n=The Shinning
*{{Ep|Homer the Great}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|A Star is Burns}}
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|E13=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa's Wedding}}
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|E13n=flashback
*{{Ep|Two Dozen and One Greyhounds}}
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|E14=yes
*{{Ep|'Round Springfield}}
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|E18=yes
*{{Ep|The Springfield Connection}}
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|E19=yes
*{{Ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
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|E20=yes
*{{Ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)}}
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|E22=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa the Vegetarian}}
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|E23=yes
*{{Ep|King-Size Homer}}
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|E25=yes
*{{Ep|Mother Simpson}}
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*{{Ep|Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming}}
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{{Season7A
*{{Ep|Marge Be Not Proud}}
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|E1=yes
*{{Ep|Team Homer}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|Scenes From the Class Struggle in Springfield}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|Bart the Fink}}
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|E8=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa the Iconoclast}}
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|E9=yes
*{{Ep|Homer the Smithers}}
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|E10=yes
*{{Ep|The Day the Violence Died}}
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|E10n=archive footage
*{{Ep|A Fish Called Selma}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|22 Short Films About Springfield}}
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|E14=yes
*{{Ep|Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"}}
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|E15=yes
*{{Ep|Much Apu About Nothing}}
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|E16=yes
*{{Ep|Summer of 4 Ft. 2}}
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|E17=yes
*{{Ep|The Homer They Fall}}
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|E21=yes
*{{Ep|Burns, Baby Burns}}
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|E22=yes
*{{Ep|Bart After Dark}}
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|E23=yes
*{{Ep|A Milhouse Divided}}
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|E24=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa's Date with Density}}
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*{{Ep|The Springfield Files}}
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{{Season8A
*{{Ep|The Twisted World of Marge Simpson}}
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|E2=yes
*{{Ep|Mountain of Madness}}
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|E3=yes
*{{Ep|Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious}}
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|E4=yes
*{{Ep|Brother from Another Series}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|The Canine Mutiny}}
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|E9=yes
*{{Ep|The Old Man and the Lisa}}
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|E10=yes
*{{Ep|Homer's Enemy}}
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|E11=yes
*{{Ep|The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa the Skeptic}}
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|E13=yes
*{{Ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
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|E14cg=yes
*{{Ep|All Singing, All Dancing}}
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|E18=yes
*{{Ep|The Joy of Sect}}
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|E19=yes
*{{Ep|The Last Temptation of Krust}}
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|E20=yes
*{{Ep|Lisa the Simpson}}
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|E21=yes
*{{Ep|This Little Wiggy}}
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|E23=yes
*{{Ep|Simpson Tide}}
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|E24=yes
*{{Ep|Girly Edition}}
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*{{Ep|Trash of the Titans}}
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{{Season9A
*{{Ep|King of the Hill}}
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|E4=yes
*{{Ep|Lost Our Lisa}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|Natural Born Kissers}}
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|E6=yes
*{{Ep|Bart the Mother}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|D'oh-in in the Wind}}
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|E8=yes
*{{Ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
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|E10=yes
*{{Ep|Homer to the Max}}
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|E11=yes
*{{Ep|Maximum Homerdrive}}
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|E11n=archive footage
*{{Ep|Mom and Pop Art}}
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|E13=yes
*{{Ep|The Old Man and the "C" Student}}
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|E18=yes
*{{Ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
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|E19=yes
*{{Ep|Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo}}
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|E20=yes
*{{Ep|Beyond Blunderdome}}
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|E21=yes
*{{Ep|Brother's Little Helper}}
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|E23=yes
*{{Ep|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?}}
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|E24=yes
*{{Ep|Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder}}
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|E25=yes
*{{Ep|Grift of the Magi}}
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}}
*{{Ep|The Mansion Family}}
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{{Season10A
*{{Ep|Missionary: Impossible}}
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|E2cg=yes
*{{Ep|Kill the Alligator and Run}}
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|E3=yes
*{{Ep|A Tale of Two Springfields}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|Homer vs. Dignity}}
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|E6=yes
*{{Ep|The Computer Wore Menace Shoes}}
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|E9=yes
*{{Ep|The Great Money Caper}}
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|E10=yes
*{{Ep|Skinner's Sense of Snow}}
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|E11=yes
*{{Ep|HOMЯ}}
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|E13=yes
*{{Ep|Tennis the Menace}}
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|E16=yes
*{{Ep|New Kids on the Blecch}}
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|E16n=mentioned
*{{Ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
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|E17=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XII}}
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|E18=yes
*{{Ep|A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love}}
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|E18n=wraparounds
*{{Ep|The Blunder Years}}
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|E19=yes
*{{Ep|She of Little Faith}}
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|E20=yes
*{{Ep|Brawl in the Family}}
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|E21=yes
*{{Ep|Sweets and Sour Marge}}
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|E22=yes
*{{Ep|The Lastest Gun in the West}}
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|E23=yes
*{{Ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
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*{{Ep|The Frying Game}}
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{{Season11A
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIII}}
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|E1=yes
*{{Ep|Large Marge}}
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|E2=yes
*{{Ep|Helter Shelter}}
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|E3=yes
*{{Ep|The Great Louse Detective}}
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|E6=yes
*{{Ep|Special Edna}}
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|E9=yes
*{{Ep|The Strong Arms of the Ma}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|Pray Anything}}
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|E15=yes
*{{Ep|I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can}}
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|E19=yes
*{{Ep|Barting Over}}
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*{{Ep|Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington}}
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{{Season12A
*{{Ep|C.E. D'oh}}
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|E1=yes
*{{Ep|'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky}}
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|E2=yes
*{{Ep|Dude, Where's My Ranch?}}
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|E4=yes
