He is also a member of the "Excludes Club", the Springfield Golf and Country Club, and the National Rifle Association.

Burns, when planning his Sun Blocker plan shortly after firing Smithers, and while literally stomping down on potential rivals at his model of Springfield, proceeded to stamp down on one of the cooling towers of the plant and yell "Take that, Springfield Nuclear Power Pl. Lionel Hutz • Akira • Artie Ziff • Reverend Lovejoy • Seymour Skinner • Herb Powell • Emily Winthrop • Bea Simmons • Professor Lombardo • Mr. One source of dislike of Burns for the "Stonecutters' is that despite his wealth and greed, he is outranked by Lenny. Burns embodies a number of sometimes accurate stereotypes about Corporate America, as he has an unquenchable desire to increase his own wealth and power. 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.

At one point, he proposed, but she rejected him because of his evil ways, and they didn't speak for decades. 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. While trying to chat up a young woman, Burns offers to play the clavichord and show stereopticon images of the Crimean War.

She would later bear his long-lost child, Larry Burns, who was given up for adoption and would later enter Burns' life briefly. Burns was a member of the Stonecutters until it disbanded, at which time he joined the secret society that succeeded it: The Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers (One source of dislike of Burns for the "Stonecutters" is that despite his wealth and greed, he is outranked by Lenny). When he learnt he had the House Cat Flu and he had only 6 months to live, he decided to announce all Springfieldians.Burns commonly refers to deceased persons as if they were alive, including Al Jolson, [70] Tallulah Bankhead, Louise Brooks, [71] Honus Wagner, Cap Anson, and Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown.

A 1,000 dollar bill dispensed from an ATM bruised him, leaving a reverse imprint of the bill on his chest. Despite his evil nature, Burns is able to shed a sense of kindness, as he sympathized over Homer's loss of his new hair as everyone in the plant only took Homer for granted because of his hairstyle. According the Simpsons Uncensored Family Album, Burns bought Springfield's gas and electric company when he was in his twenties. Burns was once persuaded into giving Ralph Wiggum a piece of candy, but after he does, his skull collapses and he nearly dies.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. 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 House of Plantagenet. s half-decayed corpse in a local watering hole that he was swimming at that got re-exposed during a hypnotist session, Mr. 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. Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns [1] is the owner and operator of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.