When he learnt he had the House Cat Flu and he had only 6 months to live, he decided to announce all Springfieldians. This could be argued as self-defense, yet they both have had history with each other, as previously mentioned. Burns initially thought he was going to use them to kill off illegal immigrants until Homer clarified that he meant "tentacle aliens") and can eventually drive his car if the player completes the bonus mission in Level 7.

He is also a member of the "Excludes Club", the Springfield Golf and Country Club, and the National Rifle Association. Burns appears as the final boss in this game, operating a giant mechanical robot from within that changes form with the damage it receives from the Simpsons characters. Burns also embodies the stereotype of a manager by forgetting his employees' names (especially Homer's, despite it appearing that they interact more than Burns does with most of his employees), though this can be attributed to his senility.Burns' office, with the alternative being facing jail time, and thus wanted to clear his own name as well. Burns, while still greedy and egotistical, has become less villainous in the more recent seasons and more of an anti-hero, whilst in any season prior to season 9 he was portrayed most of the time as a genuine threat. Burns also embodies the stereotype of a manager by forgetting his employees' names (especially Homer's, despite Homer appearing that he interacts more than Burns does with most of his employees), though this can be attributed to his senility. If he is not careful, fluid can build up in his hands, causing them to swell to enormous proportions, and his fingers have been shown to flap in the breeze released from a bowling ball dispenser.

The officer confiscating Burns’ belongings identifies it as a social security card, to which Burns remarks “That’s an SS card, you dummkopf! His driver's license expired in 1909 (he even is still in the possession of several useless items from the same era, such as a Ticket Stub from the silent film "Tillie's Punctured Romance" and his SS ID Card from his time as a Gestapo Officer). While trying to chat up a young woman, Burns offers to play the clavichord and show stereopticon images of the Crimean War. Burns is also Lord Montymort, who is based on Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter book and film series.Burns uses archaic phrases and antiquated expressions that have either changed meanings or fallen out of common usage in American English, including score (meaning 20), post-haste (quickly), [62] petroleum distillate (gasoline), [63] gay (jolly, which also caused Smithers quite a scare due to the latter initially thinking he asked if he was going to do a homosexual activity during the weekend), [64] dean (principal), velocitator and deceleratrix (a car's accelerator and brake), [21] jumping box and picto-tube (television), Automated Telemachineomeratron (Automated Teller Machine/ATM), Suffragette (Feminist), [25] auto-gyro (helicopter), [39] and the New York Nine (New York Yankees). If we carry on, we find out that Homer is also Burns' grandmother's sister-in-law (who is also her second cousin)'s grandmother's brother's fourth great-grandson. Burns' investment portfolio includes long-defunct shares in "Confederated Slave Holdings, Trans-Atlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congreve's Inflammable Powders, U. This once caused Homer to mistake him for an alien, though no one believed him, thinking him to have been drunk (he drank about ten bottles of a new type of beer, ' Red Tick Beer' made out of beer and dog fleas).