Burn's Age

How old is Mr. Burns supposed to be anyway?

I don't know...but he is the oldest person in Springfield.

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mathy,

Wilson

sinistersteve wrote:

"Sprinfield's oldest resident... has died! No, not Mister Burns! <insert photo of Mr. Burns with caption of 'Not Dead'>"

That might make an interesting plot. Mr. Burns discovers that there is an older person in town, maybe it would be Great Grampa Simpson (the family didn't even realize he was alive, or maybe that there was such a person; maybe he's at the Old Old Person's Home, or the "Waiting for the Funeral Parlor House of Retirement"). And so he schemes to rid the town of this competitor to the Oldest Citizen claim. We'd see him doing things where he wouldn't be accused of murder, like jumping out of a bush (or maybe having Smithers do it), and sending Great Gramps unhealthy food.

Micahel

I think you're thinking of "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in `The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'" where pretty much what you're suggesting already happened, but under a different context.

There was also another episode (Mansion Family) in which it was discovered that there is one person in Springfield older than Burns but this person dies within 30 seconds of the revelation.

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Bart saw Great-Grampa Simpson while on the escalator to Heaven in "Bart Gets Hit by a Car," so he's presumably not alive anymore.

An early episode (I think it might have been "Flaming Moe's) had a TV segment where Springfield's fattest man met the town's oldest man, and that oldest man wasn't Burns or the guy or died in "The Mansion Family." He presumably died or moved away in between the two episodes (or maybe he just didn't show up for the town pride awards).

Nathan

what really complicates things is Burns' mother is still alive!! "Lots42 bomb vice president" wrote in message news:[email]...

mathy,

Wilson

in "Sweets and Sour Marge" they show Burns and his father and a caption at the bottom "1909". Burns looks about 8 or 9 there so I'd estimate that he's around 103

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103 years since Mr. Burns was born, 103 years... And next year you'll see, because it'll be 104 years since Mr. Burns was born...

Jim

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Yes, but they don't have much of a relationship. He's never forgiven her for that affair with President Taft.

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Taft, you old dog.

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I don't remember the exact age, but he's definitely older than 100.

It's mentioned a few times that he's 104.

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The episodes are inconsistent on this point.

One has dialogue that goes approximately like this:

Burns: How old do you think I am anyway? Homer: I dont know, 102? Burns: I'm 64.

Other episodes have stated his age at over 100.

Another episode shows him as a teenage soldier during WWII, and definitely younger than Abe.

And Ned Flanders is 65...christ.

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81, actually, which would fit better with how he appears in the Hellfish episode. That exchange was from "Simpson and Delilah," in which he reveals that he's been bald ever since his senior year of college. Other episodes have shown him with hair when he would have been older than that, though.

He's been said to be 104 in most episodes.

My best guess is that he lied about his age (and maybe had some kind of surgery to make himself look younger), and continued doing so up until recently, which is why he said he was 81 in "Simpson and Delilah." Of course, Abe's age is also in question. Probably late seventies to early eighties, but some of his stories (being spanked by Grover Cleveland, for instance) suggest he's much older.

Nathan

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Oh, come on, Abe's stories are at best fantasies, and perhaps downright lies. "And that's how bananas became known as yellow something beans."

(you can tell I'm not very accurate with quotes)