*{{Ep|Brake My Wife, Please}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|My Mother the Carjacker}}
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|E6=yes
*{{Ep|The Regina Monologues}}
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|E8=yes
*{{Ep|Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays}}
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|E9=yes
*{{Ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore}}
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|E13=yes
*{{Ep|The Wandering Juvie}}
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|E13n=mentioned
*{{Ep|Simple Simpson}}
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|E14=yes
*{{Ep|Bart-Mangled Banner}}
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|E19=yes
*{{Ep|Fraudcast News}}
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|E20=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XV}}
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*{{Ep|Midnight Rx}}
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{{Season13A
*{{Ep|Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass}}
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|E1=yes
*{{Ep|There's Something About Marrying}}
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|E1n=opening sequence; Wiz Kids, as [[Lord Montymort]]
*{{Ep|Goo Goo Gai Pan}}
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|E4=yes
*{{Ep|Mobile Homer}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|The Seven-Beer Snitch}}
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|E6=yes
*{{Ep|Future-Drama}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|The Heartbroke Kid}}
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|E8=yes
*{{Ep|Don't Fear the Roofer}}
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|E9=yes
*{{Ep|Thank God It's Doomsday}}
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|E11=yes
*{{Ep|A Star Is Torn}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star}}
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|E15=yes
*{{Ep|Home Away from Homer}}
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|E16=yes
*{{Ep|Bonfire of the Manatees}}
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|E17=yes
*{{Ep|The Girl Who Slept Too Little}}
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|E18=yes
*{{Ep|Milhouse of Sand and Fog}}
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|E21=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVI}}
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|E22=yes
*{{Ep|Marge's Son Poisoning}}
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*{{Ep|The Italian Bob}}
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{{Season14A
*{{Ep|Simpsons Christmas Stories}}
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|E1=yes
*{{Ep|Bart Has Two Mommies}}
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|E4=yes
*{{Ep|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|The Wettest Stories Ever Told}}
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|E6=yes
*{{Ep|The Monkey Suit}}
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|E6n=flashback
*{{Ep|Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer}}
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|E8=yes
*{{Ep|Jazzy and the Pussycats}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em...}}
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|E14=yes
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVII}}
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|E15=yes
*{{Ep|G.I.D'oh}}
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|E16=yes
*{{Ep|Moe 'N' a Lisa}}
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|E17=yes
*{{Ep|Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)}}
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|E17n=mentioned
*{{Ep|Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2}}
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|E18=yes
*{{Ep|Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
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|E19=yes
*{{Ep|Yokel Chords}}
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|E20=yes
*{{Ep|The Boys of Bummer}}
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|E21=yes
*{{Ep|You Kent Always Say What You Want}}
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|E22=yes
*{{Ep|He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVIII}}
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{{Season15A
*{{Ep|Any Given Sundance}}
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|E2=yes
*{{Ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
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|E3=yes
*{{Ep|All About Lisa}}
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|E4=yes
*{{Ep|Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes}}
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|E5=yes
*{{Ep|Double, Double, Boy in Trouble}}
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|E7=yes
*{{Ep|Dangerous Curves}}
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|E10=yes
*{{Ep|Homer And Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
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|E12=yes
*{{Ep|Mypods and Boomsticks}}
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|E16=yes
*{{Ep|The Burns and the Bees}}
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|E19=yes
*{{Ep|No Loan Again, Naturally}}
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|E21=yes
*{{Ep|Gone Maggie Gone}}
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|E22=yes
*{{Ep|Father Knows Worst}}
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*{{Ep|Coming to Homerica}}  
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{{Season16A
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|E1=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E6=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E15=yes
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{{Season17A
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|E1=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E9n=I Saw Grampa Cussing Santa Claus; The Nutcracker...Sweeeeet
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|E13=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E21=yes
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{{Season18A
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|E3cg=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E4n=opening sequence
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|E5=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E11n=The Count of Monte Fatso
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E16=yes
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|E18=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E22=yes
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*{{Bon|The Amazing Colossal Homer}}
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{{Season19A
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|E1=yes
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|E2=yes
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|E5=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E12n=wraparounds
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|E18=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E20=yes
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{{Season20A
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|E1=yes
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|E3=yes
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|E7=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E15=yes
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|E15n=mentioned
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|E21=yes
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{{Season21A
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|E3=yes
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|E4=yes
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|E4n=Dial "M" for Murder or Press # To Return To Main Menu; Don't Have a Cow, Mankind
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|E5=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
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|E11=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E13=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E19=yes
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|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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|E23=yes
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{{Season22A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season23A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E2n=picture
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E13cg=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season24A
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E2n=The Greatest Story Ever Holed; Bart & Homer's Excellent Adventure
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season25A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season26A
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season27A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E8cg=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season28A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E4n=Dry Hard
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E20cg=yes
 +
|E20cgn=archive image
 +
