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Mr Burns is inspired by Stephen King's Under the Dome to place a large dome over Springfield before being told by Lenny that it has already been done, in a reference to The Simpsons Movie. Bart hides Mr. Burns among his stuffed animals like in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and one of the toys is an E.T. doll. [ 3 ] The episode title is a ...
Lisa and Smithers stop them just in time, showing that the "alien" is actually Mr. Burns. Smithers explains that Burns receives longevity treatment once a week in order to cheat death; this includes intense chiropractic, administering eye drops and painkillers, as well as a vocal cord scraping. The ordeal leaves Burns in a state of ...
Mr. Burns spends his time in his office at the nuclear plant, monitoring his workers via closed-circuit cameras installed throughout the plant. In "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble", Mr. Burns revealed that he was the youngest of a wealthy family, with eleven children, and all his siblings died of suspicious causes (mostly related to eating poisoned baked potatoes), leading to him receiving the ...
Unable to swallow the fish, Mr. Burns spits it out. Cameras flash as the expelled bite flies through the air and hits the floor, dooming his gubernatorial campaign. Bailey wins the election, and Mr. Burns destroys some of the Simpsons' furnishings in a fit of rage. Mr. Burns warns that he will ensure Homer's dreams will go unfulfilled as long ...
In the episode, Mr. Burns forces his employees of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to go for a team-building hike in the mountains. Burns and Homer are paired together and trapped in a cabin that gets buried by several avalanches. "Mountain of Madness" was directed by Mark Kirkland and written by John Swartzwelder. Swartzwelder's script ...
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play was written by Anne Washburn with a score composed by Michael Friedman. [2] [3] For a long time, Washburn had been exploring what it would be like "to take a TV show and push it past the apocalypse and see what happened to it" and while she originally considered Friends, Cheers, and M*A*S*H, she ultimately settled on The Simpsons.
MSNBC compiled a list of "TV’s top 10 scariest characters", placing Mr. Burns at number one. In the list, they noted, "Burns is terrifying because he will do absolutely anything, and since it's a cartoon, he just might", pointing to "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" and his plans to make the puppies into a tuxedo as proof. [9]
Burns instantly recognizes the sword, and tells Simpson that he sold them for opium to a "fat man with sideburns", and notices a man nearby who resembles the description, Homer. Eliza and Bartley chase him down and Homer gets caught by Wiggum, who happens to be at the opium den as well, because smoking opium is the only thing that helps his son ...