Burns tried to run for Governor until Marge ruined his chances by serving a three-eyed fish (an example of the adverse effects of the nuclear plant) for dinner in front of the media. In the end, he echoes Charles Foster Kane by crying out his name in rage and vows for the rest of his life to make Homer Simpson's life miserable. [111] We see good old Homer walking home out of obligation after having had one too many Duff beers. Then, he encounters a strange, glowing green alien who wants to deliver peace and love. Donkey Kong makes an appearance at the Noiseland Arcade, which turns out to be a bust. He ends up throwing a barrel at the Wise Guy, complete with sound effects. At Burns' Yale University reunion, he had an affair with the daughter of an old flame named Lily Bancroft. She would later bear his long-lost child, Larry Burns, who was given up for adoption and would later enter Burns' life briefly. [12]

The next Friday night, Homer and Bart camp out in the clearing. The two encounter the alien, who points at them with a long finger and says gently, "I bring you peace." Homer says, "And I bring you..." and accidentally stands in the campfire, setting his trouser leg on fire, scaring off the creature. Homer lets out a "D'oh!" because they let the alien get away without having any proof of his reappearance. However, Bart managed to capture the whole event on film, and the father and son duo jump up and down with excitement. Abraham Simpson II married Mona Simpson (before the marriage, her maiden name was Mona Olsen) and had a son named Homer Simpson. In this tale narrated by Leonard Nimoy, Homer sees an alien in the woods, and while everyone else writes it off as yet another drunken hallucination (since Homer tested "Boris Yeltsin" drunk on Moe's Breathalyzer), Agents Mulder and Scully from The X-Files come to Springfield to help Homer solve the case. In one possible future, eight years from the present, he was a shut-in who sponsored a Yale scholarship as punishment for stealing Christmas. He kept diamonds to have them changed into Earth's most precious mineral of the age: coal. His home was also guarded by a large group of flying unicorn-clam creatures (uni-clams). [113] On the line-up of aliens, there is ALF, Marvin The Martian, Chewbacca note who also appears at the end and Gort (according to the DVD commentary, all of the characters were used without permission from their creators [with the exception of Kang/Kodos, since that's property of FOX and Matt Groening], making it "the most illegal shot in animation." In fact, the worst the staff received was a call from the voice of Alf, who wasn't brought in to voice his character).

Even with such exceptional guests, the weight of humor still falls on the main characters of the series, being almost anecdotal the appearance of the agents, which anyway made this episode a much more memorable one. Homer was persistent, however, and returned to the scene the next Friday with Bart and a video camera. This time, the alien said "I bring you peace", and Homer tried to talk to it, but he stepped into his campfire and started screaming, which frightened the alien away. Fortunately, Bart recorded the whole encounter on video, including several seconds of footage showing the alien. The footage aired on Channel 6 News, and the following Friday, the townspeople turned out at the scene in force, hoping for a glimpse of the alien. When it appeared again, saying "I bring you love", they advanced on the alien and were about to beat it up when Lisa hollered at them to wait. Lisa shone a flashlight on the alien's face, revealing that it was actually Mr. Burns. One major connection between Mr. Burns' vocal inspirations Lionel Barrymore and Ronald Reagan was their appearance in the 1941 MGM remake of The Bad Man, which saw Reagan play the hero against a Pancho Villa-like Mexican bandit. https://worldhistoryproject.org/1941/3/28/ronald-reagan-appears-as-gilbert-gil-jones-in-the-bad-man This was released eight years before Barrymore's death and years before Reagan, who was once a staunch New Deal Democrat, shifted towards the right wing in the 1950s. Despite Reagan's more liberal political views at the time, the film appealed to conservatives who embraced the Mexican bandit stereotype. At the end of World War II, he was personally hired by President Harry Truman to transport a specially-printed trillion-dollar bill to Europe as the United States' contribution to the reconstruction of the continent. As the United States' richest citizen, Burns was thought to be also the most trustworthy, which turned out to be just a false rumor. Subsequently, Europe had never managed to reconstruct and Burns absconded with the bill and kept it in his possession for many years until it was lost to Fidel Castro. [34] In addition to the appearances of Mulder and Scully, the episode features several other references to The X-Files.

THOH – " Treehouse of Horror IV" ("The Devil and Homer Simpson"; "Bart Simpson's Dracula" as Count Burns)a b c d Moore, Steve (2006). The Simpsons The Complete Eighth Season DVD commentary for the episode "The Springfield Files" (DVD). 20th Century Fox. In his cabinet, he has a secret safe that is hidden underneath a painting that looks almost alike A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Manet, except the waitress has Burns' head. Inside of the safe, Burns hides his Last Will and a human heart in a jar. Employee Abuse: He has been know to abuse his own employees, occasionally even randomly firing some just to throw the fear of God into them [46]. This is the first of four episodes across Seasons 8 & 9 produced during the former by Al Jean and Mike Reiss instead of the current showrunner (in this case, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein). Jean would return as showrunner starting in season 13. After a Friday night of drinking at Moe's Tavern, Homer walked home and took a shortcut through the forest. He saw what he thought was a green-glowing alien that said "Don't be afraid" in a gentle and pleasant voice. The encounter scared Homer so badly that he screamed and ran the rest of the way home. When Homer told everyone what he had seen, the report of his sighting triggered an FBI investigation (from Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully). When they found no evidence to corroborate Homer's story, they (and the entire town of Springfield) figured that Homer was crazy.

Hit & Run: In " Bart Gets Hit by a Car", Mr. Burns hit Bart, yet drove off after Smithers suggested to take him to the hospital. A running gag in the show is Mr. Burns always asking to Smithers who Homer is (even though he is a long-time worker in his company) when he is seen by him, and after the latter's answer, he replies by saying "Simpson, eh?".

The rest of the family do not believe Homer's story, and his attempts to report the alien sighting to the police are dismissed by Chief Wiggum. Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of the FBI hear of the sighting and go to investigate. After receiving no results from their psychological tests of him, Homer fails to provide any proof that he actually saw an alien. Homer is ridiculed by most of the neighborhood; even Marge refuses to believe in his claims, but Bart admits that he believes Homer. The next Friday night, the pair camp out in the forest. The alien arrives and promises peace, but Homer scares it away when he accidentally steps on their campfire and screams in pain. Bart captures the entire incident on tape. Bagpipe Rigellian • Kang Johnson • Kodos Johnson • Kamala • Kang and Kodos' father • Kang and Kodos' mother • Klaunax • Klondar • Rigellian announcer • Rigellian couple • Rigellian humanologist • Rigellian Lisa • Rigellian mother • Rigellian queen (The Man Who Came to Be Dinner) • Rigellian queen (Treehouse of Horror XXII) • Rigellian resistance • Serak the Preparer • Larry H. Zeeblezorp Signs of Disrepair: An already frightened Homer sees a large billboard that says "DIE." He screams. Then the wind shifts, moving a tree branch out of the way and revealing that the word is "DIET." Homer screams louder and flees. It is implied in the episode " Million_Dollar_Maybe", that Burns may used to be a German soldier in World War 2, when he says "Wait, I'm shooting AT nazis? That's not the way I remember it."