|E21=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season29A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E1n=as Lord Montgomery
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E21=yes
 +
|E21n=picture
 +
}}
 +
{{Season30A
 +
|E1cg=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E4n=Geriatric Park
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E7n=picture
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E10n=picture
 +
|E11cg=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E13cg=yes
 +
|E15=yes
 +
|E17=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
|E23=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season31A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E4n=When Hairy Met Slimy
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E8n=A-Gobble-Ypto
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season32A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E3n=Lisanardo da Vinci
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E4n=Into the Homer-verse
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E13=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season33A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E3n=opening sequence; Bong Joon Ho's This Side of Parasite
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E8=yes
 +
|E9=yes
 +
|E9n=picture
 +
|E10=yes
 +
|E10n=mentioned
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E14=yes
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E20=yes
 +
|E22=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season34A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E1n=picture
 +
|E2=yes
 +
|E3=yes
 +
|E3n=archive footage
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E5n=child, ghost
 +
|E6=yes
 +
|E6n=Death Tome
 +
|E12=yes
 +
|E19=yes
 +
|E22OS=yes
 +
}}
 +
{{Season35A
 +
|E1=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
|E5=yes
 +
|E5n=Wild Barts Can't Be Token; Lout Break
 +
|E7=yes
 +
|E11=yes
 +
|E11n=picture
 +
|E16=yes
 +
|E18=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Specials:'''
 +
{{SpecialsA
 +
|Bartman=yes
 +
|Fox25=yes
 +
|AMFSRPH=yes
 +
|MBER=yes
 +
|Shake=yes
 +
|Fiscal=yes
 +
|TSG=yes
 +
|Bowl=yes
 +
|HV2016=yes
 +
|SoD=yes
 +
|SoDn=archive footage
 +
|StarWars=yes
 +
|StarWarsn=picture
 +
|Plus=yes
 +
|Feliz=yes
 +
|Felizn=picture
 +
|RogueOne=yes
 +
|RogueOnen=picture
 +
}}
 +
'''Adverts:'''
 +
{{AdvertsA
 +
|Coke=yes
 +
|TSTO2=yes
 +
|TSTO3=yes
 +
|TSTO4=yes
 +
|TSTO5=yes
 +
|KFC2=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Butterfinger Adverts:'''
 +
{{ButterfingerA
 +
|BF17=yes
 +
|BF18=yes
 +
|BF20=yes
 +
|BF21=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Simpsons Illustrated:'''
 +
{{SimpsonsIllustratedA
 +
|I1S3=yes
 +
|I3S3=yes
 +
|I3S3n=mentioned
 +
|I4S4=yes
 +
|I5S2=yes
 +
|I5S4=yes
 +
|I5S4n=picture
 +
|I8S6=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Simpsons Comics:'''
 +
{{SimpsonsComicsA
 +
|I1S1=yes
 +
|I4S1=yes
 +
|I4S2=yes
 +
|I5S1=yes
 +
|I6S2=yes
 +
|I7S1=yes
 +
|I8S1=yes
 +
|I10S1=yes
 +
|I11S2=yes
 +
|I12S1=yes
 +
|I13S1=yes
 +
|I14S1=yes
 +
|I16S1=yes
 +
|I17S1=yes
 +
|I18S1=yes
 +
|I22S1=yes
 +
|I27S1=yes
 +
|I28S1=yes
 +
|I29S1=yes
 +
|I30S1=yes
 +
|I31S1=yes
 +
|I32S1=yes
 +
|I33S1=yes
 +
|I34S1=yes
 +
|I35S1=yes
 +
|I35S1n=dialogue only
 +
|I36S1=yes
 +
|I37S1=yes
 +
|I38S1=yes
 +
|I39S1=yes
 +
|I41S1=yes
 +
|I41S2=yes
 +
|I42S1=yes
 +
|I44S2=yes
 +
|I44S2n=mentioned
 +
|I46S1=yes
 +
|I48S1=yes
 +
|I49S1=yes
 +
|I50S1=yes
 +
|I51S1=yes
 +
|I52S1=yes
 +
|I53S1=yes
 +
|I54S1=yes
 +
|I55S1=yes
 +
|I56S1=yes
 +
|I57S2=yes
 +
|I58S1=yes
 +
|I60S1=yes
 +
|I61S1=yes
 +
|I62S1=yes
 +
|I63S1=yes
 +
|I63S2=yes
 +
|I63S3=yes
 +
|I66S1=yes
 +
|I67S1=yes
 +
|I69S1=yes
 +
|I72S1=yes
 +
|I74S1=yes
 +
|I78S1=yes
 +
|I79S1=yes
 +
|I81S1=yes
 +
|I82S1=yes
 +
|I83S1=yes
 +
|I83S3=yes
 +
|I85S1=yes
 +
|I86S1=yes
 +
|I87S1=yes
 +
|I88S1=yes
 +
|I90S2=yes
 +
|I91S1=yes
 +
|I94S1=yes
 +
|I98S1=yes
 +
|I99S1=yes
 +
|I100S1=yes
 +
|I101S1=yes
 +
|I104S1=yes
 +
|I108S1=yes
 +
|I109S1=yes
 +
|I110S1=yes
 +
|I113S1=yes
 +
|I114S2=yes
 +
|I115S1=yes
 +
|I118S1=yes
 +
|I119S1=yes
 +
|I120S1=yes
 +
|I121S1=yes
 +
|I122S1=yes
 +
|I128S1=yes
 +
|I129S1=yes
 +
|I132S1=yes
 +
|I133S1=yes
 +
|I134S1=yes
 +
|I137S1=yes
 +
|I138S1=yes
 +
|I141S1=yes
 +
|I144S1=yes
 +
|I145S1=yes
 +
|I148S1=yes
 +
|I151S1=yes
 +
|I152S1=yes
 +
|I153S2=yes
 +
|I154S1=yes
 +
|I156S1=yes
 +
|I159S1=yes
 +
|I160S1=yes
 +
|I162S1=yes
 +
|I163S1=yes
 +
|I167S1=yes
 +
|I170S1=yes
 +
|I171S1=yes
 +
|I172S1=yes
 +
|I174S1=yes
 +
|I175S1=yes
 +
|I177S1=yes
 +
|I180S1=yes
 +
|I185S2=yes
 +
|I187S1=yes
 +
|I189S1=yes
 +
|I191S1=yes
 +
|I193S1=yes
 +
|I194S1=yes
 +
|I196S1=yes
 +
|I197S1=yes
 +
|I198S1=yes
 +
|I199S1=yes
 +
|I200S1=yes
 +
|I202S1=yes
 +
|I205S1=yes
 +
|I206S1=yes
 +
|I207S1=yes
 +
|I209S1=yes
 +
|I211S9=yes
 +
|I211S11=yes
 +
|I212S1=yes
 +
|I213S1=yes
 +
|I215S1=yes
 +
|I216S1=yes
 +
|I219S1=yes
 +
|I230S2=yes
 +
|I232S1=yes
 +
|I232S1n=mentioned
 +
|I234S3=yes
 +
|I236S1=yes
 +
|I241S1=yes
 +
|I242S2=yes
 +
|I243S1=yes
 +
|I244S1=yes
 +
|I245S1=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Bartman:'''
 +
{{BartmanA
 +
|I2S1=yes
 +
|I6S1=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Radioactive Man:'''
 +
{{RadioactiveManA
 +
|I222S3=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Krusty Comics:'''
 +
{{KrustyComicsA
 +
|I1S1=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Treehouse of Horror:'''
 +
{{TreehouseA
 +
|I1S1=yes
 +
|I1S3=yes
 +
|I3S1=yes
 +
|I5S1=yes
 +
|I5S2=yes
 +
|I5S3=yes
 +
|I6S1=yes
 +
|I7S1=yes
 +
|I7S2=yes
 +
|I7S4=yes
 +
|I7S5=yes
 +
|I9S1=yes
 +
|I9S1n=hallucination
 +
|I12S3=yes
 +
|I13S1=yes
 +
|I13S2=yes
 +
|I13S4=yes
 +
|I16S1=yes
 +
|I16S4=yes
 +
|I19S1=yes
 +
|I19S3=yes
 +
|I19S3n=mentioned
 +
|I20S2=yes
 +
|I20S4=yes
 +
|I21S2=yes
 +
|I21S3=yes
 +
|I22S1=yes
 +
|I22S2=yes
 +
|I22S3=yes
 +
|I23S1=yes
 +
|I23S1n=mentioned
 +
|I23S2=yes
 +
|B1S7=yes
 +
|B1S8=yes
 +
|B1S13=yes
 +
|B1S14=yes
 +
|B2S2=yes
 +
|B2S10=yes
 +
|B2S12=yes
 +
|B3S1=yes
 +
|B3S15=yes
 +
|B3S15n=tomb
 +
|B5S1=yes
 +
|B5S3=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Bart Simpson:'''
 +
{{BartSimpsonA
 +
|I4S1=yes
 +
|I6S1=yes
 +
|I7S1=yes
 +
|I8S2=yes
 +
|I10S6=yes
 +
|I12S2=yes
 +
|I14S1=yes
 +
|I18S1=yes
 +
|I22S4=yes
 +
|I24S2=yes
 +
|I26S2=yes
 +
|I29S1=yes
 +
|I29S4=yes
 +
|I32S3=yes
 +
|I37S1=yes
 +
|I39S1=yes
 +
|I39S5=yes
 +
|I40S3=yes
 +
|I42S1=yes
 +
|I44S1=yes
 +
|I47S1=yes
 +
|I48S1=yes
 +
|I54S1=yes
 +
|I57S4=yes
 +
|I62S1=yes
 +
|I62S3=yes
 +
|I66S2=yes
 +
|I68S2=yes
 +
|I69S1=yes
 +
|I75S3=yes
 +
|I78S1=yes
 +
|I83S1=yes
 +
|I87S2=yes
 +
|I90S1=yes
 +
|I91S3=yes
 +
|I94S4=yes
 +
|I100S1=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Futurama Crossover:'''
 +
{{FuturamaCrossoverA
 +
|S1=yes
 +
|S2=yes
 +
|S3=yes
 +
|S4=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Comic Strips:'''
 +
{{ComicStripsA
 +
|S13=yes
 +
|S20=yes
 +
|S25=yes
 +
|S36=yes
 +
|S46=yes
 +
|S52=yes
 +
|S53=yes
 +
|S65=yes
 +
|S80=yes
 +
|S80n=picture
 +
|S83=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Holiday Humdinger:'''
 +
{{HolidayHumdingerA
 +
|S1=yes
 +
|S8=yes
 +
|S12=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Super Spectacular:'''
 +
{{SuperSpectacularA
 +
|I8S1=yes
 +
|I8S2=yes
 +
|I9S1=yes
 +
|I12S1=yes
 +
|I12S2=yes
 +
|I13S1=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Winter Windging:'''
 +
{{WinterWingdingA
 +
|I1S1=yes
 +
|I2S1=yes
 +
|I2S5=yes
 +
|I3S4=yes
 +
|I4S1=yes
 +
|I5S1=yes
 +
|I5S2=yes
 +
|I6S1=yes
 +
|I7S5=yes
 +
|I8S2=yes
 +
|I9S1=yes
 +
|I9S1n=mentioned
 +
|I9S4=yes
 +
|I9S4n=mentioned
 +
|I10S1=yes
 +
|I10S2=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Summer Shindig:'''
 +
{{SummerShindigA
 +
|I1S1=yes
 +
|I1S5=yes
 +
|I1S5n=mentioned
 +
|I4S4=yes
 +
|I5S2=yes
 +
|I7S3=yes
 +
|I9S1=yes
 +
|I9S4=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book:'''
 +
{{DOCBGA
 +
|S2=yes
 +
|S3=yes
 +
|E4=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Annuals:'''
 +
{{AnnualsA
 +
|I10S2=yes
 +
|I11S7=yes
 +
|I11S8=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Homer for the Holidays:'''
 +
{{HftHA
 +
|S5=yes
 +
|S6=yes
 +
|S6n=mentioned
 +
}}
 +
'''One-Shot Wonders:'''
 +
{{OneShotsA
 +
|IPFS1=yes
 +
|IMBS1=yes
 +
|IMBS2=yes
 +
|IMBS3=yes
 +
|IMBS4=yes
 +
|IMBS5=yes
 +
|IMSS6=yes
 +
|ILSS3=yes
 +
|IBMS1=yes
 +
|IBMS2=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Other Comics:'''
 +
*{{bon|Burns' Birthday}}
 +
*{{bon|Smithers' Guide}}
 +
*{{bon|Gumshoe Comics}}
 +
*{{bon|Seems Like Old Crimes!}}
 +
'''Video Games:'''
 +
{{GamesA
 +
|H&R=yes
 +
|Game=yes
 +
|TSTO=yes
 +
|TSRR=yes
 +
|Arcade=yes
 +
|BvtW=yes
 +
|Wrestle=yes
 +
|TSVS=yes
 +
|Cartoon=yes
 +
|Bowling=yes
 +
|Skate=yes
 +
|Virtual=yes
 +
|LEGO=yes
 +
|Arcade2=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Books:'''
 +
{{BooksA
 +
|TKB=yes
 +
|TBoM=yes
 +
|CWBoC=yes
 +
|TBB=yes
 +
|MFwtS=yes
 +
|UFA=yes
 +
|UJRoSFB=yes
 +
|BSGTL=yes
 +
|CBG=yes
 +
|MBHoWD=yes
 +
|GfTS90=yes
 +
|GfTS07=yes
 +
|GSGtA=yes
 +
|TSGtS=yes
 +
|SCExtra=yes
 +
|SCoP=yes
 +
|SCSp=yes
 +
|TSF1=yes
 +
|TSF2=yes
 +
|FitS=yes
 +
|RDFB=yes
 +
|SCSB=yes
 +
|TSFH=yes
 +
|TSFCC=yes
 +
|TSH=yes
 +
|UEG=yes
 +
|SCCC3=yes
 +
|SCCC4=yes
 +
|SCCC5=yes
 +
|SCCC6=yes
 +
|THOHO1=yes
 +
|THOHO1n=front cover
 +
|FBoF=yes
 +
|HSLBoL=yes
 +
|TMB=yes
 +
|TMBn=picture
 +
|BMTSH=yes
 +
|BMTSHn=as [[Meltdown]] and [[Fruit Bat Man]]
 +
|THOHO3=yes
 +
}}
 +
'''Merchandise:'''
 +
*{{merch|Springfield's Festive Friends}}
 +
{{TC}}
 
