Mr. Burns is so evil at its most hilarious, and his ten best quotes are among the best in the Simpsons franchise.

What started as a string of cartoon short movies later grew into a pop culture empire built upon five smiling yellow icons.

Mr. Burns appears in the premiere episode of The Simpsons, but he didn’t get his first real showcase until season two’s “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish,” where he ...

Have you ever wondered why Mr. Burns doesn’t fire Homer from his job at the Nuclear Power Plant? Probably not. It doesn’t matter Homer is lazy and wildly incompetent to the point of being dangerous.

11. “Burns Heir” — Original Air Date: April 14, 1994. Mr. Burns has a brush with death after almost drowning in his bathtub, and decides that Bart Simpson should be heir to his fortune.

The Seinfeld alum will play Bourbon Verlander (seen above), a jolly but nefarious inventor of for-profit colleges who, like Burns, is a graduate of Yale University. “He has a very evil scheme ...

This where Mr. Burns turns into the evil boss who leads to the destruction of all kinds of plants after, and was further exacerbated when the current Mr. Burns is able to go back into the past and ...

Mr. Burns from the Simpsons is modeled after the British Banker, Jacob Rothschild. The Rothschilds are one of the most prominent of the top thirteen illuminati families.

Harry Shearer and Mr. Burns — one of the many characters he voices on “The Simpsons.” Dave J Hogan/Getty Images; Fox Looks like Harry Shearer squeezed some more “D’oh!” out of “The ...

“Mr. Burns” debuted in May 2012 at the Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, and then moved to Playwrights Horizons. Sept. 11 was more vivid in the cultural memory a decade ago.

In exchange, Mr. Burns promised Abe he would give Abe’s young son Homer a power plant job when Homer grew up. Even more importantly (in ways Mr. Burns could never imagine) the deal also meant he ...