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Smithers fantasising about Mr. Burns singing "Happy Birthday" to him is a reference to Marilyn Monroe, who famously sang the song to John F. Kennedy shortly before their deaths. The guards outside Burns's manor have the same chant as the Wicked Witch of the West 's guards in The Wizard of Oz (1939). [ 7 ]
After Mr. Burns vows to lower taxes and runs a smear campaign against Bailey, his campaign ties hers in the polls. Mr. Burns' advisers suggest that he have dinner at the home of one of his employees the night before the election. After scanning the plant's video monitors for the most average man he can find, Mr. Burns chooses Homer.
Fearing a lawsuit, Mr. Burns gives $2,000 prize in exchange for signing a legal waiver freeing the plant of all liability. Homer is suspicious; Burns hastily explains that he is awarding Homer the inaugural Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence, complete with an extravagant ceremony hosted by Joe Frazier.
Mr. Burns throws a Fourth of July party for himself, forcing his employees to wait on him and perform a musical number without pay. Afterwards, Homer, Lenny and Carl break into Burns' wine cellar as payback and become drunk. Burns discovers this and calls the police, who notice that Burns' mansion contains stolen artwork.
Grampa and Mr. Burns are now the only two surviving members of their infantry squad, known as the Flying Hellfish. Unwilling to wait for Grampa's natural death, Burns hires an assassin named Fernando Vidal to kill him. After avoiding several attempts on his life, Grampa seeks refuge at the Simpsons' house.
When Homer notices that Mr. Burns approves of a "normal", well-mannered family who treat one another with respect, he wonders why his own family is so dysfunctional. The picnic is a catastrophe when Bart chases and tortures the swans , Lisa swims in the fountain, and Marge gets drunk from alcohol-spiked punch and performs a musical number.
Mr. Burns's paranoid obsession with germs and cleanliness, and his refusal to leave his bedroom once the casino opens, is a parody of American magnate Howard Hughes. The title is a reference to the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the music of which was composed by Laurie Johnson.
"Burns, Baby Burns" is the fourth episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 17, 1996. In the episode, Mr. Burns reunites with his long-lost son Larry. At first, they get along well, but Mr. Burns soon realizes that his son is an oaf.