}}
 
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== See also ==
 
*[[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]]: more info on Mr. Burns' power plant.
 
*[[Waylon Smithers]]: more info on Mr. Burns' assistant.
 
*[[Burns Manor]]: more info on Mr. Burns' mansion.
 
  
 
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"Excellent."
―Burns' catchphrase
"Release the hounds!"
―Burns' catchphrase
"You're fired."
―Mr. Burns as a vampire
Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns
Charles Montgomery Burns.png
Character Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Status:
Alive
Alias(es): Fruit Bat Man
Age: See age section
Hair: Gray, balding
originally strawberry blonde
Occupation: Owner of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant (not legal owner)
World War II veteran
Relatives: Grandparents: Wainwright Montgomery Burns and Evelyn Graycomb
Parents: Clifford Burns and Daphne Burns
Adoptive father: Unnamed
Siblings: Cornelius Burns, Cornelia Hernandez, Zeph Burns, Sarah Drew Linscott, Dominique Burns, Archibald Burns, Clifford Burns Jr., Ernest Burns and George Burns
Great-Grandfather: Franklin Jefferson Burns
Son: Larry Burns
Nieces: Pepita Bernstein and Victoria Burns
Aunt: Doreena Burns
Grandchildren: Several, unnamed
Cousin: Lyla
Ex-wife: Persephone Odair
First appearance: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Voiced by: Christopher Collins (Season 1)
Harry Shearer (regular)
Nancy Cartwright (Angry Dad)


Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns[1] is the owner and operator of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

Mr. Burns frequently orders his aide, Waylon Smithers, Jr., to "release the hounds," so as to let his vicious guard dogs attack any intruders, enemies or even invited guests. Mr. Burns is Springfield's richest and most powerful citizen. His net worth has been stated to be in the billion-dollar range, although at one point it slipped to "only" $996 million, which led to his being demoted from Billionaire Camp to Millionaire Camp.[2] Burns uses his power and wealth to do whatever he wants, usually without regard for consequences and without interference from the authorities. His fortune was once estimated to be $3 billion.[3]

Biography

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Childhood

Burns as a child

Burns' birthday is September 15.[4]

