The Simpsons‘ “The Past and the Furious” imagines a version of Springfield where all plants have been wiped out thanks to Mr. Burns’ expanding corporate reach. When Lisa gets depressed at how hopeless ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook 29 years ago today, on November 17, 1996, The Simpsons aired the Season 8 episode, “Burns Baby ...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of one of the greatest events in TV history that involved a gun-toting baby nearly murdering an elderly billionaire. Back in 1995, fans of The Simpsons obsessed over ...

Even in Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s wildest imaginings, he never considered his ‘Simpsons’ debut would be as one of the show’s most iconic characters by Neilson Barnard/Getty; Disney+ For Joseph ...

Disney+ is about to send Lisa Simpson on a journey through time to team up with her polar opposite—Charles Montgomery Burns. A new poster was just released for the new streaming-exclusive special ...

Originally voiced by Christopher Collins in season one but quickly changed to Harry Shearer, Charles Montgomery Burns is a classic character in The Simpsons. He represents so many different archetypes ...

I go way back with The Simpsons. Back to the very start, in fact, when I gave the show a decidedly mixed review in TIME during its first season (I complained about ...

A musical theater rendition of “The Simpsons” — featuring Itchy and Scratchy as the comically evil Mr. Burns’ minions attempting to murder Bart’s family — may not be on your apocalypse bingo card. But ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...