Meanwhile, preparations for Burns ' birthday are underway and Homer is chosen to entertain the party guests with a comedy routine ; however, Burns merely finds Homer's routine offensive as he moons the crowd and angrily orders his security guards to break up the party.

The deputy summons Burns from his cell in the middle of the night and beats him.

Atkins and Jethro Burns of Homer and Jethro married twin sisters, Leona and Lois Johnson who sang as Laverne and Fern Johnson: the Johnson Sisters.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

During his time at Rutgers, Friedman became influenced by two economics professors, Arthur F. Burns and Homer Jones, who convinced him that modern economics could help end the Great Depression.

At the plant, Homer is often ignored and completely forgotten by his boss Mr. Burns, and constantly falls asleep and neglects his duties.

In the episode " Burns ' Heir ", Hans is mistaken for Bart and accidentally " de-programmed " ( Homer and Marge had hired a cult de-programmer, hoping to convince Bart to move out of Mr. Burns ' mansion and back in with them ), apparently leading him to believe he is the son of Homer and Marge.

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

In " Homer the Smithers ", Burns orders Smithers to take a vacation and Homer Simpson is hired as a temporary replacement.

When Homer loses his temper and punches Burns in the face, Mr. Burns learns to become self-reliant and this results in Smithers being fired.

Barney was born on April 20th ( which Homer remembers as being on the same day as Hitler's in " Viva Ned Flanders " and Barney's entry into the Springfield Film Festival in " A Star Is Burns " where Barney states that he is 40 years old ).

He does on occasion even help various other characters, such as helping Homer find his wife in " Marge on the Lam ", helping Lisa Simpson find Mr. Burns ' assailant in " Who Shot Mr. Burns?

" Patchen kept a diary from the age of twelve and read Dante, Homer, Burns, Shakespeare and Melville.

which Burns described as a " a couplet worthy of Homer ".

After Homer rallies people to his cause, Mr. Burns decides to end the furor he is creating by offering him a new position as the plant safety inspector, along with a higher salary.

" In The Simpsons episode " Burns ' Heir ", a cult deprogrammer states that he " did get Paul McCartney out of Wings ," to which Homer replies " You idiot!

The game stars Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa, as well as Mr. Burns and several other characters from the show.

In another episode, " A Star is Burns ", Homer tricks Jay Sherman into insulting MacGyver in front of Patty and Selma ; Sherman ends up being hung from the rain gutter by his underpants, and Bart asks " You badmouthed MacGyver, didn't you?

Homer takes his family to a company picnic given by his boss, Mr. Burns, and hopes they will not embarrass him.

John's son Robert Burns Lorimer established the first Volunteer fire department.

Most people think that the town was named Burns because of the fact that Canaseraga had a large fire that burned down much of the town.

One of the signs reads, " Murdoch's Department Store "; another says " Chernin's " and a third reads: " Burns Tri-City Alarm " ( an homage to Burns ' late father who owned a burglar and fire alarm company in Upstate New York ).

It is commonly accepted that shortly before his death in 1796 Robert Burns uttered the words " Don't let the awkward squad fire over me ".

Initially the show was unpopular with CBS executives who demanded Tinker fire Brooks and Burns.

The first Soldier's Medals were awarded on October, 17, 1927 to John F. Burns and James P. Martin for their heroism during a fire and to James K. Wilson and Cleophas C. Burnett for saving people from drowning.

He has, however, dismissed claims accusing him of extreme malice, such as setting fire to the former drummer for The Fall, Karl Burns, while Burns was session drumming for PiL.

In " Family of Heroes ", the Tyrannosaurus rex at the Griffin Rock Natural History Museum was damaged in a fire attended by the Burns family and their Rescue Bots.

Watching Springfieldians are unimpressed, however, after Burns ' muscle-bound wax outfit catches fire in a pyrotechnics display.

The fire began in the early hours of the morning following the schools ' Burns Night ' celebrations.

Burns ' unveiling of the Loch Ness Monster is ruined as the numerous camera flashes blind him, causing him to knock over some lights, starting a fire.

Within ten minutes, the power plant is on fire and Homer is fired ( after pretending it was his first day which Mr. Burns initially fell for until Smithers pointed out who he actually was ).

However, before the game, eight of the nine all-star players suffer unrelated misfortunes that prevent them from playing: Clemens is made to think he is a chicken due to a bad hypnotist, Boggs is knocked unconscious by Barney after an argument at Moe's Tavern, Griffey, Jr. takes an overdoses of nerve tonic, resulting in an extreme case of gigantism, Sax is arrested and put in prison for various unsolved murders he did not commit, Smith disappears in the " Springfield mystery spot ", Canseco is too busy rescuing a woman and her possessions from a fire, Mattingly is kicked off the team by Mr. Burns due to sideburns only he can see, and Scioscia is hospitalized due to radiation poisoning from the plant.

His uncle, George Lauder, whom he referred to as " Dod ", introduced him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy.

After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961 ; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.

Bradbury's first pay as a writer was at the age of fourteen, when Burns hired him to write for the Burns and Allen show.

Burns guided Engels through Manchester and Salford, showing him the worst districts for his research.

Necessary to support his impoverished family, this work was monotonous but taught him persistence, endurance, and a natural empathy with all who labour, as expressed by lines he used to hum from the egalitarian Rabbie Burns song: " When man to man, the world o ' er / Shall brothers be for a ' that ".

Grampa claims to have attempted to kill Adolf Hitler on two occasions, one when he threw a javelin at him in the 1936 Summer Olympics, which barely missed and instead struck a would-be Hitler assassin, and once when he attempted to shoot him with a sniper rifle, missing only by a few centimeters due to unintentional interference by Montgomery Burns.

He once worked as a janitor at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and received a severe head wound from Mr. Burns when Moleman asked Burns for seventeen dollars for a push-broom rebristling ; Burns, high on ether, mistook him for the Lucky Charms leprechaun and went to his skull with a power drill.

" and kisses Burns on the lips, later explaining it to him as " merely a sign of my respect.

For all his sycophantic devotion to Mr. Burns, Smithers has been willing to challenge him on at least two occasions, most significantly in the " Who Shot Mr. Burns?

David Silverman has claimed that Smithers was always intended to be " Mr Burns ' white sycophant ," and the staff thought it " would be a bad idea to have a black subservient character " and so switched him to his intended color for his next episode.

The Simpson family, in Italy to retrieve a car for Mr. Burns, encounters him by chance.

Santa's Little Helper ends up in the possession of Mr. Burns, who trains him to become a vicious attack dog.

For example, Santa's Little Helper fathering 25 puppies in " Two Dozen and One Greyhounds " is a parody of the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Mr. Burns ' technique of brainwashing him into an attack dog in " Dog of Death " parodies A Clockwork Orange.

Johnson's victory over the reigning world champion, Canadian Tommy Burns, in Sydney, Australia, came after stalking Burns around the world for two years and taunting him in the press for a match.

When declaring him the second-scariest character on television ( behind only Mr. Burns of The Simpsons ) in 2005, MSNBC's Brian Bellmont described Cartman as a " bundle of pure, unadulterated evil all wrapped up in a fat — er, big-boned — cartoony package " who " takes a feral delight in his evildoing ".