The Burns family has deep roots in the United States, with Montgomery Burns' great-grandfather Franklin Jefferson Burns throwing boxes of tea overboard in the Boston Tea Party.[5] His age and time of birth is contradictory. He said he was 81 in the 1990s[6] and said his age was a four-digit number in the 2000s[7] and 2010s.[8] Others in the 1990s and 2000s knew his age as 104.[9][10][11] He once gave his place of birth as Pangaea.[12] Burns was either the youngest of his siblings which he outlived,[13] or the older brother of George Burns.[4] When the 108-year-old Cornelius Chapman died in 2000, Burns officially became Springfield's oldest living resident.[14]

Depending on the account, he was a child in 1909,[15] 1913,[16] or 1935,[17] and was an adult in the 19th century,[18] 1914 (with his 25-year college reunion taking place in 1939),[19] between the wars,[20] or in the 1920s.[21] His parents were either affectionate[4] or cold and distant.[17][22]

Burns used to have a penchant for reading comics as a child ("comical booklets"), but his father Clifford didn't like this. Clifford burned down the company that made the comics to teach his son a lesson.[22]

Burns abandoned Bobo, a teddy bear and the symbol of his lost youth, to live with a twisted billionaire,[4] who was his grandfather Wainwright Montgomery Burns, who owned the Springfield Power Works, where laborers split atoms by hitting anvils with sledgehammers.[15] Burns amused himself by injuring hapless immigrant laborers.[23]

Whether or not Burns' mother Daphne was alive by the 1990s[10] or dead in the 1930s was unclear,[17] as was whether or not the cause of his parents' death was getting in his way[14] or if his mother died from a lack of indoor plumbing.[24]

He later attended Yale University.[19]

Burns with Abe Simpson during WWII

Pre-World War 2

For a time Burns lived in Paris, where he met and fell in love with his cousin Lyla. At one point, he proposed, but she rejected him because of his evil ways, and they didn't speak for decades.[20]

In 1939, at Burns' 25-year college reunion, he became romantically involved with the daughter of an old flame. She would later bear his child, Larry Burns, who was given up for adoption and would later enter Mr. Burns' life briefly.[19]

World War II

Burns served in the Flying Hellfish during World War II, holding the rank of private after being demoted for his involvement in a romantic scandal and attempting to block a probe from J. Edgar. Burns is proud of the fact that he manufactured shells for the Nazis, seeing himself as being superior to Oskar Schindler because "my shells worked, dammit!"[25]

A member of Springfield's Flying Hellfish battalion (even though it was later shown that Mr. Burns was in the SS, the special forces of the Nazi army), he saw action in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge, serving under Sergeant Abraham Simpson. He was later transferred to the South Pacific with part of his squad. During the closing years of the war, when his platoon was clearing out a German-occupied castle, Mr. Burns came across several valuable portraits. Since they couldn't decide on who they should go to, they decided to enter into a tontine, which Mr. Burns was removed from decades after the war, after being dishonorably discharged when he tried to kill Abe. The paintings were later handed back to a German whose relatives owned them.[26]

Mr Burns showing off his expensive clothing

Post World War II

At the end of World War II he was personally hired by President Harry S. Truman to transport a specially-printed trillion-dollar bill to Europe as the United States' contribution to the reconstruction of the continent. As the United States' richest citizen, Burns was thought to be also the most trustworthy. Burns absconded with the bill and kept it in his possession for many years until it was lost to Fidel Castro.[5]

Montgomery Burns revealing he was a member of the SS

Burns spent time as a biochemist and bioterrorist before owning the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. When Homer was six[27][28] or nine,[29] Burns operated a biological weapons laboratory until it was destroyed by peace activists - including Homer's mother, Mona Simpson.[30]

Burns raised money to build the Springfield Power Plant,[28] which opened when Homer was either 12[31] or a senior in high school.[32] When he arrived in Springfield this time (for what Marge Simpson, who was a child at the time, thought was the first time) he promised cheap electricity for all. He came into town riding an elephant and a young Moe Szyslak asked to touch the elephant, which Mr. Burns allowed him to do.[8] However, other accounts showed Burns living in Springfield with his grandfather in the 1900s[15] and with his mother in the 1910s.[16] Burns currently owns the plant, although he has parted with it several times, including when he sold it to German investors, when the bank foreclosed on it and put Lenny in charge, when he lost all of his money in a bet with The Rich Texan, and when Homer and Bart staged a hostile takeover of it. In each of these instances, Burns regained ownership of the nuclear plant.

His plant was almost destroyed, but Waylon Smithers Sr. sacrificed himself to save the plant. His young son, Waylon Smithers Jr., would grow up to work for him and be his second in command. He is unaware that Smithers is gay and has had a crush on him for years. Their relationship has had its rough spots, as Smithers was one of the prime suspects in the shooting of Mr. Burns in 1995. Mr. Burns has grown to be the oldest man in Springfield.

Mr. Burns in his typical evil mood

Character

Personality

Burns embodies a number of stereotypes about Corporate America, as he has an unquenchable desire to increase his own wealth and power. Burns also embodies the stereotype of a manager by forgetting his employees' names (especially Homer's, despite it appearing that they interact more than Burns does with most of his employees), though this can be attributed to his senility. Burns is also unconcerned for their safety and well-being. His aspirations to apply obsolete technology to everyday life or references to Victorian-era people or places provide a common source of humor on the show. Recently, he has become less evil and more eccentric. Burns has a vast amount of money, he doesn't do charity, and simply releases "The Hounds" at any charity collectors coming to his mansion. He seems to enjoy bossing his assistant, Waylon Smithers, Jr., to do everything for him, from getting him dressed to driving him about.

Mr Burns struggles to understand Ketchup and Catsup

At times, Burns appears to be completely removed from modern conventions and, sometimes, reality. He continually fails to recognize Homer Simpson or remember his name despite all the major events in Burns' life on the series have revolved around him in some way, similar to Krusty not remembering Bart's name. Burns is also for the most part unaware of the townspeople's general dislike of him. Burns uses archaic phrases and antiquated expressions that have either changed meanings or fallen out of common usage in American English, including score (meaning 20), twain (two), post-haste (quickly), petroleum distillate (gasoline), gay (jolly), dean (principal), velocitator and deceleratrix (a car's accelerator and brake), aeromail (post by air), lollygagger (slacker), fourth form (fourth grade), ahoy-hoy (hello), jumping box and picto-tube (television), Autogyro (helicopter), DictaBelt (dictation machine), the New York Nine (New York Yankees), horseless sleigh (snowmobile, although it could just mean that he was trying to be a mysterious character), crackleberries (peanuts), talkie (movies with sound), thrice (three times), and mater (mother). He also answers the telephone in the same way that the man widely credited for the Invention of the Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, is purported to have answered it ('Ahoy, Hoy?'). In one episode he also rings Smithers and says "Smithers, come here, I want you.", a take on what are reputedly the first words spoken by Alexander Graham Bell on his telephone ("Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you").

