The Flying Hellfish aren’t the only major connection Grandpa Simpson has with Mr. Burns. The discovery of a corpse on The Simpsons‘ latest episode (which we first heard about at CBR) led to the ...

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 ...

Fans of The Simpsons have been left shocked by how the voice of Mr. Burns sounds in the latest season of the show. The FOX series has been running for more than three decades, and as a result much of ...

The character of Mr. Burns on the animated television series "The Simpsons" is based on Jacob Rothschild of the British Rothschild banking family. For nearly a decade, claims have circulated online ...

“I just made a noise and hoped they wouldn’t stop me.” That’s how Harry Shearer (Saturday Night Live, The Truman Show) describes the moment when he first did the voice that became a signature element ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Simpsons Season 35 has been revealing some changes to the Springfield citizens with its first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.