He also displays mannerisms which are considered outdated, such as practicing phrenology, writing with a quill pen, driving a 1936 Stutz Bearcat while wearing a Edwardian motorist's outfit which includes hat, driving gloves and goggles, carrying a mace for self defense (though the weapon actually shown was a flail), driving without regard to traffic laws in the manner of early 20th century motorists, and using an antique view camera to take photographs.

Burns appears unaware of 20th century political and social developments, such as Fidel Castro replacing Fulgencio Batista as the President of Cuba, Siam changing its name to Thailand, the Belgian Congo changing its name to the Congo-Kinshasa, Prussia being absorbed into the German Empire, India gaining its independence from the British Empire, New Mexico entering the United States, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Idlewild Airport changing its name to JFK Airport, the disbanding of the Negro Leagues, the desegregation of the Major Leagues, Joe DiMaggio no longer being a rookie, the extinction of the dodo, the demolition of the Polo Grounds, the ceasing of publication of Collier's Weekly, the demise of the DuMont Television Network, believing tires need to be revulcanized, confusing Ramones with The Rolling Stones ("have the Rolling Stones killed"), thinking cars are still operated by levers, believing mail may still be delivered by autogyro (once asking for a package to be delivered by autogyro to the Prussian Embassy in Siam), and the 1939 World's Fair.

Burns' investment portfolio includes long-defunct shares in "Confederated Slaveholdings, Transatlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congreve's Inflammable Powder, U.S. Hay", and an "up-and-coming Baltimore Opera Hat Company". Burns commonly refers to deceased persons as if they were alive, including Al Jolson, Tallulah Bankhead, Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo, Honus Wagner, Cap Anson, and Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown. He believes some social institutions and inventions are novel or nonexistent, such as musicals about "the common cat" and "the King of Siam", the Packard automobile, the Fire Department, ice cream (or "iced cream"), vending machines, recycling, strip clubs, hamburgers, the DuMont, the word "into", silent films like the 1929 Lulu, and the synonymity of ketchup and catsup. While trying to chat up a young woman, Burns offers to play the clavichord and show stereopticon images of the Crimean War.

Mr Burns' office

Health

Mr. Burns strangling Homer, in a menacing fashion

Burns has numerous physical ailments and health problems, or more accurately he has nearly 'every' physical ailment and health problem. He is often to the point where he seems to straddle the line between life and death. On prior occasions, Burns may have died. Presently, Burns has a condition known as "Three Stooges Syndrome" where a delicate state of homeostasis is created by the presence in his body of every disease known to man and other newly-discovered diseases unique to him, which, when all trying to invade his body simultaneously, cancel out each other. Mr. Burns took this as being invincible, although the doctor who told him this implied that the slightest breeze could kill him.[14]

Physically weak, he often has great difficulty performing the most basic physical tasks, such as giving a thumbs-up, receiving a hug, crushing a paper cup, or stepping on an insect. He is weak enough to be pushed over by an ant or a high-five, or pushed down by a sponge scrub on his head (although he was able to eventually get up in the latter case). Bunting a baseball sends him flying to the backstop. The weight of Toothpaste on his Toothbrush is enough to pull him over.[33] He has a hunched back and his vertebral column is visible when he is viewed from the side. His exposure to radiation has given his skin a green glow (though seen in only one episode) and left him infertile. Once a 1000 dollar bill bruised him leaving a reverse imprint of Grover Cleveland on his chest.[7] When Burns was incarcerated at Springfield's penitentiary, when he was getting a mug shot, the camera flash was able to slam him against a wall and knock him out.

Burns was once mistaken for an alien after his weekly medical treatments.

His organs have grown immensely weak over the years. His heart is black, desiccated, and barely beats or does not beat at all. It is shrunken to the size of a cherry. Burns' blood type is double-O negative.[34] When his finger is pricked, he bleeds dust, and when his arm is poked with a needle, the needle passes through his arm like Meringue as his doctor described it. On one occasion, a chunk of Burns' brain fell out through his ear. Another time, his lungs came out through his mouth and acted like an airbag. On another occasion, he indicated in an off-hand manner that he only has a single lung. If he is not careful, fluid can build up in his hands, causing them to swell to enormous proportions, and his fingers have been shown to flap in the breeze released from a bowling ball dispenser. It has been revealed that if Burns sweats even one drop, he could die of dehydration unless he takes a bath immediately. He has lost body parts due to leprosy (one example is when he lost an entire fingernail in a cup). Both his legs have a crease in them, down the entire length. When he learnt he had the House Cat Flu and he had only 6 months to live, he decided to announce all Springfieldians. However, after seeing nobody cared about him, he tried to jump from a cliff to kill himself. He didn't die, but did lose his memory and people then tried to take revenge on him.

Medical treatment

Mr. Burns when Bart brought him to his home after he tried to kill himself

Burns' medical treatment includes a weekly procedure which includes chiropractics, a painful vocal cord scraping, and an injection of pain-killers; its purpose is to postpone his death for one week. This makes his eyeballs grow to an unnatural size, and he becomes temporarily "nice". He also glows green, a result of working in a nuclear plant for ages. This once caused Homer to mistake him for an alien, though no one believed him, thinking him to have been drunk (he drank about ten bottles of a new type of beer, 'Red Tick Beer' made out of beer and dog fleas). Lisa tried to prove that Burns was not an alien, by pointing a flashlight at him, which revealed him in his "nice" form.

The townspeople still believed he was a monster and wanted to kill him anyway, but Smithers rushed in and stopped them, explaining that it was really Burns. He has his brain flushed out with vinegar and his eyes "re-balled". His knees are also sent out to be repaired at a "shop." His dentures replace themselves.[35] In the future, Burns may be kept alive by cryonics.

Burns once broke all his bones (though this was understandable, as he was knocked down onto the street below his main office, and besides which, he also had his stuffed Polar bear statue fall on top of him due to a fight between Smithers and Homer).

On rare occasions he has displayed great strength and skill, such as when he managed to single-handedly capture the Loch Ness monster "Nessie" (though it was never explained exactly how he did so) and when he rescued his girlfriend Gloria from a burning building (although she wound up carrying him out of the blaze).

Career

At the nuclear plant, Burns spends most of time in his office, monitoring his workers via closed circuit cameras. In his office he keeps a team of ten high-priced lawyers, a scale model of Springfield, a special microbe-resistant chamber, a two-seat escape pod, and the "League of Evil" - a sinister cabal whose members are long deceased but whose skeletons remain. The boobytraps in Burns' office include cricket poison, a secret trapdoor (though he sometimes forgets where it is), a catapult that fires 100 gram weights, and a ceiling-mounted suction tube which he can use to transport dissident workers to Morocco. He is also a loan officer at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Employee's Credit Union.[36]

Kent Brockman also credits Burns with having stolen Christmas from 1981 to 1985.

He was once forced to work in a Sweatshop, along with other billionaires such as Artie Ziff, Aristotle Amadopolis and The Rich Texan.

He also claims to have participated in the Boston Tea Party.

Burns has also owned or co-owned a number of business ventures in Springfield, including the Monty Burns Casino (later demolished),[23] Li'l Lisa" recycling (an ocean slurry manufacturing plant),[37] and Burns Slant Drilling Co.,[38] Burns Media, the electric company, the water works and even a hotel on Baltic Avenue.

Burns has used his power and wealth to blackmail and bribe various members of Springfield, including Mayor Quimby, as well as safety inspectors. He once attempted to block out the sun to force Springfield residents to increase their use of electricity produced by the Nuclear Plant and was subsequently shot by Maggie;. The town routinely is subject to Burns' abuse, such as Burns' stealing of Christmas from 1981 to 1985 and there is a general dislike of him throughout the town.

In The Simpsons: Hit & Run, it is implied that he had a business partner that he killed. He stated this in level 7, mission 4, when Homer goes to his office, Mr. Burns mistakes him for the ghost of his former partner, and is relieved when Homer tells him that it is just him.

Burns' bedroom in Burns Manor

Residence

Main article: Burns Manor

Burns resides in a vast, ornate mansion on an immense estate called Burns' manor, located at 1000 Mammon Lane, on the corner of Croesus and Mammon streets in the 'Springfield Heights' district. It is protected by a high wall, an electrified fence and a pack of vicious attack dogs known as "The Hounds", one of whom is named Winston.

Burns Manor

He usually releases his vicious hounds on guests once he decides they have overstayed[39] He has at least one 30+ yr old dog named Crippler, who is so old he has trouble walking. Crippler is known for bagging hippies - something they don't find too groovy at all. At times he has employed for protecting a force of Wizard of Oz - style guards, a personal paramilitary force, a riot police squad and a robotic Richard Simmons.

The inside of the mansion includes a room containing a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, a bottomless pit, a human chess board, the largest television in the free world, a 'Hall of Patriots' commemorating his ancestors, a laboratory, a botanical garden of vultures bearing his likeness, a safe containing a Beefeater guard and a theater that is showing round-the-clock which plays regardless whether there is an audience or not. There also is a TV studio and a CCTV room. His residence also contains a closet full of clothes made from many different types of animals, such as a vest made from Gorilla chest and loafers made from gophers. The mansion is also home to many rare historical artifacts including the only existing nude photo of Mark Twain, the suit Charlie Chaplin was buried in, King Arthur's mythical sword Excalibur, and a rare first draft of the Constitution with the word "suckers" in it.

Relationships

Burns has been engaged at least three times: a woman named Gertrude who died of loneliness and rabies, to Jacqueline Bouvier, and to a policewoman named Gloria. He once had an affair with Countess von Zeppelin. Agnes Skinner let Burns "feel her up" during the Depression.[40] Burns caught the attention of Selma Bouvier when she discovered he's single.[41]

Burns and Gloria

What is not widely known is that Charles Montgomery Burns and Homer Simpson are related by marriage (Which makes his making Bart his heir in one episode extremely ironic, as Bart would be related to Mr. Burns anyway). According to a family tree:

Charles Montgomery Burns was born to Clifford Burns and Daphne Charle (hence the name Charles),
Clifford Burns was born to Wainwright Montgomery Burns and Evelyn Graycomb.
Evelyn Graycomb was born to Otto Graycomb and Lolly Dubois.
Lolly Dubois was born to Lance Dubois and Clarice Stemple.
Clarice Stemple is the sister of Gaylord Stemple.
Gaylord Stemple married Trixie Simpson.
Trixie Simpson is the Granddaughter of Sven Simpson.
Sven Simpson is the great, great, great, great, great Grandfather of Homer Simpson.

Mr. Burns' great-great-grandmother's sister-in-law's 4th great-grandson is Homer Simpson.

Mr. Burns had a strained relationship with his own mother—whom he has apparently tried to kill at least once—who had an affair with President Taft and lives in her 120's. He is Lisa's opposite, with no conscience or care for the environment in many episodes, and Lisa often opposes him. Occasionally, she agrees to work with him, but with great reluctance.

Once, when asked the cause of his parents' deaths, he replied: "Got in my way".[14] He also said the lack of indoor plumbing killed his mother.[24] However, his mother was seen alive at least once.[10]

Organizations

Mr Burns is served a three eyed fish while running for governor

Mr. Burns is a member of various organizations. In his younger years, while a student at Yale University, he was a member of Skull and Bones. During World War II, Burns became a member of the Flying Hellfish squad, a group of soldiers who entered into a tontine regarding the ownership of German artwork. Burns was a member of the Stonecutters until it disbanded, at which time he joined the secret society that succeeded it: The Ancient Mystic Order of No-Homers. (One source of dislike of Burns for the "Stonecutters' is that despite his wealth and greed, he is outranked by Lenny.). He is currently the head of the Springfield Republican Party and once headed a short lived religion. He is also a member of the "Excluders Club", the Springfield Golf and Country Club, and the National Rifle Association. He holds a chair (a demonic throne with snarling dogs chained to it) at Springfield University and controls an anti-democratic paramilitary force in Latin America.

Burns once attended the annual Billionaire's Retreat, where he won the Austin Celtics basketball team from The Rich Texan in a poker game. After severely mismanaging the team, he lost nearly half his net worth. At the following year's retreat,  it was discovered he was no longer a billionaire.  He was ejected from the camp, and thrown over a wall into the slack-jawed millionaire's camp.[2]

He once tried to run for Governor – until Marge Simpson forever ruined his chances with a three-eyed fish. At the end he echoes Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane) by crying out his name in rage—and vows for the rest of his life to make Homer Simpson's life miserable.[42]

Burns was a Freemason "before it was trendy."[43]

Non-canon

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"Count" Burns in "Treehouse of Horror IV"

The Future

Burns as a head on legs

Mr. Burns is later cryogenically frozen. Scientists work to find a cure for 17 stab wounds to the back so that he can be thawed out and cured. He was cured in time to attend Lisa Simpson's wedding. He isn't completely thawed, and when he tries to sit down, he snaps in half, which is also cured.[44] Later he is a shut-in who sponsors a Yale scholarship as punishment for stealing Christmas. He keeps diamonds to have them changed into Earth's most precious mineral of the age: coal. His home is also guarded by a large group of unicorn-clam creatures (uni-clams).[45] Billions of years into the future, Burns lives in the form of a partial android with his robot dog sidekick Smithers. Burns' head misplaces his teddy, Bobo every century.[4]

Treehouse of Horror

Count Burns

Burns is a vampire but no one believes Lisa. She and Bart find Mr. Burns's secret lair which can be accessed by a staircase that has a lever which doubles as a fun slide and Bart (while fleeing from a horde of vampires) says "I shouldn't... But when am I going to be back here?" is turned into a vampire after pulling the lever. The Simpsons are then worried that Bart could get worse and The Simpsons have to kill the head vampire. Homer kills Burns but gets fired in the process. It turns out, however, that Burns is NOT the head vampire, which leads to an unexpected conclusion.

Lord Montymort

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Video games

The Simpsons: The Arcade Game

Mr. Burns appears as the final boss in this game, operating a giant mechanical robot from within that changes form with the damage it receives from the Simpsons characters. He also was the one who orchestrated Smither's theft of a diamond, which also indirectly made him responsible for Maggie's kidnapping as well, as Smithers ended up kidnapping Maggie because the diamond was knocked towards Maggie and she started using it as a Pacifier. After managing to defeat Burns, the Simpsons rescue Maggie and head back home, while Homer breaks the fourth wall by throwing the diamond right to the player. After Burns was knocked unconscious Maggie places her old pacifier into his mouth.

The Simpsons Road Rage

In The Simpsons Road Rage, Mr. Burns buys out the Springfield transit system and turns them into nuclear buses. In one of the missions it is also said that he buys out the Springfield Shopper. Also if you drive in the Springfield Mountains you can drive into Burns' manor. In the last mission you have to battle Mr. Burns as Homer, where Homer has smash the statues in Burns' garden. Also in the second mission you have to dodge him. In every single road rage or Sunday drive he tries and hit you with his car. If you use a cheat you can drive his car, a nuclear bus or even Mr. Burns driving a brick. In the downtown location you can see his bus depot. One of the other locations is his nuclear power plant.

The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown

In The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown, Mr. Burns is shown telling Homer where Spider Pig went.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run

In The Simpsons: Hit & Run, you can drive to the nuclear power plant in the first level. In the last level, you can climb up to Mr. Burns' office. You also see him in one level and can eventually drive his car if you complete the bonus mission in Level 7.

The Simpsons Game

In the level Lisa the Tree Hugger, the player stops Mr. Burns from destroying the ecosystem. Burns plans to cut down every tree in Springfield and turn each one into a single luxury toothpick. When the logging facility is destroyed, Mr. Burns has Smithers phone in some goons to rough up Al Gore to make himself feel better. In Medal of Homer, a younger version of Burns steals paintings from the village of St. Capitulons and protects them on board his personal naval carrier with a squad of sailors resembling Smithers.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out

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Trivia

Behind the Laughter

Mr Burns' appearance in "Homer's Odyssey"

Creation

Burns' character, appearance, and mannerisms are based on several different people. The show's creator Matt Groening principally based Burns on Fredrik Olsen, a reclusive Norwegian shipping magnate and the owner of Timex. Drawing further inspiration from oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, David Rockefeller and fictional character Henry Potter from It's a Wonderful Life, Groening made Burns the "embodiment of corporate greed".

Animator David Silverman parodied Burns's appearance on Fox founder Barry Diller, and modeled his body on a praying mantis. The idea of Burns reading employee names off cards in "There's No Disgrace Like Home" came from an article about Ronald Reagan that writer Al Jean had read. In some episodes, parallels have been drawn between Burns and moguls such as Howard Hughes and, more frequently, fictional character Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane. Writer George Meyer lifted Burns' "Excellent!" hand gesture from his former Saturday Night Live colleague Jim Downey.

Matt Groening got Burns's middle name from a Montgomery Ward department store in Portland, Oregon's Northwest Industrial district and his surname from Burnside Street, a main thoroughfare in Portland. Burns's first name being Charles is a reference to Charles Foster Kane. In the script for "There's No Disgrace Like Home", Al Jean and Mike Reiss referred to him as "Mr. Meany".[46] Another version is Sam Simon named him for his father Monty.[47]

In the second season, the writers started to enjoy writing about Smithers and Burns's relationship, and they often pitched episodes with them as the focus, but many never came to fruition.

Voice

Burns was originally voiced by actor Christopher Collins in the episode "Homer's Odyssey". He was soon replaced by Harry Shearer, who has voiced the character ever since. He modeled the voice on Lionel Barrymore and Ronald Reagan. Shearer is also the voice of Smithers and is able to perform dialogue between the two characters in one take. Shearer said that Burns is the most difficult character for him to voice because it is rough on his vocal cords and he often needs to drink tea and honey to soothe his voice. He describes Burns as his favorite character, saying he "like[s] Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil."

A Mr. Burns action figure

Foreign dubs

Language Voice dubber
Denmark flag.png Dansk Søren Ulrichs (movie)
Spain flag.png Español Pedro Sempson (seasons 1-11)
Javier Franquelo (since season 12)
Hispanic America.gif Español Miguel Ángel Botello (Seasons 16-31)
Gabriel Chávez (Seasons 1-15, since 32)
Hungary flag.png Magyar Balázs Szuhay† (Season 1–8)
István Rudas (Season 8–)
Italy Flag.png Italiano Sandro Iovino
Poland flag.png Polski Mirosław Konarowski
Sweden flag.png Svenska Anders Öjebo (The Simpsons Movie)
Ukraine flag.png Українська Valerii Lehin (Season 1, The Simpsons Movie)
Yurii Kovalenko (since season 2)

Appearances

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References

The Saga of Carl - title screen.png Wikisimpsons has a collection of images related to Charles Montgomery Burns.
  1. "Flaming Moe"
  2. 2.0 2.1 "The Burns and the Bees"
  3. "Hard Times"
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Rosebud"
  5. 5.0 5.1 "The Trouble with Trillions"
  6. "Simpson and Delilah"
  7. 7.0 7.1 "The Regina Monologues"
  8. 8.0 8.1 "Them, Robot"
  9. "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Homer the Smithers"
  11. "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love"
  12. "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
  13. "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 "The Mansion Family"
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 "Last Exit to Springfield"
  16. 16.0 16.1 "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 "Bobby, It's Cold Outside"
  18. "My Mother the Carjacker"
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 "Burns, Baby Burns"
  20. 20.0 20.1 "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"
  21. "The Great Phatsby: Part One"
  22. 22.0 22.1 "Dark Knight Court"
  23. 23.0 23.1 "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
  24. 24.0 24.1 "Fraudcast News"
  25. "A Star Is Burns"
  26. "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
  27. "Gone Abie Gone"
  28. 28.0 28.1 "To Cur, with Love
  29. "Mothers and Other Strangers"
  30. "Mother Simpson"
  31. "The Blunder Years"
  32. "The Way We Was"
  33. This is shown in The Simpsons Movie.
  34. "Blood Feud"
  35. "The Springfield Files"
  36. "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
  37. "The Old Man and the Lisa"
  38. . Burns owned this in "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
  39. The Simpsons Movie
  40. "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
  41. "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"
  42. This happens in "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
  43. "Gone Maggie Gone"
  44. "Lisa's Wedding"
  45. "Holidays of Future Passed"
  46. Springfield Confidential Chapter 6
  47. Jean, Al (2013). Commentary for "Midnight Rx", in The Simpsons: The Complete Sixteenth Season.